Adventure Video Games71
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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Haunted House: Cryptic Graves
Adventure 25 November 2014
The next installment of the Haunted House series, launched in 1982. The action of the production takes place in the haunted house in the title, and the player plays Ana Graves - a girl with supernormal abilities, who has to expel spirits and monsters from the property.
Silent Hills
Adventure canceled
Another fully-fledged installment of the cult survival cycle of Silent Hill horrors. Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro, led by Hideo Kojima, were involved in the production. As a result of a conflict with the publisher Konami, the project was cancelled shortly after the release of its famous demo version, called P.T.
Fire
Adventure 09 April 2015
A humorous point-and-click adventure game set in the Stone Age, developed by the well-known authors of many successful adventure titles from Daedalic Entertainment studio. We play as somewhat dull-witted caveman named Ungh, who neglected his duty and let the fire of the tribe to die out. To redeem himself, he must find a new source of the precious element and deliver it to his village.
Silence of the Sleep
Adventure 01 October 2014
Original side-scrolling adventure game, maintained in a psychological horror convention and developed entirely by Jesse Makonen from Finland. We play as Jacob Reeves who lost the will to live and decided to commit suicide. This attempt, however, instead of ending his torment, became the beginning of a whole new nightmare.
The Tale of Three
Adventure canceled
Action adventure game with RPG elements, inspired by the works of such writers as Andersen, Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Warsaw-based gameDNA studio is responsible for the creation of the game. It was inspired by both classics like Fable and modern action/RPG productions. In the game we cross the fate of three heroes, who are united by the lust for wealth and fame.
Sylvio
Adventure 05 June 2015
A horror-themed action-adventure game allowing us to assume the role of Juliette Waters, a woman whose occupation is recording the voices of spirits. Interestingly enough, Sylvio is a project of an independent developer, Niklas Swanberg. Our heroine travels to an abandoned amusement park, left to decay after a powerful storm had led to a landslide. It quickly turns out that the spirits living in the park are very vicious, and the whole area is under the influence of a mysterious curse.
Beyond Eyes
Adventure 04 August 2015
An unusual adventure game by tiger & squid, and independent Dutch studio. The protagonist of Beyond Eyes is a ten-year-old girl named Rae who lost her sight in an accident while firing up fireworks. Ever since that day, she spends most of the time in the garden next to her house, accompanied by a cat named Nani. One day, the animal disappears, and Rae decides to leave the house for the first time in a long time to find her lost pet.
Norse Noir: Loki's Exile
Adventure TBA
Norse Noir: Loki's Exile is a traditional adventure game developed by the Kreative Spill team with a point-n-click interface. The action takes place in the United States in the 1920s, but the standard crime story has been enriched here with threads taken from legends and beliefs of Scandinavian peoples.
Vane
Adventure 15 January 2019
An indie adventure game by Friend & Foe, a studio founded by the co-creators of such productions as The Last Guardian, Bionic Commando, Battlefield 3, and Killzone. You play as a boy, who has special abilities, as he explores an extraordinary world and discovers its secrets.
The Devil's Men
Adventure canceled
The Devil's Men is a point-and-click adventure from Daedalic Entertainment (Blackguards, Deponia series). This is a story in the steampunk reality of Victorian England, focusing on Adelaide Spektor, a young woman who tries to escape from life in the criminal underworld and find a long time ago lost father. The game is characterized by a quite original approach to graphic design, placing two-dimensional characters in a three-dimensional environment.
Chromophore: The Two Brothers Directors Cut
Adventure 25 August 2015
A 2D action-adventure game for WiiU, and an enhanced and extended edition of Two Brothers, a game released for PC in 2013. The game's protagonist is Roy Guarder, a scientist, philosopher and inventor, who embarks on an expedition to find the source of all life. When he finds what he was looking for, he almost dies, and on the “other side” he notices beautiful colors unlike those in his monochromatic world. Obsessed with them, he starts to cross the line separating life from death.
Sunset
Adventure 21 May 2015
A unique adventure game from independent studio Tale of Tales, set in 1972 in a fictional South American metropolis. We play as Angela Burnes – a maid hired by a influential business tycoon Gabriel Ortega. Every evening she cleans the millionaire’s house and then snoops around his private things, soon she discovers a wide-scale plot to overthrow the military regime that rules the country. What role will Miss Burnes play in this intrigue depends entirely on player’s actions.
