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I grew up playing point-and-click adventure games in the ’90s. Memories of booting up our family’s IBM-whatchamacallit before being greeted by the beeps and buzzes of an ancient motherboard. Hand ...

Point-and-click games come in all shapes and sizes. Some fall into the mystery category, for example, placing players in the shoes of a grizzled detective, while others are light and whimsical, with ...

If you love games that reward curiosity more than quick reflexes, this is a great time to jump into point-and-click adventure games. In 2026, we’re in a sweet spot where classic legends still hold up, ...

I did not expect to find an indie game that I was excited for by scrolling through LinkedIn. And yet, that is exactly what happened. The Outersloth page posted this, and I fell in love with Long Gone ...

Survival horror and point-and-click adventure games are genres that share more than a passing resemblance to one another. Both rely heavily on story and atmosphere, both usually involve puzzle-solving ...

One of the most tedious repeated refrains since the turn of the millennium is the notion that “adventure games are dead.” While it’s very true that the genre’s heyday was in the 1990s, when new ...

At one period of gaming, point-and-click titles were one of the “top tiers” of adventure and mystery titles. As well as the series that helped promote puzzle titles too. If you want to get back on ...