Adventure Video Games87
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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Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands
Adventure 12 March 1996
In the last days of the Underground Empire, four of the greatest imperial alchemists have decided to go in the direction of the Forbidden Lands to find the mystery of immortality. When their hearing disappeared, a Bivotar spy rushed on a rescue mission, but he also failed to return alive from the expedition. At this point you, the player, enter the action.
Where Time Stood Still
Adventure 12 April 1987
Where Time Stood Still is an action/adventure game, which will be created by programmers from Denton Design, responsible for The Great Escape. The above title was not a coincidence, because in many respects both products are very similar to each other.
Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock
Adventure 12 July 2005
Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock is the twelfth part of a series of adventure games with the young lady detective in the lead role. In this edition the best excerpts were included, with which the readers of the first book about Nancy Drew could get acquainted earlier.
Realms of the Haunting
Adventure 10 January 1997
The main character in Realms of the Haunting is Adam Randall, son of a pastor, who, at the request of a mysterious priest, sets off to a village in Great Britain called Hellston. The priest gives the young man the task of examining the abandoned property.
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Adventure 08 November 2005
Project Zero III: The Tormented is the third installment of a series of adventure survival-horrors, developed by Tecmo's development team. The plot of the game depicts the fate of a depressed young photographer, Rei Kurosowy, who ends up in a house full of dangerous ghosts. Her only weapon in the fight against the inhabitants of the hereafter is a camera. Outside the European market the game is known as Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.
King's Quest: The Silver Lining
Adventure 10 July 2010
The Silver Lining is the unofficial ninth part of a memorable series of adventure games called King's Quest, launched in the first half of the 1980s. This product was created by an amateur group of designers and deals with the adventures of three people (King Graham, Princess Rosella and Prince Alexander) from a family in power in Daventry.
Eye of the Kraken
Adventure 15 August 2002
Eye of the Kraken is an adventure game based on the classic point & click interface, offering elegant two-dimensional graphics, reminiscent of the memorable game called Prisoner of Ice from the mid-1990s. The authors of this product were clearly inspired by Agatha Christie's famous novel Death on the Nile.
Inherent Evil: The Haunted Hotel
Adventure 29 October 1999
Discover the unexplained circumstances surrounding the disappearance of your brother, the reasons for the death of your parents and, above all, the dark mystery of the Red Hotel.
Timeline
Adventure 22 November 2000
Timeline is an adventure game created by Timeline Computer studio based on Michael Crichton's novel. Players take on the role of Christopher Hughes, a member of the archaeological team, who moves back in time to 14th century war-torn France to save his mentor, Professor Edward Johnson. The title was considered to be one of the worst games in history.
Freedom: First Resistance
Adventure 13 December 2000
Freedom: First Resistance is an action game with a third person view inspired by Anne McCaffrey's bestselling books. A mighty alien race of Catteni attacked the Earth and subjugated mankind. The player plays the role of a young leader of the resistance movement, who must lead her people to victory over the invaders.
Barbie Diaries: High School Mystery
Adventure 30 October 2006
We play the role of a teenage Barbie, becoming the head of the school music band Charmz and making acquaintances with many interesting characters.
Versaille 2
Adventure 12 March 2002
Version 2: The King's Will is a continuation of an adventure game with educational elements - Versailles 1685, released in 1997, created under the responsibility of the Cryo Interactive studio development team. The action was set in 1699 and the player takes on the role of a young, ambitious nobleman Charles-Louis de Faverolle, who wants to get a post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the court of the French king.
The Cameron Files: Pharaoh's Curse
Adventure 31 October 2002
The Cameron Files: Pharaoh's Curse is an adventure game produced by Galilee studio, depicting the adventures of detective Alan P. Cameron. This time the main character tries to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Pharaoh's mummy. As befits the genre convention, the game consists mainly of room exploration, conversations with independent heroes and solving logical riddles.
Castle of Dr. Brain
Adventure 12 April 1991
Castle of Dr. Brain is the first installment of a series of logical games, initiated by Sierra On-Line in the early nineties. The product is aimed at younger computer users and allows them to play the role of a daredevil, whose task is to defeat the trapped castle belonging to the title doctor.
Borrowed Time
Adventure 11 July 1985
The action of the text adventure game Borrowed Time (in Great Britain known as Time to Die) takes us into the thirties of the last century, to one of the American metropolises. The main protagonist of the program is a private detective Sam Harlow, whose life one day turns into a nightmare after receiving a mysterious phone call. The anonymous interlocutor informs the investigator that he or she will be killed soon and then disconnects....
Sam & Max: Season 2 - Moai Better Blues
Adventure 11 January 2008
After alleviating the North Pole crisis in the first episode of the next season's Sam & Max series, the time has come for climate change. In the second episode, a fearless pair of crazy detectives set off on Easter Island to stop the volcano eruption. The task will not be easy, because in addition to the problems with the natives, our heroes will also have to cross with the local deities.
Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures
Adventure 06 June 1996
Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures is the first product in a series of simple adventure games, which in the mid-1990s were directed to users of the Windows operating system.
Dracula: Love Kills
Adventure 10 June 2011
Dracula: Love Kills is a continuation of the adventure game about the famous vampire from Transylvania. Created by Waterlily Games studio, the story started in Dracula: Origin finale. "Two" is a sub-genre of hidden object adventure games.
The Blackwell Convergence
Adventure 22 July 2009
The Blackwell Convergence is the third installment of the adventure game series, which was prepared by Wadjet Eye Games studio. As in the first episode of the cycle (The Blackwell Legacy), this product allows us to play the role of Rosangela Blackwell - a medium, journalist and writer who shows paranormal abilities.
Noddy and the Toyland Fair
Adventure 28 July 2006
Noddy and the Toyland Fair is an educational adventure game, thanks to which the youngest computer users can play the role of the title character, i.e. a small wooden boy known from a TV series.
Knights 2: The Magic Medicine
Adventure 15 May 2006
Kajko i Kokosz 2: Cudowny Lek is another (after the Flying School) adventure and skill game, designed for young computer users (for 6 years), and allowing you to play the role of two, title, known from Janusz Christy's comic books, heroes.
Remedy
Adventure 23 November 2004
Remedy is a classic adventure game, shown from the first person's perspective and equipped with a point and click interface. We play the role of English Carol, a twenty-something girl who bought herself a longer holiday in Sweden. The story told in the game begins when our main character receives information about the death of her detective friend.
Hope Springs Eternal: A Carol Reed Mystery
Adventure 10 October 2005
Hope Springs Eternal: A Carol Reed Mystery is the second (after Remedy) edition of a series of adventure games with the young lady detective in the lead role.
Codename: ICEMAN
Adventure 12 August 1989
Codename: ICEMAN is a product of Sierra On-Line, Inc. from 1989, which was supposed to be the first installment of a new series of adventure games. However, due to the low popularity of the title, Ken Williams has finally decided to abandon his plans to create more episodes of the series.