Journey is an adventure game set in a desert.

Journey is an adventure game set in a desert. Exploring the eerie sandscape, you discover a world abandoned by the race that created it.

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a role-play adventure where you save the world from colourless darkness.

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a role-play adventure where you save the world from colourless darkness. Unusually, battles are won through listening and conversation rather than traditional attacks.

Florence is a puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship.

Florence is a puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship. It follows the usual stages of loneliness, meeting, dating, falling for and moving in with another person.

Night in the Woods is a narrative adventure which follows college dropout Mae Borowski returning home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs.

Night in the Woods is a narrative adventure which follows college dropout Mae Borowski returning home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs. Play involves exploring the town, interacting with the locals and working out what has happened now her friends have grown and changed.

Abzu is an adventure in a lush underwater world.

Abzu is an adventure in a lush underwater world. You descend into the heart of the ocean to find ancient secrets and encounter majestic creatures.

Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. After twenty minutes of game time, you must start again - but each loop brings a new opportunity to learn how you ended up on the planet and discover its secrets.

Planet of Lana is an adventure where you play a young girl Lana, alongside her loyal animal friend Mui, on a rescue mission.

Planet of Lana is an adventure where you play a young girl Lana, alongside her loyal animal friend Mui, on a rescue mission. Play involves navigating the world together and solving environmental puzzles to let you move forward.

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984.

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture lands you in a fictional deserted English village in 1984. As you walk the streets of another era you discover bright human forms who re-enact events like a radio play.

Celeste is a platform game that requires players to use jumping and climbing moves to ascend an increasingly challenging two-dimensional mountain.

Celeste is a platform game that requires players to use jumping and climbing moves to ascend an increasingly challenging two-dimensional mountain. You play Madeline, who is haunted by self-doubt at the scale of the task at hand.

Omno is a running, jumping and surfing game where you explore an ancient fantastical world.

Omno is a running, jumping and surfing game where you explore an ancient fantastical world. As you explore you meet all manner of strange and wonderful lifeforms, from cute critters to enigmatic giants.

The Last Guardian is a running, jumping and exploring adventure about a boy who befriends a giant half-bird, half-mammal creature, Trico.

The Last Guardian is a running, jumping and exploring adventure about a boy who befriends a giant half-bird, half-mammal creature, Trico. You work together to navigate the world, solve puzzles and reach new heights.

The Unfinished Swan invites you to explore a world by splashing paint on it.

The Unfinished Swan invites you to explore a world by splashing paint on it. The tactile experience leads you into a fairy tale about an unfinished painting that leads a child back to his parent.

Vane is an ethereal adventure in a ruined desert where strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child.

Vane is an ethereal adventure in a ruined desert where strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child. The premise is not all that uncommon, but Vane stands out for how you soar over the desert and climb your way through dilapidated architecture and a crow-infested oasis.

As Dusk Falls is an interactive drama following two interwoven Arizona families through thirty years.

As Dusk Falls is an interactive drama following two interwoven Arizona families through thirty years. Play focuses on making choices about how different events unfold, you can play on your own, but it's best in a group of up to eight players who use a smartphone app to make choices.

Signs of the Sojourner is a tactical narrative game set after a climate catastrophe where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with communication cards you acquire.

Signs of the Sojourner is a tactical narrative game set after a climate catastrophe where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with communication cards you acquire. Play involves deciding how to build your deck of conversation cards to gain the right vocabulary to engage with the characters you meet.

Ete (Été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint.

Ete (Été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint. The screen starts almost entirely blank, and as you move around and interact you create vivid colourful memories.

Iris and the Giant is a narrative strategy card game about a young girl named Iris who braves an imaginary world to tackle her inner demons and face her fears.

Iris and the Giant is a narrative strategy card game about a young girl named Iris who braves an imaginary world to tackle her inner demons and face her fears. It's a game about depression and anxiety where Iris uses escapism to cope with her life.

Miska is a relaxing narrative adventure game about the flora and fauna of Australia.

Miska is a relaxing narrative adventure game about the flora and fauna of Australia. Rekindle your connection to family and nature through acts of restoration.

Sword of the Sea is a traversal game where you are a Wraith resurrected to restore life to a desolate world.

Sword of the Sea is a traversal game where you are a Wraith resurrected to restore life to a desolate world. Play involves exploring submerged ruins to discover the cultures that built them.

Kind Words 2 is an online communication game that expands upon the original Kind Words game where you wrote and received letters from an online community.

Kind Words 2 is an online communication game that expands upon the original Kind Words game where you wrote and received letters from an online community. Play is simply moving around social spaces and conversing with other players through letters to encourage, advise, laugh and learn.

