Adventure Video Games8
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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The Inquisitor
Adventure 08 February 2024
The production is based on The Inquisitor Cycle, a series of novels by Jacek Piekara. In I, the Inquisitor we become the Inquisitor on behalf of Jesus Christ, who takes revenge on his tormentors and spreads the Gospel.
Still Wakes the Deep
Adventure 18 June 2024
An FPP horror action adventure game. Still Wakes the Deep has us playing as a drilling platform employee, trapped in his workplace during a storm. To survive, he must face a mysterious threat lurking on the platform.
Dreamfall Chapters
Adventure 21 October 2014
The third installment in the series of adventure games started in 1999 with Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Dreamfall: Chapters was developed by Red Thread Games led by Ragnar Tornquist. The story of the game presents further adventures of the young protagonist, Zoe Castillo, who thanks to her highly unusual powers is able to travel between three worlds: the magical Arcadia, the technologically advanced Stark and the mysterious Storytime.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition
Adventure 25 November 2010
A detective adventure game from the visual novel genre. It was developed by Japan studio Spike Chunsoft. The main protagonist of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Naegi Makoto, is a teenager who starts his education in an elite high school. In contrast to his colleagues, he has no remarkable achievements and he was accepted to the school by winning a lottery.
Visage
Adventure 30 October 2020
A psychological horror game and the debut work from SadSquare - an independent studio. The story is non-linear and focuses on a gloomy household that has seen many frightening events throughout the years - it has a history of driving entire families insane, leading to numerous killings and suicides. The protagonist is trapped inside the house, and apart from getting out of there, their goal is to solve the mystery behind the place.
Undercover Missions: Operation Kursk K-141
Adventure 11 December 2015
A third-person point-and-click espionage thriller adventure game developed by The Game Species. The action of Undercover Missions: Operation Kursk K-141 is set aboard the eponymous Russian submarine which went missing under suspicious circumstances in August of 2000. In the game we assume the role of a secret agent whose mission is to detect and capture the leader of a criminal organization that's been stealing Russian weapon systems.
The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan
Adventure 30 August 2019
Man of Medan is a horror adventure game opening The Dark Pictures Anthology. The game tells the story of the discovery of a sunken wreck from the Second World War. The game is very non-linear and it is up to us who will survive and how the whole story will end.
Alone in the Dark (2008)
Adventure 20 June 2008
Alone in the Dark is another part of the popular cycle, launched in 1992. Edward Carnby, a private investigator specializing in investigations of paranormal issues, plays the role of the main character again.
Saw: The Video Game
Adventure 06 October 2009
Action/TPP game based on a well-known horror series of the same title. We play the role of a lonely daredevil who tries to get through the traps set by a psychopathic murderer.
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Adventure 05 October 2010
A third-person perspective action-adventure game developed by Ninja Theory. The game is a modern adaptation of one of the most famous classics of Chinese literature, the epic Journey to the West. The action of the game takes place in the 22nd century, after the third and fourth World War. During the gameplay, we assume the role of a lone man called Monkey, who gets imprisoned by the machines ruling the world. He manages to escape along with a young woman called Trip.
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Adventure 27 October 2009
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.
Corpse Party
Adventure 12 August 2010
A visual novel adventure game developed by studio 5pg. The game is an improved version of the independent game created by Makoto Kedouin and originally released in 1996. Corpse Party takes place in a high school building that was built on the ruins of an old grade school in which a terrible and mysterious crime has occurred. One day, due to unexplainable events, a group of students enters a terrible and grotesque version of their school in which the corridors are filled with decomposing corpses.
Chronicles of Magic: Divided Kingdoms
Adventure 20 March 2018
A HOPA adventure game developed by The House of Fables and Artifex Mundi. The players are taken to a fantasy universe divided into two warring kingdoms – Black and White. The story begins when a mysterious Black Knight kidnaps Nevin, a boy living in the forests of White Kingdom. The player assumes control of Gillian, the boy’s mother who attempts to pursue the knight in order to save her son. The game takes place on static, hand-drawn locations.
Policenauts
Adventure 19 January 1996
A series of improvements to the FPP adventure, which was originally released in 1994 on the PC-98 platform. The author of this science-fiction production is Hideo Kojima.
Shardlight
Adventure 08 March 2016
A point-and-click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. The title was developed by Wadjet Eye, a studio renowned for The Blackwell Legacy game series. The action takes place in an unspecified time in the future, where the human civilization was decimated in the aftermath of a nuclear war. You assume the role of a young woman that becomes infected with a deadly virus.
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series
Adventure 18 April 2017
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series is an episodic adventure game developed by Telltale Games. The game is based on a comic book series from Marvel, and tells the story of the titular Guardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the classic superhero team ups, this group is made of outcasts and outlaws, and their humor-filled adventures take place in far reaches of the universe.
ReCore
Adventure 13 September 2016
A science-fiction TPP action game that depicts a vision of mankind’s future and its possible fall. The title is a joint work of Comcept – a studio that co-created MegaMan, founded by Keiji Inafune, an ex-employee of Capcom – and Armature Studio, which hires the creators of the Metroid Prime series. In Recore you play as a girl named Jewel, who is one of the last representatives of the human race.
King's Quest
Adventure 28 July 2015
An episodic point-and-click adventure game, and the ninth major installment in the cult King’s Quest series, whose last part was released 17 years ago. This game was developed by The Odd Gentlemen (known for The Adventures of P.B. Winterbottom), while the development process was supervised by the original creators of the franchise from the reactivated Sierra Studios. The game’s story is built around a series of flashbacks.
Reka
Adventure June 2024 (early access since 30 June 2024)
A TPP adventure game in which we traverse a land inspired by 19th-century Europe as a beginner witch. Reka tasks us with gathering supplies, completing quests for villagers and expanding our walking house on chicken legs.
Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone
Adventure 2025
The sixth installment in an iconic series of point-and-click adventure games. Broken Sword: Parzival's Stone stars George and Nico, searching for the mythical Holy Grail, the fate of the world in their hands.
ParanormalHK
Adventure 06 January 2020
ParanormalHK is an FPP horror adventure game. The action takes place in one of Hong Kong's districts, and the plot is based on local legends. In combination with realistic locations it gives the game an educational value.
MADiSON
Adventure 08 July 2022
MADiSON is a FPP adventure game with horror atmosphere. The player explores a mansion tormented by a vicious demon and solves logic puzzles.
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020
Adventure 2024
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 is the premiere episode of the second season of Supermassive Games studio's horror series. This is an adventure game that offers a non-linear storyline and gameplay revolving around exploration and arcade and logic challenges.
Post Trauma
Adventure May 2024
Horror action adventure game, a single player project inspired by the cult classic of horror games - Silent Hill. The main protagonist of Post Trauma is Roman - a 57-year-old man who unexpectedly wakes up in an eerie and mysterious subway.