Adventure Video Games59
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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Agent Walker: Secret Journey
Adventure 30 August 2016
An adventure/hidden object game taking place during World War II, created as a result of cooperation between Brave Giant studio and the distributor Artifex Mundi. The plot of Agent Walker: Secret Journey focuses around a mythical artifact called The Spear of Destiny, which according to certain beliefs has the power to change the course of the war.
Forgotton Anne
Adventure 15 May 2018
A game developed by an indie studio, ThroughLine Games, that combines elements of point-and-click and platform games. In Forgotten Anne the players step into a fantasy world of Forgotten Lands, inhabited by creatures that were created out of abandoned everyday objects. When a rebellion rises, our main heroine, who works as an enforcer, needs to stop the riots and bring back the balance and peace. Her master, Bonku, aids the girl in this quest. The action is presented from a side perspective.
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
Adventure 22 September 2016
An episodic exploration adventure game, created by an independent studio ComonGames. The plot takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity, as a result of multiple, prolonged wars, has become completely extinct. Earth is now a home to simple life forms and AI-controlled robots. In a series of episodes, we assume the role of various machines, the main task of which is to discover the human nature and reasons for the fall of a whole civilization.
Through the Woods
Adventure 27 October 2016
A horror adventure game and the debut production of Antagonist, a Norwegian studio. The action of Through the Woods takes place in modern times in a dark forest somewhere on the western shore of Norway. While playing, we assume the role of a desperate woman named Karen who tries to find her lost son. She is constantly interrupted by various evil creatures inspired by Nordic mythology and Scandinavian folklore.
Lantern
Adventure 15 November 2016
An unusual exploration game developed by Italian studio Storm in a Teacup. The plot of the game focuses on an Asian princess whose tears caused the world around her to lose its colors and start dying. The player assumes the role of a small lantern and is tasked with returning the life and colors to the realm by making everyone remember about the power of love. There are four areas to visit, each with different architecture and environment.
Corona Blossom Vol. 1 Gift From the Galaxy
Adventure 28 July 2016
A classic representative of the visual novel genre. The game was created and published by independent studio Front Wing, creators of ISLAND and the Grisaia series. Corona Blossom Vol. 1 Gift From the Galaxy presents the story of Keiji, a young creator of robots and other machines, who drops out of college, abandoning city life in order to move in with his grandfather, who lives in the countryside.
Layers of Fear: Inheritance
Adventure 02 August 2016
Layers of Fear: Inheritance is a full-scope story-driven DLC for the first-person horror game, Layers of Fear, by Blooper Team. The expansion, called Inheritance, does not introduce any changes in the game’s mechanics, offering instead a brand new story, whose action takes place many years after the story of the original. Players don’t control the painter himself, but his daughter – she learns that after the death of her father, the house now belongs to her.
Kelvin and the Infamous Machine
Adventure 21 July 2016
A two-dimensional, point-and-click adventure game created by Blyts - an independent Argentinean developer. The player takes on the role of a crazy scientist's assistant. As a revenge for laughing at the invention of his life, dr. Edwin Lupin decides to travel back in time and take all the credit for the works of the most famous artists and inventors in the world's history.
Home is Where One Starts...
Adventure 13 May 2015
A short first-person exploration game designed for VR headsets. The title of the game, Home is Where One Starts… comes from the poem Four Quartets by Thomas S. Eliot. The game is a sort of poetic visual story with such themes as childhood, memories, and hope. Interestingly, this is a work of basically one man, who only used the help of his closest family. Home is Where One Starts… tells a story of a teenage girl who leaves her home for school early in the morning, but misses her bus.
Conarium
Adventure 06 June 2017
A psychological horror adventure game. The developers at Zoetrope Interactive were inspired by the works of Howard Philips Lovecraft, especially the novella entitled At the Mountains of Madness. The action of Conarium takes place in the 30s, and the player find himself in Upuaut.
Summer Lesson: Miyamoto Hikari Seven Days Room
Adventure 13 October 2016
A simple adventure game by Bandai Namco Entertainment, developed for PlayStation VR, at first as a technology demo. In Summer Lesson you play as a teacher, who's tutoring two independent heroines. One of them is a Japanese high-schooler who needs help with her English. The other one is an American exchange student, who came to Japan and wants to learn Japanese. You meet her at the porch of a country house.
Grim Legends 3: The Dark City
Adventure 31 May 2016
The third installment in the casual hidden-objects adventure game series, developed by Polish studio Artifex Mundi. You play as Sylwia, an amnesiac acolyte of the monster-hunting Order. When a powerful artifact, containing a malevolent being known as the Nightmare, is stolen from the Order's headquarters, Sylwia and her mentor embark on a quest to find it.
