Adventure Video Games40
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.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Adventure 31 March 2023
A visual novel and a spin-off of the Sonic series. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog tasks us with solving the titular murder of the titular main character, as well as to determine whether it actually took place or not.
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam
Adventure 2025
A detective adventure game and a new installment in the iconic series originating from 2007. Professor Layton and The New World of Steam tells the tale of yet another mystery solved by the titular character and his apprentice, Luke Triton.
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
Adventure 08 June 2023
A narrative adventure game created by Don't Nod. In Harmony: The Fall of Reverie we play as Polly, tasked with restoring balance between her world and the realm of Reverie, inhabited by personifications of human aspirations.
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Adventure 08 March 2023
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a Japanese horror adventure game, in which the player faces curses in a faithfully recreated Sumida district of Tokyo. The gameplay revolves around exploration, talking to NPCs and solving puzzles.
Road 96: Mile 0
Adventure 04 April 2023
A prequel to Road 96, combining an adventure game with a rhythm game. Road 96: Mile 0 tells the story of Zoe and Kaito, as they learn about each other, but also about the dirty secrets of the fictional nation of Petria, the tyrant ruling it, as well as Zoe's influential father.
De-Exit: Eternal Matters
Adventure 14 April 2023
A combination of a TPP platformer, a puzzle game, an adventure game and a stealth game. In De-Exit: Eternal Matters we play as a deceased person ending up in the Plane of Memory after death, tasked with saving it from a threat brought upon by its treacherous guardian.
Closer the Distance
Adventure October 2024
An adventure-sim game, in which we play as a girl named Angela. Closer the Distance revolves around her taking care of her friends and family in the time of grief.
Monster Hunter Now
Adventure 14 September 2023
Monster Hunter Now is an AR mobile spin-off of Capcom's Monster Hunter series. Developed by Niantic (responsible for Pokemon GO), it lets the player hunt monsters in the real world.
Homestead Arcana
Adventure 21 April 2023
A combination of an adventure TPP game and a farming RPG. Homestead Arcana tells the story of Billie, a farmer/witch fighting against Miasma, a dangerous force that took over her fantasy world.
Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow
Adventure 14 June 2023
An action adventure game, in which we play as a boy traversing a hostile world, facing his sorrows. Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow tasks us with exploring locations, platforming, avoiding traps, solving puzzles and dealing with enemies.
One-Eyed Likho
Adventure 2024
One-Eyed Likho is a psychological horror adventure game based on a Slavic fable. It tells the story of a blacksmith who's never experienced evil, exploring a grim forest, escaping a miserable end.
Birth
Adventure 17 February 2023
An indie puzzle game by Madison Karrh. We play as a lonely person seeking to create a friend for themselves. The player must explore Birth's surreal world, solve puzzles and gather elements used to build it.
Scarlet Deer Inn
Adventure 2024
A narrative indie adventure game inspired by Slavic folklore and Studio Ghibli films. Scarlet Deer Inn is especially distinctive thanks to its animations, which were embroidered frame-by-frame before being moved into the game.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
Adventure 19 October 2023
A TPP adventure game based on the novel of the same name. The main characters of Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express, Hercule Poirot and Joanna Locke, must solve the mystery of a murder aboard the titular train.
Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch
Adventure 01 November 2022
An open-world TPP adventure game in which our task is to rebuild the ranch and breed horses. In Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch we traverse a vast land, perform tasks and restore our stud farm to its former splendor.
Impasto
Adventure 03 November 2022
A free horror first-person adventure game. It was inspired by the biography and works of Spanish painter Francisco Goya.
Venba
Adventure 31 July 2023
Venba is an intriguing cross between a narrative game and a cooking simulator, telling the tale of a family of Indian immigrants moving to Canada. The player must cook traditional Indian cuisine while witnessing the family's everyday problems.
Burnhouse Lane
Adventure 02 December 2022
Another adventure game from the authors of the Devil Came Through Here trilogy, made in a similar psychedelic style. In Burnhouse Lane we play Angie Weather - a nurse who undertakes five impossible tasks just to save herself from death.
Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well
Adventure 30 November 2017
The third installment in the HOPA game series from the Polish studio World-Loom. In Lost Grimoires 3: The Forgotten Well, we play an alchemist who must save her brother - the ruler of the Phoenix Kingdom - from a sinister curse.
A Twisted Tale
Adventure 07 March 2024
A humorous 2D point-and-click adventure game developed by one person. Its protagonist is a girl named Vio, who travels through different worlds.
Riven
Adventure 2024
A full-scale remake of the cult FPP point & click adventure game. The most important change introduced in Riven is the fully three-dimensional graphics, and thus the ability to move freely around the locations.
Voodoo Detective
Adventure 24 May 2022
A point & click adventure game inspired by classics such as the Monkey Island series. Voodoo Detective puts the player in a role of the titular detective, tasked with restoring the memories of amnesiac Mary Fontule. By doing so, the protagonist ends up facing the evil dwelling on the beautiful island of Zo Wanga.
OPUS: Prism Peak
Adventure 2024
The fourth installment of the adventure game series OPUS, the first installment of which released in 2015. OPUS: Prism Peak is a tale of a photographer trying to find his way home, using his camera to uncover secrets hidden by the ethereal world he wanders.
