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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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Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet

Adventure 01 March 1993

A cult adventure game based on the story of two short stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. You play the role of a young journalist whose task is to decipher the riddle of the madness of the once outstanding scientist Lord Boleskine.

PC

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream

Adventure 23 May 1995

A point-and-click adventure based on Harlan Ellison's best-selling novella, based on the science fiction thriller convention. The story of I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream is set in a world where a powerful supercomputer called AM has taken control of the nuclear resources of the most powerful nations and led to the annihilation of almost all humanity.

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Resident Evil: Outbreak
Resident Evil: Outbreak

Adventure 31 March 2004

Spin-off of the popular series of action games, realized in the survival horror convention. Developed by Capcom, the production introduces a breath of fresh air to the series in the form of numerous changes and improvements to the gameplay. Players find themselves in a city overrun by zombies, which they travel in the skin of one of eight different characters.

PS2

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars

Adventure 15 March 2002

Modification of the first installment of the popular series of adventure games. The action begins in Paris, where a bomb explosion takes place. An American present on the ground decides to investigate the case. Very quickly it turns out that the protagonist got entangled in a serious intrigue. The game is a typical representative of the genre - you will find in it conversations with characters, riddles and diverse locations.

GBA

Primal
Primal

Adventure 25 March 2003

Jen and Scree, a girl and a gargoyle, set off on an adventure full of puzzles, battles, creatures of unheard of beauty, but also a form of cruelty and inborn evil. Will you restore the balance of power in the fantastic world of Oblivion?

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Knights - Learn to fly
Knights - Learn to fly

Adventure 11 April 2005

Another game after Kajko and Kokosz in Borostworów Land is an adventure and skill game for children (from four years), entirely based on the cult comic book by Janusz Christy, or more precisely - on the volume "Szkola latania" (Flying School).

PC

Delaware St. John Volume 1: The Curse of Midnight Manor
Delaware St. John Volume 1: The Curse of Midnight Manor

Adventure 28 June 2005

Delaware St. John Volume 1: The Curse of Midnight Manor is an adventure game by Bryan Wiegale, who previously worked on Inherent Evil: The Haunted Hotel and Whiplash.

PC

RealMYST
RealMYST

Adventure 17 November 2000

Three-dimensional version of the classic adventure game Myst, enriched with a few new puzzles to solve and changed in relation to the original ending.

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Schizm: Mysterious Journey
Schizm: Mysterious Journey

Adventure 05 September 2001

Schism: The True Challenge is a classic adventure created by the Polish development studio Detalion. The action of the game has been set in the near future. The player directs the actions of the Angel spacecraft crew, who are trying to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of the inhabitants of the planet Argilus. The plot is the responsibility of well-known science fiction writers Terry Dowling and Tomasz Kolodziejczak.

PC

Arthur's Knights: Origins of Excalibur
Arthur's Knights: Origins of Excalibur

Adventure 15 December 2000

Embark on a foggy medieval europe religious war, lead with courage and bravery to the appointment of you as the Knight of the Roundtable, or take the side of the Celtic believers and prove your worth there.

PC

Stupid Invaders
Stupid Invaders

Adventure 28 February 2001

An adventure game based on an animated series, consciously breaking the conventions of its genre. The five aliens whose spaceship breaks down are trying to leave the Earth and return to their own planet.

PC

Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon
Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon

Adventure 25 November 2003

Schism II: Chameleon is the second part of the 2001 adventure game Schism: The Real Challenge. The player takes on the role of a young man named Dream, which wakes up after two hundred years of sleep in a cryogenic chamber, a punishment for the devastation of the planet Sarpedon. His task is to find out what really happened and who was the cause. Terry Dowling, an Australian science fiction writer, is responsible for the feature layer of the game produced by Detallion studio.

PC

The Silent Hill Experience
The Silent Hill Experience

Adventure 06 April 2006

The Silent Hill Experience is a product referring to one of the most popular series of horror action games, Silent Hill. However, this is not another game from the series, but an interactive package thematically related to the popular cycle.

PSP

Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern
Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern

Adventure 15 July 2001

An epic epic epic set in a world created by a series of books by Anne McCaffrey entitled Riders of Dragons from Pern. Nice for the eye and atmospheric 3D graphics.

PC

ECHO: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
ECHO: Secrets of the Lost Cavern

Adventure 01 July 2005

Secret of the Lost Cavern: The Missing Cave Mystery is an adventure game produced by Kheops Studio development team in collaboration with Mzone Studio and Totem Studio. The action was set in prehistoric times, and the player plays the role of Aroka - a young hunter who wants to learn the art of rock painting.

PC

Hector: Badge of Carnage
Hector: Badge of Carnage

Adventure 27 April 2011

A humorous adventure game in which we play the role of a not too clumsy policeman. The game is about exploring the location, collecting objects, conducting conversations and solving riddles. It is worth mentioning the attractive cartoon graphics and excellent plot, often stuffed to the brim with vulgar, but at the same time extremely funny jokes.

PC

Dear Esther
Dear Esther

Adventure 14 February 2012

Dear Esther is an adventure game with a first person perspective, with a rather heavy and dark climate. Here we are only exploring the surroundings and listening to the scraps of stories, which we have to put together into a coherent story.

PCiOS

Last King of Africa
Last King of Africa

Adventure 28 November 2008

Last King of Africa is a game created by Benoit Sokala team. As usual in the case of this author we are dealing with a point & click adventure.

NDS

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

Adventure 23 October 2007

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is an arcade game that combines the features of a platformer and shooting. It's an another installment of the series about the adventures of a rat-like friendly creature named Ratchet and his friend - the robot Clank.

PS3

Jade Rousseau: The Fall of Sant’ Antonio
Jade Rousseau: The Fall of Sant’ Antonio

Adventure 14 September 2010

The first of the planned six episodes of the hidden object adventure, in which we play the role of a young inspector, Jade Rousseau. The game consists mainly in finding on the screen the items indicated in the lists, but there are also traditional puzzles of logic.

PC

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure 11 January 2011

A humorous adventure by the father of the Phoenix Wright series. We play the role of a spirit that must solve the mystery of its own death and stop the perpetrator from murdering more people. The game is about saving potential victims by manipulating inanimate objects on the screen.

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Penumbra: Requiem
Penumbra: Requiem

Adventure 27 August 2008

Add-on to Penumbra's horror-converted adventure: Black Plague. It is the culmination of the whole cycle. Again, we have to go through the nooks and crannies of the abandoned research complex in Greenland on the way meeting well known figures from previous episodes.

PC

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Adventure 05 February 2013

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is the fourth installment of a series of action adventure games with a nice shed in the lead role. Developed by Sanzaru Games with PlayStation 3 users in mind, Sly and his gang set off on a journey into the past to get to know the hero's ancestors and prevent changes in the Thievius Raccoonus book.

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Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon

Adventure 20 August 2010

A point-and-click adventure in which we play the role of a former British soldier, Fenton Paddock's currently recruited smuggler. We try to prevent the Nazis from awakening ancient, dark powers.

PCANDiOS