point-and-click

[boreal_cryptid]

point-and-click games appreciation thread!

share your favorite (or... least favorite? ) p&c games here! no matter if you played them yourself or watched your older sibling playing (iykyk), letsplays, or simply those you wish to play!

• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. HATE. HATE. LET ME TELL HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HAVE THIS GAME- (reference)
• The Neverhood feels like a fever dream. i wasn't even sure if it's real or my blurry childhood dreams or something
• Myst. i'm not sure if i even remember something from it, and i want to re-play it, plus its remaster(?) - realMyst!
• Scratches is a nightmare fuel (at least when i was a child). but also i really love locations there! and sound design. very subtle and... eerie.
• Harvester Games's... games, especially Downfall and The Cat Lady
• Nancy Drew series!!!
• Primordia. fellow robotlovers would probably like it

[fufi :3]

mine is probably the flash made jinx series,built my childhood even tho i didn’t even understand that game.
Also i’ve only played the first two and i’ve only recently found out there were more games

[Bumhug]

TBH P&C adventure games were never really my thing. I am kind of terribad at them, especially stuff with puzzles. There were some that I remember enjoying despite my suckitude.


Phantasmagoria will always have a place in my heart because of its Giger art. The first computer I ever got as a kid came with a copy of The Journeyman Project: Turbo. I later got a copy of Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure (surprise - another Giger thing I like). I loved it but had no idea what was going on because I didn't know they were part of the comics and I didn't read the comics until years after playing the game. I remember it being really cool, but I might have been a little too young to play it. Part of the story involves the player taking a drug made from alien DNA and the video of the trip was a bit too intense for me.

Imagine playing a game in the wee hours of the morning in a blacked out room that's an otherwise very quiet, creepy detective story. The MC takes the drug and he's calm, then suddenly loud music starts blaring and the imagery turns into into a NIN video.

IF YOU DARE(the video starts where the MC is looking at shipmate in a space suit when the drug suddenly kicks in. Visuals go until around 3:35. After that the song continued but the video looped):


Oh man that also reminded me that the old PC I got had knockoff Soundblaster audio and the voice and music levels weren't evening out for just the Aliens game. If I could've heard the dialogue at a normal volume I wouldn't have had to turn it up to the point that music was mind-explodingly startling. I guess computers really did warp my brains as a kid. Childhood trauma? That's video games!


Both Discworld games are awesome and can be found online pretty easily (not posting links because I don't know how mods feel about "abandonware").


Edit: I forgot to just shout out to one of the GOAT: Harvester. The game is insane and the whole thing feels like a fever dream.