Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill was developed by HeR Interactive and released in 1998 for Windows. This was the first in a long series of games that is still ongoing. Nancy takes a semester off from school to visit her Aunt Eloise in…
Deadline is a murder mystery text adventure game, written by Marc Blank and published by Infocom in 1982. It has a simple premise explained clearly on the package: “A locked door. A dead man. And 12 hours to solve the murder.” You…
Until Dawn was developed by Supermassive Games, and originally released for PlayStation 4 in 2015. For Halloween I thought it’d be fun to play it for the first time along with unsecretcrush. For Devil’s Night, the night before Halloween,…
An assortment of games I’ve played that don’t fit into any other category. Most of these are incomplete playthroughs, demos, or shorter games I was able to finish up in one stream.
Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge was designed by Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, the “Two Guys from Andromeda,” and released by Sierra On-Line in November 1987. Following the events of the first game, Roger Wilco is back to his usual work…
Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood is the second and final game in the Conquests series from Christy Marx. It was released by Sierra On-Line in 1991 for MS-DOS, with Amiga and Mac versions following a year later. This…
While I was creating a game in World Builder for the original Macintosh, I decided it would be a fun project to port it to the Playdate. Much like the first Mac, this tiny yellow game system has a monochrome display that’s just a little…
The Crimson Diamond is a modern text-parser adventure game inspired by The Colonel’s Bequest and other classic mysteries. It was created by Julia Minamata and released for Windows and Mac in 2024. The Crimson Diamond stars Nancy…