after 2 minutes of play, it seems well worth playing!
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Draugen (GOG, Steam) by Red Thread Games (Dreamfall Chapters) was released!
The Collector’s Edition has a 13% discount.
Unlike Dreamfall Chapters it’s not a normal adventure or even a puzzle game:
If you’re a fan of immersive walking sims like Gone Home or What Remains of Edith Finch?, then it seems safe to say that Draugen will be for you.
Playtime is around 3 hours.
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Antenna Dilemma (free adventure game):
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Look at that, where did this come from?
Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank (GOG) (itch.io, Steam) is an HD 2D point’n’click adventure.
Released today for Windows and Mac and 10% off for one week.
It’s by an one-woman game development studio, and it even has achievements on GOG! Impressive.
There is already a review by Adventure Gamers:
They also wrote about the origins which can be found on itch.io:
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Fenimore Fillmore: 3 Skulls of the Toltecs got released on GOG with a 50% discount!
Only drawbacks so far:
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Only one savegame
Edit 1: No manual save but autosave only (which creates multiple savegames though, instead of overwriting just a single slot).
Edit 2: During game start you can create and select user profiles which allows you to to have different sets of savegames and game configurations. -
It doesn’t include original resource files (which could be used with ScummVM).
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has someone tried this game (fenimore fillmore)? the slow movement of the character is driving me crazy. it is one of the games (the other is king’s quest 7) that I don’t play for that reason.
No double click/hold/something?
Nope.
For this reason I need to start watching more letsplays before buying…
Lately a letsplay convinced me to buy a game which I had snubbed, but is in fact totally BRILLIANT in the writing and in the characters: Bertram Fiddle.
Really, this game is another level. It is also heavily discounted now (-60% on itchio).
How did we managed that back in the 80s/early 90s? Were we more patient? Do we have a lower attention span today? 
I am not sure we did, because (say) monkey island 1/2 or indiana jones 4 or sierra games were a lot quicker to move…
I prefer the Darkside detective way (instant teleport) but I have no problems replaying those games regularly.
Are you sure? AFAIR Indy (3) was very slow in the labyrinth. In Maniac Mansion and Zak we had those long loading times and a very slow scrolling (on the C64). And Guybrush was only fast on the map. Especially in bigger screens you had to click several times to cross the whole scenes - and you had to open each door before you could enter the corresponding room…
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Right, Zak and Indy3 had those mazes. OTOH, they were the reason why I eventually stopped playing them…
I did play Monkey 2 on the amiga, which had constant disk swapping and loading times. That was a nightmare. But there too, I eventually stopped playing for that reason, until I got a PC.
So I don’t know… I was more patient, but not that much. Today I would quit those games much earlier, but I did quit them even then.
I don’t know about we, but it’s extremely unlikely that I would’ve finished Zak McKracken in the '90s, without the ScummVM save slot mechanism, even with the many extra hours you have available as a child.
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On the Amiga version, you had upto 10 save game slots! A very treasure.
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Don’t you have three or four save slots on the C64 too…? 
Only one. Per diskette side.
I usually used a floppy to host the savegame file (one per side).
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I don’t think MI2 was so bad in that regard. While it had a lot of disks, at least it had all data it needed for a room on the same disk. Ambermoon, OTOH, had as many disks as MI2 (+/- 1), but would often load data from 2 or 3 different disks when entering new locations. Boy was I glad when I finally got a hard drive for my Amiga!
Somewhat oddly, when playing the Indy 4 Amiga version in an emulator on my current PC, even though I had installed the disks onto the (virtual) hard drive, changing rooms appeared to take ages. Not sure if that’s a quirk with the emulation, or if it accurately reflects how long it would have taken to load back in the day (in which case, I wouldn’t have wanted to play from the floppies directly!).
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I don’t know about Amiga emulators, but in PCSX2, for example, there’s a setting for whether it should correctly emulate the PlayStation 2’s slowish drive speeds or not.
FS-UAE does have a setting for the floppy drive speed, but nothing obvious for a hard disk. Since booting to Workbench doesn’t feel unusually slow, I guess the game is behaving as it should. Maybe the room data is highly compressed and the bottleneck is the actual CPU speed (~8 Mhz). In that case, loading from floppy might not have been that much slower, just less convenient.
Free to play: