I’m going to be reviewing two new point-and-click games that I found on Steam, and I will start with The Last Door. If you aren’t familiar with point-and-click adventures, they are from the eighties and aren’t really made much for the big three consoles.

The Last Door is interesting because it was a crowdfunded project, and it brings back that era when imagination was required for playing video games. If you think back to the 8-bit era, everything in video games was just giant squares. Games from the Sierra or King’s Quest era of gaming were full of puzzles and adventures, and The Last Door is a more mature form of this.

The Last Door takes place in 1890’s Great Britain, and it is essentially a horror game. It is made to bring back the style of H.P. Lovecraft, or other horror stories of the Victorian era. Even though there is not a lot of detail in the graphics of the game, the game is still very intricate in its story.

The game’s controls are pretty simple: Look at this, do something with this, grab an object, then use that object at a different place and time to do something else. Yeah, it is a puzzle-solving RPG, and I just love them. Just playing The Last Door reminds me of my old Sierra gaming days. I will have to say that I solved the first chapter pretty easily, but the second one has me stumped, for now.

I will keep playing The Last Door, and I recommend you give it a try if you love the old 80’s/90’s point and click games. You can get it on Steam for about $9.99. You can find out more about the game here.