A list of graphic adventure games that I played from June 2017 to July 2020. These games represent a selection of the best that the genre has to offer from the thirty plus year history of the form.
Last updated: 6th July 2020
Bold indicates completed. Links are to posts I’ve written about those games.
- Bureaucracy, 1987 (Abandonwear) – 5:00 (incomplete)
- The Secret of Monkey Island, 1990 (Steam/GoG) – 5:20
- Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, 1991 (GoG) – 5:00
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, 1991 (Steam/GoG) – 7:00
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, 1992 (GoG) – 6:00
- Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist,1993 (GoG) – 4:45
- Simon the Sorcerer, 1993 (GoG) – 6:45
- Day of the Tentacle, 1993 (GoG) – 4:00
- Sam & Max Hit the Road, 1993 (GoG) – 3:50
- Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness, 1993 (GoG) – 10:49
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, 1993 (GoG) – 9:40
- Beneath a Steel Sky, 1994 (GoG) – 6:25
- Full Throttle Remastered, 1995 (GoG) – 2:40
- Broken Sword, 1996 (GoG) – 9:30
- The Neverhood, 1996 (Abandonwear) – 5:32
- Blade Runner, 1997 (Unavailable online, but can be found in the darker places of the Internet) – 7:05
- Sanitarium, 1998 (GoG) – 9:00
- Discworld Noir, 1999 (Abandonwear) – 15:40
- The Longest Journey, 1999 (GoG) – 17:10
- Syberia, 2002 (GoG) – 6:40
- The Black Mirror, 2003 (GoG) – 16:07
- Syberia II, 2004 (GoG)- 8:21
- The Blackwell Legacy, 2006 (GoG) – 5:16
- Sam and Max Save the World, 2006 (GoG)- 13:31
- Blackwell Unbound, 2007 (GoG) – 2:36
- Blackwell Convergence, 2009 (GoG) – 2:24
- Machinarium, 2009 (Steam) – 4:00
- The Blackwell Deception, 2011 (GoG) – 3:58
- The Dream Machine, 2010 (Steam) – 14:00
- To The Moon, 2011 (GoG) – 3:38
- L.A. Noire, 2011 (Steam) – 30:00
- The Walking Dead, 2012 (Steam) – 15:00
- The Dark Eye, 2012 (GoG) – 8:29
- Silent Age, 2012 (iPad) – 3:00
- Broken Age, 2014 (Steam) – 22:00
- Bertram Fiddle Episode 1 and 2, 2015 (Steam) – 7:30
- Dropsy, 2015 (Steam) – 6:00
- Milkmaid of the Milky Way, 2015 (iOS) – 2:00
- Memoranda, 2017 (GoG) – 4:06
- The Frostrune, 2017 (Steam) – 2:00
- Night in the Woods, 2017 (Steam) – 8:00
- Thimbleweed Park, 2017 (GoG) – 11:44
- Paradigm, 2017 (GoG) – 4:00
- Old Man’s Journey, 2017 (Steam) – 4:00
- Darkside Detective, 2017 (GoG) – 3:29
- Technobabylon, 2017 (Steam) – 8:16
- Tiny Echo, 2017 (Steam) – 2:00
- Darkestville Castle, 2017 (Steam) – 4:00
- Journey Down Trilogy, 2017 (GoG) – 6:00
- Gorogoa, 2017 (iOS) – 2:00
- Chuchel, 2018 (GoG) – 1:55
- Unforeseen Incidents, 2018 (GoG) – 23:27
- Unavowed, 2018 (GoG) – 8:28
- EarthWorms, 2018 (Steam) – 4:00
- Lamplight City, 2018 (Steam) – 4:10
- Return of the Obra Dinn, 2018 (Steam) – 10:00
- Mars Underground, 2019 (Steam) – 3:00
- Kentucky Route Zero, 2013—2020 (Steam) – 18:00
- Beyond A Steel Sky, 2020 (Apple Arcade) – 12:00