# Are adventure games dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [April 9, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544 "2018-04-09T11:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/1 "2018-04-09T11:41:10Z")
Are adventure games dead? _Poll ([view on site](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/2 "2018-04-09T12:43:01Z")
Yes! Next question. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/3 "2018-04-09T12:49:02Z")
But taking a closer look there are three votes spread across all three questions. However there now is an inexplicable 34 % on “no” instead of 33 which doesn´t make any sense(except to reach perfectly hundred which also shouldn´t be possible, all questions should have 33,3333333…). Interesting…so in which banana republic did you take your democracy course, discourse? The united states? ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/4 "2018-04-09T13:01:34Z")
Shhht. I spent 8 hours on Friday trying to get our software to equally split four 10-euro items between three people. The best solution we found was to have one of the people pay 4 cents more than the others. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/5 "2018-04-09T13:19:01Z")
![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/b/bfc6adac4e424213cee333627563030e6b5cc150.gif) _Uh… this is a MAGIC seven!_ ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/6 "2018-04-09T19:55:39Z")
I don’t know if I can answer that as a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I’m far too woolly for that. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/7 "2018-04-09T21:41:51Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I don’t know if I can answer that as a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I’m far too woolly for that. That’s why I have provided a third option … ---
**Author:** ![Paul](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/paul/32/15080_2.png) [@Paul](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Paul)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/9 "2018-04-10T03:30:21Z")
“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.” - Frank Zappa Same with adventure games… ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/11 "2018-04-10T10:37:44Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I don’t know if I can answer that as a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I’m far too woolly for that. btw: Can you explain why you are too “woolly”? 🙂 (Resp. why you can’t decide.) ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/12 "2018-04-10T10:41:08Z")
I think the best decision for starters was choosing the word “woolly”. I like that. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/13 "2018-04-10T10:54:38Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > > > I don’t know if I can answer that as a ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I’m far too woolly for that. > > btw: Can you explain why you are too “woolly”? 🙂 (Resp. why you can’t decide.) I just meant that it’s not that black and white to me. I don’t think adventure games in their broadest sense are dead, but old-style point-and-click ones perhaps are. I’m naturally quite a woolly person and tend to endlessly mull over things instead of having a yes/no opinion. It’s probably why I’m so indecisive (and why I did much better at uni than A Levels!) ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/14 "2018-04-10T10:56:07Z")
So that´s where the “indeciding” in your biographies (well except the one in the forum here) comes from. ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/15 "2018-04-10T10:58:15Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > … but old-style point-and-click ones perhaps are. You mean such with a SCUMM (like) interface? ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 11:07am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/16 "2018-04-10T11:07:23Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > So that´s where the “indeciding” in your biographies (well except the one in the forum here) comes from. Ah yes, it is. I probably couldn’t decide whether to include it on here. > [@Someone](#): > > You mean such with a SCUMM (like) interface? I meant any point-and-click, as opposed to games like Firewatch or The Witness (this is probably going to re-open that debate about what an adventure game is, but that’s kind of my point!) ---
**Author:** ![Gffp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/gffp/32/12183_2.png) [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/17 "2018-04-10T11:12:35Z")
P’n’C is not dead. It just smells woolly. ![robijn4](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/9/9901490d01b4c7f0cec4603fa98d3b12cec23dd5.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/18 "2018-04-10T11:14:42Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I meant any point-and-click, as opposed to games like Firewatch or The Witness (this is probably going to re-open that debate about what an adventure game is, but that’s kind of my point!) But aren’t there far more (new) PnC games than “walking simulators”? For example the Daedalic games. Or the many indie games like “The Darkside Detective” … ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/19 "2018-04-10T11:53:07Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > > > I meant any point-and-click, as opposed to games like Firewatch or The Witness (this is probably going to re-open that debate about what an adventure game is, but that’s kind of my point!) > > But aren’t there far more (new) PnC games than “walking simulators”? For example the Daedalic games. Or the many indie games like “The Darkside Detective” … Probably, but they’re not as popular. ---
**Author:** ![Paul](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/paul/32/15080_2.png) [@Paul](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Paul)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/20 "2018-04-10T11:53:57Z")
The other relevant quote here is “it’s not dead, it’s just resting”. ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/21 "2018-04-10T12:18:10Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > Ah yes, it is. I probably couldn’t decide whether to include it on here. Leave it as it is though. I think it´s funny that only a few people get it. And it makes me remember when LowLevel and I told you that all you needed for that badge was to fill out the bio info, and that bio reads like an answer to that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FormosaFalanster](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/formosafalanster/32/4737_2.png) [@FormosaFalanster](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/FormosaFalanster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544/22 "2018-04-10T12:30:40Z")
> Probably, but they’re not as popular. …and? Again, why do we care about popularity as long as it’s out there for those who enjoy them? > The other relevant quote here is “it’s not dead, it’s just resting”. _In his house at TerribleToybox dead Point&Clic waits dreaming_ [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/are-adventure-games-dead/2544.md?page=2)