The most interesting adventure games released in 2006
All the best and most popular games of the year, upcoming releases, and hits from the past. Use filters to narrow down search.
Scratches
Adventure 25 January 2006
Scratches", the debut project of a small Argentinean development studio, is an old-style adventure. The plot of the game is to combine a classic crime story with something much stronger, in the style of "Horror in Amityville".
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence
Adventure 07 February 2006
Prepared by Capcom, a re-release of the first part of the Resident Evil series, developed for the Nintendo DS console. Compared to the original, the title can boast the presence of logic puzzles, as well as various mini-games, such as reanimation (for which we use a microphone connected to the console).
Fog the Hedgehog
Adventure 07 February 2006
Hedgehog Mgielka is a family adventure game in which young users can play the role of a friendly, title character. A hedgehog is a nice, gentle animal, in love with no memory in its second half, the beautiful Mrs. Jezowa.
Siren 2
Adventure 09 February 2006
Forbidden Siren 2, like the first installment of the cycle, is a survival horror game created by Keiichiro Toyama, the author of the cult Silent Hill series. The action of the programme takes us to Yamijima Island (Island of Darkness), where Dante scenes took place 29 years ago and all its then inhabitants disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
Adventure 14 February 2006
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure is a title that combines the characteristic elements of several genres: action adventure game, fighting and stealth. The whole is signed with the name and surname of Marc Ecko - designer and artist, who stands behind a number of fashion brands popular among young people today.
24: The Game
Adventure 28 February 2006
Action game with strongly marked elements typical for classic adventures. This title is based on the famous sensational series. During the game we meet many famous characters. The gameplay itself has a quite varied course.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Adventure 14 March 2006
Skillboard for younger players based on the popular film for children by 20th Century Fox. The game boils down to overcoming various terrain obstacles, dealing with dangerous enemies and collecting items. There are four different characters to choose from, and the gameplay is enriched by mini-games.
CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder
Adventure 14 March 2006
Another part of a series of adventure games based on the popular (mainly in the USA) criminal TV series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Previous installment of the series threw us to the sunny Miami, now we return to Las Vegas to face further criminal riddles.
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Adventure 20 March 2006
Metroid Prime: Hunters is the second (after Metroid Prime: Pinball) product from the popular series, which was released on the Nintendo DS console. At one time, the demo of this game also promoted the premiere of the platform, being part of the sold set.
Camelot Galway: City Of The Tribes
Adventure 21 March 2006
Camelot Galway: City Of The Tribes Star Cave Studios is a crossroads of adventure and educational game. The game is a pretext to get to know the history, folklore, language and legends of Ireland.
Mystery Case Files: Prime Suspects
Adventure 06 April 2006
Mystery Case Files: Prime Supspects is an adventure game with logical elements, produced by Big Fish Games studio. The player takes on the role of a detective who tries to find a diamond stolen from the Natural History Museum in Smithson. In order to do so, however, it must carry out a complex investigation involving more than 20 puzzles to be solved. The game is based on perceptiveness, reflection and logical thinking skills.
The Silent Hill Experience
Adventure 06 April 2006
The Silent Hill Experience is a product referring to one of the most popular series of horror action games, Silent Hill. However, this is not another game from the series, but an interactive package thematically related to the popular cycle.
Bone: The Great Cow Race
Adventure 12 April 2006
The second (after Out from Boneville) installment of the adventure, inspired by Jeff Smith's work, namely comics with three cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone.
Another World: 15th Anniversary Edition
Adventure 14 April 2006
Refreshed version of the cult action/adventure game, which debuted on the electronic entertainment market in 1991. The program can be run in the original visuals, or use several high-resolution modes (maximum 1280x800). In addition to customized graphics, the program also includes a remastered soundtrack.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Adventure 17 April 2006
The second part of a great adventure game, The Longest Journey, which was realized and released in 2000 by Funcom. Its action was set in the same realities as we had the opportunity to stay in the original The Longest Journey, i.e. compilation of fantasy and science fiction.
Safari Photo Africa: Wild Earth
Adventure 18 April 2006
Wild Earth is a non-violent and entertaining family adventure game in which users will be able to take part in a unique hunt with a camera in hand for the most beautiful animals living on the African continent.
