Favourite obscure adventure game.

[Anonymous No.4518474]

What is your favourite lesser know adventure game?

We all know that King's Quest V, Full Throttle and Monkey Island 2 are fantastic.

So let's discuss some adventure games that aren't quite as well known.

Pic related - Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum

[Anonymous No.4518554]

I like old Dracula point and clicks.

[Anonymous No.4518571]

>>4518474

[Anonymous No.4518605]

I don't know if it's obscure enough, but Harvester is a cult classic, meaning it's not really acknowledged by the mainstream. I fucking love this game, it's weird, icky, and just cheesy in all the right ways.

[Anonymous No.4518735]

hello! i'm looking for an online adventure game that i can't fully remember. here's what i know:
>was hosted on shockwave.com
>circa 2000
>half adventure, half trivia
>a parrot (or some tropical bird) asks the trivia questions
>one of the answers was "Richard Nixon"

[Anonymous No.4518859]

[Anonymous No.4519383]

>>4518605
Harvester is great and so is Steve's actor being in jail for child porn.

>>4518859
>Dark seed
>"obscure" at all

Beneath a Steel Sky is really good to, never see anyone talk about it.

[Anonymous No.4519409]

Voyeur 2, KGB Conspiracy and Urban Runner, which is fucking hilarious, were pretty fun.
I enjoyed Flash Traffic and Angel Devoid but that's probably because I like tacky FMV games so I guess they might be up to everyone's standards.
Kinda embarrassing but honestly, most times I rather watch a playthrough of them and enjoy the story/art rather than deal with the UI and possibly puzzles.

[Anonymous No.4519471]

>>4518605
Harvester gets a little too preachy IMO

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4519479]

Uhhh... Gabriel Knight? P&Cs were a full on major genre of game for decades so there are a LOT of them. Kind of interesting how they died out. So-called "walking simulators" have a lot in common with them though.

[Anonymous No.4519484]

>>4519479
P&C games most of the time went for a light hearted comedic tounge in cheek or a terrifying horror experience, so the genre died out when there werent any more ideas

[Anonymous No.4519485]

I feel like there were a few less than famous point&clickers I liked, but my memory fails me right now other than for Hopkins FBI. It's kind of a shitty game, but replaying it a few times since '99 made me develop a soft spot for it. Like a bad movie it's best enjoyed with friends

>>4518554
I ran across these on GoodOldGames last summer. Lots of fun

[Anonymous No.4519548]

I'll probably get a little shit for this since it's not a "pure" point and click but Shadow of the Comet is one of my favorite adventure games and probably one of the better Lovecraft games out there (besides DCoTA and Darkness Within; inb4 not retro). Too bad the one that came after it, Prisoner of Ice, was pretty bad. Now on to a completely different genre (away from horror and more into sci-fi), but not really a favorite, is The Orion Conspiracy. I've tried to play this game so many times and I get maybe half way through it and I just lose interest in it - which is a shame cause it came with a nice comic that gives a lot of background story to the game. Maybe someone else has played it and can give me some insight onto something I'm missing in the game. Last but not least I'm gonna go with The Feeble Files. This game is such a underrated gem, I am surprised at how no one I know has played it. The world, the characters, the humor, the sheer volume of background info in the game, it's really a shame that it's not better known.

>>4518554
Glad to see I'm not the only one to have enjoyed these. Going to have to go back and play them since it's been years and I don't remember them quite well.

>>4519479
I mean, if you played point and click games would you really consider Gabriel Knight obscure? Same goes with the Darkseed, Harvester, Beneath a Steel Sky. I feel like you would know those games if you were even an amateur player of point and click games.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4519628]

>>4519548
I guess that's my point, that there are literally hundreds of these games so how obscure OP wants to get is pretty relative. Most people usually mean "great games I personally am unaware of"

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4519653]

How about the Japanese repaint of Police Quest 2?

