Like all video game genres, adventure games have come a long way since their introduction in the 1970s. At first, adventure games started as text-based adventures, requiring the player’s imagination ...

Ronald Goncalves is a contributor at DualShockers and a Venezuelan political scientist and economist who seeks to express his passion for video games through the always subjective interpretation of ...

The term ‘adventure’ covers a lot of different video games. Sure, you’ve got true action-adventure games, like Tomb Raider. But plenty of other games, be they story-driven or 2D side-scrolling, also ...

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 ...

Artifact Seekers is the latest freebie by Five-BN Games, a studio known for releasing hidden object and puzzle adventure games across multiple platforms. Recently, the developer dropped its entire ...

One of the most common category critiques in games is the action/adventure genre's elasticity. When does a first-person shooter with a heavier emphasis on exploration and puzzle-solving cross into ...

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, ...

Ronald Goncalves is a contributor at DualShockers and a Venezuelan political scientist and economist who seeks to express his passion for video games through the always subjective interpretation of ...

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Microsoft announced today that it has open sourced the code for the first three Zork text adventure games along with their original build notes, comments, and other historically relevant files, and ...

Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...

Recent humans may only be familiar with the (admittedly excellent) Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Xbox and PC, based on the adventures of the titular Professor of Archaeology, Dr Jones himself.