Broken 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!
Read MoreHave you ever wished there was an adventure game that could be played in real life with other people? Sure there are escape rooms and there are murder mystery dinner parties. But what if you could stay overnight in the countryside and play a real life adventure game with puzzles and where you speak to real life characters? Well now you can in Lovecraft immersive experience in Wales, The Key of Dreams. This week Seoirse is joined by Stephen Brown who is well known in the adventure game community particularly for his Freeware Adventure Game articles for adventuregamers.com and new AdventureX director and treasurer. Stephen tells us all about The Key of Dreams and what was his experience over this weekend he spent in the Welsh countryside. Was this as good as it sounds? What was the story like and what was it like resolving puzzles over a weekend with other players? You can find out all about this and much more about this unique experience!
Read MoreWe’re all probably aware of Greek Mythology and Norse Mythology and maybe Celtic Mythology but what about Spanish Mythology? If you would like to learn more then Luis from Torrezno Entertainment has got you covered as he joins Seoirse to talk about his upcoming game set in Spain where you play as a girl who wants to become a nun and meets some classic figures from Spanish Mythology along the way. Luis also talks about his Kickstarter and what benefits you can get and a lot more besides. So please enjoy!
Read MoreIn this episode we’re doing things a little differently as instead o speaking to an adventure game developer, Seoirse speaks to DevGAMM CEO, Maria Chyrvona. Maria talks all about this conference which is taking place in Lisbon on 14th and 15th November and she tells us what we can expect and how they are focused on helping indie game developers promote their games as much as possible. She talks about the speakers, DevGamm awards and events happening at the conference this year and much more!
And if that wasn’t enough Maria and her team have very kindly offered two free tickets to the conference for podcast listeners! But since we’re adventure gamers we need to offer some sort of a challenge. So to be in with a chance of winning you just have to answer the following question:
“In which hotel is DevGAMM Lisbon 2024 taking place in 2024?” Hint: answer is on the official website...
The first two people who email the correct answer to info@adventuregamespodcast.com will win a free ticket to the conference so if you are interested in attending (and why wouldn't you be!) then make sure to send in that email as soon as possible! Good luck!
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