A list of adventure games

I hope you'll help build a list of future releases and already released games that might be worth playing. I'll take the fortune of being the one that updates the list.
If you could add a small description to the game(s) you would recommend, then it would be great.

Upcoming:
- A Stroke of Fate (Q4 2007) -> Description - Screenshots - Trailer
- A Vampyre Story (Q4 2007) -> Description - Website - Screenshots - Teaser - Video
- - A game created by former LucasArts employees.
- The Bad, The Ugly, and the Sober (Q3 2007) -> Description - Screenshots - Trailer

Recommendable:
- Blade Runner (1997) -> Screenshots - Trailer
- - A very atmospheric and involving adventure game. Though it's an old game it's still worth playing and the graphics are generally very impressive.
- Daemonica (2006) -> Website - Screenshots - Demo
- - Reasonably fun if you can look past the problems
- Dead Reefs (2007) -> Description - Screenshots - Trailer - Demo
- - Pretty good horror adventure with absolutely awful controls.
- The Discworld series (1986-1999) -> Fansite - Description
- - Noir has the best atmosphere ever, and Eric Idle is hilarious in first two parts... funniest in-game character, by my humble opinion.
- Grim Fandango (1998) -> Description - Screenshots - Trailer - Demo
- Keepsake (2006) -> Website - Screenshots - Demo
- - Decently solid adventure in the point & click style.
- - The Leisure Suit Larry series (1987-present) -> Description - Screenshots
- Maniac Mansion 2: Day of the Tentacle (1993) -> Description - Screenshots - Video
- The Monkey Island series (1990-2000) -> Fansite - Screenshots - Video - Demos
- Myst 3: Exile (2001) -> Review - Screenshots - Trailer
- The Longest Journey (2000) -> Review - Screenshots - Trailer
- The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy (2007) -> Website - Screenshots
- - Decent (albeit cliched to the max) story and puzzles, better than I expected.
- Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure (1997) -> Screenshots - Video - Demo
- - A small story wrapped around a massive array of puzzles, and some really decent ones. Good budget game.
- Sam & Max: Hit the Road (1993) -> Screenshots - Video - Demo
- Sam & Max: Season 1 (2006-2007) -> Website - Screenshots - Trailer - Demos
- - The new Sam & Max games are completely excellent! They are now releasing the series on CD with a bonus CD of fun stuff as well. Highly recommended.
- Sherlock Holmes: Secret of the Silver Earring (2004) -> Screenshots - Videos - Demo
- - Great, Agatha Christie-like story.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2007) -> Website - Screenshots - Trailer - Demo
- - A Holmes-meets-Lovecraft story. The demo is excellent.
- Syberia (2002) -> Review - Screenshots - Trailer - Demo
- Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988) -> Description - Screenshots - Video

The thread continues here!

If I've linked to your post instead of adding your contribution to the list, then if you have some more recommendations then please edit it to your existing post and afterwards write a new post to tell me your previous post has been updated.

Recommendable:
The Longest Journey -> Review - Screenshots
Syberia -> Review - Screenshots
Myst 3 Exile -> Review - Screenshots

Recommendable:

Grim Fandango: Info
Demo

Very Promising:

Sherlock Holmes - The Awakened. A Holmes-meets-Lovecraft story. The demo is excellent.

Unfortunately I'm not up to date on adventure games (or any other games, for that matter), but here are some older adventures I *MUST* recommend (because these are my favorite graphic adventure games ever):

Recommendable:

Realms of the Haunting (1996, Gremlin):
Description: A very atmospheric, occult-themed action-adventure with fine, mood-setting FMVs. Variable difficulty settings. RotH was a precursor (in style and mood) to Clive Barker's Undying - chances are that if you liked the latter, you'll like RotH. It was a true underdog, overlooked by the public yet loved by the few who played it.
Link: http://www.realmsofthehaunting.com (comprehensive fan site)

Zork: Nemesis (1996, Activision):
Description: Another very atmospheric adventure, point-and-click this time. While the grim, noir-type story of Zork: Nemesis was a definite departure from the typical Zork humor, it was a beautiful (and dark) game in its own right.
Link: http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/reviews/187


