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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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Beat The Game
Beat The Game

Adventure 07 September 2017

A surreal adventure game, in which the player assumes the role of a musically gifted traveler. On one of his adventures, his machine breaks down; however, there is still hope. If he manages to pull off a concert, he might attract some new means of transport. The gameplay in Beat The Game revolves around ideas similar to those featured in classic adventure games.

Ark of Time
Ark of Time

Adventure 28 February 1997

A point-and-click adventure. We direct the actions of Richard Kendall, a journalist who unexpectedly gets a chance to report on his life. He is to find the British researcher and archaeologist Caldwell, whose expedition has disappeared in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle. Travellers supposedly tried to find the ruins of the mysterious Atlantis.

Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse
Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse

Adventure 11 March 2021

Point-and-click adventure based on Cyanide & Happiness network comic. We play as a boy known from the original who has to survive until the last day of the school year. It's not easy, because the world around him is getting closer to the apocalypse every day. Mechanisms of the game remain faithful to the traditions of the genre. During the game we have to explore locations, collect items, talk to encountered characters and solve puzzles.

Wandersong
Wandersong

Adventure 27 September 2018

An unusual game that combines traits of a side-scrolling platform game, a music game, and an adventure game.

DreamBreak
DreamBreak

Adventure 21 July 2016

DreamBreak is an independent adventure game developed by the Russian studio Aist. The game is set in an alternate cyberpunk version of USSR. The player is tasked with solving a criminal case linked to a conspiracy.

Yono and the Celestial Elephants
Yono and the Celestial Elephants

Adventure 12 October 2017

Yono and the Celestial Elephants is a colorful, charming adventure game with a fairy-tale-like style. It was developed by Neckbolt Games. The player assumes the role of a young elephant who – similarly to other elephants in this world – is a defender of the world. When controlling the protagonist, the player travels through various locations, solves riddles and fights. The first of the mentioned activities is the most important aspect of the game.

Overboard!
Overboard!

Adventure 02 June 2021

Visual novel, in which we play the heroine trying to cover the traces of a murder she committed. Overboard! has a non-linear plot formed by our decisions.

Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

Adventure 14 September 2014

A classic visual novel adventure, a prelude to Muv-Luv Alternative, which presents a completely new story and characters. Players take on the role of the test pilot of a new generation of experimental models of mosses built to repel invasions of aliens, who have been effectively taking control of the Earth for several decades.

Steins;Gate Elite
Steins;Gate Elite

Adventure 19 February 2019

Steins;Gate Elite is a classic visual novel adventure game. It is a complex remake of the original Steins;Gate, a game that debuted in 2009.

OPUS: Rocket of Whispers
OPUS: Rocket of Whispers

Adventure 08 February 2018

A science fiction adventure game developed by an independent Thai studio Sigono. OPUS: Rocket of Whispers takes place in the universe created for the game OPUS: The Day We Found Earth – in a distant future, where the humanity scattered across the whole galaxy. The player is taken to the surface of a planet whose population was decimated by a mysterious plague.

So Let Us Melt
So Let Us Melt

Adventure 21 September 2017

An interactive experience developed for VR sets by studio The Chinese Room (creators of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture). The main protagonist of the game is a drone called Custodian 98. Similarly to other machines like him, he is transforming the atmosphere of a planet to make it suitable for the creatures hiding in the underground Polar City. Due to the terraforming, the world gradually becomes filled with life.

Candleman: The Complete Journey
Candleman: The Complete Journey

Adventure 01 February 2018

A unique action-adventure game developed by an independent Chinese studio Spotlightor Interactive. The player assumes the role of the titular candle that can burn for only ten seconds. This flame is the only weapon of the protagonist during the long and dangerous journey to find the far away light. The gameplay mechanics of Candleman are based on principles of three-dimensional platform games.

Vaccine
Vaccine

Adventure 21 February 2017

Survival horror inspired by the classic scenes of the Resident Evil cycle. The player takes on the role of one of the members of a bio-hazard department, in whose skin he traverses a ghastly residence, looking for a vaccine for a companion infected with a deadly virus. He has only thirty minutes to complete his task - if he does not manage to return to the sick person with medicine and discover the mystery of his home, the struggle will start anew.

Modern Tales: Age of Invention
Modern Tales: Age of Invention

Adventure 19 October 2017

A casual hidden object adventure game, created by Polish studios Orchid Games and Artifex Mundi. You play as Emily Patterson, the daughter of a scientist, who has been abducted by an unknown force. You task is to conduct your own investigation and thwarts the kidnapper's nefarious plans.

Close to the Sun
Close to the Sun

Adventure 02 May 2019

Close to the Sun is a horror adventure game developed by Storm in a Teacup. The production takes us to an alternative version of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where thanks to Nikola Tesla's inventions the development of civilization has significantly accelerated. The player takes on the role of a journalist who, while searching for her missing sister, finds himself on board a giant seagoing ship designed by Tesla for research and experimentation.

The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan
The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan

Adventure 10 August 2017

An adventure game representing the "hidden objects" genre, developed by Sunward Games and published by Artifex Mundi - a company specializing in this kind of video games. The action of The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan is set in Italy in 1920. The main protagonist of the game is Amelie, a Roman mythology expert who works for the titular agency called The Myth Seekers.

Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends
Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends

Adventure 28 September 2017

Developed by The House of Fables and Artifex Mundi, Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends is a HOPA game. Players follow the adventures of a botanist Mary Gilbert, who has to rescue her brother kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Unfortunately, the antagonist not only poses a threat to the main protagonist's brother but also to the entire world, and the only chance of stopping him lies in Mary and her companion Aitwara – a house spirit.

8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I
8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I

Adventure 31 October 2017

A compilation of three point-and-click adventure games developed in the years 1987-1991, including Deja Vu, Shadowgate and The Uninvited. For the sake of this collection, the creators introduced only a new menu, conveyed in the classic, 8-bit style - neither the mechanics nor the audiovisuals of the three included games were altered in comparison to their original releases.

Roki
Roki

Adventure 23 July 2020

A point-and-click adventure that takes players on a journey into a world inspired by Scandinavian mythology. The main character's task is to save her family, which is difficult as the titular antagonist, Röki, who is the personification of the evil powers, is always hot on her heels.

Wheels of Aurelia
Wheels of Aurelia

Adventure 20 September 2016

Production with an emphasis on the story. The action takes place in Italy from the seventies of the last century. Players play the role of Lella travelling by car on the title road Via Aurelia. During her voyages, the protagonist encounters various characters, who she gets to know more closely during long, often turbulent discussions. The adventures are determined by the player's actions and decisions.

The Red Strings Club
The Red Strings Club

Adventure 22 January 2018

A thriller adventure game set in a cyberpunk setting. The players assume the role of a bartender and a hacker and stop the corporation called Supercontinent Ltd. from manipulating human personality in an attempt to eliminate all negative feeling and emotions including anger, depression, and agoraphobia.

Subsurface Circular
Subsurface Circular

Adventure 17 August 2017

An adventure game, in which you assume the role of a detective on the track of mysterious vanishing of menial robot workers. In order to crack the case, he travels by titular Subsurface Circular – a kind of metro – and questions the passengers.

Dream Alone
Dream Alone

Adventure 28 June 2018

A 2D platformer with horror elements. You assume the role of a boy searching for the mythical Lady Death who can help him stop the disease spreading across his family village. The hero of Dream Alone has supernatural powers and can cross the boundaries of an alternative reality or copy himself (which helps in solving various puzzles and revealing secrets).

Apparition
Apparition

Adventure canceled

A first-person survival horror, in which we play the role of a researcher of supernatural phenomena. Our task is to document the activity of ghosts in Devil's Tramping Ground, North Carolina, USA, which is commonly regarded as a haunted forest.