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What are the best Point and Click games to ever be released?

Years / Decades:

70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020

Genres:

2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Racing Games, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Visual Novels

Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Board Game, Tabletop RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, MMO, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Indie, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, Horror, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Mobile Phone, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, Sports, Idle, Trivia, Miscellaneous, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.

This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.

Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.

Oh good, another genre I've never played. Anyway, here's the thread.

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putt putt travels through time
- I was always more a fan of Putt Putt Saves The Zoo.

I mean Monkey Island 2 might be the best one, let alone of the best games ever.

Grim Fandango is really neat

Looks like you’re missing Spy Fox that’s ok common oversight

Monkey Island 1 and 2
Broken Sword 1 and 2
Both are point and click puzzle/adventure/mystery games.
Discworld is good too in the same theme but you'll spend more time trying random combinations of things because Discworld's universe makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, whereas both of the above make a sort of sense most of the time.
I would also say Little Big Adventure as well, however it's not technically a point and click. It feels like one in its general puzzle-ey style though. LBA is particularly leftist in its story themes too in my opinion, it is ironically more relevant a story today than it was when it was written with its climate-destruction themes.

The Longest Journey is in my top 5 games. Possibly the last of the og adventure games (outside the occasional dark age game like Syberia), and just wonderful on every level.

I don't know if it counts but I got Oxenfree in one of those Epic Games Store free game things and it's a really good game. Good voice acting. It uses keyboard keys for movement though and it's mostly a linear dialogue driven story, not about interacting with items to explore some place.

Blade Runner (1997)
The Longest Journey
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Blade Runner (1997)
  Surprisingly good game.

Myst
The Dig
Reelect JFK (fun for conspiracy fans)
Who Killed Laura Palmer
Wrath of the Gods
I think I just listed all the point-and-click games I played...
- Civilization count?
  Save it for 4X
  
  makes sense

Haven't played it but Neofeud seems like a pretty based anti-capitalist cyberpunk game. Heard the solo dev/writer/artist presenting it at a virtual game dev meetup thing and he seemed pretty based too.

I played it long time ago but I remember Machinarium being great, I might replay it sometime.

Longest journey

cookie clicker

Since people have already said Monkey Island, I'll say the Quest for Glory Series by Sierra (except for the last one)
- Quest for Glory Series by Sierra
  If anyone needs more reason to play this, they should google who voice acts as the narrator in game 4 :)
  Also would recommend Heroine's quest . It is a free game people made as a tribute and it is a female hero in a nordic world with the quest for glory mechanics. Very very nice.
  
  Wow that art style is spot on. I'm going to have to check this out

Submachine is probably the hardest one I've ever played.
The Frostrune, though a bit on the short side, is a meticulous and breathtaking game in every respect.

Someone already mentioned both Monkey Island so I'll add Day of The Tentacle, as well as Sam & Max Hit the Road.

Best point-and-click publisher of all time don't @ me

I have a perverse kind of love for the first Discworld game, but its close to the absolute pinnacle of Adventure Game Logic.
- I have a perverse kind of love for the first Discworld game, but its close to the absolute pinnacle of Adventure Game Logic.
  Yeah, I think it is good, but I don't get how you talk to people.

Thimbleweed Park is great. Although it makes me think that the ::: spoiler spoiler stinger in monkey island 2 might be literal if Ron got to make his version of Monkey Island 3. :::
If people wouldn't mind cornier things then the Blackwell franchise and unavowed is great. Unavowed is very interesting because it tries to take western rpg (bioware style mostly) party interactions and make a point and click around it where puzzle solutions depend on party composition and you get to hear interesting banter. It also lets you create your own protag like a rpg, along with choosing a backstory which adds more flavor to the playthrough. It isn't a masterpiece though I just feel that they made a decent attempt at using many party based RPG ideas.

Grim Fandango
The Curse of Monkey Island
And my secret shame, the ugly as hell looking Tales of Monkey Island. Hardly anyone has played or liked it, it's probably the least liked Monkey Island next to the PS2 one, but for some reason I liked it.

Seems like Grim Fandango and Sam and Max already listed. Gonna go with Zack and Wiki Quest for Barboros' Treasure. It's kind of a point and click. You can die if you don't think and the Wii motion controls are fun to play with. So like in one puzzle you can either punch some Ice hundreds of times or figure out a puzzle to break it.

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