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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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Jackie Chan Adventures
Jackie Chan Adventures

8.2 Game Score

A relatively simple action adventure game. We play the title character of Jackie Chana, who together with his nephew sets off on a quest for magical talismans.

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The Black Mirror
The Black Mirror

8.2 Game Score

The Black Mirror is an adventure game with a classic point & click interface, produced by the Czech studio Future Games. The player directs Samuel Gordon, who after years returns to the Black Mirror family estate to solve the mystery of his grandfather's mysterious death. The plot of the game is divided into 6 chapters, during which you can visit 120 locations and solve 20 logical puzzles.

PC

Mini Ninjas
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.

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Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge
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.

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Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
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.

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Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
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.

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Shadow of Memories
Shadow of Memories

8.2 Game Score

Quite unconventional representative of the adventure game genre realized by programmers from Konami company. We play Eike, a boy who dies at the very beginning of the story, to get a second chance and find out who is behind the tragic events.

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Bionicle: The Game
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.

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Sam & Max Hit the Road
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.

PC

Stray
Stray

8.2 Game Score

TPP action adventure game, in which we play the role of a cat moving around a cyberpunk city, inhabited not by people, but by robots. Stray is a game created by Blue Twelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive.

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Sludge Life
Sludge Life

8.1 Game Score

Sludge Life is a first-person adventure game that allows you to play the role of one of the graffiti artists who is trying to gain respect and fame in a city full of pollution and corruption.

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Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
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.

PC

Peter Jackson's King Kong
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....

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Myst (1995)
Myst (1995)

8.1 Game Score

One of the most recognized classic adventure games, in which we move to the surreal world of the Myst islands, ruled by different laws, which we must learn to solve its secrets.

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Sam & Max: Season 3 - The Devil's Playhouse
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.

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Blade Runner
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.

PC

Conan: The Dark Axe
Conan: The Dark Axe

8.1 Game Score

Conan: The Dark Axe is a third person perspective adventure game (TPP), whose plot is set in a fantastic universe invented by Robert E. Howard. The player directs the actions of the title barbarian, who has to face a dangerous cult after returning to his native Cymeria. Developers at Cauldron studio have taken care of a large enough arsenal of weapons that Conan can wreak havoc on enemies.

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Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis

8.1 Game Score

A sequel to the well-received 2006’s point-and-click adventure game, developed in cooperation with Fusionsphere Systems, the creators of the original. The title’s plot revolves around a worldwide series of unexplainable phenomena boggling even the greatest of minds. Everything indicates that there may actually be something in the prophecy of imminent dooms preached by Pat Shelton on the TV.

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Silent Hill Origins
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.

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2 - Dark Motives
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2 - Dark Motives

8.1 Game Score

The second part of the adventure game based on the popular in the United States crime series CSI: Crime Scene, about the work of federal agents who are members of the CSI branch in Las Vegas.

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Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut

8.1 Game Score

Deadly Premonition is an adventure game enriched with elements of survival-horror and RPG. We lead a young FBI agent to explain the mysterious murders in a small American town.

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Fatal Frame
Fatal Frame

8.1 Game Score

The first part of the famous series of horrors. The player takes on the role of a young girl who finds herself in a ghosted estate. "Fatal Frame" is distinguished by the unusual course of fights with the use of a camera.

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Machinarium
Machinarium

8.1 Game Score

An original two-dimensional adventure game developed by Amanita Design - an independent Czech studio popular for the Samorost series. The action is set in a bizarre world made entirely of metal. All the plants, wildlife and humans were replaced by robots. The player assumes the role of one such robot, wrongfully sent to a junkyard. Once back in town, the protagonist discovers the existence of a conspiracy aiming to murder its leader.

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Resident Evil Zero
Resident Evil Zero

8.1 Game Score

A side entry in the classic survival horror series from Capcom; originally developed exclusively for Nintendo GameCube console, but later released for Nintendo Wii (under the name Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero). Story-wise, it is a prequel to the entire series, telling about the special force unit S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team, which has been sent to Raccoon City, but never reached it.

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