Point-and-click horror doesn’t usually lunge at you; it strolls in, straightens the curtains, and then quietly rearranges your nerves. Because you’re moving through scenes with a cursor instead of ...

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 ...

In the 1980s and '90s golden age of point-and-click adventure classics, we were blessed with what has since developed into decades of self-referential comedy, iconic puzzle set-ups, and satisfying ...

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 ...

Fond of weirdly obscure titles since childhood, Ivanir has been captivated by many Japanese games over the years. Some of his most passionate topics are the Dept. Heaven series, Summon Night ...

With the narrative snap of a LucasArts game, the foreboding mood of the Black Mirror trilogy, and the complex pixel art of last year’s Arco (a personal GOTY), the new point-and-click game The Drifter ...

Few genres were as instrumental in legitimizing the art form of games as the point-and-click adventures were. From its inception, the genre established itself with personable, witty writing, inventive ...

The 1990s are remembered as a golden age of point-and-click adventure games, thanks in large part to LucasArts’ incredible run of releases like Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and The Secret of ...