Adventure Video Games12
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 Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
8.2 Game Score
A position that combines elements of adventures and action games. It was created based on a film of the same title made jointly by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media.
Mini Ninjas
8.2 Game Score
An action fighting game. The players assume the role of a young ninja named Hiro who together with his friends is tasked with banishing evil from the virtual world. The game features simple RPG mechanics. During the adventure, the protagonist and his friends are constantly improving their skills.
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
8.2 Game Score
Another installment in the highly-rated action adventure game franchise following on the eponymous Prince, who in the past carelessly unsealed the mythical sands of time. After events of the previous part of the game, the protagonist return to his home – Babylon – plunged in the chaos of war. Soon it turns out that the previous actions of the hero led to the birth of his dark alter ego, whose spirit gradually takes over control over the protagonist's will.
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
8.2 Game Score
Action adventure game with a third person perspective. The player becomes a heroic archaeologist and this time he has to find a powerful ancient artifact, a black pearl called the Dragon's Heart.
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
8.2 Game Score
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge is a remake of a cult adventure story prepared by LucasArts and originally published in 1991. The player directs the actions of pirate Guybrusha Threepwood, who sets out to look for a legendary treasure. The creators remained faithful to the story of the original, enriching the game with a modern audio-visual setting.
Bionicle: The Game
8.2 Game Score
Three-dimensional adventure game, containing a large number of fast-paced action and logical elements, referring to the best-selling series of plastic toys by Lego called Bionicle.
Sam & Max Hit the Road
8.2 Game Score
One of the best and funniest LucasArts adventure games, based on characters created by Steve Purcell. Sam and Max are a pair of detectives, always acting against generally accepted social norms and professing orthodox methods of investigative work.
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist
8.2 Game Score
A humorous action adventure game and the debut title from Crows Crows Crows. The action of Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist takes place in Europe during a hot summer that made history as a result of a series of thefts of some of the most valuable works of art. The players assume the role of a thief that committed those crimes and his next target is a vault in a highly-secured manor full of valuables.
Astroneer
8.2 Game Score
A sandbox game by System Era Softworks. Astroneer is set in the 25th century, when the civilization on Earth has developed enough for interstellar travel to become an everyday occurrence. It resulted in a certain kind of gold fever — people started to explore other planets on their own, driven by the desire of getting rich quick. The open world of the game is procedurally generated, and the surfaces of planets and moons are made of voxels.
The Stanley Parable
8.2 Game Score
Original adventure game, which is an improved commercial version of Half-Life 2 modification released in 2011. Responsible for its creation is Galactic Cafe independent studio, founded by the creators of the original mod. We play as title Stanley - employee of big corporation whose task is to execute commands that appear on the computer screen.
Outlast: Whistleblower
8.2 Game Score
The first official DLC add-on to the bestselling survival horror Outlast from the same developer, Red Barrels studio. It takes place before the events shown in the main game. Players take role of one of the employees of Mount Massive asylum, a facility that secretly conducts human experiments. Discovering the terrifying truth, responsible for which is the Murkoff corporation, he decides to sent an anonymous denunciation that ends up in hands of Miles Upshur, the protagonist of the basic game.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 - Revelations
8.2 Game Score
An extensive DLC for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 - a third-person hack and slash game. The expansion enriches the plot of the core game with a new thread. Interestingly, the Revelations DLC puts the player in the shoes of a different character, which is the main feature here. The player assumes the role of Alucard - a vampire son of Count Dracula, known under the name Trevor Belmont before turning into a bloodsucker.
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
8.2 Game Score
The fifth installment of a classic series of point and click adventure games whose origins can be traced back to 1996. The player travels around the planet while leading a pair of heroes that solve the puzzles of old. The game was developed thanks to a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter.
Until Dawn (2015)
8.1 Game Score
A horror adventure game designed specially for PlayStation Move controller. This title was developed by the British studio Supermassive Games who previously created Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs and Start the Party!. The game’s story is inspired of B-class horror films. Horror fans will easily notice numerous references to their favorite film genre when it comes to dialogues and typical plot twists.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
8.1 Game Score
Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a life simulator in which we play the role of a resident of a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. In this environment we can undertake various works, get to know the stories of other characters, explore the surroundings and influence the environment. One of the novelties in this part of the series is the option of becoming a mayor.
Torin's Passage
8.1 Game Score
A fairy tale point and click adventure created by Al Lowe, the creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series. We play the role of a young man Torin, who sets out to rescue his parents kidnapped by the evil sorceress Lycentia. In order to do so, we travel through vast, underground lands full of extraordinary heroes and puzzles.
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
8.1 Game Score
A sequel the spin-off game from from the classic horror series Resident Evil, originally developed for 3DS and then brought to PC and seventh generation of consoles. Its story is set between the events of the fifth and sixth main entry in the series, featuring Claire Redfield and Moira Burton, the daughter of one of the side characters in Resident Evil, as main protagonists. After they were kidnapped, they find themselves abandoned in a facility on a gloomy, desolate island.
That Dragon, Cancer
8.1 Game Score
An extraordinary, story-driven adventure game with point-and-click interface, developed by Numinous Games and crowdfunded by fans via Kickstarter. The story of That Dragon, Cancer is based on true events from the life of Ryan and Amy Green – the game’s developers. It tells of a married couple whose child is dying with cancer with only a couple of months of life left.
Devotion
8.1 Game Score
First person adventure game with elements of survival horror. Devotion takes place in Taiwan in the 1980s. The game presents a story inspired by Far Eastern beliefs and folklore. The Taiwanese Red Candle Games studio is responsible for its creation.
Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
8.1 Game Score
The first part of one of the most interesting, but also the most underestimated series of adventures signed with the Sierra On-Line logo. Lori Ann Cole, the main initiator of the project, decided to make the classic convention more attractive by adding elements close to the RPG genre.
Peter Jackson's King Kong
8.1 Game Score
King Kong is an action adventure game based on the "remake" of a film under the same title, directed by Peter Jackson (including the Lord of the Rings trilogy). The player will play the role of Jack Driscoll, a scientist, who together with a team of faithful companions ends up on a fantastic island....
Sam & Max: Season 3 - The Devil's Playhouse
8.1 Game Score
Sam & Max: Season 3 - The Devil's Playhouse is a continuation of a series of adventures created by Telltale Games. The plot of the game revolves around the theme of the paranormal abilities that one of the title characters has discovered in himself and which draw the attention of the galactic gorilla Skunk'apa. The game abounds in puzzles, searching for various objects and conversations with independent heroes. The whole is maintained in a humorous, cartoon convention.
Blade Runner
8.1 Game Score
An adventure game with a view from a third person's perspective, loosely referring to the novel "Are androids dreaming about electric sheep". Philip K. Dick and the film "Blade Runner". Detective Ray McCoy tries to discover the identity of a group of replicants suspected of killing animals.
Silent Hill Origins
8.1 Game Score
Silent Hill Origins is the precursor to the first installment of the famous horror series. The main character of the game is the truck driver Travis Grady, who is imprisoned in the title town, full of nightmares.