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Adventure Video Games5

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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Wanderlust Travel Stories
Wanderlust Travel Stories

8.7 Game Score

A narrative adventure game in the convention of an interactive travel journal. In Wanderlust: Travel Stories, developers from the Polish studio Different Tales tell stories of travelers whose lives are shaped by our decisions.

PCSwitchiOS

Clock Tower (1996)
Clock Tower (1996)

8.6 Game Score

Clock Tower is the sequel to 1995's Japan-only survival horror. One of the game's most important features is its dark, depressing story, widely considered one of the scariest narratives in the history of video games.

PS1

Detention
Detention

8.6 Game Score

A side-scrolling horror/adventure game. Detention is a debut project of Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games. The action of the game takes place in Taiwan during the 1960s, in the middle of martial law that lasted 37 years. We are taken to Greenwood, a high-school placed in a mountainous area. The players assume the role of two students who discover that the school became inhabited by wicked monsters known from local legends.

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Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

8.6 Game Score

A remake of Dear Esther, a popular narrative exploration game from 2012 that started a whole new genre – the so-called walking simulators. It was developed by the independent studio The Chinese Room. Contrary to the base version of the game that was powered by the Source engine and released only on personal computers, this edition is powered by the Unity technology. This enabled the developers to release their game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well.

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Virginia
Virginia

8.6 Game Score

An adventure game created by an independent studio Variable State. The player assumes the role of a rookie FBI agent, who receives a task of investigating the case of a young boy’s disappearance. The plot is filled with supernatural elements, and science-fiction motifs. The plot of Virginia is completely linear, so the players can focus on experiencing the story.

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Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within
Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within

8.6 Game Score

The third installment of the series of adventure horrors using point & click mechanics. The production does not relate to the previous parts and introduces a few new features, such as the option to switch between the two personalities of the main character.

PS1

Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III

8.6 Game Score

A classic adventure game with logical elements, which was created by a Polish development team led by Roland Pantola, a veteran of the Polish industry and the head of the reactivated Detalion studio. The title is a continuation of the series Schizm, the previous part of which was published in 2004.

PC

Genesis Noir
Genesis Noir

8.6 Game Score

Genesis Noir is an artistic noir adventure game in which the player explores the universe and tries to influence it in such a way as to prevent a tragedy in the form of death of a person close to him.

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Life is Strange 2
Life is Strange 2

8.6 Game Score

The second entry in the series of episodic adventure games developed by Dontnod Entertainment. Similarly to the previous entry in the series, the story in Life is Strange 2 is non-linear and its course is determined by the decisions made by the players during the game.

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Year Walk
Year Walk

8.6 Game Score

Year Walk is an adventure game developed by Simogo team based on old Swedish legends. We play the role of a young man wandering through a snowy forest, full of secrets and supernatural beings, and the game consists mainly in exploring a maze of powerful trees and solving riddles.

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Fallen London
Fallen London

8.6 Game Score

Fallen London is an adventure game with RPG elements that focuses on the narrative aspect. While having fun, we explore the bizarre London from an alternative version of the Victorian era and take part in stories whose course is shaped by our own decisions.

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In Verbis Virtus
In Verbis Virtus

8.6 Game Score

A unique FPP action-adventure game, in which you have to speak the words of spells in the ancient language of the Maha'ki gods, using a microphone. In Verbis Vitus is set in a fantasy realm. You play as a beginner mage, who, in search for an ancient power, finds a lost temple. At first the protagonist is completely harmless and to survive they have to look for ancient texts containing magical formulas.

PC

The Cat Lady
The Cat Lady

8.6 Game Score

The Cat Lady is an adventure game created by Harvester Games team. The game consists mainly in exploring the location, collecting objects, conducting conversations and solving riddles. The whole is intended exclusively for adult audiences, because of the brutality of the story and the nudity and vulgarisms that appear in it.

PC

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

8.6 Game Score

The next installment of one of the most popular series of games in the history of electronic entertainment. The title is a direct continuation of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past from 1991, which was enriched with a new gameplay mechanics, allowing the main character to turn into a two-dimensional wall painting.

3DS

Gone Home
Gone Home

8.6 Game Score

An original exploration adventure drama with first-person perspective. Gone Home is a debut project of an indie developer The Fullbright Company, whose members previously worked on a successful DLC for BioShock 2, Minerva’s Den. Gone Home is set in the United States of 1990s. You play as a young woman named Katy, who returns home after spending a year away in Europe. When she gets home, instead of her family she is welcomed by an empty house.

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Shiver: Vanishing Hitchhiker
Shiver: Vanishing Hitchhiker

8.6 Game Score

Hidden object adventure in which we set off on a search for the title hitchhiker. Shiver Action: Vanishing Hitchhiker takes place in the deserted city of Gordon Creek. The game consists of finding interactive objects and solving logical puzzles.

PC

Starshine Legacy 1: Mystery of the Soulriders
Starshine Legacy 1: Mystery of the Soulriders

8.6 Game Score

Product designed for younger players, in which we control the character of a girl named Lisa. We follow the fate of the main character, her faithful steed and other people living in the small seaside town of Jorvik.

PC

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

8.6 Game Score

The main character of "Metroid Prime 2: Echoes" is again Samus Aran, an intergalactic award hunter. Hired by the government of the Galaxy Federation, she travels to the planet Aether to find the lost troop of the federation's soldiers and help him return home.

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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

8.6 Game Score

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is the third installment of the popular intergalactic award hunter Samus Aran. However, unlike the previous two editions, prepared with GameCube in mind, this time the authors of the game, Retro Studios, prepared it for the next Nintendo platform, Wii.

Wii

Nocturne
Nocturne

8.6 Game Score

Nocturne is an action adventure game produced by Terminal Reality. The player takes on the role of a member of the government agency Spookehouse, and his task is to eradicate the creatures of darkness inhabiting an alternative world, stylized on the 1930s. The game is maintained in a horror atmosphere, and the events are shown from the third person perspective.

PC

Reksio i Wehikul Czasu
Reksio i Wehikul Czasu

8.6 Game Score

The fourth part of the series of adventure games with the friendly dog Rex and his brave companion, commander Kretes in the lead roles, dedicated to the youngest computer users (children over 7 years old).

PC

RealMYST
RealMYST

8.6 Game Score

Three-dimensional version of the classic adventure game Myst, enriched with a few new puzzles to solve and changed in relation to the original ending.

PCANDiOS

The Pink Panther Passport to Peril
The Pink Panther Passport to Peril

8.6 Game Score

The second part of the adventures of the Pink Panther, whose voice was once again lent by Cezary Pazura in the Polish version. This time she has to solve the case of the mysterious events in the Chili Wa-Wa camp.

PC

The Pink Panther Hocus Pocus
The Pink Panther Hocus Pocus

8.6 Game Score

An adventure game in which you play the role of a well-known cartoon hero - Pink Panther. Our pink hero, making money as a pedlar, accidentally ends up in a beautiful estate, inhabited by the family of a newly-enriched dentist....

PC