3 Minutes to Midnight is not, as my brain keeps suggesting, a sequel to a classic Maiden track, but a point and click adventure game. I played it at EGX last weekend, because I really like PnCs, as we purists definitely call them (do not check that). Those old Lucasfilm/LucasArts ones like Day of the Tentacle and the Monkey Island series were some of the first games I ever played, and they taught me how puzzles in games are supposed to be solved.

Point and click puzzle adventures have had a bit of a resurgence over the last few years, and it seems like every one of them kind of markets itself like it s the first one to bring back the genre (3 Minutes to Midnight s Steam page says Yeah, puzzles — remember those? , as if there hasn t been a single puzzle in a game since 1989). In this case the game is set in the 40s, and the character I played is wearing a poodle skirt and a letterman jacket. That s, like, two retros for the price of one.

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