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The broad storytelling tradition where progress comes from curiosity, logic, and poking at the world until it answers back.
Adventure games prioritize exploration, puzzle solving, conversation, and authored scenario design over combat mastery. They can be text-driven, cinematic, first-person, or point-and-click, but they usually care about narrative context and environmental logic more than systems-heavy combat. The genre has survived every market swing by mutating instead of dying.
Example
King's Quest, Myst, Grim Fandango, Life is Strange, and Oxenfree all sit inside the adventure lineage even though they do not look remotely identical.
Why it matters
Adventure games established much of gaming's narrative vocabulary long before prestige single-player blockbusters made storytelling fashionable.
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