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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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Demon Hunter 3: Revelation
Demon Hunter 3: Revelation

Adventure 16 November 2016

A HOPA adventure co-developed by Brave Giant from Serbia and Artifex Mundi from Poland. Just like its two previous parts, Dawn Harlock is the protagonist. She conducts an investigation into a homicide of a woman and a mysterious disappearance of her daughter. The heroine soon learns that there is a new and evil force involved in the case and the unusual events may have something to do with her own vague origin.

PCXSXXONEPS4SwitchANDiOSWP

Nova-111
Nova-111

Adventure 25 August 2015

An unusual adventure game by Funkatronic Labs, combining elements of platformer and turn-based strategy productions. The plot of Nova-111 revolves around the effects of an experiment conducted by 111 ingenious scientists from an alternate world, where time flows in turns. The result of their actions is an anomaly that merged both worlds. As a pilot of the research vessel Nova, we have to find and rescue the scientists and to remove the anomaly to separate the dimensions.

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The Guest
The Guest

Adventure 10 March 2016

A first-person adventure game with puzzles, developed by small team at Spanish Team Gotham studio. The Guest takes place in the 80s inside an obscure hotel. The main hero is a Soviet scientist with a mysterious past, who struggles with mental issues due to his medicine addiction. After he wakes up in the middle of the night, he finds the hotel has been completely abandoned, and various obstacles are trying to take his life and prevent him from leaving the building.

PC

Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series - Season Two
Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series - Season Two

Adventure canceled

The second installment in the series of episodic adventure games developed by Telltale Games – the creators of games like The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us. The game picks up the plot of its predecessor – the story once again focuses on House Forrester, the members of which are trying to recover after the events of the first game. The story is again told from a few different perspectives.

PC

Contradiction: Spot The Liar!
Contradiction: Spot The Liar!

Adventure 14 January 2015

A detective adventure game based on the Full Motion Video (FMV) technology. In Contradiction: Spot the Liar! developed by Baggy Cat, the player gets to follow the adventures of detective Jenks, who is tasked with investigating the Atlas training center, where a number of mysterious events have occurred recently. In terms of gameplay mechanics, the game is a combination of adventure games similar to Myst and classic FMV productions.

PCiOS

Crossbow Warrior: The Legend of William Tell
Crossbow Warrior: The Legend of William Tell

Adventure 01 December 2014

An action adventure game in the convention of a 2.5D platformer, presenting the fate of one of the most famous, realistically existing medieval characters - the title Wilhelm Tell. The plot of the game faithfully reflects the legendary history of the Swiss national hero, and the fun - apart from the classic platforming stages - is diversified by bonus levels, in which we can test our sniper skills or steer the boat that flies along the turbulent current of the river.

PCANDiOSWiiU

Rusty Lake Hotel
Rusty Lake Hotel

Adventure 14 December 2015

A surrealistic point-and-click adventure game developed by the Dutch Rusty Lake studio. In the game we are taken to a mysterious animal hotel which is visited by five guests. Our task is to “take care” of them properly — kill them, that is. We have to tend separately to each of the five unfortunate guests, shortening their life by various means, for example poisoning.

PCANDiOS

Goosebumps: The Game
Goosebumps: The Game

Adventure 13 October 2015

A point-and-click adventure game created by WayForward Technologies - a team known mainly for DuckTales Remastered. Goosebumps: The Game was based on the license of popular books written by R.L. Stine. The player takes on the role of a kid that on their way home from school, discovers that the neighborhood has been taken over by monsters - werewolfs are lurking in the forest nearby, gnomes are running along sidewalks and scarecrows walk the streets at night.

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Higurashi When They Cry
Higurashi When They Cry

Adventure 10 August 2002

Higurashi When They Cry is a Japanese adventure in the visual novel category. The production is kept in a horror atmosphere and tells the story of a small village of Hinamizawa, which in June 1983 became the scene of a series of brutal murders. The game boils down primarily to passive tracking of the plot presented in text form enriched with simple pictures.

PCPS3ANDiOSPS2NDSPSV

Grim Legends 3: The Dark City
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City

Adventure 31 May 2016

The third installment in the casual hidden-objects adventure game series, developed by Polish studio Artifex Mundi. You play as Sylwia, an amnesiac acolyte of the monster-hunting Order. When a powerful artifact, containing a malevolent being known as the Nightmare, is stolen from the Order's headquarters, Sylwia and her mentor embark on a quest to find it.