Zork: Grand Inquisitor (1997, Activision):
Description: The successor to Zork: Nemesis returned to the typical Zork humor, yet it was still a very atmospheric game (though the atmosphere was - admittedly - different from that of the predecessor. Grand Inquisitor featured the incredibly important *reverse* spell... and being able to reverse 'turn purple things invisible' was indeed a life-saver...
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?name=Zork:+Grand+Inquisitor

The Dig (1995, Lucas Arts):
Description: A fine - if too short - point-and-click SF adventure with a grand soundtrack. What starts out as some kind of screwball comedy soon turns into an epic struggle about the survival of mankind...
Characters you love to hate, different endings depending on a certain choice, and... did I mention the music? The Dig featured one truly horrible twitch puzzle, but this couldn't break the beautiful game.
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=2258

Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate (1996, Westwood):
Description: Fantasy adventure with a witty heroine. While Kyrandia 1 was a nice game, this second part in the series was great: funny characters, logical puzzles, cute graphics and a hilarious enemy.
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=625

Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge (1994, Westwood):
Description:Here the trilogy's supposed enemy is the hero. Enjoy accompanying the grumpy old jester, his moral guides and the studio audience on their quest to prove Malcolm's innocence.
Link: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=625

10.000 character post limit on the previous post. So I'll continue the list in this post.

Recommendable:
- Broken Sword 1-3 (1996-2003) -> Description - Screenshots - Trailer
- Post Mortem (2003) -> Review - Screenshots - Videos - Demo
- Shadow of the Comet (1993) -> Description - Screenshots - Intro Video
- Still Life (2005) -> Description - Screenshots - Trailer - Demo
- - Sequel to "Post Mortem".
- Beneath a steel sky
- Gabriel Knight I-III
- Simon the Sorcerer 1-2
- Mysterious Island
- Shadowgate
- Curses
- Barrow Hill
- Moment of Silence

- Jaz's list recommending: Realms of the Haunting, Zork: Nemesis, Zork: Grand Inquisitor, The Dig, Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate and Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge.
- Moriendor's list recommending: Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy.
- Artran's list recommending: Bad Mojo, Neverhood, Blue Ice, Frederik Pohls Gateway 1+2, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror, Scratches and The Dark Eye.
- Lucky Day gives an introduction to Scott Adams adventures.
Gorath's list recommending: Secret Files: Tunguska, Ankh, Jack Keane, Runaway 1-2, The Westerner and Black Mirror.

Links:
- Adventuregamers.com
- Gameboomers.com
- Justadventure.com

Fahrenheit (a.k.a Indigo Prophecy) does count as an adventure, right? It's one of the bestest [sic] games I have ever played or -correction- it's actually one of the shittiest games I have ever played but the one with (one of) the bestest [sic] story, atmosphere and characters. What I mean by that is that the consolized gameplay is pretty horrible with the limited camera, limited movement options and not very keyboard-friendly (but rather 100% made with gamepads in mind) mini games but despite all the frustrations (which you do very slowly get used to after a while) it is worth it. It's pretty much an interactive criminal/mystery movie but definitely of the highest quality. Just ignore the crappy game elements and you'll enjoy it a lot.

Hint: To avoid major frustration with the mini games (the "press the button that lights up" game) use the options menu and configure the keys to your liking. A good setup for those games IMHO is W/S/A/D for the left hand and 8/5/4/6 on the num pad so you basically have a mirroring pair of keys for both hands. Now when you go to Lucas' (main character in the game) apartment there is a guitar that you can use to play some songs. The song playing is using the same game (highlighted buttons) as in the action sequences so this is an awesome opportunity to practice and I can only wholeheartedly recommend to practice this stuff until you can play every song with zero mistakes several times in a row. That way you will avoid some major frustration in the action sequences later on (which aren't as forgiving as playing the guitar).

http://www.atari.com/indigo/

Where's Monkey Island? Someone told me they'd heard there might be a new one in the works. Anyone else heard this rumour??

