Adventure is a video game genre, in which the player takes on the protagonist’s role in an interactive story driven by puzzle-solving and exploration elements. The focus of the genre on story enables it to draw from other narrative media, film and literature, and encompassing the variety of literary genre. Most of Adventure games are designed for a Single-player mode, emphasizing on character and story makes Multiplayer design challenging. The term Adventure, originated from the computer text game in 1970s, Colossal Cave Adventure, referred to simply as Adventure. The primary genre’s elements include exploration, storytelling, and puzzle-solving. Adventure games can describe as the puzzle gameplay with a narrative element, where the game involves narrative-based rich content that the player will unlock in the form of episode, level, or part. Interactive Fiction, Text Adventures, Graphic Adventure, Point-and-Click Adventure Game, Puzzle Adventure Games, Walking Simulation, Visual Novel, etc. are prominent sub-genres of Adventure. Adventure game comes with a series of puzzles as well as, messages, locating and using items and equipment, interacting with NPCs and environment, opening locked doors, and exploration the new locations. Gathering and using Items, Puzzle-Solving, Story and Themes, Fantasy World, Conversation Tree, etc. are prominent features of Adventure genre.

13 Best Adventure Games for PS Vita

#1 Rayman Legends

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Rayman Legends is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game created by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Casablanca. The game provides with a similar game-play to Rayman Origins and allows up to 4 players for a simultaneous game-play in which you can explore dungeons, haunted lands and fight against vampires, ghosts, and the living dead etc. Rayman Legends provides with 120 levels of pure awesomeness, additional Lums and Teensies. This super cool re-mastered version of the game actually is a war going on between the Teensies and their nightmares so you must get up from you 100 yearlong sleep, encounter the nightmares and the Dark Teensies and free the 10 princesses and the good Teensies. Rayman Legends is a great Action-Adventure, and Puzzle platformer video game, do try it out.

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#2 Little Big Planet

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Little Big Planet (LBP) is a beautiful Action-Adventure and puzzle platform video game created by Media Molecule. This game is mostly based on user created content and that is why it is played, created and shared at the same time. Till date, this game can only be played on PlayStation alone or with your friends online on the same console. Little Big Planet consists of five games in the series. The game offers a number of fantastic characters including all the inhibitants of Litle Big Planet and themain character “The Sack Boy”. In order to complete the objectives, Little big Planet tasks you to traverse through amazing and beautiful environments, solve a number of challenging puzzles and enjoy beautifully embedded Platforming elements. Little Big Planet offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and an immersive game-play to enjoy.

#3 Limbo

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Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.

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#4 Terraria 2

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Terraria 2 is an Action-Adventure, Survival, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Re-Logic and published by 505 Games. The game combines the elements of Side-scroll, Sandbox, crafting, exploration, and combat. You assume the role of the protagonist, and your primary goal is to manipulate the 2D randomly generated the world. You can start the game with three primary tools such as a sword for combat, a pickaxe for mining and an axe for woodcutting. Explore the world, collect resources, craft useful items and fulfill challenging tasks to progress through the game. It becomes difficult, as you advanced. There are a variety of items available, and you can find them only in certain areas of the map, stored in rare and common containers. Craft new items, and use different items to take down enemies. Slimes, Demon eyes, Zombies, Region-specific Enemies, etc. are prominent foes in the game. Score the highest points and use them to unlock further content in the game. With brilliant mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb visuals, Terraria 2 is an excellent game to play and enjoy.

#5 Child of Light

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Child of Light by Ubisoft Montreal is a marvelous Action-Adventure, Indie and Puzzle-Platform video game that tells the story of a young girl named Aurora who in the year 1895 awakens on the lands of Lemuria. After waking up she finds out that she is a long way from home, starts off her journey to her home but soon realizes that in order to reach home she’ll have to go through a Dark world filled with Dark Creatures of the evil queen of the Night. You are required to get into the role of Aurora, fight off all the Dark Creatures, Defeat the Queen of Night and free the Sun in order to bring light to the realm and finally reach home. Child of Light offers a great story filled with wonders, surreal visuals and sounds and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy. If you really want to play a really good game of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform genres, Child of Light is best for you. It offers a brilliantly immersive gameplay, a well-written story and a lot of other great things to enjoy.

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#6 Rogue Legacy

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Rogue Legacy, developed by Cellar Door games is an Action-Adventure, Rogue-like RTS and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game provides with tons of engaging and quite addictive game-play that includes randomly generated dungeons, a lot of different types of enemies, Bosses with unique combat abilities and techniques, four epic game settlements to explore, collect items and kill your enemies. Rogue Legacy also includes secondary abilities for the players like Magic, and different elemental attacks that cause serious damage to the enemy. If you die in the game, all of your HP shrinks to zero and all your abilities are then transferred to a secondary player who continues your adventure until the last player, when the last player dies, the game ends. Rogue Legacy provides with great level details, clean graphics and an amazingly engaging game-play.

#7 Terraria

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Terraria is an open world Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Voxel-based Sandbox video game set in a 2D game world. The game lets you be part of the game world with three basic tools, a pickaxe, a sword and a wood cutting axe and allows you to explore, gather resources and fight off your enemies. The game world is filled with things that would like to slay you so you need to be a bit more careful while exploring. As the game mainly focuses on night time game-play, the enemies attack at night, so you must be a bit more attentive to the details and your surroundings. Combats are normally melee type so you will have a better chance of earning the XP points that will help you buy some upgrades. Because of being a 2D game, Terraria seems a bit different than other sandbox games, but it isn’t actually. You’ll experience almost the same game-play and a lot of other exciting things. Terraria is available to play on multiple platforms.

