Blyts released a demo for Slender Threads on Steam, available until 2020-06-22.
Blyts are the makers of Kelvin and the Infamous Machine:
Kickstarter for Saint Kotar is now live:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redmartyr/saint-kotar
A point’n’click adventure game, a formal love letter to Monkey Island.
A modern graphic-style, “2.5D”, half-open-world, 50 locations to explore.
Published by Imaginarylab.
Plot: Willy Morgan is a son of adventurers and he can only follow in their footsteps: the father disappeared into thin air ten years earlier, the mother is traveling around the world looking for who knows what artifact. The poor Willy, despite his young age, quickly understands the concept of “independence”. The arrival of a letter written by his father ten years earlier, in addition to throwing some doubts on the efficiency of the postal service, will force him to reach nearby Bone Town to investigate the disappearance of the parent. The town, which in the past gave refuge to a pirate gang, is Gothic, decadent and full of secrets. But the brave Willy Morgan, thanks to intuition and his sense of humor, will certainly find a way to deal with it.
Demo available on Steam
Nice clock, not enough ketchup on the walls though:
I THINK it has been influenced by some classic adventure game titles:
I’ve played the demo.
You find a rubber hammer, and he says that it’s not useful, it has not even a pulley…
Two Kickstarter campaigns are ending soon today:
From the makers of Rainswept:
And from the makers of The Great Perhaps:
Both provide demos.
Edit: Another Kickstarter campaign started recently, not for a video game but a documentary about the Myst series and the Miller brothers:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/philipshane/the-myst-documentary
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The prologue for Nine Witches: Family Disruption is available for free on Steam.
It’s also available for free in the Xbox Summer game fest event until July 27th.
Just to start heating motors, a small taste.
This dude does a good job of showing new trailers for adventure games. Who knew there were so many of them?
NAIRI: Rising Tide is aiming for a 2021 release date but you can already play a prologue on Steam:
Here’s a trailer from a game I’m working on as a sound designer and video editor (also 0:35, that’s my music). It has some arcade elements but it’s mostly a “modern” adventure game with lots of exploration.
Sol 705 just got released…
This campaign is ending soon.
Also another one which is ending in a couple of hours (and I think wasn’t posted in the forum yet) is a book with interviews related to video games:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/retroteabreaks/retro-tea-breaks-vol-1-a-book-by-retromancave
You may have already seen video interviews from Retro Tea Break.
The book will contain one from David Fox and also one with Mark Ferrari!
You can now download the demo of the Rosewater from its Steam page and check out the very beginning of the game.
And from GOG as well: https://www.gog.com/game/rosewater_demo
Along with demos for other games (both released and upcoming).
Edit: Speaking of which, I did try the demo for Paradise Killer (on Steam, but the full game will come to GOG too, supposedly on September 4th):
It had caught my eye a while back with its oddly named protagonist. I’m a sucker for poetically phrased titles, or names in that case, and how cool is Lady Love Dies!? Aside from that, there wasn’t much telling what kind of game it would be, though it looked suspiciously like a visual novel.
I did not play the demo to the end (mostly because I was fully hooked halfway through the intro), so I haven’t seen much of the actual gameplay. But the story sounds fantastic and I did get a bit of an Ace Attorney vibe. Hard to tell if it’s even remotely comparable, but I know that that is a murder mystery I have to solve! 
Incantamentum showed up on my Twitter feed and supposedly will have a demo out on October 7th.
The pixel art actually reminds me a bit of the looks of Indy4. Maybe it does not show quite the same level of detail in the backgrounds, but the character sprites look great.
If you’ve played Sumatra you’ll recognize the style. The artist is improving fast. Sumatra is a very good game, btw.
To Hell With The Ugly - Adventure and combat game:
Now I want to read the book. And maybe back the game …