Adventure Game Tier List: Röki, The Forgotten City, The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, Return to Monkey Island, LOOM
Added 2025-10-07 13:59:45 +0000 UTChello again team,
here we have our final guest reviews (both historians, in fact) with Ludohistory covering Röki and Zylla's Anathaeum covering The Forgotten City. then a game I'm cool on and two games I adore.
Comments
Ah. This series is so fantastic. I have to resist buying basically every second game, including ones that don't score all that highly...
Charlotte KL
2025-11-17 12:25:27 +0000 UTCI've been woefully behind but finally have started catching up on these, and the Loom short put into words a lot of feelings I've had about Loom since I played it as a child. Loom is a game that will latch onto the imagination of a child and feel like the size of the whole world.
Eris
2025-11-05 00:30:19 +0000 UTCbe aware that a LOT of people hate the ending. I do not! I like the ending a lot, actually. but it is POLARIZING.
Ian Danskin
2025-10-08 16:43:22 +0000 UTCHmmm... I was kind of avoiding Return to Monkey Island because I had heard a couple not good things and honestly didn't want to risk ruining my memories of the series growing up. It was just such a bonding thing with me and my mom and after her passing... I kind of figured... yeah... probably not. Hearing your blurb has definitely put it back on and at the top of my To Get List though since, NJ, your video on the others is probably the best take I've ever seen. So, seriously, thanks for putting this one back on my radar. Maybe with everything else going on in the world this year, I could use some misty eyed nostalgia. So, thank you for the recommendation on that one! 😊
Dallayna Vokan
2025-10-08 16:31:57 +0000 UTCone of the rules I set for the edit of this was that Willow HAD to use only the 16-color version and not the CD release
Ian Danskin
2025-10-07 17:38:04 +0000 UTCI have played LOOM as a kid, but I have played two versions of it: one in floppy disks for the Amiga 500 and one on CD with voice acting and orchestral music for DOS. Ironically, I think the lack of close ups and other animations (like the ones shown in the video) makes the CD version a worse one than the former. Fun story: for my birthday, my father got me Asimov’s book The End Of Eternity and scrawled in one of the pages a clue of where he had hidden the LOOM’s CD he had gotten me as a surprise present.
CaitSeith
2025-10-07 17:00:48 +0000 UTCI’m gonna be honest, I felt a sense of dread when Loom came up. I love that game so much, I’ve played through it a million times. It’s very special to me, one of my all-time favorites. But I know it’s not perfect, and I was afraid someone taking a really critical eye to it was gonna rip it apart. I was so relieved when that wasn’t the case. More than that, what the review actually turned out to be ended up bringing tears to my eyes. It was really lovely, thank you.
Lennon McAuliffe
2025-10-07 15:41:31 +0000 UTC
