Adventure Video Games85
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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Time Machine VR
Adventure 19 May 2016
An action-adventure game developed for the Oculus Rift virtual reality set. Time Machine VR was developed by independent studio Minority Media, the creators of Papo & Yo. In the game the player goes back in time to the prehistoric era and is given an opportunity to watch dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in their natural habitat – large valleys and ocean deeps.
Fragments of Him
Adventure 03 May 2016
A unique adventure game from the Dutch studio of Sassybot. Fragments of Him tells a story of Will – a young man who died in a car accident, leaving his mourning partner Harry and their friend Sarah. Game uses first-person perspective with players as observers, having them not only recreate past events with the protagonist, but also make decisions that affect the plot and fate of the characters. Unlike other games from the genre, Fragments of Him has almost no puzzles.
The Escapists: The Walking Dead
Adventure 30 September 2015
A spin-off installment of the unique top-down game The Escapist, developed by the publishers of the original, Team 17. The gameplay mechanics are identical to the first installment of the series, but the plot was set in the universe of the popular The Walking Dead comic, having many common plot points. Therefore, in the game, we assume the role of a policeman named Rick Grimes, and our task is not to escape from jail but to get out of a number of locations overrun by bloodthirsty zombies.
Void and Meddler
Adventure 28 October 2015
An episodic cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game; it's prototype came third in the PointClickJam competition. The game is set in a futuristic city, where gender and species differences became blurred, and a new hobby emerged: collecting people's memories. Fyn, a girl tired of her present life, decided to go through somebody else's memories to rediscover her own identity. The story in each episode may take a different turn, depending on your actions.
Tales of Cosmos
Adventure 20 November 2016
A point-n-click adventure game from Red Dwarf Games. The plot revolves around two astronauts – Professor Gagayev and Perseus, a talking dog. Their objective is to neutralize Shuttle’s Bane, a mysterious magnetic anomaly that sucks in any spaceship that comes too close. During the game, you visit a big, open world composed of several planets and moons.
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.
Supreme League of Patriots
Adventure 29 January 2015
Supreme League of Patriots is a full of fussy humor point’n’click adventure game, developed by the British studio No Bull Intentions. The player assumes the role of Kyle Keever, who unexpectedly gets to fulfill his innermost dream – he becomes a superhero. As The Purple Patriot, he fights for justice on the streets of New York and is aided by a sarcastic sidekick – Mel.
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.
Chronicle Keepers: Dreaming Garden
Adventure 05 July 2014
A hidden object adventure game, which takes place in two worlds - the one watched every day and the other, fantastic. The player takes on the role of a boy who tries to save his mother from evil forces. In order to do this, we have to travel through a number of locations, solve a large number of puzzles and find a lot of objects.
The Devil's Men
Adventure canceled
The Devil's Men is a point-and-click adventure from Daedalic Entertainment (Blackguards, Deponia series). This is a story in the steampunk reality of Victorian England, focusing on Adelaide Spektor, a young woman who tries to escape from life in the criminal underworld and find a long time ago lost father. The game is characterized by a quite original approach to graphic design, placing two-dimensional characters in a three-dimensional environment.
Chromophore: The Two Brothers Directors Cut
Adventure 25 August 2015
A 2D action-adventure game for WiiU, and an enhanced and extended edition of Two Brothers, a game released for PC in 2013. The game's protagonist is Roy Guarder, a scientist, philosopher and inventor, who embarks on an expedition to find the source of all life. When he finds what he was looking for, he almost dies, and on the “other side” he notices beautiful colors unlike those in his monochromatic world. Obsessed with them, he starts to cross the line separating life from death.
Bulb Boy
Adventure 29 October 2015
Developed by an independent Polish studio Bulbware, an adventure game with survival horror elements. The action of Bulb Boy kicks off when GRANDPArafin and Mothdog disappear from the hero’s hometown. As an admirable child, you decide to find them. The game employs a classic point’n’click mechanics. The journey takes us to various locations in which we solve puzzles with the use of various items.
