Adventure Game Tier List: Broken Sword, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, The Longest Journey, Grim Fandango
Added 2025-06-10 01:29:04 +0000 UTChey team!
here's May's batch of tier list vids. this brings us to the end of Part 1! we have officially re-reviewed adventuregamers.com's Top 20 All-Time Adventure Games. Phase 2 has begun over on Nebula, as we start reviewing all their GOTY winners from 2013-2023. Phase 2 is gonna have rather a lot of guest reviewers, as there were many games I hadn't played yet and, when we put out feelers for guests, we got a surprising number of responses! I do enjoy that the structure of this series means that, when we hit Phase 3, it'll just be me singing the praises of all the all-timer favs that AG criminally ignored.
anyway, today's batch is a game I loathe, a game I think is bad but kinda enjoy, a game I love despite its flaws, and a game that is great despite its flaws.
writing, narration, and (most) graphics by me, (most) editing by Willow.
Comments
The best thing I can say about Broken Sword is that whenever people praise it, I always spend at least a few moments thinking they're talking about Broken Age, a game that I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of.
Phillip Bradbury
2025-06-10 11:38:56 +0000 UTCDoing the Homer Simpson "ooh, that's good!/ooh, that's bad..." for the entirety of the beast within review
Kompy
2025-06-10 03:35:08 +0000 UTCNever played Broken Sword and thankfully I never will because my first exposure to it was the vomit-inducing AI-upscaled backgrounds
Mike Kachur
2025-06-10 03:32:57 +0000 UTCBroken Sword: THANK. YOU. Honestly, I never finished it. I have NEVER understood WTF everyone has been raving about all these years. Smh.
Dallayna Vokan
2025-06-10 02:06:12 +0000 UTCPortals lack of listed rank completely threw off my running tally (I think it's 38 points after Grim Fandango?), but this whole series is a lot of fun
SheWhoExists
2025-06-10 01:49:11 +0000 UTCNow I wanna go play the last two again.
Allan Anderson
2025-06-10 01:48:26 +0000 UTC
