Adventure Video Games50
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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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.
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.
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.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series Collection
Adventure 05 December 2017
A compilation of episodic adventure games from The Walking Dead series. It consists of three first seasons in the series; The Walking Dead: 400 Days and The Walking Dead: Michonne – A Telltale Games Miniseries. The compilation was released before the debut of the fourth, final season of the series.
The Coma: Recut
Adventure 22 September 2017
A refreshed version of a successful survival horror that came out in 2015. The Coma: Recut is set in the Sehwa high-school in South Korea. Youngho, the main protagonist, having spent the entire night studying, falls asleep during an exam. Once awake, Youngho realizes that he is alone in the classroom and it is already dark outside. However, the true nightmare begins when it turns out that the school is overrun by monsters and an insane killer is walking its hallways.
Close to the Sun
Adventure 02 May 2019
Close to the Sun is a horror adventure game developed by Storm in a Teacup. The production takes us to an alternative version of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where thanks to Nikola Tesla's inventions the development of civilization has significantly accelerated. The player takes on the role of a journalist who, while searching for her missing sister, finds himself on board a giant seagoing ship designed by Tesla for research and experimentation.
The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan
Adventure 26 July 2017
An adventure game representing the "hidden objects" genre, developed by Sunward Games and published by Artifex Mundi - a company specializing in this kind of video games. The action of The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan is set in Italy in 1920. The main protagonist of the game is Amelie, a Roman mythology expert who works for the titular agency called The Myth Seekers.
The Good Life
Adventure 15 October 2021
An unusual RPG with crime story traits. The title was developed by White Owls – a studio founded by Hidetaka Suehiro, the creator of Deadly Premonition and D4. The player assumes the role of Naomi, a reporter who comes to Rainy Woods, the self-called “happiest place on Earth”. She is looking for a way to pay her debts.
Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child
Adventure 08 June 2017
Co-developed by World-Loom and Artifex Mundi, a hidden object puzzle adventure (HOPA)game. Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child tells a story of the titular heroine who had supernatural powers since childhood, causing her father to put her in an orphanage ran by nuns. After many years, by mistake, she receives a letter addressed to her father. She decides to find him and learn the truth about her abilities. The trace leads her to the residence of Baron Steamayer, which hides many dark secrets.
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse
Adventure 16 May 2013
A classic visual novel adventure, a prelude to Muv-Luv Alternative, which presents a completely new story and characters. Players take on the role of the test pilot of a new generation of experimental models of mosses built to repel invasions of aliens, who have been effectively taking control of the Earth for several decades.
JCB Pioneer: Mars
Adventure 01 September 2017
A survival game in which players take on the role of the first colonizers of the Red Planet. Their tasks include not only the struggle for survival (with the need to replenish oxygen, food and water supplies), but also the extraction of raw materials and the development of new technologies. The title allows you to have fun both alone and in the company of other people.
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.
Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure
Adventure 31 May 2016
Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure is a first-person point-and-click adventure game in which we play Bjorn, a drunkard and an antique trader. Together with our neighbor, we set off on the trail of thieves who robbed our apartment one night.
The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk
Adventure 20 October 2017
A continuation to a well-received point-and-click adventure game, developed by the independent Studio Fizbin. The Last Wind Monk is set three years after the events depicted in the original game. Robert, the protagonist, had been turned into a stone and has remained in this form during these three years. As a result, his dynasty lost its influences to the evil Emil. Along with his companions, Robert has to stop the wrongdoer, through finding the titular, Last Wind Monk.
The Silver 2425
Adventure 15 March 2017
A compilation of two detective adventure games by Grasshopper Interactive. The Silver 2425 bundle includes a remastered version of The Silver Case, originally released in 1999 for PlayStation, and its remake, titled The 25th Ward: The Silver Case that came out in 2005 for mobile devices. While playing, we are taken to the Japan of 1999, and our task is to solve cases of mysterious murders.
The Wolf Among Us 2
Adventure 2024
Second season of The Wolf Among Us: A Telltale Games Series. During the game we get to know the fate of fairy tale characters hiding in our world.
White Day 2: Swan Song
Adventure canceled
Second part of White Day series initiated in 2001 with survival horror of the same name. After several years, the title received a remake entitled White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, and just before its debut on PC and PlayStation 4, White Day 2: Swan Song was revealed. The game is not a direct continuation, but a prequel, the action of which takes place six years before the events shown in the original. Players learn the fate of students trapped in a haunted school at night.
Summer Lesson: Allison Snow Seven Days Garden
Adventure 22 June 2017
A simple adventure game developed by Bandai Namco Entertainment for PlayStation VR. The title was at first developed as a technological demo. In Summer Lesson the player assumes the role of a teacher who provides summer Japanese lessons to an American exchange student. He meets with the girl on the porch of a traditional country house. The gameplay is very simple and player’s interactions with the virtual world are limited to performing a few gestures.
Creeping Terror
Adventure 18 January 2017
Creeping Terror is a 2D survival horror where we play as Arisa, a Japanese high school student, who, together with her friends, ends up in a haunted mansion in order to verify the stories told about it. After entering the residence, the entire group passes out and later wakes up in a sinister cave. Our job is to find a way out and survive. Action in Creeping Terror is presented from a side-scrolling perspective.
The Darkside Detective
Adventure 27 July 2017
The Darkside Detective is a retro point-and-click adventure game developed by the independent studio Spooky Doorway. The game takes place in the suburban American city of Twin Lakes where two dimensions intertwine with each other, and supernatural events happen on a daily basis.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series - Season 2
Adventure 11 July 2017
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series - Season 2 is the second season of the episodic adventure game developed by Telltale Games and set in the Minecraft universe. After the events of the first game, the crew begins to fall out as a result of too many duties and lack of time for new adventures. One day, Jesse gets into trouble. Not only he finds a mysterious cursed glove, but also gets his hand stuck in it.
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.