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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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Creeping Terror
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.

PCSwitch3DS

Fear Effect
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.

PS1

Close to the Sun
Close to the Sun

Adventure 02 May 2019

Close to the Sun is a horror adventure game developed by Storm in a Teacup. The production takes us to an alternative version of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where thanks to Nikola Tesla's inventions the development of civilization has significantly accelerated. The player takes on the role of a journalist who, while searching for her missing sister, finds himself on board a giant seagoing ship designed by Tesla for research and experimentation.

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The Coma: Recut
The Coma: Recut

Adventure 22 September 2017

A refreshed version of a successful survival horror that came out in 2015. The Coma: Recut is set in the Sehwa high-school in South Korea. Youngho, the main protagonist, having spent the entire night studying, falls asleep during an exam. Once awake, Youngho realizes that he is alone in the classroom and it is already dark outside. However, the true nightmare begins when it turns out that the school is overrun by monsters and an insane killer is walking its hallways.

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Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child
Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child

Adventure 08 June 2017

Co-developed by World-Loom and Artifex Mundi, a hidden object puzzle adventure (HOPA)game. Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child tells a story of the titular heroine who had supernatural powers since childhood, causing her father to put her in an orphanage ran by nuns. After many years, by mistake, she receives a letter addressed to her father. She decides to find him and learn the truth about her abilities. The trace leads her to the residence of Baron Steamayer, which hides many dark secrets.

PCANDiOS

White Day 2: Swan Song
White Day 2: Swan Song

Adventure canceled

Second part of White Day series initiated in 2001 with survival horror of the same name. After several years, the title received a remake entitled White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, and just before its debut on PC and PlayStation 4, White Day 2: Swan Song was revealed. The game is not a direct continuation, but a prequel, the action of which takes place six years before the events shown in the original. Players learn the fate of students trapped in a haunted school at night.

PS4

FAR: Lone Sails
FAR: Lone Sails

Adventure 17 May 2018

The debut game by indie studio Mr. Whale's Game Service, designed with the single player mode in mind. The production is set in a ruined world, which you traverse in an unusual vehicle resembling a combination of a boat and a train. The gameplay in Far: Lone Sails focuses on exploring locations in search of items, which allow you to survive. However, instead of seeking food or building shelters, you have to take care of your vessel.

PCXONEPS4SwitchANDiOS

Dark Fall: Storm Warning
Dark Fall: Storm Warning

Adventure canceled

A point-and-click adventure game in which the player's task is to unravel the mystery hidden by the pier, more than a hundred years old. On this object forgotten by people in unexplained circumstances people died, and their presence is still manifested here astral beings. The core of the game is exploration of shivering locations, solving puzzles, searching for relics of the past and interacting with spirits.

PC

Narcosis
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.

PCXONEPS4

Detention
Detention

Adventure 12 January 2017

A side-scrolling horror/adventure game. Detention is a debut project of Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games. The action of the game takes place in Taiwan during the 1960s, in the middle of martial law that lasted 37 years. We are taken to Greenwood, a high-school placed in a mountainous area. The players assume the role of two students who discover that the school became inhabited by wicked monsters known from local legends.

PCPS4Switch

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition
Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition

Adventure 19 December 2016

Created for Windows 10, a special edition of the successful sandbox game by Mojang AB. The general premise is the same as in Minecraft, but unlike the original game, based on the first java edition, this one draws from the mobile edition called Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Therefore, gameplay is not as extensive, and the game itself is not compatible with the original Minecraft.

PC

Mage: The Ascension - Refuge
Mage: The Ascension - Refuge

Adventure 16 February 2017

An adventure storytelling game for mobile devices, created by White Wolf Entertainment and Swedish novelist Karin Tidbeck. Mage the Ascension: Refuge is based on a tabletop role-playing game. The production takes place in today's Sweden, and you play as a woman, who recently learned that she's a mage and gradually discovers her powers, which allow her to shape reality. Unfortunately, enemy factions want to use her powers to conquer the magical society.

