List Of Adventure Games (Part 2)

Yeah

I agree. The main TA site definitely looks smoother and I like the fact that you can see more games in the Top and New Games lists but adding URLs really stinks now. The pop up closes 90% of the time if you tap at the space to add your URL - Adding an URL and a name for it was much easier before.

You can still write it per hand though: Panic Room 2 (with the “[ URL= ] [/ URL]” command)

 

Yeah, granted - A site "upgrade" should usually lead to the opposite

 

Escape From Zombie Land - This is a fairly short, but well-made point and click game.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/escape-from-zombie-land/id1387360790

 

Hard for me to complain about the length when it‘s free without iAP This dev even has a similar PnC in that vein: Great Office Escape

 

Ewww what happened to this place??? Any good recs?

 

I know what you mean - I’m scanning Appshopper every other day for new adventure releases but can’t find anything worthwhile. No idea if the site made some changes but nothing new pops up.

Well, except rather uninteresting things like that some Hidden Object Game (this week it’s Dreampath by Big Fish) has been reduced from $6.99 to $2.99 for example.

It’s the same on the TA site for more mainstream genres though. If you look at the “Hot” Games list most of the premium stuff there is at least a few weeks old (and PnC adventures aren’t “hot” enough to be found there anyway) the rest and also the New Games stuff is about 90% freemium cr@p and even the few premium games are nothing to write home about.

In conclusion, I can’t find any new interesting adventure games and even finding other good premium games from different genres is getting harder and harder. I’ve got no idea if this is because of the Nintendo Switch or just because premium games sell even worse than a few years ago but it definitely sucks. Just read a few days ago that the apparently big hit Temple Run only started to gain traction after the dev lowered the “terribly high” price of 99c to “free". Obviously even 99c is too much on the mobile market.

Doing a freemium Point and Click luckily is nearly impossible but that probably also means that few dev/publishers will even release a premium adventure on mobile nowadays (and even on PC most don’t even seem to do very well, just look at the pitifully low number of Steam reviews for Odysseus Kosmos). The great resurrection for Point and Clicks from a few years ago where nearly every good adventure was (re-)released on mobile seems to have died down and good premium mobile games in general seem to get even less traction than they did one or two years ago.

Also, no word from Joe/Fire Maple Games anymore about his new game (about a year ago he wrote his last post here that it’s in the works but that he got behind cause of Zelda: BoTW) or Glitch’s planned game Veritas. Both devs stopped posting here a while ago and we’re all left in the dark.

Believe me, I’d love nothing more than to post about new adventure releases here every day but if there are any new ones it seems nearly impossible to find them. Appshopper doesn’t show anything new and even good premium games of less niche genres seem to appear less and less - At least for mobile

 

Sad. This new site design is horrific! I’m craving a good adventure game Eric knows the type of games I like Does appshopper still work? The app doesn’t work on my phone and the site takes forever to load. I’m also not able to narrow down categories. It’s been so long that I’m sure there are games I haven’t played. What a shame that Maple and Glitch stopped posting. I can’t stand hidden object games and can’t imagine who is purchasing those Big Fish games. Productivity and photography seem to be the big categories. I still play Dragonvale Lolololol Guilty!!!! Has Appunwrapper been around? She is usually on top of the newest releases.

 

I‘m not a big fan of the new site design myself. There are so many little annoyances. For example you can‘t long press on a game in the Hot or New Games lists and open its link in a new tab or split view - No matter how long you press, no prompts appear (on iOS devices mind you - Which are the main audience devices for TA after all). Adding links in the forum has become an absolute chore and doesn‘t work very well, even if you write out the URL command. The alternative - using the ‚add link‘ button which had worked flawlessly before - doesn‘t work at all as well, as the pop up disappears every time when trying to insert a link.

Or just now, I tried replying to your post on my iOS 10 device and it didn’t work at all. Every time I tapped on quote or reply a new page opened up that said something like „Reply to thread“ or „Edit Post by Gambler“ but there was no text field to write anything into - The only options shown were to „watch this thread“ or „receive email notifications“ - Nothing to do with replying to or editing a post ... Very weird, I had to use my iOS 11 device and with that one it worked without issues. I hope TA will be able to iron those issues out.

