King's Quest, Quest for Glory and other point-and-click adventure games have been products of the golden age of adventure games. If you remember how beautiful(and challenging/merciless) was old-school adventure games, there is a point-and-click adventure game for you recently released for absolutely free. The game is inspired from Quest for Glory series where you can start with three different adventurer classes in this case Sorceress, Fighter and Thief which will have a different perspective on the game as well as have different solutions to matters. But from the start one can hybridize some skills to a degree which provides a small room for wiggling between playstyles.

http://www.crystalshard.net/hq.htm


Check it out. To summarize what I liked there:

-Nice old-school environments and characters
-Decent voices and character portraits
-Puzzles and quests, lots of them which can be solved in many ways depending on your character class and as well as what you wish to do (some things are purely optional)
-Imaginative ways to die, and there is a heavy attention on detail.
-Based on Norse mythology and lore
-NPCs with schedules and branching dialogue lines, as well as their behaviour may change depending who else is in the room.
-Quest of Glory style fun battles
-Enough stuff to spend your hard earned silver
-Mini games such as gambling
-Brewing potions
-Hunger, sleep deprivation and frostbite
-Ratatosk the Squirrel of Doom!

If you feel like nostalgic, a must-download definitely. I enjoy it quite much and if you like old-school adventure/RPG hybrids you will like too.