Hi! I’m the developer of The Main Menu.

You wake up chained to a chair in a dark room. The only thing within reach is the computer in front of you and its main menu.

This is a point-and-click puzzle adventure where the menu isn’t just an interface. Its buttons, settings, and hidden systems physically control the room around you. To escape, you’ll have to experiment with the menu and discover what it’s really capable of.

There’s also a voice living inside it. She claims she wants to help you, but she may be the reason you're trapped.

The game was partly inspired by what I loved about There Is No Game: turning the interface itself into part of the puzzle. I’m taking that idea in a psychological-horror and mystery direction.

This clip shows the game’s current working version. I’m planning to release the Steam demo in late September or early October.

The Main Menu on Steam

Thanks for taking a look!

This is now available on Steam (notice that the screenshots are drawn from the whole game, not just the demo ).

A lot of people say the game reminds them of Myst and although I did love Myst and Riven, this is not supposed to be a clone. It has no Lore or books to read. You do, however, get background information and encouragement from the Inventor via various intercom units dotted around the island.

Please wishlist the game if you're interested, this really helps. Enjoy!...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4556080/The_Clock_the_Queen_and_the_Door_on_the_Beach/

Just started playing Fallout 1
And while I knew it was an RPG game with tactical turn based combat, I didn't expect so many mechanics that felt like an adventure game.

- being able to examine everything/anything
- items actually usuable for situtational purposes and not just for combat. Like having a wire/tape in your inventory to get gather evidence.

all it's missing is some moon logic puzzles. Obviously nothing ground breaking especially but for an RPG in the 90s. this is blowing my mind. Mind you the only 90s CRPG I've played is planescape but that was mainly dialogue writing focus.

Maybe I'm just crazy and got an itch for another Adventure Game lmao

What are some examples of adventure game puzzles that feel really connected to the story of the game? I was trying to explain to my partner the pleasure of classic adventure games how the puzzles are interconnected with the story and it's kind of like being a writer only interactive in a way.

But when I tried to think of an example I couldn't come up with any puzzles that would impress her. Like, I can think of joke puzzles from Monkey Island (the spitting contest in MI:2 for example) but none that would impress a non-gamer really ... puzzles that actually help tell the story or theme in a way that connects intrinsically to the plot.

Like King's Quest 4 was all about making the audience cry; but, has a puzzle in an adventure game ever made you cry? etc ...

So I went on a bit of a spending spree (for me) on adventure games because Steam is having a bunch of daily deals in the adventure game space!

Yesterday, I bought Loco Motive for about US$8.00. That sale is going until Sunday night. My plan was to play that game immediately (After I finish the game I'm currently playing).

But then today, the Postmodern Adventures trio went on sale too!

That's Nightmare Frames, An English Haunting and The Dark Rites of Arkham.

I got them in a bundle Steam offers for US$25.00.

So now I have a quandary on which of these 4 I should play first (and then second, third and fourth).

For that reason, I thought I'd come here and see if there's a general consensus on how these 4 games stack up against each other in terms of overall quality.

Or maybe just to see people's thoughts on the 4!

First time poster here. I love adventure games, especially point and click adventures, that I’ve been playing since the early 90s. My all time favourite is Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, so when I was looking at playing another game and found Foolish Mortals I was over the moon with excitement.

I don’t know how this game went under my radar for so long. I often spend time on Steam and GOG looking for a game but it ends with me browsing for hours and losing interest, just like Netflix. I don’t play modern games. So I asked Gemini to make a list of 100 games and after Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, Grim Fandango, etc., FM popped up, my curiosity intrigued, and I needed to look this up. I found the kickstarter (I would have loved to have supported this) and the YouTube video interview with the husband and wife developer team (so amazing) from Inklingwood. And they are from Durham, UK. Yay! A UK local game developer.

I played the game yesterday and just finished Chapter 2. I am just in awe by the beautiful background, artwork, voice acting and dialogue. It’s so well made.

Thank you Inklingwood for such an amazing game. It has brought back my childhood memories. Please, please make another game. I would love to support the kickstarter.

PS: one thing I noticed is that when you do collect all seven items the diary doesn’t check them off as collected with a check mark?

