Adventure Video Games71
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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ZED
Adventure 04 June 2019
A first-person exploration adventure game developed by Eagre Games led by Chuck Carter, the co-creator of the cult Myst series. The player assumes the role of a Dreamer whose task is to piece together the most important memories and pass them on to his granddaughter before his imminent death.
Blackwood Crossing
Adventure 17 February 2017
An adventure game developed by PaperSeven. The plot was written by Oliver Reid-Smith (the creator of the script for the well-received The Room), and it focuses on the relations of orphaned siblings: Scarlett and her younger brother, Finn. When the girl enters adolescence, their relations worsen. While traveling on a train, the protagonists meet a mysterious creature that lets them look at their past from a different perspective.
Layers of Fear: Inheritance
Adventure 02 August 2016
Layers of Fear: Inheritance is a full-scope story-driven DLC for the first-person horror game, Layers of Fear, by Blooper Team. The expansion, called Inheritance, does not introduce any changes in the game’s mechanics, offering instead a brand new story, whose action takes place many years after the story of the original. Players don’t control the painter himself, but his daughter – she learns that after the death of her father, the house now belongs to her.
Paradigm
Adventure 05 April 2017
A surreal two-dimensional point ‘n’ click science fiction adventure game created by Jacob Janerka, an Australian developer of Polish descent. The story of Paradigm takes us to a near future to a surreal world inspired by Eastern Europe of the 70s and 80s. The protagonist is named Paradigm, he is a mutant and a product of a failed project of DUPA Corporation that deals in breeding ideal children.
Lantern
Adventure 15 November 2016
An unusual exploration game developed by Italian studio Storm in a Teacup. The plot of the game focuses on an Asian princess whose tears caused the world around her to lose its colors and start dying. The player assumes the role of a small lantern and is tasked with returning the life and colors to the realm by making everyone remember about the power of love. There are four areas to visit, each with different architecture and environment.
Antariksha Sanchar
Adventure canceled
A point-and-click adventure game developed by QuicksandGamesLab and heavily inspired by the culture of India. The plot of Antariksha Sanchar (known also as Transmissions in Space) is set in the early 1920s in South India. You play as a genius mathematician, who wants to discover the secrets of the outer space and conduct research on space exploration. As expected of the game representing such a genre, it focuses mostly on exploration and solving various logic puzzles.
Distortions
Adventure 02 March 2018
An episodic adventure game with music game features, developed by Among Giants. Distortions tells the story of a woman who wakes up in a hospital bed in an unknown location after an accident. She notices that the time had stopped and all objects become alive only if she touches them. While traveling through the surrealistic realm with a giant, chained creature on the horizon, the protagonist is trying to discover how she got to this weird place and how to get back to the real world.
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
Adventure 21 July 2016
A two-dimensional, point-and-click adventure game created by Blyts - an independent Argentinean developer. The player takes on the role of a crazy scientist's assistant. As a revenge for laughing at the invention of his life, dr. Edwin Lupin decides to travel back in time and take all the credit for the works of the most famous artists and inventors in the world's history.
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.
The First Tree
Adventure 14 September 2017
A third-person perspective exploration game about death and loneliness. It was developed by an independent developer who also created Home is Where one Starts. In The First Tree, the player follows two distinctly different characters: a female fox that is looking for her lost kids, and a pair of humans facing death of their closest ones.
Ingress
Adventure 15 November 2012
MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online location-based Game) in which we support the Enlightened who want to gain power from the recently discovered energy of Exotic Matter or Resistance Movement, which wants to protect humanity from its negative influence.
Preston Sterling
Adventure 25 March 2016
A mix of a point-and-click adventure and action game developed by independent German studio Animation Arts. During the game the player assumes the role of the titular adventure seeker and treasure hunter named Preston Sterling, who is examining the secrets of various myths and legends from the British Isles. As one could guess, each of his adventures is filled with various dangers and the protagonist will encounter many characters, not all of whom are friendly towards him.
