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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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Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
Adventure 06 May 2014
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.
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.
The Long Reach
Adventure 14 August 2018
The Long Reach is an unusual adventure with the action set soon after a outbreak of an epidemic that turns people into bloodthirsty psychos. During gameplay, you need to figure out the way of neutralizing or avoiding enemies. Each of them is a separate riddle with a unique way of defeating.
Hatoful Boyfriend
Adventure 21 July 2015
Original Japanese visual novel game. The main character moves to a secondary school for intelligent and speaking birds. On the spot she can make friends with her students and find true love.
Uncanny Valley
Adventure 08 February 2017
A two-dimensional pixel art survival horror. It is a debut title of the independent Slovenian studio Cowardly Creations. In the game the player assumes the role of a night watchman who guards a mysterious factory in shifts with his friend. To kill some time, the protagonist decides to explore the building. He discovers things he would rather not know. As the story progresses, he learns new dark secrets about his working place.
Home
Adventure 14 April 2015
A retro-style adventure game filled with the atmosphere of horror. We are recovering consciousness in an unknown house where the murder was committed. Fighting our own fears and doubts, we make decisions that influence the finale of the story told.
Cult County
Adventure canceled
Cult County is a survival horror adventure game in which events are shown from the first person perspective (FPP). The story takes place in a desert town in Texas, where the protagonist finds himself in search of a sister. He finds an atmosphere of fear and distrust caused by sinister cultists, and soon comes to fight for survival. The game combines a dramatic struggle with exploratory elements in locations with a partially open structure.
Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth
Adventure canceled
An adventure game enriched by elements characteristic of visual novels. Exogenesis: Perils of Rebirth takes place in post-apocalyptic Japan. The player assumes the role of a member of a treasure hunter group, who searches for an ancient artifact that can resurrect his dead sister. To find the treasure, the protagonist has to gather a team of similar adventurers, and embark on the dangerous journey. The developers were mainly inspired by games such as Zero Escape or the Ace Attorney series.
Machinarium
Adventure 26 March 2013
An original two-dimensional adventure game developed by Amanita Design - an independent Czech studio popular for the Samorost series. The action is set in a bizarre world made entirely of metal. All the plants, wildlife and humans were replaced by robots. The player assumes the role of one such robot, wrongfully sent to a junkyard. Once back in town, the protagonist discovers the existence of a conspiracy aiming to murder its leader.
Three Fourths Home
Adventure 09 December 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.
Claire: Extended Cut
Adventure 30 August 2016
An extended edition of Claire - a survival horror game released in 2014. In comparison to the original release, the new edition brings mainly improved audiovisuals. Once again, the development works were carried out by Hailstorm Games. The game still offers a two-dimensional environment and pixel-art graphics. However, the creators managed to implement both 3D objects and depth of field effects.
Proteus
Adventure 30 October 2013
Proteus is an exploratory adventure by Ed Key. The game consists mainly of travelling through a randomly generated world, discovering its secrets and learning how the environment reacts to the player's presence.
Without Escape
Adventure 14 January 2020
A combination of a point-and-click and a HOPA game, in which you have to escape a hellish alternative reality. In Without Escape, you search locations for useful objects, and solve various logic puzzles.
Gnosia
Adventure 06 June 2019
Gnosia is a visual novel adventure game with RPG elements. The game revolves around deduction. While having conversations, we have to discover information, which later will allow us to indicate who from the crew of the spaceship is not who he says he is.
Distraint: Deluxe Edition
Adventure 11 September 2019
An interesting 2D adventure game with elements of psychological horror. The game forces the players to answer the question about the limits and the price of humanity. The game was created by an independent Finnish developer Jesse Makkonen.
STAY
Adventure 12 September 2018
An adventure/text game hybrid, in which you help the amnesiac Quinn. The protagonist has been most likely kidnapped and your task is to help him escape.
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Adventure 14 November 2017
VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is an unusual production that allows you to play the role of.... a bartender working in a cyberpunk city. The game focuses on dialogue and storytelling. The player can also influence the story by giving guests the right drinks.
Neverending Nightmares
Adventure 04 May 2016
Original independent adventure game, maintained in the convention of psychological horror. Infinitap Games team is responsible for its creation and the story was inspired by real life experiences of the studio boss and his fight with severe depression. In the game, we play as Thomas, who can't break out of a nightmare dream and, trapped in his mind, moves from nightmare to nightmare, facing his fears and the monsters lurking around him.
The Deer God
Adventure 25 April 2017
The Deer God is an original platform game with roguelike and RPG elements, developed by the independent studio Cinopt Studios in cooperation with Crescent Moon Games. We observe the action from a side-scrolling perspective and play as a hunter who was reborn as a deer. From now on, his most important goal is to survive in a hostile environment. He will also have to do some quests, like growing old, achieving a godlike karma balance, or finding every statuette of knowledge.
Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure
Adventure 06 December 2016
Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure is a first-person point-and-click adventure game in which we play Bjorn, a drunkard and an antique trader. Together with our neighbor, we set off on the trail of thieves who robbed our apartment one night.
Burly Men at Sea
Adventure 19 September 2017
Burly Men at Sea is an unusual adventure with elements of visual novel. Players will learn about the fate of three fishermen who have set out into the world in search of adventures. The production consists of many short stories set in Scandinavian folklore.
The Count Lucanor
Adventure 09 January 2018
An adventure game with elements of survival horror, in which we play Hans - a young man wandering through a gloomy castle. Apart from exploring gloomy chambers and solving puzzles, during the game we talk to the characters we meet and hide from our opponents who make us shivers. Decision making also plays an important role, because it depends on them which of the five ways our adventure will end.
Stick It to The Man!
Adventure 03 December 2013
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.
Lone Survivor
Adventure 25 September 2013
Dark survival horror maintained in the climate of older parts of Silent Hill. The player takes on the role of a hero who tries to get out of the city captured by a mysterious plague. What is interesting, during the game you have to take care of the mental health of characters and regularly satisfy hunger. The whole is maintained in an unusual, two-dimensional setting.