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Wytchwood
Adventure 09 December 2021
Wytchwood is an adventure game focused on gathering and crafting, set in a fairy-tale world. It was developed by indie studio Alientrap. You play as a mysterious witch living in an ancient forest.
Outerra World Sandbox
Simulation 2024
A sandbox game set on the entire planet Earth. Outerra World Sandbox lets us traverse the world via various vehicles, create our own objects, locations and share them with the community.
Spirit of the North 2
Adventure 2024
The second installment in a series of third-person adventure games. Spirit of the North 2 has us playing as a fox, traversing an open fantasy world, trying to free the legendary guardians captured by a dark shaman.
Botany Manor
Adventure 09 April 2024
A relaxing exploration game with riddles and other puzzle game elements. Botany Manor is set in 19th century England and tells the story of a retired botanist, Arabella Greene, who is trying to develop the best methods of growing rare plants.
Umurangi Generation
Adventure 19 May 2020
Umurangi Generation is a photographic indie game with a cyberpunk metropolis and a great crisis in the background. We explore the big city and take photos, which we can freely edit using numerous tools.
Aquamarine
Adventure 20 January 2022
Aquamarine combines point and click adventure and strategy with survival elements, and in it we discover the secrets of an alien planet. The game, stylized on science fiction from the 70s, was developed by Moebial Studios.
Valley Peaks
Arcade 2024
An arcade adventure game in the first person, in which we climb mountains and explore the titular valley. Valley Peaks is made in cartoonish graphics, and in addition to climbing it also offers numerous mini-games and an array of interesting NPCs.
One-Eyed Likho
Adventure 2024
One-Eyed Likho is a psychological horror adventure game based on a Slavic fable. It tells the story of a blacksmith who's never experienced evil, exploring a grim forest, escaping a miserable end.
Windbound
Adventure 28 August 2020
A survival game where we find ourselves in a deserted archipelago. Playing the role of a warrior named Kara, in Windbound we not only fight for survival but also travel between the islands on a self-constructed boat and explore their numerous secrets.
The Painscreek Killings
Adventure 27 September 2017
The Painscreek Killings is a first-person adventure and detective game in which we play the role of journalist Janet and investigate an old, unexplained case of the murder of the mayor's wife in the town. This is the debut project of the independent EQ Studios team.
The Mansion
Adventure 31 March 2021
Horror game by Polish studio Forever Entertainment. In The Mansion we get trapped in the nightmares of one of our patients. Our task is to discover his past and escape from the mansion.
Anatomy
Adventure 01 April 2016
Anatomy is a horror adventure game developed by independent author Kitty Horrorshow. Try to control your fear as you explore the desolate recesses of a darkened apartment. Only the voice from the cassettes will keep you company.
Tacoma
Adventure 02 August 2017
A science-fiction, first-person action adventure game created by the Fullbright Company - a developer popular for Gone Home. The player is taken to the year 2088, where the world has developed substantially and space flights have become available for everyone. The player takes on the role of Amy Ferrier - a woman who picked up a job at a space station. On her arrival however, it turns out that her new workplace is abandoned and her only contact is the station's on-board computer - ODIN.
Lifeless Planet
Adventure 06 June 2014
Lifeless Planet is a science fiction action adventure game developed by Stage 2, an independent studio. The protagonist is a lone astronaut sent to explore a newly discovered planet where scientists believe life has evolved. Unfortunately, during the landing the ship crashed, crashing into this mysterious and - as it soon turns out - desolate world.
The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime
Adventure 28 March 2014
Pegasus Prime is a refreshed version of the first part of The Journeyman Project, offering better graphics and smoother animations. The action of the game is presented from the perspective of the main character and touches on the issue of time travel.
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
Adventure 15 January 1998
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the last part of Gage Blackwood's adventures and Time Protection Agency. We observe the game again in the first person, and it focuses on exploring the location and solving riddles. In this part of the cycle we find ourselves in Atlantis and El Dorado.
Proteus
Adventure 30 January 2013
Proteus is an exploratory adventure by Ed Key. The game consists mainly of travelling through a randomly generated world, discovering its secrets and learning how the environment reacts to the player's presence.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Adventure 11 August 2015
An unusual FPP adventure game that lets you relive the last day of several characters facing impending apocalypse. The game was created by The Chinese Room, the developer known for Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Dear Esther. The game is set in a small village in Britain. Each playthrough lasts 60 minutes and you have no clear objectives to follow. The open world is inhabited by 6 independent characters, each one having their own ideas on how to spend the last moments of life.
Among The Sleep
Adventure 29 May 2014
A first-person horror adventure game. Our hero is a two years old child, with all the physical and mental traits of this age. He gets woken up from sleep by a mysterious sounds and realizes that his mother is missing, so he decides to search for her together with his teddy bear. The gameplay focuses on exploring the gloomy household distorted by the child's imagination, while solving simple puzzles and searching for a way to reach subsequent locations.
The Path
Adventure 18 March 2009
The Path is another production of a development studio, known primarily for The Endless Forest. This title can be described as a kind of horror, inspired by the story of the Red Riding Hood. Producers have tried to get all its cruelty out of this innocent fairy tale.
Silent Hills
Adventure canceled
Another fully-fledged installment of the cult survival cycle of Silent Hill horrors. Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro, led by Hideo Kojima, were involved in the production. As a result of a conflict with the publisher Konami, the project was cancelled shortly after the release of its famous demo version, called P.T.
P.O.L.L.E.N.
Adventure 20 April 2016
A first-person science-fiction adventure game and the debut project of Mindfield Games, an independent Finnish studio. The story of P.O.L.L.E.N. takes us to an alternative version of the 90s, when a combination of the American and Russian space programs resulted in a rapid progress in the field. The player assumes the role of a new employee of Rama Industries, a company that builds a base on one of the Saturn’s moons.
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.
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.