After reviewing those 180 'adventure' games here are the final results and my conclusions.
The real and proper adventure game releases of 2019 are only six. Yes, SIX !!! Not 180, but 6 !!! Here they are in alphabetical order:
1. Argonus and the Gods of Stone
2. Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure
3. The House of Da Vinci 2
4. Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
5. Myha: Return to the Lost Island
6. Trüberbrook
Now, if I wanted to stretch my rules and turn a blind eye on some very serious faults and shortcomings I could add the following ten games but that's all, I wouldn't even go near all the rest.
1. The 13th Doll
2. Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest
3. The Antidote
4. Disco Elysium
5. The Fall of April
6. Krabat and the Secret of the Sorbian King
7. Mage’s Initiation: Reign of the Elements
8. Observation
9. Whispers of a Machine
10. Yet Another Hero Story
So in conclusion a real adventure game enthusiast had barely twenty adventure games to play in 2019 and more than half of them are seriously lacking in one area or another. Honestly, can you still say that adventure games are still alive and kicking?
That's all for now.
Bye.
The real and proper adventure game releases of 2019 are only six. Yes, SIX !!! Not 180, but 6 !!! Here they are in alphabetical order:
1. Argonus and the Gods of Stone
2. Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure
3. The House of Da Vinci 2
4. Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
5. Myha: Return to the Lost Island
6. Trüberbrook
Now, if I wanted to stretch my rules and turn a blind eye on some very serious faults and shortcomings I could add the following ten games but that's all, I wouldn't even go near all the rest.
1. The 13th Doll
2. Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest
3. The Antidote
4. Disco Elysium
5. The Fall of April
6. Krabat and the Secret of the Sorbian King
7. Mage’s Initiation: Reign of the Elements
8. Observation
9. Whispers of a Machine
10. Yet Another Hero Story
So in conclusion a real adventure game enthusiast had barely twenty adventure games to play in 2019 and more than half of them are seriously lacking in one area or another. Honestly, can you still say that adventure games are still alive and kicking?
That's all for now.
Bye.
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Hello, interesting series of articles. I only share your first criterion in its entirety: a game must have the resolution of "puzzles" as its central core. I don't share the second and the third in themselves so much, although I do take them into account when deciding when I like a game or not.
ReplyDeleteI do share in general your feeling that, in fact, very few adventure games, in the sense that they have puzzles as the center of its gameplay, are published, and it is also true that the majority of the public of adventure sites does not seem to be bother by this.
And the last one is a question: I don't understand why you don't consider games like Whispers of a Machine or Mage's Initiaion adventure games. I haven't played them yet, but from what I've read, they seem to be proper adventures.
I consider myself to be an adventure game enthusiast and I feel exactly the same as you.
ReplyDeleteAs there are almost no new proper adventure games, I forced myself to to like, but finally gave up on 'retro', 'interactive movie' and similar type of pseudo adventures. Lately I just started replaying classic ones like TLJ or Grim Fandango.
Still from time to time miracles happen, f.e. recently I found out about Tony Tough 2 by accident and now I'm having a wonderful time, so thanks for your work on english subs.
tl;dr - you are not alone.
Adventure games have undoubtedly decline over the years. Maybe because the trend favours shoot-what-moves/splatter style stuff, but I don't think that this will last forever.
ReplyDeleteVery useful overall analysis, nice listing.