Point and Click Adventure games

Posted by factnfiction101 on June 26, 2013, 4:11 p.m.

I love these games and I'm trying to find as many as I can. If anyone has suggestions please post them. Post w/e point and click games you like too or your opinions on the games posted. Text heavy or Educational Point and Clicks are welcome (I'm trying to get my son to play some of them so if they're kiddish it's okay).

Some suggestions I received:

Monkey Island series

Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis

Sam and Max series

5 Days a Stranger by Ben Yahtzee Croshaw

Maniac Mansion Day of the Tentacle

Maniac Mansion

Gemini Rue

Grim Fandango

Revolution Steel Sky

Teen Agent

A New Beginning

Broken Sword

Kings Quest

Shivers

Phantasmagoria

Gabriel Knight

Primordia

Resonance

Blackwell Legacy

Emerald City

Jolly Rover

Freddi Fish

Putt Putt

Point and Click Horror games (or just horror type adventure)

Walking Dead

Shadowgate

DreamWeb

Sanitarium

Bloodnet

Shodan

Glados

Blackstone Chronicles

Exmortis Trilogy

The Cat Lady (2012)

The House 2

Sweet Home (1989)

Clock Tower (ps1, snes)

Hell Knight / Dark Messiah

System Shock 2

Shadow of Destiny (ps2, psp)

Extermination (ps2)

White Day: A Labyrinth named School

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (GC)

Saya's Song / Saya No Uta (visual novel)

Haunting Ground (ps2)

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Rule of Rose (ps2)

Scratches: Director's Cut (pc)

Siren: Blood Curse (ps3)

Cursed Mountain (Wii)

Deadly Premonition (360, ps3)

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Slender

Penumbra series

Nightmare House 2

The Nameless Game

ILLBEED

Kuon (ps2)

Pathalogic

Theresia Dear Emile (ds)

Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi

Some useful links for myself/others:

Google Search for List of Point n Click Adventure games.

Google Search for List of Point n Click Horror games.

Lucas Arts Co. Info

17 Obscure Horror Games

Newer Point and Click games

TellTale Games

From F1ak3r's post

Commercial

Grim Fandango (may be difficult to run on modern systems – I know my copy whines about 64bit)

Sam & Max episodes (I've only played the first season, but I'm sure the others are excellent as well)

Time Gentlemen, Please! (bloody hilarious, deconstructs the genre, available for next to nothing on Steam)

Previously commercial – available from the Scumm VM site

Beneath a Steel Sky (a serious sci-fi story)

Flight of the Amazon Queen (wacky adventures in the Amazon rainforest)

Freeware

Ben There, Dan That (predecessor to Time Gentlemen, Please! above, also really funny)

Everything by Yahtzee – his Chzo Mythos games, Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment, The Trials of Odysseus Kent, and even 1213 and Art of Theft if you feel like adventure-flavoured platformers (and actually, not everything, don't go earlier than Kent).

Everything by Ben304 – he's made a lot of really neat short games in interesting universes.

Grundislav's Ben Jordan series – now complete with eight episodes and snazzy remakes of the first two.

Cirque De Zale (basically a modern-day LucasArts game)

Jessica Plunkenstein And The Dusseldorf Conspiracy (the graphics are pillaged from resource packs, but it's full voiced and I remember it being really funny)

Nelly Cootalot (so amusing!)

How They Found Silence (ugly graphics, but the rest of the game makes up for it)

Nanobots (I think it has a commerical sequel too)

Aeronuts (it's got a SHMUP minigame)

the white chamber (really well-produced horror game with animey art)

The Vacuum (an experiment in branching storytelling of the sort you don't see in a lot of these games)

Damsel (a short, fully voiced game about a damsel who has to get out of her own distress)

Adventure Games

Fedora Spade (complete at four episodes and made in GM – you'll probably need the GM6 Vista convertor)

Photopia (if you play one text adventure, make it this one)

I recently have been playing Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchmans Mine. It's good so far, kinda difficult tho. I've had to check a FAQ guide to see what I need to do next. I know I'm a big cheater [:(]

I have beaten Maniac Mansion several times and It's probably one of my favorite Point and Click Adventure games. I think I have it on almost everything; PC, PSP, XBOX, NES, and probably something else I'm leaving out. I've yet to beat Day of the Tentacle.

Comments

Rez 10 years, 10 months ago

i have no mouth and i must scream

JuurianChi 10 years, 10 months ago

Discworld

Discworld 2

Quote: Rez
i have no mouth and i must scream

I can confirm that this is in fact a good game.

mr8bit 10 years, 10 months ago

There's a whole indie community that makes these type of games using Adventure Game Studio. Some of them are pretty good and messing around with the engine yourself is even gooder. I, for one, would love to see Charlie or Rez makes some demented adventures.

Rez 10 years, 10 months ago

Oh totally, I love the Trilby games by Yahtzee.

I would love to make some of my own, personal laziness notwithstanding. point n clicks are a good place for experimental stuff.

Quietus 10 years, 10 months ago

mr8bit: that sounds really awesome. the past few weeks i've been thinking about sketching out panels to arrange for some kind of point-and-click in GM, it's always seemed like an easy thing to program. i remember talking with Extravisual about making a point-and-click way back in 2007.

LAR Games 10 years, 10 months ago

Have you ever played Mcpixel? It's pretty silly, but I think it qualifies as a point and click adventure.

(Someone correct me if I'm wrong)

JID 10 years, 10 months ago

probably give Kentucky Route Zero a try.

I really dig its art style and mellow soundtrack.

Charlie Carlo 10 years, 10 months ago

Quote:
Some of them are pretty good and messing around with the engine yourself is even gooder. I, for one, would love to see Charlie or Rez makes some demented adventures.
I was thinking about using one of those 'engine in a box' programs, I just don't have the money.

I was considering making Credence Filter an RPG Maker RPG.

And yeah, I know AGS is free.

But I wanted to use RPG Maker. :P

Rez 10 years, 10 months ago

Quote:
probably give Kentucky Route Zero a try.

I really dig its art style and mellow soundtrack.

the writing in it seems very good, very layered and well thought out. I haven't gotten my hands on it though, just saw a gb quicklook.

Acid 10 years, 10 months ago

My halloween game was going to be an awesome point and click horror… but I got lazy and gave up. :(