Best Adventure Game

A 2021 expansion for Mobius Digital's Outer Wilds that introduces a horror-tinged mystery set within a hidden simulation, adding stealth mechanics largely absent from the base game.

Urban fantasy adventure by Wadjet Eye Games (2018), notable for branching storylines that shift substantially based on the player character's chosen background.

Fourth installment in Fireproof Games' The Room series (2018), set inside a miniature dollhouse with distinct themed rooms concealing intricate puzzles.

First-person narrative by GoodbyeWorld Games (2021), uniquely controlled by real-world eye blinks detected via webcam, advancing a life's story with each blink.

Third entry in Fireproof Games' puzzle series (2015), expanding the mechanical box formula with multiple locations and a larger overarching mystery.

1996 FMV adventure by Access Software, fourth in the Tex Murphy series, notable for its branching narrative leading to six distinct endings.

Fifth and final entry in Dave Gilbert's Blackwell series (2014), concluding Rosa Blackwell's decade-spanning story as New York's foremost ghost whisperer.

2013 puzzle game by Fireproof Games for iOS, sequel to The Room, centered on manipulating elaborate mechanical puzzle boxes tied to a supernatural mystery.

Post-apocalyptic point-and-click adventure by Wormwood Studios (2012), set in a robot-inhabited world where humanity has gone extinct, featuring multiple endings.

1989 Sierra On-Line game (originally titled Hero's Quest) that blended point-and-click adventure gameplay with RPG character classes and combat.

1993 Sierra On-Line adventure set in a Transylvania-inspired Gothic world, the fourth Quest for Glory entry, with full voice acting on CD-ROM.

Fireproof Games' 2020 VR spin-off of The Room series, designed exclusively for virtual reality headsets with immersive tactile puzzle mechanics.

A 1996 UK action-adventure by Core Design introducing archaeologist Lara Croft, one of gaming's first iconic female protagonists, pioneering 3D exploration gameplay.

Cyberpunk point-and-click developed by Technocrat Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games (2015), set in a future city entirely governed by an AI called Trance.

Narrative cooking game by Visai Games (2023), tracing an Indian immigrant family's life in Canada through traditional recipes that recover fading cultural memory.

Noir sci-fi point-and-click by Joshua Nuernberger (2011), winner of the IGF 2010 student competition before its commercial release on PC.

1994 FMV adventure by Access Software, the third Tex Murphy game, combining full-motion video with a freely explorable 3D noir-future San Francisco.

A 2017 narrative horror anthology by No Code composed of four interconnected episodes that blend text-adventure interfaces with psychological horror across a 1980s-styled setting.

Conservation-themed adventure by ustwo games (2020), following a girl who uses a wildlife app to rally a Spanish village into protecting a threatened nature reserve.

1988 LucasArts point-and-click comedy adventure by David Fox, notable for its globe-spanning plot involving alien mind control via payphones.

Scandinavian folklore adventure by Polygon Treehouse (2020), following a girl who ventures into a world of Norse mythological creatures to rescue her missing brother.

2019 short card-based adventure by Amanita Design in which players recruit companions and combine item cards to solve puzzles across a fairy-tale world.

Text-driven sci-fi adventure by Jump Over the Age (2020), in which a player-controlled AI interface guides a xenobiologist exploring an alien ocean ecosystem.

First-person puzzle adventure by Hungarian studio Zadbox Entertainment (2016), set on a mysterious island with Myst-inspired environmental logic puzzles.

Narrative adventure by Die Gute Fabrik (2019), set in a community of plant-mutated humans where tending gardens and building relationships drive the story forward.

Fourth game in Wadjet Eye Games' Blackwell series (2011), featuring a more elaborate paranormal mystery involving con artists exploiting restless spirits.

2020 puzzle-adventure by Amanita Design featuring hand-drawn artwork and a wordless story set in a mansion populated by creatures disguised as furniture.

Side-scrolling survival adventure by Herobeat Studios (2022), casting the player as the last mother fox on Earth guiding her cubs through an ecologically destroyed world.

1989 Sierra On-Line comedy adventure, third in the series, whose plot culminates in rescuing the game's own creators, the Two Guys from Andromeda.