@Mo: I played Fahrenheit on Xbox so I was spared the frustrating keyboard layout. Gameplay was horrible for the most part (at least where it consisted of trying to avoid distraction, which was most of the time) , yet the story and ambience were great.

Unique adventure games which are almost forgotten but very good:

Bad Mojo (You play a cockroach - allusion on Franz Kafka's story)
http://www.badmojoredux.com/

Neverhood (very fond game)
http://doo.nomoretangerines.com/nevhood/gamgraph.htm

Blue Ice (Surrealistic and dreamlike experience)
http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle.jsp?index=155

Frederik Pohls Gateway 1+2
http://www.abandonia.com/games/540/5
http://www.abandonia.com/games/539/4

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (My No. 1 - I don't know better plot in game)
http://www.mrbillsadventureland.com/reviews/c-d/callahansR/callahansR.htm

Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror (It's horrifying!)
http://www.mobygames.com/game/john-sauls-blackstone-chronicles-an-adventure-in-terror

Scratches (Very similar to Blackstone)
http://www.scratchesmystery.com/

The Dark Eye (unique experiment with puppets)
http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Dark_Eye_HOF/Dark_Eye_review.shtm

I'd add

- Maniac Mansion 2 : Day of the Tentacle
- Sam & Max hit the road

The new Sam & Max games are completely excellent! They are now releasing the series on CD with a bonus CD of fun stuff as well. Highly recommended.

We're gathering ourselves a fine list!

I thought I had given up on Adventures since ~'93 and Myst and Journeyman Project 2 on the Mac ... but a couple of years ago I seemed to drift back into them. Here are some I've played:

- Indigo Prophesy - very good, didn't like the 'Simon' mini game much.
- Daemonica - reasonably fun if you can look past the problems
- Keepsake - decently solid adventure in the point & click style.
- Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure - a small story wrapped around a massive array of puzzles, and some really decent ones. Good budget game.
- Scratches - loads of fun and tight story that keeps you moving along.
- The Secrets of Atlantis - decent (albeit cliched to the max) story and puzzles, better than I expected.
- Dead Reefs - pretty good horror adventure with absolutely awful controls.

There's a forgotten duo of very good adventure games: Post Mortem and Still Life. Too bad the third part was never made.

I'll post more but I'm at work now

Of those not yet listed, Zak McKrakken and the alien mindbenders is probably my favourite point-and-click.

Moriendor said:

Fahrenheit (a.k.a Indigo Prophecy) does count as an adventure, right? It's one of the bestest [sic] games I have ever played or -correction- it's actually one of the shittiest games I have ever played but the one with (one of) the bestest [sic] story, atmosphere and characters.

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I think that sums it up pretty well, even if it's mildly hyperbolic. It's more of a (slightly) interactive movie than a game, really -- basically a linear, scripted story interrupted by series where you get to mash buttons in sequence (which distracts you from the rather well done animations you're supposedly controlling; shame really). The Euro version also has the cheesiest sex minigame (complete with German porno soundtrack) that I've ever seen. Oh, and peeing reduces your stress level (which you have to keep down or risk committing suicide).

I liked the background mythology, the visuals, and some of the plot twists, but the characters were completely forgettable, the gameplay was more annoying than fun, and the scatological aspect jarred with the overall non-funny character of the game. I would probably have enjoyed it more as a movie or comic than a game.

I'm off to some kind of party in a short while. So those games that haven't been added to the list yet, I'll do so tomorrow.

nobody mentioned discworld series? noir has the best atmosphere ever, and eric idle is hilarious in first two parts... funniest in-game character, by my humble opinion.

btw, i'm glad to see there's a lot of adventure fans here...

Prime Junta said:

...the characters were completely forgettable...

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Dude, WHAT? Did you just call Carla Valenti, the hottest digital babe in video gaming history, the chick that mops the floor with and runs circles around Lara Croft, FORGETTABLE??? R U GHEY??????

i have also forgot to mention sherlock holmes: secret of the silver earring (great, agatha christie-like story) and leisure suit larry series... oh, i love that guy