Graphic adventure

In contrast to interactive fiction (which involves interacting with static images/video clips akin to other more traditional mediums such as film, novels or picture books), graphic adventures involve the addition of exploration (whether it be through first-person perspective or moving a third-person character with mouse clicks) and interaction with the environment.

Games are often story based and involve solving puzzles (such as in the adventure games developed by LucasArts Entertainment Company), though puzzles do not necessarily have to exist in graphic adventure games and some games simply exist for the purpose of exploration either within storytelling (as in games such as Heavy Rain [HEAVY RAIN 心の軋むとき] (2010) or Telltale's The Walking Dead series) or within more abstract concepts (as in games such as Yume Nikki [ゆめにっき] (2004) and LSD (1998)).

Although many modern graphic adventure games have much in common with action-adventure games, they are set apart by their lack of combat or by only featuring combat in a passive sense (such as through quick-time event sequences or defeating enemies through puzzle solving).