Alan Wake
Alan Wake, a Third Person Shooter, Action-Adventure Video game by Remedy Entertainment. The game is set in the fictitious town of Bright Falls and the story of the game revolves around the character of the protagonist Alan Wake, a novelist by profession who suddenly loses his wife and sets out to find the truth about her disappearance. You get into the character of Alan Wake and start your journey, interact with The Taken, the most bizarre, creepy and murderous entities to find out the clues about your wife’s disappearance. You must fight them in order to fulfill your desire of revenge. The game lets you use different weapons, skills etc. to encounter the Taken. Alan Wake features a hardcore, action-packed and psych-horror game-play along with super dynamic 3D graphics, an open world environment and an engaging game-play and story. Alan wake is based on episodic play and it offers an amazingly twisted game plot that strongly binds the characters with the story and features a marvelous blend of Action-Adventure, Horror and Shooting elements. Try it out and you’ll love everything this game has to offer.
#1 Life is Strange
Life is Strange is a Single-player Graphic Adventure and Interactive Fiction video game by Square Enix. The game consists of five main episodes and focuses on the character of a Photography student named as Maxine Caulfield. Maxine Caulfield discovers out that she has the special ability to reverse time and any specific moment. The story takes a twist when Maxine foresees a huge Storm raging to destroy her town and that the time when she realizes that she’s the only one to prevent it from happening. Life is Strange allows the players to control the character of Maxine Caulfield and follow the narrative as it unfolds into all the storyful actions that the player character performs. Amazing trips to the past, fantastic quests, freedom to explore and the ability to manipulate environmental elements, loads of challenging puzzles and game ending based upon the actions performed by the character, Life is Strange offers a truly remarkable gameplay experience that is based on pure graphics and interactive elements. With an episodic gameplay, various character archetypes, a great story, graphic adventure nature and point-and-click puzzles, Life is Strange offers beautiful visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay to enjoy. Life is Strange is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox and Linux platforms.
#2 Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter and Interactive Drama video game made by Quantic Dream. This Psyche thriller Film Noir drama is set in the city of New York and its story revolves around the character of protagonist Lucas Kane. Lucas Kane gets assigned on a task to solve the murder cases committed by a man who controls people’s minds by using his super natural powers and then kills them. The Killer gets aware about the activities of Lucas and follows him to a Dinner where he forces his spell over Lucas’s brain and makes him kill a man. You must get into the character of the protagonist and find out the truth about the killer’s spell over you. You must also speed up your investigations in order to stop the killer from killing more innocent people. You must go through the sessions of physical and mental therapy to reduce the manipulation caused by the killers spell. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy provides with different game endings, all based up on the actions performed by you and the path selected by you. A mental health bar keeps on telling you about your sanity levels so you must keep track of that or else you’ll end up killing another person. With an amazing psycho-horror game story, state of the art graphics and an engaging game-play, Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is a great game to play, you must try it out.
#3 Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Black Plague by Frictional Games and Paradox Interactive is the second installment of the Penumbra series. The story of the game is about the protagonist Philip moves away from the abandoned mine setting to find out the underground research base. On his way in the search of the Underground research base, Philip encounters with the dangerous and most eerily haunted beings who just want to him in a most mystical way. A series of puzzles makes him feel like being buried in the sand in in pitch black environmental wonder. Physics based puzzles like building the stairs out of boxes, placing boards to cross obstructions etc. are the most spell bounding tasks the protagonist is forced to complete in order to survive and continue his journey. With true HD graphics, a well written story-line and an engaging and challenging game-play, Penumbra: Black Plague proves to be a really wonderful Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#4 Metro: 2033
Metro: 2033 is a Hardcore Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and First-person Shooter video game and a direct sequel to Metro last Light. The game is set in a Post-Apocalyptic era and takes you to the city of Moscow, Russia. Once again you’ll play as Artyom and your task is to survive and save the humanity from the reign of mutant creatures and their sudden deadly attacks. In order to complete the tasks, you’ll have to scavenge an open world for items like food, weapons, ammunition and medical supplies, fight against the mutants using different weapons in close and long distance combats and survive until every one of the enemies is killed or is neutralized in any other way possible. With an amazing game-play similar to its predecessors and Fallout series games, a great story to follow, ultra-realistic visuals and an amazingly realistic game setting, Metro 2033 is a great Action, horror, Survival and First Person Shooter video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#5 The Darkness 2
The Darkness 2 is a wonderful FPS, RPG and Psychological Horror-Survival video game by Digital Extremes. You’ll have to control the character of Jackie Estacado, the leader of the Franchetti Criminal Family. Your task is to act as Jackie Estacado, use your Dark powers against the rival gang that recently attacked you, eliminate them and enjoy engaging yourself into amazingly haunting and psychological horror filled game-play. Exploration, artifacts and items collection, amazingly blasting enemy encounters and the deep prowess of dark powers makes this game more and more involving as you further flow with the story-line. With a great dark setting, unbelievably stressing situations, and your ability to cater with the problems, hardcore encounters with the bizarre creatures and enemies, loads of cool weapons to shoot down the enemies, super fine and dramatic event depictions, eye-catching visuals and a brilliant story, The Darkness 2 is one amazing game to play and enjoy.
