Video Game Reviews, Articles
Point-and-click games often have a reputation for being either incredibly difficult and taxing with their obscure and confusing puzzles, or mind-meltingly simplistic with the illusion of choice affecting the outcome of the game in any sort of meaningful way. Escape…
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What is it? Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry is the latest in the Leisure Suit Larry series, this time featuring him waking up in the current year. You pick up the game as the eponymous hero, trying to…
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I’m always on the hunt for good games for my Switch, and on the face of it, Mainlining comes across as the perfect game for me. Point and click, detective, hacking, retro styled, all sounds tip top to me. I…
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Leisure Suit Larry, a game series that no-one will ever admit to actually playing, is coming back for an eleventh entry, and the first since 2013, in Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry. It’s not a series that I…
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What is it? Clam Man is an indie point and click adventure that puts you in the shoes of the recently laid off Clam Man, who has it in his head that he couldn’t have been fired for any reason…
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I came across Clam Man in an odd way – I was actually browsing reddit when I came across it in an indie gaming subreddit. It immediately conjured up memories of Putt Putt and Spy Fox and for that reason,…
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What is it? Guard Duty is an indie point and click adventure game which takes inspiration from the old LucasArts and Revolution Software point and click adventure games of the early-to-mid-90s. In it, you mostly play as Tondbert, a dim…
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Atmospheric, engrossing, and rife with anthropomorphism, the prologue for the upcoming noir-inspired adventure game Backbone by EggNut certainly perked up the ears of many gamers. What’s on offer in this free-to-download Steam demo – of which can be completed in…
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What is it? Hypnospace Outlaw is a game in which you play as an enforcer for an internet-like service, called HypnOS, where you remove content that breaches the company’s guidelines. It’s set in 1999, and features a very Geocities-esque theme….
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What is it? The Darkside Detective is an indie, supernatural point and click adventure where you play as Detective McQueen, with his bumbling sidekick Officer Dooley, solving supernatural mysteries that plague their tiny town. Platform(s) PC Pros Cons Great graphics….
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IN WAR, NOT EVERYONE IS A SOLDIER If the title ‘This War of Mine’ awakens a sense of deja vu within you, it’s most likely because you’ve heard of it before in the last few years. The bleak survival game…
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What is it? The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle is an episodic point and click adventure game where you play as private investigator and Sherlock Holmes wannabe, Bertram Fiddle, and his bulky Peruvian aide, on the hunt for a devious serial…
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Having grown up around the inception of the internet, I am quite familiar with how it was. The websites were basic, people were, for the most part friendly and well meaning, but there were a few buggers out there that…
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I was browsing through my Humble library of unredeemed keys the other day, and stumbled upon The Darkside Detective. A retro-styled, point and click adventure set with supernatural themes? Sounds perfect, how had this game gone under my radar for…
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What is it? Rainswept is a point and click, detective story type indie game, which sees you play as a detective from the big city go to a small town to examine the scene of a murder-suicide. Platform(s) PC Pros…
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