Six years after they released their last games they developed, Francisco Gonzalez and Dave Gilbert released their new games just weeks apart from each other. Since they are both behemoths of the adventure game industry, Seoirse, Matt and Johnny got together to discuss their games in the detail which they deserve. First up they discuss Rosewater, the new Western adventure game from Francisco Gonzalez set in the same world as his previous game Lamplight City. Afterwards they review Old Skies, a time travel thriller from Dave Gilbert. Did these games meet expectations? Find out by clicking Play!
Read MoreThe Golden Idol games have had such a profound impact on the adventure game genre that they have helped create their own sub-genre of deduction games. So it was with great pleasure that Seoirse spoke with Will aka Kini Games, who recently joined the team to make the second in the series, The Rise of the Golden Idol. Will spoke about how he was hired and the development process of that game as well as his other game he had started making, Signal & Echo. Also joining us was Matt ,a talented pixel artist who spoke about his involvement with games such as The Drifter and Theropods. And of course they both spoke about their upcoming game which they are both working together on, City of Voices. This game is an Idol inspired deduction game with a twist and they both spoke about the game as best they could without giving spoilers! All that and much more!
Read MoreBlue Prince was the best reviewed game of the year earlier this year but is it really as good as everyone else says it is? Find out by hitting play above! Plus reviews of several detective games and in retro corner Laura Cress goes back in time to tell us her thoughts on 7th Guest.
Read MoreBroken Spectre was the first VR game Seoirse played on his Meta Quest and it remains one of his favourite games of the last few years. So the developer, Evan Jones, very kindly accepted Seoirse’s invitation to come on the podcast to talk all about the game, including the influences, how one of the creators of The Blair Witch Project got involved and who the incredible voice actors are who brough this game to life. All that and much more!
Read MorePlaying adventure games has traditionally been a solitary experience. But more recently there have been more co-op games released and Sixth Force is one such game. Seoirse had the chance to play this co-op action adventure game at Reboot last year and loved it so much he invited the developers onto the podcast. They spoke about how they started the game, how they wanted to focus on the relationship between the father and the son in the game, difficulty levels in the game and so much more. Please enjoy.
Read MoreThis week multi talented musician/singer/developer/writer joins the podcast to tell us all about her latest adventure game/interactive music album, Asterism. In this interview she talks about how she went from writing music to making adventure games and how she is joining her talents for this game and she talks about how she made this game with claymation in such a timely process. All that and much more!
Read MoreDave Gilbert was one of the first guests on this podcast since his new game, Old Skies, is about to be released very soon, we just had to have him back! Dave was very gracious to come on the podcast again to talk to Seoirse all about Old Skies, including how he got through the challenges he faced making the game during Covid, as well as talking about the game itself including the different eras we will visit, the origins of the game and a whole lot more!
Read MoreIn another bumper episode Seoirse, Tomas and Johnny review the latest adventure games they have played in the last month. Tomas goes to Australia in Broken Roads and tells us whether he was happy to answer Rama’s Call, Seoirse travels to space in citizen Sleeper : Starward Vector and finally Johnny goes to The End of the World and reviews Slender Threads. Plus they discuss the sad end of another podcast about adventure games. All that and much more!
Read MoreThis week Seoirse is joined by three very special guests, Oli, Rachel and Phil, who are all part of Kaizen Game Works and came on the podcast to talk about their upcoming open world narrative game Promise Mascot Agency. This promises to be one of the most unique games coming out and you can learn all about this game as well as their previous game Paradise Killer in this interview. And if that’s not enough they also have time to talk about the original version of Until Dawn, which Oli worked as developer on ten years ago. All that and much more!
Read MoreRosewater is one of the most anticipated adventure games of 2025 so we were honoured when the developer, Francisco Gonzalez, agreed to join Seoirse to exclusively reveal the release date trailer for the game back in January. After the trailer Francisco also answered questions from viewers who joined the live chat and spoke more about development of the game and how this game is his most ambitious yet!
Read MoreInkle Studios have had a huge impact on the adventure game community the last few years. Ever since they released 80 Days they have gone from strength to strength. In that time they have released Heaven’s Vault, Overboard! And A Highland Song and now they are back with their latest game, Expelled! Jon Ingold kindly joined the podcast to talk all about this Overboard type game and why he enjoys writing nin linear replayable games and much much more!
Read MoreThis week Jason Godbey joins Seoirse to talk about his new game, Discolored 2, which you may be shocked to hear is the sequel to Discolored. In this interview they discuss getting feedback for puzzles in the game and how to know which feedback to take on board, how Jason went about adding a Hints system and what he learned after developing and releasing the first Discolored.
All that and much more so please enjoy!
Read MoreIn our first review episode of the year Seoirse, Matt and Laura review 6 adventure games, including pixel art adventure game Inspector Waffles: Early Days, interactive music album/adventure game, Asterism, Obra Dinn inspired Rootrees are Dead and latest in the much loved franchise, Life Is strange: Double Exposure. All that and much more!
Read MoreThere aren’t many games set in Ireland so when Seoirse found out about Benign Land he immediately invited the game developer on to the pod. Thankfully Leandro kindly agreed and spoke to Seoirse about why he chose to make a game set entirely in Ireland, how the game started as a painting and the effect it had on people in Belfast in particular. All that and much more!
Read MoreIn our very first episode of 2025 we start the year with a bang! For the first time ever the whole team gets together as reveal the Adventure Games Podcast top ten adventure games of 2024. We also reveal the winners of other categories including VR Adventure Game of 2024, Adventure Game Remake of 2024, Best Visual Novel of 2024 and finally Adventure Game DLC of 2024. Plus we have a very special guest and a couple of surprises!
Read MoreIn our final review episode of the year Seoirse, Laura and Tomas get together to review the latest adventure games and, this being Seoirse, telling some incredible/terrible Christmas cracker jokes.
Merry Christmas from everyone on the Adventure Games Podcast team and hope you all enjoy the episode!
Read MoreThis year Seoirse was lucky enough to attend DevGamm in Lisbon and here are some of the interviews he did with the devs of Locomotive, Desert Angels and much more! Full interviews coming soon!
Read MoreIn another epic episode Seoirse, Matt and Kieran get together to review the latest adventure games they have been playing including a fan adventure game of a very popular franchise, a game where you don’t control the protagonist, a game set in Canada in the 1700’s and a game set on a Locomotive. Any guesses what the game is called?
Also they speak about another game conference which is unfortunately cancelled but in more positive news Seoirse talks about some of the narrative and adventure games he played at DevGAMM and they discuss the hopefully really good point and click adventure games expected to be released in 2025.
Read MoreIn another bumper review episode the team get together to review 7 of the latest adventure games including the Riven remake, Prim, Nobody Wants to Die and plenty more!
Read MoreA few years Other Tales Interactive released Tick Tock: A Tale for Two, one of the few co-op adventure puzzle games which really helped keep us sane during Covid. Now they have just released their next game titled Miniatures. A very different game, as the title suggests, this game is 4 short stories with a distinct story and art style in each one which can be played in any order. One thing they have in common is that they are sure to pull at your heart strings. Tanya from Other Tales kindly joined Seoirse on the podcast to talk all about both games and their origins and much more! Please enjoy!
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