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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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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 06 May 2014

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.

Cult County
Cult County

Adventure canceled

Cult County is a survival horror adventure game in which events are shown from the first person perspective (FPP). The story takes place in a desert town in Texas, where the protagonist finds himself in search of a sister. He finds an atmosphere of fear and distrust caused by sinister cultists, and soon comes to fight for survival. The game combines a dramatic struggle with exploratory elements in locations with a partially open structure.

Hatoful Boyfriend
Hatoful Boyfriend

Adventure 21 July 2015

Original Japanese visual novel game. The main character moves to a secondary school for intelligent and speaking birds. On the spot she can make friends with her students and find true love.

Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley

Adventure 08 February 2017

A two-dimensional pixel art survival horror. It is a debut title of the independent Slovenian studio Cowardly Creations. In the game the player assumes the role of a night watchman who guards a mysterious factory in shifts with his friend. To kill some time, the protagonist decides to explore the building. He discovers things he would rather not know. As the story progresses, he learns new dark secrets about his working place.

The Long Reach
The Long Reach

Adventure 14 August 2018

The Long Reach is an unusual adventure with the action set soon after a outbreak of an epidemic that turns people into bloodthirsty psychos. During gameplay, you need to figure out the way of neutralizing or avoiding enemies. Each of them is a separate riddle with a unique way of defeating.

The Deer God
The Deer God

Adventure 25 April 2017

The Deer God is an original platform game with roguelike and RPG elements, developed by the independent studio Cinopt Studios in cooperation with Crescent Moon Games. We observe the action from a side-scrolling perspective and play as a hunter who was reborn as a deer. From now on, his most important goal is to survive in a hostile environment. He will also have to do some quests, like growing old, achieving a godlike karma balance, or finding every statuette of knowledge.

Gnosia
Gnosia

Adventure 06 June 2019

Gnosia is a visual novel adventure game with RPG elements. The game revolves around deduction. While having conversations, we have to discover information, which later will allow us to indicate who from the crew of the spaceship is not who he says he is.

Claire: Extended Cut
Claire: Extended Cut

Adventure 30 August 2016

An extended edition of Claire - a survival horror game released in 2014. In comparison to the original release, the new edition brings mainly improved audiovisuals. Once again, the development works were carried out by Hailstorm Games. The game still offers a two-dimensional environment and pixel-art graphics. However, the creators managed to implement both 3D objects and depth of field effects.

Machinarium
Machinarium

Adventure 26 March 2013

An original two-dimensional adventure game developed by Amanita Design - an independent Czech studio popular for the Samorost series. The action is set in a bizarre world made entirely of metal. All the plants, wildlife and humans were replaced by robots. The player assumes the role of one such robot, wrongfully sent to a junkyard. Once back in town, the protagonist discovers the existence of a conspiracy aiming to murder its leader.

Home
Home

Adventure 14 April 2015

A retro-style adventure game filled with the atmosphere of horror. We are recovering consciousness in an unknown house where the murder was committed. Fighting our own fears and doubts, we make decisions that influence the finale of the story told.

Kodoku
Kodoku

Adventure canceled

Inspired by Japanese horrors and the rich culture of the Land of the Cherry Blossom, this is an adventure game with strong sneaky accents. As a book collector, we find ourselves on the gloomy island of Kodok, where, as the trail indicates, a rare bibliophile specimen has been hidden. The deserted place turns out to be the habitat of demons, and our task will be to survive and find an escape route from the island.

Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth
Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth

Adventure canceled

An adventure game enriched by elements characteristic of visual novels. Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth takes place in post-apocalyptic Japan. The player assumes the role of a member of a treasure hunter group, who searches for an ancient artifact that can resurrect his dead sister. To find the treasure, the protagonist has to gather a team of similar adventurers, and embark on the dangerous journey. The developers were mainly inspired by games such as Zero Escape or the Ace Attorney series.

Murasaki Baby
Murasaki Baby

Adventure 16 September 2014

Murasaki Baby is an adventure game with platform and logic elements, in which we will help a little girl lost in the world of dreams and nightmares. The title was created for the touchscreen of PlayStation Vita.

Pavilion
Pavilion

Adventure TBA

An isometric adventure game that is a debut title of an independent studio VisionTrick Media. Pavilion is described as a fourth-person perspective game. This means that the player doesn’t have any direct control over the hero. Instead, the player assumes the role of the being that looks after the protagonist, influencing his movements through manipulation of environment and his senses. The story of Pavilion takes place in an oneiric world, which often surprises with its rules.

Stick It to The Man!
Stick It to The Man!

Adventure 03 December 2013

Full of absurd humour game Swedish studio Zoink! Games, combining platformer and adventure elements. The action takes place in the world of cardboard cut-outs. The main character accidentally becomes a vector of the tentacle, which allows him to read and transmit the thoughts of others. These skills turn out to be extremely helpful in escaping from agents and the mysterious jegomosc, known as The Man.

Proteus
Proteus

Adventure 30 October 2013

Proteus is an exploratory adventure by Ed Key. The game consists mainly of travelling through a randomly generated world, discovering its secrets and learning how the environment reacts to the player's presence.

Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor

Adventure 25 September 2013

Dark survival horror maintained in the climate of older parts of Silent Hill. The player takes on the role of a hero who tries to get out of the city captured by a mysterious plague. What is interesting, during the game you have to take care of the mental health of characters and regularly satisfy hunger. The whole is maintained in an unusual, two-dimensional setting.

One Way Trip
One Way Trip

Adventure canceled

An original adventure game where the heroes learn that as a result of a mysterious chemical attack they fell victim to a deadly poison. It kills 6 hours after infection, causing a stubborn hallucination that resembles the state after taking the drug. The authors try to answer the question of how we would behave in the face of inevitable death and touch upon a number of important topics, such as interpersonal relationships, morality and the irreversible consequences of human actions.

The Unfinished Swan
The Unfinished Swan

Adventure 28 October 2014

This is an adventure game in which we race a mysterious white swan, hiding in a strange and full of surprises fanatastic kingdom. Players discover the world around them by spraying black paint around them. It covers the snow-white scenery and in this way emphasizes its shapes and details.

Alone With You
Alone With You

Adventure 23 August 2016

An SF adventure game developed by Benjamin Rivers – the creators of the horror game Home. In Alone With You the player assumes the role of a colonist who is a lone survivor of a catastrophe that befell his base on an alien planet that will be completely destroyed in the span of a single month. You cannot leave the planet as the only spaceship available is broken and the hero has neither knowledge nor abilities to make it work again.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Adventure 26 May 2015

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a sequel to the 2010 Octodad adventure by students from DePaul University. The title character still tries to hide his nature of the octopus, and when the suspicious wife insists on a visit to the oceanarium, the cephalopod is hanging in the air.

Three Fourths Home
Three Fourths Home

Adventure 09 December 2015

An unusual narrative/adventure game developed by [bracket] games and Digerati Distribution. Three Fourths Home tells the story of a young woman named Kelly who is currently on her way to her family home in Nebraska after a years’ absence. We accompany the woman during conversations with her parents and her younger brother, learning more about the complicated relationship she has with them. The game cannot be easily assigned a genre, as we are given a mix of an adventure game and a visual novel.

Without Escape
Without Escape

Adventure 14 January 2020

A combination of a point-and-click and a HOPA game, in which you have to escape a hellish alternative reality. In Without Escape, you search locations for useful objects, and solve various logic puzzles.