

Artic Software · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sinclair ZX81 +1
You are marooned on a strange planet and have to repair your space ship in order to get back home.
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266 games like Philosopher's Quest · 1979 – 2026


Artic Software · Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sinclair ZX81 +1
You are marooned on a strange planet and have to repair your space ship in order to get back home.
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Browser, Linux, Windows +1
Eyes can see, and a mind can think. Insanity is just one step away. You are in a room. That's where you are, and you know exactly what is going on. But the truth is hard to take.
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PlayStation exclusive
Nippon Ichi Software · PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita
Disgaea Infinite takes the lovable characters and game world of the legendary Disgaea series and throws them into a fresh new "visual novel" game style, offering a thrilling mystery to solve, clues to hunt, and a suspect to track down. You
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Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The Goal is to achieve Hampstead, not reach it.
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Windows, macOS
Adventure game authored in Macromedia Director puts you in the role of an agent trying to scout and book one of 2 comics. Fail and you're booted to mini-games which you can beat to return to the main game. Gameplay consists mostly of explo
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PlayStation exclusive
Millennium Kitchen · PlayStation Portable
The fourth instalment in Sony's popular holiday simulation.
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Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Colossal Adventure takes its cue from the very earliest mainframe text adventures. Our hero must rescue the elves and find fifteen pieces of treasure. There are many dark areas, so lights and batteries are at a premium. Be careful of viciou
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macOS
Radical Castle is a point-and-click adventure game released for Macintosh in 1986 and distributed as shareware. Players assume the role of the 'Squire', who after mistaking the princess for a serving wench, is given a choice by the King be
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Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +6
Princess Priscilla has been kidnapped and the player seems to be the only valliant hero willing to rescue the damsel in distress. This is the second text adventure with illustrating graphics released by Sierra. Communicating with the game w
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Sir-Tech · Apple II
Your courage and problem-solving ingenuity will be put to the test as you try to escape from Medea's forbidden tomb. You must pass through countless rooms and secret passages. Overwhelming terror and ghoulish obstacles await you at every tu
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Ultrasoft · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +1
You are Mac Steele - archeologist, adventurer and treasure hunter. Poisoned by one of your newly found artifacts, you're fighting against time to find the legendary Mask of the Sun, which is your only chance to find a cure. On your trip you
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Apple II
Queen of Phobos was an adventure game for the Apple II.
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Sinclair ZX81 +2
You have to defeat the Lords of Chaos in this action adventure.
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Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Trying to dodge the Bermuda triangle you parachute out of a plane and land on the mysterious Emerald Isle. But now you have to find a way back home...
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Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +1
Labyrinth is a game where the player travels through a maze looking for clues and tools to help kill the Minotaur.
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Donald Brown · Apple II
SwordThrust is an interactive text adventure game for the Apple II, created by Donald Brown and published by CE Software in 1981. It consists of seven separate adventures (each sold separately) and is the commercial successor to Brown's Ea
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo DS
Dr Kawashima brings his popular brain exercise software to Nintendo DSi, with fun, new features and the return of many Brain Training favourites!
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Nintendo exclusive
Genius Sonority · Nintendo DS
100 Classic Book Collection turns your Nintendo DS into a portable library containing must-read novels from iconic authors such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and many more. From Sense and Sensibility to Treasure Isla
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ZX Spectrum
The Runes of Zendos, sequel to The Oracle's Cave, is a game in which the merry principality of Dorcasia is conquered by the evil wizard of Zendos, and the player must rescue the twelve months that the wizard has trapped in a hidden hourglas
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Apple II
You enter the Cave of Karkhan and try to find Maldamere's Gem. But the demon has set numerous traps within the underground maze in order to prevent anyone from ever retrieving the gem.
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Level-5 · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +1
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam depicts the world one year after the events of "Professor Layton and the Unwound Future". Due to a mysterious incident in Steam Bison, a new adventure for Layton and Luke begins!
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Silicon Beach Software · macOS
Enchanted Scepters is an adventure game where the player must search for the elemental sceptres of Fire, Earth, Air and Water, and return them to the forgetful Wizard who has mislaid them. It is arguably the first point-and-click adventure
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Aquaplus · Nintendo Switch 2, PS4, PS5 +1
A new RPG from veteran studio Aquaplus, commemorating 20 years of the multi-media Utawarerumono series. This is the story of a man who will be sung about in legends.
60 rating4 lists33 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Headstrong Games · Nintendo 3DS
Master the art of drawing beloved Disney and Pixar characters! Step-by-step lessons can teach anyone how to draw. Add some magic to your art! The Magic Brush makes it easy to add patterns, such as sparkles or stars, to any work of art. Go f
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PlayStation console exclusive
PlayStation Vita, Windows