[Anonymous No.4519719]

>>4519548
I always ran out of patience with SotC but practically breezed through Prisoner of Ice. It's a shame, I think Comet had much more to do with Lovecrafty shit

>>4519628
every time someone drops the o word you can count on a thread filling up with jerking off over what it means

>>4519653
nani the fuck

[Anonymous No.4519795]

>>4519628
You're probably right. But most of the time it's usually my fault, since I usually assume that most people here are at least my age and have been playing games since they were kids; so something that may have been common or at least known among gamers when I was a teenager/young adult may be obscure to a kid still in his early 20s now.

Yahtzee's games were actually pretty entertaining, at least the first 3 point and click games that he did. He really lost it when he tried to do that rougelike shit. Should have stuck to crafting a continuous focused narrative games since he is a better writer than a game designer.

Btw, have you tried Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller? The game looks like crap but I'm a sucker for pre-render background and shitty character sprites. Still wondering if I should just download it or buy it. Probably not even worth buying, right?

>>4519653
Haha I remember that Sierra was porting a bunch of their games over in Japan back in the day, like Phantasmagoria (which I actually liked more than the original) but I had no idea they did Police Quest. Looks like it was on the PC98. Might have to check that out.

>>4519719
What I meant by bad was that the game was so easy to beat that there was no challenge. I can understand the frustration with Shadow of the Comet though, it took me a few good tries to get into it. Unlike Prisoner, it's pretty open in the beginning and the game gives you little to no clue as what to do, plus certain events are timed in certain locations only so if you aren't there within the right time frame you fuck up the whole game, so expect to make a lot of seperate save files. It's probably one of the few games that I would say you need a guide to at least start you off.

[Anonymous No.4520152]

Under a killing moon was great, and one of the only film noir games out there

[Anonymous No.4520180]

>>4518571
>don't forget to get all the oils goyim
>or you'll find out you can't win the game
>at the end of the fucking game

Fuck that game

[Anonymous No.4520182]

>>4519628

Yahtzee's horror games are actually amazingly good for what they are. If they'd come out in the early 90s, they would've made bank.

[Anonymous No.4520185]

This site is probably the best source of information and discussion for everything point and click related, retro or otherwise.

gameboomers.com

[Anonymous No.4520343]

>the Color was no mayor upgrade

[Anonymous No.4520380]

>>4519383
>Harvester is great and so is Steve's actor being in jail for child porn.

You always were a kidder, Steve.

[Anonymous No.4520391]

>>4519409
>KGB Conspiracy
My nigga

There's only like 2 or 3 other adventure games which feature Donald Sutherland and allow you to watch a snuff film

[Anonymous No.4520396]

>>4519485
I loved that game. The knockoff music and gratuitous dead body nudity that'd make LA Noire blush

[Anonymous No.4520403]

Broken Sword

MOST GOOD

[Anonymous No.4520406]

>>4520182
It was insane when I first realised those games and ZP were done by the same guy.

[Anonymous No.4520410]

>>4519383
>Beneath a Steel Sky is really good to, never see anyone talk about it.
That game was free from gog for like 3 and a half years, you'd think it'd be mentioned here more.

[Anonymous No.4520437]

>>4520152
I played it for about three minutes and found the UI very difficult - especially how you can't interact with the scenery while moving. You have to walk and look around, stop, then interact with your setting.

Should I give it another go?

[Anonymous No.4520471]

THE DAME WAS LOADED

My personal favourite adventure game of all time and it's everything a Sam Spade/Phillip Marlowe FMV noir style detective game should be and being an Australian production (I didn't even realise it til recently) barely anyone has ever played it.

[Anonymous No.4520609]

>>4519628
I really enjoyed this series, although I think the later entries into it went too far away from the original formula. It would have been more fun to just solve spooky shit as Trilby when he was working for the Ministry of Occultism.

