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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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Shadow of the Beast
Shadow of the Beast

Adventure 17 May 2016

It is a slasher action-adventure game that reboots an old platform game franchise, popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s on the Amiga console. The game is set in a grim fantasy world called Karamoon, ruled by a cruel tyrant named Meletoth. The player becomes a warrior who tries to fight the armies of the tyrant and overthrow him. Gameplay is focused mainly on combat against hordes of enemies, employing a complex system of strikes and special attacks.

Signs of the Sojourner
Signs of the Sojourner

Adventure 17 March 2021

Terminators: The Video Game is an interactive adaptation of a film cycle created by James Cameron. The game focuses on dynamic action and allows you to play many scenes known from the silver screen.

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood

Adventure 30 May 2017

Continuation of Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek, a casual adventure published in 2011. Playing the role of a detective tracking down an evil preacher, the player sets out to help the Simson family, which was attacked by a dark creature near the Ravenwood reserve. The title was produced by HOPA studio Artifex Mundi, which specializes in the genre of HOPA.

Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace
Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace

Adventure 10 December 2019

A sci-fi adventure that belongs to the visual novel sub-genre. Players follow the fate of a first year student at Tokyo University and a novice inventor. The game is a side title published in 2010 by Steins;Gate. Unlike him, he is not a science-fiction thriller, but a typical romantic comedy in which the protagonists of the original play the main roles.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Adventure 12 August 2015

A fairy tale adventure and arcade game created by the Swedish Starbreeze studio, known for such titles as Kroniki Riddicka or Syndicate. The production tells the story of two brothers travelling through picturesque lands in search of medicine for their sick father. During the game, we control both characters at the same time, and most of the challenges we face require their close cooperation.

Beyond a Steel Sky
Beyond a Steel Sky

Adventure 30 November 2021

Beneath a Steel Sky 2 is an adventure game by Revolution Software team. The whole is maintained in cyberpunk climates and combines a gloomy vision of the future with a lot of humour. The game consists mainly in exploring the location, conducting talks and solving puzzles.

Draw a Stickman: EPIC 2
Draw a Stickman: EPIC 2

Adventure 16 October 2019

The second installment of the popular original adventure game series developed by the Chinese-American Hitcents studio. This time, the players are in control of two self-created heroes who find themselves inside a magic book that represents a world conquered by dark forces. Your objective is to help the inhabitants and put an end to the invasion. Once again, gameplay is based on solving various puzzles, fending off opponents, and avoiding numerous traps.

Adam's Venture: Origins
Adam's Venture: Origins

Adventure 01 April 2016

A new version of an adventure game that initially came out for PC in three separate episodes released between 2009 and 2012. It was developed by the Dutch Vertigo Games. In the game, we assume the role of the eponymous adventurer and treasure hunter who happened to find notes pointing to a supposed location of the biblical Garden of Eden in an old Templar church.

Telling Lies
Telling Lies

Adventure 28 April 2020

Continuation of Her Story adventure from 2015 created by Sam Barlow. Telling Lies is a psychological thriller in which we immerse ourselves in the lives of four strangers by playing back recordings in a laptop we have found, which belongs to the intelligence services.

Fran Bow
Fran Bow

Adventure 28 April 2023

A two-dimensional point ‘n’ click adventure game that tells a terrifying story of a young girl that suffers from serious mental disorders. Fran Bow is the debut project of the two-people studio Killmonday Games and was funded thanks to a crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo. In the game, we assume the role of the eponymous Fran who witnesses the brutal murder of her own parents.

Elea
Elea

Adventure 25 July 2019

A science fiction adventure game developed by Kyodai. The developers were inspired by the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, and Stanislaw Lem. The player assumes the role of Catherine Jones; the heroine is on a space journey aboard the Pilgrimage II ship when she unexpectedly loses consciousness. Having awakened, she discovers that the vessels is abandoned, while Kazumi, the on-board artificial intelligence, is damaged and trying to take complete control of the ship.

2064: Read Only Memories
2064: Read Only Memories

Adventure 16 August 2016

A classic adventure game developed by independent studio MidBoss. Assuming the role of a journalist, the player finds himself in cyberpunk Neo-San Francisco of 2064 and conducts an investigation so as to find the creator of the machine called Turing – the world’s first Artificial Intelligence with self-consciousness and an ability to think independently. The setting is retrofuturistic – the creators have drawn inspirations from the 1980s’ vision of the future.

