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What are the best adventure Android games without in-app purchases?

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16 Games Considered

Best adventure Android games without in-app purchases	Price	Steam Rating	Genre
-- Limbo	-	Very Positive	-
-- Machinarium	$4.99	Overwhelmingly Positive	Puzzle (point-and-click)
-- Botanicula	-	-	Exploration
-- Leo's Fortune	-	-	Platformer / Adventure
-- Thomas Was Alone	-	Very Positive	Puzzle, Platformer

Limbo

Top Pro

Touching story

Manages to tell a touching story in spite of it's complete lack of dialogue. See More

Top Con

May be too dark for children

The game, by design has the main character dying quite a bit, often very gruesomely and so may not be appropriate for younger players. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Intricate puzzles

Limbo uses a wide range of puzzles in game that range from simply moving a box to puzzles that have multiple parts and normally do not reveal their secrets until the player has died while trying to solve it. See More

Top Pro

Black and white art style

There has been many imitators since but Limbo is the original game that used a black and white art style for a stylish and creepy effect. See More

Machinarium

Top Pro

Hand drawn steam punk graphics are visually stunning

Machinarium's graphics are quite exquisite to look at and definitely give the game a fantastic steam punk vibe. See More

Top Con

Difficult to play on a small screen device

Machinarium can be difficult to play on small screen devices such as phones. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Overwhelmingly Positive

Genre:Puzzle (point-and-click)

Top Pro

Machinarium has included hint system to help on the harder puzzles

For the harder puzzles in the game all players have the option to use an included hint system to help figure them out. See More

Top Pro

Machinarium includes immersive mode

Immersive mode is a full screen feature that hides navigation and notification bars on Android 4.4 and up and is thankfully included in Machinarium See More

Leo's Fortune

Top Pro

Immersive mode

Leo's Fortune includes immersive mode for Android devices on 4.4+. See More

Top Con

Short game

Specs

Genre:Platformer / Adventure

Controller Support:HID

Top Pro

Smooth well crafted levels with great puzzles

It even has a nice storyline to go along with it. See More

Top Con

Easy

Leo's Fortune does not offer a lot of challenge. See More

Top Pro

Charming narration

The story of Leopold is completely narrated, which gives the game a nice sense of polish as well as helps give some life to the story. See More

Top Pro

Excellent platforming gameplay and touch screen controls

Leo's Fortune offers some solid platforming which is pulled off not just by some good level design but greatly programmed touch screen controls. See More

Thomas Was Alone

Top Pro

Ethereal soundtrack

Haunting guitar strums mixed with beautiful piano chords and bits of chiptune creates a very fitting soundtrack. See More

Top Con

Short

The gameplay only lasts about 3 or 4 hours. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:Puzzle, Platformer

Top Pro

Great story

For what is a pretty simplistic looking game, Thomas Was Alone offers a truly great story that actually gets the player to care about what are basically squares and rectangles. See More

Top Pro

Professional narration

What really drives the well crafted story home is the wonderful narration done by British filmmaker, comedian, writer, actor, and presenter of radio and television, Danny Wallace. See More

Terraria

Top Con

Risk of loosing data

Many users have reported that they have lost save games as well as cloud save files. Whether it is caused by the game updating or just random bugginess is still unknown as the devs have not responded to these issues. See More

Top Pro

Survival-horror elements give a sense of urgency

Instead of building a deliberate feeling of suspense, Terraria uses bright palettes and arcade action to provide a fun experience outside of the survival elements. When those elements gradually appear one by one, each is all the more shocking from the contrast which makes for an ever growing sense of urgency in the game to craft a safe space as well as weapons to protect oneself. See More

Specs

Genre:2D platformer / Minecraft-like

Co-Op:8 Player Online / 8 Player LAN

Controller Support:Android (MOGA / HID), Steam (Full)

Top Con

Cloud saving is broken

Currently cloud saving is broken so that means you can build your world but it sits in your phone. You cannot back it up, you cannot sync it with other devices, nor even manually backup unless your device is rooted. See More

Top Pro

Always a new experience

Upon start of the game a world is randomly generated which allows the user to get a new experience any time they start a new world making for unlimited replayability. See More

