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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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Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair
Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair

Adventure 18 November 2002

Dragon's Lair 3D is, as the title suggests, the successor to Dragon's Lair 1 and 2 arcade games, known and very popular a few years ago, this time with a new, fully three-dimensional graphics.

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Stacking
Stacking

Adventure 08 February 2011

Humorous, third person adventure created by legendary Tim Schafer and his Double Fine studio. In the game we play as the world's smallest Russian matrioshka named Charlie Blackmore, who thanks to his size can jump into other similar dolls and take on their specific abilities. One day his family is kidnapped by an evil baron and forced into slave labour. Charlie decides to help his relatives, setting off on a journey through many different locations, inhabited by other matrioshkas.

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Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans

Adventure 19 June 2009

An adventure game with arcade elements based on a series of books known in Poland as Strrraszna historia. We play the role of a young slave-gladiator who wants to become a free citizen of Rome.

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Coraline
Coraline

Adventure 27 January 2009

An adventure game based on the work of Neil Gaiman, a well-known American writer and graphic artist. In the production we play the title character, who moves into a new apartment and encounters a secret door to another world. In this strange land everything seems to be more interesting. However, these are only appearances.

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Blade Runner
Blade Runner

Adventure 21 November 1997

An adventure game with a view from a third person's perspective, loosely referring to the novel "Are androids dreaming about electric sheep". Philip K. Dick and the film "Blade Runner". Detective Ray McCoy tries to discover the identity of a group of replicants suspected of killing animals.

PC

Payuta and the Ice God
Payuta and the Ice God

Adventure 15 April 2001

An Inuit boy, Payuta, embarks on a journey full of dangers and adventures in search of a sister kidnapped by the evil god of ice.

PC

Adventure at the Chateau d’Or
Adventure at the Chateau d’Or

Adventure 02 April 2001

The beautiful princess inherited the Chateau d'Or palace, where the previous owner hid many treasures and dark artifacts waiting to be discovered.

PC

It Came from the Desert
It Came from the Desert

Adventure 12 May 1990

An adventure and arcade game, in terms of plot referring to the horrors of class B from the sixties. The player takes on the role of a geological dock, which must resist the invasion of mutated, giant ants.

PC

Heart of China
Heart of China

Adventure 20 August 1991

An interesting "point & click" adventure, whose originator is Jeffrey Tunnell, creator of the famous series The Incredible Machine. The player plays Jake "Lucky" Masters, who is hired by a wealthy businessman to find his daughter, sister of mercy Kate Lomax.

PC

Pathologic
Pathologic

Adventure 09 June 2005

A horror-style adventure action game with RPG elements. The player ends up in a mysterious village that has been infected by a deadly virus. In discovering the gloomy history of the inhabitants, he has to find the causes of the disease and tame it.

PC

Cruise for a Corpse
Cruise for a Corpse

Adventure 13 March 1991

Cruise for a Corpse is a great adventure game, created by Delphine Software, a company of great merit for the genre. The player's task is to find the murderer of a multimillionaire who committed a crime during a cruise on a ship.

PC

Jack in the Dark
Jack in the Dark

Adventure 15 December 1994

Jack in the Dark is a short but fun adventure game, published for free by Infogrames for Christmas in 1994. The program was supposed to show fans of Alone in the Dark the capabilities of an extended engine, which was later used in the second installment of the series.

PC

The Hound of Shadow
The Hound of Shadow

Adventure 20 May 1989

The Hound of Shadow is a representative of text adventure games, very popular especially in the eighties. The program is loosely based on Howard Phillips Lovecraft's short stories about the powerful deity of Cthulhu. The action of the game takes place in England, just after the First World War. Our hero is entangled in a murder, which will soon turn into an occult chase for mythical beings from hell.

PC

Farscape: The Game
Farscape: The Game

Adventure 09 August 2002

Farscape is the transfer to the screens of our home computers of the well-known and very popular TV series of the same title. Here we have to get a group of cosmic renegades out of a series of problems they were entangled in and protect the entire galaxy from the chaos that threatens it.

PC

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire
Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Trial by Fire

Adventure 15 May 2001

Action adventure game based on the story of an animated film from Disney Entertainment, about the search for a lost Atlantic civilization.

PC

Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget

Adventure 23 May 1992

Inspector Gadget is an adventure game based on a well-known series of animated films. Like James Bond, the title detective is equipped with a powerful assortment of sophisticated devices that help him in his fight against criminals. Unfortunately, Gadget is neither especially brilliant nor ripped apart, which is why most criminal cases are solved for him by Penny's bright niece and her dog Brain.

PC

Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

Adventure 15 June 1988

The second part of Larry Laffer's adventures, a would-be amateur, loser and, at the same time, an incredible lucky man. This time Larry wins a million dollars in the "Dating in the dark" teletournament and a cruise to an exotic island with an attractive girlfriend.

PC

Abducted
Abducted

Adventure canceled

A third person adventure game with elements of action, realized in the convention of a futuristic horror film. The authors put more emphasis on the numerous puzzles to be solved than on the fight.

PC

Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals!
Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals!

Adventure 15 June 1989

The third part of Larry Laffer's amorous adventures, who, abandoned by his wife, brings his conquests to a tropical island, where he tries to drag half of the female population into bed.

PC

The X Files: Resist or Serve
The X Files: Resist or Serve

Adventure 16 March 2004

X-Files returns in the second installment on consoles. This time, the adventures of federal agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been set in the realities of the seventh season of episodes.

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House M.D.
House M.D.

Adventure 13 September 2010

An adventure game based on the Dr House series, with English actor Hugh Laur in the lead role. As the title doctor assisted by a team of specialists to face a series of complex medical riddles. For this purpose, we perform obductive tests and laboratory analyses, as well as surgical procedures. As a last resort, we can also search the sick person's home.

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Blue Toad Murder Files
Blue Toad Murder Files

Adventure 15 December 2009

A pleasant episodic series of adventures, which resembles a racial detective, but has been kept in a humorous tone. The producers decided to be inspired by the most famous detective films. Individual cases resemble the works of Agatha Christie or Artur Conan Doyle. The game itself consists of quite classic elements - collecting items, searching the location, chatting with characters, etc. The game itself consists of a number of elements.

PCPS3

Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek
Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek

Adventure 01 June 2007

Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek is another item in the series published by Her Interactive. The products from this series deal with the adventures of the title detective, Nancy Drew. The creators of these games were inspired by novels written in the early 1930s.

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Edge of Twilight
Edge of Twilight

Adventure canceled

Edge of Twilight is an unfinished third party action adventure game (TPP) developed by Fuzzyeyes. According to the storyline, the player had to control the actions of a reward hunter named Lex, who is able to travel between parallel worlds inhabited by the industrial civilization Athern and the spiritually oriented Lithernum. Work on the title was suspended in 2009.

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