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 ...

TL;DR: Unity's upgraded AI, launching in beta at GDC, enables developers to create full casual games using natural language prompts without coding. Leveraging advanced models from OpenAI and Meta, ...

Developer Woe Industries is using new tools to simulate a retro experience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

It’s an oft-repeated line from Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones, expressing his belief that historical artifacts should be preserved for record-keeping and scholarly study. (And kept out of Nazi hands — ...

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, ...

Artifact Seekers is the latest freebie by Five-BN Games, a studio known for releasing hidden object and puzzle adventure games across multiple platforms. Recently, the developer dropped its entire ...

If you grew up gaming in the ’90s, you know just how magical the adventure genre was. Back then, these games weren’t just popular, they were the backbone of what made video games feel like more than ...

Pink, round, and powerful, ever since Kirby’s Dreamland on the Game Boy in 1992, the beloved puffball created by legendary game director Masahiro Sakurai has starred in 39 games and counting. But ...

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 ...

While not carrying the same heft it enjoyed long ago, last year was one of the adventure genre's most commercially-successful years in this century. A Telltale-esque adventure eclipsing 3 million ...

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...