Awesome Adultish Adventure Games for iPhone/iPod Touch?

as a secondary rec, i've been enjoying the heck out of Battleheart recently. it's so good that i posted my first game review on the marketplace last night to praise it.

When I think of adventure games, I think of zelda. Here are some of my favourite IOS games that made me think of zelda. (these games are not at all "zelda clones" or even games that bear much real resemblance to zelda at all - but playing them reminded me of zelda for their sense of adventure and superb design) Swords and Sworcery "postmodern zelda" totally exactly the game you are looking for its absolutely adultish and philosophical, moving, atmospheric, dark and funny. Its also probably the most beautiful "game" on IOS (intact the best looking game I have played all year) Highly highly recommended. This is the only game on my list that is really story driven, but the others are still great adventure games. 100 Rogues "infinite dungeons zelda" is a honed, accesible rogue-like adventure game. great simple fun. Hookchamp & Super Quickhook "zelda meets indiana jones" both by the same developer and basically involve you as an indiana jones figure swinging your way with a grappling hook across either caves (hook champ) or mountainsides and volcanoes (superquickhook) very tight level design and a brilliant art style (hook champ is simulated 8bit - super quick hook inspired but 16 bit) Rolando 2 Rolling ball zelda - The original rolando (which I never got into) was one of the first classics of the app store, is sequel has better mechanics, much better level design and a cute story. If you love it you can then play the first one, but the second is much better. There are also plenty of excellent ports of old point and click adventure games like broken sword and monkey island, but I am sure others will recommend them so I picked only original iOS games you won't have played on other platforms

I came in to say Frotz. Ah well. On the graphic adventure front, things skew more to the tongue-in-cheek or outright humorous than you sound as if you're after. But in case that appeals: As well as the games already listed, Simon the Sorcerer I and II have been ported, and so has Flight of the Amazon Queen. Then there's Puzzle Agent 1 and 2, new games from Telltale. They're more linear and rather easier than the others, but try the free version (Puzzle Agent 1.1) and see if the atmosphere and humour work for you.

So far I've downloaded Frotz. Oh my. Oh my oh my.

Beneath a Steel Sky and Broken Sword: Director’s Cut are both pretty good. If you like games with lots of little puzzles, Dream Chronicles is very entertaining. BigFish games make a lot of different hidden object/puzzle/adventure games, some of which are excellent if you like that sort of thing.

Thanks everyone! Going to check these out over the next few weeks. If I find something super awesome I'll report back!

Yep, the only Telltale games for the iPhone/iPod Touch are the two Puzzle Agent ones. Which are fun on the iPad, and I assume they work well enough on the smaller screen to still be fun.

FYI: A game I picked up recently after it was mentioned on Metafilter: King of Dragon Pass. AMAZING.

Have you tried http://www.swordandsworcery.com/ that's pretty fun.