Adventure Video Games21
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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HeadLander
7.6 Game Score
A science-fiction side-scrolling platform game developed by studio Double Fine Productions led by Tim Schafer. HeadLander combines the features of the classic video game series Metroid with a few completely new features. During the game, the player assumes the role of a character who wakes up in a trashy world of the future, inhabited only by robots. The protagonist discovers that he consists only of… a head placed in a special helmet equipped with a rocket propulsion system.
ReCore
7.6 Game Score
A science-fiction TPP action game that depicts a vision of mankind’s future and its possible fall. The title is a joint work of Comcept – a studio that co-created MegaMan, founded by Keiji Inafune, an ex-employee of Capcom – and Armature Studio, which hires the creators of the Metroid Prime series. In Recore you play as a girl named Jewel, who is one of the last representatives of the human race.
Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series - Season One
7.6 Game Score
A game by Telltale Games, the studio behind many others similar productions, designed as an episodic adventure game based on the HBO’s popular TV show Game of Thrones - an adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. The game features an original story overlapping with the events presented in the seasons 3-5 of the TV series. This six-part episodic story focuses on the House Forrester, whose members, although missing from the TV show, appeared in the fifth book of the saga.
Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
7.6 Game Score
A classic point-and-click adventure in the atmosphere of Alexander Dumas' novels and films under the sign of a mantle and a sword. We play the role of a certain Geoffroi Le Bruno, who, arriving in Rouen with the intention of joining the ranks of musketeers, is entangled in the murder of Prince William de Peuple and swears to find him and punish the perpetrators.
Rain
7.6 Game Score
A three-dimensional adventure game in which we play the role of a lost invisible boy crossing the streets of a big city bathed in the rain. Players must avoid the mysterious creatures lurking in the backstreets of the metropolis, while at the same time trying to find their way home.
Ico HD
7.6 Game Score
Refreshed edition of the classic PS2 hit with high resolution graphics and 3D gameplay. We play the role of a boy named Ico, who, marked with a mysterious curse, is imprisoned in a mysterious castle. He meets Princess Yorda, who is imprisoned there, and together they start a dangerous fight to get out of the trap.
Downfall
7.5 Game Score
Downfall is a bloody horror adventure with a classic point & click interface. The player directs the actions of Joe Davis, who tries to find his lost wife in a hotel like a nightmare. Due to the dark subject matter and extremely brutal scenes, the game is addressed only to adult audiences.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition
7.5 Game Score
A detective adventure game from the visual novel genre. It was developed by Japan studio Spike Chunsoft. The main protagonist of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Naegi Makoto, is a teenager who starts his education in an elite high school. In contrast to his colleagues, he has no remarkable achievements and he was accepted to the school by winning a lottery.
Slender: The Eight Pages
7.5 Game Score
A free horror film in which we travel through a dark forest and run away from a terrifying creature - Slender Man. The task is to collect 8 pages of the manuscript before the monster reaches us. Not too complicated technically, the game has gained great popularity thanks to its suggestive gameplay.
The Island: Castaway
7.5 Game Score
Action adventure game, whose plot and location refers to the series Lost or Robinson Crusoe adventures. We play the role of a shipwrecked man on a mysterious island, who must ensure the survival of the remaining crew members of the ship destroyed by the tsunami, and at the same time face the riddles hidden in an unknown land.
Moebius: Empire Rising
7.5 Game Score
Classic, two-dimensional point'n'click adventure game created by Jane Jensen - the legendary author of such bestsellers as King's Kuest VI, Gray Matter and Gabriel Knight series. In the game, we play as a simple antiques dealer who finds valuable items on commission from well-paying clients. When his shop is consumed by fire, the protagonist receives a highly lucrative commission to investigate a series of seemingly unrelated events.
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
7.5 Game Score
A continuation of the 2009 hilarious adventure game developed by KING Art Games that tells a story of the search for a powerful magical artifact. The story of the second installment picks up one year after the events shown by its predecessor, allowing the players to control the team of heroes aided by an amiable creature named Critter – one might remember all these characters from the first game.
Call of Cthulhu
7.5 Game Score
Call of Cthulhu is a dark adventure game in a horror setting, based on the works of an American writer, H.P. Lovecraft. The game’s story is based on Lovecraft's fictional universe, first popularized by the, written in 1926 and published 2 years later, short story “Call of Cthulhu”.
2Dark
7.5 Game Score
An unusual survival horror game created by Frederick Raynal and Gloomywood - a French studio. The game offers pixel-art visuals and is played from the classic top-down view. The player takes on the role of a criminologist by the name of Smith, whose wife got murdered and his children were kidnapped by unknown assailants.
Blackwood Crossing
7.5 Game Score
An adventure game developed by PaperSeven. The plot was written by Oliver Reid-Smith (the creator of the script for the well-received The Room), and it focuses on the relations of orphaned siblings: Scarlett and her younger brother, Finn. When the girl enters adolescence, their relations worsen. While traveling on a train, the protagonists meet a mysterious creature that lets them look at their past from a different perspective.
Doki Doki Literature Club
7.5 Game Score
Developed by Team Salvato, Doki Doki Literature Club is an unusual visual novel. You assume the role of a member of a school literature club and meet its other, female members. Soon, however, the plot takes a very interesting twist.
Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius
7.5 Game Score
Adventure allowing you to move to 79 A.D. Our task is to find a lost wife in Pompeii before the explosion of Vesuvius. The game is about exploring the location, conducting conversations, collecting objects and solving riddles. In the Polish version, the voices were lent by Jan Kobuszewski, Wieslaw Golas and Jan Piechocinski, among others.
Kuon
7.5 Game Score
Kuon is a combination of an action game (third person view) with a typical adventure filled with lots of puzzles. The story takes place in the 12th century during the reign of the Heian Dynasty in Japan. The whole thing belongs to the sub-species of survival horror, which offers us limited defensive and offensive means.
Curse: The Eye of Isis
7.5 Game Score
An action adventure game maintained in the horror convention. The plot of the game disappearance about the ancient Egyptian statuette. The action starts in the museum and ends in Egypt itself. The events are shown from the perspective of a third person. The game is mainly about murdering monsters. From time to time we also have to deal with logical riddles.
Grom
7.5 Game Score
A game combining the features of three genres, cRPGs, adventures and action games. It has a rich feature line set in the realities of the Second World War abounding in many fantastic and mystical elements typical for James Bond and Indiana Jones films.
Beneath a Steel Sky
7.5 Game Score
Oldschool adventure game produced in 1994 by Revolution, which has a well-known series of games "Broken Sword".
Kajko i Kokosz w Krainie Borostworow
7.5 Game Score
Kajko i Kokosz w Krainie Borostworów is an adventure game based on a popular comic series. When Hegemon's Robbers pollute the water in the castle well, the title pair of heroes must set off on a challenging journey to the Land of Borostworms to ask for the help of the Lady of Nature. Developers from Seven Stars Multimedia studio took care of humorous dialogues and a clear pro-ecological message of the game.
Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
7.5 Game Score
The third part of an unusual series of adventure games from Sierra. A number of changes have been made to previous parts, including improved graphics and a completely new interface.
The Cursed Crusade
7.5 Game Score
Action game with a third person perspective and historical context. Templar Denz and mercenary Esteban travel across 12th century Europe trying to save their cursed souls from eternal condemnation.