Adventure games



How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

Click on the ground to walk there, click on an object to put it in your inventory, click on a person to talk to them, click to solve puzzles. Who doesn't love point & click adventure games? Thanks to its writing, puzzles and humor, this genre was extremely popular throughout the 80s and 90s, but sadly kind of disappeared around the time when 3D action and online games became the next big thing. Recently the genre has experienced a small revival thanks to download services such as Steam and the efforts of indie developers. The following is a list of the best games the genre has to offer. Most of them are really old, but they have all aged very well thanks to their timeless gameplay.

''Beginners, be warned! The puzzles in adventure games are not for those who can't think of creative solutions!''

Note: many of these games can be played on ScummVM, which started as an interpreter for LucasArts' SCUMM engine but gradually added support for games by Sierra, Humongous, Adventuresoft, and so on. To play games that run on the GrimE Engine, use the Residual VM interpreter. And to play Infocom's text adventures, you can use a Z-Machine interpreter like Frotz.