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Since June, one of Steam’s most popular games is hardly a game at all: You just click a banana to make the number go up. At its peak, more than 917,000 people had the game, called Banana, open on ...

Every so often I am still surprised in this business, and that’s certainly the case with the new saga of “Banana,” a game where you click a banana, which is suddenly tearing up the Steam charts. While ...

One of the most tedious repeated refrains since the turn of the millennium is the notion that “adventure games are dead.” While it’s very true that the genre’s heyday was in the 1990s, when new ...

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If you love games that reward curiosity more than quick reflexes, this is a great time to jump into point-and-click adventure games. In 2026, we’re in a sweet spot where classic legends still hold up, ...

Point-and-click games come in all shapes and sizes. Some fall into the mystery category, for example, placing players in the shoes of a grizzled detective, while others are light and whimsical, with ...

The 1990s are remembered as a golden age of point-and-click adventure games, thanks in large part to LucasArts’ incredible run of releases like Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and The Secret of ...

At one period of gaming, point-and-click titles were one of the “top tiers” of adventure and mystery titles. As well as the series that helped promote puzzle titles too. If you want to get back on ...

It hardly matters that the version of Bongo Cat I downloaded before work this morning is a demo. It feels like the full game, because the game is simple: let this cat sit on your desktop while you ...