This is a double review for the adventure games The Night is Grey and Prim, both played with press keys provided by the developers.

0:00 Intro
00:14 The Night is Grey
4:33 Prim

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So Francisco posted links to some games that he personally likes. A lot of these games have a pixel art style to them, in ways that purposely evoke the Sierra and Lucasarts games of the 80s and 90s. You can read Francisco’s post on Bluesky. I’ve called out a few below, but encourage you to check the post!

Death of the Reprobate: An adventure through real Renaissance portraits by John Richardson, creator of comedy adventure games Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary.

Near-Mage: You play as a student who’s just discovered she’s a witch, and has been sent to study magic in Transylvania. Maybe a bit of a Harry Potter vibe, although with more vampires and less of Rowling’s transphobia. Its description states, “A game about about Transylvania made by Transylvanians!”

PRIM: A “cute and creepy” aesthetic suffused this game about a girl who finds out she’s Death’s daughter. Discworld vibes, perhaps?

Francisco’s own Rosewater: A quest for fame across an alternate world version of the old west.

Perfect Tides: Set in the year 2000, follow an internet obsessed teen through a year of her life on an island paradise.

Paradigm: A surreal game with bizarre character art, starring a mutant fighting against (adjusts glasses, reads) “a genetically engineered sloth that vomits candy.”

Beyond the Edge of Owlsgard: Another game set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, the art has a VGA vibe to it and a strong classic Lucasarts vibe.

(And let’s not forget, World of Goo 2 has a change-up last chapter that’s actually an adventure game!)

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• 0:00 Mirror Forge
• 30:42 Prim
• 47:48 How to Say Goodbye
• 54:32 I see Red
• 1:02:50 What Lies in the Multiverse
• 1:16:52 Conscript
• 1:50:38 Bullet Casters
• 1:56:35 Clem
• 2:16:55 Amber City

Josh Bycer

Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”

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From Gamescom 2022, here are my favorite demos I had a chance to play and for the full plays of each, I have my stream recordings going up.

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:30 Astlibra 
• 3:18 Prim
• 4:52 How to say Goodbye
• 6:17 Clem 
• 7:34 Amber City
• 9:32 Pocket Wheels
• 11:11 A Webbing Journey
• 13:10 Chained Echoes
• 15:02 Toggs 
• 16:32 The Fabulous Fear Machine
• 18:47 Soulstice 
• 20:27 Dungeon Drafters
• 22:15 Heart of Muriet
• 24:25 Goblins of Elderstone 

Josh Bycer

Owner of Game Wisdom with more than a decade of experience writing and talking about game design and the industry. I’m also the author of the “Game Design Deep Dive” series and “20 Essential Games to Study”

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