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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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Hakuoki: Stories of Shinsengumi
Hakuoki: Stories of Shinsengumi

Adventure 17 June 2010

Hakuoki: Stories of Shinsengumi is a 2D visual novel adventure game set in 19th century Japan at the dawn of the Meiji Restoration. Players take on the role of a young woman named Chizuru, who is searching for her missing father in Kyoto.

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Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water

Adventure 27 September 2014

The fifth fully-fledged installment of the survival horror series started on PlayStation 2. In the game we play the role of three heroes who come to the area of the mysterious Hikayama Mountain, guided by various personal motives. The game is divided into episodes during which we search for missing persons. An inseparable element of the characters' equipment is a special camera that allows them to exorcise ghosts by taking pictures of them.

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Robinson: The Journey
Robinson: The Journey

Adventure 08 November 2016

A first-person adventure game focused on exploration. The game was developed by the German team at Crytek (famous for the best-selling Crysis series) and designed to support virtual reality technology. The story is set on an unknown distant planet combining tropical flora with prehistoric fauna embodied by powerful dinosaurs. The surface of the planet is littered with remnants of technologically advanced but now extinct civilization.

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Kona
Kona

Adventure 17 March 2017

A first-person adventure game featuring survival elements. It is the first major project of the Canadian Parabole studio. The story is set in the northern regions of the Quebec province, in the 1970s. The game tells the story of a conflict between the owner of the most profitable copper mine in the region - a rich man called W. Hamilton, and the native local community accusing him of devastating sacred sites in search for more profit.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze

Adventure 28 October 2014

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze is a dynamic side-scrolled platformer, created under the license of the animated series Nickelodeon about Warrior Ninja Turtles. While having fun, we travel through New York and Dimension X, fighting and overcoming agility stages. We have at our disposal four different characters of the title Ninja Turtles. The game is the work of the WayForward Technologies studio.

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The Last Night
The Last Night

Adventure 2024

A cyberpunk platformer with adventure elements. Developed by Odd Tales, it's the company's first commercial production, developed from a free title that has won Cyberpunk Jam 2014. The action of The Last Night is set in a futuristic, open city divided into four areas of different appearance and atmosphere, which influences gameplay. You assume the role of a spy hired by private employers who give you such tasks as stealing cars or killing particular people.

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Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure

Adventure 12 October 1994

A revolutionary adventure game from 1994, made by Adeline Software International and published by Electronic Arts. The player becomes a young Quetch called Twinsen, who takes on the tyranny of Funfrock.

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Twinsen's Odyssey
Twinsen's Odyssey

Adventure 04 October 1997

Continuation of Little Big Adventure game from 1995, considered by players as "groundbreaking and cult". This time, players will have a much more extensive storyline than in the previous part and a larger world, where we can move around - generally speaking, a lot more gameplay at the highest level.

PC

KAO the Kangaroo: Round 2
KAO the Kangaroo: Round 2

Adventure 04 November 2003

A continuation of a three-dimensional platformer developed by the Polish studio Tate Multimedia (previously known as X-Ray Interactive). Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 returns to the titular hero, who once again embarks on a demanding journey all around the world to save hundreds of animals that have been abducted by an evil poacher and his band of thugs. The game sees us travel through 20 varied levels in five different worlds filled with difficult obstacles as well as numerous vehicles and objects.

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Syberia
Syberia

Adventure 18 June 2002

An adventure game designed by Benoit Sokal, the famous Belgian comic writer, in cooperation with studio Microids. Syberia is the first chapter of the adventures of Kate Walker, an American lawyer hired by the company that produces automatons – mechanical toys. She is tasked with finishing the formalities related to taking over a factory located in a small city in Europe. The game begins when the protagonist arrives at the factory and learns that its owner, Anna Voralberg, is dead.

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Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle
Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle

Adventure 17 November 2006

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.

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Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines
Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines

Adventure 09 September 2005

An extensive action game with role-playing elements, in which we will also find elements of the sneaking. We go back to the Second World War and play the role of an American pilot, shot down while performing one of the secret missions, who has to get out of the hostile territory at any cost (the game takes place in Germany in 1944).

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Airline 69 II: Krasser's Revenge
Airline 69 II: Krasser's Revenge

Adventure 30 March 2005

Airline 69 II: Krasser's Revenge is a continuation of the work of Red Fire Software's programmers, Airline 69: Return to Casablanca, saturated with eroticism and clumsy German humour.

PC

The Legend of Crystal Valley
The Legend of Crystal Valley

Adventure 13 March 2009

A classic point'n'click adventure game. The plot takes advantage of the often encountered pattern of interweaving the real world with a fantastic land inhabited by unknown species of creatures.

PC

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Adventure 30 September 1996

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a two-dimensional point-and-click adventure with drawn graphics, in which players conduct a private investigation into a mysterious attack. The title opened today's famous series of productions, which set many trends in the genre.

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Grim Fandango (1998)
Grim Fandango (1998)

Adventure 30 November 1998

An excellent adventure game that takes us to the posthumous world, where we play the role of an agent working for death, who solves the mystery of the problems digesting this land. The game consists mainly in conducting conversations, exploring the location and searching for objects and solving puzzles.

PC

Generator Rex: Agent of Providence
Generator Rex: Agent of Providence

Adventure 01 November 2011

An action game in which we play the role of a juvenile Rex. Thanks to the nano-robots in his body, the boy is able to create weapons used to defeat his enemies. The whole is based on the animated series of the Cartoon Network station.

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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006)
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006)

Adventure 23 November 2006

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened studio Frogwares is an adventure-detective game genre. This title is realized in the point & click convention, and the action takes place in the world made entirely in 3D.

PC

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure 11 January 2011

A humorous adventure by the father of the Phoenix Wright series. We play the role of a spirit that must solve the mystery of its own death and stop the perpetrator from murdering more people. The game is about saving potential victims by manipulating inanimate objects on the screen.

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The Rise of the Golden Idol
The Rise of the Golden Idol

Adventure 2024

A point-and-click detective adventure game and a sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. The Rise of the Golden Idol has us solving fifteen investigations and trying to figure out how they're related to the titular Golden Idol.

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Never Alone 2
Never Alone 2

Adventure 2026

PC

The Coma 2B: Catacomb
The Coma 2B: Catacomb

Adventure September 2024

PC

Lazaret
Lazaret

Adventure 20 February 2024

A horror-themed FPP adventure game. Lazaret takes place on board of the MTS Endurance ship that got lost four years ago and sent out an SOS message after its reappearance. A rescue mission quickly turns into a fight for survival against dark forces and humanoid monsters.

PC

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley

Adventure 2024 (early access since 13 October 2023)

An adventure game with dark comedy and horror elements. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley has us control a pair of siblings - Ashley and Andrew Graves. The main characters perform acts of cannibalism and other crimes, trying to survive and to control dark powers.

PC