Velvet Sundown
Adventure 22 July 2014
Free, social network game with adventure elements. The action takes place on board a luxury yacht and players play randomly in the 11-person crew. Each character plays an important role in the development of events, performing a number of more or less complex quests.
Subject 13
Adventure 26 May 2015
The game was developed by Microids studio, whose back catalogue includes, among others, the cult adventure game series, Siberia. The protagonist of this game is Franklin Fargo, a PhD of physics kidnapped by a shady organization. The game begins when he wakes up in a mysterious facility, already under the alias of Subject 13. As you might guess, from there on the main task of his is to escape. The gameplay is based on exploration of 3D environments and interaction with its elements.
White Night
Adventure 03 March 2015
A third-person survival horror from the independent French studio OSome, inspired by the Alone in the Dark series. White Night takes place in 1930’s, following a hero trapped in an old family mansion that hides a dark secret of the past. Our main enemy are the dark and mysterious creatures that dwell in it, forcing us to solve many puzzles based on light and dark mechanics.
Stained
Adventure 08 October 2012
Side-scroll 2.5D platformer, enriched with elements of combat and a number of interesting logic puzzles. In the game we play a mysterious, hooded figure with a scythe that travels through the interior of an ancient castle. The windows of the building hide the memory of tragic events from the past, during which the plague of monsters razed to the ground the vibrant kingdom.
Kaptain Brawe 2: A Space Travesty
Adventure canceled
The second part of a nice 2010 point-and-click adventure, whose protagonist is an unlucky captain of space police. This time our protoplasta tries to stop the dangerous temptations of the evil queen from the small planet Zennity Sping, who tries to subjugate the neighboring planet Folderakkiakyu. The game is inspired by genre classics and refers to adventures published by Sierra and LucasArts from the 90s.
Kaptain Brawe: An Unexpected Intermission!
Adventure 01 August 2014
Free mini-adventure game, which is the link between the first and the second installment of the cycle with the unlucky captain Brave. The game was created "after hours" and its main task was to support the collection of money on Kickstarter.
Lucius II: The Prophecy
Adventure 13 February 2015
A sequel to the unusual adventure game developed by Shiver Games in 2012. Once more the player assumes the role of a six year old boy who is in fact the son of Lucifer himself. The story of the game continues the plot of its predecessor. Lucius, the only survivor of a massacre in his family mansion, is moved to a mental hospital in Ludlow city, where, while initially missing his paranormal abilities, he starts another massacre.
Without Memory
Adventure canceled
An action-adventure thriller game created by Dino Games - an independent Russian developer. The game is set in three parallel worlds and decisions made in one affect developments in the other two. The plot is non-linear - the course of events is largely dependent on the player's actions. The creators were inspired mainly by Heavy Rain, thus exploration, puzzle solving and conversations are at the core of this experience; the events are viewed from various cinematic perspectives.
Murder at Mystery Manor
Adventure canceled
An atypical detective adventure for up to eight players in multiplayer gameplay. The action takes us to a residence where murder takes place during a lavish reception. One player takes on the role of a killer, and the remaining players are asked to collect and analyze clues in order to expose and capture the perpetrator.
Crossing the line
Adventure canceled
Crossing the line is a dark FPP shooting game in which the main character solves the death of his wife. Russian studio Zomboko Entertainment used an advanced CryEngine 3 engine to create a convincing and mysterious world.
Coma: Mortuary
Adventure 13 May 2014
First-person adventure game, maintained in the convention of horror and telling the story of a man who decides to commit suicide out of longing after losing his beloved. He manages to survive, but falls into a coma and ends up in a mysterious world of the dead. The character of the game changes gradually as the plot progresses, moving from a calm adventure to a dynamic survival horror.
The Girl and the Robot
Adventure 18 August 2016
This is the debut of Flying Carpet Games - members of the studio that formerly co-created many popular mobile games. The game offers a third-person action-adventure experience offering a story about a girl imprisoned in a castle, built using ancient technology, by an evil queen. However, the protagonist manages to cast off the invisible shackles with the help of a multipurpose robot.