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
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.
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.
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.
Apps with average score
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.
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.
"Outstanding and revolutionary" - TouchArcade
From the creators of the iPhone GAME OF THE YEAR award-winners, Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor & Waking Mars.
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5/5 "MUST BUY... builds an almost impossibly intricate web." -TouchArcade
9/10 "Elegant, clever, subtle, mechanically unusual." -PocketGamer
4.5/5 "One of our favorite games...
Paper planes have never soared like this before! Guide your glider through a colorful world full of danger and hidden collectibles to discover.
Race to the finish line for the fastest times or search every nook and cranny for hidden rewards. Craft and fully personalise your own paper plane with...
2009 iPhone Game of the Year
"Outstanding and revolutionary" -TouchArcade
Spin Webs, Trap Bugs, Unlock the Secrets of Bryce Manor
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Praise for SPIDER: THE SECRET OF BRYCE MANOR:
Apple Rewind 2009 Best Rated App
Best Mobile Game 2009 - Indie Game Festival
Best iPhone Game 2009 - Indie Game Festival
Game of the Year- TouchArcade
Game of...
Use the visualized sound to get out of threatening environments in this atmospheric puzzle game.
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...
Apple's 2012 iPad Game of the Year Runner-Up!
Bring A Sleeping Planet Back To Life
Epic adventure, action gameplay, and unlimited discovery
www.WakingMars.com
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"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...
The iPad enhanced version of 2009's Best iPhone Game,
Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor
Spin Webs, Trap Bugs, Unlock the Secrets of Bryce Manor
"Outstanding and revolutionary" - TouchArcade
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Praise for SPIDER: THE SECRET OF BRYCE MANOR:
Apple Rewind 2009 Best Rated App
Best Mobile Game 2009 - Indie Game Festival
Best iPhone Game...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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
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Take control of the wind and guide the leaves through a beautiful and stylish world. Try to survive through the year as the seasons change and the leaves fall.
You are the wind, guide the leaves, flourish in the summer, survive the winter.
Game Of The Week! "Its gorgeous aesthetic and unique gameplay make it well worth the [US]$1.99 purchase price." - Appadvice.com
"Combine the fun you’ll have with the great art style and mood presented, and On the Wind is a game that’s easily worth checking out" - Gamezebo.com
"On The Wind is a relaxing journey that’s a breeze to play." - AppSmile.com
"Beautiful animations, soothing gameplay, and a title you'll be playing for a long time to come." - Modojo.com
* Full retina graphics for the new iPad
* Simple and intuitive 'one touch' controls
* Relaxing play with the soothing sound of the wind, or challenge yourself to beat your friends
* Beautiful world that's generated as you play so it's different every time
* Game Center enabled with lots of tricky achievements, and leader boards to challenge your friends
* Universal app, buy once and play on your iPhone, iPod and iPad.
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 epic, perilous rite of passage.
How do you play?
Put on your headphones and use your smartphone’s touchscreen like a joystick:
- to move around freely;
- to fight using your sword;
- to defend yourself and protect yourself with your shield during epic fights;
- to repel your enemies and perform combos!
Live the adventures of Edward Blake, the famous blind knight! Guided by your daughter Louise, you must find your way and avoid the many traps that lie in store in the High Castle Kingdom, while confronting dangerous enemies!
This serious game is fully accessible to visually impaired people, and is aimed at anyone who’s eager for an original, immersive sensory experience through a ground-breaking video game. And because the player is the character, it will help raise public awareness of this kind of disability.
It is free to download and was co-created thanks to support from a community of fans who helped with the crowdfunding campaign (www.ulule.com/a-blind-legend) and in a co-production with France Culture, a Radio France station.
This hack-and-slash game, with a heroic-fantasy flavour, harnesses the innovative technology of binaural sound, which delivers a gripping 3D soundscape and brings characters and actions vividly to life around the player – as if they were actually in the game!
SOME REVIEWS:
PC Gamer:
“An interesting and enjoyable experience, something worth trying even if you're not visually impaired.”
Next Power Up:
“It's probably one of the most cleverly designed titles I've experienced in quite some time.”
Gameskinny:
“A Blind Legend is going to be one heck of an experience.”
AFB:
“I would recommend that anyone who is interested should download the game and give it a try.”
Voxludicus:
“The game is worth your attention if you want to try something different for a change.”
Tapxrapidly:
“The unique take of this game is that you do not need a screen to play, just headphones.”
Deepdishent:
“Take a shot in the dark and give A Blind Legend a chance. You may be surprised at what you find when you are not looking.”
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.