The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript
Adventure 21 April 2006
Adventure created by four cooperating development studios: Elektrogames, TOTM Studio, Kheops Studio and Mzone Studio. At once, however, it should be noted that this game has nothing to do with the recently very popular novel by Dan Brown, Leonard's Code. Well, maybe apart from the name of the great inventor and model man of the Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci.
Paradise
Adventure 21 April 2006
Paradise is another adventure, designed by Benoit Sokal, a well-known comic book creator, who is also the author of Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy and the Siberia series. The place of action of this game is the African continent, and more specifically a fictitious country called Maurania. This is where the protagonist, a young woman named Ann Smith, goes.
The Silent Hill Collection
Adventure 21 April 2006
The Silent Hill Collection is a set of three Silent Hill games. The package includes (in parentheses given information about the original release date): Silent Hill 2 (2001), Silent Hill 3 (2003) and Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004).
Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle
Adventure 24 April 2006
Barrow Hill is a horror adventure game that focuses on the famous stone circle, located in a historically confirmed, but no longer existing today's title town.
Knights 2: The Magic Medicine
Adventure 15 May 2006
Kajko i Kokosz 2: Cudowny Lek is another (after the Flying School) adventure and skill game, designed for young computer users (for 6 years), and allowing you to play the role of two, title, known from Janusz Christy's comic books, heroes.
Syberia: Zlota Edycja
Adventure 19 May 2006
Siberia: Gold Edition is a compilation of two parts of a popular series of point'n'click adventures by Microids studio. The French writer Benoit Sokal is responsible for the storyline of both games, and the players have the opportunity to visit many amazing locations in different parts of Europe and solve a number of logical puzzles together with the main characters - Kathe Walker and Hans Voralberg.
Myst: Antologia
Adventure 19 May 2006
Myst: Anthology is a package of the first three parts of this great adventure game series: Myst: Masterpiece (improved version of the first cycle part), Riven: The Sequel to Myst and Myst III: Exile.
Nancy Drew: Danger by Design
Adventure 11 July 2006
Nancy Drew: Danger by Design is another item in a very popular series of adventure and detective games. This time, fans of a friendly detective lady have the opportunity to visit Paris and get to know more about the exclusive world of fashion designers and beautiful models.
Noddy and the Toyland Fair
Adventure 28 July 2006
Noddy and the Toyland Fair is an educational adventure game, thanks to which the youngest computer users can play the role of the title character, i.e. a small wooden boy known from a TV series.
Safecracker
Adventure 02 August 2006
Safecracker is an adventure game prepared by Daydream Software studio. Players play the role of the title "cashier" who was hired by the family of the late billionaire Duncan Walter Adams to open the safes in his estate. Dealing with complex lock mechanisms requires not only skillful fingers, but also a great deal of cunning.
The Exchange Student
Adventure 22 August 2006
The Exchange Student is a humorous, low-budget adventure by Greek studio Mr. Metron Ariston maintained in the style of the popular series of games about Larry Laffer.
Roblox
Adventure 27 August 2006
A platform that allows you to create your own games, in which home designers create their own worlds from scratch, filling them with various attractions. Due to the fact that the game takes place in a moderated environment, both adult players and children can have fun at Roblox.
Tanita: Plasticine Dream
Adventure 29 August 2006
Position directed to adventure game fans, prepared by Russian devloper studio, Trickster Games. Already the first glance at the title of the game and screens brings to mind the classic "Plasticine" adventure game Neverhood.
Secret Files: Tunguska
Adventure 01 September 2006
A classic, two-dimensional point-and-click adventure game developed by German studio Fusionsphere Systems. The story of the game is closely related to the famous Tunguska event which occurred in 1908 and which to this day was never fully explained. There are a few theories explaining what occurred there and some of them are quite unusual. The main protagonist of the game is Nina Kalenkov, a Russian girl living in Germany.
Al Emmo and Lost Dutchman's Mine
Adventure 05 September 2006
An adventure game created by Himalaya studio, whose employees dipped their fingers at two remakes of the King's Quest series. It was created in the classic point & click convention and offers a proven interface straight from the production of Sierra, so it should satisfy the most passionate fans of the genre.
Rule of Rose
Adventure 12 September 2006
Rule of Rose is a psychological horror. The action of this program was located in England in 1930. The player plays the role of a nineteen-year-old girl named Jennifer, living in a world where rules were created by seemingly innocent children with a sadistic mentality.
Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game
Adventure 15 September 2006
Broken Sword: The Angel of Death is the fourth installment of the adventure series with Georg Stobbart in the lead role. This time the protagonist gets entangled in a complicated intrigue connected with a mysterious substance, which according to legends was in the Arc of the Covenant. The addictive scenario of the game is the work of Revolution Software, while the development was taken care of by Sumo Digital studio.
Open Season
Adventure 19 September 2006
Open Season is a family adventure action game, the plot of which is modelled on an animated cinema picture of the same title, for which Sony Pictures Animation is responsible.
Bratz: Forever Diamondz
Adventure 20 September 2006
A game in which we start our career as a fashion designer. We get one of the four girls to choose from. The production consists of many different events and attractions. During the fun we design outfits for shows, take part in competitions, makeup, etc. An interesting option is also the ability to adopt the pet and dress it up in charming outfits. The title is addressed primarily to younger audiences.
Evidence: The Last Ritual
Adventure 21 September 2006
Evidence: The Last Ritual by French studio Lexis Numerique is a game that is a mixture of a detective adventure and a thriller. The title is a sequel issued by Ubisoft In memorium/Missing since January. For the second time we have to face the serial murderer Phoenix.
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
Adventure 26 September 2006
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime is a combination of cRPG, adventure and platforming. The title gives us the opportunity to lead one of the most popular creatures from the world of Dragon Quest - Blue Slime.
Undercover: Operation Wintersun
Adventure 29 September 2006
Undercover: Operation Wintersun by the Austrian Sproing Interactive studio is an adventure game created in a classic style with the use of point&click interface. The authors placed the story told during the Second World War.
Reksio i kapitan Nemo
Adventure 10 October 2006
Reksio and Captain Nemo is the fifth installment of the adventures of the friendly, title dog, created for young computer users.
Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave
Adventure 12 October 2006
Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is a classic adventure with a point & click interface, in which the heroine's actions are viewed from the first person perspective. The series, created by programmers from Her Interactive studio, started in 1992, already has fifteen titles.
Time Stand Still
Adventure 12 October 2006
Time Stand Still is the third installment (after Remedy and Hope Springs Eternal) from a series of adventure games, in which we play the role of a young lady detective Carol Reed, an English woman living permanently in Sweden.
Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love
Adventure 17 October 2006
Destroy All Humans! 2: Make War Not Love is the sequel to the great action game Destroy All Humans!, which confronts us with a conflict between humanity and the newcomers from the Cosmos. However, unlike most of these situations, this time we are on the aliens' side.
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.
Flushed Away
Adventure 18 October 2006
Flushed Away Studio Monkey Bar Games is a game based on animated cinema film. The title combines the elements of action games and platforms, and the hero's actions are viewed from a third person's perspective. During the game we visit places known from the film, as well as several new locations.
Touch Detective
Adventure 24 October 2006
Touch Detective is a typical adventure game in an old-fashioned style, like many on personal computers. The main character of Touch Detective is Rina - a nice girl with a big head. The game is divided into four episodes, each of which is wrapped in a mystery to be unraveled.
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka 2
Adventure 27 October 2006
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka 2 is a sequel to an adventure game inspired by the work of Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, published at the end of 2005. Special attention was paid to the stories collected in the collection Evenings on a choir near Dikanka.
Tony Tough 2: A Rake's Progress
Adventure 27 October 2006
Sequel Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths, a two-dimensional adventure game referring to the visual setting and "point & click" interface to classic programs of the genre. The protagonist of the first part was the detective Tony Tough, which is no different for the two as well.
Barbie Diaries: High School Mystery
Adventure 30 October 2006
We play the role of a teenage Barbie, becoming the head of the school music band Charmz and making acquaintances with many interesting characters.
The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy
Adventure 03 November 2006
The fifth installment of the Atlantis adventure game series. The plot of this part takes us to 1937, and we play the role of Howard Brooks, a young aeronautics engineer, returning from Germany from the conference to his home in New York.
Die Pferdebande: Falsches Spiel bei der Pferdeshow
Adventure 03 November 2006
Saddle Detective is an adventure game for younger players. The story shows the adventures of three friends from an equestrian club who try to explain the causes of an accident to their friend. Soon, the heroes fall into a conspiracy. The title was produced by German studio Radon Labs.
