The good old genre that codified a lot of game design practices (both good and bad) and was probably the first type of game a lot of people actually played. >What point and click games have you played? >What was your favorite? >Have you played anything recently? >What do you think is most important in one: art, story, music, design? >Are there any you'd recommend playing? >Are point and clicks a dying genre? Will we see another wave of them soon? Is there any experimentation that could be done with their design? >Do you think Tim Schafer will ever escape his legacy of being a washed up has-been? Point and click games are fun and I love them, but they sort of feel the same way books do to me. I'll sit down to play one every once in a while but only if I'm in the mood to pay attention to one long narrative and commit myself to it for a good chunk of time, not whittle away at it over weeks or months. I've actually been watching a lot of longer-form videos about the King's Quest and other Sierra games, and it might be because I'm on the younger side but it's crazy how big games like these were before console gaming dominated the market. Besides Broken Age headed by Mr. Shitface, point and click games have pretty universally become a genre solely for indie devs and smaller studios. There was a bit of a resurgence in the mid-2010s around the time that game came out but they're far, far less common now. Starting this off by posting some of my favorites, mainly for their art, writing and humor. I'm not actually sure if difficulty is something a lot of people look for in point and click games, especially since most of the time the more difficult ones are that way purely by frustrating design. The King's Quest games basically started the "save early, save often" meme but endless trial and error isn't exactly difficult in the same way a logic puzzle or brain teaser is. Are there any out there that do something similar to the Silent Hill games, where each puzzle section basically has its own unique puzzle to solve based on the difficulty you've chosen?