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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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The Chronicles of Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet
The Chronicles of Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet

Adventure 05 October 2011

A casual adventure with hidden objects, produced by the German development studio Daedalic Entertainment. The player's task is to help young William Shakespeare get into a theatre group and complete one of his most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet.

PC

The Novelist
The Novelist

Adventure 10 December 2013

An independent adventure game by Kent Hudson, a former LucasArts employee. In the production we play the role of a ghost who lives in a house where the writer Dan Kaplan and his family move in. The title tells the story of a father who has to work and at the same time wants to devote as much time as possible to his family.

PC

Dying: Sinner Escape
Dying: Sinner Escape

Adventure 25 May 2013

Dying: Sinner Escape is a horror adventure game created by the Nekcom Entertainment development team. The plot focuses on the fate of several characters trapped in reality distorted by supernatural phenomena. The player's task is to help them get out of the trap and explain the meaning of mysterious events.

PSV

Damned
Damned

Adventure 06 October 2014

Original survival horror designed for many players. We play the role of one of the survivors, trying to survive and, at any cost, get out of a haunted hotel, where a bloodthirsty monster hunts us.

PC

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Adventure 15 October 1990

A combination of adventure and classic cRPG, inspired by the cult character of Elvira created by actress Cassandra Petterson. As a hired daredevil, we move to the medieval Killbragant Castle, where we try to free the title Elvira from the hands of the evil queen's spirit, who wants to take revenge on her torturers.

PC

WaxWorks
WaxWorks

Adventure 11 August 1992

WaxWorks is the spiritual heir to Elvira games. We take on the role of one of the twin brothers as we travel through four fantastic worlds in order to obtain the artifacts needed to remove the evil witch's curse and save our brother.

PC

Thanatophobia
Thanatophobia

Adventure canceled

A survival horror game inspired by the classics of the genre, such as the first installments of the Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil or Silent Hill series. Thanatophobia is the first production by Death Kneel Games. The title means “a pathological fear of death.” The protagonist of the game is a former policeman called Sam Dehaven, who wants to take revenge on a fugitive serial killer of children. The official investigation yielded no results and cost Dehaven his career.

PC

Adera
Adera

Adventure 26 October 2012

Adera is a combination of a classic adventure game with hidden object productions. As an adventurous amateur, Jane Sinclair, we embark on an incredible journey to the mysterious city of Adera to explore the secrets of a newly discovered civilization and find our lost grandfather.

PC

Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel
Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel

Adventure TBA

Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel is an isometric action-adventure game by Red Little House, stylistically resembling old black-and-white cartoons. The gameplay features solving puzzles with some arcade-like elements.

PC

Phantasmat
Phantasmat

Adventure 08 February 2011

Phantasmat is a casino adventure with elements of a match-3 logic game. The action takes place in a mysterious hotel "Pod melielcem", and the player plays the role of a young woman, who, after breaking up the car in the remote area, tries to find help. The title was produced by Codeminion studio.

PC

Go to Hell Dave
Go to Hell Dave

Adventure canceled

Developed by Alex Byrom and the independent studio Falchion Games, Go to Hell Dave is a point-n-click adventure title filled with British humor. In the game, you assume the role of a hero who has lived a normal life until he crashes into a street lamp while giving his girlfriend a lift. Once he wakes up at the gates of Hell, he realizes that his girl is gone, Satan is nowhere to be found, and Hell is in total disorder.

PC

Octodad
Octodad

Adventure 01 November 2010

Octodad is an adventure game with elements of arcade, created by a group of students from the Chicago University DePaul. The player plays the role of a caring father, who hides a dark secret from his loved ones.... The head of the family is an octopus. Production is available free of charge.

PC

Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Adventure 30 January 2014

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a sequel to the 2010 Octodad adventure by students from DePaul University. The title character still tries to hide his nature of the octopus, and when the suspicious wife insists on a visit to the oceanarium, the cephalopod is hanging in the air.

