Indie developer Wadjet Eye Games announced Old Skies, the latest point-and-click adventure game from adventure game designer Dave Gilbert. Old Skies is due out Spring 2025 on PC, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Switch.
Fia Quinn is a time traveler, accompanying clients of the ChronoZen Time Travel Agency on jumps to other eras to make sure they don’t rewrite important aspects of history. Some of these people are merely curious. Others have unresolved business. As long as they can pay for the trip, their motivations don’t matter to Fia . . . until they do.
The story sends Fia across seven different time periods spanning two centuries, all within New York City. From the 1920s of Prohibition to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2011 — oof.
The World Trade Center also features prominently in the promotional poster.
Wadjet Eye specializes in publishing retro-looking, 2D, point-and-click adventure games with great puzzles, rich pixel art, and memorable storytelling, comparable to the Golden Age of LucasArts and Sierra adventure games of the 90s.
Gilbert is best known for the Blackwell series, as well as the more recently released (and quite excellent) Unavowed. The games are built using the open source dev tool Adventure Game Studio, from which Gilbert has won a Lifetime Achievement Award.
