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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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Mosaic
Mosaic

Adventure 23 January 2020

A point-n-click adventure from the creators of Among the Sleep, a first-person perspective horror in which you control a two-year-old child. The title concentrates on the themes of weariness of life and the feeling of alienation. In Mosaic, you assume the role of an office employee working in a soulless corporation. Day after day, following a monotonous routine, the hero realizes that he does not belong to this artificial and heartless world.

Manual Samuel
Manual Samuel

Adventure 14 October 2016

An amazingly hilarious adventure game combining elements of the famous Monkey Island series with the crazy Octodad: Dadliest Catch. It was developed by Perfectly Paranormal - an independent game-making studio. The game tells a story of the titular Samuel, who has just died as a result of an accident. In the Afterlife he meets Death, with whom he makes an unusual pact.

Symmetry
Symmetry

Adventure 23 February 2018

An independent Polish game developed by Sleepless Clinic. The players are tasked with taking care of a research team that crash landed on an alien planet covered with ice. The players must make sure that the researchers survive. In order to achieve this goal, they must satisfy their basic needs by providing them with food and rest. They must also fix the broken ship.

Fe
Fe

Adventure 16 February 2018

A third-person perspective action game with platform genre features developed by Swedish studio Zoink Games as part of EA Originals, an initiative created in order to support independent developers. The game takes place in a mysterious realm inhabited by weird animals of which one the players control. The gameplay mechanics of the game combine solving riddles with classic platform-genre exploration.

Conarium
Conarium

Adventure 12 February 2019

A psychological horror adventure game. The developers at Zoetrope Interactive were inspired by the works of Howard Philips Lovecraft, especially the novella entitled At the Mountains of Madness. The action of Conarium takes place in the 30s, and the player find himself in Upuaut.

Into the Belly of the Beast
Into the Belly of the Beast

Adventure 22 June 2016

A colorful, two-dimensional action game from the German studio Lucky Brograms, in which the players concentrate on combining DNA of marine animals. We play as a likeable worm named Sploosh, whose children were abducted by a mighty sea monster as they were taking a carefree bath. Desperate, Sploosh chases after the beast and manages to get inside its body.

Three Fourths Home
Three Fourths Home

Adventure 27 November 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.

The First Tree
The First Tree

Adventure 30 November 2018

A third-person perspective exploration game about death and loneliness. It was developed by an independent developer who also created Home is Where one Starts. In The First Tree, the player follows two distinctly different characters: a female fox that is looking for her lost kids, and a pair of humans facing death of their closest ones.

ZED
ZED

Adventure canceled

A first-person exploration adventure game developed by Eagre Games led by Chuck Carter, the co-creator of the cult Myst series. The player assumes the role of a Dreamer whose task is to piece together the most important memories and pass them on to his granddaughter before his imminent death.

Blackwood Crossing
Blackwood Crossing

Adventure 17 February 2017

An adventure game developed by PaperSeven. The plot was written by Oliver Reid-Smith (the creator of the script for the well-received The Room), and it focuses on the relations of orphaned siblings: Scarlett and her younger brother, Finn. When the girl enters adolescence, their relations worsen. While traveling on a train, the protagonists meet a mysterious creature that lets them look at their past from a different perspective.

Layers of Fear: Inheritance
Layers of Fear: Inheritance

Adventure 02 August 2016

Layers of Fear: Inheritance is a full-scope story-driven DLC for the first-person horror game, Layers of Fear, by Blooper Team. The expansion, called Inheritance, does not introduce any changes in the game’s mechanics, offering instead a brand new story, whose action takes place many years after the story of the original. Players don’t control the painter himself, but his daughter – she learns that after the death of her father, the house now belongs to her.

Lantern
Lantern

Adventure canceled

An unusual exploration game developed by Italian studio Storm in a Teacup. The plot of the game focuses on an Asian princess whose tears caused the world around her to lose its colors and start dying. The player assumes the role of a small lantern and is tasked with returning the life and colors to the realm by making everyone remember about the power of love. There are four areas to visit, each with different architecture and environment.

Visage
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.

Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala
Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala

Adventure 06 April 2018

The third installment of the series of investigation adventure/hidden object games that is one of the more popular franchises created by Polish studio Artifex Mundi. In Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala the player follows the protagonists known from the previous installments of the series, who join forces with hopes of catching the series' main antagonist, the demonic preacher.

Demon Hunter: New Chapter
Demon Hunter: New Chapter

Adventure 20 January 2023

A sequel to the casual HOPA game developed cooperatively by the Serbian Brave Giant and the Polish Artifex Mundi. The action of Demon Hunter 2: A New Chapter takes place 20 years after the events of the original. When the foster father of the heroine dies while fighting a demonic opponent that tried to reenter our world, the protagonist becomes the last living member of the ancient Demon Hunter order and the only person that can face the enemy who is now stronger than ever.

Virginia
Virginia

Adventure 22 September 2016

An adventure game created by an independent studio Variable State. The player assumes the role of a rookie FBI agent, who receives a task of investigating the case of a young boy’s disappearance. The plot is filled with supernatural elements, and science-fiction motifs. The plot of Virginia is completely linear, so the players can focus on experiencing the story.

The Fall Part 2: Unbound
The Fall Part 2: Unbound

Adventure 13 February 2018

An action adventure game with platformer elements, developed by the independent studio Over the Moon Games. The production is a direct sequel to The Fall which debuted in 2014. After the events of the original, ARID reaches the global network and her primary task is to save herself — the heroine, who is an advanced artificial intelligence, takes over various robots to do so. The gameplay of The Fall Part 2: Unbound is presented from a side view.

Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends
Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends

Adventure 29 June 2018

Developed by The House of Fables and Artifex Mundi, Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends is a HOPA game. Players follow the adventures of a botanist Mary Gilbert, who has to rescue her brother kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Unfortunately, the antagonist not only poses a threat to the main protagonist's brother but also to the entire world, and the only chance of stopping him lies in Mary and her companion Aitwara – a house spirit.

Candleman
Candleman

Adventure 20 October 2017

A unique action-adventure game developed by an independent Chinese studio Spotlightor Interactive. The player assumes the role of the titular candle that can burn for only ten seconds. This flame is the only weapon of the protagonist during the long and dangerous journey to find the far away light. The gameplay mechanics of Candleman are based on principles of three-dimensional platform games.

Vaccine
Vaccine

Adventure 21 February 2017

Survival horror inspired by the classic scenes of the Resident Evil cycle. The player takes on the role of one of the members of a bio-hazard department, in whose skin he traverses a ghastly residence, looking for a vaccine for a companion infected with a deadly virus. He has only thirty minutes to complete his task - if he does not manage to return to the sick person with medicine and discover the mystery of his home, the struggle will start anew.

8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I
8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I

Adventure 31 October 2017

A compilation of three point-and-click adventure games developed in the years 1987-1991, including Deja Vu, Shadowgate and The Uninvited. For the sake of this collection, the creators introduced only a new menu, conveyed in the classic, 8-bit style - neither the mechanics nor the audiovisuals of the three included games were altered in comparison to their original releases.

Beat The Game
Beat The Game

Adventure canceled

A surreal adventure game, in which the player assumes the role of a musically gifted traveler. On one of his adventures, his machine breaks down; however, there is still hope. If he manages to pull off a concert, he might attract some new means of transport. The gameplay in Beat The Game revolves around ideas similar to those featured in classic adventure games.

Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse
Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse

Adventure 26 October 2021

Point-and-click adventure based on Cyanide & Happiness network comic. We play as a boy known from the original who has to survive until the last day of the school year. It's not easy, because the world around him is getting closer to the apocalypse every day. Mechanisms of the game remain faithful to the traditions of the genre. During the game we have to explore locations, collect items, talk to encountered characters and solve puzzles.

Wheels of Aurelia
Wheels of Aurelia

Adventure 18 November 2016

Production with an emphasis on the story. The action takes place in Italy from the seventies of the last century. Players play the role of Lella travelling by car on the title road Via Aurelia. During her voyages, the protagonist encounters various characters, who she gets to know more closely during long, often turbulent discussions. The adventures are determined by the player's actions and decisions.