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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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Don't Knock Twice
Don't Knock Twice

Adventure 05 September 2017

A horror game developed by the independent studio Wales Interactive, which was inspired by an urban legend of a demonic witch. The protagonist, searching for her lost daughter, is led to a grim mansion that hides a dark secret. In Don’t Knock Twice, the action is presented from the first-person perspective, while the gameplay is focused on exploration of the vast house in search of carefully hidden hints as well as fighting encountered opponents with the use of various items.

The Long Reach
The Long Reach

Adventure 18 July 2018

The Long Reach is an unusual adventure with the action set soon after a outbreak of an epidemic that turns people into bloodthirsty psychos. During gameplay, you need to figure out the way of neutralizing or avoiding enemies. Each of them is a separate riddle with a unique way of defeating.

Beholder: Complete Edition
Beholder: Complete Edition

Adventure 19 January 2018

Beholder is an indie adventure game, inspired by the works of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Ray Bradbury. The game takes place in a dystopian world, where the lives of its citizens are fully controlled by the regime, and privacy and freedom of speech are relics of the past. The players take on the role of the manager of an apartment complex. His job is to - under the guise of care - surveil and report any signs of opposition against the government.

Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom
Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom

Adventure 28 April 2017

An adventure game with hidden object puzzle elements, created by indie studio World-LooM. Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom is set in a fantasy world. The protagonist is a young alchemy adept, who returns home and tries to find her lost parents. The search leads her towards a dark secret, which threatens the whole kingdom. The gameplay in Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom consists of solving various puzzles and finding various hidden objects.

Conarium
Conarium

Adventure 12 February 2019

A psychological horror adventure game. The developers at Zoetrope Interactive were inspired by the works of Howard Philips Lovecraft, especially the novella entitled At the Mountains of Madness. The action of Conarium takes place in the 30s, and the player find himself in Upuaut.

Into the Belly of the Beast
Into the Belly of the Beast

Adventure 22 June 2016

A colorful, two-dimensional action game from the German studio Lucky Brograms, in which the players concentrate on combining DNA of marine animals. We play as a likeable worm named Sploosh, whose children were abducted by a mighty sea monster as they were taking a carefree bath. Desperate, Sploosh chases after the beast and manages to get inside its body.

Three Fourths Home
Three Fourths Home

Adventure 27 November 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.

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.

ZED
ZED

Adventure canceled

A first-person exploration adventure game developed by Eagre Games led by Chuck Carter, the co-creator of the cult Myst series. The player assumes the role of a Dreamer whose task is to piece together the most important memories and pass them on to his granddaughter before his imminent death.

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.

Layers of Fear: Inheritance
Layers of Fear: Inheritance

Adventure 02 August 2016

Layers of Fear: Inheritance is a full-scope story-driven DLC for the first-person horror game, Layers of Fear, by Blooper Team. The expansion, called Inheritance, does not introduce any changes in the game’s mechanics, offering instead a brand new story, whose action takes place many years after the story of the original. Players don’t control the painter himself, but his daughter – she learns that after the death of her father, the house now belongs to her.

Lantern
Lantern

Adventure canceled

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.

Visage
Visage

Adventure 30 October 2020

A psychological horror game and the debut work from SadSquare - an independent studio. The story is non-linear and focuses on a gloomy household that has seen many frightening events throughout the years - it has a history of driving entire families insane, leading to numerous killings and suicides. The protagonist is trapped inside the house, and apart from getting out of there, their goal is to solve the mystery behind the place.

Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala

Adventure 06 April 2018

The third installment of the series of investigation adventure/hidden object games that is one of the more popular franchises created by Polish studio Artifex Mundi. In Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala the player follows the protagonists known from the previous installments of the series, who join forces with hopes of catching the series' main antagonist, the demonic preacher.

Demon Hunter: New Chapter
Demon Hunter: New Chapter

Adventure 20 January 2023

A sequel to the casual HOPA game developed cooperatively by the Serbian Brave Giant and the Polish Artifex Mundi. The action of Demon Hunter 2: A New Chapter takes place 20 years after the events of the original. When the foster father of the heroine dies while fighting a demonic opponent that tried to reenter our world, the protagonist becomes the last living member of the ancient Demon Hunter order and the only person that can face the enemy who is now stronger than ever.

STAY
STAY

Adventure 30 May 2018

An adventure/text game hybrid, in which you help the amnesiac Quinn. The protagonist has been most likely kidnapped and your task is to help him escape.

Out of The Box
Out of The Box

Adventure 07 September 2018

An adventure game, in which we play the role of a night club bouncer and decide who will go in and who will be sent back.

Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

Adventure 28 June 2019

A satirical point'n'click adventure from the Polish studio Artifex Mundi. As the first representative of the rotten West, we find ourselves in the communist Matryoshka and get to know the realities of life in a country ruled by communists.

Digimon Survive
Digimon Survive

Adventure 29 July 2022

Another RPG in Digimon universe, this time with a touch of survival, point'n'click and visual novel. Players enter the land of digital creatures and try to find a way to return to the real world.

Endless Fables 3: Dark Moor
Endless Fables 3: Dark Moor

Adventure 19 June 2020

The next installment in a series of casual adventure games by the Hungarian studio Sunward Games. Anthropologist Pamela Cavendish travels to foggy Scotland to explore the unusual legend of the Bloody Moon.

Storm Boy: The Game
Storm Boy: The Game

Adventure 20 November 2018

An adventure game which is an adaptation of a novel by Australian writer Colin Thiele. Storm Boy: The Game tells the story of a boy and a pelican he saved. Players accompany this unusual duo not only while playing on the seashore but also during the most important moments of their lives.

Scarf
Scarf

Adventure 06 July 2023

A 3D platform game, enriched with elements of adventure, in which we play as Hyke - a humanoid spirit which travels through three different lands. The protagonist uses the eponymous shapeshifting scarf to provide him with additional abilities while exploring locations and solving puzzles.

Alter Cosmos
Alter Cosmos

Adventure canceled

A classic 2D point-and-click adventure game featuring a comic-book-like style, developed by Pyramid Games and the graphic artist Lukasz Samsonowicz (also known as Zimzonowicz). You play as a mutant, who wants to leave a planet ruled by a totalitarian government.

My Brother Rabbit
My Brother Rabbit

Adventure 21 September 2018

My Brother Rabbit is a classic 2D point-and-click adventure game, set in a fairytale-esque world, existing in the imagination of two siblings facing difficult problems. The production was developed by Polish studio Artifex Mundi.