Adventure Corner is a column where members of the RPGamer staff can give their thoughts, impressions, and pseudo-reviews for various adventure titles that don’t come under our usual coverage. It is aimed at delivering opinions on a wide range of titles including visual novels, point-and-click adventures, investigative mysteries, and so forth.
Running from zombies, or surrounded by them with a gun – which is scarier? Resident Evil Requiem offers both outstanding survival and action horror, making it a masterclass thriller and a celebration of the series’ history.
It is a stretch to call Dungeons of Dreadrock an RPG. However, Dreadrock is a quintessential product of someone who grew up alongside the genre and wanted to play with the imagery while hewing to a somewhat different genre.
Square Enix returns to the supernatural with a second Paranormasight adventure. While taking a slightly less darker tones than the first game, Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse remains a thoroughly engaging mystery.
What happens when you put together a plucky princess with a mysterious power and five handsome gentlemen? You get Otomate’s Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights! But is this title a lucky gem or a tragic mess?
AdHoc Studio’s superhero tale Dispatch hearkens back to peak Telltale Games narrative adventures. Its great writing, stellar presentation, and highly enjoyable gameplay makes for a standout experience.
A sheltered society of clones is shaken to its core when one of them begins unearthing the truth of its formation and origins. 1000xRESIST has a lot to say with its infectiously creative and daring sci-fi story that is packed with meaning and intrigue.
Developer Armonica draws inspiration from classic Japanese adventure titles for Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved. Good presentation and an enjoyably told mystery make for a solid five-hour experience.
We’ve all heard strange conversations on public transportation before. But what happens when these conversations blur the lines between fact and fiction? Lindsay Mansfield’s Melbourne: Route 96 asks those tough questions and more in its short little package.
Who doesn’t love browsing a bookshop? In Tiny Bookshop, you can achieve the dream of a bookseller on wheels, recommending great books at bargain basement prices. $1 a book in this economy? What a steal!
The AI: The Somnium Files series returns with No Sleep For Kaname Date, adding escape rooms into the mix. Rather than a full-fledged sequel, the game feels more akin to a fandisc and is best enjoyed by existing series fans.
Are the floor and ceiling longing for each other? Did the washer and dryer break up again? These are just some of the soap operas that players will encounter in Sassy Chap’s wild sentient object dating sim, Date Everything!
For anyone even remotely interested in Blue Prince, here is a hearty recommendation: Go in blind. For anyone who needs more convincing, learn more about one of the more clever games in recent memory.
Can love happen on the battlefield? Idea Factory International has brought a once Japan-only Vita title to Nintendo Switch so audiences could feel the heartache. Why? Because love is a battlefield… cue Pat Benatar!
Leila is a beautiful point-and-click narrative game about self-reflection and appreciating the struggles we overcome in our lives. Does it break new ground or instead lose its way, like a life destined for greatness that ends up among the mediocre?
Aksys Games welcomes otome fans to Café Enchanté, where warm beverages are served, and magical beings are available for smooching. This is one unique gem that shouldn’t be missed.
Leaning more heavily into the science fiction side of things over romance there’s a wonderfully complex story to unravel with the second installment in the Infinity Series, Ever 17: The Out of Infinity. This adaptation of the 2011 remake by MAGES. Inc. brings this version to worldwide audiences for the first time.
Did anyone have LEGO Horizon Adventures on their 2024 bingo card? What about RPGamer finally reviewing it on their 2025 bingo card? Sam Wachter finds love in this LEGO-verse, and it’s mostly amaz-bricks!
Carmen Sandiego is back with a new game and look. While we won’t be chasing her through history, we will be catching V.I.L.E. goons across… well, a handful of locations. Can Carmen solve these mysteries? Or will V.I.L.E. prevail? Watch your back!
MAGES. Inc. brings over, for the first time to worldwide audiences, some of Kotaro Uchikoshi’s earliest work with Never 7: The End of Infinity. How enjoyable does this early slice of life and science fiction hybrid turn out? Loop back with RPGamer to find out.
Welcome to the spirit realm, where you can smooch some ghostly gentlemen! But are these haunted hunks worth the effort?
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