[Anonymous No.4520687]

The New Adventures of the Time Machine. My dad would bring home random pirated games he found on business trips and one of them was this. I've never heard any mention of it since. I was too young and stupid to work it out at the time so I've been trying to track it down recently so I can actually play it now that I am a literate adult.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4520697]

>>4520687
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/windows-games/the-new-adventures-of-the-time-machine/

According to a very old thread this game bugs out on lots of video card configurations so good luck!

[Anonymous No.4520702]

[Anonymous No.4522483]

Do action adventures count? If yes, then Bioforge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eaGm2gMMzk

[Anonymous No.4522512]

>>4520702
enchantia is a weird experience

[Anonymous No.4522573]

Not sure how obscure it is, Wikipedia says it was a successful title, they made 2 sequels apparently. I found this in a stack of random software CDs that my came with my dad's computer back in the mid 90's. It must have been around 1994 or 1995. I've never heard any mention of or seen this game since then, and I forgot about it for like 20 years. I remember it being boring, but comfy at the same time, really I was just trying to figure out what the game was and what to do in it, and I got stuck near the beginning where you have to enter a pass code that I couldn't find. I think it may have been in the manual, which I didn't have then.
Anyway, random bit of nostalgia for me, wondering if anyone has heard of this game.

[Anonymous No.4522881]

>>4520182
Do you have a list? Google only brings back the youtuber.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4522914]

>>4522881
The guy's real name is Ben Croshaw. He started developing games when he was only 15 and he continues to develop games entirely on his own at his own pace. He always released them as donationware though I think now his actual income is as a writer and he's switched to freeware. Really a cool guy after my own heart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%22Yahtzee%22_Croshaw

[Anonymous No.4522920]

>>4522914
I didn't know he made games before his youtube career. Pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.4522952]

[Anonymous No.4524948]

>>4522483
Similar to this, while not point and click, but an adventure game Dark Earth is an amazing game.

[Anonymous No.4525002]

>>4519479
I really liked the first two (the FMV in the second one was really well done), but God the third is a chore to get into. That control scheme was a horribly failed experiment. Is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.4525010]

>>4524948
oh yeah, I couldn't progress after some point as a non-english speaking kid, but I have to come back to it at some point

that chick you give the cd to was my first and only vidya fap

[Anonymous No.4525024]

theres one adventure game ive tried to find for years but cant for the fuck of me locate no matter how long i search for it

you start out in a casino with the mob knocking on your door and you gotta escape somehow, you later go through some sewers, end up in jail and escaping from there too
i have no idea what the name of the game is anymore and the only thing that was really difficult about it at the time was a radio puzzle and googling for a radio puzzle brings up nothing but pages about a resident evil game

you also end up in a town in the middle of nowhere having to do car races and shit too it was a pretty neat game, id love it if someone could help me out trying to find it?

[Anonymous No.4525051]

Wacki. Two Polish dimwits go around the world on an adventure to assemble an alien artifact to... I forgot why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L4U6CX4y40

[Anonymous No.4525057]

>>4520380
The creepiest thing about it all is that in his mugshot he is wearing the exact same clothes and hairstyle as his character in the game.

It's almost like the game took over his mind

[Anonymous No.4525063]

Not obscure by an means, but I have fond memories of Phreddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist.

[Anonymous No.4525154]

>>4525010
Just be careful if you get the CD-ROM version. I had trouble continuing during the CD swap prompts. I was playing with a virtual drive so I would Alt-Tab and switch CDs but when I went back was prompted to switch back to the 1st CD. So I just burned a copy onto aeperate CDs and it worked find.

[Anonymous No.4525661]

I don't even remember Full Throttle being that good. Great puzzles like 'kick a wall for an hour until you find the right pixel'.

Twinsen's Odyssey is probably my favourite less well known one.

[Anonymous No.4525702]

>>4525002
Personally I thought GK3 was the only adventure game where the move from 2D to 3D actually added something to the game rather than just being a pointless visual upgrade.

