oh neat. i might actually play this one!
TW: it has a bit of trans dead-naming in it, but it's done in a way that's not exploitative or gratuitous, i have been led to believe.
Yay! I've been sitting on this one in hopes it would come up as a club game. Also worth noting it's currently available on Game Pass for PC.
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I always get Night of the Rabbit confused with My Brother Rabbit.
Had a great time with Family, a little detective game around a fictional ‘80s Brit-pop scene.
Zork: Nemesis! One of my favorite games from my high school days, and my first experience with anything in the Zork universe. I only found out it was a typically more humorous series years later.
I have to ask, because they look cool... Are those nominations?
I don't want to nominate a game that I've played somewhat recently, but I'd recommend it! It's more of a hidden object game, so there is no dialogue or combining things in your inventory, but it is a fun laid back game and a pretty one too.
Pile tracking is it's own game.
Sometimes it's the only game you want to play.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015, HLTB 6) - Considered a spiritual successor to Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is set in 1984 and lets the player explore a small English town whose citizens have all mysteriously vanished. Little by little, you'll piece together the story of their lives and the wherefore and why of their disappearance.
I don't want to bias anyone's voting here (yes, I do) but this is one of my favorite games ever. It's beautiful, evocative, well-written, and haunting. It's one of the few games with storytelling that I wouldn't grade on the "for a video game" curve. It's really remarkable, and I hope you all play it.
I have 12 people who have cast a vote...
... and a four way tie for first. I love you all.
Just trying to help
Pink Stripes wrote:I always get Night of the Rabbit confused with My Brother Rabbit.
steinkrug wrote:Had a great time with Family, a little detective game around a fictional ‘80s Brit-pop scene.
I have to ask, because they look cool... Are those nominations?
Well, it's a recommendation.
Family is pretty short, maybe too short for a monthly selection, at around 90-120 minutes depending on your sleuthing skills. If you have any love for that era of music, though, it's a fun way to spend some time. The original music created for it does a good job of evoking various styles of that era.
There is a game called Spiritfarer that has just come out on most platforms. It seems very adventure gamey. It also sounds like a great, surprisingly long game. I’d like to nominate it if it qualifies.
There is a game called Spiritfarer that has just come out on most platforms. It seems very adventure gamey. It also sounds like a great, surprisingly long game. I’d like to nominate it if it qualifies.
It does look amazing! However, I don't believe it passes muster on the first "rule" of Adventure Club as currently stated:
What types of games do we play?
1. Adventure Games that are at least a year old.
Oh, I'll second Family, especially since John Walker covered it on Buried Treasure. (Disclaimer in case it is needed, I am a Patreon subscriber to BT, and so is the dev of this game since after it was covered, I think.)
And since it now qualifies and we are updating nominations, I'll nominate Irony Curtain.
What types of games do we play?
1. Adventure Games that are at least a year old.
Oh yes. You're right. I always forget that rule.
Oh, I'll second Family, especially since John Walker covered it on Buried Treasure...
Thanks for bringing this game to my attention. I'll third that one
I'm not too fussed about setting rigid lines for adventure games though, because, as we've seen the past, adventure games come in different shapes and forms, and have just changed so much over the past 30+ years.
This right here? This is Eleima laying the groundwork for Mass Effect as an adventure game. Just you wait.
I second Mass Effect.
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