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GAME DESIGNER:Ben Croshaw
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Ben Croshaw
Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment (GFW in short) is one of the best freeware adventure games ever made, period. Aside from superb humor, entertaining plot, and fun puzzles, Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw has succeeded in melding cross-genre elements that made [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Peter Harrap
GAME DEVELOPER:Gremlin
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Space-Time Productions
Wanted: Monty Mole is a great freeware remake of a classic Spectrum ZX/Commodore 64 game of the same name starring Monty, a brave miner mole who is determined to raid his South Yorkshire pit to snatch goal from Arthur, the ‘big [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Edmundo Ruiz
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Edmundo Ruiz
The Young Gabriel King Chronicles and Saturday School are two excellent short (20-30 mins.) adventure games created for the “One Room, One Week” AGS competition in April 2005. Although both games take place on a single screen, the authors managed to [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Steve McCrea
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Steve McCrea
The Young Gabriel King Chronicles and Saturday School are two excellent short (20-30 mins.) adventure games created for the “One Room, One Week” AGS competition in April 2005. Although both games take place on a single screen, the authors managed to [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Interplay
GAME PUBLISHER:Interplay
Copyright 1998, Interplay
Descent to Undermountain is a very disappointing and buggy first-person RPG from Interplay. Other than a decent plot set in the popular Forgotten Realms (AD&D) universe and using the same engine that powers the hit Descent series, this game is botched in just [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Richard Shepherd & Andrew Mason
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Andrew Mason
A polished remake of an oldie Spectrum ZX computer game, Invincible Island is a fun entry in Retro Remakes’ One Switch Competition. The plot: an evil man named Xatro left seven parchments on Invincible Island, awaiting discovery by [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Paul Reiche III & Fred Ford
GAME DEVELOPER:Toys for Bob
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Toys for Bob
Arguably the best PC game ever made, Toys for Bob’s Star Control 2 is an epic “space adventure” that combines the best elements of action, adventure, and RPG genres to create a thoroughly compelling [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Opera Soft
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Coptron Games
Goody Remake, as the name implies, is a modern Windows-based remake of Opera Soft’s classic Spanish action game of the same name. From my review of Goody elsewhere on this site: “Goody is a fun 2D action/adventure platformer from Spanish developer [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Bernard Grelaud & Bruno Gourier
GAME DEVELOPER:Lankhor
GAME PUBLISHER:Lankhor
Copyright 1988, Lankhor
Mortville Manor is an excellent and highly underrated murder mystery game from French developer Lankhor. Aside from offering a solid plot, the game introduces many features to adventure genre, most notably random factors (that, like the board game Clue!, [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:P. J. Richmond
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2004, P. J. Richmond
Unshadowed is a fun action adventure from amateur developer P. J. Richmond. The game makes up for its amateurish (and probably too cartoonish, given the subject matter) graphics with excellent puzzles that adventure fans will enjoy. The action is [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Tale Worlds
GAME PUBLISHER:Tale Worlds
Copyright 2005, Tale Worlds
One of the most innovative RPGs I have seen in some time, Mount&Blade is a superb “medieval life simulation” being developed by Tale Worlds. Bill Harris wrote a thorough review of this underdog that is already addictive in its beta [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:IvanDev
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, IvanDev
When I first downloaded this game, I was rather baffled to tell you the truth. Iter Vehemens ad Necem? Excuse me, tala svenska ocks? It did spark my interest however, having an interesting name is half the battle when luring potential players. Underdogs [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:CAPCOM
GAME PUBLISHER:CAPCOM
Copyright 1989, Caijin/CAPCOM
Sweet Home is a little-known “survival horror RPG” for the Nintendo console from CAPCOM that is the true precursor to its famous Resident Evil series (the designers of RE admitted in interviews that they drew inspirations from this game. For its time, the [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Eric Dallaire
GAME DEVELOPER:Presto Studios
GAME PUBLISHER:Activision
Copyright 1999, Presto Studios/Paramount
Hidden Evil is a disappointing end to Presto Studio’s excellent career that includes three Journeyman Project games. This Star Trek: TNG game is rushed, too easy, and too tedious to warrant attention from anyone except die-hard ST fans. The review [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Kornel Kisielewicz
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2005, Kornel Kisielewicz
DOOM: The Roguelike is one of the most ingenious DOOM clones I have ever come across. Longtime HOTU regular Jim9137 says it all about this cool Roguelike that fans of both DOOM and the likes of NetHack will have a blast [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:aussie
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2004, aussie
Abducted: 10 Minutes is a very cool adventure game that more than makes up for its short length by interesting, logical puzzles and exciting real-time gameplay. You play Detective Michael Ebb, who was watching TV at home when the programming is interrupted by [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Alkis Polyrakis
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2004, Alkis Polyrakis
One of the longest freeware adventure games ever made, Other Worlds is a fun point-and-click adventure from Greece that boasts a sprawling gameworld, captivating plot, solid writing (inspired by Stephen King’s Dark Tower series to boot), hundreds of mostly-logical puzzles, and [...]
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GAME DESIGNER:Sektor 13
GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware
GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware
Copyright 2004, Sektor 13
If you are one of those people who are convinced that no adventure game that has many typos and grammatical errors can be fun, stop reading this review now and browse the rest of our Adventure genre listing. But if you [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:Natsume
GAME PUBLISHER:Natsume
Copyright 2000, Natsume
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is the superb sequel to Natsume’s Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo. Released for the Sony Playstation console, the game improves upon the “farmer’s life simulation” formula set by its predecessor in every aspect, and adds many new [...]
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GAME DEVELOPER:CAPCOM
GAME PUBLISHER:EIDOS Interactive
Copyright 2000, EIDOS Interactive
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne is one of my most favorite games on Sony’s Playstation console, and it ranks even today as one of the best cross-genre games. The heroine of this game is actually the villain in CAPCOM’s Mega Man [...]