Gris is a platform game where you guide a young girl through a crumbling world.

Gris is a platform game where you guide a young girl through a crumbling world. Through beautiful metaphoric landscapes and soaring music, the game touches on emotions of loss and longing but doesn’t resolve to a firm narrative.

Sky Children of the Light (Sky Children of Light) is a huge open-world online game designed to create altruism between players.

Sky Children of the Light (Sky Children of Light) is a huge open-world online game designed to create altruism between players. From the developer of Flower and Journey, it takes you on a social adventure in an ever-expanding world with up to 8 other players.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a narrative puzzle game about the surviving member of the Finch family, who seems to have died from a curse.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a narrative puzzle game about the surviving member of the Finch family, who seems to have died from a curse. From a first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final hours by exploring their rooms in turn.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a dark fantasy adventure, drawing on Norse and Celtic mythology, where you play a young female Pict warrior, Senua.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a dark fantasy adventure, drawing on Norse and Celtic mythology, where you play a young female Pict warrior, Senua. You explore and fight your way to Helheim to rescue the soul of her dead lover.

My Child Lebensborn is a narrative role-play game where you nurture a Lebensborn child in Norway after World War II who faces a hostile community because they’ve been born to parents of both occupied and occupying forces.

My Child Lebensborn is a narrative role-play game where you nurture a Lebensborn child in Norway after World War II who faces a hostile community because they’ve been born to parents of both occupied and occupying forces. With meagre resources yourself, you must feed, clothe and bathe the child, but more importantly, help them cope with the heavy inheritance of German soldier genes in a country celebrating its freedom.

Concrete Genie is a running and jumping game about a young boy, who is isolated and bullied, in this exploration platform game with a twist.

Concrete Genie is a running and jumping game about a young boy, who is isolated and bullied, in this exploration platform game with a twist. Using motion controls and buttons you can draw beautiful graffiti on the buildings, which come to life.

We Are OFK is a narrative game about the indie band OFK.

We Are OFK is a narrative game about the indie band OFK. Reminiscent of Gorillaz's virtual personas, it's part video game drama and part music video.

She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell.

She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell. Through the unsettling fungi-punk aesthetic you work out how to get your characters to the endpoint of each stage.

SoundSelf: A Technodelic is an interactive guided meditation.

SoundSelf: A Technodelic is an interactive guided meditation. Using the microphone, and optionally enhanced by VR, the game leads you through a landscape that responds to the sounds of your breath.

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories.

Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family heirlooms to broken statues to complex VCRs.

Life Is Strange is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at a high school in a sleepy American town.

Life Is Strange is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at a high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm.

When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point and click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unravel an intriguing and emotive narrative.

When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point and click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unravel an intriguing and emotive narrative. Without any words, it tells the tale of a young woman, Eda, and her love, the mysterious Owl man, in a surreal world consisting of disjointed rooms from memories and times past.

Shady Part of Me is a narrative platform game where you play as a young girl and her shadow.

Shady Part of Me is a narrative platform game where you play as a young girl and her shadow. You help her overcome emotional struggles by solving 2D and 3D puzzles.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an action-adventure game where you simultaneously control two brothers on a quest to save their ill father.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an action-adventure game where you simultaneously control two brothers on a quest to save their ill father. In single-player you control each brother with one of the controller sticks, or in co-op with a friend you each control one of the brothers.

Feather is an adventure traversal game that brings you, as a bird, to a beautiful island.

Feather is an adventure traversal game that brings you, as a bird, to a beautiful island. You can explore freely, collecting items and soaring on the breeze.

Horace is a platform adventure full of nostalgic pop-culture references and British humour.

Horace is a platform adventure full of nostalgic pop-culture references and British humour. You run and jump through a funny and heartfelt story told by Horace, the game's charming robot protagonist.

The First Tree is an exploration narrative game where you explore a forest wilderness as a mother fox looking for her cubs.

The First Tree is an exploration narrative game where you explore a forest wilderness as a mother fox looking for her cubs. Simultaneously, you revisit childhood memories in spoken reflection from two lovers remembering the dream and their formative years.

Half Past Fate is a romantic comedy adventure.

Half Past Fate is a romantic comedy adventure. You explore the lives of six different modern day characters and their romantic relationships over eight hours, eight days, and finally eight years later.

The Cost of Recovery is a narrative adventure where you play as four different people, one of whom has a stroke.

The Cost of Recovery is a narrative adventure where you play as four different people, one of whom has a stroke. How this impacts each of them is experienced first-hand.

To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon.

To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon. With only a few ways to interact with the game, you control the doctors, exploring and solving puzzles to reconstruct the dying man's memories.

