As I kid I really loved the Quest for Glory series. The exploration, building up your character, combat, puzzles, and especially humor all appealed to me.
I just learned that Heroine's Quest: Herald of Ragnarok is a sort of remake that is available on Steam. I thought this was awesome and wanted to share it because I only ran across it yesterday.
What are your experiences with QFGs. Have you found any retro games that remind you of them?
Little Big Adventure sort of fits your description.
Quest for Infamy, currently available in groupees bunlde for 50 cents (steam key).
Thanks to AGS there's probably gazillion adventure games like that, some good and some bad. Some /vr/ related and some tad newer.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/
>>3299596
>black comedy about the siege of stalingrad
thank you for this site
>>3299563
Order of the Thorne seems similar.