Double Fine Productions is definitely worth checking out. They've recently released Broken Age, a successfully-kickstarted effort. Act I is out now and is absolutely wonderful (in my personal opinion), with Act II still in development.
For those not in the know, Double Fine Productions was founded by Tim Schafer, who is ex-LucasArts and was lead on Grim Fandango and heavily involved in the Monkey Island series too.
I just finished Act I last night. Amazing game, and regrettably (although understandably) too short.
It's been years since I've played a good adventure game, and Broken Age definitely scratched that itch.
I played the latter half of Shay's storyline with my daughter (she was amused by the teleporter's side effects), we're going to replay Vella's storyline since she missed that part.
I found Broken Age to be terrible. Visually it was not too bad, but the great puzzles and whacky humour were almost entirely gone. A small fraction remained, but definitely not enough to motivate the price - especially when considering the length.
A game that did manage to get it almost entirely right, though (not extremely visually appealing when compared to 2d art, but still decent), is The Book of Unwritten Tales (and also its prequel, though I did not like it quite as much).
People don't talk about the games made by the AGS community too much, and they keep a lot to themselves, which is a pity, because there are some true gems there.
> For those not in the know, Double Fine Productions was founded by Tim Schafer, who is ex-LucasArts and was lead on Grim Fandango and heavily involved in the Monkey Island series too.
Ron Gilbert was also involved in Broken Age, as far as I know.
I don't think Ron was involved much on Broken Age. He's been working on his own games more recently, including The Cave (at DF) and Scurvy Scallywags (indie).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Age
For those not in the know, Double Fine Productions was founded by Tim Schafer, who is ex-LucasArts and was lead on Grim Fandango and heavily involved in the Monkey Island series too.