My Brother Rabbit is a hand-drawn hidden-object puzzle game about an ill sister.

My Brother Rabbit is a hand-drawn hidden-object puzzle game about an ill sister. As her plight is told through watercolour animation, you play her brother's rabbit and unfold a parallel story in a fantasy world.

The Stillness of the Wind is a narrative puzzle game where you play an old woman who looks after a dilapidated farm.

The Stillness of the Wind is a narrative puzzle game where you play an old woman who looks after a dilapidated farm. Over the course of a few hours, no matter what your efforts, the farm falls apart as you learn about the woman’s family and have the chance to ruminate on her loneliness and happy memories.

Child of Light is a platform game presented like a fairy tale, where you play a young girl, Aurora, on a quest to save her kingdom from the darkness.

Child of Light is a platform game presented like a fairy tale, where you play a young girl, Aurora, on a quest to save her kingdom from the darkness. Battle encounters break up the adventure and power up your character.

Tree is a narrative game that tells the story of a boy who plants a small tree.

Tree is a narrative game that tells the story of a boy who plants a small tree. You control the planting, watering and how the tree grows each season.

A Juggler's Tale is a running and jumping game where you guide Abby, a string puppet through a dangerous world where you need to solve puzzles and avoid traps.

A Juggler's Tale is a running and jumping game where you guide Abby, a string puppet through a dangerous world where you need to solve puzzles and avoid traps. You move crates, pull levers, jump over hazards and try to outrun chasers.

Last Day of June is a game about a couple called Carl and June, who suffer a tragedy when a car accident takes June's life and leaves Carl in a wheelchair.

Last Day of June is a game about a couple called Carl and June, who suffer a tragedy when a car accident takes June's life and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. You control Carl, remembering life with June and discovering that you can interact with her paintings in the house.

Papo & Yo is a metaphorical adventure where you play a brave young boy called Quico, whose best friend is a monster with razor-sharp teeth.

Papo & Yo is a metaphorical adventure where you play a brave young boy called Quico, whose best friend is a monster with razor-sharp teeth. Play involves traversing the city environments, solving puzzles and then dealing with the monster when he gets out of hand.

#SelfCare is a companion game that aims to create space for your feelings.

#SelfCare is a companion game that aims to create space for your feelings. Unlike other apps that remind or incentivise you to take a break, breath or even just stand up, #SelfCare offers interactions and narrative that create a context for you to consider and practice looking after yourself.

A Memoir Blue is a narrative game about an athlete's relationship with her mother.

A Memoir Blue is a narrative game about an athlete's relationship with her mother. It's a story told through a dream, which you move along by interacting with everyday objects.

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret.

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building.

Love You to Bits is an adventure where you tap to move and interact with objects, like classic point-and-click games.

Love You to Bits is an adventure where you tap to move and interact with objects, like classic point-and-click games. You play Kosmo, a clumsy, rookie space explorer in search of Nova, his robot girlfriend.

Sunset tasks you with cleaning a large apartment in a fictional 1970s South American city.

Sunset tasks you with cleaning a large apartment in a fictional 1970s South American city. But outside the apartment, there is unrest and rioting.

Arise: A Simple Story is a narrative game about an old man living in a pre-agricultural tribe.

Arise: A Simple Story is a narrative game about an old man living in a pre-agricultural tribe. He has just been cremated and as get travels to the next life, begins a pilgrimage of revisiting memories of his life.

Neurodeck is a psychological adventure game where you use life affirming cards to challenge a series of monsters in a fictional experimental treatment program.

Neurodeck is a psychological adventure game where you use life affirming cards to challenge a series of monsters in a fictional experimental treatment program. Each monster represents a phobia and offers a chance to explore your character's psyche and overcome phobias.

Unworded is a narrative visual puzzle where you use letter shapes to create objects and solve puzzles.

Unworded is a narrative visual puzzle where you use letter shapes to create objects and solve puzzles. As you progress through the five chapters, you uncover the story of a writer who is in the hospital recovering from a serious accident.

Words For A Bird is a short adventure you play by completing sentences.

Words For A Bird is a short adventure you play by completing sentences. You follow the story of a purple bird.

Pyre is an unusual mix of role-playing and action sports.

Pyre is an unusual mix of role-playing and action sports. It takes place in a fantasy world, where you guide a caravan of exiles during fantasy sports games called Rites.

Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home.

Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home. While you listen to four soulful songs for each period of life, you explore the room and witness her changing interests and desires through the different items, notes, and decorations.

Selini is a running, jumping, and fighting game where you explore a desolate world and defeat monsters.

Selini is a running, jumping, and fighting game where you explore a desolate world and defeat monsters. With no dialogue or visual distractions, it's up to you to decipher the story that skirts the topics of environmental and social responsibility.

