Adventure
Description
Adventure games emphasize experiencing a story through dialogue and puzzle solving. Gameplay mechanics emphasize decision over action. Puzzle solving usually revolves around combining or manipulating items to advance the story. Some sub-genres like visual novels often skip on the puzzle solving and focus fully on interactive narrative. The name Adventure stems from the game Adventure (a.k.a. Colossal Cave), and not to the unrelated film/book genre Adventure.![]() |
Windows (1996) Fugitive is an isometric adventure game about a prison escape. The player controls a prisoner who will be moved to... |
Windows (2013) Touko Fukawa doesn't have a fun life. In fact, she has a pretty miserable one. Between the bullying, self-loathing, and... |
Windows (2002) Pick your character’s gender, their characteristics, how much money to start with - even their type of pet - in... |
Windows (2003) A nameless protagonist is sleeping when a monstrous hand appears from under his bed to nick one of his slippers.... |
Windows (2017), iPhone (2017), iPad (2017), PS Vita (2017) and PlayStation 4 (2017) |
PlayStation (2001), PlayStation 2 (2006) and PlayStation 3 (2015) Fuuraiki (風雨来記) is a romantic visual novel which utilized real-life photo locations with anime style 2D character over it, made... |
PlayStation 2 (2005) and PlayStation 3 (2015) Fuuraiki series are visual novels knows for a unique style of using real-life photographs are the backgrounds with anime characters... |
PS Vita (2015) The third game in the Fuuraiki (風雨来記) visual novel series returns back to its roots and takes place on Hokkaido... |
Dreamcast (2002) The story revolves around Shunhei Yahagi (矢萩 俊平), a 19-year old high-school graduate who failed to enter the college of... |
PlayStation (2001) Furimukeba Tonari ni is a port of a PC adult visual novel called Shin Ruriiro no Yuki: Furimukeba Tonari ni.... |
Genesis (1991) Fushigi no Umi no Nadia is one of the several games based on the anime series The Secret of Blue... |
PC-98 (1992), FM Towns (1993) and Sharp X68000 (1992) One of the games based on the Japanese animated series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, which is loosely based... |
TurboGrafx CD (1993) Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is one of the several games based on the anime... |
PlayStation 2 (2005) Futakoi Alternative (aka Twin Love Alternative) is a spin off of a TV anime with the same name. As the... |
DOS (1990), Amiga (1989), Atari ST (1989), PC-98 (1991) and Sharp X68000 (1991) In the year 1989, a simple window cleaner is working outside of a skyscraper. Intending to play a prank on... |
Macintosh (1985) A timewarp in space transports you to the year 2190 and places you in a strange city called Futuria. This... |
PC-98 (1994) Machida Haruko, nicknamed "Faru", is a young girl who was living together with her sister Mei. Mei has mysteriously disappeared,... |
Windows (2017) |
Windows (1999) The third game in the series takes Gabriel Knight, the former owner of a book store in New Orleans, and... |
DOS (1993), Windows (2010), Windows 3.x (1993) and Macintosh (1994) Gabriel Knight is a wise-cracking bookstore owner and would-be author. He is the last in a long line of Shadow... |
Critic Score
Top games by as rated by the press:
- 94 Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
- 93 Shadowfire
- 93 The Pawn
- 93 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - Special Edition
- 93 Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- 92 Shenmue II
- 92 Sakura Taisen 2: Kimi, Shinitamou Koto Nakare
- 92 The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime
- 92 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- 92 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Games must have at least a Critic Score of 80 to be considered.
MobyScore
Top games as rated by our users:
- 4.71 Anchorhead (1998)
- 4.67 The Longest Journey: Special Edition (2006)
- 4.61 Museum Madness (1994)
- 4.60 Sakura Taisen 3: Pari wa Moete iru ka? (2001)
- 4.54 Thimbleweed Park (2017)
- 4.51 Biosys (1999)
- 4.50 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers - 20th Anniversary Edition (2014)
- 4.50 The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles (2011)
- 4.44 Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991)
- 4.42 The Majesty of Colors (2008)
Games must have at least 5 votes and a User Score of 4.0 to be considered.
Basic Genres
Adventure is part of Basic Genres. This group of genres contain: