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Adventure Gamers

Adventure games website

Adventure games website

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Adventure Gamers is a computer game website which was dedicated to the genre of adventure games until 2025, when its new owners turned it into an online gambling promotion site. Created by Marek Bronstring in March 1999, it has published reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers.

The site has been described as having "offered some of the best coverage of the adventure game genre available on the net" by Time Extension. Ragnar Tornquist, the creator of the adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, has stated that the reviews on Adventure Gamers have been "very important to [him]". In addition, Straandlooper, the developer of Hector: Badge of Carnage, called Adventure Gamers "one of the foremost and widely respected websites about adventure games".

Bronstring sold the site to Ivo Teel in 2016. He took over as editor from Jack Allin in 2022, which allegedly led to an exodus in writing staff.

In June 2025, new owners of the site shut down its forums and changed its "About" page to expand its focus to online gambling. Several adventure game developers reacted negatively to this development. Former Adventure Gamers chief editor Jack Allin had already left to found Adventure Game Hotspot, a spiritual successor to the site, in 2022.

The Aggie Awards

Every year from 2009 to 2024, Adventure Gamers hosted the Aggie Awards, which awarded adventure games of the previous year for their merits in several categories from concept, art direction, and story, to the adventure game of the year. The categories were divided in choices made by website staff and by readers.

YearAG Staff's ChoiceReaders' ChoiceRef2008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
date=February 18, 2009title=2008 Aggie Awardsarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523064034/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18258url-status=usurpedarchive-date=May 23, 2012}}
date=February 17, 2010title=2009 Aggie Awardsarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523064039/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18397url-status=usurpedarchive-date=May 23, 2012}}
date=February 16, 2011title=2010 Aggie Awardsarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523064045/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18528url-status=usurpedarchive-date=May 23, 2012}}
date=February 15, 2012title=2011 Aggie Awardsarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523020831/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18661url-status=usurpedarchive-date=May 23, 2012}}
date=February 20, 2013title=2012 Aggie Awardsarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223111448/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/24014url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 23, 2013}}
date=February 19, 2014title=2013 Aggie Awardsarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302032904/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/26025url-status=usurpedarchive-date=March 2, 2014}}
date=February 18, 2015title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2014archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220175803/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/28100url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 20, 2015}}
date=February 24, 2016title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2015archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227031158/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/29966url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 27, 2016}}
date=February 22, 2017title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2016archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228075259/http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/32193url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 28, 2017}}
date=February 21, 2018title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2017archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125103002/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2017url-status=usurpedarchive-date=January 25, 2025}}
date=February 22, 2019title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125103024/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2018url-status=usurpedarchive-date=January 25, 2025}}
date=February 7, 2020title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2019date=September 2025bot=medic}}
date=February 19, 2021title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2020archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219204601/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2020url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 19, 2021}}
date=February 18, 2022title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2021archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218173449/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2021url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 18, 2022}}
date=February 24, 2023title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224235237/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2022url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 24, 2023}}
date=February 6, 2024title=The Aggie Awards – The Best Adventure Games of 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208085604/https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/the-aggie-awards-the-best-adventure-games-of-2023url-status=usurpedarchive-date=February 8, 2024}}

Notes

References

References

  1. Yarwood, Jack. (20 June 2025). "Developers Saddened By Beloved Adventure Game Site's Pivot Into World Of Online Gambling". Time Extension.
  2. "Site History".
  3. Smith, Rob. (2008). "Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts". [[Chronicle Books]].
  4. "Dreamfall - Update 12". [[Ragnar Tornquist]].
  5. "Badge of Carnage on Adventure Gamers". [[Straandlooper]].
  6. Walker, John. (2025-06-26). "Beloved 27-Year-Old Gaming Site Wipes Forums, Relaunches As A Gambling Affiliate Cash-Grab".
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