hidden object games are thriving in the world of casual women's games.
"Dialogue choice" games are thriving in the form of Dispatch and that kind of game.
And there's a constant stream of indie boomerclicker nostalgiabait.
This is the modern legacy of old Point and Click Adventures.

The idea of a big budget point and click published by Ubisoft/EA/Activision or whatever is dead - the genre is alive and well in its modern forms.

Maybe one day there'll be one that has a story that grabs a huge audience but otherwise it doesn't need to. The genre's doing just fine. Try The Drifter.

>>731059638
at a mainstream level? no. developers would never accept the long periods of players being stumped and having to perform tedious mental labor.

you'd think they'd be revived on mobile but that didn't happen

Old Skies won multiple yearly awards which I didn't understand, it was shit and had a bad story.

Is Haligan the greatest vidya protagonist

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>>731059638
Strong Bad's Dangeresque roomisode triungulate is just enough for me. If that was any longer it would have become tedious. If I play one of those every 4-5 years then that's plenty of point and click for me. The genre peaked during the floppy disk era.

>>731059638
Probably not because VNs and modern hardware is way more powerful.