Adventure Video Games54
Adventure games. They include three fundamental elements: exploration, solving puzzles and strongly emphasized story. Controlled characters collect items and use them in puzzles in order to push the story further. Adventure games usually offer only single player mode and the point-and-click interface. This category includes also HOPAs (Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure games) which put emphasis on searching items hidden on the screen.
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Downfall
Adventure 15 February 2016
Downfall is a bloody horror adventure with a classic point & click interface. The player directs the actions of Joe Davis, who tries to find his lost wife in a hotel like a nightmare. Due to the dark subject matter and extremely brutal scenes, the game is addressed only to adult audiences.
Octodad
Adventure 01 November 2010
Octodad is an adventure game with elements of arcade, created by a group of students from the Chicago University DePaul. The player plays the role of a caring father, who hides a dark secret from his loved ones.... The head of the family is an octopus. Production is available free of charge.
Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel
Adventure TBA
Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel is an isometric action-adventure game by Red Little House, stylistically resembling old black-and-white cartoons. The gameplay features solving puzzles with some arcade-like elements.
Stick It to The Man!
Adventure 19 November 2013
Full of absurd humour game Swedish studio Zoink! Games, combining platformer and adventure elements. The action takes place in the world of cardboard cut-outs. The main character accidentally becomes a vector of the tentacle, which allows him to read and transmit the thoughts of others. These skills turn out to be extremely helpful in escaping from agents and the mysterious jegomosc, known as The Man.
Solstice
Adventure 23 March 2016
A mystery adventure game from the visual novel genre, developed by small Polish developer team, MoaCube. It takes us to a fictional city in the middle of a desolate ice desert, cut off from the rest of the world. One day, the local archaeologist disappears. A pair of young people, a bored doctor on a contract and a young women who arrived with the last dog sled, decide to investigate the truth behind the event.
Concrete Genie
Adventure 08 October 2019
Concrete Genie is a action-adventure game by PixelOpus, a studio owned by Sony. You play as Ash, a boy living in a seaside town, who discovers that he has the power to bring the pictures he paints on walls to life.
Wytchwood
Adventure 09 December 2021
Wytchwood is an adventure game focused on gathering and crafting, set in a fairy-tale world. It was developed by indie studio Alientrap. You play as a mysterious witch living in an ancient forest.
Muv-Luv
Adventure 27 October 2011
A visual novel adventure game, the first installment of the popular Japanese series. Production consists of two separate parts. The first is a classic school romance, while the second moves the characters to an alternative version of the Earth, whose inhabitants struggle to survive in the face of invasion by cosmic invaders.
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
Adventure 16 May 2013
A classic visual novel adventure, a prelude to Muv-Luv Alternative, which presents a completely new story and characters. Players take on the role of the test pilot of a new generation of experimental models of mosses built to repel invasions of aliens, who have been effectively taking control of the Earth for several decades.
Fear Effect
Adventure 24 February 2000
An unusual combination of adventure game and survival horror. The production is maintained in the style of science fiction and is distinguished by its original visual setting, combining rendered backgrounds and target-shade character models.
The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk
Adventure 20 October 2017
A continuation to a well-received point-and-click adventure game, developed by the independent Studio Fizbin. The Last Wind Monk is set three years after the events depicted in the original game. Robert, the protagonist, had been turned into a stone and has remained in this form during these three years. As a result, his dynasty lost its influences to the evil Emil. Along with his companions, Robert has to stop the wrongdoer, through finding the titular, Last Wind Monk.
Creeping Terror
Adventure 18 January 2017
Creeping Terror is a 2D survival horror where we play as Arisa, a Japanese high school student, who, together with her friends, ends up in a haunted mansion in order to verify the stories told about it. After entering the residence, the entire group passes out and later wakes up in a sinister cave. Our job is to find a way out and survive. Action in Creeping Terror is presented from a side-scrolling perspective.
The Silver 2425
Adventure 15 March 2017
A compilation of two detective adventure games by Grasshopper Interactive. The Silver 2425 bundle includes a remastered version of The Silver Case, originally released in 1999 for PlayStation, and its remake, titled The 25th Ward: The Silver Case that came out in 2005 for mobile devices. While playing, we are taken to the Japan of 1999, and our task is to solve cases of mysterious murders.
