alt Hacker NewsNah, the genre died because of the rise of 3D graphics and Microsoft’s push into the console market with Xbox and Halo.
The whole industry changed when the Xbox came to town. Microsoft really fostered that bro gamer culture to sell Xboxes to normies and fast paced violent games took over to the detriment of other genres and styles of play.
I’m really pleased to see a bit of a revival of adventure games because I think that the tablet form factor and UI is absolutely perfect for them.
I’m so happy to hear that there’s going to be a Thimbleweed Park 2.
Graphical adventure games were already dead before the Xbox even arrived, and besides that the first Xbox was not that popular outside North America so it could not have affected other regions.