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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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Generator Rex: Agent of Providence
Generator Rex: Agent of Providence

Adventure 01 November 2011

An action game in which we play the role of a juvenile Rex. Thanks to the nano-robots in his body, the boy is able to create weapons used to defeat his enemies. The whole is based on the animated series of the Cartoon Network station.

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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006)
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006)

Adventure 23 November 2006

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened studio Frogwares is an adventure-detective game genre. This title is realized in the point & click convention, and the action takes place in the world made entirely in 3D.

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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure 11 January 2011

A humorous adventure by the father of the Phoenix Wright series. We play the role of a spirit that must solve the mystery of its own death and stop the perpetrator from murdering more people. The game is about saving potential victims by manipulating inanimate objects on the screen.

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Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Adventure 30 September 1996

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a two-dimensional point-and-click adventure with drawn graphics, in which players conduct a private investigation into a mysterious attack. The title opened today's famous series of productions, which set many trends in the genre.

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The Legend of Crystal Valley
The Legend of Crystal Valley

Adventure 13 March 2009

A classic point'n'click adventure game. The plot takes advantage of the often encountered pattern of interweaving the real world with a fantastic land inhabited by unknown species of creatures.

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Star Trek: Hidden Evil
Star Trek: Hidden Evil

Adventure 17 November 1999

Star Trek: Hidden Evil is a third-person action adventure game set a few months after the events known from Star Trek: Insurrection.

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Sam & Max: Season 1 - Culture Shock
Sam & Max: Season 1 - Culture Shock

Adventure 17 October 2006

Sam & Max: Season 1 is a production prepared by Telltale Games team, known for creating Bone. Like the title mentioned here, Sam & Max is an episodic game.

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring

Adventure 27 August 2004

An adventure about the fate of the title detective Sherlock Holmes. The protagonist goes to a party in Sherringford Hall, where a mysterious murder takes place. Holmes starts an investigation with the inseparable Dr. Watson. Production is a classic representative of the genre. While playing, we talk to witnesses, look for evidence and solve puzzles.

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Airline 69 II: Krasser's Revenge
Airline 69 II: Krasser's Revenge

Adventure 30 March 2005

Airline 69 II: Krasser's Revenge is a continuation of the work of Red Fire Software's programmers, Airline 69: Return to Casablanca, saturated with eroticism and clumsy German humour.

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KAO the Kangaroo: Round 2
KAO the Kangaroo: Round 2

Adventure 04 November 2003

A continuation of a three-dimensional platformer developed by the Polish studio Tate Multimedia (previously known as X-Ray Interactive). Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 returns to the titular hero, who once again embarks on a demanding journey all around the world to save hundreds of animals that have been abducted by an evil poacher and his band of thugs. The game sees us travel through 20 varied levels in five different worlds filled with difficult obstacles as well as numerous vehicles and objects.

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Syberia
Syberia

Adventure 18 June 2002

An adventure game designed by Benoit Sokal, the famous Belgian comic writer, in cooperation with studio Microids. Syberia is the first chapter of the adventures of Kate Walker, an American lawyer hired by the company that produces automatons – mechanical toys. She is tasked with finishing the formalities related to taking over a factory located in a small city in Europe. The game begins when the protagonist arrives at the factory and learns that its owner, Anna Voralberg, is dead.

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Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle
Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle

Adventure 17 November 2006

The second part of an excellent adventure game prepared by Spanish Pendulo Studios. Just like in the previous one, here we meet two main characters: the extremely sexy Gina and the student Brian.

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Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines
Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines

Adventure 09 September 2005

An extensive action game with role-playing elements, in which we will also find elements of the sneaking. We go back to the Second World War and play the role of an American pilot, shot down while performing one of the secret missions, who has to get out of the hostile territory at any cost (the game takes place in Germany in 1944).

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Little Big Adventure
Little Big Adventure

Adventure 12 October 1994

A revolutionary adventure game from 1994, made by Adeline Software International and published by Electronic Arts. The player becomes a young Quetch called Twinsen, who takes on the tyranny of Funfrock.

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Twinsen's Odyssey
Twinsen's Odyssey

Adventure 04 October 1997

Continuation of Little Big Adventure game from 1995, considered by players as "groundbreaking and cult". This time, players will have a much more extensive storyline than in the previous part and a larger world, where we can move around - generally speaking, a lot more gameplay at the highest level.

PC

Code: Realize - Wintertide Miracles
Code: Realize - Wintertide Miracles

Adventure 14 February 2019

Code: Realize - Wintertide Miracles is a fan disco (a kind of addition) to the graphic novel Code: Realize, collecting additional scripts and scenes. The action of this production takes place in a fantastic world inspired by 19th century Europe.

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Hiveswap
Hiveswap

Adventure 14 September 2017

Hiveswap is an adventure game based on the popular webcomic Homestuck. It was financed though a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, gathering almost 2.5 million dollars. Initially, the game was to be developed by two studios: What Pumpkin, founded by Andrew Hussie, the creator of the original comic, and Odd Gentlemen. The latter, however, abandoned the production to work on the episodic reboot of the King's Quest series together with Activision. Hussie calls Hiveswap an adventure game parody.

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Muv-Luv
Muv-Luv

Adventure 27 October 2011

A visual novel adventure game, the first installment of the popular Japanese series. Production consists of two separate parts. The first is a classic school romance, while the second moves the characters to an alternative version of the Earth, whose inhabitants struggle to survive in the face of invasion by cosmic invaders.

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Beautiful Desolation
Beautiful Desolation

Adventure 26 February 2020

Beautiful Desolation is a post-apocalyptic adventure game developed by The Brotherhood Games. Game's story begins in 1980 when a mysterious monolith appears in the sky. Thanks to the technology gathered there, mankind made a colossal civilization leap. Initially, the nations of the Earth were united by the amazing discovery, but it was only a matter of time before old feuds reemerged. This lead to a global conflict. Many years have passed since that time.

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Higurashi When They Cry
Higurashi When They Cry

Adventure 10 August 2002

Higurashi When They Cry is a Japanese adventure in the visual novel category. The production is kept in a horror atmosphere and tells the story of a small village of Hinamizawa, which in June 1983 became the scene of a series of brutal murders. The game boils down primarily to passive tracking of the plot presented in text form enriched with simple pictures.

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Memoria
Memoria

Adventure 30 August 2013

Memoria is a classic point and click adventure created by Daedalic Entertainment studio. The game is the spiritual successor to The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav and tells the story of a young boy Geron, who tries to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Princess Sadji.

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Armikrog
Armikrog

Adventure 30 September 2015

An extraordinary point-and-click adventure game and a spiritual successor to the legendary The Neverhood, a game developed in 1996 by Doug TenNapel. This new title was created by the author of the original game, who managed to gather nearly entire old staff back together for this project.

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Outcast
Outcast

Adventure 31 July 1999

Action adventure game set in a parallel world called Adelpha. We play the role of the American commander, Cutter Slade, who, together with three scientists and the Talan race, tries to save the world from extinction.

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Secret Files: Sam Peters
Secret Files: Sam Peters

Adventure 18 October 2013

Another installment in the Secret Files series of adventure games developed by Animation Arts. The title is not a direct continuation of its predecessors but a spin-off in which the player controls a completely new female protagonist. In Secret Files: Sam Peters the player assumes the role of the titular reporter who appeared in the second installment of the series.

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