Adventure Video Games2
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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Day of the Tentacle: Remastered
9.0 Game Score
A remastered edition of a classic adventure game created by LucasArts in 1993. That game, along with its sequel, Maniac Mansion, became famous as the grandfather of modern adventure games. The Remastered Edition was prepared by Double Fine Productions, a studio founded by Tim Schafer – one of the co-creators of the original hit. In the game you play as a trio of heroes who are trying to save the world from a threat posed by the titular tentacle.
Kursk
9.0 Game Score
A first-person perspective adventure game that combines elements of spy movies and horror. It is the first large game developed by the Polish studio Jujubee known mostly for its futuristic racing series Flashout. The story of the game focuses on the mysterious disaster of the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk which sank during the summer of 2000 on the Barents Sea. It was never determined what caused the incident.
Pathologic Classic HD
9.0 Game Score
A refreshed version of the classic action adventure game that was released in 2005. The new version was prepared by the creators of the original title, Icepick Lodge, as a side project to a complete remake of the game. The plot of Pathologic Classic HD is same as in the original game and it focuses on a mysterious virus that spreads across a small city, causing many casualties.
Stories Untold
9.0 Game Score
An unique horror game by No Code, combining four separate stories. In Stories Untold you play as a person sitting in front of a computer, and your task is to acquaint yourself with a series of eerie recordings. In time, the protagonist immerses themselves in the stories so much that they begin to spot inexplicable things in the nooks of the shabby rooms. The game features a first-person view and you are free to look around your surroundings.
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
9.0 Game Score
FPP adventure game set in a universe known from Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite. In Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 we play the role of a pizza supplier who intends to steal his boss' saxophone. The whole thing is kept in a unique, surrealistic style.
Card Shark
9.0 Game Score
Card Shark is an adventure game set in the 18th century France with puzzle and arcade elements. Its theme revolves around various card cheats. Game was developed by independent British studio Nerial and published by Devolver Digital.
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
8.9 Game Score
Sequel to the 2003’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, rebooting the story of the hero from the classic 2D platformer from Broderbund Software studio. This time the prince has to deal with consequences of his reckless actions. He managed to turn back time and prevent releasing The Sands of Time, but he did not change his destiny, resulting in Guardian of Time chasing him to seal his fate.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
8.9 Game Score
An action adventure game which is a remake of the 1989's Prince of Persia, one of the most popular platformers of all time, originally developed Broberbund Software. The game was created by Ubisoft Motreal and Jordan Mechner – the father of the original game, who worked on The Sands of Time as consultant and lead designer. The game tells a story of the eponymous Prince who accidentally releases the legendary Sands of Time, a mystical artifact that poses a terrible threat to the world.
Black Dahlia
8.9 Game Score
Black Dahlia is a detective adventure game, maintained in the noir convention. The player takes on the role of an agent of the governmental COI organisation, who encounters the trail of the dangerous organisation "Brotherhood of Thule". The plot of the game produced by Take 2 Interactive is a blend of fictional and authentic events from the 1940s.
Hype: The Time Quest
8.9 Game Score
Adventures of knight Hyp in the land of dragons, fairies and giants. The game combines arcade and adventure elements and is designed for younger players. The authors have taken advantage of the Playmobil license, thanks to which the characters resemble people from the bricks produced by this company.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
8.9 Game Score
One of the few horrors published on Gamecube. During the game we get to know the stories of people described in the title book. The game is mainly aimed at discovering new elements of the plot.
The Longest Journey
8.9 Game Score
The Longest Journey is a classic adventure game produced by FunCom's development team. The main character, April Ryan, must save two twin worlds: Arcadia and Stark. The game uses a point & click interface. Players have the opportunity to talk to 50 NPCs and visit more than 100 locations.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
8.9 Game Score
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an action adventure game with elements of cRPG, created by Shigeru Miyamoto and his development team of Nintendo. The plot of the title tells the story of a boy who sets off on a dangerous journey to free his sister and face his destiny. Visual setting of the game was created with the use of cell-shading technique.
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
8.9 Game Score
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is an arcade game that combines the features of a platformer and shooting. It's an another installment of the series about the adventures of a rat-like friendly creature named Ratchet and his friend - the robot Clank.
Project Zero 2: Wii Edition
8.9 Game Score
Project Zero 2: Wii Edition is the technical capability of Nintendo Wii remake of the loud hit from PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The plot of the game depicts the fate of twins - Mio and Mayu Amakura, who accidentally end up in a village shrouded in eternal darkness. Soon it turns out that its immaterial inhabitants want to sacrifice the girls in a ritual sacrifice. The sisters, armed only with a camera, have to face terrifying creatures from the hereafter and get out of a deadly trap.
Deliver Us the Moon
8.9 Game Score
A science-fiction action-adventure game featuring survival elements. It is the first major project of KeokeN – an independent Dutch developer. The player is taken to the year 2069, when humanity has to face total depletion of natural resources. Established by governments of world powers, the Worldwide Space Agency decides to resume the exploration of the Moon's surface and the player is cast in the role of an astronaut sent there among others.
The Sexy Brutale
8.9 Game Score
Filled with black humour, an adventure game co-developed by Tequila Works and Cavalier Game Studio. The action of The Sexy Brutale takes place inside an old English mansion transformed into a casino by the mysterious Marquis. One day, its workers murder all the guests. However, the player gets the chance to save them. You assume the role of a priest named Lafcadio Boone who – just like in the movie Groundhog Day – falls into a time loop and relives the day of the murder again and again.
Small Radios Big Televisions
8.9 Game Score
An experimental logic exploration game developed by the independent developer Fire Face Corporation. In it, our task is to find thirty cassettes that take us to other worlds. They are hidden in abandoned industrial buildings that we observe from the third-person perspective, similarly to typical 2.5D platformer productions. In Small Radios Big Televisions, we do not control any protagonist, only the camera and the cursor, with which we interact with various objects.
Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
8.9 Game Score
A point-and-click adventure game that takes us on a journey to postapocalyptic reality. While playing Don't Escape: 4 Days in a Wasteland, we play the role of David, who fights for survival. Within four days, the hero has to face the numerous threats lurking in the wilderness and try to find a way out of his current situation.
Frankenstein: Beyond the Time
8.9 Game Score
Frankenstein: Beyond the Time is a VR adventure game from The Dust studio in Wroclaw, where we visit the mysterious Victorian villa of the famous Dr. Frankenstein. The game is strongly inspired by Mary Shelley's novel published over 200 years ago.
Off-Peak
8.9 Game Score
The FPP adventure game, where we travel through the railway station in search of a train ticket and get to know the fate of the characters who are there. Off-Peak is characterized by a surreal atmosphere created by both economical graphics and soundtrack by Archie Pelago.
Myst
8.9 Game Score
A remake of an adventure game from 1993, in which the player finds himself on a beautiful island covered with mystery. Myst is a new version of the original, enriched with an improved graphic design, also prepared especially for Oculus Touch controllers.
Silent Hill 3
8.8 Game Score
Silent Hill 3 is the third installment of the survial-horror series produced by Konami. The main character is 17-year-old Heather, who unexpectedly finds herself in an alternative, nightmarish reality. The girl has to discover the mystery of a monstrous world and thwart the plans of a mysterious cult wishing to resurrect a cruel god. The title combines elements of an action game and adventure, but due to the macabre scenes is addressed to older players.