{{Short description|Adventure games website}} {{For|using "adventure games"|Adventure game}} {{Italic title}} {{Infobox website | name = ''Adventure Gamers'' | logo = Adventure Gamers logo.png | url = {{URL|http://www.adventuregamers.com/}} | commercial = No | type = Gaming website | launch_date = {{Start date and age|1999|03}} }} {{VG Adventure}} '''''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.<ref name=TEGamble>{{cite web |url=https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/06/developers-saddened-by-beloved-adventure-game-sites-pivot-into-world-of-online-gambling |title=Developers Saddened By Beloved Adventure Game Site's Pivot Into World Of Online Gambling |work=Time Extension |date=20 June 2025 |first=Jack |last=Yarwood |access-date=24 June 2025}}</ref> Created by Marek Bronstring in March 1999,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Site History |url=https://adventuregamers.com/about/history |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Adventure Gamers |language=en-US}}</ref> 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''.<ref name=TEGamble/> ''Adventure Gamers'' was referenced in the print book ''Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts''.<ref>{{cite book |last= Smith |first= Rob |title=Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts |publisher= Chronicle Books |year= 2008 |isbn= 978-0-8118-6184-7}}</ref> 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]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Dreamfall - Update 12 |url=http://lparchive.org/Dreamfall/Update%2012/ |publisher=Ragnar Tornquist |access-date=2011-11-30 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013005834/http://lparchive.org/Dreamfall/Update%2012/ |archive-date=2011-10-13 }}</ref> In addition, Straandlooper, the developer of ''Hector: Badge of Carnage'', called ''Adventure Gamers'' "one of the foremost and widely respected websites about adventure games".<ref name="Straandlooper">{{cite web|title=Badge of Carnage on Adventure Gamers |url=http://www.thehectorfiles.tv/blog/?p=342 |publisher=Straandlooper |access-date=2011-11-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426011342/http://www.thehectorfiles.tv/blog/?p=342 |archive-date=2012-04-26 }}</ref>
Bronstring sold the site to Ivo Teel in 2016. He took over as editor from Jack Allin in 2022, which allegedly led to an exodus in writing staff.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=John |date=2025-06-26 |title=Beloved 27-Year-Old Gaming Site Wipes Forums, Relaunches As A Gambling Affiliate Cash-Grab |url=https://kotaku.com/adventure-gamers-forums-gambling-ads-jack-allin-1851784764 |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=Kotaku |language=en-US}}</ref>
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.<ref name=TEGamble/>
==The Aggie Awards== Every year from 2009 to 2024, ''Adventure Gamers'' hosted the Aggie Awards, which awarded adventure games of the previous year{{efn|name=nomination revoked|Episodic video games were awarded for the year the last episode was released.}} 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.
{| class = "wikitable" |- |+Aggie Award for Best Adventure of the Year |- ! scope="col" style="width:6%;" | Year ! scope="col" style="width:45%;" | AG Staff's Choice ! scope="col" style="width:45%;" | Readers' Choice ! scope="col" style="width:4%;" | {{Reference column heading}} |- ! 2008 | colspan="2"|{{Center|''Sam & Max: Season Two''}} | <ref name="aa08">{{cite web|date=February 18, 2009|title=2008 Aggie Awards |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18258|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523064034/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18258|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 23, 2012}}</ref> |- ! 2009 | colspan="2"|{{Center|''Tales of Monkey Island''}} | <ref name="aa09">{{cite web|date=February 17, 2010|title=2009 Aggie Awards |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18397|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523064039/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18397|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 23, 2012}}</ref> |- ! 2010 | {{Center|''Last Window: The Secret of Cape West''}} | {{Center|''The Whispered World''}} | <ref name="aa10">{{cite web|date=February 16, 2011|title=2010 Aggie Awards |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18528|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523064045/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18528|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 23, 2012}}</ref> |- ! 2011 | {{Center|''Portal 2''}} | {{Center|''The Book of Unwritten Tales''}} | <ref name="aa11">{{cite web|date=February 15, 2012|title=2011 Aggie Awards |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18661|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523020831/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18661|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 23, 2012}}</ref> |- ! 2012 | colspan="2"|{{Center|''The Walking Dead''}} | <ref name="aa12">{{cite web|date=February 20, 2013|title=2012 Aggie Awards |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/24014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223111448/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/24014|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 23, 2013}}</ref> |- ! 2013 | {{Center|''Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons''}} | {{Center|''Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller''}} | <ref name="aa13">{{cite web|date=February 19, 2014|title=2013 Aggie Awards |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/26025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302032904/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/26025|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 2, 2014}}</ref> |- ! 2014 | {{Center|''The Blackwell Epiphany''}} | {{Center|''Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure''}} | <ref name="aa14">{{cite web|date=February 18, 2015|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2014 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/28100|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220175803/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/28100|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 20, 2015}}</ref> |- ! 2015 | {{Center|''Stasis''}} | {{Center|''Life Is Strange''}} | <ref name="aa15">{{cite web|date=February 24, 2016|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2015 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/29966|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227031158/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/29966|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 27, 2016}}</ref> |- ! 2016 | {{Center|''King's Quest''}} | {{Center|''Kathy Rain''}} | <ref name="aa16">{{cite web|date=February 22, 2017|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2016 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/32193|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228075259/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/32193|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 28, 2017}}</ref> |- ! 2017 | colspan="2"|{{Center|''Thimbleweed Park''}} | <ref name="aa17">{{cite web|date=February 21, 2018|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2017 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125103002/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2017|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 25, 2025}}</ref> |- ! 2018 | colspan="2"|{{Center|''Unavowed''}} | <ref name="aa18">{{cite web|date=February 22, 2019|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2018 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125103024/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2018|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 25, 2025}}</ref> |- ! 2019 | {{Center|''Outer Wilds''}} | {{Center|''Whispers of a Machine''}} | <ref name="aa19">{{cite web|date=February 7, 2020|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2019 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2019}}{{dead link|date=September 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |- ! 2020 | {{Center|''There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension''}} | {{Center|''Röki''}} | <ref name="aa20">{{cite web|date=February 19, 2021|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2020 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219204601/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2020|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 19, 2021}}</ref> |- ! 2021 | {{Center|''The Forgotten City''}} | {{Center|''The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark''}} | <ref name="aa21">{{cite web|date=February 18, 2022|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2021 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218173449/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2021|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 18, 2022}}</ref> |- ! 2022 | colspan="2"|{{Center|''Return to Monkey Island''}} | <ref name="aa22">{{cite web|date=February 24, 2023|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2022 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224235237/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2022|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 24, 2023}}</ref> |- ! 2023 | {{Center|''Stasis: Bone Totem''}} | {{Center|''American Arcadia''}} | <ref name="aa23">{{cite web|date=February 6, 2024|title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2023 |url=https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208085604/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2023|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 8, 2024}}</ref> |}
==See also==
*''Just Adventure''
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official|https://adventuregamers.com/ }}
{{Video Game Critics}}
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