Adventure games come in multiple shapes and sizes. There is a distinct group on the App Store that refuses to fit in a pre-established mold. The result are these innovative games that deliver all new adventure styles. You may control the wind, grow and shrink past obstacles, use sound to find barriers, crawl as a spider, turn your fingers into pincers, guide a flock of birds, and more.
Highest scored apps in the category
A stunningly beautiful and challenging game
Witness the award-winning world of Badland in even more stunning beauty with levels that extend and scroll to all directions. Survive through new elements such as liquids, flamethrowers, frost, magma, water and volumetric burning light. Fall down deadly rifts, fly to any direction and race and jump along the surfaces as a rolling character on your way to safety.
Guide a creature to each goal
Badland is a side-scrolling, action adventure game set in a forest-like environment. With over 100 levels, you must guide your strange creature to each goal while watching out for dangerous traps and avoiding obstacles. The game has won several awards for its creative design and physic-based gameplay. There's also local co-op multiplayer.
Push a green blog through strange lands in this all new type of adventure game.
An all new type of adventure game that revolves around touch. You drag your finger to delete the back of the Mushroom 11 organism, and then it grows on the front. It’s a surprisingly smooth mechanic that lends itself to all new platformer style challenges to move through the world, and deal with various forms of obstacles including boss battles.
* 5/5 "MUST BUY
* 5/5 "MUST BUY... builds an almost impossibly intricate web." -TouchArcade
This sequel to the award-winning hit Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor once again puts you in the role of an ordinary spider on an extraordinary adventure. Explore a massive estate, build intricate webs, and put your wits to the test with some incredibly mind-bending puzzles. Piece together clues...
Join an elongating dachshund on a looong adventure
The stretchy mutt in Nitrome’s Silly Sausage in Meat Land is back for an all-new adventure. But this time, the elongating dachshund is going on a journey across a dessert dreamland in Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert.
Apps with average score
Praise for SPIDER: THE SECRET OF BRYCE MANOR:
Best Mobile Game - Indie Game Festival
Best iPhone Game - Indie Game Festival
Game of the Year - TouchArcade
Best of the Year - USA Today
Platform Game of the Year - IGN
"One of our top 3 iPhone games of all time." - boing boing
"There's really...
Play as the most advanced creature ever discovered on Earth. You are trapped in a high security submarine base and you must use your superpowers to escape from this hostile environment; dodge lasers and AK-47 bullets, solve puzzles to progress and try to survive the many other dangerous and deadly...
Use the visualized sound to get out of threatening environments in this atmospheric puzzle game.
This version of Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor HD will no longer be supported. We recommend you download Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, a new universal version of the Spider app.
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Praise for SPIDER: THE SECRET OF BRYCE MANOR:
Best Mobile Game - Indie Game Festival
Best iPhone Game - Indie...
Guide a flock of birds on a playful journey across the sky. Dance in the winds of a far-away world and create an emotional story without words.
The world is brought to life by an original score performed by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
The experience is enjoyable with any skill...
Welcome back to Frisbee® Forever!
Experience the rollercoaster ride of your lifetime with one of the world's most beloved toys!
Dive and glide along the edge of erupting volcanoes, fly majestically above snow covered China or admire your reflection in the river glance at full pace through the European countryside.
Play...
Meet our stretchy pooch : Silly Sausage in his adventure through Meat Land.
Swipe based controls will allow you to stretch through the air changing direction as you go. Latch onto a surface and your dachshund will retract to that spot.
Having an infinitely stretchy body is pretty handy, but it's not...
The critically acclaimed zen like exploration game is now on the App Store.
Play as flower petals, and catch the breeze to explore lush 3D environments. The game is absolutely gorgeous, and that's just the back drop to a relatively unique experience that emphasizes a zen like exploration. Simply tilt your device to control the flowers.
It’s the first-ever mobile action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes!
Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.
HEADPHONES ARE COMPULSORY!
AUDIO GAME FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE
Your eyes will be of no help.
So close them, sharpen your hearing and your blade…
And embark on an...
Play as a pineapple, cupcake, hot dog, noodles, and more with crazy controls for walking.
