While not carrying the same heft it enjoyed long ago, last year was one of the adventure genre's most commercially-successful years in this century. A Telltale-esque adventure eclipsing 3 million ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

Following on from the wonderful It Takes Two, developer Hazelight took things to the next level when it comes to scale in Split Fiction and continued to hone its craft as the modern-day masters of the ...

As we previously reported, Lost Lands was first launched on the PS Store in August 2025. Shortly afterwards, its sequel appeared for free. Now, the third game in the series — Lost Lands 3: The Golden ...

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, ...

The Elder Scrolls Todd Howard likes "to start over" on every Elder Scrolls game, and 15 years after Skyrim the slate sure is clean Dragon Quest I've fallen in love with Dragon Quest 7 – not the JRPG's ...

It can sometimes feel like the term “adventure game” doesn’t actually refer to anything when shopping for games online. It’s a gargantuan umbrella term that can encompass most styles and subgenres in ...

Lost Lands 1: Dark Overlord combines mini games and puzzles in a gorgeous fantasy setting. It tells the story of a mother who tries to save her son from a mysterious portal that leads to another world ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. This 8-bit adventure RPG is heavily inspired by the likes ...

Save the world and our lunar history in Lunar Strike, the 2026 sci-fi narrative adventure game that was just announced at the Future Games Show. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The adventure game niche is broad, including everything from visual novels to rich, open-world RPGs. They all have something in common, though — exceptional stories that reward curiosity and ...