The Adventure Company, is a publishing label of Nordic Games. It is formally a division of DreamCatcher Interactive but was sold to Nordic Games in 2011 following DreamCatcher's parent JoWooD Entertainment being sold after entering administration.

History

The Adventure Company was first launched in January 2002 as a division

Division (business)

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 and brand of DreamCatcher Interactive to distribute their adventure games titles under. The first title released under the new brand was The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness

The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness

The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness is an adventure video game released in 2001, developed by Galilea and published by Wanadoo Edition. It was followed in 2002 by a sequel, The Cameron Files: Pharaoh's Curse....

which was released at the end of January 2002. The Adventure Company has worked with many developers including: Kheops Studio

Kheops Studio

Kheops Studio is an independent video game development studio created in September 2003. The company was co-founded by Benoît Hozjan , who also serves as the Creative Director for the studio and Stéphane Petit , who serves as Technical Director...

, THQ

THQ

THQ Inc. is an American developer and publisher of video games. Founded in 1989 in the United States, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices...

, Microïds

Microïds

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, and Cryo Interactive

Cryo Interactive

Cryo Interactive Entertainment is a French video game development and publishing company founded in 1992, but existing unofficially since 1989 as a developer group under the name Cryo...

. In 2006 DreamCatcher Interactive was acquired by the Austrian video game publisher JoWooD Productions Software with DreamCatcher becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of JoWood.

On August 16, 2011 Nordic Games Holding announced that it had acquired JoWood, its products and brands and some of the companies subsidiaries, including The Adventure Company following JoWood entering into administration at the start of 2011. Following the acquisition it was announced that JoWood and the The Adventure Company will become publishing labels for Nordic Games GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nordic Games Holding.

Published games

• A Vampyre Story
  A Vampyre Story
  A Vampyre Story is a 2008 point-and-click adventure game developed by Autumn Moon Entertainment for Windows, published by Crimson Cow. The game is set in Europe during the 1890s, and follows a young female opera singer turned vampire as she attempts to make the journey back home to Paris in search...
  
  
• Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
• Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
  Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
  Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express is a 2006 point-and-click adventure game developed by AWE Productions and published by The Adventure Company for Microsoft Windows. The game is the second installment in The Adventure Company's Agatha Christie series...
  
  
• Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
  Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
  Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun is a video game released for the PC and Nintendo Wii, and is the third installment of The Adventure Company's Agatha Christie series, developed by AWE Productions, based on Agatha Christie's novel Evil Under the Sun...
  
  
• Amerzone
  Amerzone
  Amerzone is a first-person adventure game produced by French company Microïds, and designed by Benoît Sokal...
  
  
• Atlantis: The Lost Tales (Rerelease)
  Atlantis: The Lost Tales
  Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released on September 30, 1997. The game is named after its initial and most important setting, Atlantis...
  
  
• Atlantis II: Beyond Atlantis (Rerelease)
  Atlantis II
  Atlantis II is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released in 1999. It's a sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Tales. However, unlike its precursor, not much of the game is based around Atlantis...
  
  
• Atlantis III: The New World (Rerelease)
  Atlantis III: The New World
  Atlantis III: The New World is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released in 2001. It's the third in the Atlantis series by Cryo, as well as the last one made before Cryo's downfall. Similar to the second game, not much...
  
  
• Atlantis IV: Evolution
  Atlantis Evolution
  Atlantis Evolution is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by The Adventure Company and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released in 2004. It's the fourth in the Atlantis series by Cryo, and the first one made by The Adventure Company. Unlike the second and the third game in the...
  
  
• Atlantis V: The Sacred Legacy
  The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy
  The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by The Adventure Company and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released in 2007...
  
  
• Aura: Fate of the Ages
  Aura: Fate of the Ages
  Aura: Fate of the Ages is an adventure-genre computer game created by Streko-Graphics Inc. and published by The Adventure Company. Streko-Graphics Inc. release in 2007 the second chapter, Aura II: The Sacred Rings continuing the story of the first game. Streko-Graphics Inc...
  
  
• The Black Mirror
  The Black Mirror
  The Black Mirror is a third-person point-and-click horror adventure game developed in 2003 by Future Games, a Czech company. Its original name is Posel Smrti . The game features 150 locations and 5 hours of spoken dialogoue...
  
  
• Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
  Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
  Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon is the third installment in the Broken Sword series of computer games, and was released on November 17, 2003 on the Microsoft Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 platforms...
  
  
• The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness
  The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness
  The Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness is an adventure video game released in 2001, developed by Galilea and published by Wanadoo Edition. It was followed in 2002 by a sequel, The Cameron Files: Pharaoh's Curse....
  
  
• The Cameron Files: The Pharaoh's Curse
  The Cameron Files: Pharaoh's Curse
  The Cameron Files: Pharaoh's Curse is an adventure video game released in 2002, developed by Galilea and published by The Adventure Company....
  
  
• The Crystal Key
  The Crystal Key
  The Crystal Key is a graphic adventure video game published by DreamCatcher Interactive in 2000.- Story :The storyline is set in the future, where the protagonist is sent to another planet to investigate the source of a cryptic message from an evil alien race...
  
  
• Traitors Gate 2
  Cypher
  Not to be confused with CipherCypher may refer to:* A royal cypher or monogram-like glyph-Art and entertainment:* Cypher , a Goa trance music group* Cypher , an Australian instrumental band* Cypher , a 2002 film...
  
  
• Dark Fall
  Dark Fall
  Dark Fall is a British first-person horror-adventure game which was independently released on June 4, 2002 by XXv Productions. It was released worldwide by The Adventure Company in 2003 with the title Dark Fall: The Journal. The game has developed a small cult following. A sequel titled Dark Fall...
  
