There are a lot of point and click adventures on the App Store. Some of them are good. Some of them are bad. Some of them are mediocre. But which are the best? Which are the finest examples of the genre you can get on mobile?
Well that's what this week's Tuesday Best Of is all about. We're going to rank the five best point-and-tappers in order. And we're not afraid to do it. We're a bit crazy like that over here at App Spy.
So without further ado here's the list. And if you agree, disagree, or just want all of this to stop, then feel free to stick your own no-doubt revolutionary ideas in the comments all the way down there.
5 Tales from the Borderlands
This is, without a doubt, Telltale's best adventure game to date. It's funny, it looks amazing, and it manages to capture the spirit of an FPSRPG while not featuring any of those things at all.
Brilliantly written, brilliantly acted, and just a little bit brilliant. Abandon the dour world of The Walking Dead and come and mess about on Pandora instead.
4 Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery
A game that's so chock full of brilliant ideas that it literally spurts them out all over the place. I mean, not literally, but it does have a lot of really, really good ideas.
It's not your standard fare either, and that's what earns it a place on this list. It's weird and wonderful and it stretches your grey matter in directions that other games don't even think your grey matter is stretchable in.
3 Monkey Island Remastered
I'm going to be honest, I think this is the best of the Monkey Island games. It's created so many memes, and so many tropes that we now sort of take for granted in adventure games, that it's hard to argue the contrary.
And this remaster is just adding loveliness to what is essentially already a big pile of loveliness. If you've not played this one then you definitely should.
2 Machinarium
Just one of the finest games ever made in my opinion. It's smart, its puzzles are brilliant, and it tells its story without using a single word. Now that takes a lot of talent believe you me.
It's gorgeous too, and its tale of a plucky little robot wandering through a robotic world will not only poke your brain bits, it'll tug at your heart strings as well.
1 The Room
Where the other games on this list are ports, The Room is built from the ground up for mobile. And it shows. Its controls are brilliant, its pacing is tight, and there's a swagger to it that's almost impossible not to love.
To be honest this could rank as the finest game on the App Store, but it definitely sits proud at the top of this list. It's portable and playable and just downright incredible.
