

Unfortunately, Telltale Games ran into financial troubles, and the studio closed in 2018. Their brand of interactive storytelling intuitively blended visual novels, interactive movies, and old-school point-and-click adventure game mechanics became synonymous with the genre, and the benchmark for similarly styled games like Life is Strange.

RELATED: Every Halo Game, Ranked From Worst To Best (According To Metacritic) Their games like The Walking Dead and Back to the Future were a financial and critical success, and some still remain some of the best-licensed games on the market. It could be argued that Telltale Games were responsible for bringing adventure games in the point-and-click genre back into fashion with modern audiences.
