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Belladonna is a gothic tale of queer love
The bane of female-female relationships? The male ego.
point-and-click
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The Darkside Division fulfills all your X-Files supernatural detective fantasies
A detective game where each case is a “micro-adventure” investigating supernatural crimes.
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Dead Synchronicity, an unusually well-written game, gets a beta
Dead Synchronicity paints a world of absence and disease. Story shines through in early impressions of the upcoming point-and-click adventure Dead Synchronicity.
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Descend into a murderer’s tortured conscious in The Guilt and the Shadow
The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.” ? Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Guilt is a complex emotion that revea
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Papetura offers a delightful world of animated paper
Papetura sure is made out of paper. In the game’s opening shot alone there are sheets of it: curled into pulsing fingers like ocean waves or quilted grass, twee spiraling silhouettes proffering the shape of local flora. Devoid of every color but white, and with only these paper shapes suggesting the
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Cast off your corporeal form and haunt a Victorian Manor in Goetia
Unravel the mysteries of Blackwood Manor as a Victorian ghost.
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Van Gogh’s troubled psyche explored in lurching claymation
For her Master Thesis at the IT University of Copenhagen, Federica Orlati has spent the past nine months meticulously crafting Ever Yours, Vincent. It’s a point-and-click adventure based on the letters that Vincent van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo while living in Arles, France. In the game,
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Lumino City is gorgeous, but what is it hiding?
Digging into State of Play’s paper-craft world.
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Gabriel Knight’s 20th anniversary edition is a shrine to its father
Jane Jensen’s classic, just like you remember it.
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Watch the trailer for a game that takes "life hack" pretty literally
Consider me else { excited() }. Or whatever.
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J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is only partly robotic
Finding a heart.
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Act One of Maker’s Eden fails to set up story, substance, or anything
Pointing and clicking in nowheresville.