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Adventure games

323 games in the catalog

An adventure game is one where you move through a world built in advance, pick up objects, talk to characters and work out what to do with what so the story can move on. Quick fingers matter far less than attention and judgement. The genre began in the mid-1970s as pure text: Colossal Cave Adventure guided players through a cave with typed commands, and a few years later Zork, born at MIT, showed that a computer could understand whole sentences.

Pictures, animation, the mouse, voice acting and eventually a three-dimensional scene were added bit by bit. What stayed was the deal between author and player: the world is carefully designed, the player looks for a way through, and the reward is discovery and the next chapter of the story. That is why adventures survived even when publishers all but wrote them off around the turn of the millennium. The genre moved to handhelds with touch screens, to the browser, to phones and to independent developers, and today it also gives rise to games that have hardly any puzzles and rest on storytelling.

Today (2015 onwards)

93 games in the catalog

Today's adventure is often shorter, built around a single idea and light on puzzles. What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) lets you walk through a house and uncover its stories piece by piece. Her Story (2015) rests on searching a database of police interview footage. Outer Wilds (2019) hands you no new items, only knowledge: how to get further is something you have to work out. Classics return as remasters and through crowdfunding, such as Day of the Tentacle Remastered (2016). Phones brought the Rusty Lake series, VR hand-based interaction. Telltale closed in 2018, but others carry on with episodic stories, such as Life is Strange.

Dave the Diver – boxart PS5

Dave the Diver

PS5 Adventura ⏱ L ⭐ Must-play

An unusual mix: diving into a blue hole by day, running a sushi restaurant by night.

Alan Wake 2 – boxart Series

Alan Wake 2

Series Survival horor / narativní adventura ⏱ L ⭐ Must-play🔞 18+

A return after 13 years; a survival horror blending light and gunplay with two interwoven storylines.

Bramble: The Mountain King – boxart Series

Bramble: The Mountain King

Series Adventura / Temná pohádka ⏱ M 🔞 18+

A dark fairy tale from Norse mythology; no combat, just quiet stealth and fleeing from trolls.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – Reforged – boxart Mobil

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – Reforged

Mobil point-and-click adventura ⏱ M

An adventure for fans of a slower pace: rich dialogue and logic puzzles.

Cocoon – boxart PS5

Cocoon

PS5Series Logická adventura (puzzle) ⏱ S 🧩 Logická⭐ Must-play

A minimalist puzzle adventure from the designer of Limbo — worlds nested one inside another.

Dredge – boxart Series

Dredge

Series Adventura s prvky hororu ⏱ M 🔞 18+⭐ Must-play

A fishing adventure with horror elements; fatigue at night warps both the map and the player's perception.

Chants of Sennaar – boxart PS5

Chants of Sennaar

PS5 Logická adventura (jazyková hádanka) ⏱ S 🧩 Logická⭐ Must-play

A language puzzle without a single word: you decipher the pictograms of the Tower of Babel's levels.

Jusant – boxart PS5

Jusant

PS5 Plošinovka / lezecká adventura ⏱ S 🧩 Logická

Contemplative climbing up a giant tower; each of the character's hands has its own controller button.

Moss – boxart PSVR2

Moss

PSVR2 Plosinovka / puzzle adventura ⏱ S 🧩 Logická

A charming platformer where you tilt dioramas as a ghostly presence while the mouse Quill solves puzzles.

Moss: Book II – boxart PSVR2

Moss: Book II

PSVR2 Plosinovka / puzzle adventura ⏱ M 🧩 Logická

The sequel starring the mouse Quill; now you can also pilot old guardian robots and solve puzzles.

No Man's Sky – boxart PSVR2

No Man's Sky

PSVR2 Sci-fi pruzkumna adventura ⏱ XL ⭐ Must-play

The entire No Man's Sky universe in VR; scanning plants by hand and a cockpit view while flying.

