Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One review
Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One is a memorable and praiseworthy addition to Frogwares’ esteemed franchise, offering a deep and poignant origin story to go with a wide variety of engaging gameplay across a huge, beautiful open-world environment... Read more
Deliver Us Mars review
A sequel that’s put in the work to expand its predecessor’s horizons is commendable, but for Deliver Us Mars this doesn’t always work out perfectly. Still, it offers another thrilling adventure for deep-space explorers, with welcome character moments that make it a little less solitary this time around... Read more
Rocco's Island: Ring to End the Pain review
Rocco’s Island: Ring to End the Pain gets points for having an interesting story, colorful characters, and beautiful artwork that would have made a great animated movie. Unfortunately, it fails on pretty much every possible level as a game that doesn’t know quite how to be what it wants to be... Read more
Mozart Requiem review
Finally localized in English after being released in Dutch and French over a decade ago, Mozart Requiem is so unpolished it’s still not ready for prime time release, seriously undermining its fine protagonist and a story full of intrigue and adventure... Read more
Pentiment review
Pentiment is a captivating Renaissance adventure that challenges players to unravel both a murder mystery and the many enigmas of history... Read more
Edengate: The Edge of Life review
Edengate teases a thrilling tale of a town overrun by otherworldly events, but both its story and gameplay are so threadbare that it ends up falling far short of the mark... Read more
Paper Ghost Stories: 7PM review
Paper Ghost Stories: 7PM makes the most of its very short length, providing players with a casual yet ominous experience strengthened by a lovely paper cut-out aesthetic... Read more
Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries review
The stylish Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries will grab you at first but the pace quickly slows, as will your interest, feeling like a missed opportunity... Read more
The Plague Doctor of Wippra review
While not much in the way of a challenge, The Plague Doctor of Wippra represents, in miniature, everything that adventure games do best: It transports you into a fully realized world, using a limited set of resources (time, puzzles, graphics) to effectively deliver an historical, emotional gut punch... Read more
Unusual Findings review
If you have a healthy tolerance for 1980s fawning and the occasional frustrations of early point-and-click adventures, Unusual Findings is a reasonably fun experience with great graphics and music—as long as you don’t find the more obvious aspects of its referential nature to be too excessive... Read more
Whateverland review
It’s got a few glitches and flaws, but Whateverland serves up an enjoyable dose of both gloom and quirk in a charming adventure where your choices determine your fate... Read more
BROK the InvestiGator review
With a surprisingly deep story set in a dystopian world of diverse animal cartoon characters, BROK the InvestiGator successfully melds the arcade and adventure genres in a unique and extremely enjoyable way... Read more
The Past Within review
Though it may not leave a lasting impression, Rusty Lake’s macabre The Past Within is a short but reasonably enjoyable two-player co-op experience about raising the dead through puzzles... Read more
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County review
Another “ribbeting” Frog Detective adventure with lots more kooky animals to interview and mysteries to solve, Corruption at Cowboy County creates a fitting conclusion to this charming trilogy... Read more