Adventure Video Games
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 Procession to Calvary
9.6 Game Score
Humorous point & click adventure game, referring to the works of Monty Python's group. Its graphic design was developed using fragments of Renaissance artworks. Joe Richardson is responsible for creating The Procession to Calvary.
Happy's Humble Burger Farm
9.6 Game Score
Survival horror FPP, enriched with solutions straight from the restaurant simulator. In Happy's Humble Burger Farm you serve customers, prepare and deliver orders, explore the restaurant's secrets and face the dangers that lurk within.
Ico
9.4 Game Score
A third-person perspective action-adventure game developed by the Japanese developer Team Ico. The story tells about a young boy named Ico who was marked with an eternal curse. Due to that curse, he was born with mysterious horns on his head and, similarly to his predecessors, he is to be taken to a mysterious castle where he is going to be slain. While awaiting death, the boy notices a girl locked in a cage.
Pathologic 2
9.4 Game Score
Remake of a unique horror action adventure game from Ice-Pick Lodge, which originally launched in 2005 for PC. Its new version was created according to the developers’ first concept, which was previously impossible to realize in full, due to technological and financial limitations. Pathologic takes you to a small town, whose citizens suffer from a mysterious disease.
The Touryst
9.4 Game Score
The Tourist is a retro-style adventure game. During the game, the player takes on the role of the title tourist, who visits the corners of the tropical island.
Apocalipsis
9.3 Game Score
A point-and-click adventure game, in which the players follow a man called Harry while he travels through a hostile world searching for his beloved one. Punch Punk Games’ work stands out from similar games thanks to its style, inspired by medieval codes and art of Hans Holbein and Albrecht Dürer.
Pathologic 2: Marble Nest
9.3 Game Score
The first add-on to Pathologic 2 - an action adventure game with elements of survival. Marble Nest's expansion allows you to take control of Daniil Dankovski, a scientist who tries to stop the mysterious epidemic that digests the City on the Gorkhon River.
Gemini Rue
9.2 Game Score
Cyberpunk adventure game with traditional point-n-click interface. The action takes place in the distant future and tells about the overlapping fate of two characters - a former paid killer and a man who is a victim of medical experiments. Graphics and fun mechanisms resemble productions from the early 90s of the last century.
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
9.2 Game Score
A climatic adventure game originally released for iPad in 2011. The mechanics of the game is based on the point-n-click interface, so the game is mainly about searching the locations in order to find clues to help solve puzzles. From time to time, simple combat sequences also occur to add variety to the gameplay.
realMYST: Masterpiece Edition
9.2 Game Score
Prepared to mark the 20th anniversary of the release, a fully re-mastered version of one of the most important adventure games of all time. The authors based on the three-dimensional version of RealMYST from 2000, enriching it with the latest graphic effects and a whole range of improvements and new possibilities.
The Henry Stickmin Collection
9.2 Game Score
The Henry Stickmin Collection is a collection of humorous adventure games from the Newgrounds platform. PuffballsUnited Studio refreshed the five adventures of Henry and added a huge chapter that closes the story, full of references to iconic games and movies.
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
9.2 Game Score
A psychedelic horror visual novel that is a direct sequel to the 2020 game. In Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk we once again play the protagonist of the previous part, struggling with fear and sadness overwhelming her.
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
9.1 Game Score
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a thriller-like adventure game produced by Japanese studio Chunsoft for the Nintendo DS console. The player directs the actions of the participant in a bizarre game in which the stake is to get out of a sinking ship. By solving subsequent riddles and making moral choices, the protagonist tries to discover the truth about other members of the group in which he found himself, and to explain the motives behind the mysterious Zero.
To the Moon
9.1 Game Score
An unusual adventure game developed by an indie developer studio from Canada, Freebird Games. To The Moon lets you play as two scientists working for Sigmund Corp., who offer people a chance to revisit their own memories and change the way they remember how their lives went so they can live out their biggest, unfulfilled dreams. As the two scientists delve into the mind of an ill old man named Johnathan Wyles, whose life dream was to fly to the Moon, the player’s job is to make that happen.
The Blackwell Epiphany
9.1 Game Score
Blackwell Epiphany is a classic point-n-click adventure by the Wadjet Eye Games team. The story tells the story of an investigation into mysterious murders in which supernatural forces are involved. The game consists mainly in exploring the location, conducting conversations and solving riddles.
Her Story
9.1 Game Score
A unique detective game by Sam Barlow, the main designer and writer of Silent Hill: Origins and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Her Story is a rare example of a FMV adventure game — most of the visuals consists of videos of live-action actors. The plot of Her Story focuses on a British woman named Hannah, whose husband went missing in mysterious circumstances. Based on the recordings of her testimonies from 1994, you have to discover the truth behind those events.
Outcast 1.1
9.1 Game Score
An action-adventure game created by the French studio Fresh3D. Outcast 1.1 is a refreshed version of an acclaimed game developed by Appeal and released back in 1999. The player is taken to the mysterious planet Adelpha, inhabited by the civilization of Talan. The player assumes the role of a retired soldier sent there to protect three scientists and find a probe that has turned out to be a threat to the entire Earth.
DARQ
9.1 Game Score
An adventure game, realized in the convention of survival horror, in which we play the role of a boy trapped in a nightmare. While playing at DARQ, we travel through a gloomy home and solve environmental riddles, avoiding direct confrontation with enemies.
Observation
9.1 Game Score
Unusual adventure game, in which we play the artificial intelligence SAM, dealing with the service of the station orbiting the ground. The production was made by No Code studio, and it was released by Devolver Digital company.
Spiritfarer
9.1 Game Score
A hybrid of adventure game, platform game and economic strategy, whose main theme is... dying. In Spiritfarer, the player takes on the role of a girl who, like a mythical Charon, takes the dead to the underworld on her boat. The production was developed by the Canadian independent studio Thunder Lotus Games.
Eliza
9.1 Game Score
A visual novel game developed by Zachtronics. As we play, we follow the story of the heroine working with the Artificial Intelligence known as Eliza; by discovering successive fragments of the feature jigsaw puzzle, we make decisions that will influence the course of the story.
The Neverhood
9.0 Game Score
A unique point-and-click adventure game, developed in cooperation by the creator of Earthworm Jim - Doug TenNapela, DreamWorks Interactive film studio, and Steven Spielberg himself. The Neverhood takes us to a plasticine world, where we control a character named Klaymen. Our hero’s task is to retrieve the crown of his creator and father Hoborg, which, after it was stolen, allowed the thief, Klogg, to take over the world of Neverhood.
System Shock (1994)
9.0 Game Score
A cyberpunk action-adventure FPP game developed by Looking Glass Technologies under the lead of a game video industry veteran, Paul Neurath. You play as an experienced hacker who gets forcefully hospitalized and has a special implant injected into his neural system. After waking up from coma the protagonist discovers that all personnel of the medical station were slaughtered and the compound was taken over by an intelligent computer called Shodan.