My family and I just did one of those escape room challenges, and that spurred me to find some escape room apps for my smart phone. Those made me remember some great old games like Myst and The 7th Guest. Are there any more recent PC games of that nature that anyone could recommend?
Only slightly recent: someone just remade Grim Fandango with improved controls and graphics. My 6yo daughter and I just played through it, and it was fantastic.
We’re currently playing through the remake of Monkey Island 2, which suffers greatly from comparison.
Thanks for the suggestions - I’m selfishly looking for adult puzzle games for me.
Also, sorry for the typo! Dammit. I got a new phone and I can’t see what I’m typing on the SDMB anymore! The fucking font is tiny and I can’t seem to fix it.
Portal and Portal II are essentially puzzle-room games with fantastic play quality and even a highly amusing and complex storyline.
Puzzle Agent and Puzzle Agent 2 are fun adventure games whose puzzles are often not typical adventure game object puzzles, but the kind you get in puzzle magazines.
Tales of Monkey Island? It’s basically Monkey Island 5.
Oh, and play all of Myst’s sequels. Myst IV is the best and if you played the first game, it is a direct sequel. You go inside the red and blue books from the first game and find out what Atrus’ sons’ prisons were like.
At work we just did a puzzle room escape game [we won], but I wanted to say that the people who did the escape the room games clearly had a leg up on the others… or rather were more prepared to recognize clues and how they went together.
On mobile platforms, I have enjoyed Escape if you Can, 100 Floors, and the 4 Cube Escape games. None are as complex as Myst, but all have some interesting tidbits for an hour or less game.
FWIW, Grim Fandango is really on the edge of what I’m comfortable with my 6yo playing. It’s not so much the double-entendres in the game as it is a couple of scenes in which people you’ve grown to care about suffer or even die. Makes sense in the story, but if I’d remembered those moments before we played, I might have played through them after she went to bed.
Check out The Talos Principle. Very challenging puzzle game with an intriguing philosophical slant and some self-aware meta-humour. Highly recommended
Seems like a lot of great suggestions. Thanks!
Just wanted to post that the truly excellent Blackwell series is on sale on Steam this week.
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/13237/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_2
The bundle contains every game in the series except the last one (Blackwell Epiphany). The games premise is rather silly, a psychic helps ghosts move on to the afterlife, but they really make it work and the narrative remains internally consistent to the end. Great writing and characterization. Some of my favorite adventure games of all time and, IMHO, up there with the best of Lucasarts and Sierra. Not really for kids though if you’re looking for something to play with the family.
Trine 2 is excellent. As probably was the first one, but I never played that one. It plays well solo or co-op, every puzzle has both a clever and a quick-finger way past it, and the visuals are just beautiful.