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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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Sylvio
Adventure 13 January 2017
A horror-themed action-adventure game allowing us to assume the role of Juliette Waters, a woman whose occupation is recording the voices of spirits. Interestingly enough, Sylvio is a project of an independent developer, Niklas Swanberg. Our heroine travels to an abandoned amusement park, left to decay after a powerful storm had led to a landslide. It quickly turns out that the spirits living in the park are very vicious, and the whole area is under the influence of a mysterious curse.
Beyond Eyes
Adventure 04 August 2015
An unusual adventure game by tiger & squid, and independent Dutch studio. The protagonist of Beyond Eyes is a ten-year-old girl named Rae who lost her sight in an accident while firing up fireworks. Ever since that day, she spends most of the time in the garden next to her house, accompanied by a cat named Nani. One day, the animal disappears, and Rae decides to leave the house for the first time in a long time to find her lost pet.
Assassin's Creed: Unity - Dead Kings
Adventure 13 January 2015
The first DLC expansion for Assassin’s Creed: Unity. The add-on is included in the season pass for the game. It takes place after the events presented in the base version of the game and takes the player from the streets of Paris into the dark catacombs of Saint-Denis. There Arno becomes part of a new intrigue related to the tomb raiders who are profaning the tombs of French kings in order to find valuable treasures.
Grim Fandango Remastered
Adventure 29 October 2020
A remake of a legendary adventure game from Lucas Arts, known as one of the best and most original point-and-click adventure games. The new edition was developed by Double Fine Production, a studio led by Tim Schafer, the co-author of the original title. The action of the game takes place in a unique version of the afterlife, inspired by noir movies and Mexican folklore.
White Night
Adventure 06 March 2015
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.
Bulb Boy
Adventure 06 October 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.
Adr1ft
Adventure canceled
An action adventure game set in a science-fiction world created by Three One Zero - a studio led by former Microsoft employee, Adam Orth. The hero of the game is an astronaut trying to survive in space after a disaster destroyed his mother station. Core of the gameplay is exploring and solving logical puzzles, which mainly consist of repairing various equipment which allows us to keep ourselves alive in space.
Monstrum
Adventure 22 May 2020
A survival horror game from an independent studio, Team Junkfish. Player takes control of a man trying to escape from a giant, decaying ship, with a titular monster pursuing him all the time. The beast cannot be confronted directly, meaning the hero can only hide or distract the creature with various items. The world is observed from third-person perspective, and all but crucial rooms are randomly generated.
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
Adventure 08 February 2015
A continuation of the 2009 hilarious adventure game developed by KING Art Games that tells a story of the search for a powerful magical artifact. The story of the second installment picks up one year after the events shown by its predecessor, allowing the players to control the team of heroes aided by an amiable creature named Critter – one might remember all these characters from the first game.
Draw a Stickman: EPIC
Adventure 11 September 2015
An original adventure game by the independent Chinese-American studio Hitcents. You begin with customizing your character with the use of a “virtual pencil”. The gameplay consists of exploring the cartoon world and solving various puzzles which require drawing and breathing life into different tools and weapons which can be used not only to solve puzzles, but also to combat dangerous enemies and to avoid obstacles.
Cult County
Adventure canceled
Cult County is a survival horror adventure game in which events are shown from the first person perspective (FPP). The story takes place in a desert town in Texas, where the protagonist finds himself in search of a sister. He finds an atmosphere of fear and distrust caused by sinister cultists, and soon comes to fight for survival. The game combines a dramatic struggle with exploratory elements in locations with a partially open structure.
Nightmares from the Deep: Davy Jones
Adventure 02 February 2018
The third part of the pirate trilogy by the native Artifex Mundi studio, which combines the best features of point-and-click adventures with puzzles like "find hidden objects". This time, Sara Black, known from previous scenes of the cycle, will set off to help her daughter, enslaved by the legendary pirate Davy Jones.
Crossing the line
Adventure canceled
Crossing the line is a dark FPP shooting game in which the main character solves the death of his wife. Russian studio Zomboko Entertainment used an advanced CryEngine 3 engine to create a convincing and mysterious world.
Hush
Adventure TBA
An episodic action-adventure game which is the debut project of a Portuguese developer Game Studio 78. Hush tries to approach numerous human fears and anxieties – those which human beings are subject to during their childhood, and those that we experience everyday. Each episode contains 3 chapters, focusing on a chosen phobia, e.g. darkness, ghosts, lightning, clowns, or spiders.
Oxenfree
Adventure 15 January 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.
Aritana and the Harpy's Feather
Adventure 09 September 2015
A colourful platform game based on Brazilian beliefs and legends, alluding to the classic Disney games. In the game we play the role of a young warrior, who in order to save the chief of the tribe and to do his charm, will have to get a feather of an extremely rare species of harp, nesting in the high mountains, inhabited by a tribe of cannibals.
Blues And Bullets
Adventure 28 August 2015
A noir mix of an action and adventure game developed by the team at A Crowd of Monsters. We play as a former detective, Patton, who wants to face the wave of crime that plagues the city of Santa Esperanza, as well as the demons from his past. He must solve the case of a series of brutal murders, either by interrogating and speaking with key characters or through scenes straight from an action movie. Interestingly, the plot changes depending on our decisions.
Rememoried
Adventure 05 December 2017
An exploration-focused adventure FPP game by indie studio Hangonit. Rememoried is set in a surreal land, where memories turn into dreams and forgetting fragments of your life is the only way to get to deeper dream levels. At first you have no idea where you are and why you got here, but step by step you find hints that come together and eventually reveal the truth about the whole situation. The gameplay of Rememoried focuses on exploring various locations and solving easy logic puzzles.
A Pixel Story
Adventure 24 February 2017
2D platform game, which combines several art styles in a unique fashion. A Pixel Story is set within a computer, which falls under the control of the villainous Evil OS. It soon turns out that the only piece of software able to stop him is the game’s protagonist – a small white man, known as The Chosen One. Equipped only with his Magic Hat he sets out on a journey across various regions in order to put an end to the tyrant’s rule.
Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond
Adventure 17 March 2023
Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond is an adventure enriched with elements of the casual hidden object species. The campaign takes place shortly before the Second World War, and the script tells the story of a girl hunting for a demon who entered the world of mortals.
Seasons after Fall
Adventure 16 May 2017
An action-adventure game with significant platform elements. In Seasons after Fall, we assume the role of a fox trying to restore the balance to the world of nature, as the seasons of the year are starting to fade away. To save the world, the sympathetic protagonist has to find the four guardians of seasons.
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Adventure 28 October 2021
The fifth fully-fledged installment of the survival horror series started on PlayStation 2. In the game we play the role of three heroes who come to the area of the mysterious Hikayama Mountain, guided by various personal motives. The game is divided into episodes during which we search for missing persons. An inseparable element of the characters' equipment is a special camera that allows them to exorcise ghosts by taking pictures of them.
Knee Deep
Adventure 03 February 2017
An episodic noir adventure story developed by Prologue Games. The action takes place in Cypress Knee, a small town located in the swampy region of Southern Florida. The story begins with an alleged suicide of a washed-out Hollywood star whose corpse is found hanging from a tower at a local amusement park. However, some of the evidence contradicts the leading theory, while the case is investigated by three individuals: a private detective, a local journalist, and a popular blogger.
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.