Top 10 Games: Adventure
The highest-graded adventure games we have reviewed, best first.
The Legend of ZeldaA battery in the cartridge, a map with no arrows, and the first game that trusts you to get lost.Read the review
Mina the HollowerYacht Club builds a Game Boy shaped adventure with a burrow button and a difficulty curve that expects you to learn.
SubnauticaA survival game with no combat worth speaking of, which is exactly why swimming into the dark is genuinely frightening.
SnatcherA cyberpunk detective story that is unembarrassed about what it borrows and far better than it has any right to be.
ARC RaidersThe extraction shooter that finally made the genre welcoming, and the tensest half hour on any console.
Return of the Obra DinnSixty corpses, one pocket watch, and a deduction system that will not confirm a single guess until you have got three right.
Blue PrinceA mansion you redraw every morning, where the only thing that carries between runs is what you understood yesterday.
What Remains of Edith FinchA house full of sealed bedrooms where each death gets its own genre, and one of them is the best scene in the medium.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of AmnThe high point of party writing in games, a role-playing epic that answers nearly every question you think to ask it.
Dragon Quest VII ReimaginedSquare Enix finally fixes the slowest opening in Dragon Quest, then asks you to repeat one loop for fifty hours.