Edit: It has a LIGHTHOUSE that you can access! Wow. I love lighthouses. I commented somewhere that I’m a big John Carpenter’s The Fog film fan so thank you for including a lighthouse that's interactive. I know that's mentioned early on but I just thought that was a prop and you couldn't do anything. And a big thank you to everyone for their comments.

Mother Seed is about identity collapse, loss of bodily autonomy, and horrified fascination. A woman inhabits a universe where nothing makes sense and something beyond her understanding keeps driving her forward.

It started as a different project, that itself had gone through a many different iterations. It's my first commercial release - my prior games have come out on itch and were all significantly smaller in scope.

You can now purchase it on Steam or Itch.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4446950/Mother_Seed/

https://rtwarner.itch.io/mother-seed

And why? And what other 1996 adventure game if any would you say is superior to either/both?

I turned 30 this year and it's put me in a mood to explore a bunch of media I never got to from my birth year. As point and click adventures and their sibling genres are one of my favorite things, I wanna know what I might have missed from that moment in time. Which do you like and why? Please *no untagged spoilers*. Yes the games are 30 but the literal first thing i told you is I haven't played them, be respectful.

For a while now i've been itching for a game that really pushes me to think outside the box, with some really esoteric solutions to things, and i've been told some classic point and click adventure games would be right up my alley, what are some good ones to start with/your personal favs?

Tim Curry died on 25 August at 80. He's being remembered everywhere as Frank-N-Furter, as Pennywise, as the concierge in Home Alone 2, and rightly so. But hardly anyone is mentioning how much work he did in our genre.

He was in five graphic adventures between 1993 and 1999, and digging into them turned up a few things I had no idea about.

I made a video going through all of them. It's in Spanish, but it has subtitles in several languages.

What was your first encounter with his voice?

https://youtu.be/W-WufYY0vX8

Such a phenomenal game. Bursting with morbid quirkiness. Not sure how this one slipped under my radar when it came out last month but I'm so glad I've found it now. I'm only a few hours in and it's already my fav indie game this year.

It's a keyboard movement adventure game with interaction based puzzles, heavy 90s inspiration without being just "hey remember clippy?" nostalgia bait. For me it feels like if Undertale was a Humongous Entertainment game rather than an rpg, and went much harder on the creepiness.

Seriously give it a shot you won't regret it.

The original video is more than 2 years old and - oh boy - did I play many new point&clicks during that time. 😅

Hey everyone!

Some good news from our side: Whirlight – No Time To Trip is 20% off for the first time, on both Steam and GOG.

For anyone who hasn't played it yet, Whirlight is a time-travelling point-and-click adventure with 14+ hours of gameplay, 100+ unique locations, 40 characters and two protagonists travelling through different eras.

There are plenty of puzzles, strange situations and hopefully a lot of fun along the way.

If you've already played Whirlight and enjoyed it, we'd really appreciate a review. It would mean a lot!

Thanks for following the journey so far, and stay tuned, because we're not done yet.

First of all, sorry for such a specific question, which probably isn't going to lead to any great debates about adventure games, but it's something I'd really like to hear the opinion of English-speaking players on.

When playing a modern point and click game, if the game has voice acting in a language other than English (Spanish, for example), while the text is available in English and other languages, would that put you off? Would it be some kind of psychological barrier that might make you hesitate to buy the game in the first place, or is it simply something you don't care about?

For my next game, I'm thinking about adding voice acting, but when it comes to directing the actors, if the voices were in English, my direction would probably be much worse than it would be in Spanish, which is my native language. I don't want to release a game with English voice acting where the protagonist sounds weird simply because I failed to understand some of the nuances of the language when asking the actors for a particular performance.

So I'm wondering: would an English-speaking player actually prefer a game with no voice acting at all over one with voice acting only in a non-English language? Or is it something that doesn't really matter to you?

Thanks!

While creating a list of pre-2000 kids' Windows games, I noticed that non-educational point-and-click adventures made up about one-tenth! They, along with other genres like activity centers, put to rest the frequent (untrue) statement that "all kids' PC games were edutainment." These encompassed third-person (Madeline and the Magnificent Puppet Show), first person (Secret Paths in the Forest), and straight-up FMV (Adventures of Pinocchio).

