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What Happened to Point and Click Adventure Games? (www.youtube.com)
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[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago

I could be mistaken but I'm not sure most people in 2026 have the attention spans for slow paced story games with lots of dialogue. At least, not enough for mass market appeal. A lot of gamers can't even stomach driving to missions in GTA or having to walk around camp in RDR2.