GameWatcher stands ready with a mouse in hand to investigate the point-and-click adventure games on the horizon for 2026 and beyond.
Almost since the humble mouse was first introduced, there have been point-and-click games benefiting from its cursory goodness.
The genre has always been around in some form or another, but it’s enjoying an especially healthy time of it in the indie space and bringing all kinds of exciting twists on a staple of PC gaming history.
There’s this set idea of what exactly a point-and-click adventure game is, and while we will have those games on this release date list, we do throw in some variance on the form, as there’s all manner of interesting games that don’t fully fit, but employ a lot of the same ideas.
Right, on to the games. Let’s see what the future holds for point-and-click adventures! We’ll keep adding to this list throughout the year and updating it with release dates.
Desktop Explorer
This Outersloth-funded point-and-click psychological horror sees you dig through the OS of a 90s PC where every window holds its own secret.
Release date: June 17, 2026
Thank You For Your Application
A story-driven interview simulation game? Sounds horrifying already, but this dystopian point-and-click adventure takes some surreal turns to make this anything but an ordinary job interview.
Release date: June 19, 2026
Dimhaven: The Lost Source
Dimhaven is a mixture of adventure, puzzle solving and exploration-driven storytelling that the developer claims is like never seen before.
Dimhaven is a story they’ve wanted to tell for years. You’ll pick up your camera and test your wits in this first-person mystery by the team that brought you Quern.
Release date: June 23, 2026
The Ferryman’s Trial
This short narrative-driven adventure puts you in death’s cloak as their potential successor and tasks you with judging the dead. At the same time, you’ll be under scrutiny from an even higher power.
Release date: June 25, 2026
The Mermaid Mask
The team behind the hit survival horror game Crow Country is heading back to its point-and-click detective roots with the hand-drawn locked-room murder mystery game The Mermaid Mask.
Just how did a Captain end up dead aboard the world’s strangest submarine? That’s what you’ll be tasked with finding out.
Release date: July 16, 2026
Am I Nima
In this psychological horror adventure, you are the titular Nima (or are you?), who is locked in a basement. You must convince your mother that you are really her daughter by combining words in your brain to make a convincing argument.
Release date: October 8, 2026
Traumata
OSO Labs claims Traumata is just a simple Clicker game. I’m not so sure about that.
Release date: October 26, 2026
Awakewood
A psychological horror with a grim yet intriguing premise that sees the protagonist unnerved by the arrangements of their mother’s funeral. Why was it so rushed? Why does it seem like the other attendees are hiding something?
Release date: October 27, 2026
Sleepytime Village
A point-and-click game set inside a children’s storybook is a good hook, but one that’s a bit creepy? Sign me up.
Release date: October 30, 2026
Boom Boom No Guess Minesweeper
Minesweeper meets dungeon crawler in this unique RPG.
Release date: November 4, 2026
Green Inferno
Green Inferno sees you step into the shoes of an investigator and uncover the mystery behind the brutal disappearance of an expedition on a remote Indonesian island.
You’ll discover the terrifying truth in this dark interactive thriller and unmask the secrets hidden within a disturbing videotape.
Release date: November 2026
Deperson
Error Thing’s Deperson puts us in the shoes of Aaron, a man afraid of everything, including himself.
So it probably doesn’t help when he wakes up in Indrija, a nation consumed by surveillance and fear, with no memory of who he is.
The world of Deperson looks beautifully messed up, so I naturally added it to my wishlist immediately
Release date: Q4 2026
Full Belly Breakout
This pixel art point-and-click game sees players navigate the hidden dangers lurking within a wide variety of dishes served whilst the protagonist sits in a prison cell.
Savour every bite, fill your stomach, and escape from that terrifying cell. Just beware of what they’ve put in the food
Release date: 2026
Travelling Light
This narrative adventure from Studio IDUN sees four friends caught up in the turbulence of their early thirties and puts you in the shoes of each to gain a perspective into their lives.
Release date: 2026
Escape the Baby Alarm
An adventure about the chaos and love of early parenthood, Escape the Baby Alarm is a vivid, strange escape room point-and-click puzzler.
Anyone who has ridden the wave of early parenthood can relate to the trials of sleep deprivation, fresh clutter every waking minute, and getting something disgusting stuck to you (I mean food and that, not the child), so it’ll be interesting to see how developer Julie Normann Bjørnskov translates those relatable experiences into an escape room puzzler.
Release date: 2026
My Arms Are Longer Now
In this oddball stealth puzzler, you are a yucky long-armed thief. Snake through levels, retract like a vacuum cord, or put on a sock to seduce a lonely guard - whatever it takes to pull off the perfect heist.
Release date: 2026
Murder Meet Cute
The idea behind Murder Meet Cute is interesting. You’re a ‘tech genius’ who gets a bit smitten by a customer who brings in their broken computer. You’ll play through all sorts of puzzles to fix the computer, but your reward is discovering some very questionable things on it.
Release date: 2026
Pony Island 2: Panda Circus
After the success of Inscryption, Daniel Mullins is heading back to Pony Island with Panda Circus. There’s a promise of a phantasmagorical voyage through time, myth, divinity, and most importantly, video games.
Release date: TBC
The Tragic Loss of M. Slazak
Beyond Booleans has been making great small-scale point-and-click adventures for a while now, and after the excellent Carnival in 2025, the developer brings a cosmic horror mystery in the form of The Tragic Loss of M. Slazak.
Release date: TBC
The Black Door
A small-scale point-and-click horror adventure where the player finds themselves trapped in a mysterious location and in need of their problem-solving skills to solve puzzles that range from deciphering cryptic codes to working complex machinery.
Oh, and there’s cosmic horrors, naturally.
Release date: TBC
Detective Turner: If Looks Could Kill
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you read the room…literally. Yes, the dialogue appears in the environment. A snazzy way to solve a murder.
Release date: 2027
The Telwynium
Powerhoof brought us the fantastic pulpy point-and-click adventure game The Drifter in 2025, and it returns with Dave Lloyd’s homage to classic adventure games and The Wheel of Time.
Expect classical fantasy tropes and hook-laden writing.
Release date: 2027
Long Gone
The post-apocalyptic horror adventure sees us exploring an overgrown suburban neighbourhood decades after an outbreak.
While the threat of fast-paced infected is never far behind, the priority is exploration, discovering aspects of lives long gone by, rummaging through the belongings of people’s homes. Got to have a hobby at the end of the world, I guess.
Release date: 2027
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