  
• Dark Fall: Lights Out
• Dead Reefs
  Dead Reefs
  Dead Reefs is a game, developed by Streko-Graphics and published by The Adventure Company.The investigative adventure that takes place on the island of Dead Reefs off the coast of England, infamous for the wicked pirate inhabitants and a frightful curse...
  
  
• Dracula: Origin
  Dracula: Origin
  Dracula: Origin is a point-and-click adventure game for the PC based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Released by Frogwares in 2008, it follows the company's catalogue of action-adventure games such as the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series....
  
  
• ECHO: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
  ECHO: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
  Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern is a computer adventure game released in 2005. It was developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company. It is very similar to previous Kheops Studio games; the interface and gameplay are almost identical to Return to Mysterious Island...
  
  
• Evidence: The Last Ritual
  Evidence: The Last Ritual
  In Memoriam 2 is an adventure game for Windows platform, and is notable for its Alternate Reality-style gameplay, in which the player receives e-mails from other in-game characters, including the game's main antagonist, as well as being asked to find a lot of information and...
  
  
• The Experiment
  EXperience112
  eXperience112 is an adventure video game where the player does not directly control the in-game avatar; instead, the player helps to guide the avatar via a system of cameras and remotely controlled equipment as a person who is sitting in front of a computer...
  
  
• The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft
  The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft
  The Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft is the first title in The Hardy Boys PC game series created by JoWood Productions and The Adventure Company...
  
  
• Keepsake
  Keepsake (computer game)
  - Plot :Lydia, the main character, has just arrived at Dragonvale Academy, a school of magic. Her best friend, Celeste, agreed to meet her outside the school at a nearby fountain, but when Lydia arrives, the school is deserted and Celeste is nowhere to be found...
  
  
• Crime Stories
  Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray
  Martin Mystère: Operation Dorian Gray, known as Crime Stories in North America, is the only video game adaptation of the highly popular Italian sci-fi detective comic-book franchise called Martin Mystère, starring a detective and his assistant, Java. It is a point-and-click adventure game,...
  
  
• The Messenger
  The Messenger (computer game)
  The Messenger is a 2001 adventure computer game developed by Canal+ Multimedia and Index+, and published by DreamCatcher Interactive and Microïds.-Plot:...
  
  
• Missing: Since January
• Mysterious Journey II
  Mysterious Journey II
  Mysterious Journey II, also known as Schizm II: Chameleon, is a adventure game developed by Detalion, published by The Adventure Company, powered by Lithtech: Jupiter, and the sequel to Schizm: Mysterious Journey. Like the earlier game, the plotline was authored by acclaimed Australian science...
  
  
• The Moment of Silence
  The Moment of Silence
  The Moment of Silence is an investigative thriller adventure game developed in 2004 by German video game developer House of Tales.- Story :The game is set in the year 2044 in downtown New York City, in a future with many Orwellian influences...
  
  
• Next Life
  Next Life
  This article is about an adventure game. For the norwegian band, see Next Life .Next Life is an adventure game published by The Adventure Company designed for Microsoft Windows-based computers....
  
  
• Nibiru: Age of Secrets
  Nibiru: Age of Secrets
  Nibiru: Age of Secrets is a 2005 adventure game developed by Future Games and published by The Adventure Company.The game features around 80 locations, 5 chapters to play in, 3D character animations, 35 NPC characters, over 50 pages of dialogues, atmospheric visual effects and scenic...
  
  
• Outcry
• Post Mortem
• Return to Mysterious Island
  Return to Mysterious Island
  Return to Mysterious Island is an adventure game for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh based on Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island. The game was released in 2004 for Microsoft Windows and updated and released for Mac OSX in 2008. It was developed by Kheops Studio and published by The...
  
  
• ROTS-1 Riddle of the Sphinx
• ROTS-2 The Omega Stone
  The Omega Stone
  The Omega Stone is a PC puzzle adventure game developed by Omni Creative. It was the sequel to the game Riddle of the Sphinx and was released by DreamCatcher Interactive on March 19, 2003...
  
  
• Sam & Max Season One
• Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
  Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure
  Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure is a video game developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company.Safecracker was also released on Steam on August 29, 2007....
  
  
• Schizm: Mysterious Journey
  Schizm: Mysterious Journey
  Schizm: Mysterious Journey is an adventure-genre computer game created by Detalion and LK Avalon and published by DreamCatcher Games. It was authored by acclaimed Australian science fiction writer Terry Dowling....
  
  
• Realms of Illusion
  Detalion
  Detalion was a Polish video game developer. It was closed down due to financial difficulties in March 2005. They developed such notable adventure games as Reah: Face the Unknown, Schizm: Mysterious Journey , Mysterious Journey II, and most recently, Sentinel: Descendants in Time Detalion was a...
  
  
• Secret Files: Tunguska
  Secret Files: Tunguska
  Secret Files: Tunguska is a classic point and click adventure game by Fusionsphere Systems and Animation Arts. Released on the PC in the last quarter of 2006, the game was praised for its graphics, although some critics noted the weakness of the script and dialogues.Ports to the Wii and Nintendo...
  
  
• Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis
• Still Life
• Syberia
  Syberia
  Syberia is a 2002 computer adventure game conceived by Benoît Sokal, developed by Microïds and published through The Adventure Company. It follows the protagonist Kate Walker as she attempts to wrap up a sale on the behalf of her law firm...
  
  
• Treasure Island
  Treasure Island
  Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island; or, the...
  
  
• Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne
  Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne
  Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne is a point-and-click adventure game with pre-rendered graphics, developed by Kheops Studio and published by The Adventure Company for the PC in 2005...