I'm a little tired of all the horror and darkness games. Are there some out there that are good (no pun intended) but lighter?

Try Kaptain Krawe, it was great light hearted fun and the ending had me laughing out loud.

Ana

Have you played So Blonde? Totally hilarious.

"Blue Madonna" in a couple of weeks... and the 6 previous games in MDNA's Carol Reed series.

A few more recent ones:

Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island
Jolly Rover
Lost Horizon
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Whispered World

I was going to suggest Kaptain Brawe and Ghost Pirates of Vooju and I hear a lot of people saying they really enjoyed Lost Horizon.

It's Kaptain Brawe by the way.

I strongly second Lost Horizon, So Blonde, The Whispered World and Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island.

Some other recommendations: the Runaway series, Ceville and Jack Keane. A Vampyre Story is also good, though a little on the short side.

Cathy. Venus I had forgot about the Runaway series. Those games were very good.

Space Quest, the Runaway series are some of my favorite recent games. I'm really looking forward to The Next Big Thing as well.

You have to try So Blonde and Lost Horizon!

So Blonde was a lot of fun - great humor - great artwork - funny story and characters - and it was a pretty long game too. Well worth the time and $$$

Same goes for Lost Horizon !

One more game had me laughing out loud that was also a great game - Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman Mine. The game has a commentator that was hilarious.

All of these I downloaded without issues.

You have to try So Blonde and Lost Horizon!

So Blonde was a lot of fun - great humor - great artwork - funny story and characters - and it was a pretty long game too. Well worth the time and $$$

Same goes for Lost Horizon !

One more game had me laughing out loud that was also a great game - Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman Mine. The game has a commentator that was hilarious.

All of these I downloaded without issues.

The biggest problem is finding one which is "lighter" and which is not a cartoon. A lot of the Kheops games (other than Dracula) are like this. Possibly also Lost Horizon (though I haven't played it yet).

I have to agree Jenny100 that many of the lighter games tend to be in cartoon style - I never thought about that until you mentioned it!

I thought Yoomurjuks Ring was an excellent 'lighter' game that doesn't have a cartoon style but as far as I know it's only available as a download in English?

Yoomurjak's Ring is available as a digital download from The Adventure Shop with voices in Hungarian and subtitles in English (it's full motion video).

Venus,
The next Big Thing is a must for me too.

Wow! Thanks, everybody. I can see I'm going to be busy (and broke)!

Have fun Syndalee