The top 10 retro point & click games — old school gaming at its best

Some games are not all about action and explosions. They are more considered and slower-paced, focusing on character development, world building and — above all — telling a good story. I guess that is why retro point & click games are so special, even though they are relics from a bygone era of gaming.

From solving in-game puzzles to uncovering the keys to a mystery, point-and-click games take different forms but they center around some pretty salient features. For one thing, they are not like visual novels in that they are totally passive experiences. P&C do have consequences and weight to your actions.

Heck, some of them you can lose before you even start (such as through discarding a critical item or passing it up altogether).

Guides would later alleviate a lot of the trial-and-error nature of these games, but the stories they tell and the experiences they offer live on even now.

You guys know I am a huge fan of these types of games and that made this list a pretty tough call. Even so, I decided early on to limit everything to one game per series (that is why you will not see Day of the Tentacle).

Oh, and also No Grim Fandango, sorry. Do not get me wrong, It is by far my favorite Graphic Adventure ever, but the original version was not P&C (it had tank controls). A modder made a classic point & click interface in 2014, and a remastered version came out in 2015 but again, I am only considering original versions on this list.

Okay, the introduction is over, below are the top 10 retro point & click games…

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