Games like Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Looking for games like Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse? Here are top action adventure recommendations with a mystery, comedy and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Deponia: The Complete Journey, Return to Monkey Island or King's Quest.
1 82%Game Brain Scorestory, humorstability, grinding82% User Score 2,494 reviewsShowered in top-scores and awards, the Deponia-Trilogy, created by the developers of Edna&Harvey: The Breakout, The Whispered World and Memoria, managed to reach cult-status almost instantly. Thanks to its exciting story, likeable characters and hilarious dialogues and a finely crafted mixture of comedy and puzzles, Deponia is enjoyable for both, young and old. Join Rufus on his thrilling journeys…
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89%Game Brain Scoregraphics, storygrinding, monetization91% User Score 4,441 reviewsCritic Score 87%38 reviewsAhoy! A new adventure awaits!
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, stability90% User Score 2,221 reviewsCritic Score 75%2 reviewsKing’s Quest is a collection of five different chapter releases, each focusing on an untold tale in Graham’s past. In each chapter, an aging King Graham reflects on his life of adventure with his granddaughter, Gwendolyn, while players are transported back to influence first-hand the decisions and events that shaped a kingdom. Embark on an extraordinary journey across the world of Daventry.
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79%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability82% User Score 6,698 reviewsCritic Score 73%22 reviewsBroken Age is a family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoons.
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83%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding88% User Score 951 reviewsCritic Score 80%6 reviewsFrom Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind ‘Watchmen’, comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, the long awaited sequel to the cult classic ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’. ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’ is a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic gameworld that responds to –…
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, humorstability, grinding78% User Score 5,610 reviewsCritic Score 78%3 reviewsDeponia is a fast-paced comedy of errors and one of the most unusual love stories in gaming history. The twist-filled story takes its off-beat characters all over trash planet Deponia, a unique game world in the style of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and Matt Groening. From Kuvaq, an improvised village built inside a giant trash heap, to the swimming black market and the dark corners of the eleva…
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, grinding87% User Score 1,505 reviewsCritic Score 81%14 reviewsA quest for identity through time
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, humorcharacter development, stability84% User Score 1,333 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsWith this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
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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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90%Game Brain Scorestory, humorstability, grinding95% User Score 18,398 reviewsCritic Score 84%8 reviewsBuy Tales from the Borderlands on PlayStation Store, a narrative adventure featuring all five episodes of the award-winning sci-fi adventure collected in one package.
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