With Tempest Rising and a new Age of Empires 2 DLC, the classic RTS seems to be mounting a comeback. Similarly, the boomer shooter trend is alive and well, maintaining the spirit of the '90s shooters that solidified PC's status as a platform. And now, seemingly, the erstwhile point-and-click genre is returning from the grave. Riven has been remastered. Likewise the original Broken Sword, and Amerzone The Explorer's Legacy. Even Myst has recently been enhanced and expanded. But there's more to come. Another game from Benoît Sokal, the writer and creator of Amerzone, is about to get a full remaster. 23 years after it was originally released, Syberia is back.
First launched back in 2002, the original puzzle game, Syberia is more serious in tone than some of its genre contemporaries, like Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and Sierra's satirical Space Quest series. You play a lawyer named Kate Walker, who travels to a French village to oversee the takeover of a factory that produces human-like automatons. The rich, metallic, art-deco world is often reminiscent of Myst, but Syberia is played in third-person, same as Broken Sword.
And now it's coming back. Syberia Remastered completely overhauls the game's visuals, and also introduces new puzzle designs, a more intuitive interface, and smoother controls. It follows on the heels of the Amerzone remaster; in our Amerzone The Explorer's Legacy review, Miri calls the relaunched version an "enchanting, exotic adventure, and a loving tribute to the source material." There's no specific release date for the new version of Syberia yet, but it's provisionally scheduled to be released before the end of 2025. You can already wishlist it right here.
If you're a point-and-click fan, you should also take a look at the recent Myst update, which combines all of the expansions and extra material from the past 32 years into the remastered edition.
Otherwise, try some of the best old games that you can still run today.
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