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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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MacGuffin's Curse
MacGuffin's Curse

Adventure 15 March 2022

A humorous adventure with a large dose of logical puzzles. We play the role of a desperate magician, who as a result of unsuccessful bank robbery found himself in the middle of the best guarded place in the whole city, and on his finger rested a cursed ring turning him into a werewolf.

Okami HD
Okami HD

Adventure 09 August 2018

A refreshed version of the famous action adventure game that tells the story of a goddess in the form of a wolf that faces the evil. The HD edition features improved graphics. The developers of Okami HD aimed to retain the unique visual style of the original game and adapt it to modern standards. The original version was released in 2006 on PlayStation 2.

Robotics;Notes Elite
Robotics;Notes Elite

Adventure 13 October 2020

A Japanese adventure game of the visual novel sub-genre. Players have the opportunity to play the role of a young high school student and a beginner mechanic, whose dream is to build a real mecha several meters long.

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition

Adventure 28 January 2020

An episode-broken 2D adventure game enveloped in an atmosphere of anxiety and loneliness. We play the role of a supplier of antique furniture and help him to fulfill his last order. We travel through abandoned areas in search of adventures and meet a handful of unusual characters.

Beyond a Steel Sky
Beyond a Steel Sky

Adventure 30 November 2021

Beneath a Steel Sky 2 is an adventure game by Revolution Software team. The whole is maintained in cyberpunk climates and combines a gloomy vision of the future with a lot of humour. The game consists mainly in exploring the location, conducting talks and solving puzzles.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Adventure 28 May 2019

A fairy tale adventure and arcade game created by the Swedish Starbreeze studio, known for such titles as Kroniki Riddicka or Syndicate. The production tells the story of two brothers travelling through picturesque lands in search of medicine for their sick father. During the game, we control both characters at the same time, and most of the challenges we face require their close cooperation.

Machinarium
Machinarium

Adventure 01 November 2018

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.

Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes

Adventure 14 August 2019

Continuation of a bizarre, yet humorous, German adventure from the Edna & Harvey series. Lilla's protagonist and the plush rabbit Harvey get caught up in a new trouble: the girl begins to see the little gnomes influencing reality, and the plush is kidnapped by a mad doctor. Caricatured graphics, psychedelic motifs and comic atmosphere make the game stand out from other adventures.

Corpse Party
Corpse Party

Adventure 20 October 2021

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.

The Journey Down
The Journey Down

Adventure 21 June 2018

Commercial remake of the popular free adventure from 2010. The plot takes place in a fantastic world inspired by African and Jamaican cultures. The game is about exploring the location, conducting conversations, collecting objects and solving riddles.

Deadly Premonition: Origins
Deadly Premonition: Origins

Adventure 04 September 2019

Deadly Premonition is an adventure game enriched with elements of survival-horror and RPG. We lead a young FBI agent to explain the mysterious murders in a small American town.

Syberia
Syberia

Adventure 20 October 2017

An adventure game designed by Benoit Sokal, the famous Belgian comic writer, in cooperation with studio Microids. Syberia is the first chapter of the adventures of Kate Walker, an American lawyer hired by the company that produces automatons – mechanical toys. She is tasked with finishing the formalities related to taking over a factory located in a small city in Europe. The game begins when the protagonist arrives at the factory and learns that its owner, Anna Voralberg, is dead.

Syberia II
Syberia II

Adventure 30 November 2017

A sequel to the excellent adventure game created by Benoit Sokal and studio Microids. Syberia II continues the plot of the first installment - it presents the further adventures of Kate Walker, an American lawyer. Her intention of finalizing a contract led her to the adventure of her life. The game starts in the same place where the first Syberia ended – in the Russian city Romansburg.

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

Adventure 14 May 2020

The third installment of the Oddworld series for the first time takes the player into a three-dimensional world. This time, Abe, known from the previous parts, is accompanied by a wheelchair-driven Munch.

80 Days
80 Days

Adventure 01 October 2019

A strategy-adventure text-based game inspired by the classic novel Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. In the production, developed by the British studio inkle, we play as Phileas Fogg's new servant named Passepartout (in the Polish version of the novel: Obiezyswiat). Our task will be to support our employer on his way to win a lucrative bet by taking care of all the elements of this journey around the world.

Secret Files: Tunguska
Secret Files: Tunguska

Adventure 30 November 2018

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.

N.E.R.O: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure
N.E.R.O: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure

Adventure canceled

Developed by the debuting independent studio Storm in a Teacup, an unusual first-person adventure game, the visuals of which are strongly connected with the plot and mechanics. The action of N.E.R.O. takes place in a surreal world that is projected in a little boy’s mind. The uniqueness of the title comes from omnipresent bioluminescence – dark sceneries are lighted up by bright, phosphorescent objects that at the same time serve as a kind of road signs.

realMYST: Masterpiece Edition
realMYST: Masterpiece Edition

Adventure 21 May 2020

Prepared to mark the 20th anniversary of the release, a fully re-mastered version of one of the most important adventure games of all time. The authors based on the three-dimensional version of RealMYST from 2000, enriching it with the latest graphic effects and a whole range of improvements and new possibilities.

Monstrum
Monstrum

Adventure 22 May 2020

A survival horror game from an independent studio, Team Junkfish. Player takes control of a man trying to escape from a giant, decaying ship, with a titular monster pursuing him all the time. The beast cannot be confronted directly, meaning the hero can only hide or distract the creature with various items. The world is observed from third-person perspective, and all but crucial rooms are randomly generated.

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

Adventure 05 February 2019

A continuation of the 2009 hilarious adventure game developed by KING Art Games that tells a story of the search for a powerful magical artifact. The story of the second installment picks up one year after the events shown by its predecessor, allowing the players to control the team of heroes aided by an amiable creature named Critter – one might remember all these characters from the first game.

Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed Director's Cut
Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed Director's Cut

Adventure 01 August 2023

Three-dimensional adventure game with RPG elements and a combat system known for its beat 'em up production. Players hunt for vampire-like creatures that impersonate ordinary Tokyo residents. During the adventure we will visit one of the most famous districts of the city - Akihabara.

The Fall
The Fall

Adventure 10 May 2018

Set in the reality of science fiction platformer developed by Over the Moon studio. The Fall was inspired by classic adventure and platform titles and the prose of Russian SF writer Isaac Asimov. The game takes place on a distant planet, where an injured spaceship pilot finds himself. Playing in his spacesuit artificial intelligence, called ARID, we have to save his life and help to survive in a strange and dangerous environment.

Kholat
Kholat

Adventure 14 May 2020

A first-person survival horror game developed by Polish development studio IMGN.pro. The game's story is inspired by true events that took place in 1959 at the Dyatlov Pass in the Ural mountains, where the dead bodies of nine Russian hikers were found, and the cause of their death remained unclear. We only know that most of them died of hypothermia, and evidence indicates that they were forced to flee from an unknown danger.

Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series
Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series

Adventure 23 March 2021

An episodic adventure game set in the universe of the Gearbox Software’s Borderlands series. This title was developed by Telltale Games studio that specializes in this genre. Story-wise, the game follows the plot started in Borderlands 2, following two characters: Fiona, a con artist, and Rhys, an employee of the Hyperion corporation equipped with cybernetic implants. The game’s goal is to remove the discrepancies within the story stemming from the mixed narrative of the two protagonists.