If your idea of a good game involves solving puzzles, delving into a deep plot, and getting to know a wide variety of interesting characters, adventure games are the ones for you. These are right up there as one of …
If your idea of a good game involves solving puzzles, delving into a deep plot, and getting to know a wide variety of interesting characters, adventure games are the ones for you.
These are right up there as one of the most popular video game genres on mobile – and for good reason. The control scheme of clicking stuff with a mouse translates really well to tapping on a mobile.
It’s also nice to dig into a meaty plot on the comfort of your phone or tablet no matter where you are – especially curled up on the sofa or in bed on a winter’s evening.
To help you find something to play, we thought we’d round up our absolute favourite point and click, narrative, and hidden object adventure games on mobile, including games across iPhone and iPad.
Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise combines the best of hidden object and point and click adventures to create something unique and innovative.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
A Normal Lost Phone plays as if you’ve found a random lost phone, and have to discover what happened to the previous owner by interacting with it.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Blackwell is one of Wadjet Eye Games’s best and long-running adventure series. These guys specialise in making classic-style point and click adventure games today.
Botanicula is a super cute garden-themed adventure by the talented developers behind Machinarium and Samorost 3.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Broken Age is one of Double Fine’s more recent adventures, and sees you assist two different teenage heroes in different worlds.
Get it on the App Store.
The Broken Sword games are absolute classics. You’ll help George Stobbart and Nicole Collard solve a murder that quickly ramps up into a huge conspiracy.
Bulb Boy is an incredibly dark but humorous point and click adventure that’s reminiscent of the works of Tim Schafer.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Day of the Tentacle is a classic Double Fine adventure game remastered for mobile. This is a must play for fans of the genre.
Get it on the App Store.
Gemini Rue is another Wadjet Eye adventure and one of their absolute best, taking place in a post apocalyptic future.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Grim Fandango is an early Tim Schafer hit that sees you assist newly dead souls to the Land of Eternal Rest. Among other things.
Get it on the App Store.
Her Story is pure innovation. You’ll watch a bunch of video clips, highlighting and searching keywords to try and solve a mystery.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Machinarium is an absolute classic at this point. You play as a robot that has been exiled to the scrap heap and strives to return to the eponymous city of Machinarium.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
The Rusty Lake series is an unsettling adventure that draws a bunch of inspiration from Twin Peaks.
Samorost 3 is yet another adventure by the makers of Machinarium. This time you play as a space gnome who’s trying to discover his origin.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Simon the Sorcerer is a classic British point and click adventure series that features a bunch of recognisable voice talent.
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery is one of the early indie darlings to hit the App Store, redefining what we could expect from a mobile game.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Syberia follows American lawyer Kate Walker as she strives to find the presumed dead Hans Voralberg to help settle a corporate takeover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2sUueE6M24Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
That’s right, Technobabylon is yet another Wadjet Eye Games release to hit this list. This is its latest adventure, and it’s another hit.
Get it on the App Store.
Telling Lies is a spiritual successor to Her Story by its original creator Sam Barlow. This time around you try and solve a mystery by watching clips of four different people.
Get it on the App Store.
The Room series is easily one of the best mobile game series of all time, and it also happens to be a solid adventure series to boot.
The Silent Age took mobile by storm when it first arrived during the first half of this decade, and it still maintains its place as one of the finest point and clicks on the small screen.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
The Walking Dead series was one of Telltale’s early hits and it holds up today. If you like the comic books or TV series, check it out.
Another early Telltale classic, The Wolf Among Us truly feels like playing a comic book.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Thimbleweed Park challenges you to assist FBI agents Ray and Reyes as they strive to solve a murder in the mysterious eponymous town.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War is inspired by real letters written during World War I. Heartbreaking stuff.
Get it on the App Store and Google Play.
