PC Adventure Games

[SMB]

Alright, I have just been playing Grim Fandango and was reminded that I love adventure games. I know I have played great games such as Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion and of course Sam and Max. But, I am really craving alot more, I know that Lucus Arts made a few point-and-click Indiana Jones that seemed pretty good and I have yet to play Curse of Monkey Island. :(

What are some other Adventure games that are fun (PC).

[Humanoid]

Well, I Have No Mouth and Must Scream is a great one that is available for free (legally!) on almost any abandonware site. Another one which is really a masterpiece is Blade Runner. It's a very good one, and captures the spirit of the movie/book well.

[calthaer]

Just about the whole LucasArts library prior to the creation and release of Star Wars Ep. 1 (when the dev studio became just a franchise whore) is worthy of note. Even lesser-known titles like Loom and Zack McKracken have their appeal.

The latest ones like Longest Journey and Syberia are said to be pretty good as well. I haven't actually tried them, but they're sitting in my gaming backlog.

There's also the Broken Sword series. It sort of looks interesting, but I've also never really tried it. Not sure if anyone wants to comment on that...?

[link1110]

Any Space Quest game. those are the best PC games of all time.

[Cthulhu]

Adventure games are far and few between these days. Abandonware sites are your best bet... lots of classic stuff from Sierra, LucasArts, and others.

Syberia 1 and The Longest Journey are supposed to be fantastic, but my friend picked up TLJ and we weren't too impressed. I didn't get to play it for very long though, so my opinion doesn't count for much on that one... both are easily available online for budget prices now, so you could try either of them out quite cheaply.

[SMB]

What are some good abandonware sites?

[dsullo]

I loved all the old Wizrdary Games and Original Castle Wolfenstein. I use to play them all night on my Apple II C back in the day. Those were good times!!

[Damaramu]

What are some good abandonware sites?
The Home of the Underdogs (http://www.the-underdogs.org/) is the best one I can think of. In fact, it's the only one I can think of at all. Check it out, they have cool abandonware.

[-hellvin-]

I would recommend the Home of the Underdogs to find some of these games and that's it. Most of the sierra & lucasarts ones you can't on most abandonware sites.

Here's some old adventure games I love:

Ecoquest
Full Throttle
Gabriel Knight series
Goblins series
Indiana Jones Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis
King's Quest
Leisure Suit Larry series
Loom
Maniac Mansion series
Monkey Island series
Police Quest series
Quest for Glory series
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Space Quest series
The Dig
Zakk McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders

These I consider more RPGish but they're defenitely worth trying:

Betrayal in Antara
Betrayal at Krondor
Ultima VI: False Prophet

Grim Fandango is one I've been trying to find for a long time. Everyone says it's absoltely amazing. I hope I get to try it someday.

[Jibbajaba]

Head on over to homestarrunner.com and give peasant's quest a try.

Chris

[SoulBlazer]

Longest Journey is great and the sequel is due out soon. Another good adventure game is Runaway, also with a sequel in the works.

The last LSL game is kinda of a adventure game as well.

What's the company that has been cranking out the budget adventure games I always see at Wal-Mart and Best Buy?

Don't forget the remakes of the King Quest games as well. (Used to be called Tierra, forget what their new name is.)

[Yago]

Along with what others said, Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, and don't forget Hero's Quest. I also really liked Manhunter New York. It had a few cool mini games within the adventure. Worth looking into.

[Gapporin]

If you head on over to ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org)'s website, you can download the full versions of Beneath A Steel Sky and Flight Of The Amazon Queen, no strings attached. Plus ScummVM's a handy program anyways. It also has a Dreamcast port, so you can play all of your favorite adventure games on the DC. How cool is that!?

[kevincure]

Grim Fandango is one of the best PC games ever made.

No one has mentioned Spacebar, which I vaguely remember being quite a bit of fun back in the day. I still don't know why adventure games are so sparse on console - I think it's the type of genre that is actually better suited for console. Strategy and MMORPG - PC. But why Adventure?

[Julio III]

no-one has mentioned the Discworld games! they are classic.

