Estimated procrastination time: 2 hours
Showing posts with label Point and click. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Point and click. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Submachine 5: The root
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Icescape
In this online game you wake up inside a research station in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by ice. You have to escape the research station but fast otherwise you will freeze to death. Icescape has an interesting plot, with nice puzzles and a surprise or two in between.
Estimated procrastination time: 12 minutes (but try in 5)
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Core Series
Prism Core, ends the alien escape trilogy. Each game is harder than the next one. Prism Core is, actually, three games in one. Cube Core is the easiest and Sphere Core is the first.
Estimated procrastination time: 15 minutes cada.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Jack French
Three more games for the detective and mistery week. This is the Jack French series, from Jonny B Design. Here you play a detective taht has to investigate crime scenes for clues and interview people to solve the cases.
In the first game you investigate the death of an innocent japanese student. Was that a suicide as the investigations concluded?
In the second game, you investigate Dr. Ferrerś death. If everybody liked himj, why was he killed?
The last game, is the ebst of the three. You have to get a serial killer. To do so, you have to use everything learnt in the first two cases.
Estimated procrastination time: 30 minutes each.
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Death in Sakkara
To keep the theme of the week we have Death in Sakkara from BBC. In the game, made to promote a seires about Egyptology, you play as the journalist Charles Fox, hired to investigate the disappearance of an archaeologist in Egypt, circa 1929. The game is long and sometimes difficult but you can save to continue later and the whole experience is quite rewarding.
Estimated procrastination time: 2 hours
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Covert Front II
We are back this week only with mistery and detective games. We start with the second game of the Covert Front series. This game is set into an alternate reality scenario in the Second World War. You were sent to investigate a nazi officer´s house and made shocking discoveries... now you have to fight to get away of it.
Play the first game here.
Estimated procrastination time: 30 minutes
Thursday, 1 November 2007
House e Exmortis
Did you think the ealier Halloween games were too soft? Try House and Exmortis.
In House, you have to investigate the circunstances that led an entire family to kill themselves.
In Exmortis, you wake up in the middle of a forest and find a house that could be owned by Blair´s witch.
Exmortis 2 that its prequel history to another level. It´s an epic game and much scarier. read everything you find in order to get involved in the history...
Not recommended for children.
Estimated procrastination time: alone, in the dark with volume at maximum.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Garfield Scary Scavenger Hunt
We will have thematic games in this whole Halloween week. We will have two games today to compensate for yesterday. In this treasure hunt, you must guide Garfield through two haunted mansions in order to secure much apreciated sweets. Be careful not to get too scared as you might loose the game. Play the first one here and the sequel here.
Estimated procrastination time: 15 minutes cada
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
The escape series
Instead of one game, today we will have three. I don´t put too many Escape games because they are all too similar. Besides, I hate to click millions of times looking for a hidden pixel or to solve a illogical puzzle. This series of Escape games, however, designed by Shawn Tanner is perfect: games are simple but challenging, they are beautiful and logical.
The series started with Escape the car. In all the games the premise is the same: don´t bother with why you are trapped, just escape.
The easiest is the second, Escape the closet. It is the only one that has a mystical touch to the game.
The most original and ingenious is Escape the Phone Booth. This one is truly original and was a pleasure to crack.
Estiamted procrastination time: 10 to 20 minutes each
Monday, 10 September 2007
Sphere
Sphere is a well designed Escape the Room game. The designer avoided some common problems of the genre like pixel hunting, puzzles without any logic or hints and impossible solutions.
Estimated procrastination time: 30 minutes
HINT: There is a panel hidden in the middle of the blue wall
Friday, 31 August 2007
Fridays Classics: Samorost
Samorost is a Point-and-Click classic that must be revisited. Save Samorost's pale woody dot by diverting the woody asteroid that will collide with it. The game is very logic for all it's nonsense and alienness.
Estimated procrastination time: 10 minutes
Monday, 27 August 2007
Tucoga's Room 2
Tucoga's Room 2 is a escape free online game from the same brazilian designer that made the first one. Use your mouse to point and click the rooms in order to escape the apartment. It is possible to change the language to English by clicking in the computer screen icon in the game
Estimated procrastination time: 1 hour
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Heroes: The Game - Mohinder's Office
UPDATE: I was informed that BBC will only allow people accessing their website from the UK can play the game. Has anyone any hints on how to play it anywhere else?
The BBC website has put a free online game based on Heroes. You start in Mohinder's office where you can find many things to read and explore. There are also games based on Isaac, Peter and Clare. There is also a history going on on the emails. Very Cool!
Estimated procrastination time: may hours.
Friday, 17 August 2007
Friday Classics: MOTAS
If Crimson Room was the online game that has initiated the Escape the Room game fever, Mistery of Time and Space (MOTAS) revamped the Point and Click games and can be considered the spiritual ancestor of the Crimson Room. MOTAS is actually a series of Escape the Room games that will require a lot of logic for you to progress. In the beginning, no plot information is given but, bit by bit, the mystery of time and space is revealed.
Estimated procrastination time: many hours (but you can save)
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
White Chamber
White Chamber is a game developed by the makers of Crimson and Viridian Room. This is reason enough to try to escape this garage.
HINT: there is a sixth button on the handle of the motorbike.
Estimated procrastination time: 30 minutes
Friday, 10 August 2007
Friday Classics: Hapland
Hapland a serie of atypic games that were a huge success in 2005. You have to click in the right places at the right times in order to survive. The other option is certain death. The thre games from the same author are so difficult that can be frustrating but don't give up! The order of the clicks and their timing are crucial.
Click here for Hapland 2
Click here for Hapland 3
Estimated Procrastination time: 1 hour for each game
Monday, 6 August 2007
Help the mice
Help the mice to get some sunflower seeds. All the objects in the screen will be used to do so. A 3wish game.
Estimated time of procrastination: 10 minutes
Saturday, 4 August 2007
Happy Seed
A cube falls from the sky and affects the lives of a city. Happy Seed is a beautiful point and click interactive animation. You have to click on the right place to trigger the next set of events.
Estimated procrastination time: 15 minutes
Friday, 3 August 2007
Detective Grimoire
Investigate a murder in a funfair as the Detective Grimoire. You were called by the police to interrogate the suspects and find evidences. You will find the guilty suspect by excluding all the others. After you have found a potential evidence, show it to the suspects to find out more things. Everybody is hiding something.
Estimated time of procrastination: 30 minutes
Monday, 23 July 2007
Tube Crisis
Use your imagination to empty the train. An advertising game that is very simple but full of humor.
HINT: there is a tape on the top of the Boombox.
Estimated procrastination time: 10 minutes
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