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.
Many players will be immediately uninterested in Firewatch upon learning that the game is dreadfully close to the "walking simulator" genre. However, for narrative junkies like myself, there will…
February 8, 2016 | 02:00 EST
Dragon’s Dogma has been one of the defining games of the past console generation. Its peculiar take on the Action RPG genre has been an example for many titles released afterward. It goes without…
January 25, 2016 | 09:00 EST
PC gamers are notoriously proud of their platform. You can peek into any gaming discussion online to confirm that. Of course, there's one problem in being a gamer that only plays on one device, and…
January 15, 2016 | 11:00 EST
Dragons's Dogma is one of the genre-defining titles of the past generation. Countless people played it on PS3 and fell in love with it and the franchise. The reaction of the PC gamers when Capcom…
December 19, 2015 | 10:14 EST
In a world premiere announcement, the studio that has done deep dives into the worlds of Borderlands, Game of Thrones, and Back to the Future now writes a tale in the world of the caped crusader.…
December 3, 2015 | 10:21 EST
The long awaited physical release of Shovel Knight is not going 100% as planned, as developers Yacht Club Games announced that their retail copies will be going for a higher price than originally…
October 8, 2015 | 11:43 EDT
The Plague Knight DLC, Plague of Shadows, for Shovel Knight was announced a while ago, and now it is finally here. It prominently features one of the bosses from Shovel Knight, Plague Knight,…
September 18, 2015 | 03:18 EDT
The Shovel Knight amiibo is real. After a longstanding rumor of a Shovel Knight amiibo began circulating last week, which came to a head through a deleted post on twitter by U.K retailer GAME.…
August 30, 2015 | 12:58 EDT
Following the success of Yacht Club Games' NES style action platformer Shovel Knight, a free update dubbed 'Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows' has surfaced on the developers' website with a flashy…
August 26, 2015 | 12:05 EDT
A new RPG from French indie studio Enigami has shown off a trailer for their new game called Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom. Shiness was successfully funded on Kickstarter on June 9th 2014 beating…
August 6, 2015 | 08:56 EDT
When thinking about which games were the best of Gen 7, I have a short list that immediately comes to mind. Lost Odyssey made me cry. Red Dead Redemption let me live out my six-shooter outlaw…
July 24, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Firewatch is the next game to be announced, a game where you play as a man who is in the Wyoming wilderness being led around by a woman on a radio. The game revolves around you following the…
June 15, 2015 | 10:49 EDT
Shawn Layden, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, takes the stage to give us the first announcement for Sony this E3. After a long time, almost seven years in development hell, it seems…
June 15, 2015 | 10:11 EDT
Back in December Funomena announced their new project called Wattam. Now they've revealed a lot more about the game including a little insight into the story and game-play. Funomena will be at E3…
June 11, 2015 | 09:39 EDT
I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with Corey and Lori Cole of Transolar Games on their current project Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, currently on Kickstarter, with just under half of its…
May 15, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Trying to cash in on nostalgia is a trick that gamers are intimately familiar with at this point. Games throwing in pixel graphics and an 8-bit soundtrack with no regard to actual quality is a common…
April 11, 2015 | 09:18 EDT
Update 2: Sony simply forgot to file the necessary documents for renewal, as we mentioned was a possibility in the original article. After Sony moved to regain it, the trademark is "live" once again…
February 16, 2015 | 04:26 EST
Life is Strange Episode 1 is any example of what the remaining series will be, players can expect a rather peculiar game. Readers should understand that Life is Strange does not come across as a bad…
February 10, 2015 | 01:00 EST
After reaching over 50% of its $30,000 intended target on KickStarter, Goetia, a point and click adventure game developed by Sushee and backed by Square Enix Collective has released a free demo of…
February 6, 2015 | 12:58 EST
Game of Thrones Episode 2 sets the bar high for future installations. Episode 1 did a favorable job creating a setting in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, but never had the chance to fully…
February 4, 2015 | 10:05 EST
Another new title for the Playstation 4 has been introduced during the Playstation Experience in Las Vegas, from the minds over at Funomena. Many people may have not heard of the studio, however the…
December 7, 2014 | 12:26 EST
Hot off its win of Best Indie of the Year at The Game Awards last night, Yacht Club Games has announced today at the Playstation Experience that Shovel Knight will be coming to the Playstation 3,…
December 7, 2014 | 12:01 EST
As a frequent critic of the Borderlands series it is rather jarring to admit that something unprecedented has occurred. Even as a regular customer of Telltale's products the unequivocal quality of…
