Adventure Video Games42
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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Spiritfarer
Adventure 18 August 2020
A hybrid of adventure game, platform game and economic strategy, whose main theme is... dying. In Spiritfarer, the player takes on the role of a girl who, like a mythical Charon, takes the dead to the underworld on her boat. The production was developed by the Canadian independent studio Thunder Lotus Games.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted
Adventure 28 May 2019
A collection of mini-games, prepared with virtual reality technology in mind, reproducing various types of activities and cult scenes known from the Five Nights at Freddy's series. The production was developed by the developer Steel Wool Studios and released by ScottGames.
AWAY: The Survival Series
Adventure 28 September 2021
AWAY: The Survival Series is an adventure game inspired by documentary films from Breaking Walls studio. The player takes on the role of a sugar glider, which has to survive on the cataclysmic planet.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
Adventure 11 December 2019
A narrative game set in the World of Darkness, a universe known from the "paper" RPG system Vampire: The Masquerade. Production allows you to become a member of one of the three vampire clans, which becomes part of the conflict between two powerful vampire factions. The Polish studio Draw Distance is responsible for creating this title.
Paper Beast
Adventure 24 March 2020
An exploratory adventure game in which we find ourselves in an alternative reality created from data stored on the server. Paper Beast gives us a wide world at our disposal, which we explore without looking at any targets imposed from above.
JCB Pioneer: Mars
Adventure 01 September 2017
A survival game in which players take on the role of the first colonizers of the Red Planet. Their tasks include not only the struggle for survival (with the need to replenish oxygen, food and water supplies), but also the extraction of raw materials and the development of new technologies. The title allows you to have fun both alone and in the company of other people.
Candleman
Adventure 20 October 2017
A unique action-adventure game developed by an independent Chinese studio Spotlightor Interactive. The player assumes the role of the titular candle that can burn for only ten seconds. This flame is the only weapon of the protagonist during the long and dangerous journey to find the far away light. The gameplay mechanics of Candleman are based on principles of three-dimensional platform games.
World End Syndrome
Adventure 30 August 2018
A visual novel with dating simulator features. During the game, the player assumes the role of the protagonist who arrives at the seaside city of Mihate. There, he meets two girls. His fate depends on the actions and decisions made by the players.
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.
Hiveswap
Adventure 14 September 2017
Hiveswap is an adventure game based on the popular webcomic Homestuck. It was financed though a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, gathering almost 2.5 million dollars. Initially, the game was to be developed by two studios: What Pumpkin, founded by Andrew Hussie, the creator of the original comic, and Odd Gentlemen. The latter, however, abandoned the production to work on the episodic reboot of the King's Quest series together with Activision. Hussie calls Hiveswap an adventure game parody.
Endless Fables 2: Frozen Path
Adventure 14 November 2017
The sequel to a casual adventure game developed by the Hungarian developer Sunward Games. This time around, an anthropologist by the name of Pamela Cavendish sets off to find her missing friend, who has not come back from the expedition, on which he was researching the sources of a Norse myth about Hodur and Loki. Yet again, the players get to explore diversified locations, collect multiple items, and solve various puzzles.
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.
The Red Strings Club
Adventure 22 January 2018
A thriller adventure game set in a cyberpunk setting. The players assume the role of a bartender and a hacker and stop the corporation called Supercontinent Ltd. from manipulating human personality in an attempt to eliminate all negative feeling and emotions including anger, depression, and agoraphobia.
Lost Eden
Adventure 31 March 1995
Set in a fantastic version of prehistoric times adventure game. Faced with the threat from the evil Moorkus Rex and his army of bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs, as the prince of a decadent family of human rulers, we must rebuild the old alliance of humans and dinosaurs and save both species from inevitable extinction.
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.
Clock Tower: Rewind
Adventure 29 October 2024
Clock Tower is a remastered version of the first game in an iconic Japanese horror series. It's an adventure game with survival horror elements, tasking us with solving puzzles while avoiding a murderous stalker.
The Darkside Detective
Adventure 27 July 2017
The Darkside Detective is a retro point-and-click adventure game developed by the independent studio Spooky Doorway. The game takes place in the suburban American city of Twin Lakes where two dimensions intertwine with each other, and supernatural events happen on a daily basis.
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.
Four Last Things
Adventure 23 February 2017
Four Last Things is an unusual, funny point & click adventure in 2D, which was prepared on the basis of fragments of works from the Renaissance era. Its creator, Joe Richardson, presents his game with the words "a bit like Monkey Island, if it had been created in the 16th century Flemish Region by the time traveler Monthy Python's fanboy".
Discovery Tour by Assassin's Creed: Ancient Egypt
Adventure 20 February 2018
A standalone production based on an educational mode for the Assassin's Creed Origins game. The developers of Discovery Tour by Assassin’s Creed: Ancient Egypt allow the players to embark on a virtual journey to the ancient empire of the pharaohs, and discover various curiosities about the everyday life of its inhabitants, about its monumental structures, renowned historical figures and the mysterious mummification process.
Detective Gallo
Adventure 30 May 2018
A point-and-click adventure game, in which we assume control of the eponymous Detective Gallo – an anthropomorphic bird that attempts to solve the mystery behind the murder of five exotic plants. During the game, we often solve puzzles and conduct conversations with neutral characters in order to shed new light on the case. When it comes to visuals, we are dealing with hand-drawn 2D graphics.
Closed Nightmare
Adventure 19 July 2018
A horror adventure game, in which we take the role of Maria Kamishiro. The heroine of Closed Nightmare gets captured and is forced to take part in an experiment – the only way to win her freedom is to complete it.
Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly
Adventure 27 April 2018
An otome visual novel adventure game. The players assume the role of a young female protagonist who wakes up in a giant, mysterious mansion. She doesn’t remember who she is. The giant house is inhabited by dangerous monsters. Five men that are in similar situation are helping the protagonist fight the monsters.
Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
Adventure 25 August 2020
The adventure maintained in the convention of survival horror, which takes us to cyberpunk Neo Hong Kong full of references to Chinese folklore. In Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story we play the role of Mei Lin Mak, who investigates an apartment building hiding a bloody secret. In the course of the game we not only talk to the inhabitants of the city and solve riddles, but also face the ghosts wandering through the corridors and rooms of the gloomy building.