adventure game

plural adventure games

1. video gamesA computer or video game of the genre characterized by investigation, exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges.

   Phipps have put together a well planned and sometimes amusing adventure game here, with text and location graphics, which are simple but attractive.

   1984 May, “Living Guide to Spectrum Software: Adventure Games”, in Crash, number 4

   2 more examples

   The critics of adventure games are quick to point out that, really, adventure games are not games at all, but merely a series of puzzles strung together with bits of story between them. The puzzles, regardless of their form, serve as locked doors […]

   2010, Richard Rouse III, Game Design: Theory and Practice, Second Edition

   Undoubtedly a force in the early days of the graphical adventure game genre was LucasArts. With an army of professional film personnel from which to draw, LucasArts titles gained a huge reputation for outstanding storytelling[…]

   2011, Sue Blackman, Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity, page 6