While its sedate pace differs from previous Sherlock Holmes offerings, The Beekeeper’s Picnic – A Sherlockian Adventure is a fitting coda to Holmes’ illustrious career. Its enjoyable dialogs, delicately tinted environs, and manageable puzzles enhance his newly found grasp of life’s ultimate challenges.
While Brassheart hosts a fantastic world with artistic and comical fidelity, the puzzles, voices, and music mixing fall just a bit short. Still, it is a fun adventure game that takes nearly ten hours to complete. This game shouldn’t be missed if you are a traditional point-and-click enthusiast.
A brilliantly executed horror/job simulator that knows how to build atmosphere, These Darker Tides is constantly surprising, and leads to outstanding game endings. The timing puzzles can be obtuse but do not spoil the experience.
Neon Hearts City blends colorful pixel-art graphics, intriguing challenges, excellent voice-overs, and mood-enhancing music to draw adventurers into its darkly exhilarating tale.
Old Skies is a wonderfully written, charmingly animated adventure game with excellent voice acting and accessible puzzles, firmly upholding Wadjet Eye’s legacy in the genre.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage - Tape 2 is the fulfillment of its predecessor’s promise, a narrative adventure that asks you to invest in its characters’ relationships and the weighty, tear-inducing, and surprisingly existential conclusion.
Rosewater is a modern classic, a story of how one may find and form a family through road trip exploits. Great graphics and sound design, multiple-solution puzzles, and creative accessibility options make this adventure an experience that players will remember long after the game is over.
The Amerzone – The Explorer’s Legacy remake is a bold and melancholic tribute that embraces its anachronistic roots to deliver a hauntingly beautiful, atmospheric journey that’s more about reverie than challenge.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a story that fits superbly into the Indiana Jones mythos. The slower exploration and puzzle-based gameplay may not be for everyone, especially given MachineGames’ previous endeavors. Still, it kept me hooked until the end. This game should be played at least once, but I would happily play it again.
Vlad Circus: Descend Into Madness is a nostalgic journey into the 1920s circus life full of hallucinations, paranoia, humor, horror, and found-family themes.
