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https://instagram.com/thepopanthropologyst Legends of the past come back to life in this charming point-and-click adventure. Pack your bags and journey with Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit through modern day Europe to uncover the secrets of the king who was never crowned. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1125910/Crowns_and_Pawns_Kingdom_of_Deceit/

It is the dawn of the 20th century. Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who mysteriously appeared seemingly out of nowhere, mesmerises Paris with her provocative and sensual performances. Being the centre of high society talks, no man can resist her charm, and every woman would like to be her. One day Mata is approached by the gentleman Oscar Samsonet who turns out to be an agent for the French secret service... https://store.steampowered.com/app/18480

https://www.instagram.com/thepopanthropologyst It is the year 1894. Timothy Moor, an Irish petty thief, is caught as a blind passenger onboard a ship which has just arrived in Plymouth, England. He manages to escape by jumping into the water and diving away. Tim emerges in the sewers of Plymouth and reaches a laundry where the washerwoman Emily is smitten with the young man’s charm and helps him to hide from the police. In the meantime the eccentric Detective Sergeant Briscol arrives in Plymouth to take his new post at the local police office. He isn’t welcomed as warmly as he’d hoped for, and is immediately called to the cemetery where the body of the recently deceased alleged serial killer Sir William Lewis has gone missing. When the dead gravedigger is found near the empty crypt, it is rumoured that Sir William has come back from the dead… As Tim’s and Briscol’s paths cross, they become unlikely allies in a mystery which gets darker the deeper they dive into it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/63110/Alter_Ego

Hotel is a classic 3rd person point and click adventure which was developed by the Croatian studio Cateia Games and published by dtp entertainment in 2010. A remake for iOS and Adroid was released some years ago under the title Brightstone Mysteries: Paranormal Hotel. Nowadays the game is available on BigFishGames. Cateia Games is known for making hidden object games, but with games like The Legend of Crystal Valley from 2009 and Hotel they also had a go in the 3rd person point and click sphere. https://www.bigfishgames.com/games/5716/hotel/?pc

The Hungarian monk Benedek Dohnany accompanies his estranged sister Viktoria and her husband Nikolay, a former priest, to the small Northern Croatian town of Saint Kotar. Shortly after arriving it becomes clear that there’s something amiss in this strange place. Benedek and Nikolay both awake from horrific nightmares in their rented house in the Kotarian woods. Both cannot remember what happened the day before. And above all, Viktoria seems to have gone missing. Benedek and Nikolay start to investigate. But in Saint Kotar nothing is as it seems, the inhabitants of Kotar act weirdly, to say the least, and the police is not much of a help at all. Saint Kotar is the story of two men of God in a godforsaken place who in search of their relative are confronted with their own dark past. Will Benedek and Nikolay be able to uncover the mysteries of Saint Kotar without losing their faith in God? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358530/Saint_Kotar https://www.gog.com/game/saint_kotar

Trouble Hunter Chronicles: The Stolen Creed is a first person point and click adventure developed by Iskonsko Studio and published on Steam and itch.io on October 17th 2021. Iskonsko Studio is an indie development team of five people. In their own words, the game “revitalises the genre for the modern era”. Eight years have passed since the end of World War II. Thomas Connor from Chicago, a former OSS-operative, has settled down in the peaceful French town of Verrix. Most of his days Connor is getting wasted on cheap hooch. One day an unknown woman approaches him in the bar... https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355360/Trouble_Hunter_Chronicles_The_Stolen_Creed https://iskonsko-studio.itch.io/trouble-hunter-chronicles

It is the year 2054. Tokyo was devastated by a tsunami, Shibukawa is the new capital of Japan. Shibukawa is a safe place, as cyber-cops and police robots are now responsible for upholding the law. Our main protagonist Anna Isobe is one of these cyber-cops, a cybernetically enhanced human. Cyber-cops are being more and more replaced by robots in the forces, as cyborgs have fallen from grace – a development Anna naturally does not approve of. When our cyborg-lady awakes on a rainy September day, she would have never imagined that this was to become the day which would change her life forever. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1468380/The_Sundew https://2054.itch.io/the-sundew

