Caper in the Castro is the first LGBTQ game, created by C.M. Ralph and released in 1989. It’s a point-and-click murder mystery made with HyperCard. Ralph also made a straight version of the game called Murder on Main Street, without the…
Who Killed Brett Penance?: The Environmental Surfer is an FMV murder mystery game written and directed by Shannon Gilligan. It was developed and published by Creative Multimedia in 1994. This was originally part of the “Virtual Murder”…
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…
Loom™ was published by Lucasfilm Games in 1990 for MS-DOS. It’s the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilm’s™ Brian Moriarty™. Why it’s an extraordinary adventure with an interface of magic… stunning, high-resolution,…
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,…
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…