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Adventure Games
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About Adventure
An adventure game is a genre in which the player performs as a protagonist. It is usually supported by puzzle-solving, gathering items, dialogues, and intervening goals. Adventure focus on story, many of them are designed for a single player. Colossal Cave Adventure is known as the first of the genre, released in 1976. They rocketed in the 1980s; later it led to the appearance of independent video game developers. The Walking Dead by TellTale Games is considered as the game which renewed the whole genre. It has a revolutionary mechanics which change the gameplay as the players make their choices. These games are still favorite among the users; independent developers start crowd-funding companies to raise money; the genre is celebrated on practically any platform.
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Popular Adventure Nintendo Switch Games
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Saturnalia
Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova
The Darkest Tales
The Gallery
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
Dadish 3
Sonority
tERRORbane
What Lies in the Multiverse
7 Days to End with You
Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia
Ultra Age
Battle Axe
Immortals Fenyx Rising - Myths of the Eastern Realm
Selfloss
Best Friend Forever
In Rays of the Light
Wurroom
EQQO
Incredible Mandy
The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game
Endless Fables 4: Shadow Within
Projection: First Light
A Knight's Quest
IN-VERT
Without Escape
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots
Q-YO Blaster
Dungeon Munchies
WORLDEND SYNDROME
Guard Duty
Path to Mnemosyne
Where the Bees Make Honey
Inops
Syberia 1 & 2
Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San
Unknown Fate
GOD WARS The Complete Legend
Hotel Transylvania 3 Monsters Overboard
HEROES TRIALS
Ages of Mages - The last keeper
Don't Sink
Light Fall
ASCENDANCE
Omen Exitio: Plague
Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.2: 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive
The Longest Five Minutes
The Forbidden Arts
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
Nirvana Pilot Yume
Welcome to Hanwell
Caveman Warriors
Deep Ones
Adventures of Bertram Fiddle Episode 2: A Bleaker Predicklement
Plague Road
Soul Searching
Strange Telephone
Selma and the Wisp
Adventure News
Read Nintendo news articles connected to games in the Adventure genre.
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