Which ones are you going to play? 00:00 Intro 00:26 The Sundew 01:13 Saint Kotar 02:06 Trouble Hunter Chronicles 03:13 Incantamentum 04:14 Born Punk 05:13 Castle Dornstein 06:14 The Night is Grey 07:12 Rosewater 08:07 The Case of the Golden Idol 09:09 Behind the Beyond Wishlist/try them here: The Sundew: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1468380/The_Sundew Saint Kotar: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358530/Saint_Kotar Trouble Hunter Chronicles: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1355360/Trouble_Hunter_Chronicles_The_Stolen_Creed Incantamentum: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/INCANTAMENTUM Born Punk: https://store.steampowered.com/app/979480/Born_Punk Castle Dornstein: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1595390/Castle_Dornstein The Night is Grey: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1281490/The_Night_is_Grey Rosewater: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/Rosewater The Case of the Golden Idol: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol Behind the Beyond: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148310/Behind_the_Beyond

Operation Valkyrie is a famous plan of the German Resistance to overthrow the tyrannical Nazi government. Standartenfuhrer Gerhard Mayer, a patriot who works in Reich Security Head Office learns that Gestapo has tracked down the conspirators. https://store.steampowered.com/app/10240/A_Stroke_of_Fate_Operation_Valkyrie/ April 1945. Only a few days remain until the end of the war. But the tyrant who is hiding in his personal bunker plans to blow up a nuclear bomb and kill as many people as possible. To infiltrate the bunker, combat death itself and foil the mad dictator's plans won't be easy even for a true hero. https://store.steampowered.com/app/372570/A_Stroke_of_Fate_Operation_Bunker/

Undercover: Operation Wintersun, or Operation Wintersonne in the German original, is a third person point and click spy-thriller adventure from 2006, developed by the Austrian company Sproing Interactive and published by ANACONDA. The player is placed in control of Dr. John Russell, a British nuclear physicist, who is charged with finding German atomic weaponry undercover by MI-6. The game features a number of puzzles which the player must solve to progress, and the professor is required to use items that he has picked up throughout his exploration. #adventuregame #spythriller #worldwar2

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure that explores the stories of four different characters in a masked ball taking place on a train in the late 1920s. Get it for free here: https://laurahunt.itch.io/if-on-a-winters-night-four-travelers

Mozart: The Conspirators of Prague is a 2009 adventure game developed by GameCO Studios and published by Micro Application. French & Dutch version to English patch: https://shinji-nerd-life.blogspot.com/2012/05/mozart-conspirators-of-prague-full.html Video walkthrough: http://www.gameanyone.com/video/2358366

Board submarine Kursk K-141 and stop a criminal organisation stealing Russian weapon systems! You are agent Belyaeva, a secret agent hunting the criminal mastermind. After an undercover partner goes missing you must find the culprit before Kursk K-141 and the truth fall to the bottom of the ocean! https://store.steampowered.com/app/403390/Undercover_Missions_Operation_Kursk_K141

Elsinore is an indie point-and-click adventure game set in a living world where the story plays out around you in real time. Every four days time resets, and you gain another chance to change the fate of Elsinore Castle's inhabitants. https://elsinore-game.com

The remote hotel stands atop an ominous snow-peaked mountain, and death permeates every inch of the place. A crime has been committed here obviously, and the remote nature of the retreat means that the culprit is still roaming the halls. Which of the guests is capable of this? Whose past hides sinister truths and who has the most to gain? Secrets will not reveal themselves and skeletons will not stay buried... https://store.steampowered.com/app/10230/Dead_Mountaineers_Hotel/

Chronicle of Innsmouth: MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS After an encounter with a dreadful horror, detective Lone Carter’s investigation leads him to fateful places as Innsmouth, Arkham and the Anctartic, investigating a series of deaths and mysteries. Play also as Abdul Alhazred and H.P. Lovecraft himself in this Lovecraftian point’n’click adventure. https://store.steampowered.com/app/962700/Chronicle_of_Innsmouth_Mountains_of_Madness/ First instalment: https://store.steampowered.com/app/420180/Chronicle_of_Innsmouth/

Murder in Tehran’s Alleys 1933, Devil in the Capital, and Murder in Tehran’s Alleys 2016 form a trilogy of detective noir adventure games developed by RSK Entertainment and published on Steam by Strategy First in 2017. These games can be played independently of each other but I recommend playing all three, in order to get the whole experience. https://store.steampowered.com/app/630170/Murder_In_Tehrans_Alleys_1933/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/659490/Devil_In_The_Capital/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/639730/Murder_In_Tehrans_Alleys_2016/

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo is a 1996 graphic adventure game developed by Mythos Software and published by Electronic Arts. It features the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle. The game was made after a previous game, The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel. -- Wikipedia