Flaws Of An Undead Genre - What’s Wrong With Point & Click Adventures?
The classic style Point & Click adventure is a problem child. The genre has been claimed dead many times now, the question “Are Adventure Games Dead?” has been asked and discussed many times. While some brave developers still publish new Point & Clicks, a lot of experienced developers stepped back from the genre. The genre is tough to market nowadays, and my question is: why exactly is that?
As a maker of Point & Click adventures, I was wondering what the flaws of the genre actually are. Why is it that they are so hard to sell in comparison to other games? What are the things that players dislike about the genre? How can we as game designers create new and fresh adventure games with modern gameplay?
To get behind the problems classic adventure games have, we asked Twitter about the flaws of the genre. We addressed both fans of the genre and people who’d never touch Point & Click adventures nowadays and asked: What is it you liked the least, or what is the reason you don’t play these games? Luckily, we got a lot of feedback. People love telling you what they hate. This is a summary of what people think.
