2022 Is a Great Year For Adventure Game Fans

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The adventure game genre has seen a major revival in recent years following its absence from the mainstream video game industry after many of the genre's biggest franchises failed to successfully transition to 3D in the early 2000s. Recent projects like Double Fine's Broken Age and Terrible Toybox's Thimbleweed Park have breathed new life into one of gaming's most fundamental genres, and the rise of indie games has opened up a brand-new future that has caused it to receive some genuine growth throughout recent years.

Thanks to the recent rebirth of the genre, 2022 has been one of the strongest years for adventure games (or point-and-click adventure games) in decades, with groundbreaking new indie releases and some big additions to the genre from some of the video game industry's most beloved developers. With that in mind, it's worth taking a look at why 2022 is proving to be a great year for adventure game fans.

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Syberia: The World Before marks the return of the beloved adventure game series with the final entry to be led by late series creator Benoît Sokal, who unfortunately passed away in May 2021. Thankfully, Sokal's final entry in the European-based steampunk adventure game series has been praised by fans as one of its strongest entries, coming off of 2017's underwhelming Syberia 3. This entry follows series protagonist Kate Walker as she continues her adventure from the previous entries, however players now swap between Kate and a woman living in 1930s Vaghen named Dana Roze.

While the game released for PC on March 18, console players looking to experience Benoît Sokal's final Syberia game will be happy to learn that the game will be