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[Note: I'm posting this announcement a bit early because
I'll be AFK when these freebies actually go live.
Wait at least half an hour before trying to claim
these games ;-]


Psst! Hey! Hey you, over there! Yeah, you! Come here. You want some
free games, kids? I got some free games. I always have free games on
Thursday. That's when my supplier - Timmy from Epic-- ships in the new
stuff. No catch, just try them. The first games are always free.



* Nobody Wants to Die https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/nobody-wants-to-die-fe21cd
Say whatever else you want about this game, it LOOKS
really nice. I mean it should; it uses Unreal Engine 5,
and for all its issues, rendering good looking scenes is
not one of them. Unfortunately, the rest of the game
doesn't really live up to the graphics. Although classified
as an adventure, it's more akin to a walking sim, with
very little gameplay or puzzles (the bulk of the game
consists of finding the various hotspots in the world that
you can use). The story and setting, although atmospheric,
aren't particularly novel or well-developed either. It's
a game that's all about mood and visuals, with little to
back it up. If you want to see a very pretty future-
noir city rendered on your screen, well, there are few
better. But if you want a game worth playing? Try
something else.



* The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark-174fcf
The second game in the Darkside Detective series, a
retro-themed point-n-click adventure with (surprise!) a
detective theme. How much you enjoy this game depends
heavily on how much you can stomach the pixel-graphics
and the silly moon-logic puzzles. Reviews are mixed, but
most seem to agree that this game isn't as good as the
first one. Maybe play the original first (you may have
grabbed it back in December when Epic gave it away free)
and only play this one if you really liked the first.



So kid, whaddaya think? Free games are cool, right? Betcha want more
games now. Well look, Epic has this whole big store where you can...
oh, what? You're going back to Steam now, maybe buy something there
instead?? Oh, okay. See you in seven days then.


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Thanks, but passsed for me since they didn't look interesting especially their genres. :)


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

[Note: I'm posting this announcement a bit early because
I'll be AFK when these freebies actually go live.
Wait at least half an hour before trying to claim
these games ;-]

Psst! Hey! Hey you, over there! Yeah, you! Come here. You want some
free games, kids? I got some free games. I always have free games on Thursday. That's when my supplier - Timmy from Epic-- ships in the new
stuff. No catch, just try them. The first games are always free.

* Nobody Wants to Die https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/nobody-wants-to-die-fe21cd
Say whatever else you want about this game, it LOOKS
really nice. I mean it should; it uses Unreal Engine 5,
and for all its issues, rendering good looking scenes is
not one of them. Unfortunately, the rest of the game
doesn't really live up to the graphics. Although classified
as an adventure, it's more akin to a walking sim, with
very little gameplay or puzzles (the bulk of the game
consists of finding the various hotspots in the world that
you can use). The story and setting, although atmospheric,
aren't particularly novel or well-developed either. It's
a game that's all about mood and visuals, with little to
back it up. If you want to see a very pretty future-
noir city rendered on your screen, well, there are few
better. But if you want a game worth playing? Try
something else.

* The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark-174fcf
The second game in the Darkside Detective series, a
retro-themed point-n-click adventure with (surprise!) a
detective theme. How much you enjoy this game depends
heavily on how much you can stomach the pixel-graphics
and the silly moon-logic puzzles. Reviews are mixed, but
most seem to agree that this game isn't as good as the
first one. Maybe play the original first (you may have
grabbed it back in December when Epic gave it away free)
and only play this one if you really liked the first.

So kid, whaddaya think? Free games are cool, right? Betcha want more
games now. Well look, Epic has this whole big store where you can...
oh, what? You're going back to Steam now, maybe buy something there
instead?? Oh, okay. See you in seven days then.

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:25:21 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

Thanks, but passsed for me since they didn't look interesting especially their genres. :)

Heh.

If I didn't grow up with this genre, I would probably dislike it now
as well. I am bad at solving puzzles. I also do not generally care
about following a story in a video game. But my nostalgia for
adventure games and the text adventures that preceded them is very
high.

