Adam’s Venture: Origins

As you take control of Adam Venture the adventurer (sigh), you are pleasantly surprised when you meet Evelyn, your father's new secretary. Together with this attractive young lady, you start your journey to uncover the secret of Eden.
Excavations in 1928 in an old French church exposed Templar symbols that provide a new approach for a treasure hunt. The findings lead you on a search for the four rivers out of the book of Genesis.
Actually, the story isn't that important, because the strength of Adam’s Venture lies in its very many puzzles and gameplay. Unlike his adventure colleagues, Adam does not resort to violence to solve problems but uses his head. The game successfully switches between logic and combination puzzles and offers a great variety of puzzles with mixed levels of difficulty. For the most part, I found the puzzles rather simple but there were some that left me puzzled.
Less relaxed than the puzzles is the technical implementation of the game. Although it's an HD remake, not everything is optically up to date. Rigid animations are a little annoying and dialogues are stiff and sound artificial. Players can almost count themselves lucky that the speakers often get lost in background noises.
Besides the puzzles the games offers some action sequences where you have to swing to distant ledges or speed through old mines in trolleys Indiana Jones style. Like the puzzles, these sequences are enjoyable and fun to play.
If you like puzzles and can accept that Adam Venture is not an AAA but an indie game, Adam Venture clearly deserves a recommendation.
I would not recommend the game for the full price but if on sale it's sure worth a buy.
Pros:
- nice graphics
- very enjoyable puzzles
- very many puzzles which mixed diversity
- enjoyable action scenes
- you don't only have to solve puzzles but also figure out what the puzzles expects you to do. That's not always clear but fun to find out.
- very many and fair save-points
- good atmosphere of the golden 20s
- overall good level of puzzle difficulties
- swinging with the grappling hook is fun
- good sound effects
- easy achievements
Cons:
- not the best story
- artificial, stiff dialogues
- rigid animations
- cumbersome climbing, you have to stand close to the edge so it works
- Adam is not very charismatic and often treats Evelyn very rude/sexist.
- music from the trailer is not part of the game

good game with good story

Quite a bang for my buck! Only paid $2 -- fun for an afternoon of puzzling!

The story and puzzles were great, good value too when the game is on sale for $2.

Great game - the graphics are a bit dated and the Han Solo/Princess lea bickering gets on your nerves but the rest is excellent - the story and exploration are good, the puzzles are fun (the most difficult aspect is working out what you are meant to do - once you work that out the puzzle is usually quite easy (not you 4 rings)). If you can get this on a discount then go for it.

This was a BLAST to play. Perfect for playing around Easter.
cons:
- dated graphics when it comes to movements and faces
- a bit on the short side
- some performance problems on my GTX 1070
pros:
- clean, fun story that both religious and non-religious people can enjoy
- beautiful and fascinating areas to explore
- makes you feel like Indiana Jones
- love the hook mechanics
I hope someone can make this work with the VRgin VR injector. It would be AMAZING to play in VR.

It's a superb game filled with family-friendly non-violent adventure. Feels like Tomb Raider, but a bit more down to earth. The gameplay mainly consists of solving various puzzles as you search for king Solomon's temple. The voice acting could be better, but other than that and a few bugs I encountered I thoroughly enjoyed the game. People say that Adam's Venture Origins is a very mediocre remaster of the original game, but since I've never played the original before I can assure you - if this is your first time playing Adam's Venture, this remaster is a great way to enjoy the story and puzzles which offer a good 6 hours of tomb-raiding fun.