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Pretty funny, but point and click adventure games are still popular. There are several titles on Steam released this year for PC.

The NintendoDS has several successful titles: Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk, and others. A new Professor Layton title topped sales for the 3DS, recently released in Japan.

The genre is probably as popular now as ever.




Hmm, as popular as ever? I dunno. King's Quest, Myst, 7th Guest, these were the 'Call of Duty's of 80s/90s PC gaming.


They might not be as popular percentage-wise, but what are the sales totals and revenue like compared directly to those titles, I wonder? The total market must be a lot larger than it was back then.


Myst is still one of the biggest sellers (in units total) even today, IIRC it sold 6 million units.


Layton's sold 9.5 million, and Phoenix Wright is not far off with 3.9 million.




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