Games like Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor
Looking for games like Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor? Here are top action recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor, Kelvin and the Infamous Machine or Detective Gallo.
1 Donald Dowell is a nice old man in his eighties, retired for many years. Donald's life, except for his "intolerable" wife, is quiet. But Donald feels empty. He has the so-called retiree's syndrome : he's bored to death! The only way to cure his boredom is TO GO BACK TO WORK. After many hours spent in his city, trying to get hired for various jobs, he finally finds his calling: to be a GHOSTBUSTER!…
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89%Game Brain Scorehumor, storystability, grinding89% User Score 866 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsKelvin and the Infamous Machine is a hilarious point-and-click adventure in which you stumble irresponsibly through history to help legendary geniuses complete their masterworks!
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, humorgameplay, optimization78% User Score 100 reviewsCritic Score 75%6 reviewsDetective Gallo is a point&click comic-noir adventure that is entirely hand-illustrated and hand-animated, and whose protagonist is a feathered and grumpy private eye struggling with a very tricky case, bizarre characters, and puzzles that will put his insight and patience to the test.
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93%Game Brain Scorehumor, storygrinding, atmosphere95% User Score 744 reviewsCritic Score 84%2 reviewsSam & Max Hit the Road is a graphic adventure video game released by LucasArts during the company's adventure games era. The game was originally released for MS-DOS in 1993 and for Mac OS in 1995. A 2002 re-release included compatibility with Windows. The game is based on the comic characters of Sam and Max, the "Freelance Police", an anthropomorphic dog and "hyperkinetic rabbity thing". The chara…
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, humorgameplay, replayability88% User Score 192 reviewsIt be the golden age of pirates! Dogs of the sea! Quite literally. Our swashbuckling sausage-dog star is Gaius James Rover, son of the famous clown Jolly Rover, who died from a blow to the groin from an improperly loaded joke cannon. Following the tragically comedic death of his father, young Gaius, who insists on using his middle name James, goes to live with his uncle, a wealthy plantation owne…
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67%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, character development67% User Score 332 reviewsRunaway: A Road Adventure is a point and click adventure game developed by Péndulo Studios, S.L. in 2001. The game follows the long tradition of two-dimensional adventure games like the first two installments of the Broken Sword series. It enjoyed immense popularity in countries like Germany and France, where the adventure genre is still popular.
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83%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstory, grinding81% User Score 214 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsManiac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure video game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It follows teenage protagonist Dave Miller as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist, whose mind has been enslaved by a sentient meteor. The player uses a point-and-click interface to guide Dave and two of his six playable friends through the scientist's mansion while solving puzzle…
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86%Game Brain Scorehumor, storyreplayability, character development86% User Score 568 reviewsMetal Dead is a hilarious comedy/horror point and click adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead. This twisted tale centers on two metal-heads in the midst of a zombie invasion. After crashing their car in front of a medical research facility, they become trapped and are forced to use their wits to puzzle their way to freedom. Along the way, they must d…
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69%Game Brain Scorestory, humorgraphics, music92% User Score 26 reviewsA point-and-click adventure filled with magic, danger, fantasy, and romance.
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87%Game Brain Scorehumor, graphicsgrinding, replayability87% User Score 200 reviewsA middle-aged male virgin named Larry Laffer desperately tries to "get lucky" in the fictional American city of Lost Wages. Your goal in Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is to find and seduce the girl of your dreams. This goal won't come easy, because you only have one night, and unfortunately, you are stuck with Larry's looks. Other problems, such as lack of money, lack of op…
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