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After Us
Adventure 23 May 2023
An adventure game with platform game elements, in which we play the role of a life spirit named Gaia. Our task is to breathe new life into the surreal world ravaged by human actions and save the souls of representatives of extinct animal species.
Franz
Simulation 16 October 2023
Franz is a experimental game, described by its creators as "a cross between a text-based adventure game and a pissed-off tamagotchi". This unusual title was created by Ice-Pick Lodge, the creators of Pathologic.
How to Say Goodbye
Puzzle 03 November 2022
How to Say Goodbye is an indie puzzle game developed by Florian Veltman and Baptiste Portefaix. We control a group of ghosts who want to safely cross to the "other side". However, the evil spirits watching them from hiding will do anything to prevent them from doing so.
Simulacra 3
Adventure 25 October 2022
Third part of the series of adventure games, the action of which takes place on the screen of a smartphone. In Simulacra 3 we find ourselves in the town of Stonecreek, and our task is to unravel the mystery of mysterious disappearances.
Before Your Eyes
Adventure 08 April 2021
An adventure game in which we watch flashbacks of the protagonist's life as he crosses into the afterlife. Before Your Eyes uses a webcam to watch our eyes; by blinking, we move to subsequent memories and make decisions that shape the plot.
Oddada
Arcade October 2024
A music game presented at the "Indie Game Showcase" organized by Wholesome Games. It was developed by Sven Ahlgrimm and Mathilde Hoffmann. In this title, you guide your train through a small world of toys, creating a series of unique melodies and rhythms along the way.
Lost in Harmony: Kaito's Adventure
Arcade 21 January 2016
An unusual, rare combination of an autorunner with a narrative rhythmical game, developed by Digixart Entertainment studio led by Yoan Fanise, former Ubisoft employee and the creator of Valiant Hearts. The story of Lost in Harmony: Kaito’s Adventure is set in an unknown futuristic world, across which the protagonist – young boy named Kaito – rides on his skateboard, carrying his friend, Aya, on his back.
A House of Many Doors
RPG 04 February 2017
An original role-playing game focusing on exploration. It was developed by Pixel Trickery Games and can be considered a spiritual heir to Sunless Sea created by Failbetter Games. The player assumes the role of a traveler, who is also a spy and a poet. He traverses a surrealistic train with many legs, which is a form of a parasitic dimension. The protagonist has to discover who would build it, and why.
Vanished
Adventure 21 August 2013
Vanished is an unusual adventure game. The production is practically devoid of graphics and instead provides players with information about the world around them by means of sounds.
Bound
Arcade 16 August 2016
An experimental, three-dimensional platformer offering an abstract, alluring game world. Bound is the third project developed by Plastic - a Polish team popular for a dark adventure game Datura and an artistic logic game Linger in Shadows. Similar to these titles, Bound was created exclusively for PlayStation 4 and it was developed in cooperation with Sony Santa Monica (the God of War series).
Jazzpunk
Adventure 07 February 2014
Original adventure game set in retro-cyberpunk style and filled with lots of comedy jokes straight from the best slapstick film comedies. We play the role of Polyblanka's Agent, who in the alternative, cold war reality will undertake a number of absurd missions using various, hilarious gadgets.
Gone Home
Adventure 15 August 2013
An original exploration adventure drama with first-person perspective. Gone Home is a debut project of an indie developer The Fullbright Company, whose members previously worked on a successful DLC for BioShock 2, Minerva’s Den. Gone Home is set in the United States of 1990s. You play as a young woman named Katy, who returns home after spending a year away in Europe. When she gets home, instead of her family she is welcomed by an empty house.
Californium
Adventure 17 February 2016
A first person adventure game taking place in a science fiction reality. It was inspired by the biography of one of the most famous American sci-fi writers, Philip K. Dick. The story is set in 1967, and the player takes control of a penniless writer called Elvin Green who, discouraged by failures in both his personal and professional lives, seeks comfort in alcohol and drugs.
INKS.
Arcade 05 May 2016
A mobile action game which combines pinball and painting in an rather interesting way. This unorthodox idea was created in the London-based studio State of Play. Similarly as in case of a typical pinball, in Inks the player bounces a ball by using flippers placed at the bottom of the screen. However, instead of an impressive pinball table, in this game the screen shows only a simple background with lightly drawn contour.
Metrico+
Arcade 23 August 2016
An original 2D logic platformer and an enhanced edition of the 2014’s Metrico for PS Vita. Metrico+ is a fruit of the developers’ fascination with all kinds of infographics, graphs, and statistical tables that became an integral part of our everyday life. The action takes place in a world composed entirely of the aforementioned elements. In the game, we observe various graphs resembling both real and fantasy landscapes.
Shape of the World
Adventure 05 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.
Dreams
Arcade 14 February 2020
Dreams is an action-adventure game that enables the player to explore worlds generated by other players. The users can decide what shape their world will have, who will inhabit it and what challenges the visitors of their reality will face.
Void and Meddler
Adventure 28 October 2015
An episodic cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game; it's prototype came third in the PointClickJam competition. The game is set in a futuristic city, where gender and species differences became blurred, and a new hobby emerged: collecting people's memories. Fyn, a girl tired of her present life, decided to go through somebody else's memories to rediscover her own identity. The story in each episode may take a different turn, depending on your actions.
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Adventure 20 September 2016
A remake of Dear Esther, a popular narrative exploration game from 2012 that started a whole new genre – the so-called walking simulators. It was developed by the independent studio The Chinese Room. Contrary to the base version of the game that was powered by the Source engine and released only on personal computers, this edition is powered by the Unity technology. This enabled the developers to release their game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well.
Her Story
Adventure 24 June 2015
A unique detective game by Sam Barlow, the main designer and writer of Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Her Story is a rare example of a FMV adventure game — most of the visuals consists of videos of live-action actors. The plot of Her Story focuses on a British woman named Hannah, whose husband went missing in mysterious circumstances. Based on the recordings of her testimonies from 1994, you have to discover the truth behind those events.
Three Fourths Home
Adventure 20 March 2015
An unusual narrative/adventure game developed by [bracket] games and Digerati Distribution. Three Fourths Home tells the story of a young woman named Kelly who is currently on her way to her family home in Nebraska after a years’ absence. We accompany the woman during conversations with her parents and her younger brother, learning more about the complicated relationship she has with them. The game cannot be easily assigned a genre, as we are given a mix of an adventure game and a visual novel.
Distortions
Adventure 02 March 2018
An episodic adventure game with music game features, developed by Among Giants. Distortions tells the story of a woman who wakes up in a hospital bed in an unknown location after an accident. She notices that the time had stopped and all objects become alive only if she touches them. While traveling through the surrealistic realm with a giant, chained creature on the horizon, the protagonist is trying to discover how she got to this weird place and how to get back to the real world.
Lantern
Adventure 15 November 2016
An unusual exploration game developed by Italian studio Storm in a Teacup. The plot of the game focuses on an Asian princess whose tears caused the world around her to lose its colors and start dying. The player assumes the role of a small lantern and is tasked with returning the life and colors to the realm by making everyone remember about the power of love. There are four areas to visit, each with different architecture and environment.
Afghanistan '11
Strategy 23 March 2017
An innovative turn-based strategy developed by Every Single Soldier and Retro Epic Software as a direct continuation to Vietnam ’65. Afghanistan ’11 offers the ability to take part in numerous famed events from the history of the conflict. We take control of the coalition forces that focus on arming and training the Afghan security forces, as well as support of the local communities through taking care of crucial infrastructure, building water intakes, or distributing humanitarian aid.