One of my favourites is The Last Express, which is a kind of different take on the adventure genre.

A couple of upcoming games to look forward to are Still Life (might have just been released) and Dreamfall (semi-sequal to The Longest Journey)

head over to www.adventuregamers.com for a good selection of reviews and recommendations

[slip81]

Like other I haven't played Longest Journey yet, but I keep hearing it's incredible and I plan on picking it up soon. The other one I keep is great is Missing Since January.

I also still really like Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego, not sure if that qualifies as an adventure game though anymore since I'm not sure if the gameplay is still point and click. If you can get your hands on the Apple IIe version though it's awesome IMO.

[YoshiM]

The Legend of Kyrandia trilogy is pretty good and if you are able to get the CDROM versions, there's speech as well.

Mean Streets was also a pretty good title. A bit arcadish in some parts but still a decent adventure game. Not sure how well it works with sound cards, though, as it used "Real Sound" technology to pump prerecorded music and voice through your PC speaker. Martian Memorandum was also supposed to be good, but I never played it. The other Tex Murphy games I think started to move away from the traditional adventure game (like Under a Killing Moon) so I'm not sure they'd be your bag.

[hydr0x]

what about these :D

Baphomets Fluch, Revolution
Baphomets Fluch 2, Revolution
Beneath A Steel Sky, Revolution
Day of the Tentacle, Lucas Arts
Floyd
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lucas Arts
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Lucas Arts
Jack Orlando – A Cinematic Adventure, Topware
Kings Quest II - Romancing the Throne, Sierra
Kings Quest III – To Heir is Human, Sierra
Kings Quest VII – The Princeless Pride, Sierra
Legend of Kyrandia, Westwood
Legend of Kyrandia 2 – Hand of Fate, Westwood
Legend of Kyrandia 3 – Malcolm’s Revenge, Westwood
Leisure Suit Larry 6 – Reiß auf oder schieb ab, Sierra
Loom, Lucas Arts
Maniac Mansion, Lucas Arts
Monkey Island, Lucas Arts
Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck’s Revenge, Lucas Arts
Monkey Island, The Curse of, Lucas Arts
Orion Burger, Sanctuary Woods
Sam & Max - Hit the Road, Lucas Arts
Simon the Sorcerer, Adventure Soft
Simon the Sorcerer 2, Adventure Soft
Space Quest I – The Sarien Encounter, Sierra
Space Quest II, Sierra
Space Quest VI – The Spinal Frontier, Sierra
Toonstruck, Virgin
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbender, Lucas Arts

^^ i have those, i need these:

3 Skulls of The Toltecs
Bad Mojo
Bazooka Sue
Chewy – Esc from F5
Die fünfte Dimension
Die Höhlenwelt-Saga
Discworld 1+2
Eco Quest 1+2
Fable
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Galador, Topware
Guilty, Psygnosis
Gabriel Knight 1-3, Sierra
Granny
Innocent Until Caught, Psygnosis
Kings Quest 1+4-6, Sierra
Larry 1-5+7, Sierra
Lure of the Temptress, Revolution
Police Quest Series
Prisoner of Ice
Quest for Glory 1-4, Sierra
Runaway
Shadow of the Comet
Space Quest 3-5, Sierra
The Dig
The Last Express
Touche – Die Abenteuer des fünften Musketiers
Vollgas
Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth

all of these should be very enjoyable if you like Point & Click

[shopkins]

I'll comment on the Broken Sword games. The first two are up there with my favorite adventures, ever. I love the main character, George, and the kind of dry humor in the games. I haven't really got to play the third since my Xbox is broken.

In addition to the Lucasarts games, I also really enjoyed Bladerunner, Snatcher, Blazing Dragons and Rise of the Dragon. I haven't really gotten to play most of the Kings Quest and Space Quest stuff, and none of the Gabriel Knight games.

