Best Adventure Games: Journeys Worth Taking

Lootara carries 47 adventure games, and they are not all journeys we'd send you on. Some worlds are cardboard; some quests are shopping lists wearing a map as a disguise. So this collection was built the slow way: by asking which adventures still had us thinking about the next island, the next shaft of the mine, the next locked door, after the tab was closed.

What made the cut leans into earning things — resources gathered by hand, tools upgraded piece by piece, maps that open because you fixed the bridge yourself. Every game below plays free in your browser, and every one of them begins the way a proper adventure should: with almost nothing, and somewhere to go.