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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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Escape the Backrooms
Escape the Backrooms

Adventure 11 August 2022

An exploration-focused FPP game based on a popular creepypasta. Escape the Backrooms is set in the titular Backrooms, which we must escape from while avoiding wandering monsters. The game supports singleplayer and co-op.

Phasmophobia
Phasmophobia

Adventure 2024 (early access since 18 September 2020)

Phasmophobia is an unusual survival horror, which was developed specifically for the 4-person cooperative mode. The game also offers support for virtual reality. The independent Kinetic Games studio is responsible for its development and release.

Desolatium
Desolatium

Adventure 05 April 2024

A first-person point & click adventure game inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Desolatium has us playing as four different characters, gradually delving into madness as they attempt to find their missing friend.

Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate
Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate

Adventure 27 June 2024

Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate is a VR time traveling game, in which we must save the world from destruction. It's a remastered release of Wanderer from 2022. Players explore Mayan civilizations, participate in the Moon landing and fight during World War II.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2

Adventure 14 December 2023

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted 2 is the second VR mini-game collection set in the Five Nights at Freddy's horror universe. Once again, the player must face off against murderous animatronics.

Allison Road
Allison Road

Adventure canceled

A first-person perspective action-adventure game stylized as a survival horror. Allison Road had a somewhat complicated development cycle, with previous developers (Lilith) abandoning the project. However, a new studio, Far From Home, decided to pick-up the project and lead it to a stable release. The player assumes the role of an unidentified hero, who wakes up one night in a suburban home without having any recollection of the events of the last few days.

Don't Knock Twice
Don't Knock Twice

Adventure 05 September 2017

A horror game developed by the independent studio Wales Interactive, which was inspired by an urban legend of a demonic witch. The protagonist, searching for her lost daughter, is led to a grim mansion that hides a dark secret. In Don’t Knock Twice, the action is presented from the first-person perspective, while the gameplay is focused on exploration of the vast house in search of carefully hidden hints as well as fighting encountered opponents with the use of various items.

Robinson: The Journey
Robinson: The Journey

Adventure 07 February 2017

A first-person adventure game focused on exploration. The game was developed by the German team at Crytek (famous for the best-selling Crysis series) and designed to support virtual reality technology. The story is set on an unknown distant planet combining tropical flora with prehistoric fauna embodied by powerful dinosaurs. The surface of the planet is littered with remnants of technologically advanced but now extinct civilization.

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time
Doctor Who: The Edge of Time

Adventure 12 November 2019

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time is a VR adventure game. During the game, players have the opportunity to take on the role of the Time Lord and fight against the destructive virus.

Frankenstein: Beyond the Time
Frankenstein: Beyond the Time

Adventure 01 August 2018

Frankenstein: Beyond the Time is a VR adventure game from The Dust studio in Wroclaw, where we visit the mysterious Victorian villa of the famous Dr. Frankenstein. The game is strongly inspired by Mary Shelley's novel published over 200 years ago.

Slender: The Arrival
Slender: The Arrival

Adventure 26 March 2013

A survival horror adventure game, a commercial development of the free-to-play hit Slender: The Eight Pages. Mark Hadley and the development team of Blue Isle Studios remained faithful to the urban legend of the faceless man. The player-created protagonist is looking for his wife, who disappeared from their home in unexplained circumstances. Words written on the walls suggest that the woman may be in serious danger.

Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul
Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul

Adventure 15 August 2017

Paranormal Activity: Lost Souls is a first-person horror adventure game. It was developed by VRWerx and based on the Paranormal Activity horror movies. We play as a person who got stuck in a haunted house, just like the characters in the movies. To survive, we will have to discover the house's secret and find out what creatures want to kill us. Gameplay in Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul is based on the standard formula used in many other horror adventure games.