I took both of these, thank you Spalls.
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:43:04 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> said
this thing:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:25:21 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

Thanks, but passsed for me since they didn't look interesting especially their genres. :)

Heh.
If I didn't grow up with this genre, I would probably dislike it now
as well. I am bad at solving puzzles. I also do not generally care
about following a story in a video game. But my nostalgia for
adventure games and the text adventures that preceded them is very
high.
I took both of these, thank you Spalls.

I'm sort of the same. The adventure game genre doesn't really excite
me the way it used to, but nostalgia forces me to keep going back and
giving it another try.


[I don't know if I'm bad at solving puzzles. I'd like to
believe there's /some/ glimmer of intelligence behind these
eyes --heck, I finished "Hitchhiker's Guide", I can't be a
complete ninny!-- but these days I'm definitely out of
practice. Either that, or just have no time for the more
nonsensical solutions some of these games demand. ;-)]


Of course, in the adventure game's heyday, they were in many ways the
cutting edge of video game technology. With their big, colorful
worlds, filled with multiple characters and items and complicated
puzzles filled with interlocking pieces, adventure games pushed the
envelope for computer gaming.


[Yes, even text adventures, which had to be squeezed onto
floppy disks because they were so big, while their
contemporary action games took only a few Kilobytes!]


Playing an adventure game, you felt like you were on the cusp of a technological revolution, just a few steps away from a holodeck. It
was (at least for me) part of the appeal of the genre. Anyone could
make a game with beeps and bops and moving sprites, but to create a comprehensive and creative world? That took skill.

But by the mid-90s, the adventure genre had lost this glamour. Even
games like Doom were becoming increasingly interactive and
atmospheric; action and RPGs started adding in comprehensive
world-building and characters that challenged anything the adventure
game had to offer (for example: "System Shock"). Which left the
adventure genre with only its moon-logic puzzle mechanics to set it
apart from its competitors. And for a lot of people, those awful
puzzles were their least favorite part of the games...


* * * *


It's why I'm generally so sour on retro-graphic adventure games. It's completely missing the point. We loved classics like "Gabriel Knight"
or "Full Throttle" /despite/ those visuals, not because of them. We
loved it when the artists managed to do something amazing despite
being limited to sixteen colors and a 160x200 resolution. That took
genius... and rarely do modern pixel-graphic adventure-game designers
have the talent to match that.

Anyway, "Nobody Wants to Die" is nothing like those classics; it's a
few half-baked ideas wrapped around in some pretty visuals that never
realizes its potential. "Darkside Detective" does clearly ape the
classics... but takes the wrong lessons from them. The former maybe is
worth looking at, just to see what its trying (not too successfully?)
to do. The latter is just a follow-the-leader product that only
displays its developers lack of skill and originality.



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On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:30:20 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Of course, in the adventure game's heyday, they were in many ways the
cutting edge of video game technology. With their big, colorful
worlds, filled with multiple characters and items and complicated
puzzles filled with interlocking pieces, adventure games pushed the
envelope for computer gaming.

[Yes, even text adventures, which had to be squeezed onto
floppy disks because they were so big, while their
contemporary action games took only a few Kilobytes!]

Playing an adventure game, you felt like you were on the cusp of a >technological revolution, just a few steps away from a holodeck. It
was (at least for me) part of the appeal of the genre. Anyone could
make a game with beeps and bops and moving sprites, but to create a >comprehensive and creative world? That took skill.

But by the mid-90s, the adventure genre had lost this glamour. Even
games like Doom were becoming increasingly interactive and
atmospheric; action and RPGs started adding in comprehensive
world-building and characters that challenged anything the adventure
game had to offer (for example: "System Shock"). Which left the
adventure genre with only its moon-logic puzzle mechanics to set it
apart from its competitors. And for a lot of people, those awful
puzzles were their least favorite part of the games...

Everything I am quoting above is very well said. This perfectly sums
up how the genre felt to me growing up. And yes, it is around the
mid-90s or so, their glamour, as you put it, was lost. Other genres
were starting to capture my attention around then.
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:55:58 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> said
this thing:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:30:20 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Of course, in the adventure game's heyday, they were in many ways the >>cutting edge of video game technology. With their big, colorful
worlds, filled with multiple characters and items and complicated
puzzles filled with interlocking pieces, adventure games pushed the >>envelope for computer gaming.


