The adventure games are games in which you are the hero. This means that straight away, the player finds himself portraying the main character, and has to solve enigmas.
The games are played as point and click, which means the player interacts by using the cursor and the mouse button. He has to ask the characters questions, find objects, put them in his list or use them to get to the end of his quest. He will often have to solve mysteries to get to the end of the game, like in the adventures of Zelda.
In the adventure games category, one can find a series of escape rooms. They are games in which the player is locked inside a room, and has to collect and use objects, and find all the clues to manage to get out.