12 Video Game Genres That Desperately Need A Comeback

8. Point & Click Adventure Games

The Genre: Graphical point-and-click adventure games have been around for decades, be it Policenauts, Day of the Tentacle or the undisputed king of the genre, 1993's Myst, which for a time was the highest-selling PC game in history. At their best, these games offer an insane level of immersion that in many ways helped herald gaming as an intellectual, novel-esque medium. What Happened: The upswing in graphical quality around the start of the millennium pretty much killed the genre dead, as the methodical nature of point-and-click gameplay was seen as outdated. The "meditative adventure game" has taken on new forms thanks to Telltale Games' various episodic adventures and also by way of contemplative indies such as Journey, but it's evolved to be a far cry from the elegant simplicity of Myst. Why It Needs A Comeback: Because as games get more complex and life-like, it's nice every so often for something to serve players up some nostalgia, something more wistful and slow-moving that isn't about scoring trophies and achievement points.