Adventure Video Games7
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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Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
8.5 Game Score
The next installment of the famous adventure series of Myst games, advertising by the creators, Cyan Worlds team led by Rand Miller, as the most extensive and addictive installment of the Myst series.
Atlantis II
8.5 Game Score
Atlantis II is a continuation of Atlantis: The Lost Tales adventure released in 1997, which was created under the responsibility of Cryo Interactive studio. The action of the game was set in 1043, and the player directs the actions of Seth's descendant, the main character of the first part. The creators prepared five large areas for exploration, presenting, among others, ancient China, Ireland, Tibet and Yucatán.
Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold
8.5 Game Score
A young hunter, the Little Snake, gets entangled in a dangerous game about the fate of the Aztec empire, full of intrigue. As a witness to the murder, he must prove his innocence and prevent the danger that has hung over the entire ancient civilisation.
Gabriel Knight: The Sins of the Fathers
8.5 Game Score
An adventure game inspired by the work of the well-known horror author Jane Jensen. The plot of the game is 10 days from the life of Gabriel Knight, the owner of a bookstore in New Orleans, interested in unexplained and supernatural stories.
Metroid Prime Trilogy
8.5 Game Score
Metroid Prime Trilogy is a package of three first-person action games, whose heroine is Samus Aran, an intergalactic prize hunter. Included in the set: Metroid Prime, Metroid Echoes and Metroid Corruption. Developers from the Retro studio also took care of the implementation of the Wii Remote controller, as well as a set of additional materials related to the Metroid series.
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
8.5 Game Score
Insomniac Games continues the story told in Tools of Destruction and Quest for Booty. Clank is once again in trouble, from which the clever Ratchet will once again draw him out. The protagonists are faced with important existential questions.
Dear Esther
8.5 Game Score
Dear Esther is an adventure game with a first person perspective, with a rather heavy and dark climate. Here we are only exploring the surroundings and listening to the scraps of stories, which we have to put together into a coherent story.
Botanicula
8.5 Game Score
A climatic adventure game developed by the Czech Amanita Design studio (Samorost, Machinarium), set in a marvelous, floral world. Botanicula tells the story of five creatures living in the branches of a giant tree that is slowly dying due to merciless parasites. In order to prevent it, the heroes set on a dangerous journey to save the last seed of their home plant.
Drawn: The Painted Tower
8.5 Game Score
Very visually nice adventure game containing many mini-games and puzzles. The player has to save a girl locked at the top of a mysterious painted tower.
Ecstatica II
8.5 Game Score
Continuation of the action adventure game, which can be treated as Psygnosis's response to the Alone in the Dark series. Like the cult trilogy of Infogrames, the second Ecstatica is a bloody and brutal story about man's struggle against the world's greatest atrocities.
Shelter
8.5 Game Score
An original action adventure game with survival elements, developed by Might and Delight. The player controls a female badger trying to survive in a hostile environment with several offspring to feed. Shelter is a third-person perspective game. The player's mission is to find an appropriate den and ensure the safety of the badger family. The player has to provide basic living conditions for the small badgers.
Firewatch
8.5 Game Score
An indie FPP adventure game and the debut production of the American Campo Santo studio. The team comprises of veteran developers, previously working on such titles as The Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja, BioShock 2, and Brutal Legend. The story of Firewatch takes place in an enormous forest in the American state of Wyoming, where our hero is trying to escape his day-to-day problems by becoming a ranger.
Ultimate Custom Night
8.5 Game Score
A survival horror created by Scott Cawthon. The game is part of the very popular series Five Nights at Freddy’s. The players assume the role of a guard who uses cameras, automatic doors and various gadgets to survive in a building filled with evil animatronics. The game is exceptional because it combines the features of all the previous entries in the series. This means that, during the game, the players can face 50 iconic opponents.
Zarya-1
8.5 Game Score
A text adventure maintained in the convention of horror science fiction. Players direct the actions of four astronauts sent to the Moon to investigate the source of the disturbing signal that reached Earth in 2021. During the game we get acquainted with the text messages sent by our charges (from time to time enriched with graphics stylized on photographs) and we make decisions that lead us to one of the several endings.
The Beginner's Guide
8.5 Game Score
An original narrative-driver production developed by the independent studio Everything Unlimited. It is another creation of Davey Wreden, the designer of the popular The Stanley Parable. The game focuses on the story of a complicated relation with a friend known as Coda. He is also a video game developer, and we get to browse the rich library of 134 titles he created.
Dropsy
8.5 Game Score
A two-dimensional point ‘n’ click adventure game developed by the independent studio Tendershoot in cooperation with A Jolly Corpse. The title’s plot follows a clown named Dropsy who got lost after a fire in his circus and tries to find a new place for himself in the world. The gameplay is based on exploration of subsequent locations and solving the encountered problems and puzzles.
Betrayal At Club Low
8.5 Game Score
Betrayal At Club Low is a surreal genre cocktail that combines adventure and RPG elements. While playing, we have to explore locations and solve puzzles, but most of them require testing the hero's stats, which we can develop.
Chinatown Detective Agency
8.5 Game Score
An extensive adventure game in which we find ourselves in the cyberpunk version of Singapore. In Chinatown Detective Agency we conduct various investigations throwing us into different corners of the world, and we develop the title detective agency.
The Medium
8.5 Game Score
The Medium is a horror in which we play the role of a woman who can see ghosts and tries to solve the mystery of the murder of a child. The game is another work of the talented Krakow Bloober Team.
The Norwood Suite
8.4 Game Score
An adventure game that continues the warmly welcomed Off-Peak. In The Norwood Suite we go to the hotel Norwood and learn more about its secrets and about its guests and people working there. The game is again kept in a surrealistic style.
Martial Law
8.4 Game Score
Free adventure game set in Poland in the 1980s, just after the introduction of martial law. In Martial Law we play a man who wants to keep in touch with his beloved daughter after his wife leaves him.
Virginia
8.4 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.
Rusty Lake: Roots
8.4 Game Score
A point ‘n’ click adventure game developed by Rusty Lake, the creators of the well-received Rusty Lake Hotel. In Rusty Lake: Roots, we assume the role of James Vanderboom who inherited a house and a special seed, which, if sown, will enable him to start his own family. The action is set in the 19th and 20th century, and the player controls three generations of Vanderbooms.
