Adventure Games: Rise & Fall - The FULL history of Adventure Games

Fantastic effort mate. Will have a good listen to this over the weekend

Holy shit this must have been a monumental research and production effort, will definetly watch it, thank you so much.

The Simon the sorcerer series is my favourite game series ever. But I hated 4 and 5 because they were not related to 1, 2 and 3D. Have you played Simon the sorcerer 3d? I'm on the list of Simon's biggest fans on the end credits of Simon the sorcerer 3D.

Thank you for sharing this awesome documentary. One of the games that I love and you forgot to mention was Robin Hood and the Conquest of Longbows by Sierra, what a master piece! Larry 1, Police Quest 3 and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis are probably the Adventure games I played the most. Keep up the good work

Awesome work bro, i enjoy watching every minute, and what a good memories, a lovely time machine.

You give some magnificent details, thank you very much for the effort!

Thank you for this great video

Very detailed and informative! Great job!

Adventure games never really died, they just went underground and evolved to include new puzzle styles and interfaces. A lot of new and great adventure games are still being made. I’m not including so-called adventure games like heavy rain, fire watch, and other narrative interactive movie games.

First i strongly and totally disagree with your conclusion that Myst is to be blamed for the downfall of adventure genre. Secondly when you are speaking about low quality adventure games and you are showing ALL Myst games (RIVEN, EXILE,Myst 4, Myst 5, Uru Ages beyong Myst (later Mystonline) who actually almost all of them have a huge lore and are great! Thirdly you forgot Pandora Directive and Ripper..... For the failure of the companies to provide a successful Adventure game, the one to blame is the Companies and modern era where we have little time to think hard and play a good adventure....

Any mention of the Zork graphical games, Spycraft, the cancelled Planetfall sequels etc?

Wow this is a goldmine of information

Thank you for putting your time and effort in this documentary. I really enjoyed it as it was een nice trip down memorylane.

Interesting that Fate of Atlantis was a financial success but not MI2, I had no idea. I hear people mentioning Monkey Island all the time but I don't think I've ever met another person who's played FoA. I really liked the interaction with Sofia in that game, felt way less lonely than the standard adventure game.

Conspicuously absent is Blade Runner (1997), especially considering you mentioned Westwood Studios and its earlier adventure games.

Nice video but you forgot the best P.I of this universe, Tex Murphy!

Hahah why, WHY you Greeks can't pronounce sh as in sharp, ch as in child, j as in joker... I will never understand :D
Still, great job, I am enjoying this.

No Alone in the Dark...

AWESOME VIDEO! Not only was it informative but you have given me a whole list of old games I want to go back and play. Great work!

Πολύ καλή δουλειά! Θυμήθηκα πολλά πράγματα που τα είχα ξεχάσει! Bravo! Great job!

Great analysis of my beloved genre. I only missed the Tex Murphy series and Dark Seed.

Good stuff, very thorough!

5 ad breaks in 13 minutes that's just ridiculous I wont watch the rest of your video or any more of your videos

Did I miss seeing The Hobbit by Melbourne House?

Impressive stuff, cheers from Argentina!!

Wasn't the original kings quest compatible only with Tandy 3 voice? Not adlib?

Nooooooooo, there will never be fall for them...!!!

Great video! Have you played the Hero-U game that was created by the same people who made Quest for Glory? I feel that the adventure genre might have a little reawakening in the future on computer as well.

Wonderful video - you can really see the amount of work that went into this comprehensive history - thank you

Very nicely-explained. I'd heard that sales for Mask of Eternity were somewhere in the 750k range, which would put it in the same overall range as its predecessors, and (setting aside how much it departed from the rest of the series, and what the fan reaction to that was,) I wonder if the problem there wasn't mainly to do with budgeting issues and being a little too ambitious too early. Yes; 3D graphics were new and "cool" back then, but as Daedelic demonstrated, they're not strictly necessary to make successful adventure games, even in the modern age. It doesn't seem like the actual number of adventure game fans has decreased since those times either, since modern adventure games sell about as many copies as the old ones did. It's just that it's a smaller market, by comparison to other genres, and therefore one where maintaining a modest budget is important for making a profit. At least, that's what I've been thinking about recently on this subject.

If so, that would make adventure games better for independent developers anyway, just because they can be produced less expensively and are more likely to be noticed by graphic adventure fans when they are produced.

For me it was the Infocom text games that drew me into adventure games, how curious not to see them mentioned here

There's been no fall. Adventure games still sell pretty well. It's just that the whole gaming market expanded way beyond what it used to be and now some games sell way more.
Anyway, there's plenty of excellent point and click adventure games that came out in the last decade.
Thimbleweed Park, The Witness, Kathy Rain, Syberia: The World Before, Gemini Rue, The Cat Lady, A Golden Wake, The Wardrobe, The Cat Lady, Unavowed, and all the stuff from Quantic Dream, like Detroid Become Human, just to mention a few off the top of my mind.
Not to mention the various remasters. Recently they released an enhanced version of Another Code on Switch that implements a bunch of new Features. Oh, and what about the Shadowgate remake?
Plenty thereof.

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Wow, what an amazingly interesting and extensive historical review on adventure games. This and other content on your channel is A++ in quality! I lived my childhood in the 80s and youth in the 90s around these games so I really much enjoyed this video. For me the point & click adventure game genre is still number #1 even nowadays only very few of them can achieve commercial success. Yet I still celebrate the community of retro gamers among whom these games continue to relive. Kudos to you all for this! 💪😀👍

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for putting all of this together!!

Great video, thanks! Do you know the name of the point-and-click adventure game where you play as a protagonist in a long black coat, resembling Dracula? Or maybe you are Dracula, I can't remember exactly... I think the game came out in the 2000s.

complet shot in the dark does anyone remember a game with a teeneger run from a guy with a hook for a hand in a maze

You got me hooked for the whole 2 hours 👊🔥

What about newet titles like Wolf is among us?