Little Big Adventure 2 (1997): Twinsen’s Odyssey Goes Bigger
How do you follow up one of the most beloved action-adventures of the 1990s? Adeline Software’s answer was simple: make […]
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Little Big Adventure (1994): Twinsen’s Fight Against Dr. FunFrock
Few mid-90s action-adventures managed to feel this warm-hearted while also being genuinely inventive under the hood. Adeline Software’s Breakout Hit
Alone in the Dark 3 (1994): Survival Horror Goes to the Wild West
Resident Evil owes more to this trilogy’s closing chapter than most horror fans realize. Infogrames Closes Out the Original Trilogy
The Legend of Kyrandia Book Three: Malcolm’s Revenge (1994) — Westwood Lets You Play the Villain
Most trilogies end with the hero. Kyrandia ends with its clown. Closing a Trilogy by Switching Sides Developed by Westwood
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb (1994): A Gentler Kind of Adventure Game
What if the point-and-click adventure genre’s most memorable mid-90s release wasn’t about wisecracking pirates or gothic murder, but about a
Curse of Enchantia (1992): Core Design Before Tomb Raider
Core Design Before Tomb Raider Long before Lara Croft, Core Design was a British studio trying to break into the
Ecstatica (1994): One Developer’s Ellipsoid Nightmare
Picture a game that looks like stop-motion claymation, was built almost entirely by one person, and quietly anticipated survival horror
Shannara (1995): Quest for Glory’s Designers Take On Terry Brooks
Quest for Glory’s Designers Tackle Shannara Legend Entertainment’s licensed fantasy adaptations usually stuck to a fairly consistent formula, which makes
Death Gate (1994): Legend Entertainment’s Dense Fantasy Epic
Not every literary adaptation tries to compress an entire fantasy series into a single game. Death Gate had the advantage
Companions of Xanth (1993): Legend Entertainment Adapts Piers Anthony
Adapting Piers Anthony’s Puns Piers Anthony’s Xanth novels run on pun-based magic and relentless wordplay, which sounds like a nightmare
Waxworks (1992): Horror Soft’s Last Game Before Becoming Adventure Soft
The Studio’s Final Horror Soft Release Waxworks arrived in 1992 as Horror Soft’s last game under that name, on Amiga,
Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus (1992) — Bigger Dungeon, Bigger Body Count
From Haunted Castle to Cursed Film Studio Two years after the original Elvira, Horror Soft and Accolade returned with a