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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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OD: A Hideo Kojima Game
OD: A Hideo Kojima Game

Adventure TBA

A unique production co-created by Kojima Productions and Xbox Game Studios. OD utilizes cloud technology and the Unreal Engine 5 engine to create a "new medium", blurring the line between a video game and a movie.

PCXSX

The Casting of Frank Stone
The Casting of Frank Stone

Adventure 2024

The Casting of Frank Stone is a horror adventure game set in the universe of Dead by Daylight. It tells the story of a group of friends, learning the secrets of the town of Cedar Hills and the titular Frank Stone.

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Spirit of the North 2
Spirit of the North 2

Adventure 2024

The second installment in a series of third-person adventure games. Spirit of the North 2 has us playing as a fox, traversing an open fantasy world, trying to free the legendary guardians captured by a dark shaman.

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Slay the Princess
Slay the Princess

Adventure 23 October 2023

Slay the Princess is an expansive visual novel adventure game by the creators of Scarlet Hollow. The story is simple: slay the princess, save the world. At least, that's what the Narrator tells us.

PC

The Sinking City 2
The Sinking City 2

Adventure 2025

The second part of the action TPP series, with additional RPG, detective and survival horror elements. The Sinking City 2 takes inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft's work and this time we visit an American town called Arkham, having to deal with various supernatural creatures.

PCPS5XSX

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

Adventure October 2024 (early access since 13 October 2023)

An adventure game with dark comedy and horror elements. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley has us control a pair of siblings - Ashley and Andrew Graves. The main characters perform acts of cannibalism and other crimes, trying to survive and to control dark powers.

PC

Beholder: Conductor
Beholder: Conductor

Adventure TBA

A spin-off of the series of adventure games, in which we end up in a dystopian orwellian world. In Beholder: Conductor our tasks include checking the passengers of the luxurious Determination Bringer train and reporting all irregularities to the Ministry.

PC

Shanghai Summer
Shanghai Summer

Adventure 07 February 2024

A narrative adventure game in which we go back to Shanghai from the year 2003. Shanghai Summer has us play as a young man who must deals with his past - his hopes and regrets, as well with various interactions and relations with other people from his environment.

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Ankh: The Tales of Mystery
Ankh: The Tales of Mystery

Adventure 04 November 2005

Ankh: The Tales of Mystery is an adventure adventure equipped with a classic point-and-click interface and set in the realities of the ancient Egyptian state of pharaohs.

PCNDS

Cursed Mountain
Cursed Mountain

Adventure 25 August 2009

Cursed Mountain is a survival-horror adventure game with a third person view. The player takes on the role of a mountaineer, who sets off to the Himalayas to find his brother lost in mysterious circumstances. Developers from the Sproing Interactive Media studio took care of, among other things, a captivating plot and nice graphics.

PCWii

CSI: Deadly Intent
CSI: Deadly Intent

Adventure 20 October 2009

An adventure game based on themes from the 9th season of the American series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. As a detective criminologist, we examine places and evidence of crime, as well as analyze collected materials. We also take part in hearings of suspects. New characters known from the series appear in the game: Ray Langstone and Riley Adams. As in previous editions we have 5 different issues to solve.

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A New Beginning
A New Beginning

Adventure 08 October 2010

A New Beginning is a representative of the classic adventure genre, in the full sense of the word, tempting the player with hand-painted backgrounds and riddles forcing grey cells to increase their effort.

PCiOSWiiNDS

Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files: Tunguska

Adventure 01 September 2006

A classic, two-dimensional point-and-click adventure game developed by German studio Fusionsphere Systems. The story of the game is closely related to the famous Tunguska event which occurred in 1908 and which to this day was never fully explained. There are a few theories explaining what occurred there and some of them are quite unusual. The main protagonist of the game is Nina Kalenkov, a Russian girl living in Germany.

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Happy Feet
Happy Feet

Adventure 14 November 2006

Happy Feet is a computer game which is an adaptation of a funny animated film of the same name. The programme belongs to the genre of action/adventure, so it combines adventure elements with a family, musical action game, firmly based, of course, on the screenplay of the original film.

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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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Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle
Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle

Adventure 17 November 2006

The second part of an excellent adventure game prepared by Spanish Pendulo Studios. Just like in the previous one, here we meet two main characters: the extremely sexy Gina and the student Brian.

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Sam & Max: Season 1
Sam & Max: Season 1

Adventure 01 August 2007

Sam & Max: Season 1 is the first of the episodic adventures of the title characters. Crazy policemen are entangled in a series of unusual intrigues, and the player is supposed to help them solve criminal riddles. Developers from Telltale Games studio took care of cartoon visual setting and humorous plot of the game.

PCX360Wii

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2 - Dark Motives
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2 - Dark Motives

Adventure 24 March 2004

The second part of the adventure game based on the popular in the United States crime series CSI: Crime Scene, about the work of federal agents who are members of the CSI branch in Las Vegas.

PCNDS

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy

Adventure 02 November 2002

Adventure of the Ukrainian band Frogwares. We play the role of the most famous detective of all time, Holmes, who this time was asked by Elisabeth Montcalfe to explain the mysterious disappearance of her father. The game is about exploring the location, collecting evidence and solving riddles.

PCNDS

Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter
Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter

Adventure 20 June 2003

Combination of dynamic action/FPS game, comic ship pilot simulator and adventure game. The player as the title character, Mace Griffin, must discover the reason why his comrades in arms were betrayed.

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Syberia II
Syberia II

Adventure 29 March 2004

A sequel to the excellent adventure game created by Benoit Sokal and studio Microids. Syberia II continues the plot of the first installment - it presents the further adventures of Kate Walker, an American lawyer. Her intention of finalizing a contract led her to the adventure of her life. The game starts in the same place where the first Syberia ended – in the Russian city Romansburg.

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Ugo Volt
Ugo Volt

Adventure canceled

Ugo Volt studio Move Interactive is an action game combining elements of shooters, brawls and adventures, in which we see the actions of the characters from the perspective of the first or third person.

PCX360

Resident Evil Zero
Resident Evil Zero

Adventure 12 November 2002

A side entry in the classic survival horror series from Capcom; originally developed exclusively for Nintendo GameCube console, but later released for Nintendo Wii (under the name Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero). Story-wise, it is a prequel to the entire series, telling about the special force unit S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team, which has been sent to Raccoon City, but never reached it.

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Twinsen's Odyssey
Twinsen's Odyssey

Adventure 04 October 1997

Continuation of Little Big Adventure game from 1995, considered by players as "groundbreaking and cult". This time, players will have a much more extensive storyline than in the previous part and a larger world, where we can move around - generally speaking, a lot more gameplay at the highest level.

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