Weeping Doll
Weeping Doll

Adventure canceled

A horror with logical game elements, created by Chinese studio TianShe Media. The player assumes the role of a housemaid, who decides to solve the mystery behind the mysterious disappearance of the Victorian residence’s inhabitants. The gameplay in Weeping Doll is presented from a first person perspective, and focuses on exploration, searching for story clues and keys, and finally solving various riddles which involve object manipulation.

Testimony of Help
Testimony of Help

Adventure 24 September 2023

A first-person interactive short film. Testimony of HELP is set in the 1940s, during World War II, in the Ulm family home. The player witnesses a regular day alongside little Basia Ulm and the tragic fate that befell the family for sheltering Jews.

Riven
Riven

Adventure 2024

A full-scale remake of the cult FPP point & click adventure game. The most important change introduced in Riven is the fully three-dimensional graphics, and thus the ability to move freely around the locations.

Journey to Foundation
Journey to Foundation

Adventure 26 October 2023

An FPP action adventure game developed with VR in mind. In Journey to Foundation we play as Agent Ward, traversing the outskirts of the galaxy, deciding whether to fight to maintain a collapsing Empire or help create a new cradle for humanity.

Lifeless Moon
Lifeless Moon

Adventure 10 August 2023

The second part of the science fiction action adventure game series. In Lifeless Moon we play as one of the astronauts who, after arriving on the Moon, discover an Earth city on its surface, thus beginning a strange and mysterious journey.

Caffeine
Caffeine

Adventure 05 October 2015

A science fiction horror adventure game by an independent one-man studio, Incandescent Imaging. The action takes place in the future in which the eponymous caffeine is a valuable resource obtained in space with special mining ships. Aboard one of them, a young boy awakens and discovers that for some unknown reason the vessel is completely deserted. Exploring the dark interior of the ship, the protagonist learns new facts and clues that lead him to the solution of the mystery.

Syndrome
Syndrome

Adventure 06 October 2016

A first-person science fiction survival horror game developed by the independent studio Camel 101. The action of Syndrome is set on board of a vast space station where the protagonist wakes up from a cryogenic sleep and discovers that, as a result of unexplained events, part of the crew is dead and the rest have turned into bloodthirsty monsters. The hero’s goal is naturally to solve the mystery behind this situation while being hindered by numerous enemies and a myriad of other dangers.

Edge of Nowhere
Edge of Nowhere

Adventure 06 June 2016

An interesting action adventure game with horror elements, created with virtual reality hardware in mind. Edge of Nowhere was developed by the experienced studio Insomniac Games, the creators of such well-known tiles as the Spyro series, Ratchet & Clank, Resistance or Sunset Overdrive. Unlike other productions for VR hardware, Edge of Nowhere is a TPP game. You play as a rescue team member searching for a lost expedition in the Antarctic.

The Gallery
The Gallery

Adventure 05 April 2016

An exploration game, designed with virtual reality devices in mind. The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed is the first episode in a series called The Gallery: Six Elements. The protagonist enters a fantastic world brimming with secrets in order to find his sister. The action is presented from a first-person perspective, and the player can look freely around the game world.

Dead Secret
Dead Secret

Adventure 28 March 2016

A horror first-person perspective detective adventure game developed by Robot Invader studio led by Chris Pruett, a man known for his love of the horror genre. The story of Dead Secret takes place in the 60s. During the game player assumes the role of a journalist who is trying to solve the mystery of the death of an eccentric professor, exploring the rooms of his mansion and gathering various items, hidden documents, evidence, and clues.

Rise of Insanity
Rise of Insanity

Adventure 01 March 2018

A psychological horror, in which the players assume the role of a psychology doctor who is trying to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his wife and child. In Rise of Insanity, the gameplay revolves around traversing frightening locations in search for clues and solving environmental puzzles.

Firmament
Firmament

Adventure 18 May 2023

An FPP steampunk adventure game by the developers of Myst. Firmament is set in a fantasy world, which we traverse alongside our deceased mentor and floating robotic companion, solving puzzles and learning the story.