Light on combat, heavy on story, adventure games are such an underrated delight. Fanatical’s Story Rich Adventures Bundle is a celebration of the genre. It includes 17 games, and, like all Fanatical ...

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...

Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I’ve been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count. All I know for sure is that I programmed the ...

Games are often at their funniest when they’re not trying to be. It’s the Skyrim NPC who’s determined to deliver their stock line, apparently totally unperturbed by the dragon attack happening just ...

It’s an oft-repeated line from Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones, expressing his belief that historical artifacts should be preserved for record-keeping and scholarly study. (And kept out of Nazi hands — ...

Despite launching way back in 2001, classic adventure game software, ScummVM, is still seeing updates. Yes, 2001 is “way back,” sorry. The latest update to kick off 2026 brings a whole host of ...

Resurrected through fusion with the hostile entity K.L.A.R.A., you now owe a debt to the Resistance. Explore crime scenes without quest markers, write your deductions in your own words rather than ...

Pink, round, and powerful, ever since Kirby’s Dreamland on the Game Boy in 1992, the beloved puffball created by legendary game director Masahiro Sakurai has starred in 39 games and counting. But ...

At any given point in time, there are at least two or three different sales happening on Steam. Most of them include some background art that you aren’t really meant to notice. But Team 17’s new sale ...