Sierra took a much more “gamey” approach to their titles - there were several ways for the character to die or for the plot to reach a dead end, and there was the ever-present “Score”, tracking how successfully the player was proceeding through the game. The two titans of the genre, Sierra and LucasArts, took distinctly different directions in their style, and most fans of 90s adventure games would be able to clearly identify the studio responsible for a given game at a glance. This wasn’t always the case, and there are several notable exceptions, such as The Dig (1995) and Gabriel Knight (1993) but regardless, adventure games in general became famous for their levity of tone and characterisation. They were famous for their offbeat plots, silly characters and endless gags. Abstract puzzles eventually became a core feature of the genre, and many games were infamous for the fiendishly absurd reasoning required to reach a solution the Rumplestiltskin puzzle from Sierra’s King’s Quest (1984) comes to mind.Īnother common feature of adventure games during the 1990s golden era was humour. These games, however, typically consisted of a main protagonist or cast of protagonists who were required to interact with characters, collect miscellaneous items and solve obscure puzzles with the ultimate aim of solving a case, foiling a plot or defeating a bad guy. This terminology possibly evolved from the ambiguity of the term “adventure game” - almost any game could technically be considered an “adventure”, after all. Adventure games were often referred to as “point and click” adventure games, referring to the typical control method of using the mouse to interact with various scenes.
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