PCXONEPS4ANDiOSWP

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

Adventure 15 January 1998

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the last part of Gage Blackwood's adventures and Time Protection Agency. We observe the game again in the first person, and it focuses on exploring the location and solving riddles. In this part of the cycle we find ourselves in Atlantis and El Dorado.

PC

Five Nights At Freddy's: Sister Location
Five Nights At Freddy's: Sister Location

Adventure 07 October 2016

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.

PCANDiOS

Fran Bow
Fran Bow

Adventure 27 August 2015

A two-dimensional point ‘n’ click adventure game that tells a terrifying story of a young girl that suffers from serious mental disorders. Fran Bow is the debut project of the two-people studio Killmonday Games and was funded thanks to a crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo. In the game, we assume the role of the eponymous Fran who witnesses the brutal murder of her own parents.

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White Noise: A Tale of Horror
White Noise: A Tale of Horror

Adventure 14 December 2012

Developed by the Spanish Milkstone studio, a simple first person horror inspired by the cult Slender. Our task is to find eight tapes in a dark forest, haunted by a dangerous supernatural being.

X360

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Anniversary Edition
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Anniversary Edition

Adventure 12 January 2017

The third full-fledged installment in the series of mystery thriller adventure visual novels developed by Spike Chunsoft. The plot of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony tells the story of a kidnapped high school student named Kaede Akamatsu. Together with other students, he is taken to a school called Gifted Inmates Academy. The academy’s director is a teddy bear named Monokuma.

PCXONEPS4SwitchANDiOSPSV

In the 1st Degree
In the 1st Degree

Adventure 31 August 1995

An adventure game realized in the convention of a criminal drama, created almost entirely from the FMV sequence with the participation of live actors. Playing the role of the San Francisco District Prosecutor, we are leading the case of an outdated artist accused of murdering his business partner. The evidence gathered is then presented at a court hearing, which, depending on our actions, may end in one of four ways.

PC

Agon: The Tale of the Four Dragons
Agon: The Tale of the Four Dragons

Adventure canceled

The Tale of the Four Dragons is the fifth episode in the Agon adventure series. This time, together with Professor Hunt, who is looking for a solution to the riddle of ancient board games, we are going to Beijing.

PC

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Adventure 05 February 2013

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time is the fourth installment of a series of action adventure games with a nice shed in the lead role. Developed by Sanzaru Games with PlayStation 3 users in mind, Sly and his gang set off on a journey into the past to get to know the hero's ancestors and prevent changes in the Thievius Raccoonus book.

PS3PSV

A Vampyre Story 2: A Bat's Tale
A Vampyre Story 2: A Bat's Tale

Adventure canceled

Adventure point & click presenting further adventures of French opera diy Mona and talkative bat Froderick. This time the role of the main character is taken over by a small mammal.

PC

Salammbo
Salammbo

Adventure 04 February 2003

An adventure game set during the First Punic War. A player as an ancient mercenary can get to know life at that time and participate in events known from history.

PC

Puzzle Agent 2
Puzzle Agent 2

Adventure 30 June 2011

Puzzle Agent 2 is a continuation of an adventure book by Telltale Games studio published in 2010. The title character again has to go to the town of Skoggins to solve another mysterious matter. The game consists mainly in exploring locations, chatting with independent characters and solving puzzles. The visual setting of the title was maintained in a cartoon style.

PC

Bud Tucker in Double Trouble
Bud Tucker in Double Trouble

Adventure 10 July 1996

A funny two-dimensional point & click adventure in which the explosive mixture consists of: a resolute young man, a brilliant scientist and a complex black character.

PC

House M.D. – Episode 1: Globetrotting
House M.D. – Episode 1: Globetrotting

Adventure 30 May 2011

An adventure game based on the Dr House series, with English actor Hugh Laur in the lead role. The authors offered the opportunity to take part in a single case dedicated to Henry, an aging television star with his own travel program.

NDS

Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure
Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure

Adventure 17 August 2012

Disney Princesses: My fairytale adventure is an adventure game produced by Disney Interactive Studios, addressed to lovers of fairytale worlds known from Walt Disney's animated films. The player directs the actions of a young fairy who, together with Cinderella, Rapunzel, Arielka, Bella and Tiana, must restore order in magical kingdoms.

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