A Living Room is a short free-to-play existential point-and-click non-adventure that you should be able to finish in less than an hour. Hurry up, please. It will all be over soon.
The game includes AI-generated graphical assets in addition to hand-drawn ones. Parts of dialogue audio use AI-enhanced text-to-speech synthesis.
Shadows: Awakening is free on GOG for the next 72 hours. An action RPG, from the reviews it seems to mix good and original ideas with annoying flaws, what I consider much better than consistent mediocrity. Added to my library.
Sunless Skies free on the Epic store for the next hour (just discovered now). Seems quite an interesting work (“Captain a spacefaring steam locomotive as a new Victorian empire takes to the stars”). Worth adding.
Sunless Seas is also not uninteresting. Though it wasn’t quite my thing, or in any case i didn’t pick ot back up again after playing around with it for a bit. I enjoyed Fallen London more back in the day.
Yeah, the writing in Sunless Seas is pretty superb, but I did not really get warm with the “go insane, eat your crew, die” aspect. I guess it’s one of those games where you have to master the underlying mechanics through trial and error before you get to enjoy the various stories you encounter.
Floppy Knights (deckbuilding / RPG) free on the Epic Store till July 18th. Not my cup of tea, but pretty good reviews.
GOG is giving away Tropico 4, a quite famous political simulator.
The Epic Store is giving away Toem (“a photo adventure”). Never heard about it but it seems quite lovely and original. Very good user reviews on Steam.
GOG is giving away “Return of the Phantom”, a graphical adventure of the Nineties. Not a masterwork (rated 41 by “The Adventurers’ Guild” blog) but at this price point, why not.
Given it is by Microprose, it may very well be an actual walking simulator
If it was a walking simulator, it would certainly be good 
. And come with a beefy manual to boot. Can’t go a-walking without 140 pages of vital instructions.
Actually I never even knew they made or published adventure games back then (though whoever resurrected the label released Let Bions Be Bygones not too long ago).
I quite fondly remember Microprose for their non flight-sim offerings though: Pirates!, Civilization, Railroad Tycoon, World Curcuit. (I was also eyeballing Darklands, but it never came out for the Amiga)
Me neither! Not until yesterday. Although I have run across their other two adventure games’ titles relatively recently (probably playing pointnclickle): Rex Nebula and the Cosmic Gender Bender (what a title. And what a raunchy sounding copycat of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders!) and Dragonsphere.
Back then, I remember them from playing Silent Service and Microprose Soccer (plus probably one or two flight sims that were utterly unplayable without those phone book manuals), and seeing their advertisements in game magazines (Airborne Ranger! And of course F-14/15/16/17 whatever). By the time they made those three adventure games, I either had stopped reading (commodore) magazines and the internet wasn’t born yet to replace it, or had moved over to the Sega MD, or hadn’t the time as I was trying to keep up with the Lucasarts games, or a combination of all these things. (“keeping up” used very loosely here, as simply finding a copy to buy in any store could (and would) take 5 years)
So yeah, this feels a bit like opening a drawer and finding disks with an adventure game that you never played or even knew existed. (Sounds familiar ?) I’ll take it!
and colonization, master of orion, PIZZA FRIGGIN TYCOON, rollercoaster tycoon, worms, zeppelin! this is some real slander! my britches are jimmied but it could also be that my country just elected a friggin fascist holy toledo
GOG is giving away “Diggles: The Myth of Fenris”
A sort of ancestor of Dwarf Fortress, with more focus on the story. Bad critic reviews, good user reviews, apparently full of good ideas but unpolished.
I’ve played it back then when it came out and I can confirm this. But it was/is fun. Everyone who likes strategy games with nasty gnomes should give it a try. 
According to the OP, as good as free is allowed too:
All Larry games for 1€/$
Spy vs. Spy meets The Last Ninja in Escape From Castle Matsumoto, a retro-style heist duel game
Steam (recommended): steam.pm/app/2490030
Itch (also in-browser): mausimus.itch.io/efcm
Game Manual: https://mausimus.github.io/efcm/MANUAL.html
The Whispered World is free on GOG for another 2 days or so. Admittedly, it’s one of the few Deadalic adventures I never bothered to play. Though perhaps now …
Thanks to GOG for sending me emails constantly but never when the there is a giveaway that might match my interests.
Luckily I have it on Steam.
