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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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Law & Order: Legacies
Law & Order: Legacies

Adventure 25 January 2012

An adventure game based on the popular American crime series Law & Order. We play the role of a detective and conduct an investigation trying to determine on the basis of evidence found at the scene of the crime and interrogation of witnesses who committed the crime. We then take part in a court hearing, striving for a fair judgment.

PC

Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Frozen City
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Frozen City

Adventure 25 October 2012

A climatic adventure game in which we play the role of the title detective. We solve the riddles, interrogate the characters we meet and combine all the clues into one whole. This time our task is to unravel the mystery behind the sudden drop in temperature in London.

3DS

1979 Revolution: Black Friday
1979 Revolution: Black Friday

Adventure 05 April 2016

An unconventional action game developed by the American iNKstories studio, focused on The Iranian Revolution - the events of 1979 that led to the overthrow of the dictatorial regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran. 1979 Revolution is set in an open-world environment, reminiscent of subsequent installments in the Grand Theft Auto series.

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Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove
Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove

Adventure 25 November 2009

A "hidden object" type game included in the well-known Mystery Case Files series. Fun mechanics combines standard finding hidden objects on the screen with complex adventure elements consisting in free exploration of the location, collecting objects and solving puzzles.

PC

Lucius
Lucius

Adventure 26 October 2012

A horror adventure game that references the cult Omen movie series. It is a debut title of the independent studio Shiver Games. In the game, the player assumes the role of the titular boy, who was born on June 6, 1966. The soul of the innocent boy was tainted by the devil and the protagonist, once he reaches the age of six, is starting to show his true colors. The game takes place in a giant mansion and the player is tasked with killing the inhabitants of the mansion.

PC

The Experiment
The Experiment

Adventure 11 October 2007

eXperience112 is an unusual adventure created by Lexis Numérique studio. The heroine of the game is professor Lea Nichols, who in unclear circumstances ends up on board a mysterious ship. By controlling the ship's deck systems, the player tries to help the woman get out of the prison she found herself in.

PC

3 Cards to Midnight
3 Cards to Midnight

Adventure 07 May 2009

Three Cards to Midnight is an adventure by Big Finish Games, a company founded by Chris Jones and Aaron Conners. They are co-creators of Tex Murphy, the main character of five well-known production genres - Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum, Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, Tex Murphy: Overseer.

PC

Magritte
Magritte

Adventure 17 November 2007

An independent adventure game created by Polish journalist Marcin M. Dres. We play the role of a man experiencing strange hallucinations in which the paintings of Rene Magritte, a well-known painter, overlap with reality. What's more, the characters from surrealistic works speak and ask for help, which translates into sightseeing in Wroclaw and solving riddles.

PC

Gemini Rue
Gemini Rue

Adventure 24 February 2011

Cyberpunk adventure game with traditional point-n-click interface. The action takes place in the distant future and tells about the overlapping fate of two characters - a former paid killer and a man who is a victim of medical experiments. Graphics and fun mechanisms resemble productions from the early 90s of the last century.

PCANDiOS

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Adventure 27 October 2009

Insomniac Games continues the story told in Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty. Clank is once again in trouble, from which the clever Ratchet will once again draw him out. The protagonists are faced with important existential questions.

PS3

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles

Adventure 17 November 2009

Side-scrolling instalment of the Resident Evil series, realized in the convention of on-rails aiming. Production was developed by Japanese studio Cavia Inc. and its action is set in realities of Resident Evil 2. The plot is driven by inner demons of Claire Redfield and Leon S.. Kennedy's inner demons - events taking place in zombie-ridden Raccoon City are only a dramatic background.

Wii

Sanitarium
Sanitarium

Adventure 30 March 1998

Sanitarium is an adventure game, realized in the convention of surrealistic horror. Developers from the DreamForge Entertainment studio were inspired by the literary work of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe. The action takes place in several separate worlds, and players have the opportunity to play, among others, the cyclop of Grimwall and the Aztec god Olmec.

PCANDiOS

Discworld Noir
Discworld Noir

Adventure 15 July 1999

An adventure game set in the reality of the fantastic Disc World created by writer Terry Pratchett. The title tells the story of the first detective of this universe, Levton, who is entangled in a mysterious intrigue.

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Frank Herbert's Dune
Frank Herbert's Dune

Adventure 03 December 2001

Action adventure game created by the Widescreen Games team. The player plays the role of Paul Atrides, in whose skin he visits the desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. His task is to win the trust of the Fremen people living there and regain the power over the globe, taken away from his family by the house of the ruthless Harkonnenes.

PCPS2

Bermuda Syndrome
Bermuda Syndrome

Adventure 03 November 1995

Arcade adventure variation of the Flashback game. It tells the story of Jacek T. Thompson, an American pilot of a bomber fighting during World War II, who was shot down over one of the islands in the Bermuda Triangle during an unlucky mission.

PC

Lost: Via Domus
Lost: Via Domus

Adventure 26 February 2008

Action adventure game based on the license of a popular TV series. We play the role of one of the 815 flight survivors, trying to solve the riddles of the island. The game is divided into seven basic chapters, and the gameplay is linear in nature. In order to move the story forward, you have to deal with the solution of the quests assigned by the game.

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Open Season
Open Season

Adventure 19 September 2006

Open Season is a family adventure action game, the plot of which is modelled on an animated cinema picture of the same title, for which Sony Pictures Animation is responsible.

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Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files: Tunguska

Adventure 01 September 2006

A classic, two-dimensional point-and-click adventure game developed by German studio Fusionsphere Systems. The story of the game is closely related to the famous Tunguska event which occurred in 1908 and which to this day was never fully explained. There are a few theories explaining what occurred there and some of them are quite unusual. The main protagonist of the game is Nina Kalenkov, a Russian girl living in Germany.

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Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines
Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines

Adventure 09 September 2005

An extensive action game with role-playing elements, in which we will also find elements of the sneaking. We go back to the Second World War and play the role of an American pilot, shot down while performing one of the secret missions, who has to get out of the hostile territory at any cost (the game takes place in Germany in 1944).

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Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter
Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter

Adventure 20 June 2003

Combination of dynamic action/FPS game, comic ship pilot simulator and adventure game. The player as the title character, Mace Griffin, must discover the reason why his comrades in arms were betrayed.

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The Lost Crown: A Ghosthunting Adventure
The Lost Crown: A Ghosthunting Adventure

Adventure 04 March 2008

Adventure game by Darkling Studios. It was inspired by the works of authors of classic detective novels and horror novels, such as Charles Dickens, M.R.James, Arthur Conan Doyle and E.F.Benson.

PC

Discworld
Discworld

Adventure 20 March 1995

Discworld is a classic two-dimensional adventure game, whose plot refers to Terry Pratchett's book saga about the World of Disc. In the title we play the role of an incompetent magician named Rincewind, who is given the task of driving away a terrible dragon summoned by a mysterious cult from another dimension.

PCPS1

Monkey's Adventures
Monkey's Adventures

Adventure 30 May 2005

"Titus" is a Polish arcade game inspired by the cult comic book by Henryk Chmielewski. The Calaris studio programmers dedicate this program mainly to the younger representatives of our society, although older players should also find something for themselves.

PC

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen

Adventure 16 November 2000

Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen is a studio-produced The Collective's third person perspective action adventure game (TPP), based on the theme of a popular TV series. The player directs the actions of the crew of the title space station, who set out to search for the ancient artifacts needed to subdue the power of the dangerous Pah race.

PC