Adventure Video Games45
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.
Browse genres/themes ?
Browse the Encyclopedia by genre and tags. Each game has one main genre: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Adventure, RPG, Sports, Strategy, Simulation, Party, Racing, Arcade. You can search multiple tags and filter games by platforms, scores, or release dates.
The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
Adventure 15 December 1995
The second installment of Gage Blackwood's adventures cycle - a special agent for time protection. This is a classic adventure game, in which we observe the action from the perspective of the first person. During the game we visit, among others, Leonardo da Vinci's studio.
The Lion's Song
Adventure 07 July 2016
A peculiar adventure game created by Mi'pu'mi Games, constituting a fully developed version of the freeware app released in 2014 for the Ludum Dare event. The Lion's Song takes place in Austria, in the early 20th century, and the plot in centered around three creative people at the defining moments of their careers: a young composer preparing to create her greatest work, a middle-aged inventor, and a brilliant mathematician working on a groundbreaking equation.
The Song of Seven
Adventure 17 May 2016
An episodic, fairytale-like point-and-click adventure game by an American developer Enlightened Games. The plot of The Song of Seven is set in a fantasy world of Pria, inhabited by fantastic races and original creatures. The main character is a boy named Kiba. When a mythical evil starts growing in strength, and slowly casts its shadow upon the land, the adolescent protagonist has to leave the village and find a way to deal with the danger.
Phantaruk
Adventure 16 August 2016
A sci-fi survival horror adventure FPP game and the first production of the Polish studio Polyslash. Phantaruk takes place in the distant future, when the idea of transhumanism is about to become reality, as humanity is striving to create a person with no biological limitations. You find yourself aboard a spaceship, which is also a secret research facility.
Mosaic
Adventure 01 November 2019
A point-n-click adventure from the creators of Among the Sleep, a first-person perspective horror in which you control a two-year-old child. The title concentrates on the themes of weariness of life and the feeling of alienation. In Mosaic, you assume the role of an office employee working in a soulless corporation. Day after day, following a monotonous routine, the hero realizes that he does not belong to this artificial and heartless world.
Three Fourths Home
Adventure 20 March 2015
An unusual narrative/adventure game developed by [bracket] games and Digerati Distribution. Three Fourths Home tells the story of a young woman named Kelly who is currently on her way to her family home in Nebraska after a years’ absence. We accompany the woman during conversations with her parents and her younger brother, learning more about the complicated relationship she has with them. The game cannot be easily assigned a genre, as we are given a mix of an adventure game and a visual novel.
Sonicomi
Adventure 02 July 2016
An unusual adventure game, in which you play as a personal photographer of a beginning pop idol dreaming about a show-business career. Sonicomi was developed by Japanese company Nitroplus, specializing in visual novels. They are also known as the creators of e.g. Steins;Gate and Guilty Crown. The protagonist, Super Sonico, is the developer's mascot and has her own anime and comic book series, and appears on a multitude of gadgets.
Layers of Fear: Inheritance
Adventure 02 August 2016
Layers of Fear: Inheritance is a full-scope story-driven DLC for the first-person horror game, Layers of Fear, by Blooper Team. The expansion, called Inheritance, does not introduce any changes in the game’s mechanics, offering instead a brand new story, whose action takes place many years after the story of the original. Players don’t control the painter himself, but his daughter – she learns that after the death of her father, the house now belongs to her.
Steins;Gate 0
Adventure 10 December 2015
A visual novel adventure game developed by Nitroplus and 5pb. Studios. The game is a direct continuation of the original Steins;Gate from 2009. The plot picks off using one of the alternative endings of the predecessor. Okabe Rintaro, a student heartbroken after the tragic death of his friend Kurisu Makise, makes an appointment to a psychiatric health facility.
Antariksha Sanchar
Adventure canceled
A point-and-click adventure game developed by QuicksandGamesLab and heavily inspired by the culture of India. The plot of Antariksha Sanchar (known also as Transmissions in Space) is set in the early 1920s in South India. You play as a genius mathematician, who wants to discover the secrets of the outer space and conduct research on space exploration. As expected of the game representing such a genre, it focuses mostly on exploration and solving various logic puzzles.
