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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 Vale
The Vale

Adventure 14 March 2024

An action adventure game with RPG elements, which is entirely based on the sound. In The Vale: The Shadow of the Crown we play the role of a blind heir to the throne, who traverses The Vale, trying to find his way home.

Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey
Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey

Adventure 11 February 2022

Pendula Swing: The Complete Journey is an RPG adventure game that takes us to a fantastic world that is a variation on the United States in the 1920s. We play the role of a Brialynne who is trying to find her stolen axe.

Signalis
Signalis

Adventure 27 October 2022

Signalis is a surival horror inspired by the science fiction genre and games such as Resident Evil or Silent Hill. The game was developed by independent rose-engine studio.

Oxenfree
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 2
Five Nights at Freddy's 2

Adventure 29 November 2019

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 provides a continuation to an unusual game created by Scott Cawthon and awarded a series of prizes - it was considered the most original horror title of 2014. In this second installment, the player takes on the role of a new watchman working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Despite the warnings received from his predecessor, he decided to give it a try and stay at the restaurant overnight.

Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories
Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories

Adventure 07 April 2020

Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories is an action adventure game with extensive survival elements developed for PlayStation 4. The game allows you to play as someone trying to survive in a city destroyed by a powerful earthquake.

What Remains of Edith Finch
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.

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.

Okami HD
Okami HD

Adventure 09 August 2018

A refreshed version of the famous action adventure game that tells the story of a goddess in the form of a wolf that faces the evil. The HD edition features improved graphics. The developers of Okami HD aimed to retain the unique visual style of the original game and adapt it to modern standards. The original version was released in 2006 on PlayStation 2.

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.

Abzu
Abzu

Adventure 29 November 2018

The first project by Giant Squids, an independent studio founded by Matt Nova – the artistic director of the extremely successful game called Journey, created for PlayStation consoles. Abzu is an interactive exploration production in which you reveal secrets of a lively underworld. The player assumes the role of a cat-like diver who delves into the ocean and meets schools of fish, groups of aquatic mammals, as well as some other truly majestic creatures and remnants of an ancient civilization.

The Long Dark
The Long Dark

Adventure 17 September 2020

A first person survival sandbox game, developed by independent Canadian studio Hinterland. The team includes veteran game developers, who previously worked for Relic Entertainment, Volition, and BioWare. The game takes you into a post-apocalyptic world after a massive geomagnetic storm. With all electronic devices disabled and water and food supplies running low, the player has to struggle to survive the incoming winter.

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

Adventure 02 May 2019

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is an unusual production that allows you to play the role of.... a bartender working in a cyberpunk city. The game focuses on dialogue and storytelling. The player can also influence the story by giving guests the right drinks.

Shelter Generations
Shelter Generations

Adventure 12 April 2018

A bundle of two games by Might and Delight: the 2015 game Shelter 2 and Paws: A Shelter 2 Game released a year later. The collection also includes the soundtracks of both productions and interactive books - Fables from the Den and The Lonesome Fog.

Rakuen
Rakuen

Adventure 23 March 2023

An adventure game with RPG elements, in which we play the role of a boy exploring the fairy-tale land; the protagonist must submit to a series of attempts to help the inhabitants in order to meet with the Watchman of the Forest, who fulfils their wishes. Rakuen is non-violent - instead, the game is enriched with logical and environmental riddles.

My Child Lebensborn
My Child Lebensborn

Adventure 01 June 2021

An unusual production, in which we play as a babysitter of an adopted child. My Child Lebensborn takes place in the 20th century, in Norway of the 50’s, with the kid we take care of being the titular Lebensborn – a kid which was born as part of a special program to increase a number of Aryans in the world. This lead to it being ridiculed by others due to having a German father.

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.

Code: Realize - Future Blessings
Code: Realize - Future Blessings

Adventure 23 April 2020

A sequel to the classic visual novel game Code: Realize – Guardian of Rebirth that debuted in the Western markets in 2014. The new game features four additional scenarios that expand the story of the original title with new plots and characters. They also present further adventures of the protagonists.

Cultist Simulator
Cultist Simulator

Adventure 02 February 2021

A digital card game, in which the players become leaders of different cults. The action of the game is set in the 1920s and is inspired by the works of none other than H.P. Lovecraft.

Disease: Hidden Object
Disease: Hidden Object

Adventure 05 July 2018

A HOPA game in which we play the role of a former doctor who travels through a ruined hospital and learns about the mysterious past of the facility. In the course of the game, our main task is to search for cleverly hidden objects and solve logical puzzles.

The Red Strings Club
The Red Strings Club

Adventure 14 March 2019

A thriller adventure game set in a cyberpunk setting. The players assume the role of a bartender and a hacker and stop the corporation called Supercontinent Ltd. from manipulating human personality in an attempt to eliminate all negative feeling and emotions including anger, depression, and agoraphobia.

The Bunker
The Bunker

Adventure 09 April 2018

An full-motion video adventure game created as a result of cooperation between Splendy Interactive and Wales Interactive. The action begins 30 years after a huge nuclear explosion destroyed Great Britain. The player takes on the role of the last survivor of a fallout shelter. In order to save his life, he decides to reach the surface.

Ylands
Ylands

Adventure 20 June 2024

A survival-oriented sandbox created by an in-house studio of Bohemia Interactive. Ylands allows the player to create their own interactive world. Building your own worlds is one of the mainstays of the game. They can be placed in a number of settings and conventions: from Wild West, through forests and farms, and up to medieval castles and arenas inspired by Feudal Japan. The player can modify the topography, as well as build objects and items.

Detention
Detention

Adventure 01 March 2018

A side-scrolling horror/adventure game. Detention is a debut project of Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games. The action of the game takes place in Taiwan during the 1960s, in the middle of martial law that lasted 37 years. We are taken to Greenwood, a high-school placed in a mountainous area. The players assume the role of two students who discover that the school became inhabited by wicked monsters known from local legends.