Adventure Games Podcast

That sound you hear is the thunderous crash when two giant podcasts collide as this week, Paul Korman, co-host of the Classic Gamers Guild podcast joins Seoirse on the Adventure Games Podcast to talk about, what else, classic adventure games. Gold Rush and Broken sword are indeed mentioned a couple times as well as others and they discuss the different qualities of Sierra and Lucasarts. They also...

What’s this? Two review episodes in one month? That’s right! There are so many adventure games we want to talk about that we have added another episode where we review the latest adventure games we have been playing. And what adventure games they are! We go back in time as we review two retro adventure games. Firstly Matt. Johnny and Laura discuss the text parser mystery game from Julia Minamata,...

You don’t need to look far to know that the games industry is going through a difficult period right now. While some triple AAA games may be making more money than ever the reality is that with layoffs, crunch and a myriad other reasons a lot of people in the industry are struggling. And you just need to take cursory glance at Twitter to know how much more toxic that has become. But how did it com...

Making his long awaited return Tomas Becks tells us what he’s up to this year and he also tells us about an upcoming game, Whirlight - No Time To Trip and he reveals what he found out in his interview with the developers. Elsewhere Kieran tells us how we can buy the universe in his review of Universe for Sale and what happens until then in eh, new game Until Then. Meanwhile Seoirse also tells us h...

In April of this year Seoirse was back in Reboot develop Blue in Dubrovnik and while there, he met with some fantastic adventure game developers and played demos of some great looking adventure games. So finally several months later you can listen to Seoirse’s interviews at the conference including interviews with: Evan Jones, developer of VR game Broken Spectre Pentakill Studios, developers of Th...

Nowadays in particular it’s become normal for developers to make truly fantastic debut games such as Norco and The Case of the Golden Idol to mention just two. But it’s hard to think of anybody who has made their mark as much as Tom Hardwidge, one half of Tall Story Games. Along with his wife Emma Hardwidge, who also voiced the main character in their debut game, they took the adventure game commu...

In one of our most epic episodes to date Seoirse, Johnny and Matt review 9 games! In this episode there are a lot of monsters about as they need to help people deal with monsters over the phone in Home Safety Hotline. Sometimes however you need to send in a detective or a family member in the remake of Alone in the Dark but when that doesn’t work why not send an octogenarian to fight aliens? If an...

Times are difficult for just about everyone these days so it’s only natural that we may need to see a therapist. But what if you were a vampire? Imagine all the traumatic events you would have seen. If anyone would need therapy it would almost certainly be a vampire. And that’s where you come in. Vampire Therapist is a game where you speak to vampires and give real therapy techniques but this time...

Have you ever dreamed of being a reporter? Have you ever thought about how it would feel to have a scoop of a lifetime? Well now you can do just that in Times and Galaxy, a new adventure game where you play an intern roboreporter. To get the scoop on this game Seoirse was joined by the developers at Copychaser Games to find out as much as he could all about what we can expect from the characters,...

Rise of the Dragon was a highly ambitious game that in many ways was ahead of its time on its release in 1990. As well as receiving plenty of positive reviews at the time, it also won a Special Award for Artistic Achievement from Computer Gaming World in 1991. In 1996 they also included it as 83rd best game of all time. And yet this game has become largely forgotten nowadays. Very rarely will you...

In another bumper episode Laura aka Cressup goes on the run as a nun as she reviews Indika, Seoirse takes to the roads in Open Roads and he goes to post apocalyptic Finland in Rauniot. Elsewhere Cressup also has time to grow some plants in Botany Manor and Kieran tries to solve the case in No Case Should Remain Unsolved. Finally Seoirse investigates what happened to the secret salami (not a euphem...

“ Lies flow like water but the Truth burns.” This is just one of many quotable lines from arguably one of the best adventure games ever made. And for this episode Seoirse was delighted to speak to the lead designer of that game, Chris Bateman. Chris spoke about his puzzle philosophy and how it changed throughout the three Discworld games, how he got involved in leading the design of the game and j...

In this episode Seoirse chats with James Lightfoot and Steve Horry, developers and writers of upcoming adventure game and comic Sleepytime Village. They talk to Seoirse about how the story of the comic came to me, why James thought it would make a great adventure game, how they are using the art inspired by Steve Horry’s very talented daughter and what rewards you can expect in the Kickstarter. Al...

