i recently played Syberia, Resonance, The Samaritan Paradox and Lamplight City. I’m looking for games along the same direction: 90s/2000s style adventure games. It could be really old games or also retro ones that have been released recently.
Do you have any recommendations on games you particularly enjoyed?
Any information on Linux compatibility would be a plus. But these days almost everything works anyway, so it’s not a big deal.
The Nancy Drew adventure game series is in the vein of what you are looking for.
The community on the place that shall not be named is(was?) very active and full of people sharing point-and-click game suggestions.
There’s even a spreadsheet!We always liked the Syberia series alot. Aside from all the Lucas Arts classics, we also (very) enjoyed playing the following 90/2000 (style) adventures:
- The Broken Sword series
- Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars | Download free version
- Runaway: A Road Adventure
- Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
- Thimbleweed Park
- Edna & Harvey: The Breakout
- Edna & Harvey: Harvey’s New Eyes
Historic
- Flight of the Amazon Queen | Free at GOG
- Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
- Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
- Ankh | Ankh: Heart of Osiris | Ankh: Battle of the Gods
Fantasy, fairy tales
- Discworld
- Discworld 2: Missing Presumed…!?
- Inherit the Earth
- The Simon the Sorcerer series - mainly part 1 and 2
- The Legend of Kyrandia
- The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate
- The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm’s Revenge
- The Book of Unwritten Tales
- The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
- The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
- The Whispered World
SciFi
Wow, this is really detailed. Thanks, I’m bookmarking this.