Crusader Kings: Chronicles
Adventure 20 July 2016
Crusader Kings: Chronicles is a spin-off of a famous PC series of strategic games by Paradox, rendered as a mobile gamebook with RPG elements. The plot of Crusader Kings: Chronicles, created by an author of historical novels and fantasy, M. Harold Page, takes us into medieval times, right into the middle of the conflict between Scots and English.
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala
Adventure 21 July 2016
The third installment of the series of investigation adventure/hidden object games that is one of the more popular franchises created by Polish studio Artifex Mundi. In Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala the player follows the protagonists known from the previous installments of the series, who join forces with hopes of catching the series' main antagonist, the demonic preacher.
Virginia
Adventure 22 September 2016
An adventure game created by an independent studio Variable State. The player assumes the role of a rookie FBI agent, who receives a task of investigating the case of a young boy’s disappearance. The plot is filled with supernatural elements, and science-fiction motifs. The plot of Virginia is completely linear, so the players can focus on experiencing the story.
The Bunker
Adventure 20 September 2016
An full-motion video adventure game created as a result of cooperation between Splendy Interactive and Wales Interactive. The action begins 30 years after a huge nuclear explosion destroyed Great Britain. The player takes on the role of the last survivor of a fallout shelter. In order to save his life, he decides to reach the surface.
Ark of Time
Adventure 28 February 1997
A point-and-click adventure. We direct the actions of Richard Kendall, a journalist who unexpectedly gets a chance to report on his life. He is to find the British researcher and archaeologist Caldwell, whose expedition has disappeared in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle. Travellers supposedly tried to find the ruins of the mysterious Atlantis.
Accounting
Adventure 18 October 2016
Original production, in which we play the role of an accountant travelling through successive levels of virtual reality. In order to push the action forward, we usually have to perform a specific action, such as putting goggles on the head or drinking a suspicious drink. With time, the locations we visited and the characters we met become more and more surreal, while the whole thing was enriched with a solid dose of absurd humour.
In the Valley of Gods
Adventure canceled
In the Valley of Gods is an adventure game, in which the players assume the role of a female adventure seeker who joins her forces with her old female partner. Together they explore the ruins hidden deep in the Egyptian deserts. During the game, the players mostly explore and discover the story. The title also features decisions that impact the plot.
Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends
Adventure 28 September 2017
Developed by The House of Fables and Artifex Mundi, Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends is a HOPA game. Players follow the adventures of a botanist Mary Gilbert, who has to rescue her brother kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Unfortunately, the antagonist not only poses a threat to the main protagonist's brother but also to the entire world, and the only chance of stopping him lies in Mary and her companion Aitwara – a house spirit.
Apocalipsis
Adventure 28 February 2018
A point-and-click adventure game, in which the players follow a man called Harry while he travels through a hostile world searching for his beloved one. Punch Punk Games’ work stands out from similar games thanks to its style, inspired by medieval codes and art of Hans Holbein and Albrecht Dürer.
Afterparty
Adventure 29 October 2019
Afterparty is an adventure for PCs, telling the story of a couple of friends who, after their death, end up in hell and discover that the only way to avoid eternal condemnation is to defeat the Devil in an alcoholic competition. While playing, we explore locations and solve puzzles. The key role is played by the proper use of various drinks, providing bonuses to the ability of the character.
Soul Gambler
Adventure 01 August 2013
A visual novel game that allows you to take on the role of Faust, an accountant who, in return for selling parts of his or her soul, can count on fulfilling any wishes. The game consists in following the protagonist's fate and making decisions leading to one of the several endings.
Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest
Adventure 01 December 2017
A point-and-click adventure game, which revolves around adventures of a space engineer. The protagonist needs to deal with various issues that trouble his spacecraft. The game was made by Pavel Kostin.
Once Upon a Time in Roswell
Adventure canceled
Survival horror inspired by an incident in Roswell. Players take on the role of a detective who has to solve the mystery of the disappearance of a family living in a house near the spacecraft's break-up site.
