Adventure Games
If you’re craving a little more depth to your characters/story and a slower pace, look no further than the role-playing and point-and-click games that make up our adventure category.Role-Playing Games
Baldur’s Gate ($10)
Embark on a long quest to uncover the truth about Sword Coast.
Collect loot and level-up along the way in this epically huge PC classic
that offers more than 60 hours of gameplay.
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Shattered Planet
Explore an incredibly hostile planet to see what you can salvage in
this sci-fi styled, tile and turn-based, adventure RPG. Randomly
generated worlds and loads of aliens and items make it endlessly
interesting.
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Mount & Blade: Warband ($7)
If you ever dreamed of being a knight, then it’s time to saddle up
and conquer Calradia. It’s an open world to explore full of jousting,
medieval weaponry, bandits, and damsels in distress.
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The Bard’s Tale ($3)
A huge world to explore packed with colorful characters, weaponry,
and loot; this is a full-fat RPG that will keep you questing for hours.
It’s also a delightful send-up of the genre.
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Final Fantasy VI ($16)
Legendary Japanese dev Square Enix has ported most of the Final
Fantasy series to Android. If you played them first time round you’ll
know why it’s one of the biggest RPG series of all time, if not it’s
time you did.
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Knights of Pen & Paper +1 ($5)
This retro, turn-based RPG pays tribute to the days of pen and paper
D&D. It’s an imaginative mix of pixel art and geeky humor, an
offbeat gem with solid RPG mechanics at its heart.
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Swordigo
If you’re craving a good old-fashioned hack n’ slash action-platformer with RPG elements then you’ve found it. Fans of Zelda are going to want to check this one out.
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Amazon Google Play
Ravensword: Shadowlands ($7)
This is a good-looking open world RPG that’s fairly accessible.
Fantasy styling, a storyline to work through via quests, character
specialization, and everything else you’d expect to find is here.
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The Forest of Doom ($6)
If you remember the Fighting Fantasy books then you’ll get a warming
glow of nostalgia from playing through this. It’s a beautifully made
adaptation that works perfectly.
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Ingress
A genre defying RPG with complicated backstory that requires players
to “hack” portals that are real-world landmarks by physically visiting
each landmark. Ultimately, you’re fighting for the “Enlightened” or the
“Resistance” and every portal you hack allows you to gain points.
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Point-and-Click Games
Broken Sword : Director’s Cut ($4)
This classic point-and-click adventure is a charming detective yarn
that will transport you to Paris and beyond, as you try to unravel a
dark conspiracy that stretches back to the days of the Knights Templar.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s ($3)
The nightshift is a lonely place when there are murderous animatronic
teddy bears about. This point-and-click survival horror is really
original, cleverly designed, and genuinely creepy.
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Machinarium ($5)
This rusting, hand-drawn robot world never fails to draw you in as
you puzzle your way through a charming story that’s told entirely
without words. It’s short, but very sweet.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 ($3)
This time you’re a security guard who’s only hope for survival is to
don the Freddy Fazbear mask to blend in with the Animatronics. There’s
more backstory than the original, but it’s just as terrifying.
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The Walking Dead: Season One and Two
Telltale Games hit a home run with its point-and-click rendition of the uber-popular series, The Walking Dead. Perhaps its greatest feature is that the key choices you make have massive impacts on the entire game from start to finish.
Season One: Google Play
Season Two: Google Play
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