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.
Rebuilt from the ground up by Bluepoint Games and Japan Studio, Shadow of the Colossus on the PlayStation 4 system introduces the awe of its unforgettable world and towering creatures to a new…
February 22, 2018 | 01:00 EST
In 2005, Shadow of the Colossus wowed the gaming world. Starting with the first demo reel at E3 that year, the highly anticipated follow up from Team Ico impressed many a player by its sheer size and…
February 22, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Batman: The Enemy Within exceeds my expectations at every turn. Every time a new episode comes out, I find myself glued to the game for its two-hour runtime, and I'm always so excited to see how…
February 11, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Hidetaka "Swery65" Suehiro is giving his latest project, The Good Life, another chance on Kickstarter next month, on March 26th. The Good Life, which failed on Fig last year, was announced at PAX…
February 8, 2018 | 05:15 EST
TechRaptor first had the chance to play Bishop Games' game Light Fall at PAX South 2018. Alex was so impressed by it that it even made it onto his top ten best games at PAX South list. This is when …
January 25, 2018 | 09:00 EST
Episode 4 of Telltale's Batman: The Enemy Within will be available on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and mobile devices on January 23, 2018, according to a press release from the developers. In Batman…
January 14, 2018 | 10:20 EST
Rumu is an adventure game where you control a small robotic vacuum cleaner named Rumu. After Rumu's family goes missing the vacuum cleaner begins to explore the house, interacting with its AI named…
January 7, 2018 | 02:55 EST
If you're not familiar with a Roomba, all you really need to know is that it's an automatic vacuum cleaner that is good for cleaning messes, making my dog jump about fifteen feet in the air before…
January 3, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Batman: The Enemy Within has just hit its halfway mark. The first two episodes have seen Batman dealing with various classic villains adorned with new twists. The season has managed to keep things…
December 21, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Right off the bat, it's important to mention that I wasn't a huge fan of Dead Rising 4 upon release. The game's combo weapon chaos was held back by a plethora of issues that had me frustrated beyond…
December 5, 2017 | 04:01 EST
The founder of Childline, a counseling service in the U.K. provided by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and some members of Parliament have called the upcoming…
December 4, 2017 | 07:39 EST
The last time I said "this is the perfect IP for Telltale and one that I can't wait to see what they do with" it was with Game of Thrones. That has rather infamously been considered one of Telltale's…
December 4, 2017 | 11:00 EST
Telltale Games is known for its episodic adventure game format, and follows in their trend of adapting pop culture licenses like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead with Marvel's Guardians of the…
November 20, 2017 | 11:21 EST
Developed by Sushee and published by the Square Enix Collective, Goetia is one part horror story, one part tragedy and one part mystery. It is the story of Abigail Blackwood, a girl who tragically…
November 20, 2017 | 10:54 EST
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series hasn't really been great. In fact, it'd be more accurate to say it barely manages to clear the bar of "good". Each episode has been a…
November 11, 2017 | 01:00 EST
Jettomero battles with massive monsters, explores strange and unknown solar systems and destroys quite a few cities, all in a quest to save humanity. The second game from Ghost Time Games and first…
November 9, 2017 | 11:42 EST
The upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man is shaping up to be one of the major PlayStation 4 releases of 2018, and it looks like players won’t be playing only as Peter Parker throughout the course of the game…
November 2, 2017 | 03:18 EDT
Today in the preshow to the Sony PlayStation Event at Paris Games Week, Sony took the time to announce The Gardens Between for PlayStation 4. It showed off a beautiful art style that was very stylish…
October 30, 2017 | 12:21 EDT
"All you can do is try your best." Such is the tagline for the second game from Ghost Time Games, Jettomero: Hero of the Universe. Jettomero follows a clumsy, well-intentioned robot as it attempts to…
October 25, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
I've kept it no secret that Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series has floundered. Unable to really figure out what it wants to be, the series has only really managed to tie together…
October 20, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Lamplight City, an upcoming adventure game by Grundislav Games (developer of Shardlight and A Golden Wake), has teamed up with publisher Application Systems Heidelberg and announced an expected…
October 19, 2017 | 07:35 EDT
The first episode of Batman: The Enemy Within caught me by surprise. I wasn't surprised that it was good, I was expecting that after the general quality of the first season. Rather, I felt surprised…
October 18, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
The sequel to the popular Pokémon games, Pokémon Gold and Silver was originally released in 2000 by Nintendo and Game Freak to critical acclaim and is now widely considered on the best games of all…
October 4, 2017 | 10:50 EDT
Recently, Capcom announced that a myriad of improvements are coming to Dead Rising 4. Players can look forward to Human Enemy Improvements, Distress Calls, and other improvements such as a new mode…