[jajaja]

I wish they made more adventure games like they did before. Runaway 2 is comming soon, 2d adventure. Gonna be cool to play (hopefuly) :)

[Cauterize]

Here's some old adventure games I love:

Ecoquest
Full Throttle
Gabriel Knight series
Goblins series
Indiana Jones Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis
King's Quest
Leisure Suit Larry series
Loom
Maniac Mansion series
Monkey Island series
Police Quest series
Quest for Glory series
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Space Quest series
The Dig[/b]
Zakk McKracken & The Alien Mindbenders

You wont find a much better list than this one hellvin has produced! EDIT: Apart from Hydr0x's!
To add to it, i made some bold, the ones i recommend most

Also Check Out Discworld for PS1
Flight Of The Amazon Queen
Simon THe Sorceror 1 & 2

[Jorpho]

Well, I Have No Mouth and Must Scream is a great one that is available for free (legally!) on almost any abandonware site.

WRONG! The Harlan Ellison store (http://harlanellison.com/herc.htm) is still very much selling this game. If you have evidence that Cyberdreams (or whoever owns the rights to their games) has expressly released the game as freeware, I'd like to hear it.


What's the company that has been cranking out the budget adventure games I always see at Wal-Mart and Best Buy?

That would be Dreamcatcher. I recently picked up their release of Dark Fall and Riddle of the Sphinx. (As I recall, they also released Derek Smart's Universal <s>Soldier</s> Combat.)

Sanitarium is also very much lauded, though I have yet to give it a whirl.

Also worth noting is the considerable number of quality freeware PC adventures that have been cropping up lately, thanks to Adventure Games Studio. I've heard that 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, No Action Jackson, and others are well worth checking out. And let us not forget AGD Interactive (http://www.agdinteractive.com/) (formerly Tierra), maker of fine freeware Sierra game remakes.

[NeoZeedeater]

Dreamweb needs a mention too.

[hydr0x]

Dreamweb needs a mention too.

well, it's not a Point & Click adventure, that could be the reason ;)

[NeoZeedeater]

well, it's not a Point & Click adventure, that could be the reason ;)
Uh, yes it is.

[hydr0x]

well, it's not a Point & Click adventure, that could be the reason ;)
Uh, yes it is.

lol IT IS NOT

[NeoZeedeater]

Dude, you're going to have to explain to me why you think it isn't because I honestly can't figure it out. It's just like the other games in the genre: you use a mouse to move your way around, have your inventory, solves puzzles, etc.. How is it not a point and click adventure game?

[hydr0x]

well, maybe it would be better to say it's not entirely Point & Click...

look at this screen

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/981602885-00.gif

something like that would never be part of a pure Point & Click Adventure, it's not the perspective Point & Click adventures are shown in

i know it's hard to explain exactly why it doesn't fit in there, but the thing is that Dreamweb is a game not every Point & Click fan would enjoy, and not because of the theme, but because of it not being the exact same kind of game

[NeoZeedeater]

To me that's sounds like saying Zaxxon isn't a shooter because it doesn't use the usual perspective but I guess genre definitions vary by person.

I never considered ruling it out for being overhead view. I mean, King's Quest uses a third-person side view and The Last Express is first-person but they're both considered point and click adventure games.

[hydr0x]

To me that's sounds like saying Zaxxon isn't a shooter because it doesn't use the usual perspective but I guess genre definitions vary by person.

I never considered ruling it out for being overhead view. I mean, King's Quest uses a third-person side view and The Last Express is first-person but they're both considered point and click adventure games.

uhhh, damn, i did include Last Express, i must have somehow missed that it's 1st-Person (as i said, i don't have it yet!) , 1st-Person Adventures are not considered Point & Click either, sorry for the confusion, Point & Click are 3rd-Person

[Julio III]

just because a game is viewed from a different perspective doesn't mean it doesn't have the same kind of gameplay mechanics

[hydr0x]

just because a game is viewed from a different perspective doesn't mean it doesn't have the same kind of gameplay mechanics

perspective is part of the mechanics, you can't argue like that, ANY pc game is actually Point & Click if you just take the technical definition of Point & Click, for Adventures though, Point & Click is a subgenre which is amongst other things defined over a 3rd-Person Perspective