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What're the must plays? Tis' the season to scour Steam and Gog and get cozy up inside with a cheeky point and click, be it classic or one of the few recent releases.

>> No.4414818

Sierra was a big name in the adventure genre. Maybe check out King's Quest.

>> No.4414819

The first three Monkey Island games truly are must plays for the genre.

>> No.4414827

I've been playing some Sanitarium lately. It's half on steam. Would've been more fitting for halloween but ah well.

>> No.4414848
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Check out Teen Agent. It's a sold early 90s point & click and is also free off gog.

>> No.4414868

>>4414815
Check out 90s interplay games
Mummy tomb of the Pharoh
Frankenstein
Realm of the haunting
Titanic adventure out of time
Dust

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>>4414818
One does not simply "check out" King's Quest

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>>4414815
in order of you must fucking play:

Sam & Max Hit The Road
Monkey Island 1,2,3
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Titanic: Adventure out of Time
Quest for Glory series
Space Quest series
King's Quest series
Police Quest series

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>>4414815
If you're looking for recent releases, I recommend Shivah, Gemini Rue and Blackwell series. They're made by the same devs (Wadjet Eye) who basically create LucasArts adventure games, today.
Also they all happen to be at the same time best detective games on the market, with 'notepad' mechanics implemented even better than Discworld Noir.

But that's not retro, so, idk. Longest Journey is retro by definition of this board, and I never see anyone here talk about it, and it's amazing.
It also has modern sequels, Dreamfall and Dreamfall Chapters.

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>>4414815
I liked Beyond Atlantis/Atlantis II (never played the other games in the franchise). Blatant Myst knock off, but an interesting setting. Also really memorable trailer music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYci8wLJic

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>>4414946
Timelapse is another ancient civilization Myst clone like Beyond Atlantis. Same developers as Timelapse (GTE Interactive Media) also created a Titanic and Wild West first person adventure game, though those are more talking focused but I liked them.

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Shadowgate
There's a remake on Gog, or you can play the original Mac version of NES or whatever

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Any love for The Journeyman Project series? I've really only played the first one and its remake (Project Pegasus) but I love it to death.

>> No.4415230

Leisure Suit Larry.
Unless you're gay.

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>>4414872
>get the one ring
>put it on
>jump
>ring fell off and is lost forever

>> No.4415258

>>4415230
Well, you do get a pretty nice shot of Larry's balls and taint in the third game.

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The only adventure game I had as a kid besides the one in OP... I never got far in that one. I beat this one though, albeit I had help from my aunt and also played it with my mother.

I replayed it last year and it's better as an adult.

>> No.4415305

>>4415229
This spooked me as a kid, was interested in playing it as an adult but I haven't found a proper way to do so yet.

>> No.4415308
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>>4414848
Anyone else traumatized by Laura Bow II as a kid?

>> No.4415917

>>4415305
Just play the Pegasus Prime version (originally only released for Macintosh Power PCs back in the day), it got a crowd-funded Windows port a couple years ago. It's a whole five bucks on GOG right now:

https://www.gog.com/game/journeyman_project_1_pegasus_prime_the

>> No.4416106

>>4415229
The sequel was better. Buried in Time.
I actually played it first, and then played the original Journeyman.
Both very good games.
Never got to play the third entry though.
Legacy Of Time

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Does any modern developer even come close? How does Amanita do it? Even the knock off games can't come close.

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>>4416108

I got Samorost 3 this year and loved it. Looking forward to Chuchel

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I really liked Shivers 2, pic related. It seems to get a lot of hate because it's totally unrelated to Shivers 1. But it's real cozy, kind of reminded me of Twin Peaks a little.

Shivers 1 is really fun too.

>>4416108
>>4416302
Machinarium and Samorost 1/2 were great fun. Samorost 3 was pretty good at the beginning, but it felt rushed later on.

>>4415229
>>4416106
Journeyman Project 1-2 were great, with great stories. 3 also had fun puzzles/settings, but the story was pretty bland in comparison, and your sidekick was really annoying (although as a kid I thought he was hilarious).
Also, this was kino: https://youtu.be/D4CY8G9gaFg

>> No.4418883

No one has mentioned The Dig yet so I will throw it out there because I liked it

>> No.4419384

>>4414815
Lighthouse: The Dark Being.

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>>4414815
I would definitely NOT recommend playing Sierra *quest series. Product of its time (in the really bad way).
Go check out Riven: The sequel to Myst (and the original Myst, if you haven't already), also late Lucas arts games like Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.
Worth checking out: Shivers 1, The longest journey, Azrael's tear.

>> No.4419981

>>4414868
Dude those games were my childhood!

OP, another decent one was Blazing Dragons. Very funny, very fun, there's soem clever puzzles in it but nothing too terribly obtuse.

>> No.4419987

>>4416971
oh fuck yes, i grew up playing shivers 1 & 2. those games were freakin' amazing. only problem is that i'm too stupid to figure out a lot of the puzzles

>> No.4420031

>>4419460
quest for glory is god tier tho

>> No.4420037
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Obviously some Broken Sword is in order. All of them are great tbqh.

Also, Monkey Island is a solid choice.

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Was Toonstruck any good as an adventure, or was I a dumb-biased kid for loving it when released, because of my love for Christopher Lloyd and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

>> No.4420968

>>4420882
I liked it, though played it as a kid as well and so my replay would have been tinged with nostalgia.

>> No.4420979

>>4416971
Shivers is like being caught in a Scooby Doo cartoon where you inexplicably have to be insanely good at Chinese checkers. It is fun.

Shivers 2 is like being caught in a Soundgarden video except the Soundgarden is actually just a cover band who sucks dogshit and the only way to win is to be really good at guessing.
It is very much not fun.