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Choosing the best adventure games on Android involves trawling through a wide variety of sub-genres. From horror games like Alien: Isolation to charming detective puzzlers like Tricky Tower, the Play Store has a colossal variety of adventure titles. These make up some of our favorite games on Android, and we've selected the finest for this roundup.
11 best dark and atmospheric Android games
Set the mood with the best hauntingly inviting Android games
When adding more titles to your trusty Android gaming phone, you'll notice no shortage of puzzle and arcade games on the Android platform. Mainstream titles like Angry Birds and Cut The Rope attract a wider range of audiences with their (more) casual gameplay style. However, stumbling upon games with darker psychedelic themes, such as World Of Goo and Badland, brings a mesmerizing, haunting experience like no other. The powerful effects of mixing audio and artistic expression can put forth an entirely different tone to some genres. So, to inspire people to try out another style of Android games, we've created a roundup of the best atmospheric games that will hauntingly stay with you.
Innovative adventure game Three Minutes To Eight is our favorite indie title at Gamescom 2023
Cheat death in this mind-bending mystery
Pixel art platforming games are more common than grass in a field, but now and again, a unique title steals the spotlight. Chaosmonger Studio's latest project, Three Minutes To Eight, forces players to confront their own mortality through a Groundhog Day-like game. As you progress through this atmospheric release, you'll uncover secrets and information that can help you avoid certain death.
Our first look at The Silent Age developer's atmospheric new stealth adventure game
Gamescom reveals we can expect more point-and-click mystery in Midnight Girl
Way back in 2013, the point-and-click adventure game The Silent Age was released on the Play Store to acclaim. The key developer behind the project, Thomas Ryder, revealed his latest project at Gamescom 2023 as part of the new development studio, Italic. We got our first look at Midnight Girl's gameplay; we think it will be an instant hit among fans of The Silent Age.
Highwater is the high-water mark of adventure games on Android
A few flaws don't detract much from this stunning experience from Netflix Games
Highwater, a turn-based strategy game with themes of social collapse and environmental disaster, is out now for Android. Developed by Demagog Studio, the team behind the post-apocalyptic golf game Golf Club: Wasteland, Highwater brings the same stunning atmospheric gameplay into the turn-based strategy genre.
Paranormasight is a perfectly crafted horror visual novel from Square Enix
Paranormasight's modern take on a classic ghost story is bound to send chills down your spine
Amidst all the big names announced during February's Nintendo Direct, Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo stuck out thanks to its spooky premise and grisly storyline. A visual novel developed by Square Enix, its trailer suggested an experience full of interesting characters and plot twists. If you're one of the many people intrigued when it was announced, your wait is over. Paranormasight is now available on the Google Play Store.
Square Enix reveals original visual novel for mobile, available to preregister now
This spooky visual novel promises a grisly adventure through Tokyo
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo was announced during Wednesday's Nintendo Direct, but for some bizarre reason, only on the Japanese version of the stream. However, the spooky visual novel is slated as a worldwide release, coming to Android alongside iOS, Steam, and Nintendo Switch later this year.
The Eyes of Ara is a beautiful point-and-click adventure game that was initially released on PC back in 2016. At the time it was heralded as a top indie game for that year, and last June a mobile port made its way to iOS. Early this morning the game's developer 100 Stones Interactive announced on Twitter that The Eyes of Ara is now available on the Google Play Store.
Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the day that we couldn't get to during our regular news rounds. Consider this a quick update for the dedicated gamers who can't wait for our weekly roundups, and don't want to wade through a whole day's worth of news just to get their pixelated fix. Today we've got hand-drawn point-and-click adventure, an extremely odd game about growing and harvesting organs, a fun little Sokoban-style puzzler, a free-to-play RPG with a Smite theme, an enjoyable puzzle game about hammering nails, and a new area PvP game from the creators of Badland. Without further ado:
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Tiny Bluetooth speakers are almost literally a dime a dozen these days, but high-quality larger units can be harder to track down. Nyne, in addition to having a 3/4 of a pretty rad name, makes a wide selection of contemporary Bluetooth boombox replacements. And today the "splash-proof" 40W Nyne Adventure is just $55.99 at Best Buy, in stark contrast to the $149 price at the OEM's site.
Alike Studio has finally brought Love You to Bits to Android after an 8-month wait. It is the spiritual successor to the once-popular point and click adventure game Tiny Thief. While Tiny Thief's publisher Rovio has since removed the game from the Play Store, Love You to Bits should not have such an issue thanks to the developers Alike Studio and Pati.io publishing the game themselves.
Anyone familiar with Level 5's Nintendo DS and 3DS puzzle adventure game series Professor Layton should be pretty ecstatic to hear that a full-fledged sequel, Layton’s Mystery Journey, is available on the Play Store today. You'll need to pony up $15.99 in order to download the title, but that's actually a deal when you consider that the 3DS version will cost more than twice as much.
The original Myst games were, somewhat appropriately, lost in time. First released in 1993, Myst debuted just as the point-and-click adventure game genre was dying out in favor of full 3D RPGs and shooters now enabled by more advanced personal computers with CD-ROM drives. Myst tried to bridge the gap: it used the same focus on exploration, puzzle-solving, and narrative that games from Lucasarts and Sierra had relied upon, but added stunning prerendered graphics to make its island mystery more visually compelling. Sequels, spin-offs, and re-releases continued for about ten years, until the tastes of the market shifted once again.
On paper, Little Briar Rose isn't anything particularly exciting. It's a competent side-scrolling adventure title, a rookie effort from developer Elf Games, that retells the Grimm fairy tale of the same name. But the game's visuals, painstakingly crafted to look like an animated stained glass window on every frame, are downright breathtaking. In a sea of pixelated graphics and safe me-too styles, Little Briar Rose is a breath of fresh air.
10 cents can go a long way these days on the Play Store. In recent times, you've been able to grab some cool games and apps for this sum — maybe a bit more or a bit less depending on your country — but the discounts have been heavily skewing toward select regions: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Russia, and sometimes the US and Canada and a few other countries joined in on the fun.
I may have said this before, but point-and-click adventures are my favorite type of game to play on an Android device (if you haven't, check out Gemini Rue). There is quite the selection available in the Play Store, and now you can add one more to that list. Peter Moorhead's Murder has made its way to our mobile platform of choice.
It's not uncommon to see ports of traditional point-and-click adventure games arrive in the Play Store. Thing is, they're usually twenty years old. Lost Horizon from Animation Arts and Deep Silver hit the PC in 2010, making this port much more likely to put your phone or tablet's graphics card to work.
What are you to do in a world overrun by evil physics-beasts? Take the fight to them with your "slingshot-esque gift" of course. The odds are not in your favor, but you are David., the chosen polygon with the rainbow slingshot thing. At least it'll be a good fight.
Whispering Willows is the kind of game we'd like to see more of on any platform. The art style alone shows how much care and attention the designers approached the game with. That it happens to be fun is almost a perk.
Phantom Rift is the latest game from Foursaken Media, and once again the developer has shown that it knows how to deliver attractive mobile experiences. Following the likes of Monster Adventures, Heroes and Castles, and Bug Heroes 2, Phantom Rift serves as another example of attractive 3D fun. This time around we're looking at a role-playing game inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network series of games that originally appeared on the Game Boy Advance.