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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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Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story
Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story

Adventure 01 March 2011

Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story is a horror-style casual adventure. The title was produced by Alawar Entertainment, a company specializing in this type of games. The player directs the actions of a woman who sets off to rescue her husband kidnapped by a psychopathic murderer. The game combines puzzles such as "hidden objects" and puzzles in the form of logical mini-games.

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Chaos;Head Noah
Chaos;Head Noah

Adventure 25 April 2008

A Japanese adventure game that belongs to the visual novel genre. Players have the opportunity to play the role of a private high school student from Tokyo, who gets involved in the case of brutal serial murders. Events taking place before his eyes affect his perception of reality and push him onto the path of madness and paranoia.

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Memoria
Memoria

Adventure 30 August 2013

Memoria is a classic point and click adventure created by Daedalic Entertainment studio. The game is the spiritual successor to The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav and tells the story of a young boy Geron, who tries to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Princess Sadji.

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9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek
9 Clues: The Secret of Serpent Creek

Adventure 18 July 2013

A casual adventure with hidden objects and logical puzzles. The action of the title takes place in the 1950s. The player takes on the role of a detective specializing in paranormal investigations, who, at the request of a friend, comes to Serpent Creek, a town hiding dark secrets. The title was produced by Tap It Games studio.

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Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Adventure 25 June 2014

Valiant Hears: The Great War is an original action-adventure game that takes place during the World War I. It was developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, creators of best-selling platform games Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. The game's plot is based on authentic letters from the WW1 period and tells the story of five heroes who were were brought together by the war and... a good-willed dog that can influence the fate of people.

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Ark of Time
Ark of Time

Adventure 28 February 1997

A point-and-click adventure. We direct the actions of Richard Kendall, a journalist who unexpectedly gets a chance to report on his life. He is to find the British researcher and archaeologist Caldwell, whose expedition has disappeared in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle. Travellers supposedly tried to find the ruins of the mysterious Atlantis.

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Hiveswap
Hiveswap

Adventure 14 September 2017

Hiveswap is an adventure game based on the popular webcomic Homestuck. It was financed though a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, gathering almost 2.5 million dollars. Initially, the game was to be developed by two studios: What Pumpkin, founded by Andrew Hussie, the creator of the original comic, and Odd Gentlemen. The latter, however, abandoned the production to work on the episodic reboot of the King's Quest series together with Activision. Hussie calls Hiveswap an adventure game parody.

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White Day 2: Swan Song
White Day 2: Swan Song

Adventure canceled

Second part of White Day series initiated in 2001 with survival horror of the same name. After several years, the title received a remake entitled White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, and just before its debut on PC and PlayStation 4, White Day 2: Swan Song was revealed. The game is not a direct continuation, but a prequel, the action of which takes place six years before the events shown in the original. Players learn the fate of students trapped in a haunted school at night.

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Not Tonight
Not Tonight

Adventure 17 August 2018

An adventure game set in the grim vision of post-Brexit Great Britain. We play as a European who waits for deportation from The British Islands while trying to earn for living as a bouncer in clubs and on festivals.

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OverBlood 2
OverBlood 2

Adventure 23 July 1998

The second part of the series created by Riverhillsoft studio - in contrast to the first part of the series, we are not dealing with survival horror, but with an adventure game emphasizing the exploration of futuristic locations and solving riddles.

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Paranoid
Paranoid

Adventure 15 December 2023

Paranoid is the second production of Madmind studio in Bydgoszcz, known from Agony. The title is a survival horror and offers a brutal gameplay, suitable only for an adult audience. We play the role of a mentally ill man who receives a message from his missing sister.

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The Blind Prophet
The Blind Prophet

Adventure 05 February 2020

A point-and-click adventure in which we play Bartholomeus, one of the twelve apostles trying to maintain a balance between good and evil. In The Blind Prophet we travel through the dark bathed city of Rotbork, talk to its inhabitants and make decisions that influence the course of the story, as well as solving various riddles.

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Preston Sterling
Preston Sterling

Adventure 25 March 2016

A mix of a point-and-click adventure and action game developed by independent German studio Animation Arts. During the game the player assumes the role of the titular adventure seeker and treasure hunter named Preston Sterling, who is examining the secrets of various myths and legends from the British Isles. As one could guess, each of his adventures is filled with various dangers and the protagonist will encounter many characters, not all of whom are friendly towards him.