Tchia – boxart PS5

Tchia

PS5 Open-world adventura ⏱ M

An open world inspired by New Caledonia; the Soul-Jump ability links her to the soul of nature.

The HD generation (2005–2014)

63 games in the catalog

After the slump, the genre came back by three routes. The touch screen of the Nintendo DS suited tapping through a scene: Professor Layton (2007), Hotel Dusk and Ghost Trick all tied puzzles to a story. Flash and the browser let small teams publish without a publisher, and Amanita Design of Brno delivered Samorost and Machinarium (2009), where characters talk only in picture bubbles. The third route was episodic games: Telltale released chapters lasting a few hours and, from The Walking Dead (2012), built on the player's decisions rather than on combining objects. Digital stores and phones also gave old games a second life.

80 Days – boxart Mobil

80 Days

Mobil Adventura ⏱ M ⭐ Must-play

A steampunk adaptation of Jules Verne with thousands of branching routes around the world.

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse – boxart Mobil

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

Mobil point-and-click adventura ⏱ M

A classic point-and-click adventure with hand-drawn graphics and dialogue-based puzzles.

Polda 6 – boxart PC

Polda 6

PC Adventura ⏱ S

A return to the older, more popular entries after a weaker fifth installment; once again with Luděk Sobota.

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy – boxart 3DS

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy

3DS Adventura / puzzle ⏱ L 🧩 Logická

Wraps up Layton's second trilogy and the search for the frozen tombs of the Azran civilization.

The Swapper – boxart Wii U

The Swapper

Wii U Puzzle adventura / sci-fi ⏱ S 🧩 Logická

Atmospheric sci-fi puzzle adventure; cloning and consciousness transfer between copies.

A Dark Room – boxart Web

A Dark Room

WebMobil Textová hra ⏱ S ⭐ Must-play

A minimalist text survival game that grows into an extensive adventure.

Device 6 – boxart Mobil

Device 6

Mobil Textová hra ⏱ S ⭐ Must-play

Text winds around images and maps; you read the story while walking through it at the same time.

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon – boxart 3DS

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

3DS Akční / Adventura ⏱ L

A trembling Luigi with the Poltergust vacuum hunts ghosts; the return of a long-awaited hit.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies – boxart 3DS

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies

3DS Adventura / Vizuální román ⏱ L

The darkest and most dramatic chapter in the series about attorney Phoenix Wright. Objection!

The Cave – boxart Wii U

The Cave

Wii U Puzzle adventura ⏱ M 🧩 Logická

Puzzle adventure from Ron Gilbert, creator of Maniac Mansion; the cave knows your desires.

The Walking Dead: Season Two – boxart PC

The Walking Dead: Season Two

PC epizodická adventura ⏱ M

An episodic adventure from Telltale where Clementine becomes the main heroine.

The Wolf Among Us – boxart X360

The Wolf Among Us

X360PS3 Epizodická adventura ⏱ M 🔞 18+

A noir detective story among fairy-tale creatures; a loose prequel to the Fables comic.

The arrival of 3D (1995–2004)

60 games in the catalog

The CD-ROM made room for spoken dialogue, pre-rendered backdrops and video. Myst (1993) offered photorealistic scenes and mechanical puzzles with no inventory or conversations, and spawned many imitators. LucasArts and Revolution stayed with hand-drawn worlds, but Grim Fandango (1998) put three-dimensional characters on pre-rendered sets and was steered from the keyboard. Clock Tower (1995) turned puzzle-solving into running from a stalker, a forerunner of survival horror. Around 2000 classic point-and-click sales dropped and publishers turned to action. In Japan, Phoenix Wright (2001) built its game around cross-examining witnesses.

Runaway: A Road Adventure – boxart Java ME

Runaway: A Road Adventure

Java ME Adventura ⏱ S

A stylized Spanish adventure about a student in trouble; the humor survived even on a small display.

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon – boxart Xbox

Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon

Xbox Adventura ⏱ M

The fourth installment of the classic adventure series abandons 2D drawing for 3D environments and a free camera.

