Amidst the proliferation of action-packed, visually impressive, immersive shooters and role-playing games, adventure games have been frequently seen as "a genre whose shelf life has obviously expired some time ago" (Vranešević 2017, 23), or one which, albeit "never did exactly die, but it did evolve [and] [...] lost its way" (Cox 2012). The lecture investigates the validity of this view, assessing the genre's presence and viability at present, and contextualizing what is arguably a premature burial in relation to the "ludology" vs "narratology" debate, the fundamental change in the distribution and consumption of games brought about by distribution services such as Steam and GOG.com, and the not unrelated phenomenon of the blooming independent game development scene.