HCA - The Ugly Prince Duckling
Adventure 10 November 2006
HCA - The Ugly Prince Duckling is an adventure game with arcade elements, in which we observe the hero's actions from the perspective of a third person.
Bionicle Heroes
Adventure 14 November 2006
A dynamic action adventure game set in the world of Bionicle, which is one of the series of thematic blocks of Lego concern. The developers from Traveller's Tales studio are responsible for its development, thanks to whom we owe both parts of the excellent LEGO Star Wars series.
Eragon
Adventure 14 November 2006
Eragon is an action/adventure game based on a film with the same title, which in turn is a screen adaptation of Christopher Paolini's novel. During the game, we observe the hero's actions from the third person's perspective.
Happy Feet
Adventure 14 November 2006
Happy Feet is a computer game which is an adaptation of a funny animated film of the same name. The programme belongs to the genre of action/adventure, so it combines adventure elements with a family, musical action game, firmly based, of course, on the screenplay of the original film.
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (2006)
Adventure 14 November 2006
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express is the second computer adaptation of the famous detective books, prepared by the AWE Games team, working under the dictates of Dreamcatcher publishing company (The Adventure Company).
My Boyfriend
Adventure 16 November 2006
My dream boy is a simulation game created by German dtp young entertainment studio for teenage players. Young adepts of the art of seduction have the opportunity to show their skills by conquering the hearts of three virtual boys. The game consists, among other things, in skillfully selecting common forms of activity, as well as taking care of beauty and fashionable clothes. The game is enriched by arcade mini-games.
Agon: The Mysterious Codex
Adventure 16 November 2006
Agon: The Mysterious Codex is a package consisting of the first three episodes (The Pirates of Madagascar, Adventures in Lapland and The London Scene) of the adventure game called Agon.
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.
Ankh: Heart of Osiris
Adventure 17 November 2006
Ankh: Heart of Osiris is a continuation of Ankh's adventure published in 2005: The Tales of Mystery, for which Deck13 Interactive studio is responsible. The plot of the game depicts the fate of Assil and Thara, and the player's task is to help the main characters find an extremely powerful artifact - the title Osiris' Heart.
Destination: Treasure Island
Adventure 17 November 2006
Destination: Treasure Island by French studio Kheops Studio (creators of The Secret of the Lost Cavern and The Secrets of da Vinci, among others), is another adventure made in the style of point & click.
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.
Carte Blanche
Adventure 24 November 2006
Carte Blanche is another adventure game prepared by the creators of Eye of the Kraken. Together with a young man named Edgar Delacroix, we land in Montreal from the middle of the third decade of the twentieth century in order to get to know from the proverbial lining the city, which is in fact a habitat for crime and one of the main points on the alcohol smuggling route.
Yoomurjak's Ring
Adventure 05 December 2006
Yoomurjak's Ring is a point & click adventure game created by the Hungarian Private Moon Studios studio. The production, in which we observe all the events from the perspective of the first person, was realized in the convention of an interactive film. What is more, up to 30 professional actors were employed for the title.
Vigil: Blood Bitterness
Adventure 14 December 2006
Vigil: Blood Bitterness is the first part of a planned series of episodic adventure games. Authors from the French studio Freegamer created a title in which the most important is the atmosphere.
Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst
Adventure 15 December 2006
The third part of the Mystery Case Files series, dedicated to the so-called "Sunday players", allows players to play the role of a detective trying to solve the mystery of an old house.
Sam & Max: Season 1 – Situation: Comedy
Adventure 20 December 2006
The second episode of a popular series of adventure games, which tells the adventures of an unusual pair of detectives - Sam and Maks. This time the tireless guardians of law go to a television studio, where the famous presenter gets crazy while shooting one of her programs.
Dilemma
Adventure 20 December 2006
Dilemma is a debut project of a Russian development studio, 4Reign. The title represents an adventure game genre with the addition of RPG elements.
ToeJam & Earl
Adventure 22 December 2006
Renewal of a humorous roguelike game originally published in the early 90s. We play the role of two aliens-rappers, whose ship crashed on the surface of Earth. We travel through randomly generated islands suspended in the air and try to find scattered fragments of UFOs.