Adventure Video Games95
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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Adam's Venture: Origins
Adventure 01 April 2016
A new version of an adventure game that initially came out for PC in three separate episodes released between 2009 and 2012. It was developed by the Dutch Vertigo Games. In the game, we assume the role of the eponymous adventurer and treasure hunter who happened to find notes pointing to a supposed location of the biblical Garden of Eden in an old Templar church.
Sorcery! 2
Adventure 07 November 2013
A sequel to a unique adventure RPG by inkle studio, and an adaptation of a popular gamebook by Steve Jackson and John Blanche. The story of Sorcery! 2 continues the tale of its predecessor and takes us to Khare, town of outlaws, where The Festival of Thieves is celebrated. Players have to discover the mysteries of the town, overthrow the council ruling it, and stop an incoming invasion.
Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings
Adventure 22 September 2016
The fourth (and, according to its creators, final) entry in the warmly-welcomed adventure RPG series from inkle based on Sorcery!, a popular gamebook from 1983. Like the three previous titles, Sorcery! 4 offers a completely new story, so knowledge of the earlier games isn’t necessary to play. Once again, we can create a completely new character or import our old hero from the previous parts of the series. The gameplay of Sorcery!
Minecraft: Education Edition
Adventure 01 November 2016
A special edition of the world-famous game, Minecraft, aimed at providing educational values, created by Mojang AB and owned by Microsoft. Mechanically it does not differ from the original title. It still offers an open world waiting to be explored, where we can collect materials, create various tools and constructions – all of this being tinged with survival elements.
Eclipse: Edge of Light
Adventure 17 April 2017
An adventure and exploratory game from White Elk studio, founded by Jonathan Hawkins, who previously worked in Sony Santa Monica, among others, on three parts of the God of War slasher series. Players find themselves on a mysterious planet, which they have to explore and discover its secrets.
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
Adventure 04 December 2015
A humorous action adventure game and the debut title from Crows Crows Crows. The action of Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist takes place in Europe during a hot summer that made history as a result of a series of thefts of some of the most valuable works of art. The players assume the role of a thief that committed those crimes and his next target is a vault in a highly-secured manor full of valuables.
Forever Lost
Adventure 01 October 2012
Forever Lost is a horror adventure developed for PCs. The action takes place in a haunted psychiatric hospital. The player's task is to find a way to escape from this place, which requires solving a large set of ingenious puzzles.
Vanished
Adventure 21 August 2013
Vanished is an unusual adventure game. The production is practically devoid of graphics and instead provides players with information about the world around them by means of sounds.
Wanderer (Red Cloak Games)
Adventure canceled
A science fiction action adventure game and the debut production of Red Cloak Games. The plot of Wanderer takes us into a distant future and tells the story of a convict named Rook who wakes from a cryogenic sleep inside an orbital space station to discover that the entire installation has been destroyed and abandoned by humans, turning it into a deadly place. Rook sets out to look for sections where there can still be people but, as it will soon turn out, not all of them are friendly.
Emily is Away
Adventure 20 November 2015
A nostalgic text-based adventure game developed by the independent developer Kyle Seeley. The game calls back to the beginnings of the internet boom and the first instant messengers that made it possible to befriend people online. The objective of the game is to develop an internet friendship with a student named Emily. The gameplay consists of typing commands and selecting dialogue sequences using interface that looks like classic communicators such as AOL Instant Messenger.
Eyes
Adventure 16 February 2013
Eyes is a horror FPP. The player takes on the role of a thief, who has to find treasures hidden in a gloomy residence and escape with this loot. It is not easy, because the interior of the house is haunted and during the game we are still being hunted by a powerful ghostly ghostly spirit.
Facility 47
Adventure 23 November 2015
An adventure game developed by the British Inertia Software studio, classified as a representative of the "escape the room" sub-genre. The game is set in the eponymous Facility 47 - a secret research facility located in the Antarctic. The game's protagonist wakes up in a cell having no clue about neither his own identity nor the actions that led him there. His task is to escape, first the cell, then the facility, and survive.
Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories
Adventure 07 April 2020
Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories is an action adventure game with extensive survival elements developed for PlayStation 4. The game allows you to play as someone trying to survive in a city destroyed by a powerful earthquake.
