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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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Palia
Adventure 24 October 2023
Palia is a multiplayer life simulator set in a colorful fantasy world. Players must explore, get to know its inhabitants, complete quests, farm, fish and expand their home.
The Sinking City
Adventure 27 June 2019
A detective adventure game inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The production is set in the 1920s, in the fictional city of New England, suffering from a supernatural flood. You play as a private investigator, whose task is to resist the mass hysteria and discover the cause of the mysterious events.
Lightyear Frontier
Adventure 2025 (early access since 19 March 2024)
Adventure game with farming elements, in which we find ourselves on an alien planet. In Lightyear Frontier we take control of a mech and with its help we build our own farm and explore the globe, trying to discover its secrets.
Roblox
Adventure 27 August 2006
A platform that allows you to create your own games, in which home designers create their own worlds from scratch, filling them with various attractions. Due to the fact that the game takes place in a moderated environment, both adult players and children can have fun at Roblox.
Shadows of Doubt
Adventure 24 April 2023
Shadows of Doubt is an FPP combination of a detective adventure game and a stealth game. It's set in a bustling city, its buildings all fully explorable and its citizens all unique, with distinctive personalities and daily schedules.
Minecraft
Adventure 18 November 2011
A sandbox game that defies classification, developed by the independent Mojang AB studio. Minecraft has been developed with the intention of unleashing the creativity of players, who can freely change the game's virtual world made from voxels (cubic blocks). The gameplay concentrates on terrain transformations, building structures, crafting items, and creating your own adventures.
Subnautica
Adventure 23 January 2018
A sandbox game by Unknown Worlds that combines elements of action-adventure productions and RPGs. As the game’s universe draws inspiration from such novels as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, at the bottom of the ocean you can find bizarre sea monsters, as well as remnants of futuristic buildings and ships. The player assumes the role of a captain of an advanced submarine, and explores the depths of the ocean.
The Long Dark
Adventure 01 August 2017
A first person survival sandbox game, developed by independent Canadian studio Hinterland. The team includes veteran game developers, who previously worked for Relic Entertainment, Volition, and BioWare. The game takes you into a post-apocalyptic world after a massive geomagnetic storm. With all electronic devices disabled and water and food supplies running low, the player has to struggle to survive the incoming winter.
Astroneer
Adventure 06 February 2019
A sandbox game by System Era Softworks. Astroneer is set in the 25th century, when the civilization on Earth has developed enough for interstellar travel to become an everyday occurrence. It resulted in a certain kind of gold fever — people started to explore other planets on their own, driven by the desire of getting rich quick. The open world of the game is procedurally generated, and the surfaces of planets and moons are made of voxels.
Subnautica: Below Zero
Adventure 14 May 2021
An expansion for Subnautica, in which we explore the ice-bound areas of the planet 4546B. As we play, we explore the game world and reveal its secrets.
Moonstone Island
Adventure 20 September 2023
An adventure game with RPG and life sim elements. Moonstone Island is set in a fantasy world of floating islands, which the player explores, learns its secrets and faces threats hidden within.
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Adventure 05 December 2023
A hybrid of a TPP adventure game and a life sim, set in the fantastic universe of Disney and Pixar. In Disney Dreamlight Valley we play the role of a character whose task is to save the inhabitants of the valley and restore the old order.
Islands of Insight
Adventure 13 February 2024
Project S is a puzzle adventure game taking players to a fantastic world, where puzzles form the very warp of reality. The game was developed by the creators of Dead by Daylight, and offers quite a few puzzles that can be solved alone or together with friends.
Paleo Pines
Adventure 26 September 2023
Paleo Pines is a sandbox game full of dinosaurs and archosaurs we can befriend, exploring the world, farming and helping our neighbors.
Everdream Valley
Adventure 30 May 2023
A TPP adventure game with farming and life sim elements. Everdream Valley has us playing as a child helping their grandparents run a farm, living through various, often fantastical adventures.
Among the Trolls
Adventure canceled
Among the Trolls is a survival action adventure game where we try to survive in Finnish forests inhabited by creatures from Scandinavian myths to find our grandparents and learn more about our heritage.
Sable
Adventure 23 September 2021
Three-dimensional exploratory adventure game in which we play the role of a young girl named Sable crossing the desert filled with ancient ruins and forgotten wrecks of spacecraft. The production has a large open map, the structure of which encourages players to explore the fictional world by themselves.
Surviving Deponia
Adventure 2024
The fifth installment in the Deponia series, bringing changes to the gameplay and a different development team. Created by AtomicTorch, the game heavily emphasizes survival elements.
Core
Adventure 15 April 2021
Core is a Roblox-style platform built on Unreal Engine that allows you to easily create your own games and worlds and then share them with the rest of the community. It is the first project by Manticore Games studio.
Tchia
Adventure 21 March 2023
An adventure game with an open world, in which we play the role of a girl exploring an archipelago inspired by the landscapes of New Caledonia. Tchia is the creation of the independent studio Awaceb.
Creativerse
Adventure 08 May 2017
A sandbox survival game produced by the independent Playful studio, based on the popular Minecraft. Creativerse is an online free-to-play production in which we explore worlds built of cubic blocks.
Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition
Adventure 19 December 2016
Created for Windows 10, a special edition of the successful sandbox game by Mojang AB. The general premise is the same as in Minecraft, but unlike the original game, based on the first java edition, this one draws from the mobile edition called Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Therefore, gameplay is not as extensive, and the game itself is not compatible with the original Minecraft.
Minecraft: Education Edition
Adventure 01 November 2016
A special edition of the world-famous game, Minecraft, aimed at providing educational values, created by Mojang AB and owned by Microsoft. Mechanically it does not differ from the original title. It still offers an open world waiting to be explored, where we can collect materials, create various tools and constructions – all of this being tinged with survival elements.
The Touryst
Adventure 30 July 2020
The Tourist is a retro-style adventure game. During the game, the player takes on the role of the title tourist, who visits the corners of the tropical island.