Summer Lesson: Allison Snow Seven Days Garden
Adventure 22 June 2017
A simple adventure game developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment for PlayStation VR. The title was at first developed as a technological demo. In Summer Lesson the player assumes the role of a teacher who provides summer Japanese lessons to an American exchange student. He meets with the girl on the porch of a traditional country house. The gameplay is very simple and player’s interactions with the virtual world are limited to performing a few gestures.
Transference
Adventure 18 September 2018
A psychological thriller adventure game developed by Funhouse (a division of Ubisoft Montreal) in cooperation with SpectreVision. The title debuted on multiple gaming platforms, but only PC and PlayStation 4 versions support virtual reality goggles and dedicated motion controllers. In Transference the player is tasked with solving a mystery of a family whose members are facing various obsessions.
Narcosis
Adventure 28 March 2017
An underwater survival game developed by Honor Code studio, putting us in the role of a professional diver clad in a heavy diving suit to reach greater depths. During a task for an underwater laboratory, an accident occurs and the hero finds himself abandoned on the ocean floor. He must survive and find a way to escape the trap before his oxygen supply runs out. We explore underwater locations, fighting aggressive animals and solving occasional puzzles.
Stories Untold
Adventure 27 February 2017
An unique horror game by No Code, combining four separate stories. In Stories Untold you play as a person sitting in front of a computer, and your task is to acquaint yourself with a series of eerie recordings. In time, the protagonist immerses themselves in the stories so much that they begin to spot inexplicable things in the nooks of the shabby rooms. The game features a first-person view and you are free to look around your surroundings.
428: Shibuya Scramble
Adventure 12 April 2008
428: Shibuya Scramble is a PC-based adventure in the visual novel category. The story is about the kidnapping of a young woman; we follow the story from the perspective of five different characters, and decisions taken in the body of one of them affect the situation of the others.
Tartarus
Adventure 22 November 2017
A first-person perspective adventure game that takes place in year 2230. The security protocol on the mining and research ship Tartarus is activated for unknown reasons. It might cause the ship to crash on Neptun, so the player must manually reset the system before the crew dies.
Bad Dream: Coma
Adventure 09 March 2017
Bad Dream: Coma is an adventure game by Desert Fox. The gameplay focuses on solving puzzles by using items found in the game’s world. The game set inside a nightmare, and the hero who gets trapped inside is ready to go to great lengths just to get out. In order to wake up, he needs to visit a number of horrifying locations, like a ruined bridge, gloomy swamps, or a disturbing hospital. He also meets different characters who are, just like him, trapped in this dreadful dimension.
Vampire: The Masquerade - We Eat Blood
Adventure 16 February 2017
A narrative adventure game from White Wolf Entertainment’s team, based on the popular tabletop game Vampire The Masquerade. It takes place in alternative reality, known as World of Darkness, where many supernatural beings live besides humans. We play as a young vampire, who only recently started to feel the great hunger and noticed changes in his body. Players will help him cope with this new reality and discover the truth about the supernatural world that surrounds him.
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Adventure 20 September 2016
A remake of Dear Esther, a popular narrative exploration game from 2012 that started a whole new genre – the so-called walking simulators. It was developed by the independent studio The Chinese Room. Contrary to the base version of the game that was powered by the Source engine and released only on personal computers, this edition is powered by the Unity technology. This enabled the developers to release their game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well.
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows
Adventure 24 October 2017
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is a horror action-adventure game developed by the Japanese studio Nippon Ichi Software and a sequel to Yomawari: Night Alone. The game takes place in modern-day Japan and tells the story of two girls, Yui and Haru, who can't find the way back home from their trip to the mountains. To make matters worse, they get separated after a short while. In terms of gameplay mechanics, Yomawari: Midnight Shadows will test our dexterity and wit.
The Fidelio Incident
Adventure 23 May 2017
An adventure game featuring elements of the so-called walking simulators and developed by the independent studio Act 3 Games. The protagonist - Stanley, is a man whose past is unclear to the player. The plane he had been using to travel with his wife crashed on a frozen island near the coast of Iceland. The two survived the crash, but end up separated. The protagonist's goal is to reach his wife who is trapped in the wreck that is located on top of a mountain.