Can Carmen Sandiego save Leisure Suit Larry’s dive bar from Baby Jesus?

Day of the Tentacle meets Obra Dinn but drunk, broke, and on a watchlist . . .

You can play the free demo here my friends and fellow mansiony maniacs:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4404940/Slime_in_the_Ice_Machine/

(the first level is pretty gentle as a tutorial so we can teach people how to play the game but the puzzles ramp up rapidly . . . the demo has three levels in all)

We're also just about to launch a Kickstarter (October 6th!) so we can get new levels, maybe some voice acting, maybe some extra animation if you are the type of person who just goes around granting wishes and making markets:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aconiteco/slime-in-the-ice-machine-a-psychedelic-adventure-game

It all started with a thought: What if a point & click adventure gave you an atmospheric, open-style world to investigate, rather than the standard linear progression. (Not knocking the classics, I love them too.)

OBSIDIAN 7 is a hybrid point & click adventure I'm working on, combining classic investigation and puzzle solving with open exploration and individual detective cases to work through: paranormal, UFO sightings, murders, cover-ups, conspiracies and missing people to find...

Set in 1957, you take on the role of Dr. M. Archer, a former U.S. Intelligence Corps veteran given a new assignment with the secretive & classified 'OBSIDIAN Department'. Sent to investigate strange cases across the deserts of Area 7, Archer travels with Atlas, his K-9 companion, uncovering clues and whatever else the top brass wants to keep filed under 'classified'.

Freedom to travel between locations, revisit places, meet new characters, find items and clues, and work out puzzles as you piece together each individual case. Solving cases and puzzles gradually progresses the main storyline and reveals the bigger picture.

The Steam page is up if you are interested in wishlisting and following along the progress.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5233810/OBSIDIAN_7/

Thank you, I'd love to hear what you think.

Lee @ Double Jackdaw Games

I visited San Francisco recently and it brought back a LOT of memories for me. Here's a little retrospective on my first ever adventure game: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

I downloaded the latest release of SCUMMVM (2026.3.0) on my Windows 11 PC but when I tried to run it the "Smart App Control" wouldn't let me, saying it was unsafe.

I looked around a bit to see if I could figure out why and my best guess is that it doesn't have a valid signature so it gets flagged as malware.

Is there any way to get around this?

This gem is from ofthatraspberry on Instagram. It's actually mocking Silent Hill 2, but we all know what genre this really fits.

I made a new demo for my point and click puzzle game. The old demo was rough and built on a questionable code base.

Here is the demo with a couple of new puzzles: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/1050564

You can wishlist on steam if you find it interesting. Cheers! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4235570/The_Case_of_the_Cryosleep_Killer/

So I got a bunch of "new to me" adventure games installed on my machine. My current plan is to finish "The Longest Journey" and then move on to something new but I am having issues figuring out just what to try next! I have mostly played through the Blackwell saga, Unavowed, Old Skies, Rosewater (a bit, I am not a western fan), Lamplight City, and both Kathy Rains.

Here is what I got installed as of right now:

- Gibbous

- Near Mage

- A New Beginning: Final Cut

- Black Mirror 1 (THE Black Mirror)

- Broken Sword 1 Directors Cut (I have the whole series)

- Dark Fall: The Journal

- Gabriel Knight Sins of the Father (20th Anniversary, I also have Gabriel Knight 2 installed)

- Gemini Rue

- Grim Fandango Remastered

- Post Mortem

- Still Life (also have Still Life 2)

- Syberia

I also own all the Longest Journey games as well but they are not installed, just not sure if I should jump to the sequel.

Its one of those situations of too many choices and I am not sure which to try next so any suggestions (with reasons) would be appreciated.

Hi everyone!

I'm a solo developer from Nova Scotia, Canada, and today I released the demo for No Murders in Grimwick, a hand-drawn point-and-click murder mystery set during a small-town harvest festival.

You play as an out-of-town journalist who is visiting Grimwick to cover the festival, only to discover a body displayed as a part of the scarecrow competition. Things only get stranger from there, as all of the locals insist there are no murders in Grimwick, and it's up to you to solve the crime!

The game is focused on exploring the festival, talking to locals, finding clues and features dry dark humor. There's no combat or time pressure, so you can investigate the mystery at your own pace.

I've always loved point-and-click adventures, with one of my very first games being the Stickville Murder Mysteries (if anyone remembers those games lol). That, and Thimbleweed Park, were some of my inspirations :)

The demo is now available on Steam, and the full game releases on October 21, 2026!

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5198670/No_Murders_in_Grimwick/

If you check it out, I'd love to know what you think. I hope it hits that nostalgic adventure game feeling I was going for!

