(video games) Acomputer orvideo game of thegenre characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges.
1984 May, “Living Guide to Spectrum Software: Adventure Games”, inCrash, number 4:
Phipps have put together a well planned and sometimes amusingadventure game here, with text and location graphics, which are simple but attractive.
2010, Richard Rouse III,Game Design: Theory and Practice, Second Edition:
The critics ofadventure games are quick to point out that, really,adventure games are not games at all, but merely a series of puzzles strung together with bits of story between them. The puzzles, regardless of their form, serve as locked doors[…]
2011, Sue Blackman,Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity, page 6:
Undoubtedly a force in the early days of the graphicaladventure game genre was LucasArts. With an army of professional film personnel from which to draw, LucasArts titles gained a huge reputation for outstanding storytelling[…]
