An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other See more

Puzzle-solving
Adventure games contain a variety of puzzles, including decoding messages, finding and using See more

Text adventures and interactive fiction
Text adventures convey the game's story through passages of text, revealed to the player in response to typed instructions. Early text adventures, See more

Due to differences in computer hardware, language, and culture, development of adventure games took a different course in Japan compared to Western markets. The most popular … See more

The term "adventure game" originated from the 1970s text computer game Colossal Cave Adventure, often referred to simply as Adventure, which pioneered a style of gameplay which many developers imitated and which became a genre in its own right. The See more

Text adventures (1976–1989)
The origins of text adventure games are difficult to trace as records of computing around the 1970s were not as well documented. Text-based games had existed prior to 1976 that featured elements of … See more

Most text adventure games are readily accessible on modern computers due to the use of a small number of standard virtual machines (such … See more