I assume you probably saw the post title and thought about the Humongous games, which are well-known both due to the Ron Gilbert pedigree and their ports to modern devices. But there were many other developers and games out there which are all highlighted in these slides. Some of them were successful at the time, but I assume even those who played these games have not thought about them in around 30 years.

Here is my full list, which focuses on the American dev scene due to myself being American and thus, like most Americans in their early 30s, not getting much exposure to overseas titles at the time. It contains all the games in these images plus the Humongous ones, but not anything with a heavily educational bent such as Oregon Trail. Each game also lists a note with the game's development studio. Would love some more suggestions!

There is a short 11 min pilot episode for an animated series called 'Constant Payne' (on youtube) that ends like this, and straight away I thought they HAVE to share some artists but google says it's just generic steam punk art deco and over a decade away from BASS .. watcha think ?

Did anybody play this? It's the first adventure game I played and I remember it being incredibly hard. I thought maybe it's cause I was 10 but I tried again recently and still can't get anywhere. Did anybody complete it?

It's free on the game publishers website if anybody wants to give it a go

Hello everyone, I am Alkis from Athens, Greece, an adventure game fan and developer. Some of you may remember my previous titles, Other Worlds (2004) and Diamonds in the Rough (2008). I also made a Greek educational adventure game called Gongbot in 2022.

I'm currently working on a new 3rd person point & click adventure called The Other Side of the Wall. Published by Dionous Games, it's the story of Julian Reed, a 13-year old boy attending Saint Maximus the Confessor Catholic School in the early 1980s. Saint Maximus is an all-boys boarding school that shares a wall with another institution for "troubled cases" called Cedar Tree House. Cedar Tree House is shrouded in mystery, as discussing it is frowned upon by the Benedictine monks who make up most of the teaching staff at Julian's school. There is no contact between the two institutions, at least not as far as the students are concerned.

It's late August, the semester has not even started, and only a few students and faculty members are present when Julian discovers a tiny hole in an isolated corner of the wall separating Saint Maximus from Cedar Tree House. The hole is just big enough for him to see a pair of blue eyes. They belong to a girl who soon becomes his closest confidante. The opportunity to spend time with a girl -albeit separated by a wall- is a welcome distraction from Julian's routine, but it will not be the only one. One boring morning, during class, he notices that one of his classmates is missing from his usual desk. When Julian asks about him, he is shocked to discover that nobody acknowledges that the student ever existed.

The Other Side of the Wall is more than a whodunit game. It's a coming-of-age story of a boy who stumbles upon a mystery and finds himself in over his head. A story about friendship, curiosity, and the unsettling feeling that something is terribly wrong. This is a game for people who enjoy being challenged with (mostly inventory based) puzzles and being rewarded for paying close attention to subtle clues.

If the above sounds interesting to you, feel free to try our demo and add the game to your Steam wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4904300/The_Other_Side_of_the_Wall_Demo/

I am looking forward to reading your comments.

DISCLAIMER: No generative AI was used in the creation of this game. The background graphics, objects etc. are made by Marian Cerman, and the characters are made by Irina Marchand.

ROSEWATER, my epic old west adventure, is currently 33% off on Steam, the lowest it's ever been. Hunt down a missing fortune with 5 travel companions in an alternate history old west, where your choices and actions shape the journey.

It was of the highest rated adventure games of 2025 (82 on Metacritic) so now's the perfect time to grab it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/Rosewater/

Which one would it be?

Hey everyone! I first off, want to thank you all your support.

Immortal John Triptych is out now on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch!

The Immortal John Triptych brings Four Last Things, The Procession to Calvary, and Death of the Reprobate together under one complete package! These games are point and click adventure games using the cut up paintings to tell a monty python story. This isn’t just a merging of the three games, this combines never-before-seen bonus features, deleted scenes, and a QoL facelift! 

Has anyone played these? I am guessing they were released individually first? Each game consists of 2 discs.

I just bought it and can't wait to dive in, just gotta get the old gaming laptop fired back up.

I played through The X-Files not so long ago and really loved it, hoping this is similar.

For those who may have played, any pointers/hints to help a noob? Not really looking for spoilers, but any weird game mechanics I should know about?