Fran Bow? Submachine?
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Yeah tons of indie point and click games. The Drifter, everything by Wadjet Eye, hell even Disco Elysium kind of.
The Witness? Dinocop? Golden Idol? Chants of Senaar? Dimhaven?
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.
My sister is making one right now actually
Most people don't like very hard puzzle games. That's why anything modern that's successful has some sort of hint system.. The number of people who actually experienced, understood, and didn't gamesfaq the game and story is abysmally small.
That and the advancement of the rest of the industry and early generational leaps in both 2d and mainstreaming true 3d environments stole any novelty the photo realistic scenes myst stole the show with.
Pullae games exist but they evolved and have a smaller player base in general.
Picture book aaaahh games. Never really saw the appeal, but then again I am the most basic gamer "plays what everyone plays". Because i like pretty game with pretty colour. Not game with many text.
I haven't watched the video yet but my prediction is that they were mass produced to grub money but then the mobile game and live service lootbox markets replaced them.
Not to say they were all money grubs! No! Just like 94% of them, and there were A LOT.
I don't know what alternate universe you come from with your mass produced point and click games but I would love to visit it 😅
Idk if the WildTangent store is still online but you could find them there.
But most of them were money grubs. Some, I'm sure, were decent games though!
How old are you? When point and click adventures died, the only mobile game people were playing was Snake.
"I haven't watched the video yet..."
I don't know why you kept typing cuz that's where I stopped reading. Everything after that was going to be useless.
Whats with the hostility? I'm just talking about what happened when this genre of game fell off.