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Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall
Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall

Adventure 14 May 2013

28th installment of a series of adventure games about the adventures of detective Nancy Drew. This time with the title character we have to solve the mystery of the mysterious disappearance of a certain Jessalyn Thornton, who disappeared at the party, just before her wedding.

PCANDiOS

Beyond the Legend: Mysteries of Olympus
Beyond the Legend: Mysteries of Olympus

Adventure 25 November 2011

Beyond the Legend: Mysteries of Olympus is a casual adventure with "hidden objects" puzzles, produced by Teyon, a Krakow-based development studio. The player plays the role of Theron, a hunter who fell in love with the goddess Artemis. Heros wants to prove to the ancient gods that he is worthy to take a place among them at Olympus.

PC

Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope
Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope

Adventure 01 June 2012

Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope is a World-LooM produced casual adventure with puzzles like "hidden objects". The hero, led by the player and following in the footsteps of a lost teacher, ends up on Cannon Rock Island, where evil forces try to steal powers from a legendary philosopher's stone.

PCiOS

DreadOut
DreadOut

Adventure 15 May 2014

An action adventure game in the survival horror convention, inspired by the once popular console series Project Zer/Fatal Frame and Asian horror stories. The debut project of the independent Indonesian studio Digital Happiness tells the story of a group of high school students who, during one of their trips, go off the trail and find themselves in a dark, abandoned town inhabited by mysterious forces.

PC

Misja Harolda: Zaginiony w systemie
Misja Harolda: Zaginiony w systemie

Adventure 31 March 1995

Harold's mission: Lost in the system is a humorously-toned adventure with a classic "point & click" interface, created by ART4 studio. The plot depicts the adventures of the title character who was hired by the Pixel people to kill a destructive virus - the System Bandit.

PC

The Franz Kafka Videogame
The Franz Kafka Videogame

Adventure 06 April 2017

A classic point-and-click adventure game by Denis Galanin, the creator of Hamlet or last game without MMORPG elements, shaders, and product placement. The plot of The Franz Kafka Videogame was inspired by the works and life of the eponymous writer. The story, however, is not an exact copy of its literary predecessors, but follows a different plot, in which you can find references to e.g. the novels The Castle and America, as well as the stories The Judgement, The Metamorphosis, and others.

PC

Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery
Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery

Adventure 14 May 2013

Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is a comedy adventure developed by the Lucid Games team. We play the role of a boy staying on a summer colony, who together with a friendly Great Foot must discover the secret of the resort.

PCPSV

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

Adventure 22 November 2013

The next installment of one of the most popular series of games in the history of electronic entertainment. The title is a direct continuation of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from 1991, which was enriched with a new gameplay mechanics, allowing the main character to turn into a two-dimensional wall painting.

3DS

Mr Pancake: How I learned to stop worrying and go back in time
Mr Pancake: How I learned to stop worrying and go back in time

Adventure canceled

Mr Pancake: How I learned to stop worrying and go back in time is an adventure with a classic point & click interface, which is created by the independent Robot Gentleman studio. Players have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the memories of the main character, to discover why he became a sad man and try to correct the mistakes of the past.

PC

Shadow of the Eternals
Shadow of the Eternals

Adventure canceled

Spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness, the acclaimed survival horror movie on the Nintendo Gamecube console. This is a hybrid of adventure and action game in the TPP convention with elements characterizing the genre of horror. The plot tells the story of different characters from different epochs - the action takes place over a period of over 2500 years.

PC

Pulse
Pulse

Adventure 20 October 2015

An innovative action-adventure game that started as a free student project, and the first commercial title of Team Pixel Pi studio. We play as a blind person who uses echolocation to navigate their surroundings. Our hero is able to produce and register noises, using acoustic echo to create a visual reconstruction of the game world, complementing it with his memories of times when he was still able to see.

PC