Adventure Games

Resonance is an upcoming indie point-and-click PC adventure game from XII Games in collaboration with Wadjet Eye Games. Featuring four playable characters, the game is based around the mysterious death of a particle physicist and his hidden vault. Each character becomes involved for their own different reasons and all must be controlled, both separately and working together as a team, to uncover a potentially deadly new technology.

We were excited about The Fullbright Company because it was founded by three ex-BioShock developers, but now we have another, more tangible reason to eagerly anticipate such a glorious union: the games. The Fullbright Company has announced its first project, Gone Home, a mysterious exploration game set in a "modern, residential locale" and shown as a pre-alpha build in the above video.

Fullbright hopes to make Gone Home a rich simulation title with an emphasis on interaction, where players are able to open every drawer and examine the smallest details of their environment to unravel what happened there. The video teases these elements, as well as an audio diary system that plays at its end.

Pinkerton Road Studios, founded by former Gabriel Knight designer Jane Jensen, has raised more than $300,000 in its Kickstarter campaign, insuring work on its first title, Moebius, can move forward. Pinkerton Road is also working on a second adventure title this year, but is using the traditional publishing model, Jensen revealed in the above update.

The new game is called "Mystery Game X" for now and Jensen has revealed just three details: It's a third-person adventure; it's a dark mystery; she thinks you will be excited about it. That last one is less of a detail and more of "wishful thinking" or "early marketing," but hey, we figure she's probably right anyway.

Earlier this month, Jane Jensen of Gabriel Knight fame hopped aboard the Kickstarter train with Pinkterton Road, an indie game studio built around what she calls "Community Supported Gaming." Instead of kicking in money for a specific game, supporters donate to the studio as a whole and are given access to a year's worth of content in return, including any games the studio produces [minimum of one per "season"] and a variety of other bonuses depending on the amount of the donation.

To kick things off, contributors were given the chance to choose Pinkerton Road's first game by way of a vote that took place this past weekend. The winner, with a whopping 61 percent of the vote, is the "metaphysical sci-fi thriller" Moebius, a "spiritual successor" to Jensen's famed Gabriel Knight series of Sierra adventure games.

The long-awaited I Am Alive finally has a release date: March 7, 2012.

For over 30 years, adventure games have been the most story-driven computer game genre. Since its inception in 1977 with ADVENT, many have found adventure games to have a true immersive quality that can be compared to reading a good book or watching a movie. If you are interested in playing games that can be thoughtful, engaging and intelligent, providing a little mental challenge while they’re at it, you’ve just landed on the right website.

Unfortunately, the aspects of the game that are reminiscent of Cuisset’s classic work are lost in a mire of pitch-dark lighting and inexcusably terrible design decisions.