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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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The First Tree
The First Tree

Adventure 30 November 2018

A third-person perspective exploration game about death and loneliness. It was developed by an independent developer who also created Home is Where one Starts. In The First Tree, the player follows two distinctly different characters: a female fox that is looking for her lost kids, and a pair of humans facing death of their closest ones.

Blackwood Crossing
Blackwood Crossing

Adventure 17 February 2017

An adventure game developed by PaperSeven. The plot was written by Oliver Reid-Smith (the creator of the script for the well-received The Room), and it focuses on the relations of orphaned siblings: Scarlett and her younger brother, Finn. When the girl enters adolescence, their relations worsen. While traveling on a train, the protagonists meet a mysterious creature that lets them look at their past from a different perspective.

Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series - Season 2
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series - Season 2

Adventure 11 July 2017

Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series - Season 2 is the second season of the episodic adventure game developed by Telltale Games and set in the Minecraft universe. After the events of the first game, the crew begins to fall out as a result of too many duties and lack of time for new adventures. One day, Jesse gets into trouble. Not only he finds a mysterious cursed glove, but also gets his hand stuck in it.

Transference
Transference

Adventure 18 September 2018

A psychological thriller adventure game developed by Funhouse (a division of Ubisoft Montreal) in cooperation with SpectreVision. The title debuted on multiple gaming platforms, but only PC and PlayStation 4 versions support virtual reality goggles and dedicated motion controllers. In Transference the player is tasked with solving a mystery of a family whose members are facing various obsessions.

Stifled
Stifled

Adventure canceled

A first-person action thriller from an indie developer, offering support for VR headsets. Stifled bases the exploration mechanics on the original concept of use of echolocation – as they spread, sound waves reveal the layout of rooms and shapes of objects around you. Sounds can be made not only by the protagonist and some environmental objects, but also by the player themselves, using a microphone.

The Coma: Recut
The Coma: Recut

Adventure 22 September 2017

A refreshed version of a successful survival horror that came out in 2015. The Coma: Recut is set in the Sehwa high-school in South Korea. Youngho, the main protagonist, having spent the entire night studying, falls asleep during an exam. Once awake, Youngho realizes that he is alone in the classroom and it is already dark outside. However, the true nightmare begins when it turns out that the school is overrun by monsters and an insane killer is walking its hallways.

Wuppo
Wuppo

Adventure 10 November 2017

A sidescrolling adventure game developed by a duo of independent developers known as Knuist & Perzik. Wuppo sees us assume control of a wum, a small round being that has been exiled from its home village. Our task – which is to find a new home – quickly evolves into an attempt to solve an ancient conflict.

The Good Life
The Good Life

Adventure 15 October 2021

An unusual RPG with crime story traits. The title was developed by White Owls – a studio founded by Hidetaka Suehiro, the creator of Deadly Premonition and D4. The player assumes the role of Naomi, a reporter who comes to Rainy Woods, the self-called “happiest place on Earth”. She is looking for a way to pay her debts.

Close to the Sun
Close to the Sun

Adventure 29 October 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.

Wheels of Aurelia
Wheels of Aurelia

Adventure 18 November 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.

Dream Alone
Dream Alone

Adventure canceled

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).

Wytchwood
Wytchwood

Adventure 09 December 2021

Wytchwood is an adventure game focused on gathering and crafting, set in a fairy-tale world. It was developed by indie studio Alientrap. You play as a mysterious witch living in an ancient forest.

Truberbrook
Truberbrook

Adventure 17 April 2019

A classic point-and-click adventure created by a small btf studio. In the game we play the American physicist, who goes to the German village of Trüberbrook, where strange things happen.

Apocalipsis
Apocalipsis

Adventure 05 September 2019

A point-and-click adventure game, in which the players follow a man called Harry while he travels through a hostile world searching for his beloved one. Punch Punk Games’ work stands out from similar games thanks to its style, inspired by medieval codes and art of Hans Holbein and Albrecht Dürer.

Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion

Adventure 17 July 2018

Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion is an adventure game based on the popular TV show going by the same title. The players control one of four heroes (these include Finn, Jake, Marceline and BMO). Their quest is about finding the cause of a tragic flood that ravaged the land.

Neversong
Neversong

Adventure 16 July 2020

Platform action game with elements of adventure, in which players play the role of Pete - a boy awakened from a coma, trying to find his lost sister. The protagonist embarks on a dangerous journey through an oneiric world, solving riddles and confronting enemies he encounters along the way.

Afterparty
Afterparty

Adventure 29 October 2019

Afterparty is an adventure for PCs, telling the story of a couple of friends who, after their death, end up in hell and discover that the only way to avoid eternal condemnation is to defeat the Devil in an alcoholic competition. While playing, we explore locations and solve puzzles. The key role is played by the proper use of various drinks, providing bonuses to the ability of the character.

Candleman
Candleman

Adventure 20 October 2017

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.

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.

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.

Beat The Game
Beat The Game

Adventure canceled

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.

Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse
Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse

Adventure 26 October 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 06 December 2019

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