Included are 1st person puzzle orientated games like Myst, 3rd person object- and/or dialogue orientated games like Monkey Island or Sherlock Holmes, game compilations, advertising games, free- and shareware games, adventures which contain action, roleplaying or arcade elements with the adventure/puzzle part definitely predominating, as well as some textadventures to document the history of the genre.

The Adventure-Archiv listings only consist of commercial adventure games that came or come on physical data media for the following platforms: PC, MAC, main consoles (Playstation, XBOX, WII), as well as some few exclusive Amiga adventures, that can be played on PC using emulator software. Not included are adventure games for mini-consoles, mobile phones or web browsers. Also not covered are adventure games, which can be played online only or are exclusively on sale as virtual digital download with licenses that are separated from the retail version. Exceptions are freeware adventure games.

Not subject of this site are the so-called 'Hidden Object Games', even if the producers do call them 'Adventure Games'. We don't classify those casual games as adventures.

Furthermore Adventure-Archiv does not deal with action-adventures, like Tomb Raider, where action is the main-thing or role playing games (RPG's) like Arcatera. We only break this rule, to keep records of special historical milestones in the adventure game history, for example the split-off of the action-adventure genre with the Alone-in-the-Dark series or the end of an adventure series with King's Quest 8.

The descriptions are based on games I have access to - a lot of different versions may exist with variations in look and outfit.

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