[Yes, even text adventures, which had to be squeezed onto
floppy disks because they were so big, while their
contemporary action games took only a few Kilobytes!]


Playing an adventure game, you felt like you were on the cusp of a >>technological revolution, just a few steps away from a holodeck. It
was (at least for me) part of the appeal of the genre. Anyone could
make a game with beeps and bops and moving sprites, but to create a >>comprehensive and creative world? That took skill.

But by the mid-90s, the adventure genre had lost this glamour. Even
games like Doom were becoming increasingly interactive and
atmospheric; action and RPGs started adding in comprehensive
world-building and characters that challenged anything the adventure
game had to offer (for example: "System Shock"). Which left the
adventure genre with only its moon-logic puzzle mechanics to set it
apart from its competitors. And for a lot of people, those awful
puzzles were their least favorite part of the games...

Everything I am quoting above is very well said. This perfectly sums
up how the genre felt to me growing up. And yes, it is around the
mid-90s or so, their glamour, as you put it, was lost. Other genres
were starting to capture my attention around then.

Also, the adventure genre was in the middle of a major shift at the
time too. Unable to compete on their usual strengths --big worlds,
large conversation trees, and pretty (traditional) graphics-- because
other genres had caught up in those areas, they worked to find
something new.

One direction they took was the first-person 'slideshow' model
popularized by "Myst". These often featured 'realistic' visuals (or as
close as you could get in 1995!) and more laid-back gameplay. Often
lacking any supporting characters, they tended to be slower games that
focused more on pure-logic puzzles and atmospheric environments. Some
of the games were quite good, but --because they were simpler and
cheaper to develop-- the market was soon flooded with this sort of
game.

The other direction was to go with full-motion video. This was, at the
time, seen as the inevitable future of all video games, and many in
the adventure genre bet on it hard. But there were a lot of
limitations to FMV (the quality of the acting, the price, not being
able to realize some of the more fantastic locales once common to the
genre, what sort of shots you could take, etc.) and this resulted in a
lot of bad FMV games. It also meant that while focused on FMV,
adventure game companies weren't learning to create good-looking 3D.

Either way, adventure games abandoned the adherents of the traditional
style while not gaining any fans for their new style. For years the
adventure game genre was considered 'dead'... and it was mostly of self-inflicted wounds.

Which is just me going in my usual long and round-about way of saying
our interest in the genre wasn't entirely based on our own changing
tastes. Yes, that took a toll too... but its also because the games we
liked just weren't being made anymore... and a lot of what we liked
about those games were being incorporated into different genres too.

Coincidentally, I actually played two adventure games this month,*
which just goes to show you that I /still/ have interest in the
genre... if the games are good.








----
* tables are now open on Polymarket to bet on which games I played;
results will be shown in our usual end-of-month thread ;-)

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Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:

Thanks, but passsed for me since they didn't look interesting especially their genres. :)

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

[Note: I'm posting this announcement a bit early because
I'll be AFK when these freebies actually go live.
Wait at least half an hour before trying to claim
these games ;-]

Psst! Hey! Hey you, over there! Yeah, you! Come here. You want some
free games, kids? I got some free games. I always have free games on Thursday. That's when my supplier - Timmy from Epic-- ships in the new stuff. No catch, just try them. The first games are always free.

* Nobody Wants to Die https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/nobody-wants-to-die-fe21cd
Say whatever else you want about this game, it LOOKS
really nice. I mean it should; it uses Unreal Engine 5,
and for all its issues, rendering good looking scenes is
not one of them. Unfortunately, the rest of the game
doesn't really live up to the graphics. Although classified
as an adventure, it's more akin to a walking sim, with
very little gameplay or puzzles (the bulk of the game
consists of finding the various hotspots in the world that
you can use). The story and setting, although atmospheric,
aren't particularly novel or well-developed either. It's
a game that's all about mood and visuals, with little to
back it up. If you want to see a very pretty future-
noir city rendered on your screen, well, there are few
better. But if you want a game worth playing? Try
something else.

