It’s that time of year again! The sun is out, the sales are on, and there is nothing you want more than to draw your curtains and stay inside playing adventure games. But with so many great games out there, how can you choose? Luckily, the podcast team has you covered. We’ve scoured far and wide and come up with the following curated guide - all games are vouched for by at least one person on the team, and all are 75% off or better! Click any game’s name to go to that game’s steam page, and after each one we’ve listed the current discount. Enjoy!

COMEDY

The adventure game genre is famously great for comedy games. Some titles sure to make you laugh are Paradigm (75%), Lancelot’s Hangover (80%), Kelvin and the Infamous Machine (80%), Four Last Things (75%), Voodoo Detective (75%), Gibbous (80%), Darkestville Castle (75%), Nine Witches: Family Disruption (80%)

CLASSICS

Sometimes, you just really want to play the classics. The sale is a great time to pick up Fahrenheit Remastered (80%), the Double Fine remasters of Day of the Tentacle (75%), Grim Fandango (75%), and Full Throttle (75%), Broken Sword 2 (80%), 3 (80%), 4 (75%), and 5 (80%), The Last Express (80%), Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time (85%), Red Comrades Trilogy (75%)

THAT MIDDLE PERIOD

After the golden era, when adventure games were dead, there were… actually a whole bunch of great adventure games. Why not check out A Vampyre Story (75%), Secret Files Tunguska (90%), The Lost Crown (82%), The Mystery of the Druids (80%), The Moment Of Silence (90%), the first three Syberias (all 80%), The Raven Remastered (75%), 5 Pendulo Studios games including Yesterday and Runaway (85%)

MODERN TRADITIONAL (Pixel Perfect)

They do still make them like they used to! For some great modern adventure games with that pixel art style, we recommend Kathy Rain (90%), Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard (80%), Whispers of a Machine (80%), Detective Di (77%), Milkmaid of the Milky Way (75%), The Order of the Thorne - The King’s Challenge (80%), Tardy (80%), A Golden Wake (80%)

MODERN TRADITIONAL (Not so Blocky)

There are also lots of great modern point and clicks that follow the classic formula but with their own artistic visions, such as Broken Age (80%), Emerald City Confidential (80%), The Hand of Glory (80%), The Inner World (90%), Trüberbrook (90%), The Great Perhaps (90%), The Blind Prophet (90%)

MODERN CINEMATIC

Adventure games have become a natural vehicle for more cinematic storytelling. Great examples of this include The Walking Dead series (75%), Tell Me Why (75%), Heavy Rain (80%), Beyond: Two Souls (90%), Road 96 (80%), Deliver Us The Moon (85%), The Suicide of Rachel Foster (90%)

WALKING SIMULATORS

For stories which just have a story to tell, go for The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (80%), What Remains of Edith Finch (75%), Firewatch (80%), The Last Show of Mr. Chardish (75%)

CASUAL

There are some great discounts on adventure games that you can pick up and put down whenever you fancy. We recommend Tiny Room Stories (90%), Agent A (90%), Don't Escape 1-3 (75%)... and Don't Escape 4! (75%), Limbo (90%), Inside (90%), Later Alligator (80%)

DETECTIVE (STORY-DRIVEN)

For some classic detective stories, check out Murdered: Soul Suspect (90%), Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper (90%), Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases (85%), Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter (90%), Night Call (80%), The Innsmouth Case (90%)

DETECTIVE (DEDUCTION-DRIVEN)

Want to don the deerstalker yourself and do some sleuthing? We had a great time with Tangle Tower (80%), Detective Grimoire (80%), A Case of Distrust (80%), Song of Farca (90%), Lucifer Within Us (80%), Interrogation: You Will Be Deceived (90%), Hauma - A Detective Noir Story (75%), 

ONLY JUST CAME OUT! (last three years)

Amazingly, there are some big discounts on games that only came out recently! It’s definitely worth looking at Asleep - Act 1 (90%), Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die (90%), Crowalt (90%), Sunday Gold (80%), Gerda: A Flame in Winter (80%), Vlad Circus: Descend into Madness (80%)

SPOOKY

There are some excellent spookier games on sale. If you are feeling brave, try Stories Untold (90%), Dark Fall 1 (82%), 2 (75%), and 3 (75%), Pony Island (85%), The Quarry (85%), Saint Kotar (85%), The Corruption Within (75%)

EMOTIONAL/IMPACTFUL

Want to spend the summer in tears? Who doesn’t!? These tearjerkers worked for us: To the Moon (80%), STEINS;GATE (90%), Neo Cab (85%), Still There (80%),
The Stillness of the Wind (85%)

SCI-FI

Always a great genre, and there’s a lot of excellent adventure games for sci-fi fans. We can vouch for Encodya (90%), Red Strings Club (80%), Tacoma (80%), Observation (75%), Blood Nova (75%), Beyond A Steel Sky (80%), Acolyte (80%)

PUZZLE-DRIVEN

If you like adventure games which stretch the braincells, check out Call of the Sea (75%), Sexy Brutale (75%), The Forgotten City (75%), The Talos Principle (85%), Hypnospace Outlaw (75%), The Witness

STUDIO COLLECTIONS

Two studios really stand out in the sales this year. Firstly Daedalic have three huge bundles (90%). And then from Amanita Design you can get all their games, soundtracks, and art books (75%).

FMV

If you’re a fan of full motion video, you should look at Bloodshore (80%), She Sees Red (80%), Her Story (90%)

FANTASY

Here’s some excellent fantasy narratives: Roki (85%), Nairi: Tower of Shirin (80%), She and the Light Bearer (80%), Dream Machine (75%)

CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR DECISIONS

Want a story where you’re in charge? Here’s some great experiences where you have to deal with the consequences of what you decide to do: Disco Elysium (90%), Yes, Your Grace (85%), Not Tonight (85%), Werewolf The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest (90%)

GENRE BENDING

Finally, here’s four games which are experimenting a bit more with the adventure game form… and we think those experiments were very successful! Heaven's Vault (75%), Lair of the Clockwork God (80%), Genesis Noir (80%), ABZU (75%)