Latest Adventure Games News - Xbox

The End is Nahual: If I may say so is coming to PlayStation Network and Nintendo Switch! This surreal puzzle game promises to challenge your mind and perceptions as it blurs the line between reality and the fantastical. The game is already available on Steam.

True Virus, a dark point-and-click adventure game known for its unique graphics and music, is set to make its debut on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S consoles. The game, which first appeared on Nintendo Switch, will also be launched on PC and PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in the upcoming months. The game is a collaborative effort by Polish studios Farmind Studio and 100 GAMES, with Ultimate Games S.A. publishing the title for Xbox One. The game will be playable on Xbox Series X|S thanks to backward compatibility.

Devolver Digital announced earlier this month that Return to Monkey Island would be coming to consoles.

Did you ever have to write one of those papers in school about what you did on your summer vacation? Casey Beaumaris, protagonist of Ghost Pattern’s Wayward Strand, is doing just that, and by the sounds of things, it’s going to be a hard one for her classmates to top.

Have you ever been so hopelessly stuck in an adventure game that you wanted to punch something? Or have you ever been in the middle of a video game brawler and thought, ‘What if we just took a break from hitting each other and thought this through?’ Developer COWCAT evidently has, taking it upon themselves to combine the genres of “Classic Adventure” and “Beat-em up” in their game BROK the InvestiGator.

We highly anticipated 11 bit studios’ upcoming release with its distinguished and unique art style. South of the Circle focuses on the story and choices made by the player, set in a mature and realistic world, with fully motion-captured performances and fantastic voice acting. 

How far would you go to protect the ones you love? What would it take for you to walk away from them in their time of need?

Sister Wendy Beckett said when observing the Lascaux cave paintings, “Art changes, but it doesn’t get better.”

You don’t often see the word “lighthearted” precede the word “cyberpunk”, but that’s exactly the twist Australian developer Insert Disk 22 is bringing to the genre with their debut game, Born Punk.

There have been 5 Simon the Sorcerer games, including more recently the 25th Anniversary editions (of questionable quality) and an attempt at rebooting the franchise in 2014 with Simon the Sorcerer: Between Worlds. The latter would feature Simon in his 40s developed by the studio StoryBeasts, unfortunately due to funding and publisher issues the game never saw the light of day and StoryBeasts sadly was never heard of again. The fate of Simon the Sorcerer was unclear for a very long period of time, until the announcement of the prequel!

For their debut adventure, Dutch developer KeokeN Interactive managed to send players to the moon. For an encore performance, they're setting their sights even further out in space in their upcoming sequel, Deliver Us Mars. 

What's better than one new horror game from Supermassive Games to look forward to later this year? How about two! While we aren't quite finished with The Dark Pictures Anthology just yet, with one final installment left to go to complete the first season, due up before that is an all-new supernatural teen thriller called The Quarry.

We're all looking optimistically forward to life returning to something resembling normal after the pandemic, but the few survivors of Sergey Noskov's 35MM aren't nearly so fortunate, as more players can now find out for themselves following its recent release on consoles.

Indie Turkish developer Tonguç Bodur has carved out quite a niche for himself with a variety of atmospheric exploratory adventures over the years, most notably the Drizzlepath series, but they've largely been limited to PC. Now, however, one of Bodur's other adventures is making its way onto consoles in the form of The Dead Tree of Ranchiuna.

Full-motion video games are officially experiencing a renaissance following their premature demise in the mid- to late-nineties. No longer hindered by technological restraints, modern developers are taking full advantage of what interactive cinema can bring. One such designer is Paul Raschid, who previously directed The Complex and Five Dates and is now putting the finishing touches on a new live-action adventure called The Gallery.