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Lamplight City
Lamplight City

Adventure 13 September 2018

Lamplight City is a classic point-and-click adventure game developed by Grundislav Games in cooperation with Wadjet Eye Games. The game’s visuals follow the retro pixel-art convention. In Lamplight City, the player gets to explore a fictional city of New Bretagne, which features a setting resembling Victorian England. The main protagonist of the game is Miles Fordham - a private detective, who is trying to solve the mysterious murder of his former partner, who talks to him from beyond the grave.

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NCIS: Hidden Crimes
NCIS: Hidden Crimes

Adventure 10 May 2016

A casual detective game with hidden objects, based on the license of a popular police procedural TV series, NCIS. The game has a similar feel to CSI: Hidden Crimes, a title of the same genre released two years earlier. We are thrown into various investigations, led by the titular agents in many different locations. We visit crime scenes, interrogate the witnesses, cataloguing and analyzing the evidence and clues we find.

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FAR: Lone Sails
FAR: Lone Sails

Adventure 17 May 2018

The debut game by indie studio Mr. Whale's Game Service, designed with the single player mode in mind. The production is set in a ruined world, which you traverse in an unusual vehicle resembling a combination of a boat and a train. The gameplay in Far: Lone Sails focuses on exploring locations in search of items, which allow you to survive. However, instead of seeking food or building shelters, you have to take care of your vessel.

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Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition
Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition

Adventure 19 December 2016

Created for Windows 10, a special edition of the successful sandbox game by Mojang AB. The general premise is the same as in Minecraft, but unlike the original game, based on the first java edition, this one draws from the mobile edition called Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Therefore, gameplay is not as extensive, and the game itself is not compatible with the original Minecraft.

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Attentat 1942
Attentat 1942

Adventure 31 October 2017

A text-based adventure game with interface-based minigames taking place in occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The grandfather of the main hero has been arrested by Gestapo following a successful assassination attempt on Reinhardt Heydrich. Our task is to find him and learn the truth about his role in the whole operation. Attentat 1942 offers a complete adventure game experience, consisting of conversations with encountered characters and demanding minigames.

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Yomawari: Midnight Shadows
Yomawari: Midnight Shadows

Adventure 24 October 2017

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is a horror action-adventure game developed by the Japanese studio Nippon Ichi Software and a sequel to Yomawari: Night Alone. The game takes place in modern-day Japan and tells the story of two girls, Yui and Haru, who can't find the way back home from their trip to the mountains. To make matters worse, they get separated after a short while. In terms of gameplay mechanics, Yomawari: Midnight Shadows will test our dexterity and wit.

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Crusader Kings: Chronicles
Crusader Kings: Chronicles

Adventure 20 July 2016

Crusader Kings: Chronicles is a spin-off of a famous PC series of strategic games by Paradox, rendered as a mobile gamebook with RPG elements. The plot of Crusader Kings: Chronicles, created by an author of historical novels and fantasy, M. Harold Page, takes us into medieval times, right into the middle of the conflict between Scots and English.

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Contradiction: Spot The Liar!
Contradiction: Spot The Liar!

Adventure 14 January 2015

A detective adventure game based on the Full Motion Video (FMV) technology. In Contradiction: Spot the Liar! developed by Baggy Cat, the player gets to follow the adventures of detective Jenks, who is tasked with investigating the Atlas training center, where a number of mysterious events have occurred recently. In terms of gameplay mechanics, the game is a combination of adventure games similar to Myst and classic FMV productions.

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Paradise
Paradise

Adventure 21 April 2006

Paradise is another adventure, designed by Benoit Sokal, a well-known comic book creator, who is also the author of Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy and the Siberia series. The place of action of this game is the African continent, and more specifically a fictitious country called Maurania. This is where the protagonist, a young woman named Ann Smith, goes.

PC

Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror

Adventure 30 October 1997

The second in a series of adventure games in which the heroes are adventurers. This time the plot of the title refers to the motif of demonic powers and ancient civilizations from Central America.

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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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