Best Adventure Games
3,489 Adventure games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Florence
Released: Feb 13, 2018
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Florence is an interactive storybook from the award-winning lead designer of Monument Valley about the heart-racing highs and heartbreaking lows of a young woman's very first love.
Saints Row 2
Released: Oct 14, 2008
Critic rating: 81.2 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Racing, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
After the events of the first game, you awaken from a coma to find that the Third Street Saints have all but disappeared.
Dead Rising 2
Released: Sep 24, 2010
Critic rating: 80.7 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
As Chuck Greene, you have 72 hours to save your infected daughter, clear your name and survive the hordes of hungry zombies before the military comes in and nukes the city.
Pokémon Sword
Released: Nov 15, 2019
Critic rating: 82.4 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
A turn-based role-playing game set in the Galar region, a fictional land inspired by the United Kingdom.
Sludge Life
Released: May 28, 2020
Critic rating: 77.3 / 100 • 37 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Sludge Life is a first-person open world vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.
Still Wakes the Deep
Released: Jun 18, 2024
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
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Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Released: Mar 16, 2007
Critic rating: 84.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Experience a puzzle game like nothing you have played before.
Don't Starve
Released: Apr 23, 2013
Critic rating: 78.6 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic.
New Pokémon Snap
Released: Apr 29, 2021
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
New Pokémon Snap is an on-rails first-person photography game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo Switch.
Wilmot's Warehouse
Released: Aug 28, 2019
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Wilmot's Warehouse is a puzzle game about keeping a warehouse running in tip-top shape.
Control: The Foundation
Released: Mar 26, 2020
Critic rating: 79.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The Foundation Expansion includes new story content and side missions as well as new weapons and mods inspired by the Oldest House's mysterious origins.
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout
Released: Dec 31, 2008
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout is an adventure game for Windows and Mac about a girl and her toy rabbit.
Raft
Released: Jun 20, 2022
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Raft throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure!
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Released: Nov 13, 2018
Critic rating: 77.2 / 100 • 23 votes
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The Dragon Realms are celebrating the ‘Year of the Dragon’ when a mysterious cloaked figure emerges to steal all the Dragon Eggs.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Released: Sep 29, 2014
Critic rating: 74.7 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Crimes & Punishments lets you become the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes!
Outlast
Released: Sep 4, 2013
Critic rating: 77.2 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history.
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
Released: Feb 11, 2004
Critic rating: 79.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative, Split screen
Returning as James Bond is Pierce Brosnan, who will lend his cyberscanned likeness and voice to the character.
Syberia II
Released: Mar 30, 2004
Critic rating: 77.1 / 100 • 204 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Windows Mobile, Xbox, PlayStation 3, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
An unlikely pair, young Kate Walker and old, eccentric Hans Voralberg now set off on a journey together: in search of the last of the fabled Syberian mammoths at the heart of a long and forgotten universe.
Days Gone
Released: Apr 26, 2019
Critic rating: 74.7 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure game developed by Bend Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Resonance
Released: Jun 19, 2012
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Resonance is a joint effort between Wadjet Eye and xii games.
Astroneer
Released: Feb 6, 2019
Critic rating: 80.8 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands.
Fatal Frame
Released: Dec 13, 2001
Critic rating: 80.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
Fatal Frame is the first game of the Fatal Frame series, introducing the franchise's unique premise of fighting ghosts with a special camera.
Cultist Simulator
Released: May 31, 2018
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Card & Board Game
Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Game modes: Single player
Seize forbidden treasures.
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected
Released: Jan 20, 2015
Critic rating: 77.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected is a remaster of Saints Row IV including all DLC.
Watch Dogs
Released: May 26, 2014
Critic rating: 81.1 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Set in Chicago, where a central network of computers connects everyone and everything, Watch Dogs explores the impact of technology within our society.