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Puzzle-Adventure

Game genre concept

A sub-genre of adventure games that often plays more like series of puzzles than an adventure with puzzles.

13
games
7
platforms
Castle of Dr. Brain (Macintosh OS Classic)
Castle of Dr. Brain
MAC 1992
The 7th Guest (MS-DOS)
The 7th Guest
DOS 1993
Castle of Dr. Brain (MS-DOS)
Castle of Dr. Brain
DOS 1991
Ripper (MS-DOS)
Ripper
DOS 1996
Entombed (Windows 3.1)
Entombed
W31 1994
Lume
OSX 2011-05-10
Unhack
LIN 2014-02-04
The 7th Guest
MAC 1993
Lume
WIN 2011-05-10
Unhack
WIN 2014-02-04
Castle of Dr. Brain
9801 1992-10-09
Ripper
MAC 1996
Note that UVL currently does not allow searching for two genres simultaneously thus making this tag useful.

Most puzzle-adventure games are more to the liking of puzzle gamers than adventure gamers.

Commonly these have little to no character interactions unlike plain adventure games.

Popular tags

hybridgame visualnovel

Parent groups

Adventure, Puzzle

Games by year

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The first Puzzle-Adventure video game was released in 1991.

InvertMouse, Take 2 Interactive and State of Play Games published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS 3
Mac OS Classic 3
Windows 2
Linux 2
Win3.1 1
Mac OS X 1
NEC PC9801 1

Most common companies

InvertMouse3
Take 2 Interactive2
State of Play Games2
Sierra On-Line2
Virgin Games2