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Adventure gamers are used to making a lot of dubious moral choices, but perhaps never more so than in Elliot Collis's upcoming desolate, a tale about the path to personal redemption which is currently seeking funding through Kickstarter.

Most of us associate Red Thread Games with the highly anticipated Dreamfall Chapters, but along with producing the next installment in The Longest Journey saga, the Norwegian studio has also begun work on a much different adventure, a first-person psychological horror called Draugen.

A year ago, horror fans got their foot in Saibot Studios' Doorways with the launch of the first two (combined) chapters. Next month the series continues with the newest installment called Doorways: The Underworld.

Fans of Kan Gao's poignant 2011 adventure To the Moon will need to wait a while longer for a full-fledged sequel, but a bridge episode called A Bird Story is now scheduled for release this November.

The concept of a youngster's coming of age into adulthood is important for many societies, and is often associated with a rite of passage. In tribal cultures, the rite might be associated with bravery and overcoming adversity, thus proving their maturity to the tribal elders or members of the warrior class. This style of ritual is the subject of A Rite from the Stars, an upcoming point-and-click adventure that's currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.

Bill Tiller clearly has a fondness for pirates. But you can't argue with the man's success, as his credits include The Curse of Monkey Island and Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island. Now the acclaimed artist/designer is heading back to the high seas with a brand new adventure, Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler!, currently raising funds through Kickstarter.

The mind of a sadistic killer is undoubtedly a frightening, twisted place. Which is exactly what makes it perfect as the setting for a horror game, as it will in the upcoming The Corridor: On Behalf Of The Dead, currently raising funds through Kickstarter.

Most gamers are familiar with the "choose your own adventure" concept, where critical choices made during play change the course of the narrative. Jenny LeClue, indie developer Mografi's newly-announced 2.5D point-and-click title, is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter and aspires to bring some traditional adventure gameplay and a collaborative "metanarrative" element to the traditional gamebook mechanic.

Ever wondered what happened exactly where you are in the past, or what will be happening in the same place in future? That is the premise behind Epanalepsis, a decade-spanning, narrative-driven adventure that takes place in the same city block in three different time periods, currently raising funding through Kickstarter.

You might think the life of a worm is pretty low on the karmic scale, but it makes for a pretty intriguing premise in AuraLab's surrealist adventure Karma. Incarnation 1, currently seeking funding through Indiegogo.

Victorian England. A vicious killer is on the loose, and only one man can hope to stop him... No, this isn't Sherlock Holmes squaring off against Jack the Ripper once again, it's Bertram Fiddle in pursuit of Geoff the Murderer in an upcoming point-and-tap mobile adventure trilogy.

Tale of Tales are known for their artistic, genre-defying interactive experiences, and while that continues to be true of their next project, the Belgian team of Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn (Graveyard, The Path) are going a little more mainstream with Sunset, a new "narrative-driven first-person videogame" currently raising funds through Kickstarter.

There's another acclaimed videogame designer making a return this year, though the name won't be as instantly familiar to adventure game fans as his recent predecessors. Paul Cuisset, the French creator of Flashback, is joining forces with Microïds to develop the sci-fi puzzler Subject 13.

It may not sound like there's a whole lot of adventuring possible in a game called The Little Acre, but there is when it leads to a whole new dimension for a father-daughter team in the upcoming indie offering from Irish developer Pewter Game Studios.

You might not look for a "philosophical first-person puzzle game" from Croteam, ceators of the Serious Sam series, but that's exactly what we're going to get when The Talos Principle is released this fall.