Eventide: Slavic Fable
Eventide: Slavic Fable

Adventure 25 April 2017

A hidden object adventure game inspired by Slavic mythology. The production is the fruit of cooperative labor of The House of Fables and Artifex Mundi, which specializes in the genre. In the game, we assume the role of a famous botanist who arrives at an old Slavic open-air museum to save a valuable plant at the request of her grandmother.

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

Adventure 24 March 2016

An adventure game/visual novel developed by 5pb, a Japanese studio known with immense experience with the genre. Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness takes place in the world of Psycho-Pass, a popular science-fiction anime series. We are introduced to a grim version of 2113, in which a complex computer system called Sybil monitors the actions, thoughts, and emotional state of the inhabitants, creating a criminal behavior estimate for every citizen.

Manual Samuel
Manual Samuel

Adventure 11 October 2016

An amazingly hilarious adventure game combining elements of the famous Monkey Island series with the crazy Octodad: Dadliest Catch. It was developed by Perfectly Paranormal - an independent game-making studio. The game tells a story of the titular Samuel, who has just died as a result of an accident. In the Afterlife he meets Death, with whom he makes an unusual pact.

Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

Adventure 21 February 2017

A spin-off entry in the popular platform game series, originally launched by Double Fine Productions in 2005, developed exclusively for Sony’s platform to make use of PlayStation VR sets. The game starts exactly where first Psychonauts has ended, acting is a bridge between it and the sequel.

Dome City
Dome City

Adventure canceled

A first-person adventure game taking place in a science-fiction universe. The plot of Dome City depicts an undefined future, where humans started to settle alien planets. However, one of the cities on Mars, encased by a gigantic dome, has been abandoned by humans hundred years ago. The player, leading a trio of characters, has to discover the reasons why the colonists have deserted the settlement, and find a way to escape the Red Planet.

Bonded
Bonded

Adventure canceled

A post-apocalyptic adventure game developed by Portugal studio Arkavi. The story of Bonded starts many years after the events during which humanity had fallen prey to the machine rebellion. The main character of the game is Mira, a little girl that spent her whole life in a bunker which protected her from the mechanical enemies. When the bunker inhabitants start dying due to a mysterious illness, girl’s parents go looking for a cure. As one can guess, they don’t return in the appointed time.

The Park
The Park

Adventure 03 May 2016

A first-person horror adventure game set in The Secret World’s, a popular MMO title, setting. It was developed by Funcom the studio that, apart from the aforementioned production, created Age of Conan and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, among other things. The plot of The Park takes us to a theme park surrounded with a dense forest, which brings to mind The Secret World's Atlantic Island Park.

The Deer God
The Deer God

Adventure 25 April 2017

The Deer God is an original platform game with roguelike and RPG elements, developed by the independent studio Cinopt Studios in cooperation with Crescent Moon Games. We observe the action from a side-scrolling perspective and play as a hunter who was reborn as a deer. From now on, his most important goal is to survive in a hostile environment. He will also have to do some quests, like growing old, achieving a godlike karma balance, or finding every statuette of knowledge.

HeadLander
HeadLander

Adventure 26 July 2016

A science-fiction side-scrolling platform game developed by studio Double Fine Productions led by Tim Schafer. HeadLander combines the features of the classic video game series Metroid with a few completely new features. During the game, the player assumes the role of a character who wakes up in a trashy world of the future, inhabited only by robots. The protagonist discovers that he consists only of… a head placed in a special helmet equipped with a rocket propulsion system.

Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus
Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus

Adventure 29 March 2016

A continuation of an independent point-and-click adventure game developed by Storybird Games. Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus (also known as Finding Teddy 2) sees us assume control of a new protagonist – a girl named Tarant, whose hobby leads to an unexpected event that allows her to enter the world of video games. Armed with a small sword and a shield, the heroine embarks on a dangerous journey supported by her favorite teddy bear.

Perception
Perception

Adventure 06 June 2017

A first-person horror adventure game and the debut project of The Deep End Games studio. In Perception, we play as a blind girl named Cassie, who tries to discover the mystery of a certain mansion, whose visions has been haunting her in her dreams for some time. It turns out that the place is haunted by a ghost, which has been terrorizing the inhabitants of the house, and now it targets Cassie. We explore the dark mansions and look for clues to reveal the dark past of the building.

Oxenfree
Oxenfree

Adventure 31 May 2016

A 2D adventure game inspired by supernatural horrors, developed by Night School Studio, a debuting team founded by the former workers of Telltale Games. We take on the role of a girl named Alex, who is about to graduate middle school and to celebrate that, she travels with a group of friends to an island that has been the students’ customary place to say their farewells.