The desire to find something new is one of the reasons why the adventure genre for video games has constantly evolved since the days of the first text adventures released on computers like the BBC Micro.

After the phenomenal successes of adventures such as Rise of the Tomb Raider, Life is Strange and Tales from the Borderlands in 2015, we thought that it would be a good idea to share some of our favourite adventure games from the first eight months of this year.

That Dragon Cancer

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Batman: A Telltale Series

Oxenfree

Kathy Rain