...but, but, there's no shooting in those games! No one dies, and there's no action! It's boring!

Sorry, the average gamer couldn't care less about a game where there doesn't happen something all the time. A shame, really.

most RTS are point and click and some MMO can be regarded as even point and click adventures. You have the rail shooters on the Wii which are point and click 

p&c adventure games released during the past 3 years:

The Whispered World http://www.the-whispered-world.com/index.php?lang=en
Tales of Monkey Island http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland
Runaway: A Twist of Fate http://www.runaway-thegame.com/
Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island http://www.ghost-pirates.com/
Lost Horizon http://lost-horizon.deepsilver.com/us/portal/
Machinarium http://machinarium.net/demo/
Ceville http://www.ceville-game.com/en/
Gray Matter (by Jane Jensen) http://www.graymatter-game.com/index.php?lang=en
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax/thedevilsplayhouse
Kaptain Brawe: a Brawe New World http://kaptainbrawe.cateia.com/index.html
A New Beginning http://www.daedalic.de/ANB/index.php/home-en.html
A Vampire Story http://www.vampyrestory-game.com/
Tale of a Hero http://www.future-games.cz/www/taleofhero/en/
Jolly Rover http://www.brawsome.com.au/JollyRover/
The Lost Crown http://www.darklingroom.co.uk/thelostcrown/
15 Days http://www.15days.de/index_eng.html
Black Mirror 2 http://butler-bates.de/
Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon http://www.kheops-studio.com/game/dracula-3-the-path-of-the-dragon
The Abbey http://www.theabbey-game.com/
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis http://www.secretfiles-game.com/secret-files-2/index.php?lang=eng
Rhodan http://www.perry-rhodan-game.de/index.php?lang=en
Mata Hari http://matahari-game.de/
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout http://edna.daedalic.de/?page=3&lang=en&PHPSESSID=d42cc0d0edd589494ccb650b5fc8f83a
Back to the Future (currently releasing in episodes) http://www.telltalegames.com/bttf

Most famous independent p&c adventure developer (afaik): http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/

Recently released fan adventure which seems ot be very good:
What Makes You Tick: A Stitch in Time http://lassiegames.com/stitch/news/

Best English resource site (has an own download shop):
http://www.adventuregamers.com/recommendations.php 

Future p&C releases: http://www.adventuregamers.com/releasedates.php

Today many western p&c games are funded in continental Europe and released there first, mainly in Germany, but also in France and Spain. Even games designed by US designers like ex-Sierra On-Line legend Jane Jensen (Gray Matter) or ex-LucasArts' workers Bill Tiller (A Vampyre Story) and Hal Barwood (Mata Hari).
This UK publisher http://www.mamba-games.co.uk/ soon releases some of the a.m. European-developed games which are not available in English yet, like Jane Jensen's Gray Matter or the acclaimed and in Germany quite successful Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (like many p&c games developed in Germany Edna & Harvey is heavily inspired by LucasArts' legendary adventure games).

there's actually a ton of them comming out all the time... they are mostly by smaller devs though.

just from the top 100 listed of the steam adventure section:

new games:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/33990/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/65080/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/35600/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/51060/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/65500/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/40350/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/63110/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/47130/

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/766/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/18490/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/46750/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/31170/

Packs of new games like Nancy drew, sherlock holmes or agatha christie,  (some are 3D evolution of the drawing point and click):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/43600/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/39610/

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2696/

then the oldies redone with nice graphics:

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6183/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/57640/

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/4870/

then you also have some of the oldies... in oldie form (just got a lucas art pack with dig, loom and a few others... no maniac mantion or full throttle though :-/

you should thry some more then :p

they are on the iOS devices Besides the ports of Broken Sword 1 and 2, Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Beneath a Steel Sky Remasterd, Simon the Sorcher 1 and 2, Myst, the 7th quest, Puzzle Agent, the Manhole and many more.. there are some  gems like:

1112 Episode 01 and 02,


Hector: Badge of Carnage Episode 1

cause of death




and many more...

Place to be is on the Wii/wiiware. 

I can name 2 Sam and Max's, Zack And Wiki, Broken Sword for the Wii and the Strong Bad (5) and Tales Of Monkey Island (5) on Wiiware off the top of my head, all of which have good reviews

Makes sense really, "pointing" is easier on the PC/Wii/DS then on any other consoles, hence they have the majority

Kinda makes me wish for Uninvited, Shadowgate, and Maniac Mansion to be released on the Virtual Console.

Ah, point and click adventures.  I have incredibly fond memories of those games as King's Quest is the first game I remember playing (or trying to play).  Sadly, they're pretty dead nowadays.  True, they occasionally get released but they're incredibly obscure and, well, on the PC.

I think it's the slow gameplay that killed them.  They had great puzzles but the time between those puzzles was just...painful (and sometimes even the puzzles were painful).  They worked back in the 80's and 90's because point and click and RPG's were about the only games that concentrated on story and strategy.  As the action, platformers, adventures, shooters, and every other genre evolved, point and click adventures started becoming obsolete.

Why would I spend hours rubbing every object in the game together trying to find the perfect combination when I can play Uncharted and get a better puzzle?

Why would I spend hours backtracking through screen after screen of walking when I can get a better story in Alan Wake?

Point and click adventures were great 20 years ago but they just don't really have a place in games today.  Any game today can have just as good of a puzzle and writing.  All point and click adventures had was those things and all the ones that dabbled in other areas just kind of failed miserably at it.

And a little off topic, but the next genre of game to suffer the same fate as point and click adventures-- the JRPG.

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All that said, it is interesting how these games can still find a home on portables and handhelds.  I don't know if it's the cheaper development or what, but that's about the only place JRPG's and point and clicks will survive 5-10 years from now.