Remake

I don't know why I enjoy adventure games. Why do you enjoy them? Maybe it has something to do with the fluffy hippie-talk that Michael Samyn keeps publishing about people wanting stories over gameplay. That's probably not true, but good storytelling can definitely amplify weakly interactive gameplay into a meaningful experience, and the King's Quest series is according-to-Hoyle proof of that.

The game is remade with voice acting, relatively lush graphics (compared to the 1986 original), and a streamlined interface using the AGS engine. Purists are going to recall the exploratory joys of the text parser, but if you're a new-skool design geek like me, you're going to prefer mouse-driven context-sensitivity. Use an item, right-click to cycle over the the walking icon, and then mosey right along, pretty smooth.

Oil's Well Redrilled is a re-make of the old Sierra game from 1983, created by FireStorm Productions. You should be aware of peak oil, because it you're not this game is just a hack-ish time-waster (and you won't survive the next decade). If you are, this game becomes ripe with metaphor, furling out to a meditative exercise on the nature of the beast, the hunger we share with it, and how we got to this point.