#6 Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.
#7 Penumbra
Penumbra is a Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Episodic game series developed by Frictional Games and published by Paradox Interactive for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Penumbra game series consists of three sequels (Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and Penumbra: Requiem) and features the same protagonist in all of the games. Protagonist named as Philip stars as the main character in all the games and acts as the story of the game directs him in accordance with the appearance and plot of the specific game. This whole series is super awesome to play and features unique stories for each game with amazingly crafted 3D graphics and thrilling game-plays. If you love playing games with dark themes and Horror-Survival elements, you should totally check out the Penumbra Series game. You’ll love them.
#8 Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line is a Military themed Tactical and Third Person Shooter video game developed by Yager Development and published by 2k games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming consoles. The story of the game follows the protagonist Captain Martin Walker who goes to the catastrophic Dubai to investigate about the dead American soldiers. This is the point when the mission changes and Walker along with his Elite Delta Force team starts searching for the survivors and engages into battle with the terrorists who kidnapped and killed the soldiers. The game lets you lead your team and engage in battles in a war like environment using state of the art weapons like futuristic rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers etc. To eliminate the enemies and free the hostages. Spec Ops: The Line offers four different game endings and allows you to mold the events and happenings and end the game with an ending you want. Spec Ops: The Line is a great Tactical Third-person Shooter video game, and you will definitely like playing it.
#9 The Forgotten Ones
The Forgotten Ones is an FPS, Action-Adventure video game that sets you up into the character of “Grobuskna Vladinov” who loses his parents during the time of “Holocaust” to a Doctor cum Mad Scientist. One day he receives an unknown phone call from a stranger that totally changes the way he thinks and encourages Grobuskna to start his twisted journey. By profession Grobuskna is a Detective and he is on a hunt of the Nazi officers that contributed to the Holocaust and are now scattered all around the world. You are required to get into the character of Grobuskna and start hunting down the Nazi officers you think were part of the Holocaust and were involved in war crimes. “The Forgotten Ones” allows you to explore the world from a First person perspective, engage in combats, melee attacks etc., find the enemies and kill them to bring them to justice. With a complex inventory system, 18 different and sophisticated weapons, horror filled environments, Vehicular combats, Multiple Game endings based up on your actions, great story and a wonderfully engaging and action-packed game-play, “The Forgotten Ones” is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.
#10 SpaceTeam Zed
SpaceTeam Zed is an Action, Third-person Shooter, and Single-player video game available to play on multiple platforms. The game takes place in the space environment threatened by various space species. You can take on the role of the protagonist and according to story, you stuck in the strange planet residence of aliens and other creatures. Your task is to navigate the space environment from third-person perspective, encounter various species and fight against them to slaughter. Survive as long as you can and repair your ship to escape. Your character is wielded with an advanced gun that he can used to shoot aliens and other species to protect himself. Score the highest points, avoid enemy attack, and engage yourself in realistic space experience. The character can run, jump, take aim and can shoot on foes to defeat them. SpaceTeam Zed offers superb gameplay, prominent features, and brilliant mechanics with attractive sounds. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#11 Metro: 2033 Redux
Metro: 2033 Redux is an Adventure, Horror-Survival, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game created by 4A Games and published by Deep Silver. It brings an exciting story, in which the world was destroyed by an apocalyptic event, destroying almost humanity and transforming the planet Earth into a wasteland. The civilization of human entered into a new dark age with lots of challenges and dangers. It takes place in the future 2033, where a new generation was born and rise in an underground environment, and try their best to survive. You as the playable character can assume the role of the protagonist named as Artyom, who born on the last day before the devastation and raised underground. Your ultimate job is to manipulate the world, fight enemies who are the responsible for the destruction and kill them to restore your land. The environment can be explored from a first-person perspective, and you can use a variety of weapons to kill enemies and earn points. Two Play Styles (Survival and Spartan), Multiple Modes, Huge Arsenal of Weaponry, etc. are core features in the game to enjoy.
#12 Life is Strange: Episode 1
Life is Strange: Episode 1 is an immersive, Adventure, Episodic and Single-player Exploration video game that enables you to rewind effect and time the past, future, and present. The game brings an exciting gameplay for Life is Strange lovers and offers an addictive story follows the protagonist named as Max Caulfield, who is a photographic senior and finds that she is capable of reversing time while rescuing her beloved friend. After progressing the game, the protagonist finds herself investigating the strange disappearance of the student named as Rachel Amber in Arcadia Bay. You assume the role of the protagonist, who can manipulate the world from a third-person perspective and struggle to uncover the dark secrets of the strange world. The ultimate task for you to learn as soon as possible to change the time to fend off the devastation in future. It comprises multiple levels, and the player needs to accomplish each one to progress through the game and earn enough experience points. Life is Strange: Episode 1 includes core features such as Adventure Gameplay, Multiple Endings, Hand-Painted Visuals, Indie Soundtracks, and more. Try it out.