* The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark-174fcf
The second game in the Darkside Detective series, a
retro-themed point-n-click adventure with (surprise!) a
detective theme. How much you enjoy this game depends
heavily on how much you can stomach the pixel-graphics
and the silly moon-logic puzzles. Reviews are mixed, but
most seem to agree that this game isn't as good as the
first one. Maybe play the original first (you may have
grabbed it back in December when Epic gave it away free)
and only play this one if you really liked the first.

So kid, whaddaya think? Free games are cool, right? Betcha want more
games now. Well look, Epic has this whole big store where you can...
oh, what? You're going back to Steam now, maybe buy something there instead?? Oh, okay. See you in seven days then.

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:51:39 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Which is just me going in my usual long and round-about way of saying
our interest in the genre wasn't entirely based on our own changing
tastes. Yes, that took a toll too... but its also because the games we
liked just weren't being made anymore... and a lot of what we liked
about those games were being incorporated into different genres too.

This is true and is another good point you are making.

I lost interest at around the time of Myst I think. It changed what it
meant to be a graphic adventure game. It no longer meant Sierra or
LucasArts style games. It now meant logic puzzles. I hate those.7th
Guest started this. I did not like that game but I wanted it to show
off my new CD-ROM drive. I never finished it.
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Mike S. wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:51:39 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Which is just me going in my usual long and round-about way of saying
our interest in the genre wasn't entirely based on our own changing
tastes. Yes, that took a toll too... but its also because the games we
liked just weren't being made anymore... and a lot of what we liked
about those games were being incorporated into different genres too.

This is true and is another good point you are making.

I lost interest at around the time of Myst I think. It changed what it
meant to be a graphic adventure game. It no longer meant Sierra or
LucasArts style games. It now meant logic puzzles. I hate those.7th
Guest started this. I did not like that game but I wanted it to show
off my new CD-ROM drive. I never finished it.

I got pretty damn far in 7th Guest but then I found one of the puzzles
was an archaic one solved in 1920 or something. Like I'm going to go
through all the proof and speculation they needed to solve it at that
late time. My friend got me past that puzzle but it took the wind out of
my sails.
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:35 this Thursday (GMT):

[Note: I'm posting this announcement a bit early because
I'll be AFK when these freebies actually go live.
Wait at least half an hour before trying to claim
these games ;-]

Psst! Hey! Hey you, over there! Yeah, you! Come here. You want some
free games, kids? I got some free games. I always have free games on Thursday. That's when my supplier - Timmy from Epic-- ships in the new
stuff. No catch, just try them. The first games are always free.

* Nobody Wants to Die https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/nobody-wants-to-die-fe21cd
Say whatever else you want about this game, it LOOKS
really nice. I mean it should; it uses Unreal Engine 5,
and for all its issues, rendering good looking scenes is
not one of them. Unfortunately, the rest of the game
doesn't really live up to the graphics. Although classified
as an adventure, it's more akin to a walking sim, with
very little gameplay or puzzles (the bulk of the game
consists of finding the various hotspots in the world that
you can use). The story and setting, although atmospheric,
aren't particularly novel or well-developed either. It's
a game that's all about mood and visuals, with little to
back it up. If you want to see a very pretty future-
noir city rendered on your screen, well, there are few
better. But if you want a game worth playing? Try
something else.

* The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark-174fcf
The second game in the Darkside Detective series, a
retro-themed point-n-click adventure with (surprise!) a
detective theme. How much you enjoy this game depends
heavily on how much you can stomach the pixel-graphics
and the silly moon-logic puzzles. Reviews are mixed, but
most seem to agree that this game isn't as good as the
first one. Maybe play the original first (you may have
grabbed it back in December when Epic gave it away free)
and only play this one if you really liked the first.

Weird, I thought it was a pretty good game

So kid, whaddaya think? Free games are cool, right? Betcha want more
games now. Well look, Epic has this whole big store where you can...
oh, what? You're going back to Steam now, maybe buy something there
instead?? Oh, okay. See you in seven days then.

its too bad other companies dont care enough
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On 2/15/2026 4:50 PM, phoenix wrote:

Mike S. wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:51:39 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Which is just me going in my usual long and round-about way of saying
our interest in the genre wasn't entirely based on our own changing
tastes. Yes, that took a toll too... but its also because the games we
liked just weren't being made anymore... and a lot of what we liked
about those games were being incorporated into different genres too.

