looking for good point and click adventure

Myst I-V. There is no equal to Myst when it comes to puzzle and problem solving. Absolutely no equal.

I also recommend Uru and its expansions, also a Myst game, but it's not a point-and-click.

Myst I-V. There is no equal to Myst when it comes to puzzle and problem solving. Absolutely no equal.

JP_Russell

I'll second that and throw in Broken Sword 1 & 2 as well.

sam & max. season 1, episode 4 is free on steam.fireandcloud

an instant catch word for me right there

sam & max. season 1, episode 4 is free on steam.fireandcloud

sam and max season 1 is great. they are still funny. i wish i could lay my hands on sam and max hit the road...

I bought the first ep of Sam and Max and downloaded the free copy of episode 4. I didn't care for them personally. Humour is a very subjective thing and I just didn't find the new Sam and Max to be funny at all. I highly recommend checking out the demos before you buy. The puzzles are very easy so you're mostly buying for the story and the jokes.

I haven't played a truly great adventure game in some years but I did enjoy the last three Sherlock Holmes games. They aren't great, but they're enjoyable enough. I think Secret of the Silver Earring is by far the most engaging with some truly tough problems to solve, a complex story and an interesting quiz system you need to pass before you can move on. It's major drawback is that it uses timed sequences so parts of it feel more like a console arcade game than an adventure.

The Awakened has a good story, but the horror elements fall flat and the puzzles are mostly pretty easy.

Arsene Lupin (Nemesis in the US and Canada) has a pretty hokey story, but a good variety of puzzles and locations to muck about in.

Ankh or Jack Keane are both great games with a funny set. There are not that much hints what u have to do next but they're also not too difficult.

Runaway is also a nice game, imo it's a little bit more difficult than the other twos.

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Myst I-V. There is no equal to Myst when it comes to puzzle and problem solving. Absolutely no equal.

mfsa

I'll second that and throw in Broken Sword 1 & 2 as well.

Really? i played BS 1 about 2/3s of the way through, but got fed up because the puzzles were so stupid and had absolutely zero to do with logic or reason, thereby not fulfilling this guy's criteria of using one's brain.

However, back to recommendations: i gather Sherlock Holmes: the Awakening is good, or at least quite a few people say so - i certainly hope so cos i''ve bought it, though not got round to playing it yet

Runescape.

Oh yeah, you said good :P

I don't know really. Not the right place to say this tbh, but if you have a PS2, try and pick up a copy of the last Monkey Island game.

^I'm pretty sure Runescape isn't an adventure game.