Adventure Video Games12
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 7th Guest
8.2 Game Score
The 7th Guest is a point & click adventure game created by the American studio Trilobyte. The player directs the actions of the hero, who goes to the estate of the mysterious Henry Stauf, the inventor of gloomy toys. The game was one of the first to be released on CDs.
Jackie Chan Adventures
8.2 Game Score
A relatively simple action adventure game. We play the title character of Jackie Chana, who together with his nephew sets off on a quest for magical talismans.
The Black Mirror
8.2 Game Score
The Black Mirror is an adventure game with a classic point & click interface, produced by the Czech studio Future Games. The player directs Samuel Gordon, who after years returns to the Black Mirror family estate to solve the mystery of his grandfather's mysterious death. The plot of the game is divided into 6 chapters, during which you can visit 120 locations and solve 20 logical puzzles.
The New Adventures of Time Machine
8.2 Game Score
Loosely referring to the famous novel by Herbert George Wells, this is an adventure game with a motif of time travel. Using the title vehicle, players move into a distant future to the Sand World.
Swashbucklers: Blue & Grey
8.2 Game Score
Swashbucklers: Steel versus gunpowder is an action adventure game produced by Akella's development studio. The player directs the actions of pirate captain Abraham Nightingale Grey, who is entangled in a complicated intrigue taking place during the Civil War. The game uses the RenderWare engine, known for example from the Grand Theft Auto series.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
8.2 Game Score
A position that combines elements of adventures and action games. It was created based on a film of the same title made jointly by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media.
Mini Ninjas
8.2 Game Score
An action fighting game. The players assume the role of a young ninja named Hiro who together with his friends is tasked with banishing evil from the virtual world. The game features simple RPG mechanics. During the adventure, the protagonist and his friends are constantly improving their skills.
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
8.2 Game Score
Another installment in the highly-rated action adventure game franchise following on the eponymous Prince, who in the past carelessly unsealed the mythical sands of time. After events of the previous part of the game, the protagonist return to his home – Babylon – plunged in the chaos of war. Soon it turns out that the previous actions of the hero led to the birth of his dark alter ego, whose spirit gradually takes over control over the protagonist's will.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
8.2 Game Score
Action adventure game with a third person perspective. The player becomes a heroic archaeologist and this time he has to find a powerful ancient artifact, a black pearl called the Dragon's Heart.
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
8.2 Game Score
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge is a remake of a cult adventure story prepared by LucasArts and originally published in 1991. The player directs the actions of pirate Guybrusha Threepwood, who sets out to look for a legendary treasure. The creators remained faithful to the story of the original, enriching the game with a modern audio-visual setting.
Bionicle: The Game
8.2 Game Score
Three-dimensional adventure game, containing a large number of fast-paced action and logical elements, referring to the best-selling series of plastic toys by Lego called Bionicle.
Sam & Max Hit the Road
8.2 Game Score
One of the best and funniest LucasArts adventure games, based on characters created by Steve Purcell. Sam and Max are a pair of detectives, always acting against generally accepted social norms and professing orthodox methods of investigative work.
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
8.2 Game Score
A humorous action adventure game and the debut title from Crows Crows Crows. The action of Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist takes place in Europe during a hot summer that made history as a result of a series of thefts of some of the most valuable works of art. The players assume the role of a thief that committed those crimes and his next target is a vault in a highly-secured manor full of valuables.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 - Revelations
8.2 Game Score
An extensive DLC for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 - a third-person hack and slash game. The expansion enriches the plot of the core game with a new thread. Interestingly, the Revelations DLC puts the player in the shoes of a different character, which is the main feature here. The player assumes the role of Alucard - a vampire son of Count Dracula, known under the name Trevor Belmont before turning into a bloodsucker.
Outlast: Whistleblower
8.2 Game Score
The first official DLC add-on to the bestselling survival horror Outlast from the same developer, Red Barrels studio. It takes place before the events shown in the main game. Players take role of one of the employees of Mount Massive asylum, a facility that secretly conducts human experiments. Discovering the terrifying truth, responsible for which is the Murkoff corporation, he decides to sent an anonymous denunciation that ends up in hands of Miles Upshur, the protagonist of the basic game.
Astroneer
8.2 Game Score
A sandbox game by System Era Softworks. Astroneer is set in the 25th century, when the civilization on Earth has developed enough for interstellar travel to become an everyday occurrence. It resulted in a certain kind of gold fever — people started to explore other planets on their own, driven by the desire of getting rich quick. The open world of the game is procedurally generated, and the surfaces of planets and moons are made of voxels.
The Stanley Parable
8.2 Game Score
Original adventure game, which is an improved commercial version of Half-Life 2 modification released in 2011. Responsible for its creation is Galactic Cafe independent studio, founded by the creators of the original mod. We play as title Stanley - employee of big corporation whose task is to execute commands that appear on the computer screen.
The Inner World
8.2 Game Score
The Inner World is an adventure game with a point & click interface, produced by an independent German studio Fizbin. Deep beneath the surface of the Earth is a bizarre land known as Aposia. Its existence is endangered when three fountains of divine wind dry up unexpectedly. Guided by Robert, a novice at the Unexpected Events Centre, the player must determine the cause of the situation and save the Apossians.
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
8.2 Game Score
The fifth installment of a classic series of point and click adventure games whose origins can be traced back to 1996. The player travels around the planet while leading a pair of heroes that solve the puzzles of old. The game was developed thanks to a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
8.1 Game Score
Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a life simulator in which we play the role of a resident of a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. In this environment we can undertake various works, get to know the stories of other characters, explore the surroundings and influence the environment. One of the novelties in this part of the series is the option of becoming a mayor.
Until Dawn (2015)
8.1 Game Score
A horror adventure game designed specially for PlayStation Move controller. This title was developed by the British studio Supermassive Games who previously created Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs and Start the Party!. The game’s story is inspired of B-class horror films. Horror fans will easily notice numerous references to their favorite film genre when it comes to dialogues and typical plot twists.
Torin's Passage
8.1 Game Score
A fairy tale point and click adventure created by Al Lowe, the creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series. We play the role of a young man Torin, who sets out to rescue his parents kidnapped by the evil sorceress Lycentia. In order to do so, we travel through vast, underground lands full of extraordinary heroes and puzzles.
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
8.1 Game Score
A sequel the spin-off game from from the classic horror series Resident Evil, originally developed for 3DS and then brought to PC and seventh generation of consoles. Its story is set between the events of the fifth and sixth main entry in the series, featuring Claire Redfield and Moira Burton, the daughter of one of the side characters in Resident Evil, as main protagonists. After they were kidnapped, they find themselves abandoned in a facility on a gloomy, desolate island.
That Dragon, Cancer
8.1 Game Score
An extraordinary, story-driven adventure game with point-and-click interface, developed by Numinous Games and crowdfunded by fans via Kickstarter. The story of That Dragon, Cancer is based on true events from the life of Ryan and Amy Green – the game’s developers. It tells of a married couple whose child is dying with cancer with only a couple of months of life left.