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The Ballads of Reemus
Botanicula
Gomo
Machinarium
Unmechanical - Not point and click, but still fairly simple. Think there was just one area/puzzle I didn't like and it was just because it relied too much on being fast.
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r8V9b1X3u9VcA12p: Thanks a lot for all your tips and descriptions, I'm sure they'll help others too, finding their next casual adventure to play!

Difficulty for me is linked to boredom and frustration : is it really worth it to waste hours or days trying to solve this silly video game puzzle, and feel proud, when instead, you could, you know, play a video game...

Actually logical puzzles are so annoying to me that I often don't understand them even when I can see them miraculously solved after 50 blind tries :-P
I shall repeat my suggestion: Late Shift.

There are no puzzles, you just make choices during the gameplay. And if you get tired of doing that, you can just watch and the game will make a random choice for you! There's absolutely no way to get stuck, or even get stalled for a moment.

Your choices will determine how the story goes though, but even if you start the game and never touch your computer, the game will finish by itself. :-)
No one mentioned Teenagent: it was the easiest adventure game in my life (literally). This game is fun too, but too short, yet it is free to play.
https://www.gog.com/game/teenagent

Also there is Prisoner of Ice, another adventure game I finished without any assistance, one minor pixel hunting is present which should not be a problem, it's pretty obvious really.
https://www.gog.com/game/call_of_cthulhu_prisoner_of_ice
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Leroux: If you managed to play through the Syberia games and Sanitarium without a walkthrough, you can't be that impatient and bad at solving puzzles.
Not necessarily: I suck at adventure games miserably but managed to complete Sanitarium in 2 days with no help at all, the hardest part was probably locating a church bell in one area. Syberia 1 was not so difficult as well, haven't played the second one though.
Post edited February 14, 2020 by Cadaver747
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Cadaver747: Not necessarily: I suck at adventure games miserably but managed to complete Sanitarium in 2 days with no help at all, the hardest part was probably locating a church bell in one area. Syberia 1 was not so difficult as well, haven't played the second one though.
Yeah, but I like I said, with most adventure games you can't really predict whether someone will get stuck in them or not, it varies from player to player and can have multiple reasons. I don't recall whether I had to use a walkthrough for Sanitarium or Syberia, but I don't remember them sticking out as super easy either, just your average adventure games, hit or miss. The only one I played where I could safely predict that most players will get stuck in it at some point or other would be Gabriel Knight 2, but I wouldn't call it difficult per se, just badly designed. (A shame, because the campy FMV and the storytelling are quite fun.)
Post edited February 14, 2020 by Leroux
The Longest Journey is pretty easy apart from one particular 'rubber ducky' puzzle.
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LootHunter: I would recommend The Longest Journey and its sequels - Dreamfall:TLJ and Dreamfall: Chapters.
I've managed to beat them without walkthrough, unlike Syberia.
The Longest Journey is definitely one I'd have put in if you hadn't.

Regarding its sequels and that is speaking for me, I absolutely totally hated the trolls/cave bit, to the point of swearing and screaming insults at those things. Though I know some others where in the same boat, whether I/we just plain sucked at that section or it just sucks all by itself, dunno. As much as I loved the first one, despite having saves for those personally hated bits, haven't replayed the others.

Staying with the classics you can find here and not already mentioned, Runaway was a fun one.

Also The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav and Memoria are worth mentioning as well I think, they have (both if memory serves) hotspot and combination indicators.
Post edited February 14, 2020 by Flyingfluffypiglet
I suggest Technobabylon. The story is divided into small chapters, in which the action is confined to a few locations at a time, and often the inventory is reset. Because of that, puzzles tend to fall on the easier side, since there aren't as many possible interactions as in other adventure games.
The old Quest for Glory games are adventure / rpg hybrids that have very few bizarre puzzles- they are mostly sensible ones like "use the grapnel on the window" to climb into a building.

They are probably my favorite games also.
I totally recommend Paradigm.

Not only easy, but also extremely fun to play. Really good game if you have bad mood. Or good - doesn't matter, in both cases it'll be fun :)
Post edited February 14, 2020 by MartiusR
Thanks again for this great list, people in my situation will refer to it when they are in the mood for easy adventure. Thanks to sales, I have some of them already, and I could buy more with this advice list.

I will start with Teenagent, according to the description of Cadaver747 it should be ok :-)

I really hate looking for a solution on the internet for any game, I really feel like failing and as if other people won the game for me. When I'm stuck, I'd sometimes rather quit the game altogether, because when I finish the game the horrible bad conscience lingers on and keeps whispering: "But it wasn't you who achieved it" or "if you idiot just had looked behind the bed or searched for 3 minutes more".

Btw, in Syberia 2 I was stuck almost at the end of the game, and I was desperate not to fail, I checked everything again and again and I eventually looked it up... and it was a known bug where game doesn't give you an object so you can't complete the puzzle (combine a sort of fishing trap in a cave, if I remember well). Biggest relief in my life, I didn't fail (and I downloaded a saving point just after this puzzle).
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r8V9b1X3u9VcA12p: Thanks again for this great list, people in my situation will refer to it when they are in the mood for easy adventure. Thanks to sales, I have some of them already, and I could buy more with this advice list.
Umm, you seem to have a rather special use of the term "easy".

If older games are up your alley, I would really recommend
- Eric the Unready (https://www.gog.com/game/eric_the_unready) and
- And Spellcasting series (https://www.gog.com/game/spellcasting_123)

All those are games that are not "easy" but really solvable by logical thinking. I would also recommend Death Gate, one of the most outstanding games in terms of hard but fair puzzles, but sadly it has been here only for a few days due to license issues.
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LootHunter: And Amerzone (place) is mentioned in Syberia (game).
Oh, nice, i didn´t remember this, i played both a lot years ago, thanks for the info, ;)
Post edited February 17, 2020 by argamasa
Phantasmagoria. Only 1, not the sequel.
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zlaywal: All the Artifex Mundi games here are easy and relaxing.
I finished "My Brother Rabbit" ALONE WITHOUT HELP AT ALL. I was on the border of hysteria, like what's happening, is it really me who achieved it? :-p

Needs decent observation and some pondering for light puzzles to access things, but totally feasable and very few frustrations.

By the way, it's a modest game but cute and funny animations, nice music and a bittersweet story mixing brilliantly fantasy and reality seen by children, I enjoyed it not only for finishing it.
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zlaywal: All the Artifex Mundi games here are easy and relaxing.
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r8V9b1X3u9VcA12p: I finished "My Brother Rabbit" ALONE WITHOUT HELP AT ALL. I was on the border of hysteria, like what's happening, is it really me who achieved it? :-p

Needs decent observation and some pondering for light puzzles to access things, but totally feasable and very few frustrations.

By the way, it's a modest game but cute and funny animations, nice music and a bittersweet story mixing brilliantly fantasy and reality seen by children, I enjoyed it not only for finishing it.
Yes, I do wish they make more "My Brother Rabbit" like game, rather than their usual formula of Heroine+Supernatural stuff.

The closest thing to that is "Tiny Bang Story".