Adventure Video Games19

7.7 Game Score

Another unusual work by the authors of The Path and The Graveyard. This time in an unusual way we are acquainted with the story of Princess Salome, who deprived John the Baptist's head.

PC

7.7 Game Score

Adventure game with fairy tale graphic design. The player can play one of the three characters - Ceville's title despot, Ambrosius' self-confident paladin, or Lilly's somewhat strange but also good-natured girlfriend.

PC

7.7 Game Score

Sublustrum, also known as Outcry in the West, is a classic point&click adventure by the Russian Phantomery Interactive studio. While working on the game, the creators were inspired by the well-known genre of Myst and Scratches series. The climate here is very suggestive, in the air you can feel the dense atmosphere of surrealism from the beginning of the 20th century.

PC

7.7 Game Score

A humorous adventure in pirate climates, set in a world inhabited by humanoid animals. The game consists in searching the location, conducting conversations, collecting objects and using them to solve riddles. The gameplay is enhanced by attractive cartoon graphics.

PC

7.7 Game Score

An unusual adventure game developed by independent studio Deconstructeam. The title focuses on moral dilemmas and the necessity of making choices. During the game, the players control humans that face hard life situations. Their decisions can impact the fate of many people. The player will for example assume the role of a terrorist who must guard a group of hostages or a scientist who has 48 hours to develop an antidote for a deadly virus.

PCiOS

7.7 Game Score

An adventure from the detective franchise focusing on Tex Murphy. Similarly to its three previous installments, the game offers 3D locations featuring recorded actors. Gameplay comes down to collecting evidence, interrogating witnesses, and solving puzzles.

PC

7.7 Game Score

A science fiction horror adventure game created by Frictional Games, Swedish studio known for such titles as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Penumbra series. The game is set in a top-secret research center PATHOS-2, where a series of failed experiments resulted in human-like machines killing off most of the staff and taking over the facility. You play as one of the survivors, who has to safely evade the hostile, machine infested environment.

PCXONEPS4

7.7 Game Score

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.

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7.7 Game Score

Set of two survival horror games, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. While originally the titles were PC exclusives, Amnesia: Collection has been released only for PlayStation 4 console. First of those games is set in a grim castle, with players controlling Daniel, an amnesiac who must find and defeat the mad owner of the building. Its add-on, Justine, puts us in a role of a woman who is part of a psychological experiment.

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7.7 Game Score

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.

PCXONEPS4

7.7 Game Score

Rain of Reflections is a PC-based RPG that takes us into a gloomy, cyberpunk vision of the future, telling the story of three different characters. Production offers an unusual conflict resolution system where the motivation of the characters counts and violence is never the only way to deal with problems.

PC

7.7 Game Score

An action-adventure stealth game that takes place in the 14th-century France, consumed by the Black Death. The main protagonists, Amicia and her five years old brother, are trying to find their mother. They must travel through the ruined city while avoiding the members of Inquisition and the groups of hungry rats lurking in the shadows.

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7.7 Game Score

Impostor Factory is the third installment in the To the Moon series. During the game, the player again takes on the role of a duo of doctors and moves into the mind of a dying person to fulfill their last wish. The game was created by the Freebird Games studio.

PC

7.6 Game Score

The second season of Batman: The Telltale Series, which debuted in 2016. In this adventure game by Telltale Games (the developers of such titles as The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series and The Wolf Among Us: A Telltale Games Series) the player follows the dark story of Bruce Wayne and his superhero alter-ego. This time Batman has to challenge both Joker and Riddler as well as a merciless federal agent who has just came to the city of Gotham.

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7.6 Game Score

The debut game by indie studio Mr. Whale's Game Service, designed with the single player mode in mind. The production is set in a ruined world, which you traverse in an unusual vehicle resembling a combination of a boat and a train. The gameplay in Far: Lone Sails focuses on exploring locations in search of items, which allow you to survive. However, instead of seeking food or building shelters, you have to take care of your vessel.

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7.6 Game Score

A psychological first-person horror from the Polish developer studio Bloober Team, known best for another horror game, entitled Layers of Fear. Observer is set in a cyberpunk universe, in Cracow of 2048. In the game you play as Daniel Lazarski (starred by Rutger Hauer, known from the film Blade Runner), a detective able to hack into people’s minds.

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7.6 Game Score

An action-adventure game set in a science-fiction world, created by developers from the French studio Quantic Dreams – creators of such games as Fahrenheit, Beyond: Two Souls and the bestselling Heavy Rain. Detroit: Become Human expands on ideas present in the 2012 year’s demo Kara, which depicted a female android developing human emotions. The game takes place in the futuristic version of Detroit, where humanoid robots are a common sight.

PCPS4

7.6 Game Score

A science-fiction side-scrolling platform game developed by studio Double Fine Productions led by Tim Schafer. HeadLander combines the features of the classic video game series Metroid with a few completely new features. During the game, the player assumes the role of a character who wakes up in a trashy world of the future, inhabited only by robots. The protagonist discovers that he consists only of… a head placed in a special helmet equipped with a rocket propulsion system.

PCXONEPS4

7.6 Game Score

A TPP adventure game based on the license of a book series written by Carol Wimmer, as well as on their screen adaptation. In the saddle of the titular horse, the player explores the locations first presented in the said series. One is required to care for the health of the horse and completes various quests.

PC

7.6 Game Score

A mobile edition of Minecraft – the cult sandbox game from Swedish company Mojang AB, which spawned millions of fans worldwide over several years since its beta release, becoming a phenomenon of modern day pop-culture. Overall the gameplay mechanics featured in Minecraft: Pocket Edition are no different than in other versions.

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7.6 Game Score

An old-school point-and-click detective adventure game, and also a debut project of Swedish Clifftop Games studio. The game is set in mid 90s, where we play as the titular girl, whose main interest include rock music, motorcycles and playing detective. When she receives the sad message of her grandfather’s death, our protagonist decides to visit her hometown, Conwell Springs, for the first time in years.

PCANDiOS

7.6 Game Score

Refreshed edition of the classic PS2 hit with high resolution graphics and 3D gameplay. We play the role of a boy named Ico, who, marked with a mysterious curse, is imprisoned in a mysterious castle. He meets Princess Yorda, who is imprisoned there, and together they start a dangerous fight to get out of the trap.

PS3

7.6 Game Score

A game by Telltale Games, the studio behind many others similar productions, designed as an episodic adventure game based on the HBO’s popular TV show Game of Thrones - an adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. The game features an original story overlapping with the events presented in the seasons 3-5 of the TV series. This six-part episodic story focuses on the House Forrester, whose members, although missing from the TV show, appeared in the fifth book of the saga.

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7.6 Game Score

A classic point-and-click adventure in the atmosphere of Alexander Dumas' novels and films under the sign of a mantle and a sword. We play the role of a certain Geoffroi Le Bruno, who, arriving in Rouen with the intention of joining the ranks of musketeers, is entangled in the murder of Prince William de Peuple and swears to find him and punish the perpetrators.

PC