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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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XBlaze Code: Embryo
XBlaze Code: Embryo

Adventure 25 July 2013

XBlaze is a two-dimensional visual novel adventure game created by the studio responsible for the BlazBlue series. This title is fictionally linked to the cycle and constitutes its prequel. In XBlaze we play the role of an average student whose life is turned upside down one day as a result of extraordinary events.

XBlaze Lost: Memories
XBlaze Lost: Memories

Adventure 09 April 2015

XBlaze Lost: Memories is a visual novel adventure game that takes place in the same universe as the BlazBlue fighting game series. In terms of the plot, XBlaze Lost: Memories complements the story from XBlaze Code: Embryo. The game shows the events of Embyro from many different points of view, and at the same time adds new plot threads. A pink-haired mysterious hero known as Me is our new protagonist. She searches for her younger sister who got lost in the Phantom Field.

Corpse Party: Blood Drive
Corpse Party: Blood Drive

Adventure 24 July 2014

Another installment in the series of Japanese survival horror visual novels developed by 5pb. Corpse Party: Blood Drive takes place after the events shown in Book of Shadows and concentrates on one of its protagonists, Ayumi Shinozaki. The girl's new adventure starts when her aunt visits her. She informs her that since centuries the duty of the Shinozaki family is to guard the mysterious Book of Shadows which, should it fall in the wrong hands, might lead the world to doom.

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee HD

Adventure 16 December 2014

Refreshed edition of the third installment of the cult Oddworld series. This time, Abe, known from the previous parts, is accompanied by a wheelchair-driven Munch. Together they try to recover the Gabbits' eggs, which are the last chance for the survival of this dying species.

Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters

Adventure 10 April 2014

An original combination of a visual novel adventure with a turn-based strategy game. Players play the role of an employee of a small occult publishing house in Tokyo. Apart from official activities, the company's representatives are also engaged in exorcism and hunting for various ghosts and supernatural phenomena.

Hatoful Boyfriend
Hatoful Boyfriend

Adventure 21 July 2015

Original Japanese visual novel game. The main character moves to a secondary school for intelligent and speaking birds. On the spot she can make friends with her students and find true love.

Alone With You
Alone With You

Adventure 23 August 2016

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.

Resident Evil: Director's Cut
Resident Evil: Director's Cut

Adventure 28 August 2012

A re-release of Resident Evil, released exclusively in digital form as part of the PSOne Classics service. Developed by Capcom, the production is an expanded and uncensored version of the hit title that debuted in 1996 on the PlayStation console. In comparison with the original, Resident Evil: Director's Cut can boast, above all, the presence of three gameplay variants. Original Mode is a faithful copy of the original, not subjected to any changes or improvements.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Adventure 31 January 2017

The third full-fledged installment in the series of mystery thriller adventure visual novels developed by Spike Chunsoft. The plot of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony tells the story of a kidnapped high school student named Kaede Akamatsu. Together with other students, he is taken to a school called Gifted Inmates Academy. The academy’s director is a teddy bear named Monokuma.

Clannad
Clannad

Adventure 14 August 2014

Clannad is a visual novel adventure game available for PlayStation 4. It allows you to trace two periods in the life of a young Japanese - the last months of school and a few years of early adulthood. Both stages are filled with numerous dramas and fantastic elements. The gameplay boils down mainly to following the plot and making decisions.

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.

Higurashi When They Cry
Higurashi When They Cry

Adventure 12 March 2015

Higurashi When They Cry is a Japanese adventure in the visual novel category. The production is kept in a horror atmosphere and tells the story of a small village of Hinamizawa, which in June 1983 became the scene of a series of brutal murders. The game boils down primarily to passive tracking of the plot presented in text form enriched with simple pictures.

Steins;Gate 0
Steins;Gate 0

Adventure 10 December 2015

A visual novel adventure game developed by Nitroplus and 5pb. Studios. The game is a direct continuation of the original Steins;Gate from 2009. The plot picks off using one of the alternative endings of the predecessor. Okabe Rintaro, a student heartbroken after the tragic death of his friend Kurisu Makise, makes an appointment to a psychiatric health facility.

Three Fourths Home
Three Fourths Home

Adventure 09 December 2015

An unusual narrative/adventure game developed by [bracket] games and Digerati Distribution. Three Fourths Home tells the story of a young woman named Kelly who is currently on her way to her family home in Nebraska after a years’ absence. We accompany the woman during conversations with her parents and her younger brother, learning more about the complicated relationship she has with them. The game cannot be easily assigned a genre, as we are given a mix of an adventure game and a visual novel.

Claire: Extended Cut
Claire: Extended Cut

Adventure 30 August 2016

An extended edition of Claire - a survival horror game released in 2014. In comparison to the original release, the new edition brings mainly improved audiovisuals. Once again, the development works were carried out by Hailstorm Games. The game still offers a two-dimensional environment and pixel-art graphics. However, the creators managed to implement both 3D objects and depth of field effects.

Code: Realize - Guardian of Rebirth
Code: Realize - Guardian of Rebirth

Adventure 27 November 2014

A visual novel game in which we learn about the fate of a girl named Cardia. She lives in solitude, because in her body there is a poison that kills all the living beings she touches. One day, however, the heroine sets out to look for her father, who can help her.

Actual Sunlight
Actual Sunlight

Adventure 11 August 2015

A simple adventure telling a short story of Evan Winter, an employee of one of the corporations, whose life is far from perfect. The game deals with topics such as love, loneliness and depression.

Root Letter
Root Letter

Adventure 16 June 2016

An adventure game/visual novel developed by Kadokawa Games. The action of Root Letter takes place in present-day Japan, with players taking control of a thirty-something man who discovers long forgotten letters that he had exchanged fifteen years ago with a penfriend named Aya Fumino. Her last letter contains a murder confession, and states that she has to atone for her sin. After that, she suddenly broke off all contact.

NightCry
NightCry

Adventure 31 January 2019

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.

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary

Adventure 19 June 2014

A climatic adventure platform game in which we try to help a lost girl get out of a dark maze. Two fairies (the so-called "skylights"), representing the power of light and darkness, will be an invaluable help in the journey. Using their abilities will allow us to change our perspective and see all the elements important for the course of the game.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Adventure 26 May 2015

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a sequel to the 2010 Octodad adventure by students from DePaul University. The title character still tries to hide his nature of the octopus, and when the suspicious wife insists on a visit to the oceanarium, the cephalopod is hanging in the air.

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Adventure 28 June 2016

An interactive adventure horror game from visual novel genre and a third entry in Zero Escape series, created ChunSoft in cooperation with Aksys Games. It takes place in Martian research facility, ordered to survey reactions of people locked and isolated from the rest of the world. Gameplay doesn’t differ much from that of previous parts of the series and presents fans with well-known characters.

Chaos;Child
Chaos;Child

Adventure 13 October 2017

Chaos;Child is a visual novel sci-fi adventure game. Players are following the story of a high school student working for a school newspaper on the case of mysterious deaths, potentially related to an equally mysterious case that had shaken Tokyo a few years earlier.

Amnesia: Memories
Amnesia: Memories

Adventure 19 December 2013

Targeted at female visual novel adventure players. It tells the story of a young girl suffering from amnesia, who has the opportunity to get involved with one of the five men during the game. While playing, the player passively follows the story and at key moments makes decisions that are important for the story being told.