Adventure Video Games62
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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Niko: Through The Dream
Adventure 10 July 2015
A minimalistic adventure game from the independent studio of Paint. In this FPP title, we try to help the main heroine in returning to the real world. The gameplay emphasizes traveling, solving logical puzzles and avoiding traps. Puzzles revolve around colors, shapes and sounds, meaning that the game requires almost ceaseless concentration from player.
Draw a Stickman: EPIC 2
Adventure 09 July 2015
The second installment of the popular original adventure game series developed by the Chinese-American Hitcents studio. This time, the players are in control of two self-created heroes who find themselves inside a magic book that represents a world conquered by dark forces. Your objective is to help the inhabitants and put an end to the invasion. Once again, gameplay is based on solving various puzzles, fending off opponents, and avoiding numerous traps.
Knee Deep
Adventure 06 July 2015
An episodic noir adventure story developed by Prologue Games. The action takes place in Cypress Knee, a small town located in the swampy region of Southern Florida. The story begins with an alleged suicide of a washed-out Hollywood star whose corpse is found hanging from a tower at a local amusement park. However, some of the evidence contradicts the leading theory, while the case is investigated by three individuals: a private detective, a local journalist, and a popular blogger.
Syberia Collection
Adventure 25 June 2015
A set of the first two installments in the popular Syberia series — point-and-click adventure games by Benoit Sokal, originally released in 2002 and 2003. The games' console port, created over 10 years after the original release, does not change the gameplay or visuals much, but it introduces gamepad support. In Siberia, you play as a young lawyer named Kate Walker, who was hired by a toymaking company to finalize formalities regarding a takeover of a factory in a small European town.
Her Story
Adventure 24 June 2015
A unique detective game by Sam Barlow, the main designer and writer of Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Her Story is a rare example of a FMV adventure game — most of the visuals consists of videos of live-action actors. The plot of Her Story focuses on a British woman named Hannah, whose husband went missing in mysterious circumstances. Based on the recordings of her testimonies from 1994, you have to discover the truth behind those events.
Detective Dixie: The Revenge of Wishteria
Adventure 13 June 2015
A mobile adventure game by Indonesian studio Giant Leap. Detective Dixie: The Revenge of Wishteria is set in a fantasy steampunk world, the streets of which are populated by both humans and being from legends and fables. When a series of mysterious crimes plagues the eponymous city of Wishteria, young detective Dixie takes action. Although at first the cases seem not to be related to each other, the protagonist soon gathers clues hinting that all the crimes were committed by the same person.
Alone in the Dark: Illumination
Adventure 12 June 2015
Alone in the Dark: Illumination is the sixth major game of the Alone in the Dark series, which began between 1992 and 1995 with the cult trilogy developed by I-Motion. This time, however, a completely new studio - Pure - was chosen to develop a game from the fan-favorite series. The game takes place in a mining town of Lorwich, where four heroes will have to face the forces of evil. Each of them has different abilities and a slightly different gameplay.
Kholat
Adventure 09 June 2015
A first-person survival horror game developed by Polish development studio IMGN.pro. The game's story is inspired by true events that took place in 1959 at the Dyatlov Pass in the Ural mountains, where the dead bodies of nine Russian hikers were found, and the cause of their death remained unclear. We only know that most of them died of hypothermia, and evidence indicates that they were forced to flee from an unknown danger.
Sylvio
Adventure 05 June 2015
A horror-themed action-adventure game allowing us to assume the role of Juliette Waters, a woman whose occupation is recording the voices of spirits. Interestingly enough, Sylvio is a project of an independent developer, Niklas Swanberg. Our heroine travels to an abandoned amusement park, left to decay after a powerful storm had led to a landslide. It quickly turns out that the spirits living in the park are very vicious, and the whole area is under the influence of a mysterious curse.
Wander
Adventure 04 June 2015
An unusual MMO game, focusing completely on relaxing exploration, which you do on your own or with other players. Unlike other games in the genre, Wander features absolutely no rivalry element. The game is set on an alien planet. The protagonist wakes up in the middle of a tropical forest, unable to remember how she got there, and, to her surprise, discovers that she can shapeshift. She embarks on a journey through the mysterious world, trying to learn all its secrets.
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
Adventure 28 May 2015
An adventure game/visual novel developed by 5pb, a Japanese studio known with immense experience with the genre. Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness takes place in the world of Psycho-Pass, a popular science-fiction anime series. We are introduced to a grim version of 2113, in which a complex computer system called Sybil monitors the actions, thoughts, and emotional state of the inhabitants, creating a criminal behavior estimate for every citizen.
Homesick
Adventure 28 May 2015
Developed by a small indie studio Lucky Pause, Homesick is an adventure game inspired by such classics like e.g. the Myst series. The story of Homesick starts off when a nameless hero wakes up in a mysterious, abandoned house. The player’s task is to solve the dark mystery of the building and escape this unusual prison. Pursuing these objectives puts you up against a dark entity.