Top Pro

Immersive mode on Android 4.4+

Terraria features immersive mode on any Android device with Android version 4.4+. See More

Top Pro

Free demo for easy testing

A trial version of the game can be downloaded on Google Play. A feature of the trial version is that it does have a full game unlock through in app purchase, for those that don't want to lose their games progress by downloading a different version of the game. See More

Top Pro

Allows for great freedom of expression

The game has all kinds of tools and materials that you can acquire and use to build whatever you can imagine. See More

Top Pro

Local multiplayer

You can play with up to 4 players over local Wi-Fi. See More

Top Pro

There is lots to explore and find

Terraria has a randomly generated world with all kinds different areas to explore, items to find and craft, and secrets to unearth. There is a basic introduction to the game, but mostly everything revolves around experimenting and exploring. See More

Broken Age

Top Pro

Polished art design

The graphics, music and voice acting are all top notch. Considering the amount of money this game made through its Kickstarter, they very well should be. See More

Top Con

Puzzles in second act too convoluted

In comparison of the first act, which had simple puzzles that moved the story forward, the puzzles in the second act are extremely difficult with no easy or obvious answers. Having to resort to a guide to even finish the game because of the imbalance is really no fun at all. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Full game

For 15 months only the first part of the game was available on a few platforms. With the mobile releases the full game is what is on sale both part one and part two. See More

Top Con

Poor story in second act

The second act of the game has an increasingly incoherent story that explains very little of what is going on. Considering the first act ends with a cliffhanger and many questions to be asked, to see the second half explain almost none of it makes for a frustrating story. See More

The Cave

Top Pro

Good story

Throughout the game you unravel your chosen characters sinful pasts. See More

Top Con

There is lag and stutter on some devices

On lower end devices there may be significant lag and dropped frames. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:2D platformer / Adventure

Co-Op:3 Player Couch

Controller Support:Full

Top Pro

Clever, sin-based puzzles

You control 3 out of 7 characters representing deadly sins. They have to use their special abilities and work together to solve logic puzzles. The puzzles are also thematic and change based on characters you've chosen. See More

Top Pro

Humorous narrator

The main character of the game is The Cave itself. The Cave has a tendency for ironic, deep-voiced remarks regarding his new inhabitants, their past and the events currently taking place. See More

Ittle Dew

Top Pro

HID gamepad support

Ittle Dew supports HID gamepads. See More

Top Con

Touch screen controls are not the best

The touch screen controls do not lend themselves well to the action gameplay of Ittle Dew, luckily the majority of the game is puzzle oriented. See More

Specs

Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Fun boss puzzles

The boss levels in the game are puzzles that are aggressive towards the player, making for a nice change from the normal puzzles to be found as well as add a bit more challenge to the gameplay overall. See More

Top Pro

Block moving puzzle oriented

Ittle Dew is comprised of mainly block moving puzzles to progress room to room in the games dungeons. While there are a few other puzzles throughout the game, mainly block moving is what the player will be doing. See More

The 7th Guest: Remastered

Top Pro

Android OS exclusive

The 7th Guest: Remastered is an Android OS exclusive, meaning iOS and the Windows Phone platforms will not receive the game for sometime. Seeing as how a lot of high quality releases on release on iOS at first, it is refreshing to see Android the preferred platform for a release. See More

Top Con

Large file size

The new HD graphics, included full soundtrack and in game full-motion videos take up quite a bit of room on the device, just short of 1GB. See More

Top Pro

Newly redesigned touch controls

The controls have been completely redesigned for the touch platform, making for an easily controlled and intuitive experience. See More

Top Pro

Classic graphics game mode

There is an optional classic graphics setting that can be used that makes the game appear as it originally did with a mouse pointer as the input and all. See More

Top Pro

Nastalgia

For those that played the original title, it will be a fun trip down memory lane to play the game again after so many years. See More

Top Pro

HD graphics that upscale

The graphics have all been redone for HD and have been created with up-scaling in mind to allow for proper representation on the assortment of device resolutions and screen sizes on the Android platform. See More

Top Pro

Classic point and click puzzling adventure with high replayability

The player will try to make their way through 22 different point and click stages that each contain a puzzle that must be solved to progress. A classic point and click formula that does not stray from the genres roots. See More

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