Top 22 Adventure Games of All Time

There are, at last count, somewhere over four hundred point-&-click-type adventure games, but I can report that almost all of them just plain suck. Here are the tiny handful of adventure games that are actually worth playing. Prob'ly a few more good ones out there that I haven't played yet.

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
The greatest of all video games. Beware the ghastly 'Special Edition' version.

1

The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition

2

The Last Door: Collector's Edition
The Last Door: Collector's Edition

3

The Curse of Monkey Island
The Curse of Monkey Island

4

Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango
In this case, the Remastered version's actually better than the original: The characters are in better resolution, the game's way less buggy, and the scenery's unaltered.

5

Machinarium
Machinarium
If possible, avoid the tolerable but inferior 'Definitive Version', which sucks out a great deal of the original game's visual charm.

6

The Secret of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island
Beware the horrendous 'Special Edition' version.

7

The Silent Age
The Silent Age
This game's best with the voice acting turned off.

8

Full Throttle
Full Throttle
Beware the uglified 'Remastered' version.

9

The Dream Machine
The Dream Machine

10

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi
Sumatra: Fate of Yandi

11

Primordia
Primordia

12

Football Game
Football Game

13

Samorost 3
Samorost 3

14

The Dig
The Dig

15

Day of the Tentacle
Day of the Tentacle
Beware the uglified 'Remastered' version.

16

Botanicula
Botanicula

17

Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer

18

The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate
The Legend of Kyrandia 2: The Hand of Fate

19

Dropsy
Dropsy

20

Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park

21

Memoranda
Memoranda

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