Resident Evil – Code: Veronica X – boxart GCN

Resident Evil – Code: Veronica X

GCN Survival horor / adventura ⏱ L 🔞 18+

The first fully 3D Resident Evil without fixed cameras; the Redfields against the Ashford twins.

Resident Evil 2 – boxart GCN

Resident Evil 2

GCN Survival horor / adventura ⏱ M 🔞 18+

A careful port of the 1998 classic; Raccoon City full of zombies and two intertwined scenarios.

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis – boxart GCN

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

GCN Survival horor / adventura ⏱ M 🔞 18+

A tenser sequel with the tireless Nemesis on your heels, one that can also transform.

Samorost – boxart Web

Samorost

Web Point-and-click adventura ⏱ S ⭐ Must-play🧩 Logická

A school project by Jakub Dvorský that became one of the most famous Czech games of all.

The Black Mirror – boxart PC

The Black Mirror

PC Hororová adventura ⏱ L ⭐ Must-play🔞 18+

A horror adventure from Future Games; one of the most successful Czech games ever.

Brány Skeldalu 2 – boxart Win9x

Brány Skeldalu 2

Win9x Adventura / RPG ⏱ L

The sequel took a different path – an adventure game with turn-based combat instead of step-by-step corridor crawling.

Polda 4 – boxart PC

Polda 4

PC Adventura ⏱ S

The most seriously toned entry in the Pankrác series; a case about a professor and his time machine.

Resident Evil 0 – boxart GCN

Resident Evil 0

GCN Survival horor / adventura ⏱ M 🔞 18+

An exclusive prequel with no item chests - things can be dropped anywhere along the way.

Syberia – boxart Win9x

Syberia

Win9x Adventura ⏱ M ⭐ Must-play

Benoît Sokal's melancholic adventure game about forgotten mechanical wonders.

ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth – boxart Xbox

ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth

Xbox Action/Adventure ⏱ M

The return of the cult duo from the Sega Genesis in a reworked 3D form after years of silence.

8- and 16-bit (1986–1994)

67 games in the catalog

The mouse and better graphics changed the genre. Lucasfilm Games' Maniac Mansion (1987) replaced typed commands with verbs picked from a menu, so a game no longer hinged on guessing the right word. Sierra, meanwhile, moved King's Quest IV (1988) to an engine that supported sound cards. The two companies differed in attitude: the LucasArts designers protected players from dead ends and death, while Sierra counted on both. One branch became comedy built on combining objects (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle); another stayed with darker detective stories and horror. CDs then brought voice acting and video, for example on the Mega-CD.

Burn:Cycle – boxart CD-i

Burn:Cycle

CD-i Sci-fi adventura ⏱ S ⭐ Must-play

A sci-fi adventure about a data thief with a virus in his head and a two-hour countdown to brain destruction.

Desire – boxart PC-98

Desire

PC-98 Vizuální novela ⏱ M 🔞 18+

A mysterious visual novel on an island where memory experiments uncover a dark conspiracy.

Heart of the Alien: Out of This World Parts I and II – boxart MCD

Heart of the Alien: Out of This World Parts I and II

MCD Cinematická adventura ⏱ S 🔞 18+

A compilation of both Another World installments on one disc, including Buddy's perspective.

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride – boxart DOS

King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride

DOS point-and-click adventura ⏱ L

A fairy-tale point-and-click adventure with hand-drawn graphics and puzzles, with no parser.

Myst – boxart 3DO

Myst

3DOCD-i Adventura ⏱ M ⭐ Must-play🧩 Logická

A lonely island without words or an inventory; a showcase of what CD-ROM could do with sharp graphics.

Policenauts – boxart PC-98

Policenauts

PC-983DOPS1 Adventura ⏱ M ⭐ Must-play🔞 18+

Konami's sci-fi detective story about a policeman out of hibernation; the investigation leads to an organ trade.

