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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. more

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Detective Grimoire
Detective Grimoire

Adventure 02 January 2014

Detective Grimoire is an Android-based detective adventure by the SFB Games team. While playing, we are investigating death in the marshes, where the main suspect is a legendary monster that is a local tourist attraction.

NightCry
NightCry

Adventure 29 March 2016

An action-adventure game stylistically inspired by Japanese horrors. The game was developed by Nude Maker studio in cooperation with many genre veterans, who have created such franchises as Clock Tower, Silent Hill, and the Ju-On movie series. Night Cry takes place on a passenger ship. A series of brutal murders that take place there scares the passengers and makes it impossible to continue the cruise.

9 Clues 2: The Ward
9 Clues 2: The Ward

Adventure 17 September 2014

9 Clues 2: The Ward is the second installment of Tap It Games' casual adventure series with hidden object puzzles. We play the role of a private detective, a woman who has to solve the mystery of murders in a gloomy shelter for the insane. The game is about solving puzzles and finding hidden objects.

The Black Glove
The Black Glove

Adventure canceled

The Black Glove is a unique combination of FPP adventure game with arcade retro style games. The action takes place in a surrealist theatre from the 1920s, in which time and space are curved. The protagonist uses these phenomena to change reality by playing slot machines for 80's productions. It is the work of an independent studio Day For Night Games, founded by former employees of the Irrational Games team (responsible for the BioShock series).

Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler!
Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler!

Adventure 06 October 2016

A cartoonish point-and-click adventure game by Venture Moon. In Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler! You play as the eponymous uncouth pirate, who, following his mentor's death, decides to take on his role as a captain. Unfortunately, he finds no support among the other members of the crew, so the protagonist is put to a special test to prove that he is worthy of the title. The test consists of gaining the love of three women, but it quickly turns out that they're not what Grabowski expected.

2Dark
2Dark

Adventure 10 March 2017

An unusual survival horror game created by Frederick Raynal and Gloomywood - a French studio. The game offers pixel-art visuals and is played from the classic top-down view. The player takes on the role of a criminologist by the name of Smith, whose wife got murdered and his children were kidnapped by unknown assailants.

The Shopkeeper
The Shopkeeper

Adventure 23 October 2014

The Shopkeeper is an adventure game developed by Verse Publications team in which we play the role of a man looking for a gift for a member of his family in an antique shop. The whole campaign is stylized as an anthology of independent stories, which together reveal the truth about the main character.

Nancy Drew: Labyrinth of Lies
Nancy Drew: Labyrinth of Lies

Adventure 14 October 2014

The thirty-first episode of a popular adventure series about the adventures of teenage detective Nancy Drew. This time the action takes place in Greece, where valuable museum exhibits disappear in mysterious circumstances a few days before the planned exhibition.

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today

Adventure 10 April 2015

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is a point-and-click adventure game and the first title developed by Fictiorama. The game takes place in a not so distant future and tells the story of Michael. To regain his identity, he will have to uncover the truth about the two catastrophic events that led the civilization to the brink of destruction. One of them was a series of natural disasters, the other one an epidemic. And now a third inevitable event is on the way.

Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion
Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion

Adventure 20 May 2014

"The thirtieth edition of the popular Her Interactive adventure series. In this part of the cycle Nancy Drew goes to New Zealand to take part in a reality show called Pacific Run. When things on the set start to slip out of control, the brave teenager decides to explain who or what is behind the series of mysterious events.

Haunted House: Cryptic Graves
Haunted House: Cryptic Graves

Adventure 25 November 2014

The next installment of the Haunted House series, launched in 1982. The action of the production takes place in the haunted house in the title, and the player plays Ana Graves - a girl with supernormal abilities, who has to expel spirits and monsters from the property.

