List Of Adventure Games (Part 2)

You all have been quiet lately! The developer of The Lost Ship has now released The Lost Treasure.

 

Has anyone here played the Blackwell series yet? I tried the first one and really couldn't get into it.

 

I'm just the opposite - one of my big attractions to the game was the pixel art, but I honestly found the game kind of boring. Since I have all of them, though, I guess I'll need to give it a chance again.

 

Free full BFG: Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan HD

 

I think it's been mentioned here already, but if you haven't tried it yet, you really should give Escape Alcatraz - Devious Escape Puzzler a try. I'm not a huge fan of escape games, so I started it with the intention of playing for a couple of minutes and then deleting it. Now I'm hooked! The puzzles are innovative and actually make using of features like swiping and tilting the device. Granted you probably won't be too happy with it if you don't like some exercises in dexterity during your adventure games, but I've actually managed to look past that pet peeve for this game. Part way through you do have to unlock the rest of the game, but you can do one of those "complete these offers" things to get the rest of the game. All I did was download and open another free game. Granted at first it seemed like it didn't work, but I was all set to just buy the second half anyway. Fortunately this last time I opened up the game it registered the fact that I completed my offer, so I'm now on my way to actually escaping the prison Definitely worth a look-see, especially if you do like escape games.

 

Here's an interesting looking game: Black Island. The download is free, and apparently right now chapters 2 & 3 are free as well, though I can't figure out how to get them. When I launched the app there was no option to purchase IAP, so it might be something where you can't get the extra chapters until you make your way to them in the game itself. The free offer is available until the 15th according to a press release I got, so hurry in and get a new game! There are only two customer reviews and they are wildly different, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the 5 star one is the right one

 

So I decided to give Black Island a try. Figured I should probably check out some of the games I post here, and since this one is completely free right now I didn't have much of an excuse. It's actually a pretty decent game. It's definitely short - about 30 minutes from start to finish. The story is actually interesting, and I like the way that it's told in flashbacks via FMV. That's one slick way of using video without it feeling like it's disrupting the game play. The puzzles are decent, and there are only a couple of mini-games. Sadly, one of them felt pretty buggy to me, but it was still easily passable. the other one, the "arcade sequence" David1953 mentioned, is fairly benign. I was almost expecting something that would make me throw my device across the room, but once you figure out that you've actually entered the arcade sequence it's relatively easy to beat. I do agree with David that arcade sequences really don't belong in adventure games, but if the author really does feel that they are necessary I wish they'd all be this basic. If I had to compare this to the trove of games we've discussed in the past, I'd say these guys were proteges of Glitch Games. They seem to have a similar knack for storytelling, but I'm not quite sure they are there yet in terms of overall game design. Still, it's worth taking the time to play if you have a few minutes for download and half an hour of game time to spare.