The genre suffered a slump in the 2000s, but the advent of mobile smartphone games provided just the kick-start it needed, and today there are more new adventure games being developed than ever before. Myst proved to be an enormous commercial success, becoming the best-selling computer game of all time, a record which it held from its release in 1993 until The Sims took top spot in 2000. Things have come a long way since then! Games like Myst, Monkey Island and Blade Runner added visual and audio appeal to the genre. Since adventure games are more slow-paced than other genres, and don’t rely on responsive interfaces and fast-paced graphics, they were a perfect match for the hardware of the day.
Things moved on in the 1980s, with the Apple II among the first systems with the horsepower necessary to display complex graphical elements. At the same time, players could only move their characters using text commands, like ‘go north’. But there weren’t any graphics, so the player had to rely on the description of the narrator to stay informed about the world around them.
The first adventure game came in the 1970s, a text-based one called Colossal Cave Adventure. Players must use brains rather than brawn to succeed. One thing that distinguishes adventure games from action-adventure games is a lack of combat. They allow us to explore strange new places, meet unusual people, and solve puzzles using a combination of our wits and the items we find along the way. Adventure games hold an appeal that’s as old as storytelling itself.
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