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Video Games Encyclopedia by Gamepressure.com
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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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Adventure 11 April 2023
An adventure game developed by Frogwares studio, set in the convention of Lovecraftian horror. The project's codename, Palianytsia, is an insult to Russian speakers, who often can't pronounce the Ukrainian word correctly.
Obduction
Adventure 29 August 2017
A first-person perspective adventure game with logic elements, developed by Cyan - the creators of the cult adventure game series, Myst. Obduction, created as a Myst’s spiritual successor, tells a story of a man who finds a bizarre organic artifact that fell from the sky and is taken by it into a strange world. In the game, our task is to figure out where are we, and then find a way back home.
Night in the Woods
Adventure 21 February 2017
A combination of adventure and arcade games, created by an independent developer known as Infinite Ammo. The player assumes the role of Mae - a cat with paranormal abilities. The protagonist quits her studies and returns to her hometown - Possum Springs, in order to have some quality time with her old friends. The place has fallen into decline since the last mine in town was closed, because the inhabitants have been left without work.
Dreamfall Chapters
Adventure 05 May 2017
The third installment in the series of adventure games started in 1999 with Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Dreamfall: Chapters was developed by Red Thread Games led by Ragnar Tornquist. The story of the game presents further adventures of the young protagonist, Zoe Castillo, who thanks to her highly unusual powers is able to travel between three worlds: the magical Arcadia, the technologically advanced Stark and the mysterious Storytime.
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
Adventure 04 September 2015
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.
Stasis: Bone Totem
Adventure 28 March 2024
The second part of a series of adventure games called Stasis, launched in 2015. In Stasis: Bone Totem, we take control of the scrap collectors lying on the ocean floor, who face the nightmares lurking on them on a seemingly deserted oil platform.
Thimbleweed Park
Adventure 22 August 2017
A point-and-click adventure game created by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick. The players are taken to the titular Thimbleweed Park - once a prosperous business area, now definitely past its prime. The player takes on the roles of five characters in total throughout this adventure and is capable of switching between them at any time.
Titanic: Honor and Glory
Adventure canceled
A first-person adventure game from ORM Entertainment, which was initially supposed to be nothing more than modification to the popular shooter Crysis 2. Its story revolves around the disaster of the famous ocean liner, which sunk in 1912 with hundreds of people on board. We play as a man named Robert Morgan, who, due to false accusations, has to hide aboard the liner from the police.
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.
Tokyo Dark: Remembrance
Adventure 10 January 2020
Developed by Cherrymochi from Japan, a horror adventure title with strong visual novel elements. The main heroine of the game is Ayami Ito, who carries out an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of her partner. In order to find the truth, she needs to take matters in her own hands. Things become complicated as she also has to face the demons of her own past, nightmares, and hallucinations. The non-linear plot leads to one of eleven endings, depending on the player’s in-game choices.
Tales of the Neon Sea
Adventure 21 April 2023
A two-dimensional point-and-click adventure in which we play the role of a detective trying to solve a very strange case. The action takes place in the city of the future, and the whole atmosphere refers to the famous Blade Runner.
Memoranda
Adventure 22 January 2021
A classic point-and-click adventure developed by the independent studio Bit ByterZ, the game was funded via a successful Kickstarter project. Memoranda takes us to a small town inhabited by strange individuals who have lost something. This also happens to the heroine - she is slowly forgetting her own name. Your objective is to find out why this is happening.
Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
Adventure 11 February 2021
The adventure maintained in the convention of survival horror, which takes us to cyberpunk Neo Hong Kong full of references to Chinese folklore. In Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story we play the role of Mei Lin Mak, who investigates an apartment building hiding a bloody secret. In the course of the game we not only talk to the inhabitants of the city and solve riddles, but also face the ghosts wandering through the corridors and rooms of the gloomy building.
Omno
Adventure 29 July 2021
A production combining the features of a platformer and an adventure game that takes us on a journey to a fantasy land. In Omno we play the role of a man equipped with a magical staff, and we visit various locations, facing the riddles and obstacles waiting for him there.
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.
Stray Gods
Adventure 10 August 2023
Stray Gods is a cross between an interactive musical, a narrative adventure game and an RPG. The developers were inspired by such works as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the episode Once More With Feeling), the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and Life is Strange.
Exo One
Adventure May 2024
An arcade and adventure game in which we travel through alien planets on board a spaceship. The Exo One takes the form of a sphere or a flying disc, and skillfully juggling these forms allows you to move quickly and smoothly through vast maps.
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.
Visage
Adventure 31 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.
Mars Alive
Adventure 18 June 2019
A survival game inspired by the film The Martian, in which we play the role of one of the colonizers fighting for survival on the Red Planet and trying to find a way to leave it. Mars Alive has been prepared with a view to the sets of virtual reality that it requires to work.
Firmament
Adventure 2024
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.
Deliver Us the Moon
Adventure 24 April 2020
A science-fiction action-adventure game featuring survival elements. It is the first major project of KeokeN – an independent Dutch developer. The player is taken to the year 2069, when humanity has to face total depletion of natural resources. Established by governments of world powers, the Worldwide Space Agency decides to resume the exploration of the Moon's surface and the player is cast in the role of an astronaut sent there among others.
Neversong
Adventure 16 July 2020
Platform action game with elements of adventure, in which players play the role of Pete - a boy awakened from a coma, trying to find his lost sister. The protagonist embarks on a dangerous journey through an oneiric world, solving riddles and confronting enemies he encounters along the way.
Candle: The Power of the Flame
Adventure 25 July 2018
The debut project from the independent Spanish studio, Teku, combining elements of a classic platformer with a dynamic action-adventure games. Its plot takes after classic movie and gaming stories, putting us in the shoes of a young shaman student, who has to save the people from his village who were assaulted by the hostile Atipax tribe. We also discover a hidden, dark truth from the past.