Graphical adventure games

This is a sub-genre of adventure games. These games heavily rely on graphics to tell their story. This genre includes point-and-click adventures and visual novels.

List of Graphical adventure games

This is a list of free/libre graphical adventure games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
Alexei: Part IX		2010-06-30	Graphical adventure	Alexei: Part IX Genres Graphical adventure Latest release 1.2.8 Release date June 30, 2010 Developers Piga Software Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3, GFDL Engine Gambas Adventure Engine P. language Gambas 2.x Libraries GTK+, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Homepage https://pigalore.miraheze.org/wiki/Alexei:_Part_IX Contribute Alexei: Part IX is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Alexei: Part IX is a free software graphical adventure game originally released by Piga Software on May 19, 2009. It is the first Piga Software program to use the Gambas Adventure Engine and is also the first Piga Software game released for GNU/Linux and other POSIX systems. You take the role of Alexei Volkov, master criminal, who is intent on robbing the house of a cruel and ruthless businessman. After gaining access to the main hall with the help of a disgruntled servant, Alexei must search out the mansion and find out the location of the owner's vault. Once this is accomplished he must escape the mansion. This game takes heavy inspiration from the Arthur Yahtzee and Rob Blanc trilogies. A preview release for the next title in the series, Part XIII, is available from the Piga Software website.
Wake to Hell		2025-07-17	Side-scrolling graphical adventure game	Wake to Hell Lukifer Dredd in the flesh. Genre Side-scrolling graphical adventure game Latest release 0.5.0  (Announcement) Release date July 17rd, 2025 Platform Windows, GNU/Linux Developer blitzdoughnuts Code license CC0 + waiver Media license CC0 + waiver P. language C Library SDL2 Homepage https://ludicrital.neocities.org/waketohell Contribute Wake to Hell is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Wake to Hell is an interactive story game, self-proclaimed walking simulator, about a former surgeon, Lukifer Dredd, coming back to the hospital, only to realize something dark had occurred, then attempting to piece together just what happened. Being based on a webcomic, it shares similar themes of mental distress and plot connections. It was also made as a way to practice programming philosophies inspired by Drummyfish. The game provides builds for Windows and GNU/Linux, utilizing mainly SDL2 for frontend code, but providing use of Raylib and SAF as well, although due to the game's in-development state, they have been left outdated.
Childish Cannoneer		2012-09-15	Artillery, Graphical adventure	Childish Cannoneer Genres Artillery, Graphical adventure Latest release Source Release 2  (Announcement) Release date September 15th, 2012 Developers White Island Software, Piga Software Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3, GFDL Engine Gambas (picture boxes) P. language Gambas 3.x Libraries Qt/GTK, SDL, and the Gambas Runtime Environment. Contribute Childish Cannoneer is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Childish Cannoneer is the first venture of the "Indie Games" project hosted by White Island Software at the Gambas Forum, and participated in by Piga Software through Graham L. Wilson. The aim of the project is to make computer games to show off the Gambas language, with the eventual hope of inclusion in the Humble Indie Bundle for maximum attention. It is to feature a little boy building a makeshift air cannon from spare parts only to terrorize his older sister, and potentially the whole neighbourhood, while evading the wrath of his father. The majority of the game's multimedia are derived from vector graphics taken from OpenClipart and sound effects taken from SoundBible. Contributions to this project, or the creation of other entities for the Indie Games project, are more then welcome.
Dead Justice		2003-09-22	Graphical Adventure, Action	Dead Justice Genre Graphical Adventure, Action Latest release prototype  (Announcement) Release date September 22th, 2003 Platform Windows Developer Olli Sorjonen, Sami Sorjonen, Jani Kajala, Toni Aittoniemi Code license BSD Media license GPL Engine custom 3D engine Library libjpeg, Lua and zlibd Homepage http://catmother.sourceforge.net/ Contribute Dead Justice is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Dead Justice is an 3rd person action/adventure game prototype featuring running, shooting and sneaking. The game is made for Windows. The source code and much of the media assets were set free when the game development company Cat Mother closed offices.
Vegan on a Desert Island		2019-03-24	Graphical adventure	Vegan on a Desert Island Vegan on a Desert Island Genre Graphical adventure Latest release 0.3  (Announcement) Release date Mar 24, 2019 Platform GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3, CC-BY-SA-4.0 Engine Solarus P. language Lua Homepage http://voadi.com/ Contribute Vegan on a Desert Island is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Vegan on a Desert Island (VOADI) names a top-down adventure game made with Solarus engine developed by an open source community led by Alex Gleason. The game seeks to provide very ironic answer to the question "What might vegans do if stranded on a desert island?". In addition to parody, the project organizer expresses the intention to explore issues such as pollution, wild animal predation, and species discrimination. They organize through a community on Matrix. So far the project has released only a brief demo.
@CameliaGirls		2011-10-12	Visual novel	@CameliaGirls Genres Visual novel Latest release 0.560 Release date October 12th, 2011 Developers Studio TT Petok, Pigux Productions Code licenses CC-BY-SA Media licenses CC-BY-SA, CC-BY, PD Engine Ren'Py P. language Python Homepage https://web.archive.org/web/20140523011334/http://pigux.com/cameliagirls/ Contribute @CameliaGirls is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code @CameliaGirls (full title: @CameliaGirls: Cewek Cewek Camelia) is a visual novel that follows the life of a transfer student as she begins her new life at the all-girl Camelia Academy. The game is developed using the Ren'Py Visual Novel engine with its code and original content released under the CC-BY-SA license. It also incorporates several third-party multimedia assets under compatible licenses. The script and interface is officially developed in English, Indonesian, and Spanish, and as of now, consists of one Act with about 3600 words.

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