does anyone have an example of an adventure game?

I could give countless examples, but the easiest and most free way to get examples is go play the top rated games from the previous 3 years of this jam.

Here is the Wikipedia entry for the genre which breaks them down by type.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game

Here is an article called the TOP 100 Adventure Games of All Time
https://adventuregamers.com/articles/view/18643
If you are looking for examples of Visual Novels, VNDB is a database of them. This is the database in order by popular
https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=tagspoil-0;rfil=;cfil=;o=d;s=pop