Adventure Games Strategies

Many are the times that playing an adventure game you find yourself fully loaded with a bunch of phenomenically useless stuff and locked doors or chests with peculiar locks and you literally feel helpless and you don't know what to do. I ve seen it happen a lot of times, so i guess this things just happens no matter what gamer are you good or bad thorough or hollow.

So with adventure and point n' click games being one of my must genres over the years I have concluded in some ways of playing that quite possibly get you unstuck in times of need (don't resort to walkthroughs with the first hassle, try the following and I m sure that the feeling you get is much better than the one the given answer provides). The things im going to propose and suggest are generic rules and don't apply in all of the games or situations but it's sure that will help.

ADVICE:

1. Talk to everyone about anything (if that means about dialogue options or the items that you have in the inventory, it may be boring but worths a shot)

2. Combine every item in the inventory (in the most games of the genre you can combine items that you have collected so try every combination possible)

3. Examine every item that you have collected (a closer look on the accumulated items might give you details, hidden messages or even open/unravel/unpack items to find other items inside)

4. Try every possible (talk/pick up/combine etc) action on every NPC or interactible item on the environment.

5. If the game supports the hotspot finder then use it. You might always miss an important spot.

6. Combine every item of your inventory with every environmental item or NPC.

7. After making some progress even the slightest one, try talking again to every NPC. The progress might have unlocked a new possible dialogue topic.

8. Try everything even if it doens't make sense. Many games don't depend necessarily on logic (see Escape from Monky Island 4 - Flea puzzle) 

9. Every puzzle has its solution. So before fuming try reading every relating file about the puzzle or making every possible combination. I know sometimes it gets so hard that you feel like quiting but thats not the point!

10. Last but not least: SAVE OFTEN & IN DIFFERENT SAVE SLOTS! Some adventure games due to bad development you get stuck if you dont do some things in the a specific order (like Sherlock Holmes - The Awakened). And when i say stuck i mean that the current save game is totally worthless. So it's good to keep several save games as a back up in such a case.