Adventure

Description

In adventure games, the emphasis is placed on experiencing a story as seen by one or more user-controlled characters, often by manipulating said character(s) and the environment they exist in. Adventure games are characterized by general lack of reflex-based gameplay (action), though they may feature such segments sporadically.

Adventure games initially featured text input and little to no graphics (interactive fiction). Afterwards, graphical adventures became more prominent and text input was replaced by a limited amount of icons/menus with verb commands.

Two distinct sub-genres of adventure games are Western-style adventures (also referred to as puzzle-solving adventure) and Japanese adventures, which typically have no puzzles and minimal interaction. Visual novels are traditionally also considered a sub-genre of adventure games.

[edit description | view history]

Viewing Page 181 of 186

(items 4501-4525 of 4635)

Previous | Next

Game Title

1 - 3
4 - 7
8 - a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z

Game Title
William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Murder Mystery Windows (1997) As young Hamlet, you must avenge the death of your father and become the new King of Denmark. You enter...
William Wobbler Commodore 64 (1985) In this game, players control William Wobbler, whose object is to collect ten clues that are scattered through various caverns....
Will 'o the Wisp Commodore 64 (1984) and Commodore PET/CBM (1980) Will 'o the Wisp is a satirical approach of textual adventure games. In the game the player takes on the...
Will: The Death Trap II PC-88 (1985) and FM-7 (1985) President of the United States of America receives a letter with simple, but blood-chilling words: within the next twenty-four hours,...
WinAdv Windows 3.x (1992) Crowther and Woods' trailblazing treasure-hunting cave-exploring text adventure game ADVENTURE is here presented in a new form. Compiled from early...
Wingman PC-88 (1984) and PC-98 (1985) Kenta is a Japanese teenager who is obsessed with superhero stories. One day, he meets a mysterious girl named Aoi....
Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood DOS (1985), Commodore 64 (1984), Amiga (1986), Apple II (1984) and Atari ST (1985) Early this morning, a strong wind went through the hundred acre wood and picked up many objects and scattered them...
Winx Club PlayStation 2 (2006) and Windows (2006) Winx Club is a 3D action adventure game based on the Italian cartoon series of the same name. The story...
Winx Club Game Boy Advance (2005) Winx Club is an action adventure game based on the Italian cartoon series of the same name. The story is...
Wisegal Windows (2009) and Macintosh (2009) Patty Montanari was married to a New York policeman and they had three sons, but after a painful battle with...
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey Macintosh (1996), Windows (1996) and Windows 3.x (1996) Wishbone And The Amazing Odyssey is a lesson about Homer's «Odyssey» in which Wishbone (a Jack Russell terrier from a...
Wishbringer DOS (1985), Atari ST (1985), Commodore 64 (1985), Apple II (1985), Amiga (1986), Amstrad CPC (1986), Atari 8-bit (1985), Macintosh (1985) and TRS-80 CoCo (1985) In this game, the player controls a postal clerk in the small fishing village of Festeron. The postmaster, Mr. Crisp,...
Wispa Forest Windows (2010) and Macintosh (2010) The Wispas were good spirits of the forest, living in peace and harmony with nature. One day, they sense a...
The Witch's Cauldron ZX Spectrum (1985) and Commodore 64 (1985) The Witch's Cauldron is a text adventure with graphics where the protagonist is turned into a slimy toad by the...
The Witch's Yarn Macintosh (2005) and Windows (2005) Witch Wednesday Brooks has recently become a widow. She married the mortal Hubert, much to the anger of her mother...
With You: Mitsumete Itai SEGA Saturn (1999) and WonderSwan Color (2001) With You: Mitsumete Itai is an adventure game with static graphics, in which the game advances as the player chooses...
The Witness DOS (1983), PC Booter (1983), Atari ST (1985), Apple II (1983), Commodore 64 (1983), Amiga (1986), Atari 8-bit (1983), Macintosh (1984), TRS-80 CoCo (1984), Commodore 16, Plus/4 (1984) and Amstrad CPC (1986) The Witness is a text adventure in which the player takes control of a police detective working near Los Angeles....
The Wizard of Akyrz Commodore 64 (1983), ZX Spectrum (1983) and Browser (2001) The Wizard of Akyrz is the eighth game in the Mysterious Adventures series. The player begins in the royal palace,...
The Wizard of Oz Commodore 64 (1985), DOS (1985), MSX (1986) and Apple II (1985) Based on the famous novel by L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz places the player in the role of...
Wizard's Choice Volume 1 iPad (2012), iPhone (2012), Windows Phone (2011) and Android (2011) This game is the first installment of a (at press time) five-part series describing the adventures of a magic-using protagonist...
Wizards Spell ZX Spectrum (1986) Many years ago, Isluidir the Wizard had great power, before an Evil Wizard came from afar to do battle. When...
Wiz Biz Commodore 64 (1987), ZX Spectrum (1987) and Amstrad CPC (1987) Wiz Biz is a single player text adventure with graphics. While this adventure game does not actually start in a...
Władcy Ciemności Commodore 64 (1993) and Atari 8-bit (1993) Władcy Ciemności (Lords of the Darkness) follows the plot of Klątwa. After lifting the curse you've become the ruler, but...
Wolfgang Hohlbein's The Inquisitor Windows (2010) Wolfgang Hohlbein's The Inquisitor is a hidden object game with adventure elements, based on a novel by Wolfgang Hohlbein about...
Wolfman Amstrad CPC (1988), Commodore 64 (1988) and ZX Spectrum (1988) You wake up one morning, covered in blood but seemingly uninjured. Could the rumours about a werewolf's curse having returned...