PCANDiOS

Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul

Adventure 15 August 2017

Paranormal Activity: Lost Souls is a first-person horror adventure game. It was developed by VRWerx and based on the Paranormal Activity horror movies. We play as a person who got stuck in a haunted house, just like the characters in the movies. To survive, we will have to discover the house's secret and find out what creatures want to kill us. Gameplay in Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul is based on the standard formula used in many other horror adventure games.

PCPS4

Tokyo Dark: Remembrance
Tokyo Dark: Remembrance

Adventure 07 September 2017

Developed by Cherrymochi from Japan, a horror adventure title with strong visual novel elements. The main heroine of the game is Ayami Ito, who carries out an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of her partner. In order to find the truth, she needs to take matters in her own hands. Things become complicated as she also has to face the demons of her own past, nightmares, and hallucinations. The non-linear plot leads to one of eleven endings, depending on the player’s in-game choices.

PCPS4Switch

Forgotton Anne
Forgotton Anne

Adventure 15 May 2018

A game developed by an indie studio, ThroughLine Games, that combines elements of point-and-click and platform games. In Forgotten Anne the players step into a fantasy world of Forgotten Lands, inhabited by creatures that were created out of abandoned everyday objects. When a rebellion rises, our main heroine, who works as an enforcer, needs to stop the riots and bring back the balance and peace. Her master, Bonku, aids the girl in this quest. The action is presented from a side perspective.

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Lamplight City
Lamplight City

Adventure 13 September 2018

Lamplight City is a classic point-and-click adventure game developed by Grundislav Games in cooperation with Wadjet Eye Games. The game’s visuals follow the retro pixel-art convention. In Lamplight City, the player gets to explore a fictional city of New Bretagne, which features a setting resembling Victorian England. The main protagonist of the game is Miles Fordham - a private detective, who is trying to solve the mysterious murder of his former partner, who talks to him from beyond the grave.

PCSwitchiOS

Through the Woods
Through the Woods

Adventure 27 October 2016

A horror adventure game and the debut production of Antagonist, a Norwegian studio. The action of Through the Woods takes place in modern times in a dark forest somewhere on the western shore of Norway. While playing, we assume the role of a desperate woman named Karen who tries to find her lost son. She is constantly interrupted by various evil creatures inspired by Nordic mythology and Scandinavian folklore.

PCXONEPS4

Actual Sunlight
Actual Sunlight

Adventure 03 April 2014

A simple adventure telling a short story of Evan Winter, an employee of one of the corporations, whose life is far from perfect. The game deals with topics such as love, loneliness and depression.

PCPSV

Lone Echo
Lone Echo

Adventure 20 July 2017

A first-person action game developed by Ready at Dawn (creators of The Order: 1886). The story featured in Lone Echo is set in the year 2126. The player assumes the role of an android named Jack, who serves at a space ship. When the vessel bumps into an interstellar anomaly things get messy and it is Jack who has to handle the aftermath of the accident.

PC

Burly Men at Sea
Burly Men at Sea

Adventure 29 September 2016

Burly Men at Sea is an unusual adventure with elements of visual novel. Players will learn about the fate of three fishermen who have set out into the world in search of adventures. The production consists of many short stories set in Scandinavian folklore.

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Not Tonight
Not Tonight

Adventure 17 August 2018

An adventure game set in the grim vision of post-Brexit Great Britain. We play as a European who waits for deportation from The British Islands while trying to earn for living as a bouncer in clubs and on festivals.

PCXONEPS4Switch

Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds

Adventure 30 May 2019

An exploration adventure game, in which you play as a recruit of the new space program called Outer Wilds Ventures. Your task is to study a mysterious solar system functioning in a time loop.

PCPS5XSXXONEPS4Switch

FoxTail
FoxTail

Adventure October 2024 (early access since 01 March 2018)

Two-dimensional adventure referring to classic point-and-click games, including King's Quest and Monkey Island series. While playing, we follow the fate of a young fox looking for a cure for her sick grandmother.

PC

Torn
Torn

Adventure 28 August 2018

An adventure game developed for VR headgear. You play as a woman, who accidentally finds herself in the estate of the scientist Lawrence Talbot.

PCPS4