Claire
Adventure 08 July 2014
A survival horror taking place in a 2D environment. The game is a debut project of an independent studio Hailstorm Games. The authors were inspired by classics such as Silent Hill or Clockwork. The player assumes the role of the titular character who, as a result of mysterious circumstances, has been imprisoned in a school infested by monsters. The girl has to face not only the monsters themselves but also the demons of her past.
Claire: Extended Cut
Adventure 30 August 2016
An extended edition of Claire - a survival horror game released in 2014. In comparison to the original release, the new edition brings mainly improved audiovisuals. Once again, the development works were carried out by Hailstorm Games. The game still offers a two-dimensional environment and pixel-art graphics. However, the creators managed to implement both 3D objects and depth of field effects.
Space Rangers: Quest
Adventure 31 August 2016
A text-based science-fiction adventure game from SNK Productions, loosely related to the previous games from the 2002’s series of Space Rangers. It tells a story of mysterious threat that can eradicate all living creatures in galaxy. We play as a space pilot that tries to find out the source of this danger and stop it. We travel across many parts of galaxy, completing plot quests.
Cayne
Adventure 24 January 2017
A completely free, standalone expansion for Stasis – a dark science-fiction adventure game released in 2015. The plot of Cayne references the base game in a number of ways, but without spoiling it, so players new to the series can also experience the title in full. Story introduces a pregnant woman named Hadle, who wakes up in an obscure medical facility, where unknown men want to take her baby away. As can easily be imagined, the player’s objective is to make sure that this doesn’t happen.
Lost Ember
Adventure 22 November 2019
An action adventure game, in which you play as a wolf with supernatural abilities and explore the remains of an ancient civilization. Lost Ember takes place within the ruins of a metropolis left by a fictional tribe, modeled after the Inca people. The civilization has gone extinct long ago, and the monuments it had built had become part of the wild forest. The wolf, whose role the player assumes, has the power to control the bodies of other animals.
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.
The Beginner's Guide
Adventure 01 October 2015
An original narrative-driver production developed by the independent studio Everything Unlimited. It is another creation of Davey Wreden, the designer of the popular The Stanley Parable. The game focuses on the story of a complicated relation with a friend known as Coda. He is also a video game developer, and we get to browse the rich library of 134 titles he created.
The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition
Adventure 10 December 2009
Refreshed version of Cyan Worlds debut adventure game. We play the role of a kid who, after opening the manhole in the title, finds a magical stem leading to fantastic worlds. The game is designed for younger audiences, and the gameplay has no specific goal and focuses on exploring and interacting with characters and objects encountered.
Agent Walker: Secret Journey
Adventure 30 August 2016
An adventure/hidden object game taking place during World War II, created as a result of cooperation between Brave Giant studio and the distributor Artifex Mundi. The plot of Agent Walker: Secret Journey focuses around a mythical artifact called The Spear of Destiny, which according to certain beliefs has the power to change the course of the war.
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans
Adventure canceled
A classic point-and-click adventure game, set in the Warcraft Universe created by Blizzard Entertainment. The production is a combination of the fantasy genre and the elements of popular adventure games of the 1990s, such as Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island. The plot of Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans focuses on Thrall the orc, beginning with his birth, the death of his parents, him being found by Aedelas Blackmoore, and ending with his liberation and starting an army.
The Little Acre
Adventure 13 December 2016
An adventure game taking place in a fantasy universe, released by an independent studio Pewter Games. The Little Acre begins in 1950 in Ireland. As a result of a series of uncanny events, the main hero, along with his daughter, is taken to an alternative reality, which mixes the elements of fairytales, steampunk, and science fiction, and where humans exist alongside anthropomorphic animals.
The Miskatonic
Adventure 20 July 2018
The Miskatonic is a side-scrolling adventure game with visual novel elements, inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The game offers a rather comical twist on the concepts created by the Loner from Providence. The players assume the role of a young witch, who gets admitted to the titular university of Miskatonic. She wants to use the knowledge gained over the course of her studies to summon one of the Outer Gods, Shub-Niggurath.