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.
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
The Capcom RPG Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will be getting a second console release, this time for the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, to celebrate the five year anniversary of the release of Dragon's…
May 23, 2017 | 07:33 EDT
As we come to the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier we find the characters of Javier and David to be stuck in a tight spot. With the town of Richmond turning itself inside out…
May 13, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
If you haven't played Remedy's supernatural thriller Alan Wake by now, you may want to hurry up with getting it while you still can. Due to expiring music licenses for music used in the game, both…
May 12, 2017 | 06:59 EDT
I've always had mixed feelings about the Syberia series. The tone-building and environmental design always stood out as the work of a master auteur, but the first two games fell apart due to their…
May 1, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Syberia 3 picks up where Syberia II left off: Hans Voralberg has gone into the Syberian wastes to live with the mammoths, and Kate Walker has drifted ashore nearly dead back on the outskirts of…
May 1, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
After slightly missing its original intended release window of 2015, Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is finally in the hands of those who helped the project over-achieve on its $100,000 Kickstarter…
April 29, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Scanner Sombre is the newest game from Introversion Software, creators of Prison Architect, and it takes place in a world where the player has to navigate to the surface by scanning the environment…
October 27, 2019 | 01:16 EDT
Telltale's continued objective of making a game with every single IP available is going strong, and their latest grab is Guardians of the Galaxy. This is one IP that I always thought would be the…
April 23, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
ANCESTORS: The Humankind Odyssey, the first project from Patrice Désilets' Panache Digital Games, is no longer an episodic game as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. ANCESTORS comes from the mind of…
April 20, 2017 | 02:15 EDT
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is a game that has been 20 years in the making - conceptualized and brought to life through the writing of Samir Rebib, Enigami's Creative Director. This Action RPG…
April 18, 2017 | 02:15 EDT
The Butterfly Sign is an episodic first-person Adventure/Exploration game with puzzle elements, similar to The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. The first episode was launched on December 13th, 2016 on…
April 15, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
The Butterfly Sign is a game that took me three days to beat. Rather, it is a game that took three days to get running, and then about ninety minutes to beat. So we'll start with that. For overview, …
April 15, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
When it comes to horror literature, I like to think my tastes are fairly varied. I love the gothic terrors of Poe, the home-grown horror of King, and the bloodsoaked bites of Barker. But if you put a…
April 10, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Insomniac Games' PS4-exclusive Spider-Man game might be releasing sometime in 2017 as reported by Gamespot. The news was revealed in a livestream which was ultimately captured by Redditor /u/…
April 4, 2017 | 11:30 EDT
After the explosive two episode premiere of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, I was wondering where the series would go next. The twist at the end of the second episode really had me excited, and now…
April 2, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
White Paper Games, developers of Ether One, have announced a new title called The Occupation according to a press release. A trailer has accompanied the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…
March 28, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
The first episode of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series will be available for download starting on April 18, 2017. The first episode, titled Tangled Up in Blue, will be available…
March 28, 2017 | 08:48 EDT
The voice acting talent for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series has been announced by Telltale Games. Guardians of the Galaxy is a Marvel comic series where a group of roguish…
March 11, 2017 | 07:25 EST
Dutch Indie game developer Twirlbound officially launches Pine on Kickstarter. The ambitious action-adventure title was recently released on Steam Greenlight, and is described as a combination…
March 9, 2017 | 01:15 EST
I tried, I really did. In the four hours I've spent with Bot Colony, I must have restarted it twenty to thirty times due to crashes, authentication screen hangs, disconnects from the server, and…
March 7, 2017 | 09:00 EST
