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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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Boyz Don't Cry
Boyz Don't Cry

Adventure 30 March 2005

"Boys Don't Cry" is an adventure game created in the old style (hand painted, two-dimensional graphics), entirely based on Olaf Lubaszenko's cinema hit from years ago, with the same title. Producer, Polish studio L'Art (known from "Ski Jumping" published in the series "Dobra Gra") boldly refers here to the well-known cycle of adventure games Lucas Arts and Sierra (among others "Larry 7").

PC

Universe
Universe

Adventure 20 October 1994

In Universe, the fiction scene adventure developed by Core Design, the player will play the role of Boris Verne, a talented computer scientist. Our hero's life changes dramatically when he visits his uncle, an eccentric scientist working on various strange devices. One of them is an energy transformer, which mistakenly takes Boris to an alien, fantastic world.

PC

Innocent Until Caught
Innocent Until Caught

Adventure 11 February 1993

Innocent Until Caught is a humorous adventure set in a science fiction atmosphere. The player will play the role of the thief Jacek T. Ladd, who is full of crazy adventures but also not very ethical activities in different parts of the galaxy.

PC

Guilty
Guilty

Adventure 21 September 1995

Guilty is the official continuation of Innocent Until Caught, a science fiction adventure game about the adventures of an intergalactic thief, Jacek T. Ladd. This time our hero is captured by star police officer Ysanne Andropath and placed in a cell during an unsuccessful attempted armed robbery.

PC

Riven: The Sequel to Myst
Riven: The Sequel to Myst

Adventure 23 March 1997

Riven: The Sequel to Myst is a direct continuation of the well-known adventure game. Atrus, the central character of the first installment of the program, asks the player to find his wife Catherina, who has been imprisoned in the foreign world, the title Riven.

PCiOS

Sinbad: In search of Magic Ginger
Sinbad: In search of Magic Ginger

Adventure canceled

Sinbad: In search of Magic Ginger is an adventure game produced for the youngest fans of this genre by Dereza Production Studio. The publisher of the game is Games Factory Interactive.

PC

Conspiracies II: Lethal Networks
Conspiracies II: Lethal Networks

Adventure 10 March 2011

Conspiracies II: Lethal Networks is an unusual adventure game, created by Greek development studio Anima Interactive and using quite original technological solutions.

PC

Gabriel Knight: The Sins of the Fathers
Gabriel Knight: The Sins of the Fathers

Adventure 14 September 1993

An adventure game inspired by the work of the well-known horror author Jane Jensen. The plot of the game is 10 days from the life of Gabriel Knight, the owner of a bookstore in New Orleans, interested in unexplained and supernatural stories.

PC

Conspiracies
Conspiracies

Adventure 30 October 2003

An adventure game, in the classic sense of the word, created by the little-known development studio Anima Interactive. The protagonist of this production is a private detective Nick Delios, who gets involved in a mysterious criminal case reaching the highest levels of power.

PC

Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter
Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter

Adventure 19 November 1987

The first part of a great series started by Sierra in 1987. It was established in the first phase of the formation of the company and is an old school adventure in the full sense of the word.

PC

Agon: The Mysterious Codex
Agon: The Mysterious Codex

Adventure 16 November 2006

Agon: The Mysterious Codex is a package consisting of the first three episodes (The Pirates of Madagascar, Adventures in Lapland and The London Scene) of the adventure game called Agon.

PC

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender

Adventure 13 April 1992

An adventure game in which you play the role of Rex Nebular, a man who, performing the task of finding a vase, hits a planet inhabited only by women.

PC

Sam & Max: Season 1 – Abe Lincoln Must Die!
Sam & Max: Season 1 – Abe Lincoln Must Die!

Adventure 22 February 2007

Sam & Max: Season 1 - Abe Lincoln Must Die! is the fourth part of a six-part series of humorous adventure games about the adventures of a rather unusual pair of detectives: a dog - Sam and a rabbit with sadistic tendencies - Max. The characters themselves, as well as the sense of humour that characterizes the game, are modelled on the comic books created by Steve Purcell.

PC

Rhiannon: Beyond the Mabinogion
Rhiannon: Beyond the Mabinogion

Adventure 05 October 2008

Rhiannon: Beyond the Mabinogion is an adventure game developed by Arberth Studios. Her story is strongly based on Welsh tales and legends, which were included in the collection entitled Mabinogion - with particular emphasis on the stories from the series Four Branches. The production will surely be of interest to lovers of Celtic culture.

PC

Undercover: Dual Motives
Undercover: Dual Motives

Adventure 24 August 2007

Undercover: Dual Motives is an adventure that is the prequel to the PC game Undercover: Operation Wintersun. This product has been developed exclusively for the Nintendo DS pocket-sized platform and also enables us to direct John Russel's actions - physics and spy at the same time.

NDS

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Adventure 27 August 2007

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is the third installment of the popular intergalactic award hunter Samus Aran. However, unlike the previous two editions, prepared with GameCube in mind, this time the authors of the game, Retro Studios, prepared it for the next Nintendo platform, Wii.

Wii

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull
Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

Adventure 12 October 2007

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Scull is another part of the popular and extremely "prolific" series (with 17 scenes) of adventures of the young lady detective, Nancy Drew.

PC

Sam & Max: Season 2 - Ice Station Santa
Sam & Max: Season 2 - Ice Station Santa

Adventure 08 November 2007

The first episode of the second season of Sam's adventures and his crazy rabbit companion Max. The main characters set out for the North Pole in an attempt to prevent the Christmas crisis.

PC

Until I'm Gone
Until I'm Gone

Adventure canceled

Until I'm Gone it makes available for free an adventure game with a point'n'click interface produced by the Czech studio Faraway. Players direct the actions of the hero, who due to a snow blizzard is forced to stay overnight in a hotel in the remote area. The creators were inspired by the film "Lsnienie" ("Shining"), trying to create in the game full of riddles the atmosphere of horror, which is emphasized by the soundtrack composed by Rafal Kuczynski.

PC

Nancy Drew and the Deadly Secret of Olde World Park
Nancy Drew and the Deadly Secret of Olde World Park

Adventure 18 September 2007

Nancy Drew and the Deadly Secret of Olde World Park is the first adventure game created for the Nintendo DS portable console, which refers to the very popular in the United States series of games with the titled Miss Detective in the lead role.

NDS

Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood
Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood

Adventure 15 July 2000

Based on a paper version of the feature game Arcatera takes us to the city of Senor in the deep Kandt Forest, where our team has to solve dark secrets.

PC

Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold
Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold

Adventure 01 December 1999

A young hunter, the Little Snake, gets entangled in a dangerous game about the fate of the Aztec empire, full of intrigue. As a witness to the murder, he must prove his innocence and prevent the danger that has hung over the entire ancient civilisation.

PC

Evidence: The Last Ritual
Evidence: The Last Ritual

Adventure 21 September 2006

Evidence: The Last Ritual by French studio Lexis Numerique is a game that is a mixture of a detective adventure and a thriller. The title is a sequel issued by Ubisoft In memorium/Missing since January. For the second time we have to face the serial murderer Phoenix.

PC

Runaway: A Road Adventure
Runaway: A Road Adventure

Adventure 05 March 2001

Runaway: A Road Adventure is a classic adventure game produced by the genre's specialist studio Pendulo. The player directs the actions of a young physicist, who is entangled in a dangerous crime intrigue. The creators took care of a large number of puzzles to solve and eye-catching cartoon visual setting.

PCiOS