Point, Click and Roll: Seeking Adventure

Mix the joy of point-and-click exploration with a dash of RPG.

May 14, 2025

‣ Seeking Adventure
From: Kindred Games
Platforms: PC
Release: 2025
Genre: Cosy hidden object RPG
Steam Page • Demo Video • Developer Site

Simple concepts, well-executed, can make for a great gameplay experience.

Do you love simple RPGs? Do you like clicking on random stuff just to see what happens? Ever wish you could combine the two? If so, then Seeking Adventure is the game for you.

As someone whose early gaming experience included a lot of point-and-click PC games, I’ve always enjoyed the exploration involved with poking around at various details in the background. Seeking Adventure takes this basic point-and-click mechanic, and adds a creative twist to the concept by meshing it with RPG elements to produce a unique casual gameplay experience.

At its heart, Seeking Adventure is a simple point-and-click game. Each level has the player exploring a new map area, clicking on everything in view to see what you can find. This is a first-person game: rather than being represented by an on-screen avatar, you view the whole scene from above, inviting you to click on anything and everything.

I am the sort of player who always hopes that clicking on things at random in games will reveal a silly little animation or fun sound effect. So, I spent a good deal of time happily shaking apples out of little trees before I even bothered to figure out what they might be needed for.

Proceeding from there to trade apples for a key to unlock the chest to find a weapon to fight the bad guy was both a fun little puzzle (they get more complex as the levels go on) and a great bit of nostalgia. After all, what’s a good point-and-click game without a slightly convoluted (in only the best ways) trade sequence?

Adding RPG elements to classic point-and-click adds a creative new angle to the familiar. Even though you are not a character on the screen per se, your clicks can impact your stats. Along the way to completing each level’s requirements, you find equipment and clothing to buff your stats, better enabling you to fight the baddies who roam the levels.

Combat is completed with a simple die roll, adding to the RPG feel, and providing some damage risk to the player. Better make sure to stock up on apples to restore health, or maybe trade with the travelling salesman for a potion or two if you want to beat the bad guys.

Defeating these enemies was optional in most of the demo levels, but the concept provides some great ideas for ways the full version could lean even further into that RPG feel.

📽 Demo Snapshot: Get ready to fight!

One of my favourite aspects of Seeking Adventure was the artwork. Level maps and the details featured on them are very simple. They’re almost doodle-like, even, as if the adventurer from the game title has been drawing out the routes of their explorations for the player to follow.

This art style adds some really fun whimsy to the game design, and I especially loved the designs of the animals the player crosses paths with. A silly little triangle of a dog and several blobby little sheep bouncing around the second level waiting for their respective places in the trade sequence made me smile. And details like the little calf mixed in with the rest of the herd of cows in the third level are simple additions that really flesh out this little doodle-world.

Add in the simple, cheery soundtrack, and it creates a lovely little world for some relaxing adventuring.

The demo for the game wasn’t very long. But it was such a fun, relaxing experience that I am already excited to get my hands on the full version.

Large-scale modern games with their hyper-realistic graphics or extravagant combat systems are all well and good. However, I love seeing games like Seeking Adventure showing very clearly how simple concepts, well-executed, can make for such a great gameplay experience.

This little game was such a joy to play, and I can’t wait to see what the devs have in store for the full release.