The best free adventure games online are a real challenge and fun too.

This page has some classic games that newbies will enjoy and some of the best new games that even real adventure game addicts won't have seen yet.

On this page:

• Advice for Beginners
• Classic Aventures
• The Best New Games

For Beginners

You need to look carefully for clues that will will lead you through the game. When you find any item, you save it and find out how to use it. If you find a key for instance, look for a door to open.

Whether you are trying to escape from somewhere or solve a mystery, you need to keep your wits about you and you need to be eagle-eyed.

The games range from the pretty simple- like Garfield's Scavenger Hunt below, to the fiendishly tricky Anode and Cathode games. Everyday, new games appear and everyday, the graphics look better and the adventures are more imaginative.

So chose a game and enjoy your adventure!

Never Ever Played an Adventure Game Before?

For anyone who has never played these kinds of games, I’m giving you a walkthrough for the game 'Escape from the Oval Office'.

This game is more difficult than most, but If you watch the video, you will get a good idea of the kinds of things you need to do to win an adventure game. It's all about collecting the clues and using them in the right place. You need to look pretty hard and keep clicking like crazy...

Garfield Scavenger Hunt

This is a fun game for beginners. It is not difficult and great for younger children. Expect the challenges to get tougher after this one.

There are seven packages of goodies hidden away in the house. Some of them are in some scary looking places.

http://www.garfield.com/fungames/scavengerhunt/scavengerhunt.html

Some help with this game- http://www1.cartoondollemporium.com/forum/showthread.php?t=161030

Nick Bounty's new Adventure: The Goat in the Grey Fedora

This is one of the stranger adventure games. It is set in a black and white 3D world that will remind you of the great old Hollywood movies that starred Humfrey Bogart as a down-at-luck private detective. It is the sequel to Nick Bounty's Case of the Crabs which won awards and many fans when it premiered last year.

Nick Bounty is again on the hunt for clues in this baffling case of the missing goat.

You can play online or download. Full screen is only available on the downloaded version.

otterarchives.com/bounty2/

Mysteries in Time and Space

This game- sometimes called MOTAS for short- has been around for a long time but it is still one of the best. You need to solve riddles, escape from locked rooms, discover hidden passages and be a really top detective in your quest to unlock the mysteries of time and space.

If you have never tried this game it is highly recommended.

http://motas.gamesplanet.be/home/

Sagrarios Room

One of the newer and more challenging games. You are in a room with a locked case. How are you going get out of here? There are no word clues here and this one will make you think.

A must for the fearless and experienced adventurer...

http://www.cafecafegames.com/games/1355/sagrarios-room.html

A Dralian Day

Pencilkids have some of the best adventure games online. The latest is Dralian days. Here a precious dragon has been captured by bad guys who want to sell her. Luckily, she has an egg with her that hatches to give a tough little dragon determined to save his imprisoned Mom. There is a lot to do before you can help the young dragon overcome the greedy traders. 

There are plenty of other great games on the same site and they all worth checking out.

http://www.pencilkids.com/

The Anode and Cathode Games

This is one of the biggest names in the adventure games world and a little bit out of the ordinary.

The Spieler Tetralogy

• The Museum
• The House
• The Casino
• The Office

These games are called The Spieler Tetralogy- as they were designed by Speiler and there are four of them. There are some sinister scenes here in a great and colorful online world. The game play is tougher than many but a long way from impossible. Let you imagination stir and enjoy 4 unique worlds.

In a similar style you can find the '8 Days' games on the same site- a series of 4 game chapters in the classic Anode and Cathode Style.

• Two Red Spots
• The Countdown
• Rendez View with Death
• Two Lives or Death.

You can find all the games on this page: anodeetcathode.net

Art Escape

You are a student locked in an exam room on the last day of the exams. The only way out is to take the exam itself. Look out for the yellow paint. This is the only clue I can give you.

cafecafegames.com/games/1814/art-escape.html

The Visitor

This is a point and click, horror, sci-fi, adventure game.

Okay, that sounds weird. And yes, it is weird- but it is also fun and full of surprises.

You are helping out an alien worm that has fallen to earth. There is a logic at work here but it takes some time to discover it. Sometimes, it comes down to a lot of pointing and clicking.

The full walk through is below. Only use in emergencies.

http://armorgames.com/play/915/the-visitor

Scary Girl

This is a very famous and popular free online adventure game.

It has some dazzling and quite scary graphics and tricky game play. Some people have trouble loading the game and complain that it gets stuck sometimes. Other people don’t like the controls. Maybe I am just lucky but it all works for me.

If you have any problems try clearing your browser's history.

http://www.scarygirl.com/