Nubs' Adventure
Adventure 27 May 2015
A pixel-art two-dimensional platform game developed and released by IMakeGames, an independent Austrian game developer. Nubs' Adventure enables us to assume the role of an inconspicuous pixelated being living in a small hut upon the hill. One day, his home is visited by two red monsters that ransack his home and throw him into the abyss.
Subject 13
Adventure 26 May 2015
The game was developed by Microids studio, whose back catalogue includes, among others, the cult adventure game series, Siberia. The protagonist of this game is Franklin Fargo, a PhD of physics kidnapped by a shady organization. The game begins when he wakes up in a mysterious facility, already under the alias of Subject 13. As you might guess, from there on the main task of his is to escape. The gameplay is based on exploration of 3D environments and interaction with its elements.
Sunset
Adventure 21 May 2015
A unique adventure game from independent studio Tale of Tales, set in 1972 in a fictional South American metropolis. We play as Angela Burnes – a maid hired by a influential business tycoon Gabriel Ortega. Every evening she cleans the millionaire’s house and then snoops around his private things, soon she discovers a wide-scale plot to overthrow the military regime that rules the country. What role will Miss Burnes play in this intrigue depends entirely on player’s actions.
Til Morning's Light
Adventure 21 May 2015
Til Morning's Light is an action-adventure game developed by the indie studio Way Forward Technologies. We play as Erika Page, a teenager stuck in a cursed mansion. Our job is to find the residence's many secrets and, first and foremost, a way to escape. We have to do it before the sunrise, or else Erika will be turned into a ghost and join the many supernatural creatures that haunt the place.
Technobabylon
Adventure 21 May 2015
An oldschool adventure game in a cyberpunk setting. Technobabylon is an expanded version of a free episodic adventure game from Technocrat. This version was developed by the indie studio Wadjet Eye Games, which has previously created such titles as Primordia and Gemini Rue.
Monstrum
Adventure 20 May 2015
A survival horror game from an independent studio, Team Junkfish. Player takes control of a man trying to escape from a giant, decaying ship, with a titular monster pursuing him all the time. The beast cannot be confronted directly, meaning the hero can only hide or distract the creature with various items. The world is observed from third-person perspective, and all but crucial rooms are randomly generated.
Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness
Adventure 19 May 2015
32nd installment in the adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game's protagonist is Nancy Drew, a young detective girl known from the detective novel series by Carolyn Keene. This time the story focuses on the disappearance of Magnus, the captain of the famous ship called the Heerlijkheid, also serving as a museum. Drew has to find him and put an end to the rumors, according to which Magnus ran off with a treasure he found or gave himself up to some dark forces.
N.E.R.O: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure
Adventure 15 May 2015
Developed by the debuting independent studio Storm in a Teacup, an unusual first-person adventure game, the visuals of which are strongly connected with the plot and mechanics. The action of N.E.R.O. takes place in a surreal world that is projected in a little boy’s mind. The uniqueness of the title comes from omnipresent bioluminescence – dark sceneries are lighted up by bright, phosphorescent objects that at the same time serve as a kind of road signs.
Sons of Uruzime
Adventure 13 May 2015
An adventure gamebook with RPG elements for mobile devices. Sons of Uruzime was inspired by stories by Howard Philips Lovecraft and utilizes many motives from the Cthulhu Mythos. You play as a University of Miskatonic professor, who receives a letter from a missing student. The student warns the professor against a dark cult involving much of the university's staff. The story is shown mostly via text with occasional pictures.
Home is Where One Starts...
Adventure 13 May 2015
A short first-person exploration game designed for VR headsets. The title of the game, Home is Where One Starts… comes from the poem Four Quartets by Thomas S. Eliot. The game is a sort of poetic visual story with such themes as childhood, memories, and hope. Interestingly, this is a work of basically one man, who only used the help of his closest family. Home is Where One Starts… tells a story of a teenage girl who leaves her home for school early in the morning, but misses her bus.
Toren
Adventure 12 May 2015
Set in a fairy tale-like world, Toren is an action game developed by Swordtales, an indie studio from Brazil. We play as a princess who was imprisoned in a tower, and our job is to escape. That task may not be as easy as one might think. We will have to face many obstacles, from platform elements to battles with various tough enemies. However, a flying dragon-like creature is our biggest opponent here. It tries to keep us inside the tower.
Malebolgia
Adventure 06 May 2015
A scary adventure title created by Jochen Mistiaen – an independent developer from Belgium. In Malebolgia, you assume the role of Leopold who, in unclear circumstances, finds himself in a mansion built in the heart of hell. His objective is to get out of this horrid residence, which requires not only exploring the ominous palace, but also solving various puzzles and fighting bloodthirsty demons. Luckily, the hero is not defenseless – he battles his way through hell with a halberd.