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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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Hindsight
Adventure 04 August 2022
An exploration adventure game developed by Joel McDonald - the author of the warmly welcomed Prune. In Hindsight we play as a woman who, trying to make sense of her life, returns to distant memories and abandoned dreams.
Danganronpa Decadence
Adventure 03 December 2021
Danganronpa Decadence is a collection of four games from Spike Chunsoft - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony in Anniversary Edition versions, and the new Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp.
Elea: Paradigm Shift
Adventure 08 February 2020
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 - Integral
Adventure 26 July 2018
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.
Draw a Stickman: EPIC 2
Adventure 11 January 2018
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
Adventure 29 May 2020
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.
Corpse Party: Blood Drive
Adventure 10 October 2019
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.
Shape of the World
Adventure 06 June 2018
An experimental, first-person adventure game created by Hollow Tree Games – an independent, Canadian developer. Shape of the World does not offer a plot as such; rather, it focuses on delivering a certain visual experience. The player takes on the role of a nameless traveler who introduces different changes to the world around along his way. The changes made are divided into two kinds: the passive (as the player follows the designated path) and the active.
Goosebumps: The Game
Adventure 09 October 2018
A point-and-click adventure game created by WayForward Technologies - a team known mainly for DuckTales Remastered. Goosebumps: The Game was based on the license of popular books written by R.L. Stine. The player takes on the role of a kid that on their way home from school, discovers that the neighborhood has been taken over by monsters - werewolfs are lurking in the forest nearby, gnomes are running along sidewalks and scarecrows walk the streets at night.
The Deer God
Adventure 21 December 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.
Steamburg
Adventure 22 November 2018
A mobile point-and-click adventure game with logic puzzle and arcade elements, and a sequel to the well-received Steampunker by Polish studio Telehorse. In contrast to its predecessor, payable in full, Steamburg is a freemium app. The game is set in a steampunk universe, in which the Earth has been invaded by an army of robots from outer space. The only hope to defeat them lies in the electrical machines created by a genius scientist, who's also the protagonist.
World End Economica: Complete
Adventure 22 April 2021
World End Economica is a visual novel PC adventure game. The story takes place in the future and tells the story of a teenager trying to make a fortune by trading in shares on the stock exchange located on the Moon. During the game we follow the narratives and make key decisions.
Amnesia: Memories
Adventure 20 September 2022
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.
Oxenfree
Adventure 06 October 2017
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.
Five Nights at Freddy's
Adventure 29 November 2019
An original horror game created by Scott Cawthon, an independent gamemaker. The player assumes the role of a watchman who takes up a seasonal job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. What is important about the restaurant, is that mechanical mascots are its main attraction. A seemingly easy job turns into a true nightmare during the very first night, when the protagonist discovers that the sympathetic animatronics come to life after dark and display a hostile attitude towards humans.
Monolith
Adventure 13 June 2024
Monolith is a science fiction adventure game developed by Animation Arts, where we play as an astronaut, Nolan Carter. He was traveling on a space ship that crashed on an unknown planet. After he awakes from the cryogenic sleep, he manages to find a signal that promises to lead him to something that will help him save his life. Without any other options, he decides to follow it. He questions his knowledge and sanity along the way.
Troll and I
Adventure 21 May 2017
An action-adventure game from Spiral House studio, set in 1950 in Northern Europe. Player takes control of two characters – a boy named Otto and a big Troll. As the village of the first protagonist is destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm, they set on a journey to find a new home for him. Most of the game comes down to exploring locations, solving simple puzzles and fighting or avoiding enemies.
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Adventure 21 November 2017
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.
Submerged
Adventure 07 June 2019
A third person action adventure game that combines a post-apocalyptic setting with fantasy elements. The game was created by Uppercut Games, a developer studio founded by industry veterans who previously worked on such classics as Fallout Tactics and the BioShock franchise. You take on the role of a young girl, who brings her wounded brother into a submerged city. Gameplay is based on exploration (on foot or by boat) in search of any items that could give the boy some relief.
What Remains of Edith Finch
Adventure 04 July 2019
What Remains of Edith Finch is a unique adventure game developed by Giant Sparrow, which focuses on the evanescence of life. The game tells a set of short stories about the fate of the members of a certain American family that has been cursed. The history told in those episodes takes place over a span of one hundred years in Washington state, a place filled with forests and mountains, a location that resembles a little the cult TV show Twin Peaks.
Bulb Boy
Adventure 06 July 2017
Developed by an independent Polish studio Bulbware, an adventure game with survival horror elements. The action of Bulb Boy kicks off when GRANDPArafin and Mothdog disappear from the hero’s hometown. As an admirable child, you decide to find them. The game employs a classic point’n’click mechanics. The journey takes us to various locations in which we solve puzzles with the use of various items.
White Night
Adventure 17 May 2018
A third-person survival horror from the independent French studio OSome, inspired by the Alone in the Dark series. White Night takes place in 1930’s, following a hero trapped in an old family mansion that hides a dark secret of the past. Our main enemy are the dark and mysterious creatures that dwell in it, forcing us to solve many puzzles based on light and dark mechanics.
Alone With You
Adventure 30 July 2021
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
Adventure 26 August 2020
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.