Adventure Video Games6
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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Fallen London
8.6 Game Score
Fallen London is an adventure game with RPG elements that focuses on the narrative aspect. While having fun, we explore the bizarre London from an alternative version of the Victorian era and take part in stories whose course is shaped by our own decisions.
In Verbis Virtus
8.6 Game Score
A unique FPP action-adventure game, in which you have to speak the words of spells in the ancient language of the Maha'ki gods, using a microphone. In Verbis Vitus is set in a fantasy realm. You play as a beginner mage, who, in search for an ancient power, finds a lost temple. At first the protagonist is completely harmless and to survive they have to look for ancient texts containing magical formulas.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
8.6 Game Score
The next installment of one of the most popular series of games in the history of electronic entertainment. The title is a direct continuation of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from 1991, which was enriched with a new gameplay mechanics, allowing the main character to turn into a two-dimensional wall painting.
The Cat Lady
8.6 Game Score
The Cat Lady is an adventure game created by Harvester Games team. The game consists mainly in exploring the location, collecting objects, conducting conversations and solving riddles. The whole is intended exclusively for adult audiences, because of the brutality of the story and the nudity and vulgarisms that appear in it.
Clock Tower (1996)
8.6 Game Score
Clock Tower is the sequel to 1995's Japan-only survival horror. One of the game's most important features is its dark, depressing story, widely considered one of the scariest narratives in the history of video games.
Betrayal At Club Low
8.5 Game Score
Betrayal At Club Low is a surreal genre cocktail that combines adventure and RPG elements. While playing, we have to explore locations and solve puzzles, but most of them require testing the hero's stats, which we can develop.
Chinatown Detective Agency
8.5 Game Score
An extensive adventure game in which we find ourselves in the cyberpunk version of Singapore. In Chinatown Detective Agency we conduct various investigations throwing us into different corners of the world, and we develop the title detective agency.
The Medium
8.5 Game Score
The Medium is a horror in which we play the role of a woman who can see ghosts and tries to solve the mystery of the murder of a child. The game is another work of the talented Krakow Bloober Team.
Ecstatica II
8.5 Game Score
Continuation of the action adventure game, which can be treated as Psygnosis's response to the Alone in the Dark series. Like the cult trilogy of Infogrames, the second Ecstatica is a bloody and brutal story about man's struggle against the world's greatest atrocities.
Shelter
8.5 Game Score
An original action adventure game with survival elements, developed by Might and Delight. The player controls a female badger trying to survive in a hostile environment with several offspring to feed. Shelter is a third-person perspective game. The player's mission is to find an appropriate den and ensure the safety of the badger family. The player has to provide basic living conditions for the small badgers.
The Pillars of the Earth
8.5 Game Score
An adventure game from Daedalic Entertainment, based on a popular history novel written by Ken Follet, entitled The Pillars of the Earth. The game of the same title is set in the 12th-century, in the tumultuous period known as the Anarchy. After the sudden death of king Henry I and the only heir to the throne having been killed in the crash of the White Ship, England gets consumed in a violent war of succession.
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma
8.5 Game Score
An interactive adventure horror game from visual novel genre and a third entry in Zero Escape series, created ChunSoft in cooperation with Aksys Games. It takes place in Martian research facility, ordered to survey reactions of people locked and isolated from the rest of the world. Gameplay doesn’t differ much from that of previous parts of the series and presents fans with well-known characters.
SOMA
8.5 Game Score
A science fiction horror adventure game created by Frictional Games, Swedish studio known for such titles as Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the Penumbra series. The game is set in a top-secret research center PATHOS-2, where a series of failed experiments resulted in human-like machines killing off most of the staff and taking over the facility. You play as one of the survivors, who has to safely evade the hostile, machine infested environment.
The Beginner's Guide
8.5 Game Score
An original narrative-driver production developed by the independent studio Everything Unlimited. It is another creation of Davey Wreden, the designer of the popular The Stanley Parable. The game focuses on the story of a complicated relation with a friend known as Coda. He is also a video game developer, and we get to browse the rich library of 134 titles he created.
Ultimate Custom Night
8.5 Game Score
A survival horror created by Scott Cawthon. The game is part of the very popular series Five Nights at Freddy’s. The players assume the role of a guard who uses cameras, automatic doors and various gadgets to survive in a building filled with evil animatronics. The game is exceptional because it combines the features of all the previous entries in the series. This means that, during the game, the players can face 50 iconic opponents.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted
8.5 Game Score
A collection of mini-games, prepared with virtual reality technology in mind, reproducing various types of activities and cult scenes known from the Five Nights at Freddy's series. The production was developed by the developer Steel Wool Studios and released by ScottGames.
Zarya-1
8.5 Game Score
A text adventure maintained in the convention of horror science fiction. Players direct the actions of four astronauts sent to the Moon to investigate the source of the disturbing signal that reached Earth in 2021. During the game we get acquainted with the text messages sent by our charges (from time to time enriched with graphics stylized on photographs) and we make decisions that lead us to one of the several endings.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
8.5 Game Score
Set in a dark world, an action adventure game with a view of TPP, in which the banished vampire Raziel realizes a plan of revenge on his former ruler. Successful production combines action sequences with logical challenges.
Myst III: Exile
8.5 Game Score
Myst III: Exile is the third part of the highly acclaimed adventure game series, which dates back to 1995. This time the axis of the plot is the revenge Saavedro wants to make on Atrus and his sons. The player takes on the role of an unnamed hero who tries to thwart the villain's plans. Developers from Presto studio took care of properly complicated riddles and implemented a new graphical engine allowing to generate 3D image.
Alan Wake
8.5 Game Score
A psychological horror third-person action game inspired by the works of Stephen King. It was developed by Remedy Entertainment, the creators of the Max Payne series. The game’s protagonist is an author of widely-read novels who decides to go on vacation to the remote town of Bright Falls in hope of overcoming his writer’s block. After just a few days, Alan’s wife goes missing in unexplained circumstances and the writer sets out to find her.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
8.5 Game Score
Sequel a well-known action game with a little different title Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain. Again we play the role of a vampire named Raziel, who, still in the pursuit of revenge on his former lord Cain, moves in time to the past and continues his crusade there.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
8.5 Game Score
The second part of a great adventure game, The Longest Journey, which was realized and released in 2000 by Funcom. Its action was set in the same realities as we had the opportunity to stay in the original The Longest Journey, i.e. compilation of fantasy and science fiction.
Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle
8.5 Game Score
The second part of an excellent adventure game prepared by Spanish Pendulo Studios. Just like in the previous one, here we meet two main characters: the extremely sexy Gina and the student Brian.
Uru: The Path of the Shell
8.5 Game Score
Second and last addition to the game "URU: Ages Beyond Myst", which is its extension and is designed to uncover the secrets associated with the future of D'ni civilisation.