Moe Monsters Moe Problems! Recruit 50 Monster Girls, each with unique skills and traits, to fight for you! You’ll have to wear them out in battle first though! Can I Kick It? Build your relationship with each Monster Girl through special ev
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Sega exclusive
Hudson Soft · Dreamcast
Is a Sega Dreamcast game. It is built to use the Dreamcast Keyboard. The game is a dating simulation but in order to progress the player has to type in certain words within specific time frames. Not only the concept but also the name of th
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Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
In Wall$treet, you become a stock trader competing against up to three others. The game starts with a quiz testing your knowledge of the stock market – the more correct answers, the higher your starting capital. From there, you buy and sell
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ZX Spectrum
iD is a video game developed by Mel Croucher and Colin Jones for the ZX Spectrum and published by CRL in 1986. The game is text-based and takes the form of a conversation with an entity that has inhabited the computer. The player's task is
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Nintendo exclusive
Winning Entertainment Group · NES
Idol Hakken-den is a Japan-exclusive text adventure video game developed by Natsume and published by Towa Chiki in 1989 for the Family Computer. Erika, an aspiring musician and pop idol, must foil a plot that could ruin her music career. A
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Nintendo console exclusive
Sensory Sweep Studios · Nintendo DS, Wii, iOS
Learn French in this Educational game
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Amstrad CPC, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Abracadabra is a conversational adventure video game divided in two parts
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Koei · PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Windows
Air Management '96 is a sequel/remake to the other games in the Air Management series.
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Atari exclusive
Warren Robinett · Atari 2600
Basic Programming attempted to teach simple computer programming on the Atari 2600. It was released in 1979, and it was one of only a few non-gaming cartridges ever designed for the 2600. The programming language was superficially similar t
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Nintendo console exclusive
LEVEL-5 · Nintendo 3DS, Android, iOS
Join Katrielle Layton, our new hero, as she becomes embroiled in a casual, quizzical quest, which has its roots in our hero’s search for her missing father, Professor Hershel Layton. You'll be whisked around London's famous landmarks, from
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MS-DOS, Apple II
As a prisoner of the Demon's Forge, it's up to the player to escape the dungeon alive.
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5pb. Inc. · PS3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360
Dunamis 15 (デュナミス15 Dyunamisu 15?) is a suspense visual novel developed and published by 5pb. for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released in Japan on September 15, 2011,[3] featuring five chapters and five main characters. A p
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
El Dia · Switch, PlayStation Vita, Windows
A Bizarre Serial Murder Mystery. There's A Serial Killer Close By. A Prohibited Psychothriller. The Multi-Sight System Reveals Surprising Truth! In this game there are two heroes, Kojiroh and Marina, who are each called to solve their own
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
El Dia · Switch, PS4, PlayStation Vita
Eve: Burst Error originally released in 1995 on PC later ported to Sega Saturn. The long-awaited Eve: Rebirth Terror the start of a new story.
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Chunsoft · PS3, Wii, iOS
Imabikisō (忌火起草, Imabikisō) is a visual novel developed by Chunsoft and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3. It is the first visual novel to be released on a seventh generation console. It was later released for the Nintendo Wii under t
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Game designer and 428: Shibuya Scramble executive producer Jiro Ishii has announced the launch of a new “Shibuya Live-Action Adventure Game.” Led by general director Ishii and screenwriter Yukinori Kitajima, the project will be a live-actio
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo DS
Sprung puts players in the shoes of either Becky or Brett in a conversation-based visual novel that mostly consists of dialogue. Sprung can be regarded as a dating sim, though the linearity and variety in the game (as well as its humor) als
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Timed Xbox exclusive
Nitro Plus · Switch, PS3, PS4 +5
Spin-off of the popular Visual Novel "Steins;Gate". It is set up in a peaceful world line where okabe can hang out romantically with all the main characters of the original novel: Makise Kurise, Shiina Mayure, Kiryuu Moeka, Feiris, Suzuha A
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MS-DOS
Tajemnica Statuetki is a Polish-language adventure game developed and published by Metropolis Software House for DOS-based computers in 1993. While it was never released in English, it is known in the English-speaking world as The Mystery o
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Switch, PlayStation Portable, Windows
A modern Japanese-style fantasy story involving Yue, a young boy born and raised at a shrine, and his friendship with the "Ayakashi" spirits. HaccaWorks* presents a mysterious, spiritual adventure game.
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Armonk Corporation · MS-DOS
Executive Suite is a text-based business simulation game published in 1982 as a self-booting disk for IBM PC compatibles. It was developed by Armonk Corporation, a small software development company based in Newport Beach, California, and w
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PlayStation console exclusive
Santa Monica Studio · Android, PS3, iOS
From legendary designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Lionhead Studios (with Peter Molyneux), and Fighting Fantasy and Games Workshop (with Ian Livingstone); and inkle, the studio behind the award-winning Frankenstein app, Sorcery! is an int
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Strange Scaffold · Switch, Windows, Xbox One +1
Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.
67 rating2 lists2 h main story


Atari 8-bit, ZX Spectrum
The War of the Worlds is a 1-player strategy war game for the Atari 8-bit. Based on the H.G. Wells novel, you control infantry, cavalry, and artillery units in combat against an alien invasion. Played on a terrain map, your troops can move
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