The Best Adventure point-and-click Games for Playstation 5

Update, : Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams added at rank #22.
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Return to Monkey Island (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Join Guybrush Threepwood on an adventure in the Monkey Island series with Return to Monkey Island. Experience an intuitive design with puzzles that are tricky yet solvable, self-referential humour, familiar music with a modern edge and voice acting from the original cast. Enjoy accessibility features like subtitles, level adjustments and post-credit sequences.


Pros:
  • Intuitive design
  • Puzzles are tricky yet solvable
  • Self-referential humour
  • Familiar music with a modern edge
  • Voice acting from original cast
  • Accessibility features available such as subtitles
  • Level adjustments and post-credit sequences
Cons:
  • Art style may be off-putting for some players
  • Colour blind players may not benefit from all of the accessibility features
  • No insult-based combat as in previous titles

  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • pirates
  • inventory
  • funny
  • classic

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Beyond a Steel Sky (2020)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X

From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.


  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopian
  • sci-fi
  • puzzle
  • classic
  • futuristic
  • narrative
  • third-person
  • hacking
  • thriller
  • story
  • post-apocalyptic
  • sequel

3

Syberia: The World Before (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.


  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • steampunk
  • mystery
  • cinematic
  • story
  • graphic
  • investigation
  • narration
  • narrative
  • third-person
  • emotional
  • detective
  • historical

4

Norco (2022)

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PC Windows Android Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Mac OS

NORCO is a text-based point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.


  • point-and-click
  • dystopian
  • pixel
  • mystery
  • gothic
  • narrative
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • noir
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • investigation
  • cult
  • conspiracy
  • philosophical

5

Quest for Infamy (2014)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Wealth. Women. Wildly offbeat jokes. Lie, cheat, steal, and embrace your inner rogue. Being bad has never felt so good.


  • point-and-click
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • classic
  • old-school
  • puzzle
  • inventory
  • pixel
  • funny
  • fantasy-adventure

6

The Darkside Detective (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch stadia Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One

Join Detectives McQueen and Dooley as they solve six different cases full of humour and great references in the town of Twin Lakes. With beautiful retro-style pixel graphics, this is a must play for lovers of cats, coffee and all kinds of videogames!


Pros:
  • Crisp and clean pixel graphics
  • Variety in music
  • Sense of satisfaction when solving a case
  • Humourous atmosphere
  • Great movie references
Cons:
  • Cases are straightforward
  • Not super challenging
  • No tries to scare you

  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • supernatural
  • pixel
  • funny
  • adventure
  • retro
  • mystery
  • puzzle
  • comedy
  • story

7

Forgotten Hill Disillusion (2019)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch Mac OS

Welcome to Forgotten Hill Museum, a place where the past, the present, nature, art and the unknown are exhibited!


  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • gore
  • grotesque
  • horror
  • adventure
  • museum
  • atmosphere
  • cerebral
  • puzzle-
  • click-and-point

8

Twelve Minutes (2021)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android

Twelve Minutes is a highly-anticipated, unique narrative adventure game. You play as the male protagonist who lives with his wife and control the cursor with the analogue stick to interact with the environment or other characters. Every bit of dialogue is voiced by stars like Daisy Ridley, James McAvoy and Willem Dafoe and you have a limited window of time to figure out how to get out of the time loop.


Pros:
  • Unique narrative adventure game
  • Fantastic voice acting
  • Graphically beautiful
  • Enjoyable point-and-click gameplay
  • Opportunity to complete multiple play-throughs for achievements
Cons:
  • Some graphical fuzziness when zooming in on objects
  • Tough final act that may leave players feeling angry

  • point-and-click
  • top-down
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • inventory
  • romantic
  • time
  • interactive
  • drama
  • story

9

Unusual Findings (2022)

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PC Windows Linux Mac OS Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

Three friends uncover mysteries in the 1980s. Follow their amazing adventures in a game where your decisions really matter. Be prepared to spin like a record on your incredible journey back to the era of synthesizers, VHS Rental stores, 8 bits games and evil alien conspiracies.


  • point-and-click
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • pixel
  • multiple-endings
  • nonlinear
  • retro-graphic
  • conversation
  • america
  • mystery

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Children of Silentown (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch

Children of Silentown is a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a girl growing up in a village deep in a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon here, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.


  • point-and-click
  • hand-drawn
  • multiple-endings
  • puzzle
  • horror
  • beautiful
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • dark
  • surreal
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • stylized
  • cartoony

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