Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a point and click style adventure game where you play as a detective duck, who is trying to solve the mystery of the secret salami. Though this might not sound like the biggest adventure, you need to earn some money, so will be investigating who is stealing from this dingy office and why. The game itself has some fantastic voice acting, that feels very captivating.
Sky: Children of the Light
Sky takes you into a dream-like world, where you must bring the stars back to the sky, restoring the world to its proper state. This is a multiplayer adventure game, where you can see other player’s ghost-like figures, interesting with the world while you move around it yourself. You can learn the gestures of others to play with them and guide them.
Machinarium
The narrative and graphics of this idyllic-looking game have fascinated many, for all the right reasons. The game features some one-of-a-kind visuals which are only enhanced by the immersive puzzles and adventure you will discover within the game’s walls. In the game, you will have more puzzles than anything else, but it’s still a truly worthy title to the genre.
Samsara Room
A slightly more creepy adventure game for Android, Samsara Room has you trapped in a room with various normal-looking objects dotted around. You will need to figure out how to escape, through solving puzzles that have not made themselves apparent yet. The game does have a storyline throughout it as well as a number of really challenging puzzles for you to solve.
Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition
Don’t Starve has some dark graphics, providing an adventure game that challenges you to survive and explore a world full of all sorts of madness. As the night takes over, you can go mad yourself, if you don’t have a light to keep you alive. There is a narrator-esque character who has banished you to this world, and if you are strong enough, you might be able to defeat them – or just find a way to survive forever.
Samorost 3
Samorost 3 is an adorable exploration adventure game with puzzle aspects, where you play as a space gnome who is able to travel across the galaxy due to its magical flute. Each of the worlds that you visit has its own aliens to interact with, puzzles to solve, and a new world that’s brought to life through the amazing graphics and wonderful music that’s present.
Lumino City
When the caretaker of your city gets kidnapped, you’ll need to go on an adventure to find and save him! Especially if he is also your grandfather. Playing as Lumi in Lumino City, a beautiful, handcrafted game that you should really see the making of, you will need to explore the city and solve puzzles to try and bring back your grandfather.
Seabeard
Help villagers and have a wonderful, adventure-filled life in Seabeard, a game where you have islands to explore, on the open sea. You can create a crew to help you on your adventure, adding in characters who are better at fishing, combat, sailing and cooking to help you on your quest while you help out characters, trade, and explore the world.
Hidden City: Hidden Object Adventure
We couldn’t do a best adventure mobile games list and not mention at least one well-made hidden object game, so here it is. In the game you’ll have a lot of ways to prove how perceptive you are by solving puzzles, and a lot of elements to appease the adventure-loving side within.
Life is Strange
If you’ve not heard of Life is Strange, it’s time to just download it. Before we tell you more about the game, we’ll start by mentioning its deeply rich narrative and extremely well-made characters. These two elements alone are enough to make you consider the game from the get-go.
Hello Neighbor
Ah, of course – we couldn’t have a complete list without mentioning one of the games that made the manliest of men scream atop of their lungs. No, it’s not Slender Man, it’s Hello Neighbor.
Oddmar
Oddmar follows the story of a Viking who is not worthy of a place in Valhalla and instead has been shunned by his village. He still has hopes of someday proving himself, so you must help him on his physics-puzzled based quest through the world to redeem himself!
Soda Dungeon 2
Soda Dungeon 2 is a dungeon crawler where you don’t need to actually face any action, and instead find yourself inside the tavern, hiring other individuals to fight against the Dark Lord and gain goodies for you to then take from them.
Very Little Nightmares
Very Little Nightmares is a puzzle-filled adventure game for Android where you play as a small character with a yellow hood, trying to get out of a very dangerous house that she’s ended up in. She needs your help to guide her through each of the different rooms in this house, in hopes that she will not end up dying here, alone.
Cat Bird
Following a cat, after having mentioned dogs, Cat Bird is a platformer that has you trying to make your way back home. Cat Bird is very cute, full of different challenges, bosses and levels, where you are just looking to make it across the world and get to your home.
