An "adventure game" is a type of video or computer game where players explore and solve puzzles in a fictional world, usually with a storyline to follow. Full definition
They're all also point - and - click adventure games with narrative - driven game play mechanics and fun, comic - book style graphics. (androidauthority.com)
Edge of Nowhere is a third - person action adventure game set in the snowy arctic that sends you in search of a lost arctic expedition. (fortune.com)
It also explains the coincidence between the rise of game studies in the late 1990s through the early 2000s and the decline of adventure games as a popular commercial genre (5). (adventureclassicgaming.com)