Simon the Sorcerer – boxart CD32

Simon the Sorcerer

CD32 Adventure ⏱ L

Adventure Soft cheekily pokes fun at every cliché about chosen-one heroes.

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Echoes from the Past – boxart MD

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Echoes from the Past

MD Adventure / Strategy ⏱ L

An adventure and strategy game from the Enterprise's bridge at the height of the show's popularity.

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Future's Past – boxart SNES

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Future's Past

SNES Adventure / Strategy ⏱ L

Brings the world of The Next Generation to SNES; diplomacy, exploration, and tactics from the Enterprise's bridge.

Tajemství Oslího ostrova – boxart DOS

Tajemství Oslího ostrova

DOSWin9x Adventura ⏱ M

One of the first Czech adventure games comparable to foreign productions; a comedy about pirates.

The 7th Guest – boxart 3DO

The 7th Guest

3DOCD-i Logická adventura ⏱ M 🧩 Logická

A horror adventure in toymaker Stauf's house; one of the first titles built purely for CD.

Day of the Tentacle – boxart DOS

Day of the Tentacle

DOS Point-and-click adventura ⏱ M ⭐ Must-play

A direct sequel to Maniac Mansion; three heroes each get stuck in a different time period.

The beginnings (until 1985)

31 games in the catalog

It started with text. The player typed short commands on a keyboard, the game answered with a description of the room, and the picture was left to the imagination. For Zork, Infocom built a virtual machine, so the same story could be moved to most home computers of the day. Mystery House (1980) added the first pictures to the text, and Beam Software's The Hobbit (1982) understood whole sentences and had characters who acted on their own. Alongside the text games, consoles got action adventures in which you hunted for keys, gates and hiding places across a few screens, as on the Atari 2600.

Alien 8 – boxart ZX

Alien 8

ZX Izometrická adventura ⏱ M 🧩 Logická

Isometric puzzle adventure built on the Knight Lore engine; puzzles demand an exact sequence of steps.

King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne – boxart Win9x

King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne

Win9x Adventura ⏱ S

King Graham rescues Valanice in a new fairy-tale adventure through a magic portal.

Poklad 2 – boxart ZX

Poklad 2

ZX Textová adventura ⏱ S

A reworked version of Fuk's Poklad, released only later in the Fuxoft uvádí collection.

Skool Daze – boxart C64

Skool Daze

C64 Adventura ⏱ M ⭐ Must-play

A classic of school simulations; steal your report card before someone catches you.

Sorcery+ – boxart ZX

Sorcery+

ZX Textová adventura ⏱ M 🧩 Logická

A text adventure based on the Sorcery! book series; spells gave the game strategic depth.

The Lord of the Rings: Game One – boxart ZX

The Lord of the Rings: Game One

ZX Textová adventura ⏱ L

The Hobbit's successor leads a party of hobbits that can be controlled individually thanks to advanced AI.

Below the Root – boxart A800

Below the Root

A800C64 Adventura ⏱ M

An adventure based on the books by Zilpha Snyder; children with the shan levitation ability explore Green-sky.

Lords of Midnight – boxart ZX

Lords of Midnight

ZX Strategy / Adventure ⏱ XL

A vast fantasy world rendered with a unique landscaping technique; it was ahead of its time.

Montezuma's Revenge – boxart A800

Montezuma's Revenge

A800 Platformer / Adventure ⏱ M

A challenging exploration platformer; the forefather of the genre.

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns – boxart 2600

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

2600 Platformer / Adventure ⏱ M

The first game with its own chip for multichannel music; a far larger world.

Poklad – boxart ZX

Poklad

ZX Textová adventura ⏱ S

The debut work of a sixteen-year-old Fuxoft, one of the oldest surviving Czechoslovak games.

SunDog: Frozen Legacy – boxart A800

SunDog: Frozen Legacy

A800 Vesmírný obchodní simulátor / adventura ⏱ L ⭐ Must-play

A space trading simulation with an inherited ship, where the wrong route means bankruptcy.

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