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Deracine
Adventure 06 November 2018
Deracine is an original game by the Japanese studio From Software, known mostly for the Dark Souls series. Deracine is an adventure game developed for PlayStation VR headgear. You play as a magical fairy, who was summoned to an all-girls boarding schools.
Beyond Blue
Adventure 17 April 2020
Beyond Blue is an exploratory adventure game, the action of which has been placed in the oceanic depths. The player takes on the role of the head of a research group which, with the help of modern gadgets, explores submarine abysses.
Yo-kai Watch World
Strategy 27 June 2018
A new game in the Yo-Kai Watch franchise, this time developed for mobile platforms. It takes inspiration from another successful mobile adaptation of Nintendo’s franchise, Pokemon GO.
Marie's Room
Adventure 13 April 2018
A short exploration game. You play as a girl named Kelsey, who visits the former room of her friend, Marie, to find her diary. By analyzing the room and listening to the recollections of the protagonist, you discover the details of the tragic events from several years ago.
Rememoried
Adventure 31 August 2015
An exploration-focused adventure FPP game by indie studio Hangonit. Rememoried is set in a surreal land, where memories turn into dreams and forgetting fragments of your life is the only way to get to deeper dream levels. At first you have no idea where you are and why you got here, but step by step you find hints that come together and eventually reveal the truth about the whole situation. The gameplay of Rememoried focuses on exploring various locations and solving easy logic puzzles.
Tacoma
Adventure 02 August 2017
A science-fiction, first-person action adventure game created by the Fullbright Company - a developer popular for Gone Home. The player is taken to the year 2088, where the world has developed substantially and space flights have become available for everyone. The player takes on the role of Amy Ferrier - a woman who picked up a job at a space station. On her arrival however, it turns out that her new workplace is abandoned and her only contact is the station's on-board computer - ODIN.
Walden, a game
Adventure 04 July 2017
Unusual adventure game with survival elements created by Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. In Walden and the game, we play the role of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, striving to strike a balance between the activities necessary for survival and the search for inspiration.
Lost Ember
Adventure 22 November 2019
An action adventure game, in which you play as a wolf with supernatural abilities and explore the remains of an ancient civilization. Lost Ember takes place within the ruins of a metropolis left by a fictional tribe, modeled after the Inca people. The civilization has gone extinct long ago, and the monuments it had built had become part of the wild forest. The wolf, whose role the player assumes, has the power to control the bodies of other animals.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition
Adventure 02 November 2017
A horror-style, original adventure production, which is the debut project of the independent Norwegian studio Krillbite. In the game we play the role of a two-year-old child, taking over all physical and mental features of this age. Awakened from sleep by mysterious sounds, we discover that we were left alone in an empty house and, accompanied by our plush teddy bear, we set out to look for our mother.
Way to the Woods
Adventure 2024
A third person perspective action adventure game developed singlehandedly by a 16-year-old Australian Anthony Tan. The player assumes control of a doe and a young fawn that travel through a strange surreal world attempting to find their way back home.
Elea
Adventure 06 September 2018
A science fiction adventure game developed by Kyodai. The developers were inspired by the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, and Stanislaw Lem. The player assumes the role of Catherine Jones; the heroine is on a space journey aboard the Pilgrimage II ship when she unexpectedly loses consciousness. Having awakened, she discovers that the vessels is abandoned, while Kazumi, the on-board artificial intelligence, is damaged and trying to take complete control of the ship.
Where the Bees Make Honey
Adventure 26 March 2019
Where The Bees Make Honey is created by independent studio Wakefield Interactive. The game combines elements of many genres, including adventures, platformers and logical games. We play the role of Sunny, who as an adult immerses herself in childhood memories.
Metamorphosis
Adventure 12 August 2020
Polish first-person adventure game with logical and platform elements, based on Franz Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis. Players take on the role of a man who incomprehensibly turned into an insect. Now he is forced to wander around the strange and surreal world that exists on the outskirts of civilization.
Mind Labyrinth VR Dreams
Adventure 14 October 2018
An exploratory adventure game, in which we travel through oneiric locations. Mind Labyrinth VR Dreams requires a virtual reality set to move our heads, and look around while interacting with elements of the environment with the help of motion controllers.
Make Sail
Adventure 30 March 2018
Make Sail is a PC-based sailing fantasy game. Player constructs ships and explores the sea and airspace, collecting better and better raw materials for shipbuilding and dealing with storms and sea beasts.
Duskers
Strategy 18 May 2016
A strategy with roguelike elements, taking place in a post-apocalyptic science-fiction world. In Duskers, the player assumes the role of a drone operator, a survivor from a catastrophe that apparently annihilated every other person and changed the space into a cemetery full of dangerous monsters and other hazards. The player’s task is to discover the secret behind the tragedy and acquire the items necessary for survival.
Homesick
Adventure 28 May 2015
Developed by a small indie studio Lucky Pause, Homesick is an adventure game inspired by such classics like e.g. the Myst series. The story of Homesick starts off when a nameless hero wakes up in a mysterious, abandoned house. The player’s task is to solve the dark mystery of the building and escape this unusual prison. Pursuing these objectives puts you up against a dark entity.
The Beginner's Guide
Adventure 01 October 2015
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.
Future Unfolding
Action 15 March 2017
An exploration game created by Spaces of Play - an independent developer. The player is taken to an oneiric world and assumes the role of a nameless character who wears a blue jacket. The player explores a colorful fantasy world inhabited by various species of animals. Although certain ones can be mounted for example, other pose a threat to the protagonist.
Windlands
Arcade 05 April 2016
A three-dimensional platformer game developed by the independent team at Psytec Games with VR headsets in mind. The gameplay, presented from the first-person perspective, focuses on exploring ancient ruins and cities — the player’s task is to reach an exit or a portal that takes us to the next location. We traverse increasingly complex levels on foot; however, the protagonist has a grappling hook at his disposal which allows him to jump between platforms that float in the air.
Small Radios Big Televisions
Adventure 08 November 2016
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.
Ylands
Adventure 05 December 2019
A survival-oriented sandbox created by an in-house studio of Bohemia Interactive. Ylands allows the player to create their own interactive world. Building your own worlds is one of the mainstays of the game. They can be placed in a number of settings and conventions: from Wild West, through forests and farms, and up to medieval castles and arenas inspired by Feudal Japan. The player can modify the topography, as well as build objects and items.
The Signal From Tolva
Action 10 April 2017
A first-person action game with open world, set in a science fiction reality. The Signal From Tölva was developed by the independent developer Big Robot studio, the creators of the humorous Sir, You Are Being Hunted. This time, the player assumes the role of a hacker and takes control of robots that decided to explore an alien planet on their own. In this way, we have to investigate the source of a mysterious signal emitted from beneath the planet’s surface.
Call of R'lyeh
Adventure canceled
A short, exploratory adventure by FPP, using motifs taken from the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The game takes us to the sunken city of R'lyeh, where according to legend lies sleeping Cthulhu, and our task is to find ten artifacts that will allow us to free ourselves from the nightmare.