Yes, there are dead ends and the puzzles can be unintuitive, but as the funniest game in one of the most storied adventure series ever, it’s Space Quest IV that stands above the rest. I’m sorry but this list lost all credibility as having any sort of ranking logic when I saw Toonstruck in 93 instead of top 10. Set in an atmospheric New York City that’s blanketed in snow and peppered with cinematic camera angles and cuts, Indigo Prophecy (known as Fahrenheit in Europe) was the first game since the FMV era that felt like playing a movie. program exists called DOSBox, which is a DOS emulator with speed adjustments. the game was a 2 player arcade game in which you had to physically pump the mine cart and jump to get past obstacles. It’s often nice to have your own thoughts on a game reflected in it’s placing - or challenged. Contact You might also like: realMYST, Myst V: End of Ages, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. You might also like: Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Simple in design, Stacking turns the basic elements of adventure gaming on their ear – not by obfuscating puzzles through layers of absurdity but by iterating on one simple change. #80 – Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Contact It certainly helps that, if you're willing to forgive its now-antiquated graphics and some repetitive gold-panning sequences to reach the grand finale, it’s also a lot of fun to play. You might also like: Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. When Harry Mason wakes up from a car crash just outside the quiet resort town of Silent Hill, his daughter Cheryl is missing. Far less common in Presto Studio’s 1995 The Journeyman Project: Buried in Time, the accused man and the one trying to prove his innocence are separate versions of the same man, as time agent Gage Blackwood enlists his younger self to investigate. This includes not only one of the greatest all-time "villains" of the genre, but also minor characters like Tanya and Toby, whose tale is bound to bring at least a little tear to the eye. The game Golden Wombat, is actually Castle Adventure with a different name. The game provides you with a handy notebook that doesn’t just keep track of clues, it lets you actually use them much like regular inventory. #33 – L.A. Noire It was unexpected but nice to see Exile make the list, and placed pretty highly too. When LucasArts’ Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman were given an opportunity to continue Ron Gilbert’s Maniac Mansion series in 1993’s Day of the Tentacle, they attacked that goal with a completely unhinged sense of whimsy and irreverence for American history. Originally launched in Japan on the Game Boy Advance, the enhanced remake for the Nintendo DS introduced the endearingly nervous, spiky-haired defense attorney and made common household expressions out of his patented catch-phrases “Hold It!” and “Take That!”  The rookie’s five cases involve investigating crime scenes personally before defending the accused against seemingly impossible odds in court against the brilliantly flamboyant prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. Like a classic Agatha Christie whodunit, one murder leads to another and discovering secrets becomes secondary to staying alive. With absolutely no exaggeration, we can safely (or not so safely, as the case may be) proclaim Frictional Games' Amnesia: The Dark Descent as one of the greatest – if not the greatest – horror games ever made. Most adventure games whisk you through gorgeous, fantastical worlds full of dashing heroes and heroines. My kind of game...Kudos to Meridian 93 for bringing us a creepy yet fun game! Castle Adventure isn't without it's share of bugs though. Not only does it tell a fantastic story, but in sending players to the worlds where Atrus’s sons are imprisoned (along with two others), the artists created what is arguably the best looking Myst game ever created. Cloudy windows high in the test chambers hint at hidden observers you never see.