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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.

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Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force
Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force

Adventure 21 September 2004

The game is based on the star trilogy of Lucas, i.e. "New Hope", "The Empire Counterattacks" and "The Return of Jedi". The three chapters, containing a total of 19 levels, are mainly two-dimensional levele platformers with a side view. There are also several "flying" missions, in which the player pilots X-Wings or rides a reconnaissance scooter.

GBA

Crime City
Crime City

Adventure 23 April 1992

One of the most eminent private detectives, Henry White, is accused of murdering his friend and imprisoned. His son, Steven, who has so far wasted time and energy in writing second-class detective films, decides to start his own investigation into the case.

PC

Agharta: The Hollow Earth
Agharta: The Hollow Earth

Adventure 31 July 2000

On behalf of a beautiful stranger, you have to find her missing father, Professor, who set off on an expedition to the North Pole nine years earlier.

PC

Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern
Dragonriders: Chronicles of Pern

Adventure 15 July 2001

An epic epic epic set in a world created by a series of books by Anne McCaffrey entitled Riders of Dragons from Pern. Nice for the eye and atmospheric 3D graphics.

PC

Noc
Noc

Adventure 21 September 1996

Night is an adventure game created in 1996 by Avalon Computer Laboratory. The player plays the role of a hero whose task is to find friends lost in another reality - to do this you will have to travel in time.

PC

Animal Crossing: Wild World
Animal Crossing: Wild World

Adventure 05 December 2005

This is the official continuation of the Animal Crossing hit, released in 2003 on GameCube console. You live among your animal friends in a fictional world full of diverse villages and cities.

NDS

Targhan
Targhan

Adventure 11 August 1989

Targhan is an action/adventure game created by French studio Silmarils. The player will have the honour of playing the skin of the title warrior and performing a very dangerous mission.

PC

Golden Eagle
Golden Eagle

Adventure 12 March 1991

Your name is Friedrich von Horgen and you are currently in Adlerberg Castle. Until now, your life has been focused on routine activities related to defending the property. Patrols, protection of important parts of the complex. It seemed to you that you were created for this, and the ministry to the High Priest is something completely natural. It has been so far. You woke up....

PC

Delaware St. John Volume 2: The Town With No Name
Delaware St. John Volume 2: The Town With No Name

Adventure 17 December 2005

The second part of a series of adventure games about the investigations of the title detective Delaware. This time, together with his partner Kelly Bradford, he has to face a much darker and ominous mystery than in the first part.

PC

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Adventure 11 October 2005

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is the first of a popular series of courtroom games in Japan that has been released in English for the Nintendo DS console. The player plays the role of a defender who must prove the innocence of his client and challenge the testimony of dishonest witnesses.

NDS

Hopkins FBI
Hopkins FBI

Adventure 16 July 1998

A detective adventure with a point-n-click interface. As a ruthless FBI agent, you must find Bernie Berkson, a dangerous criminal, who escaped straight from the execution site on an electric chair. The game involves investigating, interrogating witnesses, collecting evidence and solving riddles.

PC

Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work

Adventure 07 September 1991

The fourth installment of the series of adventures by Al Lowe, rich in black humour and tinged with a hint of eroticism. The catchy Larry Laffer tries to shine in the porn industry, while his beloved Patti, commissioned by the FBI, works out a mafia boss.

PC

Starship Titanic
Starship Titanic

Adventure 03 August 1998

A sci-fi adventure game based on the novel "Hitchhiking through the Galaxy", released one year after the premiere of James Cameron's film depicting the history of the catastrophe "Titanic", the legendary English transatlantic.

PC

Sam & Max Freelance Police
Sam & Max Freelance Police

Adventure canceled

Sam & Max Freelance Police is a continuation of the adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road released in 1993. Development of the title was done by LucasArts studio. The creators decided to remain faithful to the original sense of humour and surrealistic visual stylistics of the original, while implementing 3D graphics. Work on the game was suspended in 2004.

PC

Black 9
Black 9

Adventure canceled

A game combining dynamic action, motifs known from the cRPG genre and spy elements of a'la Metal Gear Solid and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. The whole thing is kept in a convention that brings to mind the best books and science-fiction films.

PC

The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript
The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript

Adventure 21 April 2006

Adventure created by four cooperating development studios: Elektrogames, TOTM Studio, Kheops Studio and Mzone Studio. At once, however, it should be noted that this game has nothing to do with the recently very popular novel by Dan Brown, Leonard's Code. Well, maybe apart from the name of the great inventor and model man of the Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci.

PC

The Sydney Mystery
The Sydney Mystery

Adventure 11 April 2003

The Sydney Mystery is an adventure game created by Twilight Software. Players take on the role of a young Australian woman who, in a private investigation into her uncle's disappearance, follows the bomb bombers in the city. The game was made in an unconventional way with the use of photos and videos taken in authentic sceneries.

PC

Road to India
Road to India

Adventure 17 May 2001

Road to India is an adventure game maintained in the convention of interactive film. The title was produced by a development studio of French company Microids. Players take on the role of Fred Reynolds, who travels to the title India in search of his family abducted by the followers of the cruel goddess Khali.

PC

Gumshoe Online
Gumshoe Online

Adventure 19 January 2005

Gumshoe Online is a virtual adventure, available only to users of the global Web via a standard web browser.

PC

Destinies
Destinies

Adventure canceled

Destinies is a representative of the adventure game genre and a pioneering project of The Destinies Team. The player takes on the role of Marc Taszicki, a 37-year-old professor of physics, who leads a peaceful life on Earth until his everyday life is destroyed by the unexpected and mysterious death of Peter Vinci, a friend from ancient times.

PC

Private Nurse
Private Nurse

Adventure 24 June 2001

A typical adventure game from the Land of Cherry Blossom, designed for an adult recipient. The program contains numerous elements of a sexual nature, often dangerously close to the border of good taste.

PC

Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon
Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon

Adventure 25 November 2003

Schism II: Chameleon is the second part of the 2001 adventure game Schism: The Real Challenge. The player takes on the role of a young man named Dream, which wakes up after two hundred years of sleep in a cryogenic chamber, a punishment for the devastation of the planet Sarpedon. His task is to find out what really happened and who was the cause. Terry Dowling, an Australian science fiction writer, is responsible for the feature layer of the game produced by Detallion studio.

PC

Shanghai Dragon
Shanghai Dragon

Adventure 08 April 2003

A combination of a three-dimensional FPS action game and adventure elements. Jackie Hua is under our control - a suitably trained member of the Chinese resistance movement, whose task is to eliminate Japanese troops occupying Shanghai on their own.

PC

Liath: World Spiral
Liath: World Spiral

Adventure 18 June 1999

An adventure game with a classic point-n-click interface set in a world of magic and magic, where time and space are governed by different laws of physics. The game consists in exploring the location, collecting objects and solving complicated logical puzzles.

PC