Adventure fiction is a genre of literature that features stories of adventure, such as world travel, difficult quests, voyages of discovery, and other journeys. They might involve things like pirates and buried treasure, the search for a secret place or object, or a quest or expedition whose success is crucial for personal or societal reasons.

An adventure story takes a character from a familiar setting to a new environment. If your character lives in a city, send them to a desolate wilderness without a map. If you’re going to keep them on their home turf, then some force of nature or supernatural power must turn the environment upside down to make it a perilous landscape.