Adventure Video Games7
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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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
8.5 Game Score
The next installment of the famous adventure series of Myst games, advertising by the creators, Cyan Worlds team led by Rand Miller, as the most extensive and addictive installment of the Myst series.
Gabriel Knight: The Sins of the Fathers
8.5 Game Score
An adventure game inspired by the work of the well-known horror author Jane Jensen. The plot of the game is 10 days from the life of Gabriel Knight, the owner of a bookstore in New Orleans, interested in unexplained and supernatural stories.
Flashback: The Quest For Identity
8.5 Game Score
Two-dimensional adventure and arcade game, reminiscent from the strictly technical side of such programs as Another World (the same developer - Delphine Software) and Prince of Persia.
Uru: Complete Chronicles
8.5 Game Score
Special version of the adventure game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, enriched with two extensions - To D'Ni (which was a free downloadable file on the Internet) and Uru: The Path of the Shell (addon appeared in a boxed, paid version).
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
8.5 Game Score
Insomniac Games continues the story told in Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty. Clank is once again in trouble, from which the clever Ratchet will once again draw him out. The protagonists are faced with important existential questions.
Dear Esther
8.5 Game Score
Dear Esther is an adventure game with a first person perspective, with a rather heavy and dark climate. Here we are only exploring the surroundings and listening to the scraps of stories, which we have to put together into a coherent story.
Drawn: The Painted Tower
8.5 Game Score
Very visually nice adventure game containing many mini-games and puzzles. The player has to save a girl locked at the top of a mysterious painted tower.
SOMA
8.5 Game Score
A science fiction horror adventure game created by Frictional Games, Swedish studio known for such titles as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Penumbra series. The game is set in a top-secret research center PATHOS-2, where a series of failed experiments resulted in human-like machines killing off most of the staff and taking over the facility. You play as one of the survivors, who has to safely evade the hostile, machine infested environment.
Ecstatica II
8.5 Game Score
Continuation of the action adventure game, which can be treated as Psygnosis's response to the Alone in the Dark series. Like the cult trilogy of Infogrames, the second Ecstatica is a bloody and brutal story about man's struggle against the world's greatest atrocities.
Shelter
8.5 Game Score
An original action adventure game with survival elements, developed by Might and Delight. The player controls a female badger trying to survive in a hostile environment with several offspring to feed. Shelter is a third-person perspective game. The player's mission is to find an appropriate den and ensure the safety of the badger family. The player has to provide basic living conditions for the small badgers.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
8.5 Game Score
A dark, first-person adventure game developed by The Astronauts - a Polish team led by Adrian Chmielarz, the co-founder of People Can Fly. The player is put in the shoes of Paul Prospero - a detective who has developed certain paranormal abilities. The protagonist tries to solve the mystery behind the vanishing of a young boy. The player traverses an extensive, open world - the game is non-linear and the player is free to explore and look for subsequent clues.
Ultimate Custom Night
8.5 Game Score
A survival horror created by Scott Cawthon. The game is part of the very popular series Five Nights at Freddy’s. The players assume the role of a guard who uses cameras, automatic doors and various gadgets to survive in a building filled with evil animatronics. The game is exceptional because it combines the features of all the previous entries in the series. This means that, during the game, the players can face 50 iconic opponents.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted
8.5 Game Score
A collection of mini-games, prepared with virtual reality technology in mind, reproducing various types of activities and cult scenes known from the Five Nights at Freddy's series. The production was developed by the developer Steel Wool Studios and released by ScottGames.
Zarya-1
8.5 Game Score
A text adventure maintained in the convention of horror science fiction. Players direct the actions of four astronauts sent to the Moon to investigate the source of the disturbing signal that reached Earth in 2021. During the game we get acquainted with the text messages sent by our charges (from time to time enriched with graphics stylized on photographs) and we make decisions that lead us to one of the several endings.
The Beginner's Guide
8.5 Game Score
An original narrative-driver production developed by the independent studio Everything Unlimited. It is another creation of Davey Wreden, the designer of the popular The Stanley Parable. The game focuses on the story of a complicated relation with a friend known as Coda. He is also a video game developer, and we get to browse the rich library of 134 titles he created.
Amnesia: Collection
8.5 Game Score
Set of two survival horror games, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. While originally the titles were PC exclusives, Amnesia: Collection has been released only for PlayStation 4 console. First of those games is set in a grim castle, with players controlling Daniel, an amnesiac who must find and defeat the mad owner of the building. Its add-on, Justine, puts us in a role of a woman who is part of a psychological experiment.
Betrayal At Club Low
8.5 Game Score
Betrayal At Club Low is a surreal genre cocktail that combines adventure and RPG elements. While playing, we have to explore locations and solve puzzles, but most of them require testing the hero's stats, which we can develop.
The Medium
8.5 Game Score
The Medium is a horror in which we play the role of a woman who can see ghosts and tries to solve the mystery of the murder of a child. The game is another work of the talented Krakow Bloober Team.
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.
Rusty Lake: Roots
8.4 Game Score
A point ‘n’ click adventure game developed by Rusty Lake, the creators of the well-received Rusty Lake Hotel. In Rusty Lake: Roots, we assume the role of James Vanderboom who inherited a house and a special seed, which, if sown, will enable him to start his own family. The action is set in the 19th and 20th century, and the player controls three generations of Vanderbooms.
We. the Revolution
8.4 Game Score
Inspired by a popular game Papers, Please, this is an unusual mix of genres by the Polish studio Polyslash. We. The Revolution is set in the 18th-century Paris during the French Revolution. The player takes the role of a judge in the Revolutionary Tribunal, who judges both revolutionists and their enemies, as well as criminals and ordinary citizens.
Virginia
8.4 Game Score
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.
