Studying the History of Graphic Adventures

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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.

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