Adventure Gamers
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Type of site | Gaming website |
|---|---|
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | March 1999 |
| Part of a series on |
| Adventure games |
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Adventure Gamers is a computer game website which was dedicated to the genre of adventure games until 2025, when its new owners turned it into an online gambling promotion site.[1] Created by Marek Bronstring in March 1999,[2][dubious – discuss] it has published reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers.
The site has been descibed as having "offered some of the best coverage of the adventure game genre available on the net" by Time Extension.[1] Adventure Gamers was referenced in the print book Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts.[3] Ragnar Tornquist, the creator of the adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, has stated that the reviews on Adventure Gamers have been "very important to [him]".[4] In addition, Straandlooper, the developer of Hector: Badge of Carnage, called Adventure Gamers "one of the foremost and widely respected websites about adventure games".[5]
In June 2025, new owners of the site shut down its forums and changed its "About" page to expand its focus to online gambling. Several adventure game developers reacted negatively to this development. Former Adventure Gamers chief editor Jack Allin had already left to found Adventure Game Hotspot, a spiritual successor to the site, in 2022.[1]
The Aggie Awards
[edit]Every year from 2009 to 2024, Adventure Gamers hosted the Aggie Awards, which awarded adventure games of the previous year[a] for their merits in several categories from concept, art direction, and story, to the adventure game of the year. The categories were divided in choices made by website staff and by readers.
| Year | AG Staff's Choice | Readers' Choice | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | [6] | ||
| 2009 | [7] | ||
| 2010 | [8] | ||
| 2011 | [9] | ||
| 2012 | [10] | ||
| 2013 | [11] | ||
| 2014 | [12] | ||
| 2015 | [13] | ||
| 2016 | [14] | ||
| 2017 | [15] | ||
| 2018 | [16] | ||
| 2019 | [17] | ||
| 2020 | [18] | ||
| 2021 | [19] | ||
| 2022 | [20] | ||
| 2023 | [21] | ||
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Episodic video games were awarded for the year the last episode was released.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Yarwood, Jack (20 June 2025). "Developers Saddened By Beloved Adventure Game Site's Pivot Into World Of Online Gambling". Time Extension. Retrieved 24 June 2025.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.adventuregamer.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2001. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Smith, Rob (2008). Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-6184-7.
- ^ "Dreamfall - Update 12". Ragnar Tornquist. Archived from the original on 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "Badge of Carnage on Adventure Gamers". Straandlooper. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "2008 Aggie Awards". February 18, 2009.
- ^ "2009 Aggie Awards". February 17, 2010.
- ^ "2010 Aggie Awards". February 16, 2011.
- ^ "2011 Aggie Awards". February 15, 2012.
- ^ "2012 Aggie Awards". February 20, 2013.
- ^ "2013 Aggie Awards". February 19, 2014.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2014". February 18, 2015.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2015". February 24, 2016.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2016". February 22, 2017.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2017". February 21, 2018.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2018". February 22, 2019.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2019". February 7, 2020.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2020". February 19, 2021.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2021". February 18, 2022.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2022". February 24, 2023.
- ^ "The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2023". February 6, 2024.