[Anonymous No.4525870]

>>4522573
This game here is the reason why I wasn't impressed with Myst when it came out. I thought "What's so great about this, Journeyman Project already did it." As for the code, there were three codes in the manual, and you had to use all three early in the game once. It was a form of copyright protection. I still love the little opening videos just for the music alone.

My personal pick for lesser known adventure games would be Return to Ringworld. It's not amazing, but it's a decent graphical adventure game. Only two or three puzzles reach "Call the helpline for the answer" tier, the rest are all pretty straightforward or easily solved with logic and the clues given. The most unfair things in the game are an early puzzle that requires you to know a small piece of information from the massive in-game encyclopedia, and one puzzle where you can travel in the wrong direction forever and miss what you were supposed to find. That being said, I had the CD-ROM talky version as a kid and had great fun playing the game. The in-game game Outpost Alpha alone is worth playing, and can be accessed right at the beginning of the game.

[Anonymous No.4525875]

>>4519479
>Gabriel Knight
>obscure

u wot m8? GK is one of the most famous adventure series of all time...

[Anonymous No.4526029]

Fuck Quest was short and sweet
Only adventure I ever completed without a hint

[Anonymous No.4526057]

Surprised no one mentioned this video gaming gem... Countless hours spent exploring this strangely eerie clay world as a child.

[Anonymous No.4526078]

>>4525870
>Return to Ringworld
My nigga. I loved that game!

I think the part that got me the most lost was the factory or whatever with the puzzle at the end of it. But the part that I got completely stuck at for weeks was this simple a shit part where you had to give a woman's data pad to her so she could reprogram it for you to use. WEEKS I was stuck on that simple shit.

I can't remember what the previous game was called but it's a pity they never made a 3rd game and it ends on a cliffhanger.

[Anonymous No.4526139]

>tfw it ended on a cliffhanger
>tfw not even furfags cared enough to fund the sequel on Kickstarter

[Anonymous No.4526483]

>>4525057

[Anonymous No.4526545]

>>4518859
>>4526057
>>4520410
I can't believe no one mentioned this hidden gem yet.

[Anonymous No.4526549]

>>4518859
KEK

>really love this one

[Anonymous No.4526556]

>>4526545

>favourite lesser known adventure game
>lesser known adventure game
>lesser known

>maniac mansion

dude...

[Anonymous No.4526616]

>>4526556

[Anonymous No.4526629]

This game is truly an hidden gem

The best Sherlock Holmes title ever made and NO ONE remember him

https://youtu.be/VN0AAJl6eyo

[Anonymous No.4526680]

>>4526629
THat does look pretty cool

[Anonymous No.4526727]

Great stuff

[Anonymous No.4527875]

>>4526078
I feel you, was some highly underrated adventure action. It's actually what got me into Larry Niven's work.

[Anonymous No.4528038]

>>4527875
Me too. Only ever listened to a few audiobooks though. But I never would've done that if not for the games.

Pity the games don't have as much alien fucking as the books

[Anonymous No.4529896]

>>4518474
I had Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender when I was a kid. Seems pretty obscure.

[Anonymous No.4530035]

Recommend me a game. I have only played Deja Vu and I want to try something a little easier.

[Anonymous No.4530056]

>>4530035
Only thing easier than fucking Deja Vu would be maybe Hugo : The Jungle of Doom, Myst, or the Dr. Brain games. Deja Vu is about as easy as these things get.

[Anonymous No.4530068]

>>4530056
Deja Vu has deaths and failstates that are disconnected too far from the actions that cause them.

Eventually people got around to making games that didn't purposefully troll you or waste your time, but Deja Vu is ceratinly in the dark ages.

When I think of easy adventure games I think of Secret of Monkey Island or Loom where they took getting rid of cheap deaths and unwinnable states as a design goal.

[Anonymous No.4530071]

Obsidian by Segasoft. 5 CD-roms, nifty concept, followed in the footsteps of Myst.
Music by Thomas Dolby. I met him after a concert and got him to sign my copy of the game.

