Free action & adventure games

What are adventure games

An adventure game sends you somewhere and lets you find your own way through it. You explore a dungeon, a tomb, a cave or a whole sea, deal with whatever is waiting there and come out with the treasure. The fun is in the mix: a bit of exploring, a bit of puzzling and a bit of action, with the next room or island always just out of sight.

The adventure games on Kiloo are short, bold little worlds you can finish in a few sittings. Each one is built around a single tool or trick, such as a whip, a grappling hook, a dragon's fire breath or three spells, and asks you to get good with it. The monsters are cartoon slimes, bats, skeleton archers and ghouls, and the goal is always to knock them out or slip past them. Most of the games have hand-built levels with stars to earn, and your progress is kept in the browser you play in.

Adventure games to start with

If you like puzzles, start with Relic Raider. An explorer with a whip works through twenty tomb rooms, pushing blocks onto plates, whipping levers across pits and swinging over gaps to reach the golden relic. Grapple Caves is about one rope: hook the rock, swing like a real pendulum and let go at the right moment to fly over spikes, lava and icy water in twelve crystal caverns. Shadow Thief is a stealth game, where you keep out of the guards' lantern light, hide in lockers and lure them away with coins to grab the gold.

For something to explore, Pirate Cove lets you captain a small ship across eight islands, read the wind, dig up buried treasure and follow nine quests to the Kraken's trench. Dragon Rider puts you on a young dragon over a painted kingdom: carry villagers to safety, drop lake water on burning roofs and race rival riders through rings, or fly freely and look for twelve hidden dragon eggs.

When you want more action, Dungeon Delve is a quick dungeon crawl of three floors with a sword, a dodge roll and bombs, and a Slime King at the bottom. Spell Spire has a young wizard climbing thirty floors and picking fire, ice or lightning for each kind of monster. In Horde Night you only move while your weapons fire on their own, choosing an upgrade at every level until dawn. Blade Duel is a one-on-one sword duel about timing: read the tell and block a heartbeat before the blade lands.

Controls and tips for adventure games

On a computer, WASD or the arrow keys move in every adventure game here, and P pauses and M mutes. The action keys are close by: J, K and Space do most of the work, such as the sword in Dungeon Delve, the whip in Relic Raider and fire breath in Dragon Rider. Spell Spire, Shadow Thief and Grapple Caves also use the mouse to aim, and in Grapple Caves a click fires the hook.

All ten games work on phones and tablets. A stick on the left moves you, and the buttons on the right match the keys: Sword, Roll and Bomb in Dungeon Delve, WHIP in Relic Raider, COIN and DART in Shadow Thief, FLAP and FIRE in Dragon Rider. In Grapple Caves you drag anywhere to aim and lift your finger to fire the hook.

A few tips help across the category. Look before you move: guards in Shadow Thief show you exactly where they are looking, and the darts in Relic Raider fire when you step on a stud, so keep moving. In Dungeon Delve the dodge roll makes you untouchable for a moment, and a defeat only sends you back to the start of the floor you were on. In Pirate Cove, sailing across the wind is fastest, while heading into it is slow.

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