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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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Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit

Adventure August 2024

A spin-off of the FNAF series. Five Night at Freddy’s: Into the Pit is a 2D point-and-click horror adventure game. We play as Oswald who's been transported to the past. The main character must deal with deadly animatronics, saving himself and his family in the process.

Palia
Palia

Adventure 14 December 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 Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series - A New Frontier

Adventure 21 January 2020

The third full-fledged season of the popular series of episodic adventure games developed by Telltale Games based on the cult comics and TV series, The Walking Dead. The mechanics of the game are similar as in previous installments of the series and they concentrate on exploration and conversations with non-playable characters.

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.

Life is Strange 2
Life is Strange 2

Adventure 02 February 2023

The second entry in the series of episodic adventure games developed by Dontnod Entertainment. Similarly to the previous entry in the series, the story in Life is Strange 2 is non-linear and its course is determined by the decisions made by the players during the game.

Life is Strange: True Colors
Life is Strange: True Colors

Adventure 07 December 2021

The third main part of the popular episodic adventure games series. Life is Strange: True Colors was developed by Deck Nine, authors of Life is Strange: Before the Storm, and published by Square Enix.

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.

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”.

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.

Deponia
Deponia

Adventure 24 April 2019

A humoristic adventure game with a classic point-and-click interface. It was developed by Daedalic Entertainment, a studio that specializes in this genre. The story of Deponia can be described as one big comedy of errors and, at the same time, the most unbelievable love story ever shown in a video game. Fans of works by Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and of The Simpsons animated TV series, will easily find it interesting.

Batman: The Telltale Series - The Enemy Within
Batman: The Telltale Series - The Enemy Within

Adventure 02 October 2018

The second season of Batman: The Telltale Series, which debuted in 2016. In this adventure game by Telltale Games (the developers of such titles as The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series and The Wolf Among Us: A Telltale Games Series) the player follows the dark story of Bruce Wayne and his superhero alter-ego. This time Batman has to challenge both Joker and Riddler as well as a merciless federal agent who has just came to the city of Gotham.

Dave the Diver
Dave the Diver

Adventure 26 October 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.

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

Adventure 09 March 2023

Another chapter of the popular detective series, developed by the Ukrainian studio Frogwares continuously since 2002. The action of the game takes place in 1898 in London, where the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes is trying to solve a case in which the main suspect is himself. Unable to prove his innocence, the hero loses the trust of the citizens and is forced to flee from the police. This time, Holmes' reputation depends on the outcome of the investigation.

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.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

Adventure 03 February 2022

Another installment in the popular series of adventure games developed by Frogwares. A few years age the series became available for console players as well. Once again, the player takes on the role of the most famous detective of all times, Sherlock Holmes, and together they will solve various criminal riddles. The story takes place in the Victorian London well known from previous installments of the series.

Breathedge
Breathedge

Adventure 06 April 2021

An adventure survival game in which we play as a hero fighting for survival in the interstellar space. In Breathedge we not only have to take care of the basic needs of our client, but also create objects and perform tasks that push the story forward.

Moonstone Island
Moonstone Island

Adventure 19 June 2024

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.

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

Adventure 21 January 2020

A sequel to the repeatedly awarded adventure game The Walking Dead: Season One by American studio Telltale Games. The plot of The Walking Dead: Season Two is a continuation of the story from the first installment. This time you play as the 11-years-old Clementine, who, like the other characters, is trying to survive in the world infested by a zombie epidemic. The game mechanics remain the same, focusing on exploration, talking to NPCs, searching for items, and solving puzzles.

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.

Batman: The Telltale Series
Batman: The Telltale Series

Adventure 14 November 2017

Another episodic adventure game developed by the experienced American studio Telltale Games, who had produced many highly acclaimed video games based on famous films, books, and comic books, such as Back to the Future, The Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones.

Stray
Stray

Adventure 19 November 2024

TPP action adventure game, in which we play the role of a cat moving around a cyberpunk city, inhabited not by people, but by robots. Stray is a game created by Blue Twelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive.

Outlast: Bundle of Terror
Outlast: Bundle of Terror

Adventure 27 February 2018

A survival horror action adventure game. It is the debut project of the independent studio, Red Barrels, established by veterans of the gaming industry: David Chateauneuf, Philippe Morin, and Hugo Dallaire. Outlast’s story is set in an old asylum for mentally ill, adapted, by the Murkoff corporation, into a research center. Journalist Miles Upshur gets his hands on information that strange things occur in that place.

Road 96
Road 96

Adventure 16 August 2021

Road 96 is an adventure game from Digixart studio. We play the role of a teenager who decides to escape from an authoritarian state. Together with her, we embark on a procedurally generated journey which, depending on our decisions, ends differently.

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.