Adam's Venture Chronicles
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.2h 6.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 308 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Help renowned explorer and adventurer Adam Venture and his accomplice Evelyn discover artifacts, unravel ancient mysteries, decipher strange symbols and solve ingenious puzzles around gorgeous historical sites from the 1920's.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Pixel Shader 3.0 Card required, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
81 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. RiME ($29.99, scores 51) outscores it, and so does Papo & Yo ($14.99, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Adam's Venture Chronicles
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
47% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 12:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Adam's Venture Chronicles offers an old-school approach to archaeological adventure, placing puzzle solving and exploration ahead of combat and spectacle. Developed by Vertigo Games and published by SOEDESCO, the game follows Adam Venture, an ambitious explorer whose journeys take him through ancient ruins, forgotten locations, and dangerous archaeological sites. With Evelyn accompanying him through much of the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If Tomb Rader and Indiana Jones were combined into one game that did not focus on action or gunfights, but instead focused on the puzzles. Some of the puzzles are bible themed, I have read the whole King James bible but to be honest I don't think you need extensive knowledge of the bible to figure them out. Just reading the phrases and putting them in order so they make sense is enough to figure them out. This is a...
Overall, this is a mediocre adventure game with Indiana Jones vibes, beautiful 3D graphics, it has Steam achievements and cards as well, but the controls are abysmal, the fixed camera angles are disorienting, the puzzles are repetitive, the story is thin, voice acting is bad, the timed sequences are frustrating, and the main character is quite dumb and annoying. If Steam had a neutral rating, I would choose that...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Adam's Venture Chronicles scores 23/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/362410/adam-s-venture-chroniclesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.