Adventure games are video games that have the player taking control of a protagonist in an interactive story, typically with exploration and puzzle or problem-solving elements as part of the gameplay.
The vast majority of adventure games are designed for single player, and encompass a wide variety of subgenres such as point-and-click adventures (The Secret of Monkey Island), episodic adventure games (The Walking Dead), and walking simulators (The Stanley Parable), with one of the most notable adventure games of all time being Zork, a text-based adventure game.
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December 2, 2019 | 09:00 EST
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December 6, 2019 | 12:00 EST
In Drake Hollow, you plant crops so that your crop-like friends can feed on these crops while somehow avoiding an existential crisis. Build villages and protect your allies from the savage creatures…
December 8, 2019 | 11:20 EST
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December 8, 2019 | 11:15 EST
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November 28, 2019 | 08:30 EST
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December 3, 2019 | 11:00 EST
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November 26, 2019 | 08:18 EST
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The Painscreek Killings is a first-person detective mystery that mimics solving a real-life cold case. With no hand-holding, hints, or objectives, investigate an abandoned town to unravel the deep…
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Last Stop pits you in the shoes of three separate characters, each of which localized in London and undergoing a different story touched by supernatural oddities. John find himself body swapped with…
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From the delightfully strange mind behind Katamari Damacy, Keita Takahasi, comes another experience that is going to leave you questioning your understanding of what sanity truly means. Wattam…
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Rejoice! Hell has frozen over, because there's a new Half Life game announced named Half-Life: Alyx. Earlier this week, a Valve Software Twitter account made in June (and already verified) tweeted…
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November 18, 2019 | 07:41 EST
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November 14, 2019 | 03:58 EST
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November 14, 2019 | 03:42 EST
Dontnod Entertainment announced a new game at X019 today, that looks to be in a similar vein to Life is Strange. Tell Me Why is set to launch all chapters in Summer of 2020. Set in a small town in…
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November 11, 2019 | 12:00 EST
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November 23, 2019 | 09:47 EST
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November 4, 2019 | 07:30 EST
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November 4, 2019 | 11:00 EST
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December 18, 2019 | 12:00 EST
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November 10, 2019 | 04:01 EST
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October 31, 2019 | 09:11 EDT
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October 30, 2019 | 10:58 EDT
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October 30, 2019 | 10:29 EDT
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October 30, 2019 | 03:34 EDT
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October 29, 2019 | 08:42 EDT
Animal adventure Lost Ember has a release date. The game is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via GOG and Steam on November 21st. It was originally funded on Kickstarter back in 2016. …
October 29, 2019 | 01:00 EDT