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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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Chaos;Child
Chaos;Child

Adventure 18 December 2014

Chaos;Child is a visual novel sci-fi adventure game. Players are following the story of a high school student working for a school newspaper on the case of mysterious deaths, potentially related to an equally mysterious case that had shaken Tokyo a few years earlier.

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Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 3

Adventure 23 May 2003

Silent Hill 3 is the third installment of the survial-horror series produced by Konami. The main character is 17-year-old Heather, who unexpectedly finds herself in an alternative, nightmarish reality. The girl has to discover the mystery of a monstrous world and thwart the plans of a mysterious cult wishing to resurrect a cruel god. The title combines elements of an action game and adventure, but due to the macabre scenes is addressed to older players.

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Adventure 08 September 2010

A dark action adventure game designed as survival horror, developed by the team at Frictional Games studio – creators of the enthusiastically received Penumbra series. In the game we play the part of a man who voluntarily lost his memory. He wanders through the corridors of a huge castle not remembering exactly what happened, but he is certain that his life is in great danger.

PC

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice

Adventure 23 October 2020

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice is the next instalment of the classic point-n-click adventure games series. In the game, we once again play the role of the aging Larry Laffer, who goes to Kalau's island to find his beloved Faith.

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Until Dawn (2015)
Until Dawn (2015)

Adventure 25 August 2015

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.

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The House of the Dead 2
The House of the Dead 2

Adventure 01 June 2001

An action game set in a horror atmosphere, where we play the role of a secret agent, who, in order to perform the mission of neutralizing the evil Dr. Curien, has to defeat dangerous creatures and zombies standing in his way.

PC

Disney Dreamlight Valley
Disney Dreamlight Valley

Adventure 05 December 2023

A hybrid of a TPP adventure game and a life sim, set in the fantastic universe of Disney and Pixar. In Disney Dreamlight Valley we play the role of a character whose task is to save the inhabitants of the valley and restore the old order.

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Silent Hill: Homecoming
Silent Hill: Homecoming

Adventure 30 September 2008

The fifth part of the highly popular series. This time the main character is Alex Shepherd. He sets out to look for his brother, visiting, among other things, the titular town of Silent Hill.

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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Adventure 06 August 2020

A humorous adventure game in which players try to escape from the interdimensional loop where they are stuck with the game. There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension breaks the fourth wall at every turn and pokes fun at both itself and other games.

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Return to Monkey Island
Return to Monkey Island

Adventure 19 September 2022

Return to Monkey Island is a point-and-click adventure game. It is the first part of the series in 30 years, with the series creator Ron Gilbert taking part in its development.

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Phasmophobia
Phasmophobia

Adventure 2024 (early access since 18 September 2020)

Phasmophobia is an unusual survival horror, which was developed specifically for the 4-person cooperative mode. The game also offers support for virtual reality. The independent Kinetic Games studio is responsible for its development and release.

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Beat Cop
Beat Cop

Adventure 30 March 2017

The result of the independent Polish studio Pixel Crow's cooperation with 11 bit studios, the creators of This War of Mine. Beat cop is a point-and-click time management game. You play as Jack Kelly, a former NYC detective who was framed for murder and demoted. Hated by everyone around, Jack is trying to reconcile his duties with conducting a private investigation in order to discover who framed him. The plot of Beat Cop is non-linear and its many endings depend on your decisions.

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Layers of Fear 2
Layers of Fear 2

Adventure 28 May 2019

The second installment of a horror adventure game cycle, developed by the Polish studio Bloober Team. In Layers of Fear 2, we get aboard a ship on the high seas and take part in the making of another masterpiece film.

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Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Adventure 17 April 2006

The second part of a great adventure game, The Longest Journey, which was realized and released in 2000 by Funcom. Its action was set in the same realities as we had the opportunity to stay in the original The Longest Journey, i.e. compilation of fantasy and science fiction.

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Anna
Anna

Adventure 16 July 2012

An adventure game set in the Italian Alps, revolving mostly around exploring locations and solving puzzles. One unique feature is a system simulating our character's mental state, affecting how we see the world and can interact with it.

PC

Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's

Adventure 08 August 2014

An original horror game created by Scott Cawthon, an independent gamemaker. The player assumes the role of a watchman who takes up a seasonal job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. What is important about the restaurant, is that mechanical mascots are its main attraction. A seemingly easy job turns into a true nightmare during the very first night, when the protagonist discovers that the sympathetic animatronics come to life after dark and display a hostile attitude towards humans.

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Pentiment
Pentiment

Adventure 15 November 2022

Adventure game developed by Obsidian Entertainment studio. In Pentiment we play as an artist who gets entangled in a case of mysterious murders in a German abbey. A characteristic feature of the game is graphics inspired by medieval woodcuts.

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Obduction
Obduction

Adventure 24 August 2016

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.

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Peter Jackson's King Kong
Peter Jackson's King Kong

Adventure 13 November 2005

King Kong is an action adventure game based on the "remake" of a film under the same title, directed by Peter Jackson (including the Lord of the Rings trilogy). The player will play the role of Jack Driscoll, a scientist, who together with a team of faithful companions ends up on a fantastic island....

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The Pillars of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth

Adventure 15 August 2017

An adventure game from Daedalic Entertainment, based on a popular history novel written by Ken Follet, entitled The Pillars of the Earth. The game of the same title is set in the 12th-century, in the tumultuous period known as the Anarchy. After the sudden death of king Henry I and the only heir to the throne having been killed in the crash of the White Ship, England gets consumed in a violent war of succession.

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Gray Matter
Gray Matter

Adventure 12 November 2010

Adventure by Jane Jensen, writer and long-time employees of Sierra company, responsible, among others, for the creation of the famous Gabriel Knight series. The game tells the story of two heroes - the illusionist Samantha Everett and scientist David Styles. The game is about exploring the location, conducting conversations and solving riddles.

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Lust from Beyond
Lust from Beyond

Adventure 11 March 2021

An erotic Polish adventure game in the convention of psychological horror in which we play Victor Holloway - a freshly baked member of the Cult of Ecstasy, trying to get to Lusst'ghaa, a gloomy land of pain and pleasure. The work of Movie Games Lunarium is a continuation of Lust for Darkness.

PC

The Fruit of Grisaia
The Fruit of Grisaia

Adventure 21 February 2013

The Fruit of Grisaia is a PC-based visual novel adventure. We play the role of a teenage killer, who starts school full of pupils with dark secrets. While playing, we mainly follow the story and make decisions that direct the story to one of several alternative storyline paths.

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The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City

Adventure 28 July 2021

Forgotten City is a FPP adventure game developed for PCs. The action takes place in a lost Roman city, where one of the contemporary researchers committed a serious sin, for which supernatural powers punished the whole group with death. The player must go back in time and change the course of events to discover a sequence that will save all victims.

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