Adventure Video Games9
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 Long Dark
8.4 Game Score
A first person survival sandbox game, developed by independent Canadian studio Hinterland. The team includes veteran game developers, who previously worked for Relic Entertainment, Volition, and BioWare. The game takes you into a post-apocalyptic world after a massive geomagnetic storm. With all electronic devices disabled and water and food supplies running low, the player has to struggle to survive the incoming winter.
What Remains of Edith Finch
8.4 Game Score
What Remains of Edith Finch is a unique adventure game developed by Giant Sparrow, which focuses on the evanescence of life. The game tells a set of short stories about the fate of the members of a certain American family that has been cursed. The history told in those episodes takes place over a span of one hundred years in Washington state, a place filled with forests and mountains, a location that resembles a little the cult TV show Twin Peaks.
The Novelist
8.4 Game Score
An independent adventure game by Kent Hudson, a former LucasArts employee. In the production we play the role of a ghost who lives in a house where the writer Dan Kaplan and his family move in. The title tells the story of a father who has to work and at the same time wants to devote as much time as possible to his family.
The Unfinished Swan
8.4 Game Score
This is an adventure game in which we race a mysterious white swan, hiding in a strange and full of surprises fanatastic kingdom. Players discover the world around them by spraying black paint around them. It covers the snow-white scenery and in this way emphasizes its shapes and details.
Outlast
8.4 Game Score
A survival horror action adventure game. It is the debut project of the independent studio, Red Barrels, established by veterans of the gaming industry: David Chateauneuf, Philippe Morin, and Hugo Dallaire. Outlast’s story is set in an old asylum for mentally ill, adapted, by the Murkoff corporation, into a research center. Journalist Miles Upshur gets his hands on information that strange things occur in that place.
The Norwood Suite
8.4 Game Score
An adventure game that continues the warmly welcomed Off-Peak. In The Norwood Suite we go to the hotel Norwood and learn more about its secrets and about its guests and people working there. The game is again kept in a surrealistic style.
Martial Law
8.4 Game Score
Free adventure game set in Poland in the 1980s, just after the introduction of martial law. In Martial Law we play a man who wants to keep in touch with his beloved daughter after his wife leaves him.
Indika
8.3 Game Score
A third-person adventure game set in the alternate 19th century Russia. Indika stars the titular young nun, on a journey of self-discovery accompanied by the Devil himself.
Fate/stay night [Réalta Nua]
8.3 Game Score
A Japanese adventure game of the visual novel sub-genre. The action of the title takes place in contemporary Japan. Players follow the fate of a high school student, by chance becoming a participant in a magical tournament, in which his life is at stake and the prize is the fulfillment of all wishes.
Zombie Lane
8.3 Game Score
A humorous social game about zombies. We face undead invasions and try to survive at all costs by repairing the house, gathering supplies and gaining better and better weapons. We also use the support of our Facebook friends.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
8.3 Game Score
Valiant Hears: The Great War is an original action-adventure game that takes place during the World War I. It was developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, creators of best-selling platform games Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. The game's plot is based on authentic letters from the WW1 period and tells the story of five heroes who were were brought together by the war and... a good-willed dog that can influence the fate of people.
Obduction
8.3 Game Score
A first-person perspective adventure game with logic elements, developed by Cyan - the creators of the cult adventure game series, Myst. Obduction, created as a Myst’s spiritual successor, tells a story of a man who finds a bizarre organic artifact that fell from the sky and is taken by it into a strange world. In the game, our task is to figure out where are we, and then find a way back home.
80 Days (2005)
8.3 Game Score
80 Days is an adventure game, prepared for fans of the genre by the band Frogwares. Its plot was loosely based on Julius Verne's novel W 80 dni wokól swiata (Frogwares had already used Verne's work on The Journey to the Inside of the Earth).
Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame
8.3 Game Score
Remake of a 1993's classic platformer and second installment in the cult series from Broderbund Software studio, redesigned for mobile devices. Plot of Prince of Persia: The Shadow and The Flame continues the story of the first part of the franchise. Happiness of the Prince of Persia and the daughter of the Sultan is interrupted by the vengeance of Vizier Jaffar.
Tsioque
8.3 Game Score
A 2D point-and-click adventure game inspired by such titles as Dragon’s Lair and the Pajama Sam series. The game was developed by OhNoo Studio (responsible for e.g. Tormentum: Dark Sorrow and Amelia and Terror of the Night) from Poland. You assume the role of a young girl named Tsioque. She is imprisoned in her family’s castle by the Evil Wizard, who cast a powerful spell on it, turning the whole castle into a deadly trap.
Firewatch
8.3 Game Score
An indie FPP adventure game and the debut production of the American Campo Santo studio. The team comprises of veteran developers, previously working on such titles as The Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja, BioShock 2, and Brutal Legend. The story of Firewatch takes place in an enormous forest in the American state of Wyoming, where our hero is trying to escape his day-to-day problems by becoming a ranger.
Five Nights At Freddy's: Sister Location
8.3 Game Score
Another installment in a series of popular horror games created by Scott Cawthon. The game can be considered either a spin-off or simply the next installment in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. As it was mentioned already in the third installment, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was not the only place occupied by murderous animatronics.
Loom
8.3 Game Score
Loom adventure game was released in 1990, even before the release of the first part of Mokey Island. Two years later LucasArts released an improved version on CD. Not everyone liked this product, but a large number of adventurers hailed Loom as a breakthrough game.
Fables & Fiends - The Legend of Kyrandia, book one
8.3 Game Score
An adventure game created in 1992 by Westwood Studios. It tells the story of Brandon, the grandson of the sorcerer Kallak, who opposes Malcolm's crazy jester.
Fables & Fiends - The legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate, book two
8.3 Game Score
The second part of the adventure trilogy about the land of Kyrgyzstan. Syria is slowly disappearing, fragment by fragment, and the sorceress Zanthii has the task of discovering the cause of this misfortune.
Dune
8.3 Game Score
Mixture of adventure and strategy from Cryo Interactive and Virgin Interactive. The plot of the game is based directly on Frank Herbert's famous novel "Dune".
Silent Hill 2 (2001)
8.3 Game Score
Silent Hill 2 is a continuation of the action adventure game in the survival-horror convention, released in 1999. The game was produced by Konami development studio. The main character is James Sunderland, who unexpectedly receives a letter from his former beloved asking him to meet in the title town. Due to the very dark climate and terrifying scenes, the title is addressed to audiences over 16 years old.
Resident Evil Code: Veronica X
8.3 Game Score
Another installment in the series of action adventure games in the survival horror convention, which in a short time stormed the world's hit lists. Capcom took care of this title and players can learn more about the fate of Claire Redfield - heroine of Resident Evil 2. After destroying one of the Umbrella corporation's laboratories, a woman is kidnapped and imprisoned by its employees.
Scooby-Doo! First Frights
8.3 Game Score
An adventure and arcade game in which we follow the fate of Scooby and his friends. During the game we visit four haunted locations, including the old castle and the ship's ghost.