Adventure game

A video game genre centered on exploration, narrative, and solving problems. Progress often depends on examining environments, gathering information, and overcoming puzzles rather than reflex-based combat.

Environmental storytelling: The use of spaces, objects, and visual details to convey narrative without direct exposition. Adventure games often make exploration itself a way to discover story.
The Secret of Monkey Island: A 1990 graphic adventure game by Lucasfilm Games about aspiring pirate Guybrush Threepwood. Its comic writing and forgiving puzzle design became influential genre touchstones.
Action game: A video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges requiring coordination, timing, and quick reactions. Its reflex-driven challenges differ from the investigation and reasoning central to many adventures.
Colossal Cave Adventure: A 1970s text adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods, set in a cave inspired by Mammoth Cave. Its exploration and command-based puzzles helped establish the adventure-game tradition.
Telltale Games: An American game studio known for episodic narrative games built around choices and consequences. Its releases renewed commercial interest in choice-driven adventure games during the 2010s.
Puzzle video game: A video game genre in which solving puzzles is the primary activity. Puzzles commonly turn observation and reasoning into the means of progression.
Myst: A 1993 adventure game in which players explore an island through rendered scenes and puzzles. Its quiet exploration and environmental mysteries brought the genre to a mass audience.
Role-playing video game: A video game genre centered on characters, progression, and player choices within a fictional world. Role-playing games emphasize character development and systems that adventure games may leave minimal.
Zork: A landmark text adventure series developed by Infocom, beginning with a game released in 1980. Its parser-driven world expanded the possibilities of computer-based exploration.
Broken Age: A 2014 point-and-click adventure game by Double Fine Productions, written and directed by Tim Schafer. Its crowdfunding success became a prominent example of renewed support for classic adventure design.

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