Favorite PC games and recommendations
 

I can honestly say that I haven't heard of any of these games, with the exception of Siberia which I seem to remember was panned quite badly by critics. Actually, that's a general rule. Most PC review sites distance themselves from the existance of such games :P I guess this is kind of a rude and horridly stereotypical thing to say, but you'll genuinely have more luck asking on a forum for housewives about these games: Most PC gamers are males, and i'll be surprised if many people even on this forum are familiar with these games, which are popular mainly among females, who primarily use their PCs for work and only play games for casual recreation...
It's Grim Fandango (like the dance). I too have heard good things about it, that's it's hilarious, but I never did get round to playing it. I think you can still buy it, but it may be hard to get running on a modern PC.. or it may not. Personally, I adore the first two Monkey Island games. They're very witty and good fun to play. The Third game was so-so, mainly because the voice-acting killed the experience (stupid whiney Guybrush grrr) but also because it just wasn't as funny, probably because the original creator left (Oh, and the story should have ended after the second one's ending). The fourth I haven't played, though I hear it's somewhere between the two in quality with the added bonus that it'll probably definitely work on a modern PC.

Sadly, there's really not a lot to recommend. Adventure gaming was killed off in the mid 1990s, mainly because of Tomb Raider and all the Action / Adventure immitations it spawned. They simply had more market appeal I guess. You get about 5 proper adventure games a year now, and most are judged to be pretty bad. I think people are quite hyped about a Sam & Max sequel, but that's the only adventure game I could name to be emerging anytime soon.

if your looking for those point and click adventure games look for those classic Lucas arts stuff, like kupo said adventure games are pretty much dead.

ill list some good stuff for you:

Sam and Max
Full Throttle
Monkeys Island
Manic Mansion: Day of the Tenticle
Grim Fandango

oh, for the more recent stuff, check out Psychonauts, its an action adventure/platform game, its made by Tim Schaffer, dude who worked on those classic Lucas Arts stuff.. :lick:

I recently found a website that is dedicated to reviewing adventure games (mostly PC ones) so when I find that link again I'll make sure to post it in this thread.

I also suggest Condemned, it may be more "arcadish" in terms of gameplay style but the story and scares are just as good as any other adventure game. There is a demo out for the PC version now, you could give that a spin I've only played the 360 version but it is my favorite game from the launch and in my top ten, it was an amazing game experience. A PS3 version is also on the way, since Condemned is already out for 360 and nearing release for PC I wager it will be a launch title for PS3.

There is also another adventure game I've been following here and there It's called Dreamfall: The Longest Journey 2 for Xbox and PC, it looks like it could be pretty good.

Here's IGN page of it.
https://pc.ign.com/objects/535/535842.html

Then there’s another game called Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth which I heard was really, really good. It's both on Xbox and PC. It's a first person adventure game with light FPS elements added in, but only at certain moments so the adventure aspect is the main front of the game, I've been meaning to try it myself for awhile, just never got around to it.

https://xbox.ign.com/objects/496/496019.html

That's about all I have in terms of remembering off the top of my head, I'll dig deeper later and suggest more when I feel like searching through tons of games. XD

Also Meryl tell me how Scratches is, I discovered that game a few months ago and now that it’s out I’m wandering if it’s worth it. I’m not much of a PC gamer the only games I’ve played on PC are RTS, so once you play it and get a good impression of it let me know if it’s worth the time.

I got Grim Fandango lying around somewhere, never got to playing it. But like Kupo said it might be hard to run it on modern pc, cause it's at least 5/6 years old.
I used to remember a pc-game called Phantasmagoria, which I really really liked kinda adventure/detective/occult/mystery-type game(phew...) but that one is even older than GF.
The only game I play nowadays is Return to castle wolfenstein:Enemy territory, which is the best online fps'er IMO. It's just too addictive.