Anyway, regarding Appshopper: As I already discussed with PoL a bit a few weeks ago there was a long while when nearly no new releases appeared on the site (they had about one new premium game release listed per day which is virtually impossible to have been accurate - Even if premium releases get fewer, one per day is impossibly low). Eric said he wrote Appshopper about that issue but never got a reply.

Appshopper finally seems to have gotten this issue fixed as there are more new releases listed again but I can‘t find anything worthwhile regarding new adventure releases lately. I usually scan under the categories ‚All iOS‘, ‚New‘, ‚Paid‘, ‚All‘ (instead of Popular. Sadly there are rarely any Point and Clicks under Popular) and ‚Games‘.

Until recently there were at least one or two new adventure releases to be found per week but now there seems to be a drought. Maybe I overlooked the one odd new PnC but just loading the last three pages now, there‘s quite a few new releases but nothing in the adventure genre. And as mentioned in my last message above, even the quality and quantity in other genres seems to be lowered down significantly for mobile atm.

Hope this is just a short drought but the market seems to be leaning more in the direction of f2p casual games than it ever has before. I haven‘t seen PnC games under ‚Education‘ so far though. Have you ever found PnC‘s in this category?

And P. S.: I don‘t like Hidden Object games as well They don‘t provide a lot of challenge imho. Just used the Hidden Object Game as an example how little interesting stuff one can find on Appshopper atm when searching for new adventure releases.

Tl;dr: I’m having quite a few issues with the new TA design as well. Appshopper works better again than a few months ago but new Point and Click adventures seem to be absent.

 

I agree, G5 also made some decent Point and Click games.

Alas this seems to be a trend. Daedalic a big German developer for Point and Click just said they‘ll completely drop the production of adventures. They even cancelled their last adventure game in the pipe, the from fans hotly anticipated The Devil‘s Man, despite the game being 2/3s done already.

Their reasoning was that there‘s just no profit to be made in the PnC genre anymore. Reminds me a lot of the beginning of the 2000s when everybody and his mother declared the adventure genre dead just for it to return with a bang a few years late - Especially with the start of mobile gaming and the release of tablets.

I‘m sure it‘ll be similar this time around but for the moment it seems to be slim pickings. Gotta just hope for some new Indies to pick up the tab - And of course the Glitch Bros

Slightly OT: This forum is for mobile ofc (which I vastly prefer) but as not a lot is happening here atm, so if anybody’s interested, the Point’n’Click games Unforeseen Incidents and Darkestville Castle for PC look rather interesting.

 

its too bad the pricing for ios games is so out of wack ..... anything under 5 bucks is practically the tax u had to pay for a point n click pc game u bought in a big box store 15 years ago..... yet the climate for ios apps in general is so ridiculous that most people consider 3.99 or so to be an expensive app.... so the developers that dont catch lightning in a bottle have a hard time making any money. when the market wants games enough that they are willing to pay 10 bucks or so for a good length game and the people that would want those games could find them, things will start picking up again. i had waited for a new 1112 game but thats never happening.... other myst games being released would also be great... sequels to hotel dusk for ds would have been great on ios....the list goes on....

 

I just finished playing The Memoranda, beautifully executed art and sound wise. It was a bit confusing knowing what to do without clear prompts, even with a diary type book that logged my movements and interactions with characters and what they wanted it still felt obtuse. I ended up having to use a walkthrough which I loathe doing because I get lazy and just use it constantly.

Yes, there has been a lengthy drought with solid pnc games. I’m constantly looking and monitoring appunwrap in case she’s onto one we don’t know about.

Ohhhh. I’m having fire maple glitch withdrawals. It’s been eons....

I’m also not sure about the new look of this forum. And. Didn’t we have more pages than 348?

I forgot...Isoland 2 is due. I didn’t mind that game at all. It’s not FM or Glitchy but it is pnc and it is adventure.

 

Newsflash…glitch are on discord ( the gamers server networky thing ) and released an alpha build of Veritas, so seems like we’ve missed a loop somewhere. I’ve just joined up. There’s also a game recs channel in their discord.

https://discordapp.com/invite/YK2wfeE

 

BTW, the Rusty Lake games are on sale...

 

Yeah, I highly recommend the Cube Escape games. Free with no IAPs. They vary in length, but definitely worth playing. A tenth game is under development.