Loom may not exactly be obscure by any standard, but I don’t see it being mentioned nearly as much as, say, Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island. But it was a truly revolutionary way of reimagining the adventure game genre, and in a very early age of point-and-click. No inventory, single mouse click interaction, using spells to interact with the environment…

Of course, you’ll want to play the original floppy version to get the full story; the CD-ROM version had its dialogue heavily truncated to fit onto the CD.

What’s your pick?

  • cidney@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Wadjet Eye Games’s The Shivah (old enough to be a classic at this point! But still pretty obscure and underrated.)

    • beforan@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I need to get around to more Wadjet Eye stuff generally, but I really enjoyed Resonance

    • rjh@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I have recently played the Blackwell series after thoroughly enjoying Unavowed but The Shivah didn’t seem interesting. Will give it a try thanks!