#8 Dante’s Inferno

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Dante’s Inferno is a fantastic Single and Multiplayer Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game by Visceral Games and Artificial Mind and Movement. The game features the protagonist Dante, a Crusader laced up with his primary weapon Death Scythe and the Holy Cross. According to the Storyline, Dante goes on a mission to eliminate the Hell’s Minions and engages into epic Combats, Platform and environmental Puzzles. The story takes another turn when the King goes on to search for a Holy Relic that is hidden under the folds of mystic environments. The king entrusts Dante with all the prisoners but Dante kills the Prisoners and the King sends him to find the Holy Relic as to punish him. Dante embarks on an epic journey to find the Holy Relic and reaches down to the Palace of King Saladin where he gets stabbed multiple times by the Assassins. Wounded badly, Dante returns back to Florence, Italy to his Father and his one true Love Beatrice, but instead finds them dead. Beatrice’s Soul appears in front of him and tells him all about how she and Dante’s father got killed. Dante Vows to revenge and descends into an opening into the ground at the spot where Hell and Earth borders. Dante reaches to the Hell’s Gate where he encounters the Minions of Lucifer, starts killing them selflessly, encounters Lucifer and kills him after a series of fast-paced and Action-filled melee combats. Dante then finds the Holy Relic and the game concludes. With a very interesting story, state of the art visuals and a super thrilling game-play, Dante’s Inferno is a wonderful game to play.

#9 Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom

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Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom is an Action, Hack and Slash, Third-person Perspective, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Koei Tecmo Games for Multiple Platforms. The game around the protagonist named Eren Yeager, his beloved friend Armin Arlert and his foster sister named Miskasa Ackerman and their adventures. The game embarks the protagonist on an epic adventure when the Colossal Titans breach the wall which guards his homeland and one of them slaughter and eat his mother and kill all the Titans. The protagonist and his friends join the military to take revenge from Colossal Titans to his mother’s death. The player can play as the Eren and can use different weapons, and items to kill monsters and foes. He can explore the world from a third-person perspective and can earn points by defeating Titans and their leaders. As the game progress, it becomes more challenging, and the player must unlock further features. With enhanced mechanics, new scenarios, weapons, exciting story, and addictive gameplay, Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#10 God of War

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God of War is the first game in the God of War series and focuses on Combo-based Combat. The game combines the elements of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, Platform and Puzzle. It lets you control the protagonist named Kratos and jump into the game world where you must fight against evil forces to save your kingdom. God of War takes place in an ancient world populated by the Olympian gods, and other beings. The game offers six fictional locations to explore such as the Aegean Sea, the city of Athens, Desert of Lost Souls, Temple of Pandora, the land of underworld and more. According to the story, the protagonist serves the gods of Olympian. Kratos received a task from the goddess named Athena to kill Ares, the god of War, who tricked the protagonist into killing his beloved daughter and wife. The game embarks you on an adventure to take revenge from goddess to the murder of your wife and daughter. It has a series of missions you must complete at any cost. The primary weapons of the character are the blade and chaos a pair of blades fixed to the chain. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, exciting story, God of War is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#11 Salt and Sanctuary

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Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.

#12 Machinarium

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Machinarium is a wonderful Point and Click Puzzle and Graphic Adventure video game by Amanita Design. The basic objective of the game is to solve a series of challenging puzzles and brain teasers by the use of your intuition and puzzle solving skills. Machinarium offers a Unique Story, a challenging game-play along with best visuals. According to the storyline, your task in the game is to solve a number of challenging puzzles, go through a series of obstacles, use your wit and Point and Click skills to get out of difficult situations and enjoy immersing yourself into a gameplay in which every thing is linked by an Overworld. Machinarium offers a dialogue based gameplay and allows you to interact with the written statements in order to perform the tasks and keep on playing until you are finished with all of the exciting game levels. With an amazing two-tier hint system, walkthroughs, loads of mini games, beautiful visuals, a truly very well written storyline and exciting gameplay, Machinarium is a fun Point and Click Puzzle-platform video game to play and enjoy.

#13 Jak and Daxter

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Jak and Daxter is a video game series by Naughty Dogs and Sony Computer Entertainment. It combines the elements of Platform, Action-Adventure, Racing and Third-person Shooter. The series takes place in the fictional universe that comprises science fantasy elements and focuses on the protagonists and their efforts to unearth the secrets of the world and the mysteries which is left behind by the horrible race known as Precursors. The series centered on story-based Platform gameplay and lets the player navigate environments and fight against various foes using melee attacks. It includes a substance known as Eco which can enhance the abilities of the character. Eco is available in different colors and each with different effects. Explore different scenarios, fight against enemies, use different weapons, and save your world by destroying. There are many games in the series, and each entry has different gameplay, foes, missions, and tasks. The protagonist can run, jump, move in any direction and can use melee attacks and weapons to take down his enemies. The franchise offers some games such as The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3, Jak X: Combat Racing, Daxter, The Lost Frontier, Jak and Daxter Collection and more. With detailed Environment, Stunning Visuals, Engaging Gameplay, and Superb Mechanics, Jak and Daxter is the wonderful game video game series to play and enjoy.