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I'm not hugely into the older 1990s games, although I do like Broken Sword and Beneath a Steel Sky (I prefer Broken Sword 3 though, don't kill me), and I really enjoyed Dreamfall. I've currently got a few others to play through: The Whispered World, Runaway, Machinarium and A Vampyre Story. I was also thinking of buying the Siberia collection, are they worth playing?

What are some other good games to play?
 
Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Curse of Monkey Island
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
The Dig
Sam n' Max
King's Quest VI
Grim Fandango (it's not "point-and-click" per se, but you pick up stuff and use them and talk to people)
 
Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis.

Brilliant story, one of the very few P&C's with multiple paths, and is my personal favourite P&C ever. Get the talkie version.
 
One game that has been overlooked in the last year and a half is The Dream Machine.

It's a episodic browser based point & click game, made by two people and everything in the world is made by hand.

The game follows a couple that just moved into a new apartment, and while moving in you find some odd stuff in your new home, which lead to a dramatic and horrific journey through your own mind and a twisted world where machine is king.

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The game is beyond beautiful, and runs amazingly well in the browser environment. As mentioned, it's episodic, and currently the first three episodes are available.


Episode 1 is playable for free, so you can get an idea of what the game is about.


It's fully in english but with no voice acting - http://thedreammachine.se/


Personally it's one of the best games I've played in a very long time. The story is well told and the puzzles are clever, but never headache inducing or stupidly designed, which makes it really fun to play.

Also having it in a browser and having cloud based saves, makes it easy to play anywhere you are.

So far the first three episodes are available and work is progressing on episode four and five right now.
 
ULTROS! said:
Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2
Curse of Monkey Island
Day of the Tentacle
Full Throttle
The Dig
Sam n' Max
King's Quest VI
Grim Fandango (it's not "point-and-click" per se, but you pick up stuff and use them and talk to people)
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This is a comprehensive list of my favourites. If I had to pick one, however, I'd say Grim Fandango. It's probably the best adventure game I've ever played.

Also, if you want something more modern (i.e. with babby puzzles) a few of the Telltale games come recommended. Sam & Max are quite funny, and I enjoyed Tales of Monkey Island too.
 
You've already discovered the Broken Sword games...good work. The first two are the cream of the point 'n' click crop though, so unfortunately for you it's all downhill from here :(

Just kidding, these are all essential...

Grim Fandango
The Longest Journey
The Curse Of Monkey Island
Tales Of Monkey Island
Blade Runner
 
I'm going to recomment Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen Please because everytime a topic like this comes around I'm the only one who does, and they are genuinely funny in a way that the classic Lucasarts titles were.

confused said:
Anything telltale.
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...and in a way that the Telltale games generally aren't. Also, no.
 
As a long time player of the genre I would say without a doubt Gabriel Knight 3.
The story was somehow cheesy here and there, but that damn game had the best puzzles I can remember.
 
MrNyarlathotep said:
I'm going to recomment Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen Please because everytime a topic like this comes around I'm the only one who does, and they are genuinely funny in a way that the classic Lucasarts titles were.



...and in a way that the Telltale games generally aren't. Also, no.
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This is my response including Lucasarts. Time Please Gentlemen is my favourite p&c since Lucasarts.

I'm also not a fan of Telltale. Sam & Max season 2 & 3 are good, avoid the rest.
 
- Book of Unwritten Tales (this is a must)
- Lost Horizon
- Ceville
- All the "Runaway"s
- Alpha Polaris
- A New Beginning
- Tale of a Hero
- Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island
- All the "Jack Keans"
- All the "Secret Files"
- All the "Black Mirror"s (sadly, the english dub is quite bad)
 
Gen X said:
Is it as good as Putt Putt Goes to the Moon?




Listen to this man, it literally is worth the hunt. I never did make it to the 4th disc, got stuck somewhere and to this day regretted selling it off.
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They did improve the graphics quite a bit
 
The Cyberdreams games.

I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream. As beautiful and demented as its title suggests. One of the rare really good collaborations between a classic writer (Harlan Ellison) and videogame developers.

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Dark Seed. I don't think it's as strong as IHNMAIMS from a story perspective, but it's worth a try, and it features art from Giger himself.

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Why is it cool to hate on Telltale? I think their games are wonderful. Their games also have such differing styles of humour, that I don't think it's fair to write them all off because you don't like one or two.

Sam & Max
Wallace & Gromit
Hector
Back to the Future

All of those games make me laugh for very different reasons.

And then there's the CSI, Law & Order, and Jurassic Park games, which don't rely on humour at all.
 
Ok now I am wondering what the heck this Pink Panther game is...I have never heard of this one...

The Dig had a huge effect on me at the time.

Death Gate is another one that doesn't seem to get much love, you can read the book series which is light Dragonlance style romping...
 
Phonomezer said:
The Longest Journey is required gaming.

Oh you've played that. Then try Sanitarium!
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I bought Sanitarium from GOG yesterday, I thought it was like Planescape: Torment rather than point and click. Not bothered either way though.


Silphatos said:
I know you asked for 90's but you should try Gray Matter as well.
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I didn't ask for 90s, I said I don't really like the games from the 90s :P. Anyway, will definitely try Gray Matter, looks very interesting.
 
Shotgun Kiss said:
Why is it cool to hate on Telltale? I think their games are wonderful.
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Both the Monkey Island and Sam and Max episodes I played did not play like Adventure games by the makers of games that have become iconic through their quality.

They played like fanfics written by someone who really loved those games, but didn't really understand what made them great.

I heard the later Sam & Max are better (specifically Devils Playhouse), but they lost me early on with their stylistic decisions.
 
Recent ones:

Gemini Rue - perhaps a bit to nostalgic in it´s execution with very low res graphics, but still good.
Gray Matter - fantastic game.
Machinarium
Puzzle Agent - The puzzles aren´t that good, but I loved the story and the characters in this.
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Tales of Monkey Island - The third best entry in the series.

Those are some really good adventure games there. Don´t go in the nostalgia trap where you start thinking that only the classics are good.
 
I really enjoyed Gemini Rue. I love adventure games but I don't have the patience for the old 'try everything on everything' for some of the ridiculous, arcane puzzles in some old games. Gemini Rue isn't simple, but I was never so badly stuck that I had to resort to a walkthrough and that alone gets it a recommendation from me.

The Ben There, Dan That games on Steam are similarly great, but they're definitely in the walkthrough-required category for me.
 
Try Yahtzee's John DeFoe series. Play them in order, though there were interface and visual improvements in later games.

5 Days a Stranger
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days

7 Days a Skeptic
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days

Trilby's Notes
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/notes

6 Days a Sacrifice
http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/6days

Try the rest of his games too, not all of which are adventures, like Trilby: The Art Of Theft which is an inventive stealth platformer, even though it's also made with AGS (!). Oh yeah, it's all free. I wish he'd do more stuff like this...
 
You should try Gemini Rue if you want to play a point and click that has a great story and doesn't get bogged down in convoluted puzzles. It's on Steam.
 
Apart from the obvious games already mentioned like the MI series, I remember enjoying LOOM and Beneath A Steel Sky back in the day.
 
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