Adventure games

Adventure games are the storytellers of the catalog. Point-and-click escapes, hidden-object mysteries, exploration platformers and gentle narrative journeys all sit in this category — games where progress comes from noticing things: a key behind a painting, a line of dialogue that was actually a clue, a door you walked past three times. They are the least rushed games on the site, and many players treat them as a slow evening ritual rather than a quick break.

If you get stuck, the genre has an unwritten rule that helps: the solution is almost always something you have already seen. Revisit rooms, re-read notes, and try your inventory items on anything that looks slightly out of place. The titles at the top of this page are the most polished and the fairest with their puzzles — a good place to start before tackling the trickier escape games further down.

There are currently 47 adventure games in our catalog, sorted by quality — the highest-rated are at the top.