Gold-Plated Games

Have you been yearning for adventure lately? Do involved dialogue and clever puzzles appeal to your gaming brain? Then dive right into these Weeklong Deals, friends, because they’re laden with RPGs and point-and-clicks! In particular, the entire Amanita Design catalogue is discounted, offering you excellent deals on wonderfully charming adventures. There’s a fair number of games up that I have thoughts about but haven’t penned reviews for yet, too, so if you’re willing to take my word for it, you’ve got plenty of options!

Hear, hear!

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition – Truly one of the all-time great CRPGs

Machinarium (Review) – Incredibly charming point-and-click adventure, possibly Amanita’s best

Magicka – Starts as a goofy meme game, turns into a pretty solid ARPG-lite

Worms Armageddon – The definitive classic Worms experience

Botanicula (Review) – Another fine Amanita point-and-click

Samorost 2 – A simple, charming point-and-click, and the midpoint of the very worthy Samorost series

Hero of the Kingdom II (Review) – The pinnacle of this chill trading adventure series

Hero of the Kingdom (Review) – A very solid start for the series

Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1 (Review) – A passable spinoff, but only barely

Miasmata (Review) – A true hardcore walking sim

RymdResa (Review) – Truly unique Asteroids-style roguelike adventure in strange space

Steer clear!

Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity (Review) – A challenge platformer that handles terribly

Hero of the Kingdom III (Review) – The bad one

Frankenstein: Master of Death (Review) – The rare hidden object game that’s too dumb even for me

STANDBY (Review) – Another challenge platformer that just feels terrible to play