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As someone who adored the old Sierra games as a kid (the _Quest ones, mostly), as well as LucasArts ones (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones), can anyone recommend great modern games in the same vein? And maybe iOS ones? I'd love games of those style and quality to be my 7-year-old's daughter's first experience with video games.

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The two most kid friendly adventure games I'd recommend are:

- Anna's quest would be great for kid. Based on fairy tales, where a little girl tries to save her grandfather. Expect Evil Witches

- All the adventure games from Humongous Entertainment: Pajama sam, Spy Fox and Freddi Fish. Those are children point and click games created by Secret of Monkey Island's creator Ron Gilbert.

- Broken Age

- Machinarium and Chuchel. In general all games from Amanita Design are just cute and fun to play

- The Book of Unwritten Tales (1 & 2 + the critter chronicles), I think this would be more appropriate for 10-12 years old but this is a great homage to fantasy books

I'd recommend you visit https://adventuregamers.com/, they have great reviews of point and click games

I went looking and it seems like a bunch of these are on sale until Nov 2nd on Steam.

> Anna's quest

Is on sale on steam for $1.99

> All the adventure games from Humongous Entertainment

Entire bundle is 50% off, 49.99

> Machinarium and Chuchel

65% off. %5.24 for Machinarium, $3.49 for Chuchel

The Blackwell games hit the right nerve for me: https://www.gog.com/game/blackwell_bundle

Disco Elysium has it's roots in the old school point and click adventures, but has a more dynamic storyline. It would easily be the best point and click game I've ever played.

why not go with the classics? Tim Schaeffer somehow got the rights to his classics back from Lucasarts/Disney and has published remakes of Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango and even Full Throttle, and he has a new one that is very age-appropriate for your daughter called Broken Age. All the Monkey Island games are available in one for or another, and Ron Gilbert has a new-ish one called Thimbleweed Park.

There's also an "episodic adaptation" of King's Quest from 2015 that was surprisingly well-received. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Quest_(2015_video_gam...

FTL would have been game of the decade if it came out in that time period, and it easily could have.

Check out Thimbleweed Park. I haven't finished it yet, but I heard about it on HN. Its a great flashback, and i've enjoyed it so far, I'm taking it it small slow pieces to fully appreciate it which is why I haven't finished it yet.

+1 for Thimbleweed Park, though I probably wouldn't recommend it for a 7 year old.

But Tim Schaeffer's studio Double Fine did Broken Age which I think would be great for a younger audience. Otherwise a lot of those games mentioned have been remastered in recent times, like Grim Fandango adding a non-tank control scheme or Full Throttle.

Yes, "The Hidden World" by Fire Maple Games are probably more appropriate for a younger audience, my kids played that game around that age.

Broken age is one of the darkest games I’ve ever played... MAJOR SPOILER: The great Mogs stand for pregnancy...

There's an Easter egg for anyone who's intro to Javascript was The Good Parts in the game. The game was a lot of fun. I played the mobile version on an iPad.

I learned recently that Crockford had been a colleague of the Thimbleweed Park core team at Lucasfilm Games.

Corey and Lori Cole, the Quest for Glory designers, kickstarted and published a game set in the same universe: https://www.hero-u.com/

I really recommend that game, it's a fresh take on the original Quest for Glory games and is really fun to play.

Otherwise for people who prefer games that copy more the Quest for Glory concept, there's:

- Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

- Mage's Initiation

- Quest for Infamy

Those 3 games are also good but honestly Hero-U is just more fun to play and feels fresher, it's just a copy of the old formula.

Yeah, Hero-U is actually a "time management in school setting" game, like Bully or Persona or Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

I tried the Heroine's Quest, but it was just too hard, the puzzles too obtuse for me that I gave up on it.

Gonna check out those last two though, thanks for the tip!

Good description, it is closer to Persona than to QFG... Somehow I never made the connection. I would say there's still some part of QFG in it though and the humor and writing does really feel like the Coles.

And yeah, Heroine's Quest is super hard, the other two are definitely easier.

The 2015 King's Quest is quite enjoyable. It's a great deal less obtuse than the adventure games of old, which is probably a good thing.

I loved "Pillars of the Earth" by Daedalic. Also Memoria, same company.

Wadjet Eye Games does more retro adventure stuff. Unavowed sits comfortably alongside old adventure game classics for me in terms of presentation and story. I've heard good things about their other games as well but haven't played them yet.

I wouldn't recommend Unavowed for a 7-year-old, though, as it can get quite dark.

Fair warning about the Daedalic games, they can be misogynistic. I've played a few and found the female characters too stereotypical.

I liked the Deponia series, which has a similar look and comedy tone to Monkey Island 3.

However, I wouldn't recommend it for a 7yo. The puzzles are a bit tough, and the protagonist is a complete asshole (for comic effect, of course).

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