Bot Colony is a third-person robotics AI simulation game developed by North Side in which players can converse with and control robots. Using a microphone and the game's speech recognition tool or a…
March 5, 2017 | 05:40 EST
Steam Greenlight has a reputation for poorly made games, but sometimes you'll be able to find a gem in the rough - and one of these rare gems looks to be Pine, a game that was released on Greenlight…
February 26, 2017 | 10:30 EST
Action-RPG Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom, from the Indie studio Enigami, sheds light on the depth of the game's gameplay and shows us more details and imagery of the unique universe in a brand new…
February 16, 2017 | 01:53 EST
Syberia 3, the long-awaited next installment of Microids’ popular adventure game franchise Syberia, finally has a release date: April 21, 2017 in Europe and April 25, 2017 for North America. First…
February 12, 2017 | 05:27 EST
The Last Guardian, the long-awaited action-adventure game by SIE Japan Studio and Sony Interactive Entertainment, has seen its price reduced to $39.99 as reported by PlayStation Lifestyle. Featuring…
February 1, 2017 | 07:35 EST
Game bundles have been an invaluable resource for PC gamers that wanted to build a respectable digital library on the cheap. On that regard, Humble Bundle is perhaps the biggest and most renowned…
January 31, 2017 | 06:00 EST
Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom, a new Action RPG game that features a fighting-style combat system, has had a new update posted on their Facebook Page - offering new details about the game as well as…
January 28, 2017 | 03:33 EST
In an announcement on their website posted earlier today, GAMEPUMP founder Robert Bowling announced that the previously delayed subscription service was being canceled. Customers who preordered the…
January 25, 2017 | 07:13 EST
Time is no friend of video games. This is a highly technical medium, and gaming's massive popularity in recent years has ensured a blazing speed of progress. Most older games simply don't play as…
January 14, 2017 | 11:00 EST
GAMEPUMP, the game publisher/subscription service hybrid masterminded by former Call of Duty lead Robert Bowling, has delayed the launch of their service. Originally scheduled to release a new game…
January 7, 2017 | 03:32 EST
Owlboy is a platform-adventure game where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds. Journey through monster infested ruins, among many other exciting parts of your adventure. Pick up…
January 4, 2017 | 12:53 EST
Developer Campo Santo has announced via their Twitter that their visually striking walking simulator Firewatch has managed to sell over a million copies since it made its debut in February of last…
January 4, 2017 | 11:02 EST
The first title that will most likely be published through GamePump's subscription service is LIT, a "horror puzzler" that was originally released for the Wii's WiiWare platform in 2009. The…
January 3, 2017 | 08:00 EST
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January 3, 2017 | 01:00 EST
To say The Last Guardian has been long awaited would be to show it a disservice. The game was first revealed at 2009's E3, having begun development in 2007, and is the follow-up to 2005's brilliant …
December 27, 2016 | 01:00 EST
The first season of Batman: The Telltale Series is over, with Telltale's unique take on Batman, and more importantly Bruce Wayne, finishing off with a bang. Telltale has put out great games, and…
December 26, 2016 | 01:00 EST
We finally reach the final episode of another one of Telltale's episodic adventures. I've continued to insist that Batman: The Telltale Series has been one of the best that Telltale has given us, but…
December 22, 2016 | 01:00 EST
The third season of Telltale's popular The Walking Dead series based on the comics and show of the same name.
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You were right. Everyone who constantly defended the timers and everyone who decried Capcom Vancouver's insistence of having a new actor take up the mantle of Frank West. You could see the writing on…
December 15, 2016 | 11:00 EST
I've always insisted that Telltale has had a fourth episode curse. Every Telltale series I've played, I've found the fourth episode to be the weakest of the bunch, with The Wolf Among Us being a…
December 11, 2016 | 11:00 EST
Being evil is hard, because what makes you evil is simply your approach to a problem. After all, the perspective of what is considered good and evil is often how a story is framed; players tend to…
November 22, 2016 | 11:00 EST
Firewatch developer Campo Santo have released new details on how their walking and talking game set in a beautifully stylized version of Wyoming will take advantage of the upgraded hardware in the…
November 10, 2016 | 12:11 EST
Telltale has gotten through two episodes of Batman: The Telltale Series without any major stumbles so far. The plot keeps advancing in unexpected and exciting ways as the new and still unnamed…
November 4, 2016 | 02:00 EDT
Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen is an open world action RPG that allows players to fight alongside Pawns, which are three AI companions. Pawns can be shared online with other players and can be used to…
October 19, 2016 | 12:30 EDT