We've got keys for Devolver Digital's Stories Untold up in today's contest! I don't know how Devolver does it, but holy crap they just keep publishing highly rated games. You'd think they'd have way more misses by now, but nope! They just k...

For today's contest, we're giving away PC copies of Detroit: Become Human! Sometimes, I feel like I don't really need to say much. I like to do dramatic intros to these posts, but I don't think anyone can out-drama David Cage and the folks ...

After some slight marketing confusion last week, Batman The Telltale Series Shadows Edition has popped up for purchase on various digital storefronts, published by LCG Entertainment, now the owners of the Telltale Games catalogue.The Shadow...

(Update: Afterparty received a new trailer during PlayStation's State of Play presentation yesterday. You can check out the newest video below.)Night School Studio's bender from hell Afterparty will crack open the beers exactly one month fr...

Publisher Mondo Books has partnered with UK publisher Bitmap Books to bring the latter's range of retrospective tomes to North America, following on from their previous success in Europe. Available to purchase now from the official MondoTee...

I don't know what's happening in today's contest for Unlucky Seven, but we're giving away Steam copies. As you may know, I specialize in weird situations. Normal is for sissies, and I, a strong and independent woman*, am no sissy**. When we...

Today's contest features cutesy noir title Bear With Me: The Complete Collection for PC, Switch, Xbox One, and PS4! If your video game features a talking, crime-solving teddy bear, there's about a 100% chance I'm going to play it. I have ve...

Solve The Mystery of Woolley Mountain in today's PC and Switch contest! At some point in time, I became the guy who features and reviews adventure games. I didn't grow up playing them, so I'm not sure how this came to pass. Life can sometim...

Last year, we saw the return of a very dubious gaming icon, as perennial sleazeball Leisure Suit Larry made his return to PC in Wet Dreams Don't Dry, the first LSL game in an age to return to the controversial series' classic point 'n' clic...

I'm back on the beat, fellow animal lovers. The Captain reinstated my badge, the division gave me the go-ahead to hit the streets once again, and I'm all nice and whiskeyed up. Just like a real noir police antihero. I present to you Chicken...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] I took last weekend off from Getting Weird with We...

Today's contest is for a Steam copy of satirical point and click adventure title Irony Curtain! Satire is tough to do, man. You have to be subtle enough without being too in your face, but obvious enough for the average cretin, like me, to ...

A few years back on the fabulous Play Dead podcast, host Gabby DaRienzo spoke with Justin Kuiper of Route 59 games about their in-development game Necrobarista. Right from the start, it felt like a great mix of the visual novel and adventur...

The point-and-click adventure genre has slowly been coming back into prominence over the last console generation. Starting with revivals of old LucasArts games from Telltale, the legendary Secret of Monkey Island got an HD port in 2009 and ...

Yesterday, as part of the Apple Arcade announcement, old-school adventure fans' ears pricked at the news that they would be getting a sequel to the 1994 Amiga and PC classic, Beneath a Steel Sky, which wowed audiences with its deep cyberpun...

It's been many a year since an official Carmen Sandiego video game was released. The series was a mega-success in the late '80s and early '90s but has mostly faded away in the intervening years. Netflix recently released the first season of...

Get ready for some survival horror in today's contest for Skyhill for Nintendo Switch! I remember going into a hotel late at night, after a night of partying. It was so haunted. I asked the desk person if the joint was haunted. He did his b...

The German video game ratings board, USK, has a listing for PS4 and Nintendo Switch ports of graphic adventure Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry, which launched last November on PC.The long-running lewd and crude franchise made a som...

Humble has launched its "Winter Encore" sale and you know what that means: another free game! Up for grabs this time is Deponia: The Complete Journey. That contains all three titles in the Deponia trilogy with one easy purchase. Well, purch...

We’re in full-on germ season right now, with temperatures dropping below zero. All the tea and soup in the world can’t stop the IT guy at work from coughing all over your keyboard, so one bout of illness is almost inevitabl...

Don't sleep on this contest: Win a Steam copy of Bad Dream: Fever. I know Halloween has already came and gone, but that doesn't mean we can't offer up creepy, unsettling, and flat-out weird games whenever the hell we feel like it. I, for on...

It’s safe to say that the Nintendo Switch has replaced the Vita as a portable indie beast. Over the last year and a half, Nintendo’s hybrid device has amassed quite the collection of impressive indie titles. No one device lets y...

If you’ve ever played a point-and-click adventure game and thought to yourself, “This is pretty good, but it could do with a few more penis jokes”, you’re in luck. Germany-based dev team Crazy Bunch have taken on the...

Point-and-click adventure games had a bit of a renaissance in the last decade, but have become harder to find ever since Telltale discovered a different formula with The Walking Dead in 2012. Luckily, indie developers are there to fill...

I don't know when I became the staff's indie adventure game guy, but however it happened I'm glad it did. I've got to experience some really charming and unique titles that'll stick in my memory for years to come; I've gotten to experience ...