[Anonymous No.4530101]

>>4518859
God I know its lame but Geiger's art just makes me uncomfortable, its honestly why I have stayed away from playing this game.

[Anonymous No.4530920]

>>4530068
>Deja Vu has deaths and failstates that are disconnected too far from the actions that cause them.
You shoot or attack someone, you get arrested. You don't properly handle an encounter with a mugger or a fucking croc, you die. You don't set up evidence properly before going to the cops, you take the rap. It all follows logic, and isn't disconnected from actions in the least.

The only death/failstate I can think of in Deja Vu that's somewhat unfair is I think you can pass out and die in the doctors office if you don't take the medicine, which doesn't make too much sense. Can you point me to another?

Now Deja Vu 2, that game was just fucking bullshit. It wasn't even fun when following a walkthrough.

[Anonymous No.4531918]

Bumping thread with this

[Anonymous No.4532134]

>>4525010
>and only
????

[Anonymous No.4532137]

>>4531918
Any other games designed by murderers?

[Anonymous No.4532356]

>>4520180
Also don't forget to get the condom.

[Anonymous No.4532363]

I guess Alien Incident is quite obscure as it is the only commercial Finnish adventure game I know of and I never see anyone mention it.

[Anonymous No.4532415]

Is The Longest Journey unknown? Because none of my friend never heard of it, being a series very well received.

If you didn't heard about this one, drop everything and go play this absolute masterpiece. Puzzles tend to be very cryptic at some points, but don't be discouraged, this worth the time you expend on it.

[Anonymous No.4532435]

>>4518474
Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge.

[Anonymous No.4532545]

Heimdall for Amiga! Technically Heimdall 2.

[Anonymous No.4532589]

can't post mine because it is not retro :(

[Anonymous No.4532660]

>>4532435
Not obscure.

Fuck, is /vr/ really full of normies underage?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4532674]

>>4532589
/f/ is an underappreciated board

[Anonymous No.4532839]

>>4532660
>not being aware shitposting starts at 2AM PST, or 9PM Australia time
There's a reason the quality of the board goes up around 6AM PST. Don't believe me, check the OP times for the shitpost threads.
>4532364

[Anonymous No.4533656]

>every other decision branch can get you sent to the gulag
One of the most tense story-based games I've played

[Anonymous No.4534680]

>>4532415

I think it's not THAT obscure in Sweden. My sister and mother player through it, I played only manly games at the time where you murder people.

[Anonymous No.4534694]

>>4526139
They probably don't know. Also much of the old guard of furries (from the 80s and 90s)are either broke homeless or dead.

Anyway Chaos is a game nobody seems to remember. Also secrets of the pyramids

[Anonymous No.4534696]

>>4534694

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[Anonymous No.4538635]

>>4518571
wtf is this!

[Anonymous No.4538748]

>>4533656
I mentioned it here. >>4520391 Love that game.

It's one of those games I can't believe I finished on my own as a kid when nowadays if I get stuck in a game for 5mins I pull out a walk through :(

[Anonymous No.4539534]

>>4518474
started playing this now, fucking good game, thanks op

anyway I'd say pic related is obscure because it was only officially released in japanese. If you can get the fan made english version I'd definitely recommend it.

[Anonymous No.4539537]

>>4539534
pic won't upload
I'm talking about policenauts

[Anonymous No.4539547]

>>4539537
I'm surprised with all the love for Kojima that Policenauts never got an official English release.

Was it voiced or was the dialogue all text?

[Anonymous No.4539601]

>>4539547
>I'm surprised
Yeah same here, especially after the love for snatcher, it's better than snatcher as well
>Was it voiced or was the dialogue all text
there's both, so the cutscenes are voiced and they're in japanese but there's also text and subtitles throughout the game and that's been translated to english
the music in it is also really catchy somehow