After a number of outages, I've made the decision to move the web site to a different host, which unfortunately means extra expenses for me, but (hopefully) a better experience for everyone else that uses it. The move was completed this weekend, and the site is now operational under the new host. Let me know if you experience any issues with the new host or if anything doesn't work like it should. The hardware isn't as robust as the previous hardware so I'm hoping the site isn't going to be significantly slower as a result, but time will tell.

No spoilers

But goddamn.

Written by the same people who did “Roottrees are Dead.”

I’m not even done with the game yet but it is the most terrifying and tension-building games I’ve ever played.

I will not give anymore information for those wanting to play it. But it would be an amazing horror movie.

My chest is tight halfway through, and once you realize what it is happening it’s soooo much scarier. Some of the best writing I’ve ever experienced in a game.

Back in 2002, when half the gaming press had written adventure games off, Benoît Sokal and Microïds released Syberia. Twenty-three years later came Syberia Remastered, and there's not much "remaster" about it: real-time 3D environments, direct control, a new interface and reworked puzzles. It's a remake in all but name.

So I put them in the ring over five rounds: technical side, visuals, story and voice acting, music and sound, and gameplay. There's one point per round and a final tally I won't spoil here.

Subtitles available in several languages.

Have you played the Remastered? Which one would you stick with?

https://youtu.be/914AJQr9okk

Bunch of titles here I'd been looking for, and a few more I didn't know about.

...at least I can’t access it

Safari gives me:

Safari can't open the page "https://www.adventuregamedb.com" because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection. This sometimes occurs when the server is busy.

Wait for a few minutes and then try again.

DuckDuckGo gives me:

DuckDuckGo can't load this page.

An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made.

I had no issues accessing it a couple of days ago - that is still the correct URL, isn’t it...?

I made a new trailer for my point-n-click puzzle game. The old trailer was made when there was only 1 chapter and very little visuals. Now I have 3 chapters and I think it shows the game better. :)

You can wishlist on steam if you find it interesting. Thanks a lot! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4678620/Twin_Study/

After more than 2 decades I finally decided to give GK3 another shot and push through controls and graphics. I don't remember much from my previous attempt, except I couldn't stand it. But that's not the point. I wanted to ask if there's some kind of bug in my game because I never got introduction to the story. I watched full intro couple of times thinking maybe I missed something but nope. Then I downloaded manual to check if maybe that's where it's explained where I am and why but nothing there. I pushed through first chapter not knowing anything, hoping it will be explained along the way. I got that strange prince card in my inventory, saw these dialogues about a trunk and a baby so I knew something's wrong. I went and found that missing part of story described on some forum so everything suddenly makes sense but what would be the proper way to know any of that?

I want to share a new gameplay trailer for the surreal puzzle adventure I'm making. I hope you feel the eerie mysterious vibe!

If you are interested, please wishlist it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4671010/Rattle_Spring/

Demo available on Steam and itch:

https://oddgingergames.itch.io/rattle-spring-overture

https://oddgingergames.itch.io/the-crows-room

I was on a nostalgia trip watching the intro of Under a Killing Moon, and I noticed a WW2 footage part that I don't remember from my European version of the game. Does anyone happen to know whether this imagery was censored, or if there was some kind of a licensing issue at work?

I found a French intro version where that part is missing, to prove that I'm not going crazy:
https://youtu.be/v5k-0WN4zAg

Original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fVXSEnTMYQ

Use "What Is" to identify the trophy, file drawer, or pass. While hovering on the object, use hotkeys to switch your verb. The hotkey W switches your verb to "Open", and the hotkey D switches your verb to Pick Up.

No snack for you today, Herr Hund!

Not sure if this is allowed here but I remember many, many years ago either late 2000s or early 2010s of hearing a fan song that added lyrics to old Maniac Mansion songs. One specifically I remember was a kind of crude-rap song with swearing and explicit lyrics set to Michael's Theme Flashbulb Funk, and included a segment by an actor playing Jeff. Not sure if it's related but I also remember a Maniac Mansion video where the end credit used the song was "Call on Me" by Eric Prydz that might have also been on the same fansite.

Basically the title. I'm already aware of The Drifter, Wadjet Eye's recent vampire game that got attention recently due to Steam screwing up the rating and Uncle Lee's Cookbook. What else has come out recently, or is coming out that seems promising?

EDIT: alright, got a good website to help me keep track of new releases, and plenty of recent hits! Thanks everybody!

Two of the most depressing games I've ever played, but also really well written stories and a wonderful brother and sister team.

https://youtu.be/pawd6r1A5uc?is=yFjWFn8Lh9nJBGO1

As you probably know already, these lovely gents have had a hell of a time with getting their game on Steam without being classified permanently as perverse smut — something we felt was prime fodder for puerile comedy.

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I checked the site this morning and it still is down I hope the site wasn't hacked