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Adventure Gamers
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Type of site
Gaming website
URLwww.adventuregamers.com
CommercialNo
LaunchedMarch 1999; 27 years ago (1999-03)
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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 described 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

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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.

Aggie Award for Best Adventure of the Year
Year AG Staff's Choice Readers' Choice Ref
2008
Sam & Max: Season Two
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2009
Tales of Monkey Island
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2010
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
The Whispered World
 [8]
2011
Portal 2
The Book of Unwritten Tales
 [9]
2012
The Walking Dead
 [10]
2013
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
 [11]
2014
The Blackwell Epiphany
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
 [12]
2015
Stasis
Life Is Strange
 [13]
2016
King's Quest
Kathy Rain
 [14]
2017
Thimbleweed Park
 [15]
2018
Unavowed
 [16]
2019
Outer Wilds
Whispers of a Machine
 [17]
2020
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Röki
 [18]
2021
The Forgotten City
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
 [19]
2022
Return to Monkey Island
 [20]
2023
Stasis: Bone Totem
American Arcadia
 [21]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Episodic video games were awarded for the year the last episode was released.

References

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