![]() ![]() Shadowgate is the beloved dark fantasy adventure that first premiered on the Mac in 1987, before finding an even bigger audience on the NES console two years later. Players take on the role of frontier journalist Harley Leger, whose pursuit of a seemingly trivial news lead turns into a high-stakes treasure hunt, featuring a fully voiced cast of dangerous characters in a beautifully animated 2D world. Rosewater, his latest title, is a western adventure set in the same universe as his 2018 steampunk mystery Lamplight City. After making waves with his Ben Jordan freeware series in the mid-2000s, he went on to create some of the most notable commercial indies of the modern era, including Shardlight and A Golden Wake. There are too many to list all the games deserving your attention, but we’ve picked out 33(!) of the upcoming adventure games and – brace yourself – adventure- adjacent releases we’re most excited about, and why you should be too.įrancisco Gonzalez has been a mainstay of the indie adventure scene for two decades now. With more beloved franchise reboots, the return of other acclaimed designers, and some truly mind-boggling genre innovations on the horizon, the coming year promises to keep that momentum going, complemented by oodles more traditional point-and-click goodness we all know and love from a host of talented indie developers. With successes on PC, consoles and even virtual reality platforms, notable adventure games made headlines not just in game journalism, but even international mainstream media. The long-awaited return of industry legends Ken and Roberta Williams and the first new Monkey Island from Ron Gilbert in over 30 years brought welcome attention to the torchbearers who have been keeping their classic design principles alive. Tukey and Rowell speculate that the phrase may be a corruption of a hypothetical and ungrammatical German phrase alle, alle, auch sind frei (all, all, are also free).Last year was an important one for adventure game fans. Various calls used for such purposes have gone by the collective name of "ollyoxalls" in some places. Cassidy and Hall write that the phrase may be derived from all ye, all ye outs in free, all the outs in free, or possibly calling all the "outs" in free in other words, all who are out may come in without penalty. ![]() Olly olly oxen free (and variants: olly olly umphrey, olly olly ee, outtie outtie let's be free, olly olly oxen tree, all-y all-y all set free, olly olly in come free, ally alley ocean free, etc.) is a catchphrase used in children's games such as hide and seek, capture the flag, or kick the can to indicate that players who are hiding can come out into the open without losing the game, that the position of the sides in a game has changed (as in which side is in the field or which side is at bat or "up" in baseball or kickball), or, alternatively, that the game is entirely over. Players control Alex, who brings her new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight party gone wrong off the coast of their hometown. ![]() Night School Studio's Oxenfree is a supernatural teen thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. “We’re drawing on the fond and mortifying aspects of being in your late teens,and setting it against a dangerous and ghostly backdrop.” “It’s a coming of age story where players control how their hero comes of age,” says Sean Krankel, co-founder of Night School. Inspired by classic cult films like Stand by Me and Poltergeist, Oxenfree is an adventure that pulls from the past but looks to the present. Players will take on the role of Alex as she brings her new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight party gone horribly wrong. Rites of passage and Senior year traditions set the stage for a group of friends sneaking off to Edwards Island, an old military outpost with no phone service. Night School Studio is proud to announce its first title, Oxenfree, a supernatural adventure game. It was also released for Nintendo Switch on October 6, 2017. The game was later released for iOS and Android on March 16, 2017, and June 1, 2017, respectively. The PlayStation 4 version released on May 31, 2016, along with a DLC extension to the game, known as New Game Plus. The game was released for Steam on Microsoft Windows and OS X, as well as Xbox One on January 15, 2016. Oxenfree is a game created and developed by Night School Studio. ![]()
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