[PC] Arden's Vale (2011)

Pros:
- Beautiful sprites, backgrounds, animations
- Beautiful music
- Very good puzzles, additionally the game can be completed in two different ways (play them both!)
- Fun as only Monkey Island managed to be
- Every single interaction gives something!
Cons:
- Medium length is not enough!
- A foreground/background bug when opening the door to the castle

[PC] Barrier (2011)

Pros:
- Short, crazy and smart (e.g. give the flower to her)
- Actions change their meaning halfway
- The wacky dialogues, perhaps unintentionally, add fun to the fun
Cons:
- None that I can think of

[Browser] Rizzoli and Isles - The Masterpiece Murders (2011)

Pros:
- Nice backgrounds and graphics
- Taking blood samples and fingerprints has always been fun
- Direct and varied play mechanics
- Would make for a nice episodic series
Cons:
- A little too hurried in the end, would have made for a nice short game with just two times the playtime

[Browser] Symon (2011)

Pros:
- Nice, moody piano music
- Simple and pleasant
Cons:
- Four inventory puzzles and that's it

[PC] Tex Murphy: Mean Streets (1989)

Pros:
- A nice investigation game where taking notes is more than critical (and red herrings dominate!)
- A pleasantly clichéd cyberpunk dystopia that succeeds in capturing the player with its tangled plot
- Nice atmosphere overall with believable characters and a constant and dark (yet fitting) sense of humor
- Looking for clues, especially during interrogation, is fun and rewarding
- Alarms in the adventure parts (in the more classical sense) add a nice tension element to gameplay
Cons:
- Too much of the same, again and again
- The fighting scenes are totally useless and annoying
- No music
- Flight simulation totally out of place, or could have made for some memorable parts if better exploited
- While acceptable for the most part, graphics quality is very unbalanced and could be much better
- An incredibly frustrating arcade part in the end (running out of a door with the main character walking)
- Must talk with everybody about everything to get some particular clues
- Cannot save during the adventure parts, which contain unpredictable deaths and easily missable objects
- Many objects are never used and the verb "taste" is there just for fun
- Too much trial & error (e.g. bribe or threaten, pay Lee or wait for clues, push button or ignore it, etc.)
- Some implications are never revealed

[PC] The Unicated (2011)

Pros:
- Simple yet nice graphics
- Slightly innovative control system (the two mouse buttons control the two brothers separately)
- Very interesting control idea in the end part (the 2-buttons collaborative thing)
Cons:
- Very short

[NES] Shadowgate (1989)

Pros:
- Immersive scenario, faithful to its theme
- A decent variety of music
- Not so easy
Cons:
- The light torch thing is so much annoying and useless, it makes the game play like a pain
- Too much trial & error
- The "Leave" and "Close" actions are of no use
- Slow movements and actions due to the control via cursor
- Some illogical puzzles (e.g. cannot kill the wolf with a sword, must use the arrow)

[Amiga] Heimdall 2 (1994)

Pros:
- Beautiful graphics and animations
- Memorable plot and setting
- Difficult puzzles
- Many colorful places to visit
- It is an incredible pleasure to play this game
- The rune system is functional and fun
- Fights are difficult at the beginning but soon become part of the fun
- You can choose at any time among two characters
- Very good balance between adventure, RPG and arcade
- Hard and long-lived
Cons:
- Not much music
- Some dead-ends (e.g. by letting the wrong people die)