Adventure Video Games15
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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Hollow Cocoon
Adventure 07 December 2023
A first-person psychological horror adventure game. Holloy Cocoon is set in the 1980s Japan, in a mountain village terrorised by a bloodthirsty monster. The player must survive and learn the truth about the place.
Phonopolis
Adventure 2025
Phonopolis is another point-and-click adventure created by Czech studio Amanita Design. This time the developer decided to go for original 3D graphics and the theme of individualism and manipulation.
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home
Adventure 31 January 2023
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is an action adventure game set during World War I. It tells the story of four different characters, testing our dexterity and cunning while taking on the form of a side-scrolling 2D platformer.
Paranormal Tales
Adventure 2024
Paranormal Tales is a first-person horror game that allows you to discover the stories of people who disappeared after confronting supernatural powers.
Europa
Adventure August 2024
A narrative adventure game about an android exploring the secrets of an abandoned world. The title is an independent project by one of Blizzard Entertainment's studio employees, who was inspired by films created by Studio Ghibli.
Kara no Shojo
Adventure 29 June 2011
Kara no Shojo is a visual novel game with strong elements of detective adventure game. The player must not only make plot choices, but also investigate crime scenes and conduct investigations.
The Inquisitor
Adventure 08 February 2024
The production is based on The Inquisitor Cycle, a series of novels by Jacek Piekara. In I, the Inquisitor we become the Inquisitor on behalf of Jesus Christ, who takes revenge on his tormentors and spreads the Gospel.
Date A Live: Twin Edition - Rio Reincarnation
Adventure 30 July 2015
The third part of the classic visual novel series based on books and the anime from the Date A Live series. Outside of the new adventure, Date A Live: Twin Edition - Rio Reincarnation also includes the two previous parts of the cycle.
Open Roads
Adventure 28 March 2024
Open Roads is a narrative adventure game about a car journey of a young girl who tries to discover the truth about her dead grandmother's past. She is accompanied by her mother and most of the game is based on dialogues between the characters.
Where the Heart Leads
Adventure 13 July 2021
Where the Heart Is is an independent adventure game telling the story of a family that has to deal with a difficult situation. The studio Armature is responsible for the production, which has been porting older games so far.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Adventure 15 November 2004
The main character of "Metroid Prime 2: Echoes" is again Samus Aran, an intergalactic award hunter. Hired by the government of the Galaxy Federation, she travels to the planet Aether to find the lost troop of the federation's soldiers and help him return home.
Grim Fandango (1998)
Adventure 30 November 1998
An excellent adventure game that takes us to the posthumous world, where we play the role of an agent working for death, who solves the mystery of the problems digesting this land. The game consists mainly in conducting conversations, exploring the location and searching for objects and solving puzzles.
Face Noir
Adventure 31 July 2012
Noir-style point-and-click adventure game created by Mad Orange, an independent Italian studio. The action of the game is set in America of the 30s of the 20th century, during the great economic crisis. We play as Jack Del Nero - former policeman and now private detective, slowly sinking into alcoholism. However, his life changes dramatically when his former police colleague arrives in town and Jack loses his job and spends a year in prison because of him.
Runaway: A Road Adventure
Adventure 05 March 2001
Runaway: A Road Adventure is a classic adventure game produced by the genre's specialist studio Pendulo. The player directs the actions of a young physicist, who is entangled in a dangerous crime intrigue. The creators took care of a large number of puzzles to solve and eye-catching cartoon visual setting.
The Mystery of the Druids
Adventure 30 June 2001
Dark adventure game, with a captivating storyline dating back to the beginning of 1000 AD. Play as a young detective and discover the mystery of mystical murders.
1979 Revolution: Black Friday
Adventure 05 April 2016
An unconventional action game developed by the American iNKstories studio, focused on The Iranian Revolution - the events of 1979 that led to the overthrow of the dictatorial regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran. 1979 Revolution is set in an open-world environment, reminiscent of subsequent installments in the Grand Theft Auto series.
Corpse Party
Adventure 12 August 2010
A visual novel adventure game developed by studio 5pg. The game is an improved version of the independent game created by Makoto Kedouin and originally released in 1996. Corpse Party takes place in a high school building that was built on the ruins of an old grade school in which a terrible and mysterious crime has occurred. One day, due to unexplainable events, a group of students enters a terrible and grotesque version of their school in which the corridors are filled with decomposing corpses.
Dead Reefs
Adventure 26 June 2007
Dead Reefs is another adventure game produced in Streko-Graphics Inc. studio and released in cooperation with DreamCatcher/The Adventure Company, a company that has been providing us with this type of items with unwavering passion for many years.
The Experiment
Adventure 11 October 2007
eXperience112 is an unusual adventure created by Lexis Numérique studio. The heroine of the game is professor Lea Nichols, who in unclear circumstances ends up on board a mysterious ship. By controlling the ship's deck systems, the player tries to help the woman get out of the prison she found herself in.
City of Secrets
Adventure 05 August 2009
Produced by Aidan Media, a native company, an adventure game with educational elements. The protagonist of the cult series of animated fairy tales, the dog Reksio and his friend, Commander Kretes, find their way into the underground world of moles. Players must help them to visit this place and solve the problems of its inhabitants.
The Golden Compass
Adventure 30 November 2007
The Golden Compass is an adventure action game with a third person's perspective (TPP) based on Philip Pulman's book trilogy "The Dark Materials" and Chris Weitz's film. The player directs Lyra Belaqua, a 12-year-old inhabitant of a parallel, fantastic universe, who sets out to save her friend, kidnapped by The Gobblers, a mysterious organisation. The game was produced by Shiny Entertainment development studio.
Obscure: The Aftermath
Adventure 07 September 2007
Obscure II is a continuation of the survival horror game, released in 2004. The plot shows the events that took place two years after the horrific accidents in the first part. As usual, you have to have extraordinarily strong nerves, otherwise it is extremely difficult to cope with the ubiquitous feeling of fear.
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
Adventure 29 August 2008
A sequel to the well-received 2006’s point-and-click adventure game, developed in cooperation with Fusionsphere Systems, the creators of the original. The title’s plot revolves around a worldwide series of unexplainable phenomena boggling even the greatest of minds. Everything indicates that there may actually be something in the prophecy of imminent dooms preached by Pat Shelton on the TV.
A New Beginning
Adventure 08 October 2010
A New Beginning is a representative of the classic adventure genre, in the full sense of the word, tempting the player with hand-painted backgrounds and riddles forcing grey cells to increase their effort.