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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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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
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
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.

Dreamfall Chapters
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
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.

Night in the Woods
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.

Thimbleweed Park
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
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.

Armikrog
Armikrog

Adventure 23 August 2016

An extraordinary point-and-click adventure game and a spiritual successor to the legendary The Neverhood, a game developed in 1996 by Doug TenNapel. This new title was created by the author of the original game, who managed to gather nearly entire old staff back together for this project.

Her Majesty's Spiffing
Her Majesty's Spiffing

Adventure 13 December 2016

A three-dimensional adventure game funded via Kickstarter, and a debut production from the Irish studio BillyGoat Entertainment. Her Majesty’s Spiffing is a humorous story taking place in modern times. The Queen of Great Britain has decided to add new lands to the empire, but the modern times don’t allow a simple conquest of the neighboring countries anymore.

Tokyo Dark: Remembrance
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.

Lifeless Planet
Lifeless Planet

Adventure 17 August 2016

Lifeless Planet is a science fiction action adventure game developed by Stage 2, an independent studio. The protagonist is a lone astronaut sent to explore a newly discovered planet where scientists believe life has evolved. Unfortunately, during the landing the ship crashed, crashing into this mysterious and - as it soon turns out - desolate world.

The Long Dark
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.

Stasis: Bone Totem
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.

Stray Gods
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
Exo One

Adventure 2025

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.

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today
Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today

Adventure 04 October 2016

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is a point-and-click adventure game and the first title developed by Fictiorama. The game takes place in a not so distant future and tells the story of Michael. To regain his identity, he will have to uncover the truth about the two catastrophic events that led the civilization to the brink of destruction. One of them was a series of natural disasters, the other one an epidemic. And now a third inevitable event is on the way.

Visage
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.

Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse
Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse

Adventure 26 October 2021

Point-and-click adventure based on Cyanide & Happiness network comic. We play as a boy known from the original who has to survive until the last day of the school year. It's not easy, because the world around him is getting closer to the apocalypse every day. Mechanisms of the game remain faithful to the traditions of the genre. During the game we have to explore locations, collect items, talk to encountered characters and solve puzzles.

Saint Kotar
Saint Kotar

Adventure 22 November 2022

Saint Kotar is a 2.5D point and click adventure game created by Red Martyr Entertainment. From the perspective of the two characters we discover the mystery of the old town, where a series of strange phenomena and murders take place.

Lord Winklebottom Investigates
Lord Winklebottom Investigates

Adventure 26 October 2023

A classic point-and-click adventure set in an alternative version of the 1920s, controlled by anthropomorphic animals. At Lord Winklebottom Investigates we investigate the murder of our childhood friend Admiral Gilfrey.

Firmament
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.

Tales of the Neon Sea
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.

Spice and Wolf VR
Spice and Wolf VR

Adventure 05 September 2019

An interactive film based on a popular series of Japanese light novel using virtual reality technology. Spice and Wolf VR allows you to take on the role of merchant Kraft Lawrence and meet the wolf goddess Holo.

Deliver Us the Moon
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.