The Best Adventure point-and-click Games for Nintendo Switch

Update 19 July 2023: Frank and Drake added at rank #50.

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Get ready to laugh and solve crimes with Sam and Max, the Freelance Police. This point-and-click adventure game has six hilarious episodes that will keep you engaged for hours. Follow the duo as they save the world from child stars who have been hypnotized and encounter weird and funny situations along the way. With clever puzzles and witty dialogue, Sam & Max Save the World is a must-play for fans of comedy and adventure games.

• Humorous and lovable characters
• Clever puzzles
• Great value for the price

• Some jokes have lost their relevance

• episodic
• point-and-click
• adventure
• puzzle
• comedy
• funny
• detective
• inventory
• satire

Good match + 15 Bad match - 15

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Join Guybrush Threepwood on an adventure in the Monkey Island series with Return to Monkey Island. Experience an intuitive design with puzzles that are tricky yet solvable, self-referential humour, familiar music with a modern edge and voice acting from the original cast. Enjoy accessibility features like subtitles, level adjustments and post-credit sequences.

• Intuitive design
• Puzzles are tricky yet solvable
• Self-referential humour
• Familiar music with a modern edge
• Voice acting from original cast
• Accessibility features available such as subtitles
• Level adjustments and post-credit sequences

• Art style may be off-putting for some players
• Colour blind players may not benefit from all of the accessibility features
• No insult-based combat as in previous titles

• point-and-click
• adventure
• puzzle
• pirates
• inventory
• classic
• funny

Good match + 31 Bad match - 43

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Embark on a hilarious adventure with Sam & Max, the quirky crime-fighting duo, in this remastered version of Telltale's second season. Solve challenging puzzles, explore unexpected places, and interact with eccentric characters. With updated graphics and enhanced audio, this interactive story promises hours of laughter and fun.

• Engaging point & click gameplay
• Stimulates your brain
• Exciting and relevant story
• Enhanced graphics and audio
• Optional driving mini-games

• Repetitive gameplay
• Over-the-top absurdity
• Mediocre soundtrack

• point-and-click
• adventure
• episodic
• puzzle
• comedy
• zombies
• vampire
• boxing
• inventory
• detective
• funny
• conundrum
• classic
• bogart

Good match + 27 Bad match - 54

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Beyond a Steel Sky is a thrilling cyberpunk adventure game with engaging puzzles and a fast-paced narrative that will keep you hooked. Follow Robert Foster as he tries to rescue a kidnapped child in Union City, a futuristic utopia controlled by an altruistic AI. The game features a beautifully detailed comic-book style world and plenty of humor. Unravel dark conspiracies and defeat a terrifying antagonist in this innovative and exciting adventure!

• Engaging storyline and characters
• Built-in hints system
• Great setting and world design
• Innovative puzzle mechanics
• Plenty of humor and nostalgia nods

• Controlling the character is clunky
• Hacking can be repetitive
• Lack of puzzle diversity
• Story can be simplistic with bad pace
• Cutscenes are too long and boring

• cyberpunk
• adventure
• point-and-click
• puzzle
• dystopian
• narrative
• classic
• sci-fi
• thriller
• futuristic
• cult
• third-person
• hacking
• political
• inventory

Good match + 33 Bad match - 39

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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is a unique and hilarious adventure game that spoofs various gaming genres from LucasArts to arcade titles. Players must manipulate various frameworks to progress, while being challenged by knotted puzzles and entertained by its wit and humor. The art style and soundtrack change with each genre for a memorable experience.

• Clever writing
• Innovative puzzles
• Meta-referential solutions
• Entertaining humor
• Memorable art style/soundtrack
• Helpful hint system

• Short run time (5 hours)
• References may be too obscure for some players

• point-and-click
• comedy
• puzzle
• adventure
• narration
• parody
• funny
• pixel
• meta

Good match + 32 Bad match - 37

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BROK the InvestiGator is an adventure game set in a futuristic cyberpunk city where humans have been replaced by animals and robots. Join Brok, a former boxer turned private detective, as he attempts to uncover a sinister plot while struggling with parenthood and providing for his deceased wife's son. Experience the fusion of point-and-click adventure and beat 'em up gameplay styles as you explore your surroundings, talk to NPCs and solve puzzles.

• Fully voiced cast
• Seamless fusion of point-and-click and beat 'em up genres
• Relatable story with heartfelt moments
• Sherlock Holmes­-esque interrogation sequences
• Multiple endings for replayability

• Some puzzles are too simple to work out
• Some sequences drag on too long serving little purpose outside of padding out the runtime

• point-and-click
• detective
• beat-em-up
• cyberpunk
• dystopian
• adventure
• soundtrack
• choices
• investigation
• futuristic
• fight
• mystery
• cartoony
• puzzle
• post-apocalyptic

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Quest for Infamy is a humorous and nostalgic point-and-click adventure game with a twist - you get to play the charming villain. Choose from three different characters, each with their own storylines, and become the bad guy who cheats, lies, and steals your way through multiple endings. With hand-drawn graphics and customizable spells, skills, and adventures, this game gives you the ultimate retro RPG experience that has never felt so good!

• Humorous dialogue with great writing and exploration
• Modernized old school adventure games with good story, quests, and humor
• End game achievements accessible to any character class
• Huge open world with good animations and decent voice acting
• Wonderful homage to Sierra On-Line games and perfect for fans of the point & click genre

• Frustrating design issues
• Occasional offensive humor
• Some puzzles require arbitrary actions to be triggered
• Combat system is repetitive and lackluster with simple mechanics

• adventure
• point-and-click
• rpg
• old-school
• puzzle
• classic
• stealth
• villain
• fantasy
• combat
• inventory
• fight
• picaresque
• retro
• funny

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McPixel 3 is a mind-blowing save-the-day adventure that sees the titular wanna-be hero avert one disaster after another at every turn using unconventional yet entertaining methods of mayhem.

• point-and-click
• funny
• comedy
• adventure
• 2d
• pixel
• minigame
• parody
• puzzle
• sport
• fast-paced

Good match + 5 Bad match - 3

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Leap into the hilarious, genre-bending adventure in Lair of the Clockwork God. You'll switch between two characters with unique abilities, solving puzzles and navigating levels to stop multiple apocalypses. With a blend of platforming and point-and-click mechanics, this game offers a fresh, engaging experience filled with wit, humor, and clever gameplay.

• Unique blend of platforming and point-and-click adventure
• Engaging, humorous narrative
• Challenging, well-designed puzzles and levels
• Fun character upgrade and crafting mechanics
• Standalone game - no need to have played previous games in series

• Platforming can sometimes feel floaty
• Inconsistent cursor behavior

• point-and-click
• platform
• adventure
• inventory
• puzzle

Good match + 12 Bad match - 18

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The Freelance Police are back in a remastered version of their first season of episodic adventure games, lovingly updated by a small group of the original developers with the blessing of Sam & Max creator Steve Purcell.

• point-and-click
• episodic
• adventure
• puzzle
• detective
• comedy
• funny
• inventory

Good match + 10 Bad match - 21

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