Alone With You
Alone With You

Adventure 09 February 2017

An SF adventure game developed by Benjamin Rivers – the creators of the horror game Home. In Alone With You the player assumes the role of a colonist who is a lone survivor of a catastrophe that befell his base on an alien planet that will be completely destroyed in the span of a single month. You cannot leave the planet as the only spaceship available is broken and the hero has neither knowledge nor abilities to make it work again.

Jenny LeClue: Detectivu
Jenny LeClue: Detectivu

Adventure 19 September 2019

A point-and-click detective adventure game developed by Mografi, a one-man American studio led Joe Russ. In Jenny LeClue we play as a young miss detective, whose mother has been accused of murdering a school principal adored by the local community. Refusing to believe in her mother’s guilt, the heroine decides to solve the case by herself and discovers that the truth is much more complicated than it seemed. The gameplay focuses on visiting locations, gathering evidence, and dialogues.

Neverending Nightmares
Neverending Nightmares

Adventure 26 September 2014

Original independent adventure game, maintained in the convention of psychological horror. Infinitap Games team is responsible for its creation and the story was inspired by real life experiences of the studio boss and his fight with severe depression. In the game, we play as Thomas, who can't break out of a nightmare dream and, trapped in his mind, moves from nightmare to nightmare, facing his fears and the monsters lurking around him.

Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley

Adventure 23 April 2015

A two-dimensional pixel art survival horror. It is a debut title of the independent Slovenian studio Cowardly Creations. In the game the player assumes the role of a night watchman who guards a mysterious factory in shifts with his friend. To kill some time, the protagonist decides to explore the building. He discovers things he would rather not know. As the story progresses, he learns new dark secrets about his working place.

Silence of the Sleep
Silence of the Sleep

Adventure 01 October 2014

Original side-scrolling adventure game, maintained in a psychological horror convention and developed entirely by Jesse Makonen from Finland. We play as Jacob Reeves who lost the will to live and decided to commit suicide. This attempt, however, instead of ending his torment, became the beginning of a whole new nightmare.

The Tale of Three
The Tale of Three

Adventure canceled

Action adventure game with RPG elements, inspired by the works of such writers as Andersen, Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Warsaw-based gameDNA studio is responsible for the creation of the game. It was inspired by both classics like Fable and modern action/RPG productions. In the game we cross the fate of three heroes, who are united by the lust for wealth and fame.

Kona
Kona

Adventure 17 March 2017

A first-person adventure game featuring survival elements. It is the first major project of the Canadian Parabole studio. The story is set in the northern regions of the Quebec province, in the 1970s. The game tells the story of a conflict between the owner of the most profitable copper mine in the region - a rich man called W. Hamilton, and the native local community accusing him of devastating sacred sites in search for more profit.

Sylvio
Sylvio

Adventure 05 June 2015

A horror-themed action-adventure game allowing us to assume the role of Juliette Waters, a woman whose occupation is recording the voices of spirits. Interestingly enough, Sylvio is a project of an independent developer, Niklas Swanberg. Our heroine travels to an abandoned amusement park, left to decay after a powerful storm had led to a landslide. It quickly turns out that the spirits living in the park are very vicious, and the whole area is under the influence of a mysterious curse.

Beyond Eyes
Beyond Eyes

Adventure 11 August 2015

An unusual adventure game by tiger & squid, and independent Dutch studio. The protagonist of Beyond Eyes is a ten-year-old girl named Rae who lost her sight in an accident while firing up fireworks. Ever since that day, she spends most of the time in the garden next to her house, accompanied by a cat named Nani. One day, the animal disappears, and Rae decides to leave the house for the first time in a long time to find her lost pet.

Fire
Fire

Adventure 09 April 2015

A humorous point-and-click adventure game set in the Stone Age, developed by the well-known authors of many successful adventure titles from Daedalic Entertainment studio. We play as somewhat dull-witted caveman named Ungh, who neglected his duty and let the fire of the tribe to die out. To redeem himself, he must find a new source of the precious element and deliver it to his village.

Sunset
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
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.

Tormentum: Dark Sorrow
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.