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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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Detective Pikachu Returns
Detective Pikachu Returns

Adventure 06 October 2023

Detective Pikachu Returns is a sequel to a detective adventure game starring the titular mascot of the Pokemon series. Playing as Tim Goodman, once again we investigate mysteries across Ryme City.

Palia
Palia

Adventure 2024

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.

Dave the Diver
Dave the Diver

Adventure November 2023

A pixel art adventure game with economic and RPG elements. Dave the Diver has us playing as the titular diver, exploring ocean depths during the day and running a sushi restaurant during the night.

Minecraft
Minecraft

Adventure 11 May 2017

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.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

Adventure 19 April 2023

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach is the new instalment of the Scott Cawthon horror series. The game takes the action to Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizza Plex and introduces the new antagonist - Vanny.

Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon

Adventure 17 March 2023

Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is an action adventure game and a spin-off of the popular hack'n'slash series by PlatinumGames. The game is a prequel to the main series, depicting the titular character's youth.

Syberia: The World Before
Syberia: The World Before

Adventure November 2023

Syberia: The World Before is the fourth part of a popular series of adventure games. Once again we take on the role of Kate Walker, who goes on a new journey through various lands. The game traditionally focuses on exploring and solving puzzles.

Syberia 3
Syberia 3

Adventure 18 October 2018

A sequel to a popular adventure game series created by the Belgian comic artist Benoit Sokal and Microids Studio, released over a decade after the second part. The story focuses on adventures of Kate Walker, a young lawyer, whose profession, in-born curiosity, and adventurousness get her entangled in a new mystery.

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.

Sludge Life
Sludge Life

Adventure 02 June 2021

Sludge Life is a first-person adventure game that allows you to play the role of one of the graffiti artists who is trying to gain respect and fame in a city full of pollution and corruption.

The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series - Season One
The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series - Season One

Adventure 28 August 2018

An episodic adventure game from Telltale Games, based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman. The main theme of The Walking Dead: Season One revolves around a dramatic struggle for survival in a world infested by zombies. The player assumes the role of Lee Everett, one of the few survivors. The gameplay emphasizes exploration, dialogues, collecting items, and puzzle solving.

Bramble: The Mountain King
Bramble: The Mountain King

Adventure 27 April 2023

An action adventure game, in which we play as a young boy traversing a disturbing land inhabited by monsters from Nordic legends, in order to rescue his sister abducted by a troll. The game was developed by an independent Dimfrost Studio.

Layers of Fear: Legacy
Layers of Fear: Legacy

Adventure 21 February 2018

A first person psychological horror adventure game inspired of 19th-century paintings and architecture. It was created by Polish developer Bloober Team, known for such titles as BRAWL, A-Men and Music Master: Chopin. The game is set in an ominous manor, while you assume the role of an insane painter striving to finish his masterpiece at all cost. Gameplay boils down to exploration, as the player searches for the source of the hero’s madness and the tools needed to complete the painting.

L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire

Adventure 14 November 2017

A noir detective action adventure game developed by the Australian studio Team Bondi in cooperation with the veterans from Rockstar Games. The game invites you into Los Angeles of the 1940’s, a city filled with corruption and drug dealing organizations. You assume the role of Cole Phelps, an ex-soldier who becomes a police officer after the war. The game lets you experience the key moments of Cole’s career, starting from the traffic police all the way through murder and drugs department.

A Plague Tale: Innocence - Cloud Version
A Plague Tale: Innocence - Cloud Version

Adventure 06 July 2021

An action-adventure stealth game that takes place in the 14th-century France, consumed by the Black Death. The main protagonists, Amicia and her five years old brother, are trying to find their mother. They must travel through the ruined city while avoiding the members of Inquisition and the groups of hungry rats lurking in the shadows.

Astroneer
Astroneer

Adventure 13 January 2022

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.

The Sinking City
The Sinking City

Adventure 12 September 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.

Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu

Adventure 08 October 2019

Call of Cthulhu is a dark adventure game in a horror setting, based on the works of an American writer, H.P. Lovecraft. The game’s story is based on Lovecraft's fictional universe, first popularized by the, written in 1926 and published 2 years later, short story “Call of Cthulhu”.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season
The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Adventure 28 August 2018

The final season of the adventure game franchise The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series. This time the developers decided to focus again on Clementine and present her final adventures in the world filled by zombies.

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.

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

Adventure 07 April 2022

The ninth major installment in the action adventure game series developed by Frogwares, dealing with the exploits of the world most famous sleuth. The plot, as per tradition, takes us to the streets of the Victorian-era London, where Sherlock Holmes and his inseparable companion, Dr. Watson, have to solve five all-new crime puzzles, in which they face, among others, dark family secrets and mysterious cults.

Firewatch
Firewatch

Adventure 17 December 2018

An indie FPP adventure game and the debut production of the American Campo Santo studio. The team comprises of veteran developers, previously working on such titles as The Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja, BioShock 2, and Brutal Legend. The story of Firewatch takes place in an enormous forest in the American state of Wyoming, where our hero is trying to escape his day-to-day problems by becoming a ranger.

Blair Witch
Blair Witch

Adventure 25 June 2020

An FPP adventure in a climate of horror, inspired by a popular series of cinema horror movies, developed by the Polish Bloober Team. In Blair Witch, players take on the role of a former policeman who scours a forest haunted by a witch in search of a missing boy.

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

Adventure December 2023

An action adventure game developed by the Daedalic Entertainment studio. In The Lord of the Rings: Gollum we play as Smeagol, and during our journey, we witness his transformation into the titular Gollum.