This is tangentially related to Mixnmojo's usual purview, but we thought it was worth breaking protocol for: If you love adventure games, you owe it to yourself to buy the Wadjet Eye Humble Bundle, which goes for anything over $10, with money heading to charity (specifically, the JDRF, which does Type-1 Diabetes research).
The games included are the Blackwell series, The Shivah, Primordia, Gemini Rue, Unavowed, Technobabylon, Resonance, Shardlight (which, uh, was quite the experience during the pandemic), and Strangeland, with a 30% coupon for their latest, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow.
You need the Mojo stamp of approval? You got it. While some of the earlier games are a little rough around the edges—specifically, the first Blackwell game and The Shivah—the rest are gold. Wadjet Eye's games constantly reinvent themselves and their mechanics, but have unique identities, are beautifully written, and forego both death and dead ends. While not comedies, their games have authenticity.
And Dave Gilbert, who heads Wadjet Eye, is just a really nice person. Anyway, get clickin'. You won't regret it.
Source: Humble Bundle
I loved his very first game, too: The Shivah. Short, simple and very well written. Right through to the beautiful storytelling in Unavowed.
What a great bundle! Go get these great adventures!
Bonus trivia for you. The Blackwell games order is: Legacy, Unbound, Convergence, Deception and Epiphany. You can remember this by the fact that they're supposed to be alphabetical... but Gilbert didn't think of it until after he released the first game.
So it's: Legacy, Un(B)ound, (C)onvergence, (D)eception, (E)piphany.