A game like QWOP, I Am Bread, Octodad, Steppy Pants, and similar with crazy controls to move the main character. There's no precision, and instead you're just try to move forward in any form you can. Silly Walks introduces household items as the main characters.
Paper planes have never soared like this before! Guide your paper glider through a colorful world full of danger and secrets to uncover. Innocent kitchen counters and coffee tables become challenging obstacles for your paper flyer. With lots to explore and hidden collectibles to find, you're set for a fun...
"One of the most satisfying gaming experiences I've had on this platform." "Outstanding and revolutionary."
– TouchArcade, 5/5
25 Best iPad games – Time.com
"The most interesting story I've seen in an iPhone game"
– Joystiq
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Life always finds a way. In this game, that way is you. Put on your spacesuit and...
Lead Them is a dark atmospheric vertical-scrolling action adventure platformer, set in a wonderful microscopic world full of various inhabitants, organisms and little creatures. The player controls a group of the local dwellers to save and feed them, and discovers a particularly dangerous world on the way.
Lead Them takes vertical-scrollers...
Could be good for special cases
AWARD WINNING GIANT SPACE CRAB SIMULATION
WINNER of Australian Game Developer Awards 2013
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“I’ve always wanted to be a giant space crab.” - Gabe Newell
“The controls are perfect.” - Touch Arcade
"It’s immediately obvious, and incredibly hilarious." — WIRED
"The crab smiled, the music and action picked right back up again, and I was hooked." — Pocket Gamer, 9/10
"Man, this game is good." — Touch Arcade, 4.5 STARS
"It’s a wonderful dose of originality." — 148Apps, 4.5 STARS
"It may be the most innovative game in the App Store." — Apple'N'Apps, 4/5
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Australian Game Developer Awards 2013 - Innovation Award
Australian Game Developer Awards 2013 - Excellence in Design Award
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Once, every hundred years, Crabitron descends upon the civilized galaxy to teach humanity a brutal lesson — to stop eating his delicious crustacean brothers.
Humanity never learns. It's time for their lesson.
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A lovingly crafted game about destroying the universe as a Giant Space Crab.
• Touch, pinch, and fling your claws to cause destruction
• Battle against waves of enemies, including sharks with frickin’ lasers
• Gobble Burgers of Power, burp fireballs and suck in everything
• Snap, crush and ruin everyone’s day... or life
• The world's most realistic Giant Space Crab simulation
Guide your little flying robots through a beautiful handcrafted world filled with things to fly past, bounce off or dash through!
BotHeads is an atmospheric arcade adventure game by the creators of Hanger & Hanger World. "It's like an amazing dream where Sonic The Hedgehog, transformed into a flying robot, is trapped in badlands filled with weird monsters and cats with laser eyes."
BotHeads just wanna fly fast.
Maybe do some loops and bounce off a spring.
Spin around to a great song and rack up some points!
Oh – and it features a brand new soundtrack by Boy vs Bacteria.
FEATURES
• Handcrafted world with amazing physics
• Game Center Highscores
• Haptic feedback on supported devices
• Soundtrack by Boy vs Bacteria
• Warp Zones that lets you skip levels
• Cats with laser eyes
• Support for iPhone X
REVIEWS
"Here’s a game that you should be playing right now!"
• Snappzilla.com
"Thanks to a slick control system, this is one game that definitely deserves a second look."
8/10 • PocketGamer.co.uk
"If you enjoy playing platformer style games that don’t feature a random stage that regenerates itself each time you GAME OVER, this is probably the highest quality game currently available."
• Edamame Game Reviews
"BotHeads is one such title that instantly caught my eye, and while its numerous influences have been plucked from radically different parts of the gaming spectrum, the way that the developers have blended them together to make a cohesive whole is rather impressive indeed"
• TouchArcade.com
Dandelion is a simple yet philosophical game. Normally speaking, it is a 2D mobile puzzle game. You helps the dandelion to spread seeds among the mountains and caves. The main mechanics include shifting your perspective and striking the screen to blow seeds through the wind. Your aim is to bring life to every corners of the world.
