I've been interested in getting into the point and click genre, what are some good ones to start with?
I've been interested in getting into the point and click genre, what are some good ones to start with?
Alexander Watson
Wyatt Thomas
Sierra and Lucas Arts are the 2 big companies for the genre.
Caleb Thompson
Darkseed 2
Hunter Edwards
Machinarium is your best bet.
Eli Watson
Monkey Island SEs, Simon the Sorcerer 1+2 (not the abominable "25th Anniversary Editions" by some Israeli studio), Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max: Hit the Road, Discworld 1+2 and Discworld Noir, Blade Runner, Sanitarium, Loom, Beneath a Steel Sky, Gemini Rue, Full Throttle, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary/Judgment Rites/A Final Unity, The Dig, Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth, Indiana Jones LucasArts Adventures, some of the King's Quest/Space Quest/Leisure Suit Larry games.
Cooper Evans
The Neverhood
Kayden Phillips
Also hero's quest (ega) and quest for glory series.
Laura bow
Cameron Reed
There are so many, especially until the late 2000s
Adam Evans
The best ones are Monkey Island 1-3, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle.
Daniel Butler
Honestly I'd just play the VGA version of the first, then continue with the VGA Remake of the second by AGDI: youtube.com
They also Remade King's Quest I to III and made their own game "Mage's Inititation", and on top of that they're free to download and play: agdinteractive.com
Noah Mitchell
Loam
Alexander Perry
They're fun and pretty easy to make too.
Although the assets take a gazillion years to draw.
Whether you use ags, visionaire studio, adventure creator for unity, or the plugin for gamemaker, there are a few different systems out there for absolute codelets to use.
Or you can be a madman and make it all yourself since behind the scenes, point and click game logic is mostly just manipulating variables and the like.
I have made most of my shit in unity, though I'm starting to retool it into more of a clocktower type game than a traditional point and click since I wanted it to be actually kinda scary.
Just trying to implement with a new control scheme where you can play with a controller and walk near shit you can interact with then either use triggers to cycle between them or aim at them with the stick to highlight them.
Anyway, it's a cool genre with a lot of scope for storytelling and puzzling. I hate to mention the 'r' word here, but have a look around on reddit, there are subreddits where people discuss and recommend new point and click games. You get a hell of a lot of otherwise undiscovered stuff.
Colton Thompson
Oh yeah, the vga are worth a play through, but I mucg prefer the originals.
I know people trot out that "soul" meme, but I really do think the old text parser based games have a certain charm that was lost once the mouse only interface was added.
Nolan Brooks
Freddie fucking Fish my man
Colton Kelly
interesting
this is more of a puzzle that lacks story and dialgoue elements
this guy knows whats up *sips*
Charles Hughes
I would highly recommend the Submachine games. Really good puzzles, great atmosphere, and a weird story that has a lot of room for interpretation.
mateuszskutnik.com
There are even more flash games online if you know what game sites to look in.
As well, you can always try for the Myst games.
Bentley Hughes
Primordia
Whispers of a Machine
Technobabylon
Dominic Gomez
LucasArts games.
Xavier Clark
the cube escape series is also great and shares elements with submachine
Ryder Sanders
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My brethren.
Owen Anderson
Depends what you want.
Logical puzzles or nonsense like "combine the ballon with the telephone"?
Comedy games or serious stories?
Scifi or fantasy?
1080p high production or 420p pixel soup?
On Steam, check these Wadget Eye Games, they specialize in the genre.
store.steampowered.com
Comedy : Machinarium, Deponia series
Fantasy : The dark eye : chains of Satinav, Memoria, Tsioque
Scifi : Gemini Rue, Technobabylon, Resonance, Primordia, Whispers of a Machine, Tormentum
Noir : Blackwell series, Kathy Rain
Horror : The Cat Lady
Historical : The Pillars of the Earth