CodeRed: Agent Sarah's Story
Adventure 12 December 2017
A detective adventure game developed by a Polish studio called LivinThing. In CodeRed: Agent Sarah’s Story a player assumes the role of an FBI special agent and runs an investigation aimed at arresting an incredibly dangerous villain, who is planning to detonate a bomb in New York City. Gameplay mechanics combine an interactive story with management elements, logical puzzles, and minigames such as locating hidden objects. The game also delivers some arcade elements like car chases and shootouts.
MISSING: An Interactive Thriller
Adventure 04 December 2014
An episodic adventure game developed using the FMV technology, regarded obsolete today, but popular in the 1990s. The game was inspired by crime TV series and features two protagonists: detective Lambert, trying to crack a case of mysterious disappearances, and David Newcastle, one of the abducted. The production is an interactive movie, consisting entirely of scenes played by real-life actors, but also features some adventure game mechanics.
Murder
Adventure 21 October 2015
A cyberpunk adventure game from Stranded’s developer, Peter Moorhead. Murder takes us a few decades into the future, to futuristic Tokyo. We play as Motomeru Minori, a female police lieutenant, who investigates a strange and very dangerous case of murder. While she tries to uncover the truth behind this dark mystery, the heroine must question her definition of morality and consciousness.
Unavowed
Adventure 08 August 2018
A thriller adventure game by Wadjet Eye Games. You play as a person, who for the last six months was possessed by a demon using their body to wreak havoc in New York. The protagonist was exorcised by the eponymous organization, which fights dark forces, and decides to join it, having lost their previous life, including their home, family, and friends. During the game, you explore locations, talk to NPCs, gather useful items and solve puzzles.
Antioch: Scarlet Bay
Adventure 25 November 2022
A text adventure game focusing on co-op experience and investigation-related aspects. It was created by Mi-Clos - a French developer. The year is 1983 and the plot is set in the titular Antioch - a fictional town surrounded by sea and mountains. The game follows the adventures of two detectives working on an exceptionally complicated case.
Out There: Chronicles
Adventure 07 July 2016
A mobile adventure game developed by French studio Mi-Clos. The story of Out There: Chronicles is related to the exploration strategy game Out There. The title is not a direct sequel but a rather spin-off. Once again the player travels to the distant galaxy inhabited by various alien species. The main protagonist is a lone human astronaut. Out There: Chronicles expands the player's knowledge player about the universe by, for example, explaining who created the so-called Arcs.
Manual Samuel
Adventure 11 October 2016
An amazingly hilarious adventure game combining elements of the famous Monkey Island series with the crazy Octodad: Dadliest Catch. It was developed by Perfectly Paranormal - an independent game-making studio. The game tells a story of the titular Samuel, who has just died as a result of an accident. In the Afterlife he meets Death, with whom he makes an unusual pact.
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams
Adventure 17 February 2016
A casual adventure game from the hidden object genre, developed for PC and mobiles devices by Gogii Games studio, known for Princess Isabella: A Witch’s Curse. Once again, creators take us to London during the end of 20th century. We play as a young woman, abandoned by her parents as an infant, who suddenly receives a mysterious invitation, promising to let her meet her mother.
Dark Fear
Adventure 13 November 2015
A production combining elements of horror, adventure, and role-playing games developed by the independent studio Arif Games. The player assumes the role of a nameless amnesiac who appeared in a dark, medieval-like land. Our goal is not only to learn his identity but also to solve the mystery surrounding our mysterious presence in the unknown land.
Shadow of Nebula
Adventure canceled
A science fiction point-and-click adventure being a debut project by the Polish studio Bisonia. The action of Shadow Of Nebula takes place in 3102 – after finding an alien spaceship and reverse engineering its technology, humans have created intelligent nanobots. However, the temptation to use them for wrong purposes was too strong, so their creator decided to destroy every document concerning information about nanobots.
Elea
Adventure 06 September 2018
A science fiction adventure game developed by Kyodai. The developers were inspired by the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, and Stanislaw Lem. The player assumes the role of Catherine Jones; the heroine is on a space journey aboard the Pilgrimage II ship when she unexpectedly loses consciousness. Having awakened, she discovers that the vessels is abandoned, while Kazumi, the on-board artificial intelligence, is damaged and trying to take complete control of the ship.