September 30, 2017 | 09:18 EDT
Telltale has released a press release updating the community that episode two of Telltale's Batman: The Enemy Within has been delayed to October 3rd. Entitled The Pact, the episode was to be released…
September 26, 2017 | 02:40 EDT
When I reviewed Tyranny last year, I didn’t expect to receive much more in the way of content for the game due to the smaller scale of the project. Obsidian Entertainment has been busy, sandwiching…
September 11, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series has been off to a noticeably rocky start so far. The first two episodes have been unable to provide the usual interesting characters and plots…
September 9, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
RONIN creator Tomasz Waclawek returns under the moniker teedoubleuGAMES with the Souls-like ARPG Immortal Planet. Mechanics both familiar and new mesh together in this top-down take on the emerging…
September 4, 2017 | 07:01 EDT
Last year saw the release of Batman: The Telltale Series, a game that was eager to stray from established lore and provide a fresh take on Batman. By the end of the season I found myself left with an…
August 15, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Batman: The Enemy Within is the sequel to Batman: The Telltale Series and picks up where that series left off. Batman has to work with the police and a mysterious new government organization known as…
August 15, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Little Nightmares is a stealth-horror game in which you play as a small, raincoat clad child known as Six, looking to escape from the Maw, a vessel filled with dangerous souls looking to do you harm…
August 2, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
While I thought Telltale's first episode in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series wasn't the best note to start on, it still held some promise of ideas that could be explored. While…
June 26, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Beyond Good and Evil 2 Creative Director Michel Ancel was at the forefront of a video showcasing an in-engine demo of the game where he talks about a variety of topics including the size of ships,…
June 25, 2017 | 11:19 EDT
Visual novels seem to work better when they give players (or readers, as the case may be) more to do beyond clicking to advance through text boxes. Some of the most beloved visual novels, such as the…
June 22, 2017 | 12:00 EDT
Walkerman is an episodic visual novel/adventure game developed by Scalemail and published by Sekai Project. The story follows Jorgen, a devoutly religious young man who takes up his father's trade as…
June 22, 2017 | 12:00 EDT
Ubisoft has unveiled more information regarding Beyond Good and Evil 2, which was revealed at the tail-end of the Ubisoft E3 press conference this year. All of the new information comes from a…
June 15, 2017 | 06:00 EDT
David Cage, the Director of Quantic Dream, discusses Markus, the final playable character in his studio's upcoming neo-noir thriller Detroit: Become Human in an official PlayStation Blog. Cage has…
June 14, 2017 | 02:00 EDT
After a tease on twitter a few days ago, yesterday Obsidian and Paradox announce a new expansion for their RPG Tyranny, titled Bastard's Wound. Bastard's Wound will feature new characters and…
June 14, 2017 | 01:10 EDT
Everyone's favorite web slinging comicbook superhero is making another appearance on PlayStation platforms in Marvel's Spider-Man. Developed by Insomniac Games, Spider-Man will be an open world…
June 12, 2017 | 11:22 EDT
Sony's conference hit a high note with the announcement of a Shadow of the Colossus remaster coming from Japan Studio and Bluepoint games in 2018. The announcement came in the form of a trailer…
June 12, 2017 | 10:29 EDT
The video for Days Gone opened in a short cutscene before transitioning to Deacon St. John riding a dirtbike through a muddy trail in the rain. They stopped for a moment as wolves feasting on a…
June 12, 2017 | 10:20 EDT
Just under two months ago, a little indie puzzler by the name of Little Nightmares took the gaming community by surprise. It was weird, it was creepy, and it had a brilliant, Henry Selick-inspired…
June 12, 2017 | 09:57 EDT
Ubisoft Montpellier closes out the Ubisoft E3 showcase by giving a brand new trailer for Beyond Good and Evil 2. The cinematic trailer is full of swearing monkeys and mafia pig lords, along with a…
June 12, 2017 | 06:11 EDT
Coming from the creative developers of Annapurna Interactive, The Artful Escape is a game where you get to play as Francis Vendetti, a young, four-eyed musician who travels across the surfaces of…
June 11, 2017 | 07:08 EDT
Publisher Paradox Interactive has teased an update to the Obsidian RPG Tyranny. On the official Tyranny twitter, we saw a new image of what appears to be a volcano with lava pouring down its sides.…
June 10, 2017 | 06:51 EDT
It's been a wild ride for The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. It may not have recaptured that magic the original series had, but I have found it to be a genuinely solid season that does a great job at…
June 7, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Atlus is localizing and releasing a new Vanillaware game called 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim for the West. Directed by George Kimatani who previously worked on Dragon’s Crown and Odin Sphere, this latest…
June 6, 2017 | 01:46 EDT
The second episode of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series will be releasing on PCs and consoles on June 6, 2017 according to a press release. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The…
May 29, 2017 | 09:20 EDT