Lovecraft Tales
Adventure canceled
An adventure game with RPG and survival features. It was inspired by the works of Howard Philips Lovecraft. The title was created by Polish studio Crystalvision led by Sewer Hrehorowicz, the co-creator of OddPlanet platform game. Lovecraft Tales takes place in Vermont in New England, in an open world featuring hand-drawn 2D environment. The protagonist must eat, drink and find a safe hideout for the night in order to avoid madness.
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
Adventure 15 January 1998
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time is the last part of Gage Blackwood's adventures and Time Protection Agency. We observe the game again in the first person, and it focuses on exploring the location and solving riddles. In this part of the cycle we find ourselves in Atlantis and El Dorado.
Sons of Uruzime
Adventure 13 May 2015
An adventure gamebook with RPG elements for mobile devices. Sons of Uruzime was inspired by stories by Howard Philips Lovecraft and utilizes many motives from the Cthulhu Mythos. You play as a University of Miskatonic professor, who receives a letter from a missing student. The student warns the professor against a dark cult involving much of the university's staff. The story is shown mostly via text with occasional pictures.
Steampunker
Adventure 01 July 2014
Inspired by the works of fantasy literature classics, Polish point-and-click adventure, maintained in the style of steampunk. We play the role of a simple, unmistakable hero named Vincent, who becomes the last hope of mankind in the fight against alien invasion overnight. The game combines object exploration and search with numerous logical mini-games and arcade elements.
Steamburg
Adventure 02 November 2017
A mobile point-and-click adventure game with logic puzzle and arcade elements, and a sequel to the well-received Steampunker by Polish studio Telehorse. In contrast to its predecessor, payable in full, Steamburg is a freemium app. The game is set in a steampunk universe, in which the Earth has been invaded by an army of robots from outer space. The only hope to defeat them lies in the electrical machines created by a genius scientist, who's also the protagonist.
Tsioque
Adventure 07 November 2018
A 2D point-and-click adventure game inspired by such titles as Dragon’s Lair and the Pajama Sam series. The game was developed by OhNoo Studio (responsible for e.g. Tormentum: Dark Sorrow and Amelia and Terror of the Night) from Poland. You assume the role of a young girl named Tsioque. She is imprisoned in her family’s castle by the Evil Wizard, who cast a powerful spell on it, turning the whole castle into a deadly trap.
The Deer God
Adventure 27 February 2015
The Deer God is an original platform game with roguelike and RPG elements, developed by the independent studio Cinopt Studios in cooperation with Crescent Moon Games. We observe the action from a side-scrolling perspective and play as a hunter who was reborn as a deer. From now on, his most important goal is to survive in a hostile environment. He will also have to do some quests, like growing old, achieving a godlike karma balance, or finding every statuette of knowledge.
RymdResa
Adventure 20 August 2015
A sandbox game developed by Morgondag, a Spanish studio. The player assumes the role of a lone astronaut who searches for a new home in the unwelcoming interplanetary space. At the core of the gameplay lies exploration of space, gathering new materials and technologies, and devising new parts for eight modifiable ships. The protagonist can also be developed — the experience points we gather while playing can be spent on enhancing skills from the extensive skill tree.
Syberia Collection
Adventure 25 June 2015
A set of the first two installments in the popular Syberia series — point-and-click adventure games by Benoit Sokal, originally released in 2002 and 2003. The games' console port, created over 10 years after the original release, does not change the gameplay or visuals much, but it introduces gamepad support. In Siberia, you play as a young lawyer named Kate Walker, who was hired by a toymaking company to finalize formalities regarding a takeover of a factory in a small European town.
Perception
Adventure 30 May 2017
A first-person horror adventure game and the debut project of The Deep End Games studio. In Perception, we play as a blind girl named Cassie, who tries to discover the mystery of a certain mansion, whose visions has been haunting her in her dreams for some time. It turns out that the place is haunted by a ghost, which has been terrorizing the inhabitants of the house, and now it targets Cassie. We explore the dark mansions and look for clues to reveal the dark past of the building.
Corpse of Discovery
Adventure 26 August 2015
A science fiction action adventure game enriched with survival elements. It was developed by Phosphor Games which is mainly known for Nether. While playing, we assume the role of an astronaut who is a member of an organization that explores uncharted regions of space. The protagonist awakens in a base on an alien planet and discovers that his ship was destroyed and his entire equipment scattered around the surrounding areas.
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
Adventure 28 June 2016
An interactive adventure horror game from visual novel genre and a third entry in Zero Escape series, created ChunSoft in cooperation with Aksys Games. It takes place in Martian research facility, ordered to survey reactions of people locked and isolated from the rest of the world. Gameplay doesn’t differ much from that of previous parts of the series and presents fans with well-known characters.