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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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My Memory of Us
My Memory of Us

Adventure 10 October 2018

A two-dimensional adventure game with platformer features from the independent Polish team at Juggler Games. It takes players to a fictional city ruled by the Evil King and his army of robots. Certain districts have been separated from others by a high wall, and this ghetto is used to contain the so called “worse part of society”. The players take control of two kids trying to survive in the cruel new reality.

The Last Night
The Last Night

Adventure 2024

A cyberpunk platformer with adventure elements. Developed by Odd Tales, it's the company's first commercial production, developed from a free title that has won Cyberpunk Jam 2014. The action of The Last Night is set in a futuristic, open city divided into four areas of different appearance and atmosphere, which influences gameplay. You assume the role of a spy hired by private employers who give you such tasks as stealing cars or killing particular people.

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home

Adventure 07 March 2024

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home is an action adventure game set during World War I. It tells the story of four different characters, testing our dexterity and cunning while taking on the form of a side-scrolling 2D platformer.

Renoir
Renoir

Adventure canceled

An atmospheric platformer game with logic elements, referencing classic noir movies in terms of style. Renoir is the debut project of the independent studio Souldbound Games that secured necessary funding thanks to a crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter. In the game, we assume the role of an experienced detective, James Renoir, who is to solve his last case.

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

Adventure 28 August 2014

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.

Forgotton Anne
Forgotton Anne

Adventure 15 May 2018

A game developed by an indie studio, ThroughLine Games, that combines elements of point-and-click and platform games. In Forgotten Anne the players step into a fantasy world of Forgotten Lands, inhabited by creatures that were created out of abandoned everyday objects. When a rebellion rises, our main heroine, who works as an enforcer, needs to stop the riots and bring back the balance and peace. Her master, Bonku, aids the girl in this quest. The action is presented from a side perspective.

Wandersong
Wandersong

Adventure 06 December 2019

An unusual game that combines traits of a side-scrolling platform game, a music game, and an adventure game.

Spiritfarer
Spiritfarer

Adventure 18 August 2020

A hybrid of adventure game, platform game and economic strategy, whose main theme is... dying. In Spiritfarer, the player takes on the role of a girl who, like a mythical Charon, takes the dead to the underworld on her boat. The production was developed by the Canadian independent studio Thunder Lotus Games.

Goodbye World
Goodbye World

Adventure 16 November 2022

A 13-chapter long indie adventure platformer by Isolation Studio. GOODBYE WORLD tells the story of two struggling friends developing games, Kanii and Kumade.

7th Sector
7th Sector

Adventure 05 February 2020

A production on the borderline between adventure and platform games, which takes us to a grim, cybernetic world. As one of the futuristic robots, in 7th Sector we travel through dark locations, gathering information about the world around us and the events taking place in it.

A Juggler's Tale
A Juggler's Tale

Adventure 29 September 2021

A Juggler's Tale is a platformer in which we take control of a puppet named Abby and travel through a war-torn, medieval land; we avoid traps and obstacles, solve environmental puzzles, and escape heel-dragging persecutors.

Lair of the Clockwork God
Lair of the Clockwork God

Adventure 04 September 2020

An indirect continuation of the adventure series from the independent Size Five Games studio. In Lair of the Clockwork God Ben and Dan return in another adventure that combines point-and-click with a two-dimensional platformer.

Bramble: The Mountain King
Bramble: The Mountain King

Adventure 27 April 2023

An action adventure game, in which we play as a young boy traversing a disturbing land inhabited by monsters from Nordic legends, in order to rescue his sister abducted by a troll. The game was developed by an independent Dimfrost 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.

Magical Delicacy
Magical Delicacy

Adventure 2024

A combination of a platformer and an adventure game with metroidvania elements. In Magical Delicacy we play as a witch named Flora, running our own store with magical food and potions.

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan

Adventure 05 October 2021

Adventure game with platform game and RPG elements. In Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan we explore the world and help the creatures that inhabit it, who join our team. All this to restore the lost colors of the entire land.

The Cub
The Cub

Adventure September 2024

Platform game, developed by the authors of the warmly welcomed Golf Club: Wasteland. In The Cub we play as a child who wanders the postapocalyptic Earth escaping from scouts who hunt him down.

Little Orpheus
Little Orpheus

Adventure 13 September 2022

Little Orpheus is a side-scrolling action adventure game in which we play the role of a Soviet cosmonaut exploring the inside of the Earth. The game was developed by The Chinese Room. The publisher is Sumo Digital.

Aspire: Ina's Tale
Aspire: Ina's Tale

Adventure 17 December 2021

An action adventure platform game in which we play as the titular Ina. In Aspire: Ina's Tale we travel through a huge Tower, overcoming platform challenges, solving ingenious puzzles and freeing the unfortunates trapped inside.

Black The Fall
Black The Fall

Adventure 11 July 2017

An action-adventure title developed by the independent developer Sand Sailor Studio. The action of Black The Fall takes place in a communist industrial dystopia where the inhabitants are completely subject to the regime. The main hero, named Black, is a obedient worker at one of the many factories. However, when the entrance door gets damaged, he takes the opportunity to break free. Gameplay featuring a side-view focuses on exploration of the mysterious environment.

A Pixel Story
A Pixel Story

Adventure 24 February 2017

2D platform game, which combines several art styles in a unique fashion. A Pixel Story is set within a computer, which falls under the control of the villainous Evil OS. It soon turns out that the only piece of software able to stop him is the game’s protagonist – a small white man, known as The Chosen One. Equipped only with his Magic Hat he sets out on a journey across various regions in order to put an end to the tyrant’s rule.

Zombie Vikings
Zombie Vikings

Adventure 22 February 2017

A 2D arcade platformer game with hack’n’slash elements, developed by the indie studio Zoink Games, best known for its highly-absurd production Stick it to the Man!. The action of Zombie Vikings begins in the moment when the mischievous god Loki decides to steal the last, magical eye of Odin, who in turn resurrects four disgusting zombie-Vikings and tasks them with reclaiming the stolen item.

HeadLander
HeadLander

Adventure 18 November 2016

A science-fiction side-scrolling platform game developed by studio Double Fine Productions led by Tim Schafer. HeadLander combines the features of the classic video game series Metroid with a few completely new features. During the game, the player assumes the role of a character who wakes up in a trashy world of the future, inhabited only by robots. The protagonist discovers that he consists only of… a head placed in a special helmet equipped with a rocket propulsion system.

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.