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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. more

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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

Adventure 11 April 2023

An adventure game developed by Frogwares studio, set in the convention of Lovecraftian horror. The project's codename, Palianytsia, is an insult to Russian speakers, who often can't pronounce the Ukrainian word correctly.

Obduction
Obduction

Adventure 29 August 2017

A first-person perspective adventure game with logic elements, developed by Cyan - the creators of the cult adventure game series, Myst. Obduction, created as a Myst’s spiritual successor, tells a story of a man who finds a bizarre organic artifact that fell from the sky and is taken by it into a strange world. In the game, our task is to figure out where are we, and then find a way back home.

Night in the Woods
Night in the Woods

Adventure 21 February 2017

A combination of adventure and arcade games, created by an independent developer known as Infinite Ammo. The player assumes the role of Mae - a cat with paranormal abilities. The protagonist quits her studies and returns to her hometown - Possum Springs, in order to have some quality time with her old friends. The place has fallen into decline since the last mine in town was closed, because the inhabitants have been left without work.

Broken Age
Broken Age

Adventure 28 April 2015

Classic point-and-click adventure developed by Double Fine studio, which was led by Tim Schaffer himself - a true legend of the industry and co-author of such cult titles as Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango. The plot of the game focuses on two seemingly unrelated characters. One of them is Vella, who lives in a small village and is to be sacrificed to a certain monster in order to ensure the safety of the remaining inhabitants of the settlement.

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Adventure 04 September 2015

The fifth installment of a classic series of point and click adventure games whose origins can be traced back to 1996. The player travels around the planet while leading a pair of heroes that solve the puzzles of old. The game was developed thanks to a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter.

Thimbleweed Park
Thimbleweed Park

Adventure 22 August 2017

A point-and-click adventure game created by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. The players are taken to the titular Thimbleweed Park - once a prosperous business area, now definitely past its prime. The player takes on the roles of five characters in total throughout this adventure and is capable of switching between them at any time.

Titanic: Honor and Glory
Titanic: Honor and Glory

Adventure canceled

A first-person adventure game from ORM Entertainment, which was initially supposed to be nothing more than modification to the popular shooter Crysis 2. Its story revolves around the disaster of the famous ocean liner, which sunk in 1912 with hundreds of people on board. We play as a man named Robert Morgan, who, due to false accusations, has to hide aboard the liner from the police.

Dreamfall Chapters
Dreamfall Chapters

Adventure 05 May 2017

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.

Lifeless Planet
Lifeless Planet

Adventure 17 August 2016

Lifeless Planet is a science fiction action adventure game developed by Stage 2, an independent studio. The protagonist is a lone astronaut sent to explore a newly discovered planet where scientists believe life has evolved. Unfortunately, during the landing the ship crashed, crashing into this mysterious and - as it soon turns out - desolate world.

The Long Dark
The Long Dark

Adventure 01 August 2017

A first person survival sandbox game, developed by independent Canadian studio Hinterland. The team includes veteran game developers, who previously worked for Relic Entertainment, Volition, and BioWare. The game takes you into a post-apocalyptic world after a massive geomagnetic storm. With all electronic devices disabled and water and food supplies running low, the player has to struggle to survive the incoming winter.

Armikrog
Armikrog

Adventure 23 August 2016

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.

Beautiful Desolation
Beautiful Desolation

Adventure 28 May 2021

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.

BROK the InvestiGator
BROK the InvestiGator

Adventure 01 March 2023

BROK the InvestiGator is an independent point and click adventure game with RPG and beat 'em up elements, in which it depends on us how we will handle the investigation led by the crocodile protagonist. The game was developed by COWCAT studio.

Tales of the Neon Sea
Tales of the Neon Sea

Adventure 21 April 2023

A two-dimensional point-and-click adventure in which we play the role of a detective trying to solve a very strange case. The action takes place in the city of the future, and the whole atmosphere refers to the famous Blade Runner.

Deiland
Deiland

Adventure 01 March 2018

An adventure game with RPG and survival elements developed by Chibig. In Deiland, the players get to follow the adventures of a boy named Arco, who lives on a small planet that hides a magic crystal.

Candle: The Power of the Flame
Candle: The Power of the Flame

Adventure 25 July 2018

The debut project from the independent Spanish studio, Teku, combining elements of a classic platformer with a dynamic action-adventure games. Its plot takes after classic movie and gaming stories, putting us in the shoes of a young shaman student, who has to save the people from his village who were assaulted by the hostile Atipax tribe. We also discover a hidden, dark truth from the past.

Stasis: Bone Totem
Stasis: Bone Totem

Adventure 28 March 2024

The second part of a series of adventure games called Stasis, launched in 2015. In Stasis: Bone Totem, we take control of the scrap collectors lying on the ocean floor, who face the nightmares lurking on them on a seemingly deserted oil platform.

Whateverland
Whateverland

Adventure 22 September 2023

A point-and-click adventure game with a non-linear story, set in a world full of magic and supernatural elements. Whateverland was created and released by independent Caligari Games studio.

Forgotlings
Forgotlings

Adventure June 2024

An action adventure platforming metroidvania with adventure game elements. Forgotlings is set in a land inhabited by the titular beings born from forgotten objects, facing a deadly looming threat.

Stray Gods
Stray Gods

Adventure 10 August 2023

Stray Gods is a cross between an interactive musical, a narrative adventure game and an RPG. The developers were inspired by such works as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the episode Once More With Feeling), the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and Life is Strange.

No Longer Home
No Longer Home

Adventure 03 March 2023

No Longer Home is a narrative point-and-click adventure game in which we join the main characters, Bo and Ao, in their final moments in their rented flat in south London. The game was developed by independent studio Humble Grove.

A Place for the Unwilling
A Place for the Unwilling

Adventure 24 March 2022

An open world adventure game inspired by productions such as Sunless Sea and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. In A Place for the Unwilling we find ourselves in a small city full of various secrets and riddles.

Exo One
Exo One

Adventure 2025

An arcade and adventure game in which we travel through alien planets on board a spaceship. The Exo One takes the form of a sphere or a flying disc, and skillfully juggling these forms allows you to move quickly and smoothly through vast maps.

Truberbrook
Truberbrook

Adventure 17 April 2019

A classic point-and-click adventure created by a small btf studio. In the game we play the American physicist, who goes to the German village of Trüberbrook, where strange things happen.