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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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Signs of the Sojourner
Signs of the Sojourner

Adventure 18 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.

Candle: The Power of the Flame
Candle: The Power of the Flame

Adventure 25 July 2018

The debut project from the independent Spanish studio, Teku, combining elements of a classic platformer with a dynamic action-adventure games. Its plot takes after classic movie and gaming stories, putting us in the shoes of a young shaman student, who has to save the people from his village who were assaulted by the hostile Atipax tribe. We also discover a hidden, dark truth from the past.

Another World
Another World

Adventure 09 July 2018

Refreshed version of the highly acclaimed action adventure game. The player directs the actions of a young scientist - Lester Knight Knight Chaykin, who, as a result of an unsuccessful experiment, finds himself in a dangerous and alien world.

Violett
Violett

Adventure 26 October 2017

Violett is an adventure with a point & click interface, produced by Forever Entertainment company from Gdynia. The player's task is to help a teenage heroine, who has entered an alternative, magical world, in the fight against the Queen's Spider's Spider and find a way back home.

Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Adventure 08 November 2018

Valiant Hears: The Great War is an original action-adventure game that takes place during the World War I. It was developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, creators of best-selling platform games Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. The game's plot is based on authentic letters from the WW1 period and tells the story of five heroes who were were brought together by the war and... a good-willed dog that can influence the fate of people.

The Fall
The Fall

Adventure 10 May 2018

Set in the reality of science fiction platformer developed by Over the Moon studio. The Fall was inspired by classic adventure and platform titles and the prose of Russian SF writer Isaac Asimov. The game takes place on a distant planet, where an injured spaceship pilot finds himself. Playing in his spacesuit artificial intelligence, called ARID, we have to save his life and help to survive in a strange and dangerous environment.

Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes

Adventure 14 August 2019

Continuation of a bizarre, yet humorous, German adventure from the Edna & Harvey series. Lilla's protagonist and the plush rabbit Harvey get caught up in a new trouble: the girl begins to see the little gnomes influencing reality, and the plush is kidnapped by a mad doctor. Caricatured graphics, psychedelic motifs and comic atmosphere make the game stand out from other adventures.

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure 30 June 2023

A humorous adventure by the father of the Phoenix Wright series. We play the role of a spirit that must solve the mystery of its own death and stop the perpetrator from murdering more people. The game is about saving potential victims by manipulating inanimate objects on the screen.

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

Adventure 14 May 2020

The third installment of the Oddworld series for the first time takes the player into a three-dimensional world. This time, Abe, known from the previous parts, is accompanied by a wheelchair-driven Munch.

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.

Primordia
Primordia

Adventure 02 March 2022

A classic point-and-click adventure in which the player gets to the postapocalyptic reality. The civilization created by man is only a myth in this world, and the Earth is inhabited by robots endowed with artificial intelligence.

Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden
Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden

Adventure 15 January 2021

Casual adventure by Artifex Mundi studio from Zabrze. The player directs the actions of a young woman who sets off to the ruined, underwater city of Eden in search of her beloved. Meeting a few survivors, the protagonist discovers the terrifying truth about a place that was supposed to be a sanctuary of harmony and beauty. The game combines puzzles such as "hidden objects" and puzzles in the form of mini games.

Shadowgate
Shadowgate

Adventure 11 April 2019

Set in fantasy reality adventure game with RPG elements, referring to the cult production from 1987. Independent studio Zojoi is responsible for creating Shadowgate. We play as an adventurer who enters the gloomy castle with a task to defeat the evil sorcerer. To do this, he must first complete all the parts of the magic scepter - the only weapon capable of defeating the villain.

Little Busters! Converted Edition
Little Busters! Converted Edition

Adventure 23 April 2020

Little Busters! is a visual novel adventure game produced by the Key studio. The game tells the story of a group of Japanese high school students, and the game boils down mainly to following the plot and making choices from time to time. The fun is diversified by mini games.

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.

Machinarium
Machinarium

Adventure 01 November 2018

An original two-dimensional adventure game developed by Amanita Design - an independent Czech studio popular for the Samorost series. The action is set in a bizarre world made entirely of metal. All the plants, wildlife and humans were replaced by robots. The player assumes the role of one such robot, wrongfully sent to a junkyard. Once back in town, the protagonist discovers the existence of a conspiracy aiming to murder its leader.

Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files: Tunguska

Adventure 30 November 2018

A classic, two-dimensional point-and-click adventure game developed by German studio Fusionsphere Systems. The story of the game is closely related to the famous Tunguska event which occurred in 1908 and which to this day was never fully explained. There are a few theories explaining what occurred there and some of them are quite unusual. The main protagonist of the game is Nina Kalenkov, a Russian girl living in Germany.

Deadly Premonition: Origins
Deadly Premonition: Origins

Adventure 04 September 2019

Deadly Premonition is an adventure game enriched with elements of survival-horror and RPG. We lead a young FBI agent to explain the mysterious murders in a small American town.

Syberia
Syberia

Adventure 20 October 2017

An adventure game designed by Benoit Sokal, the famous Belgian comic writer, in cooperation with studio Microids. Syberia is the first chapter of the adventures of Kate Walker, an American lawyer hired by the company that produces automatons – mechanical toys. She is tasked with finishing the formalities related to taking over a factory located in a small city in Europe. The game begins when the protagonist arrives at the factory and learns that its owner, Anna Voralberg, is dead.

Corpse Party
Corpse Party

Adventure 20 October 2021

A visual novel adventure game developed by studio 5pg. The game is an improved version of the independent game created by Makoto Kedouin and originally released in 1996. Corpse Party takes place in a high school building that was built on the ruins of an old grade school in which a terrible and mysterious crime has occurred. One day, due to unexplainable events, a group of students enters a terrible and grotesque version of their school in which the corridors are filled with decomposing corpses.

The Journey Down
The Journey Down

Adventure 21 June 2018

Commercial remake of the popular free adventure from 2010. The plot takes place in a fantastic world inspired by African and Jamaican cultures. The game is about exploring the location, conducting conversations, collecting objects and solving riddles.

Lifeless Planet
Lifeless Planet

Adventure 06 September 2018

Lifeless Planet is a science fiction action adventure game developed by Stage 2, an independent studio. The protagonist is a lone astronaut sent to explore a newly discovered planet where scientists believe life has evolved. Unfortunately, during the landing the ship crashed, crashing into this mysterious and - as it soon turns out - desolate world.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Adventure 30 November 2018

A climatic adventure game originally released for iPad in 2011. The mechanics of the game is based on the point-n-click interface, so the game is mainly about searching the locations in order to find clues to help solve puzzles. From time to time, simple combat sequences also occur to add variety to the gameplay.

Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek

Adventure 25 June 2021

A detective adventure game enriched with puzzles like "hidden objects". The player plays the role of a private detective who tries to find a lost teenager in the title town. Developers from Artifex Mundi studio took care of the plot full of surprising twists and the atmospheric audio-visual setting.