This is true and is another good point you are making.

I lost interest at around the time of Myst I think. It changed what it
meant to be a graphic adventure game. It no longer meant Sierra or
LucasArts style games. It now meant logic puzzles. I hate those.7th
Guest started this. I did not like that game but I wanted it to show
off my new CD-ROM drive. I never finished it.

I got pretty damn far in 7th Guest but then I found one of the puzzles
was an archaic one solved in 1920 or something. Like I'm going to go
through all the proof and speculation they needed to solve it at that
late time. My friend got me past that puzzle but it took the wind out of
my sails.

Your penis is as small as your brain.
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bill_wilson wrote:

On 2/15/2026 4:50 PM, phoenix wrote:

Mike S. wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:51:39 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Which is just me going in my usual long and round-about way of saying
our interest in the genre wasn't entirely based on our own changing
tastes. Yes, that took a toll too... but its also because the games we >>>> liked just weren't being made anymore... and a lot of what we liked
about those games were being incorporated into different genres too.

This is true and is another good point you are making.

I lost interest at around the time of Myst I think. It changed what it
meant to be a graphic adventure game. It no longer meant Sierra or
LucasArts style games. It now meant logic puzzles. I hate those.7th
Guest started this. I did not like that game but I wanted it to show
off my new CD-ROM drive. I never finished it.

I got pretty damn far in 7th Guest but then I found one of the puzzles
was an archaic one solved in 1920 or something. Like I'm going to go
through all the proof and speculation they needed to solve it at that
late time. My friend got me past that puzzle but it took the wind out
of my sails.

Your penis is as small as your brain.

You are so good at video games. What's your PC rack look like?
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:10:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> said this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:35 this Thursday (GMT):

[Note: I'm posting this announcement a bit early because
I'll be AFK when these freebies actually go live.
Wait at least half an hour before trying to claim
these games ;-]


Psst! Hey! Hey you, over there! Yeah, you! Come here. You want some
free games, kids? I got some free games. I always have free games on
Thursday. That's when my supplier - Timmy from Epic-- ships in the new
stuff. No catch, just try them. The first games are always free.



* Nobody Wants to Die
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/nobody-wants-to-die-fe21cd
Say whatever else you want about this game, it LOOKS
really nice. I mean it should; it uses Unreal Engine 5,
and for all its issues, rendering good looking scenes is
not one of them. Unfortunately, the rest of the game
doesn't really live up to the graphics. Although classified
as an adventure, it's more akin to a walking sim, with
very little gameplay or puzzles (the bulk of the game
consists of finding the various hotspots in the world that
you can use). The story and setting, although atmospheric,
aren't particularly novel or well-developed either. It's
a game that's all about mood and visuals, with little to
back it up. If you want to see a very pretty future-
noir city rendered on your screen, well, there are few
better. But if you want a game worth playing? Try
something else.



* The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-darkside-detective-a-fumble-in-the-dark-174fcf
The second game in the Darkside Detective series, a
retro-themed point-n-click adventure with (surprise!) a
detective theme. How much you enjoy this game depends
heavily on how much you can stomach the pixel-graphics
and the silly moon-logic puzzles. Reviews are mixed, but
most seem to agree that this game isn't as good as the
first one. Maybe play the original first (you may have
grabbed it back in December when Epic gave it away free)
and only play this one if you really liked the first.

Weird, I thought it was a pretty good game

I can't speak for this newest, but the reviews on Steam are pretty
damning when comparing this to the first "Darkside Detective". The
original was okay for what it is... but you gotta love the genre
(classic point-n-click adventure) and be able to bear the
retro-graphics. (In fairness, I only gave the first game the briefest
of opportunities to wow me; I didn't stick with it very long. But I
just don't like modern retro-throwbacks)

The newer game? Even many of the favorable reviews savaged it for its
moon logic puzzles, even if they still agreed the writing was
enjoyable overall.


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