Adventure Video Games47
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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Scarlet Deer Inn
Adventure 2025
A narrative indie adventure game inspired by Slavic folklore and Studio Ghibli films. Scarlet Deer Inn is especially distinctive thanks to its animations, which were embroidered frame-by-frame before being moved into the game.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
Adventure 19 October 2023
A TPP adventure game based on the novel of the same name. The main characters of Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express, Hercule Poirot and Joanna Locke, must solve the mystery of a murder aboard the titular train.
Haunted House
Adventure 12 October 2023
A remake of an Atari 2600 horror game, originally released in 2982. Haunted House was developed by Orbit. It's set in the titular mansion, tasking us with avoiding monsters and rescuing our friends.
Spirit of the North 2
Adventure 2025
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.
Lake: Season's Greetings
Adventure 15 November 2023
A large expansion to Lake, an open-world third person adventure game. Lake: Season's Greetings stars Thomas Weiss, the father of Meredith, the protagonist of the base game. Working as a courier, he traverses Providence Oaks during winter, delivering Christmas packages.
Stray Souls
Adventure 25 October 2023
An action adventure game with survival horror elements, inspired by Silent Hill. Stray Souls is a TPP game telling the story of Daniel - a teenager targeted by a mysterious cult in the town of Aspen Falls.
Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance
Adventure 09 March 2023
The third installment in a series of adventure games inspired by fables of Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm brothers. Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance has us playing as the titular Ingrid, seeking a way out of hell, where she ended up due to her misdeeds.
Revenant Hill
Adventure canceled
A side-scrolling adventure game by The Glory Society - the developers of Night in the Woods. We play as Twigs - a wandering cat forced to leave his home and find happiness elsewhere, during difficult times, in a hostile world.
PAW Patrol World
Adventure 29 September 2023
A TPP action adventure game based on the PAW Patrol License. PAW Patrol World has us playing as the show's heroes, trying to stop the evil Mayor Humbinger from ruining their festival.
The Exit 8
Adventure 29 November 2023
An unusual FPP adventure game with some horror vibes, inspired by Japanesee underground passages. The Exit 8 has us travelling through a mysterious and seemingly non-ending corridor. The key of the game is to make our way to the exit while avoiding anomalies.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Adventure 23 May 2024
An adventure game with a lot of humor. In Duck Detective: The Secret Salami we play as the titular investigator, interrogating suspects, gathering various clues and trying to solve the conspiracy. The game features cartoonish graphics and characters made as 2D sprites.
Goodnight Universe
Adventure 2025
A narrative FPP adventure game, created by the authors of Before Your Eyes. Goodnight Universe has us playing as a 6-month old boy names Isaac. He has supernatural psychic abilities. The protagonist must interact with the family, but also avoid a sinister tech corporation.
Never Alone 2
Adventure 2026
A sequel of a well received platforming game from 2014, focused on the Inuit culture. Never Alone 2 is a 3D adventure game, featuring Nuna and her spirit fox companion as the protagonists. They explore Alaska to solve the mystery. The game can be played alone or in coop.
Our Life on Water
Adventure canceled
A third-person adventure game with RPG and life sim elements. Our Life on Water is set on Mekong River. We play as the Rivertalker, the local community's link to the spirit world.
Gloomy Eyes: The Game
Adventure April 2025
An isometric adventure game based on an animated short film, Gloomy Eyes. Gloomy Eyes: The Game stars a young girl Neny and a zombie boy Gloomy, who must bring about sunrise and put an end to an eternal night.
Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club
Adventure 29 August 2024
The third part of a series of dark adventure games from Nintendo, launched in 1988. Emio: The Smiling Man – Famicom Detective Club has us playing as a detective's assistant. We are trying to find a killer who places paper bags with smiling faces on the heads of their victims.
Arthur's Knights: Origins of Excalibur
Adventure 15 December 2000
Embark on a foggy medieval europe religious war, lead with courage and bravery to the appointment of you as the Knight of the Roundtable, or take the side of the Celtic believers and prove your worth there.
Stupid Invaders
Adventure 28 February 2001
An adventure game based on an animated series, consciously breaking the conventions of its genre. The five aliens whose spaceship breaks down are trying to leave the Earth and return to their own planet.
Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon
Adventure 25 November 2003
Schism II: Chameleon is the second part of the 2001 adventure game Schism: The Real Challenge. The player takes on the role of a young man named Dream, which wakes up after two hundred years of sleep in a cryogenic chamber, a punishment for the devastation of the planet Sarpedon. His task is to find out what really happened and who was the cause. Terry Dowling, an Australian science fiction writer, is responsible for the feature layer of the game produced by Detallion studio.
ECHO: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
Adventure 01 July 2005
Secret of the Lost Cavern: The Missing Cave Mystery is an adventure game produced by Kheops Studio development team in collaboration with Mzone Studio and Totem Studio. The action was set in prehistoric times, and the player plays the role of Aroka - a young hunter who wants to learn the art of rock painting.
Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern
Adventure 15 July 2001
An epic epic epic set in a world created by a series of books by Anne McCaffrey entitled Riders of Dragons from Pern. Nice for the eye and atmospheric 3D graphics.
The Fifth Disciple
Adventure 10 June 2004
A combination of point-and-click and RPG adventures in a fantasy world. We play the role of Engeor, a student at the University of Magic and the son of a rich nobleman who has to stand up to the tyranny of the warrior Wahargem.
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet
Adventure 01 March 1993
A cult adventure game based on the story of two short stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. You play the role of a young journalist whose task is to decipher the riddle of the madness of the once outstanding scientist Lord Boleskine.
Toonstruck
Adventure 31 October 1996
Toonstruck is a classic adventure with a "point & click" interface, in which we play the role of an aging cartoon animator, suddenly transferred to the world of fairy tales.