Like all video game genres, adventure games have come a long way since their introduction in the 1970s. At first, adventure games started as text-based adventures, requiring the player’s imagination ...

The term ‘adventure’ covers a lot of different video games. Sure, you’ve got true action-adventure games, like Tomb Raider. But plenty of other games, be they story-driven or 2D side-scrolling, also ...

Dovetail Games has announced that they are to release a new game in collaboration with Mattel. Thomas and Friends: Wonders of Sodor is a new standalone narrative adventure game. The new game will ...

Despite launching way back in 2001, classic adventure game software, ScummVM, is still seeing updates. Yes, 2001 is “way back,” sorry. The latest update to kick off 2026 brings a whole host of ...

Mark Sammut grew up on the PlayStation 1 and has been playing games ever since, although he is no longer limited to just Sony consoles. Be it JRPGs, shooters, platformers, or hack and slash games, ...

One of the most common category critiques in games is the action/adventure genre's elasticity. When does a first-person shooter with a heavier emphasis on exploration and puzzle-solving cross into ...

Daniel has been playing games for entirely too many years, with his Steam library currently numbering nearly 750 games and counting. When he's not working or watching anime, he's either playing or ...

Ten years in the making, puzzle adventure game “Order of the Sinking Star” is set for a 2026 release on PC from Jonathan Blow‘s Thekla and indie publisher Arc Games. The game hails from the creator of ...

Developer Cognition Europe announced the single-player narrative adventure and exploration game, Lunar Strike, will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam in May 2026. View a ...

If you know the name Ron Gilbert, it’s probably for his decades of work on classic point-and-click adventure games like Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Monkey Island series, ...

Ronald Goncalves is a contributor at DualShockers and a Venezuelan political scientist and economist who seeks to express his passion for video games through the always subjective interpretation of ...

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