November 26, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Dreamfall Chapters Book 1: Rebirth (hereafter called Dreamfall Chapters in the name of sanity) takes us back to the twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia that The Longest Journey saga has featured. The…
November 2, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Legendary Digital Media and Crackle announced the principle cast for the upcoming Dead Rising: Watchtower feature-length film. Rob Riggle (Let's Be Cops, 22 Jump Street), Harley Morenstein (…
October 21, 2014 | 03:45 EDT
In recent years, a new video game genre has emerged called the “Walking Simulator.” To some, these games are amazing, breathtaking works of art, but to others, they’re so divorced from what a video…
October 7, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
Many will be ready to criticize The Vanishing of Ethan Carter as just some kind of "walking simulator" similar to Dear Esther, but that would be highly inaccurate. To be sure, the best way to…
October 2, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
Just before E3, when it came out that The Last Guardian had not been cancelled, people were exited to learn more of the long-awaited game. Unfortunately it was a no show at E3. Perhaps Gamescom? Nope…
October 2, 2014 | 12:05 EDT
D4 Dark Dreams Don't Die is the latest game from Japanese-based Access Games and Hidetaka Suehiro. Fans of his work most likely know him as SWERY or Swery65. Access games in the past have normally…
September 29, 2014 | 11:00 EDT
As you can tell from my past reviews, Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 2 has had some real high points. The opening episode was primarily involved in setting the groundwork but was notable for the…
September 5, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 4 has a lot of the ingredients for something truly impressive but never quite coalesces into anything of that sort. There are a number of good moments, and it ends…
August 29, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games has announced via their website that their indie title has sold over 180,000 copies of their Action-Platforming game. Their blog has an extremely in depth…
August 6, 2014 | 08:32 EDT
There are two words I would use to describe my total experience throughout The Wolf Among Us’ five episodes: rushed and deceiving. Being a big fan of the Fables comics and Telltale’s The Walking Dead…
July 11, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
In the review of the previous episode of The Wolf Among Us, I mentioned that it was setting up many questions to be answered. While most questions do get answered in this episode, they are answered…
July 10, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
We gamers who enjoy a good retro action game are immensely spoiled in today's age, weirdly enough. Over the course of the last console generation, the rise of platforms such as the Xbox Live Arcade…
June 26, 2014 | 10:00 EDT
The Last Guardian was officially announced five years ago, and since then we've heard all sorts of rumors about the team, its development, release date, etc. After news that some Sony staff members…
June 23, 2014 | 02:52 EDT
Sony's The Last Guardian has become somewhat of a mystery over the last few years since it was first announced back at E3 2009. It was going to be Team Ico's next game, after what is often thought by…
June 8, 2014 | 11:36 EDT
In the review of The Wolf Among Us' previous episode, one of my major criticisms had to do with a feeling of separation from the game. That it felt much more like I was just an observer and not a…
May 28, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
With episode three of The Walking Dead Season Two (entitled, ‘In Harm’s Way’), TellTale continues to impress. Though the first episode was somewhat underwhelming, the second was excellent, and this…
May 23, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
The news of The Wolf Among Us episode three release was quite a surprise. Only two months separate this episode and the previous one back in February. Compare that to the four months between the…
April 10, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Often games fall into a trap of trying to do too much, leaving their game unfocused and difficult to follow. Stoic did not have that issue with The Banner Saga, which places you in an interesting…
March 19, 2014 | 10:00 EDT
The first episode of season two of The Walking Dead was mainly concerned with setting the stage. It showcased a number of technical improvements over the last season but was focused on setting things…
March 6, 2014 | 09:00 EST
There are numerous examples of funny games, but in these, the comedy is somewhat secondary or just one part of an equal equation. Portal is a very funny game, but it’s also an excellent puzzle game…
February 25, 2014 | 10:00 EST
realMyst gets remastered again as a masterpiece. What? Exactly. Myst is a definitive game that hardly needs an introduction, but here’s one anyway for those people that had a life outside of their…
February 20, 2014 | 10:00 EST
At first glance, The Wolf Among us appears to be a new TellTale story centering around a Werewolf by the name of Bigby, but the story is much, much deeper than that, as we have come to expect from…
February 4, 2014 | 12:00 EST