One might wonder, given the endless selection of good videogames out there: Why play a bad one?
But let me turn that idea around on you. Given the endless selection of good videogames out there, what’s more enticing than one you’ve never heard of? Maybe it’s bad, but has one fascinating idea. Maybe it has zero fascinating ideas but is so stupid it makes you laugh nonstop. Maybe it’s completely irredeemable and just makes your next Slay the Spire 2 run seem that much better in contrast.
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The real treat is perhaps adventure game Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness, which you can buy on GOG and study to understand why point-and-click adventure games were not doing so hot around the year 2000. YouTuber Ermacgerd Longplays finished it in two hours, then gave it a “terribly low 2/10.”
“I really despised it and thought it awful, I’d give it a Certified Crap title and what not,” they wrote in the description. Sounds pretty entertaining to me! Without bad adventure games, we’d never get great adventure game Let’s Plays like Nextlander’s Full Motion Vinny.
ScummVM helpfully maintains a wiki page listing where most of the games it supports can be bought or otherwise found, and quite a detailed FAQ about how everything works. Use it to play an old Discworld adventure game, or Mad Dog 2: The Lost Gold. It’s the weekend!
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