THERE’S BEEN A MURDER! Or several in fact. Yes indeed this week Seoirse and Kieran review a number of murder mystery games, including the first of the latest Hercule Poirot games as Seoirse gives thoughts on Hercule Poirot: The First Cases. He also reviews new FMV detective game Case Files: Behind Closed Doors and Kieran talks about Murders on the Yangtze River. Finally, in a non murder mystery sh...

In April 2024 Seoirse was lucky enough to return to Reboot develop Blue in Dubrovnik where he had the chance to speak with Charles Cecil, co-founder and CEO of Revolution Software and lead designer of the Broken Sword series. In this interview Charles spoke about the origins of Broken Sword, why he was remstering the first game, why they launched a Kickstarter, his thoughts on puzzles in adventure...

This week Seoirse speaks with Director, Actor and Game developer Ramon Hamilton, who both develops and stars in new FMV game Case Files: Behind closed doors. In this game we play as a detective and we need to guide detective Martin Ruiz (played beautifully by Ramon himself) as he interrogates four potential suspects. Ramon talks to Seoirse about how he filmed and made the game, how he came up with...

In this bumper episode Seoirse, Cressup and Johnny team up to review a whopping six adventure games and all traditional point and click games as well! Who said they were dead? From a useless vampire to a creepy doll thing to two detective games and a parallel world there is hopefully something for everyone here. So if you like things pointy and clicky then click the Play button and enjoy! Adventur...

In this episode Seoirse chats with Amber Scott of Only By Midnight. Amber spoke to Seoirse about the studio’s upcoming game, ctrl.alt. DEAL. Where you play as a sentient AI who wants to escape paperclips Company where he is trapped. To do this he will need to enlist the help of the humans at the company. So Amber spoke about what we can expect with the story, the choices we make in the game, the d...

In Times & Galaxy you will play as a Robo reporter intern and this looks like it could be one of the top adventure games of the year. This game is set to be released later in 2024 but you can try this game for free before it’s released. We have teamed up with the developers of this game to give 50 priority spots for listeners to the Adventure Games Podcast. So if you would like to be in with a...

In this new episode Seoirse, Matt and Kieran talk about the latest news including a possible remaster of Discworld and Sam Barlow teasing not one but two news games! Then Matt gives his thoughts on the demo for Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the highly anticipated sequel to hit game Perfect Tides. Then Seoirse reviews two short games including psychological mystery game Looking Up I see Only a...

Back in November 2023 AGP host Seoirse hosted a panel live at AdventureX with four adventure Game legends who were: - Tony Warriner, Co-founder of Revolution Software and one of the lead developers of Beneath A Steel sky & Broken Sword - Dave Gilbert, Owner of Wadjet Eye Games and developer of the Blackwell series and Unavowed - Charlotte Sutherland. Owner of Cave Monsters and developer of Lor...

What is an adventure game? Thats what Seoirse tries to find out as he chats to Jack and Joshua from the Adventure Game Hotspot. He also chats to them about how they got started in the adventure game community, how Jack became editor for Adventuregamers for 17 years(!) and how Joshua started his weird Adventure Gaming Youtube channel. Then they reveal the origins of their new adventure game site, t...

In this episode Seoirse chats with Tom and Adam Vian from SFB Games about their Detective Grimoire series including their upcoming game The Mermaid’s Tongue in which, amongst other things we learn the origins of detective Grimoire himself! We also find time to talk about their other game they’re developing survival horror Crow Country. But if you, like Seoirse, would like to remove the survival ho...

It’s a new year and with that come new adventure games. Also a person joins the podcast team as Johnny Nys, from the adventure Games Hotspot makes his podcast debut to discuss two games. First he gives his first impressions on ghost hunting game Conrad Stevenson’s paranormal P.I. and then he and Seoirse discuss new mystery adventure game The Night is Grey. Seoirse also gives his thoughts on the de...

A new year has begun and with that we look back at the year that was and we reveal our adventure games of the year. For the first time since this podcast started one clear winner emerged out of all the adventure games released. Whihc was the adventure Games Podcast first official adventure game of the year? You’ll need to listen to find out! Adventure Games Podcast Official Site If you would like...