Fossil Echo is a short running and jumping game about a young boy's mistake and subsequent climb of a giant tower in the middle of the sea.

Fossil Echo is a short running and jumping game about a young boy's mistake and subsequent climb of a giant tower in the middle of the sea. The story is told in short animations and with challenging platform-style gameplay to create a moving and intriguing experience you can play multiple times.

Minabo - A Walk Through Life is an adventure game about the path of life.

Minabo - A Walk Through Life is an adventure game about the path of life. As you move along the road your turnip character is born, grows and thrives (or not) in all manner of family and social relationships.

The Red Strings Club is a futuristic narrative game where you prescribe implants and drinks to people who visit your bar.

The Red Strings Club is a futuristic narrative game where you prescribe implants and drinks to people who visit your bar. You talk to patrons, prepare them drinks and coax information out of them to advance the espionage story.

Art's Dream is an adventure game featuring different game styles, including running and jumping, combat and puzzle solving.

Art's Dream is an adventure game featuring different game styles, including running and jumping, combat and puzzle solving. It's particularly unusual as it has music threading through it like a musical.

N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure is a story-driven first-person indie game with puzzles to solve and story threads to follow.

N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure is a story-driven first-person indie game with puzzles to solve and story threads to follow. The player character essentially walks a linear path and solves puzzles blocking their way, while a story is narrated.

Shelter and its sequels are traversal games where you play as a mother animal guiding her cubs to safety.

Shelter and its sequels are traversal games where you play as a mother animal guiding her cubs to safety. Across different environments, you need to forage for food to feed your young, protect them from predators, and get them to safety.

Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a narrative game that uses footage of real actors to tell an interweaving story about the aftermath of the Second World War.

Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a narrative game that uses footage of real actors to tell an interweaving story about the aftermath of the Second World War. As you talk to the villagers, explore locations untouched for years and complete puzzles, you unravel the mystery of your family's past and uncover the historically accurate (and often moving) stories of the residents who lived through the war.

Yi and the Thousand Moons is an adventure game in the form of a musical.

Yi and the Thousand Moons is an adventure game in the form of a musical. You follow Yi who is told by the gods to bring down the moons, but then has to try and save the people of her village from the unforeseen results.

Closer the Distance is a narrative slice-of-life game that tests the connections between family and friends when a loved one dies.

Closer the Distance is a narrative slice-of-life game that tests the connections between family and friends when a loved one dies. Unusually, you play the departed rather than the bereaved, as you explore the world and help those you left behind cope with your loss.

Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) is a psychological horror game in the form of a high school dating simulator.

Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) is a psychological horror game in the form of a high school dating simulator. You attend your school's literature club and try to win over the girls there.

Figment is a narrative adventure game set inside a traumatised mind.

Figment is a narrative adventure game set inside a traumatised mind. You explore a whimsical, musical world, complete puzzles, and defeat monsters to uncover a story of optimism and overcoming fear.

Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is a narrative game set in the final year of a high school for mythological creatures looking for love.

Raptor Boyfriend: A High School Romance is a narrative game set in the final year of a high school for mythological creatures looking for love. You play Stella, who must find her place in the school as she talks to peers and decides who to date.

Tales of Kenzera: Zau is a running, jumping and fighting adventure where you play a grieving boy who bargains with God to bring his father back to life.

Tales of Kenzera: Zau is a running, jumping and fighting adventure where you play a grieving boy who bargains with God to bring his father back to life. You traverse the world with carefully timed jumps, quick combat and unlocking new abilities.

Cracks Where the Light Gets In is a narrative game where you observe the day-to-day lives of different people and find your assumptions being subverted.

Cracks Where the Light Gets In is a narrative game where you observe the day-to-day lives of different people and find your assumptions being subverted. As you watch a refugee family from hidden viewpoints, you piece together the stories of their lives and gain a new understanding of the events that led them there.

Before The Green Moon is a farming simulation set on a planet you are about to leave.

Before The Green Moon is a farming simulation set on a planet you are about to leave. Although play is the usual farming fare, what's actually happening is a conversational narrative game about making connections while you adapt to the strange seasons.

Clickolding is a dark horror-themed narrative game where a mysterious figure requires you to repeatedly click a clicker to progress.

Clickolding is a dark horror-themed narrative game where a mysterious figure requires you to repeatedly click a clicker to progress. You listen to the man's requests and fulfil them, the catch is you can't talk back, only click.

Let's Catch is a rhythm action game on the Wii about catching.

Let's Catch is a rhythm action game on the Wii about catching. It was created by Prope, who made the Sonic the Hedgehog games.