Adventure Gamers

Adventure games website

For using "adventure games", see Adventure game.

Adventure Gamers

Type of site

| Gaming website
URL| www.adventuregamers.com
Commercial| No
Launched| March 1999; 25 years ago (1999-03)
Part of a series on

Adventure games

Subgenres

|  Presentation

* Interactive fiction
* Interactive film
* Visual novel
* Graphic adventure
* Walking simulator

Gameplay

* Immersive sim
* Escape room
* Action-adventure

Topics

* Interactive Fiction Competition
* Interactive storytelling
* Syntax guessing
* Text parser

Companies

* The Adventure Company
* Adventure International
* AnimePlay
* Arxel Tribe
* Capcom
* Cing
* Cryo Interactive
* C's Ware
* Cyan Worlds
* Daedalic Entertainment
* Dōjin soft
* DreamCatcher Interactive
* Funcom
* Humongous Entertainment
* Infocom
* Key
* Legend Entertainment
* Level 9 Computing
* LucasArts
* Microïds
* Nitroplus
* PixelFade
* Quantic Dream
* Revolution Software
* Sierra Entertainment
* Telltale Games
* Type-Moon
* Wadjet Eye Games

Tools and engine

* ADRIFT
* AGS
* Clickteam Fusion
* GameMaker
* Glulx
* IMUSE
* Inform
* KiriKiri
* NScripter
* Ren'Py
* SCUMM
* TADS
* Wintermute Engine
* Z-machine

Lists

* List of graphic adventure games
* List of text-based computer games

Websites

* Adventure Gamers
* Just Adventure

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Adventure Gamers is a computer game website created by Marek Bronstring in March 1999[1] dedicated to the genre of adventure games. It publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers.

The site's reviews have been quoted on many adventure game box covers,[2][3][4][5][6][7] and it is listed as a trusted reviewer on Metacritic and GameRankings. Adventure Gamers was also referenced in the print book Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts.[8]

Adventure Gamers is respected by developers of adventure games. Ragnar Tornquist, the creator of the adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, has stated that the reviews on Adventure Gamers are "very important to [him]".[9] In addition, Straandlooper, the developer of Hector: Badge of Carnage, called Adventure Gamers "one of the foremost and widely respected websites about adventure games".[10]

## The Aggie Awards

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Every year starting from 2009, Adventure Gamers hosts the Aggie Awards, which award adventure games of the previous year[a] for their merits in several categories from concept, art direction, and story, to the adventure game of the year. The categories are divided in choices made by website staff and by readers.

Aggie Award for Best Adventure of the Year  Year  | AG Staff's Choice  | Readers' Choice  | Ref

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2008  |

Sam & Max: Season Two

| [11]
2009  |

Tales of Monkey Island

| [12]
2010  |

Last Window: The Secret of Cape West

The Whispered World

| [13]
2011  |

Portal 2

The Book of Unwritten Tales

| [14]
2012  |

The Walking Dead

| [15]
2013  |

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller

| [16]
2014  |

The Blackwell Epiphany

Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

| [17]
2015  |

Stasis

Life Is Strange

| [18]
2016  |

King's Quest

Kathy Rain

| [19]
2017  |

Thimbleweed Park

| [20]
2018  |

Unavowed

| [21]
2019  |

Outer Wilds

Whispers of a Machine

| [22]
2020  |

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Röki

| [23]
2021  |

The Forgotten City

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

| [24]
2022  |

Return to Monkey Island

| [25]
2023  |

Stasis: Bone Totem

American Arcadia

| [26]

## See also

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* Just Adventure

## Notes

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1. ^ Episodic video games are awarded for the year the last episode was released.

## References

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1. ^ "Archived copy". www.adventuregamer.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2001. Retrieved 11 January 2022.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^ Box art for AGON: the Mysterious Codex Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
3. ^ Box art for Ankh Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
4. ^ Box art for Missing Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
5. ^ Box art for Scratches Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
6. ^ Box art for Syberia Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamers
7. ^ Box art for The Longest Journey Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine featuring a quote from Adventure Gamer
8. ^ Smith, Rob (2008). Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-6184-7.
9. ^ "Dreamfall - Update 12". Ragnar Tornquist. Archived from the original on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
10. ^ "Badge of Carnage on Adventure Gamers". Straandlooper. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
11. ^ "2008 Aggie Awards". February 18, 2009.
12. ^ "2009 Aggie Awards". February 17, 2010.
13. ^ "2010 Aggie Awards". February 16, 2011.
14. ^ "2011 Aggie Awards". February 15, 2012.
15. ^ "2012 Aggie Awards". February 20, 2013.
16. ^ "2013 Aggie Awards". February 19, 2014.
17. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2014". February 18, 2015.
18. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2015". February 24, 2016.
19. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2016". February 22, 2017.
20. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2017". February 21, 2018.
21. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2018". February 22, 2019.
22. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2019". February 7, 2020.
23. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2020". February 19, 2021.
24. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2021". February 18, 2022.
25. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2022". February 24, 2023.
26. ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2023". February 6, 2024.

## External links

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* Official website

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