Vane
Adventure 15 January 2019
An indie adventure game by Friend & Foe, a studio founded by the co-creators of such productions as The Last Guardian, Bionic Commando, Battlefield 3, and Killzone. You play as a boy, who has special abilities, as he explores an extraordinary world and discovers its secrets.
Tormentum: Dark Sorrow
Adventure 04 March 2015
A classic 2D point-and-click adventure game with extremely characteristic visuals inspired by such artists as H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. This is a debut project by the Polish three-man studio OhNoo. During the game, you assume the role of a nameless hero who travels through a surreal world on the border between dreams and nightmares. The protagonist knows neither his identity nor the reason why he's stuck there. His mission is to find out the truth about himself and the world around him.
Velvet Sundown
Adventure 22 July 2014
Free, social network game with adventure elements. The action takes place on board a luxury yacht and players play randomly in the 11-person crew. Each character plays an important role in the development of events, performing a number of more or less complex quests.
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.
White Night
Adventure 03 March 2015
A third-person survival horror from the independent French studio OSome, inspired by the Alone in the Dark series. White Night takes place in 1930’s, following a hero trapped in an old family mansion that hides a dark secret of the past. Our main enemy are the dark and mysterious creatures that dwell in it, forcing us to solve many puzzles based on light and dark mechanics.
Stained
Adventure 08 October 2012
Side-scroll 2.5D platformer, enriched with elements of combat and a number of interesting logic puzzles. In the game we play a mysterious, hooded figure with a scythe that travels through the interior of an ancient castle. The windows of the building hide the memory of tragic events from the past, during which the plague of monsters razed to the ground the vibrant kingdom.
Kaptain Brawe 2: A Space Travesty
Adventure canceled
The second part of a nice 2010 point-and-click adventure, whose protagonist is an unlucky captain of space police. This time our protoplasta tries to stop the dangerous temptations of the evil queen from the small planet Zennity Sping, who tries to subjugate the neighboring planet Folderakkiakyu. The game is inspired by genre classics and refers to adventures published by Sierra and LucasArts from the 90s.
Kaptain Brawe: An Unexpected Intermission!
Adventure 01 August 2014
Free mini-adventure game, which is the link between the first and the second installment of the cycle with the unlucky captain Brave. The game was created "after hours" and its main task was to support the collection of money on Kickstarter.
Lucius II: The Prophecy
Adventure 13 February 2015
A sequel to the unusual adventure game developed by Shiver Games in 2012. Once more the player assumes the role of a six year old boy who is in fact the son of Lucifer himself. The story of the game continues the plot of its predecessor. Lucius, the only survivor of a massacre in his family mansion, is moved to a mental hospital in Ludlow city, where, while initially missing his paranormal abilities, he starts another massacre.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Adventure 07 February 2012
Re-edition of three parts of a popular series of legal games, previously published on Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS consoles. The protagonist of the game is a young lawyer who undertakes further cases. The game is broken down into the phase of gathering evidence, and a proper trial, during which our hero tries to prove the innocence of his client.
Grim Fandango Remastered
Adventure 27 January 2015
A remake of a legendary adventure game from Lucas Arts, known as one of the best and most original point-and-click adventure games. The new edition was developed by Double Fine Production, a studio led by Tim Schafer, the co-author of the original title. The action of the game takes place in a unique version of the afterlife, inspired by noir movies and Mexican folklore.
One Way Trip
Adventure canceled
An original adventure game where the heroes learn that as a result of a mysterious chemical attack they fell victim to a deadly poison. It kills 6 hours after infection, causing a stubborn hallucination that resembles the state after taking the drug. The authors try to answer the question of how we would behave in the face of inevitable death and touch upon a number of important topics, such as interpersonal relationships, morality and the irreversible consequences of human actions.