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Search

Activities theme

Searching for an object, a place, a person or something else is a major element and activity in the story.

224
games
40
platforms
Weird Dreams (MS-DOS)
Weird Dreams
DOS 1988
D/Generation (Amiga AGA)
D/Generation
AGA 1993
Fallout 3 (PlayStation 3)
Fallout 3
PS3 2008-10-28
Castle Wolfenstein (Commodore 64)
Castle Wolfenstein
C64 1983
Arx Fatalis (Xbox)
Arx Fatalis
XBOX 2003-12-23
Aztaka (Windows)
Aztaka
WIN 2009-05-07
Heroes of Jin Yong (MS-DOS)
Heroes of Jin Yong
DOS 1996
Take No Prisoners (Windows)
Take No Prisoners
WIN 1997
Aquaria (Mac OS X)
Aquaria
OSX 2008-11-13
NetHack (Linux)
NetHack
LIN ? *
Lost Labyrinth (Windows)
Lost Labyrinth
WIN 2004? *
The Witcher (Windows)
The Witcher
WIN 2007-10-26
Does not necessarily involve any active searching on part of the player. This is only for the overarching goal or task described by the story.

Popular tags

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Parent groups

Goals / objectives, Plot points

Games by year

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The first Search video game was released in 1981.

Mindscape, Sega and Ubi Soft published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 57
Linux 31
MS-DOS 23
Amiga 10
C64 8
X360 7
Mac OS X 7
Atari ST 7
PS3 6
Amstrad CPC 5
Mega Drive 5
ZX Spectrum 4
Mac OS Classic 4
Wii 4
Apple II E 4
BeOS 4
BSD 3
Pandora 3
NES 3
Solaris 2
MSX 2
Nintendo DS 2
Game Gear 2
OS/2 2
Atari 400/800 2
NeXT 2
Unix 2
Amiga CD32 1
Win3.1 1
Mega-CD 1

Most common companies

Mindscape10
Sega10
Ubi Soft8
Deep Silver6
DevTeam6
Ubisoft5
Rainbird4
Konami4
Bethesda Softworks4
Pandora Software4
Muse Software4
Topo Soft4
CMC3
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment3
Winterwolves3