Point and Click Adventure: This is what this video game genre means

The Point and Click Adventure is a popular video game genre in which you primarily explore a game world with the mouse. Instead of graphically elaborate action scenes, there are usually puzzles to be solved and the background story to be discovered - the adventures are still not worse than Triple-A titles.

This is what characterizes Point and Click Adventures

In contrast to the latest triple-A titles, for which you often have to know half a manual of keyboard assignments, your mouse is usually sufficient for a point and click adventure.

• "Point and Click" is the English term for "point and click" and "Adventure" means "adventure".
• A point and click adventure is about clicking certain things on the screen. This way you move your character around the game, collect items or talk to other characters in the game.
• The focus of the adventures is mostly on the background story. This is usually extensive and dialog-intensive. To fully exploit the story, you have to click on the right things in most games and combine collected objects with each other. How to solve puzzles and progress in adventure.
• In addition to the left mouse button, some point and click adventures require a few other buttons. The right mouse button is sometimes used to interact with objects in the game world or a key on the keyboard shows certain objects or opens your inventory. Really many buttons are never necessary for control.

The most popular point and click adventures

Point and Click Adventures grew big as computer graphics made progress in the late 1980s. While previously text adventures were only popular, which only use text as a representation, the point and click adventures now graphically conveyed the player to various game worlds.

• The first point and click adventure of its kind was Enchanted Scepters, released for Macintish in 1984.
• Classics such as Monkey Island, Indiana Jones - The Fate of Atlantis, Sam & Max Hit The Road and Day of the Tentacle followed in the 90s, when domestic computers were already more common.
• Popular recent examples include The Book of Unwritten Tales, Deponia and Edna erupts.

Free point and click adventures to try

Are you curious? Below you will find popular point and click adventure games that you can download legally and free of charge from CHIP Online.

• Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge
• Back to the Future III - Timeline of Monkey Island
• Baphomet's curse
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Zak McKracken 2 - Between Time and Space
• Thimbleweed Park

Many point and click adventures are reminiscent of classic retro games. More games with a cult character can be found in our 10 game suggestions for a LAN party.