#13 Blues and Bullets
Blues and Bullets is an Episodic, Action-Adventure and Single-player video game created and published by A Crowd of Monsters. The game offers an exciting gameplay and it offers a well-written story, revolving around the protagonist named as Eliot Ness, an agent who jailed the gangster with name AI Capone. As the story proceed, the retired agent (the protagonist), who runs a diner known as Blues and Bullets. During the gameplay, someone informs the protagonist that the gangster AI Capone needs the help to search for his abducted granddaughter. Now, the player must explore the environment from a third-person perspective, where he has to find clues about the disappearance of the missing girl, interact with non-player characters, and progress through the game. The game also comes with a shooting sections and the clues will be matched to witnesses. As the game advances, it becomes challenging to play. Blues and Bullets offers prominent features such as Multiple Chapters, Find Clues, and more.
#14 Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Overture is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game created by Frictional Games and published by Paradox Interactive. The game acts as the first title in the series of Episodic Survival and Horror game Penumbra. The player assumes the role of the protagonist who can explore the land from a first-person perspective and face the terror. It blends the psychological horror, survival and adventure genres. The gameplay revolves around exploration and adventure elements where the player can interact with objects such as find, examine and collect objects to solve tricky puzzles. Most of the levels involve finding keys or other specific objects that can use to solve the problem and earn points. The game also brings physics-based puzzles where the individual objects must be placed or moved in real-time. The story takes place in the year 2001, revolving around the plot of Philip, the protagonist who is 34-year-old physicist, whose mother has recently passed away. With prominent features, detailed mechanics, and improved gameplay, Penumbra: Overture a terrific game to play.
#15 Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle is the perfect blend of Puzzle, Horror, and Strategy elements developed and published by Blue Wizard Digital for Multiple Platforms. The game has Single-player mode only, and the game enables the player to stalk and slay campers around over 100 puzzle-based levels with a horrific icon named as Jason Voorhees. According to the storyline, Jason will terrorize the victims around the world, from the Crystal Lake to the height of Manhattan, from snowy ski resorts to supermax prisons. The game brings the terrible gameplay and takes place in a 3D environment where the player assumes the role of the protagonist, whose face is covered with a mask. The main job of the player is to explore the environment, follow the instruction to complete each level, and frighten victims to score the points. As the player solve the puzzles, the game becomes tough to master and may be other levels will be unlocked to enjoy. There are more than 100 puzzles available and the player will experience Jason like never before. Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle includes core features such as 8 Episodes, Deadly Traps, R Mode, Leveling-up System, Murder Weapons, Four DLC and more.
#16 Orwell
Orwell is a series of video games created by Osmotic for multiple platforms. It mixes the Adventure, Dystopian, Atmospheric, Interactive Fiction, and Episodic elements and takes place in the country known as the Nation. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, a state operative who must monitor surveillance sources to locate the national security threats. Keep an Eye on You serves as the first title in this episodic video game series. According to the plot, the country where the game is set, it controlled by the government known as The Party. As the storyline advances, the party passes the Safety Bill, expanding the ability of the government to spy on its inhabitants in the name of national security. The game enables the investigations into people’s private communication of interest, but it doesn’t enable anyone player full access. The operations of Orwell is turning by two teams such as Investigators and Advisors. Investigators are those people who are working for the government outside of the Nation and search through the communication of selected people and unlock interest and items while Advisors are those people who work inside of the Nation, using the data chunks to determine the action’s course and more. Orwell is the wonderful game to play.
#17 We Were Here
We Were Here is a Psychological Horror, Adventure, First-person Perspective, and Puzzle video game with VR (Virtual Reality) element developed and published by Total Mayhem Games. The game introduces both Single-player and Online Multiplayer mode in the stimulating environment. It comes with a compelling storyline, in which the player as the protagonist lost in the frozen wasteland and split up from his friend inside an abandoned castle. There is an only a single source to communicate with his partner is walkie-talkie with a familiar voice. The ultimate task of the player is to find a way out as soon as possible within time limit. The game acts as the free pilot episode in the series of co-op standalone puzzle-based adventures. Two characters are stuck inside the castle, with one of two players confined to a small part of the castle while other players explore the castle’s halls to find the player one in the game. Every room challenges the wits and ability of the player to communicate, using only voice. We Were Here includes prominent features such as Atmospheric Setting, Challenging Puzzles, Intriguing Environment, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#18 Manual Samuel
Manual Samuel is an Adventure, Side-scroll, Single-player and Multiplayer awesome video game developed by Perfectly Paranormal and published by Curve Digital. The game offers a brilliant plot, revolving around the protagonist named as Sam, the son of the wealthiest CEO, who is hit by the truck while chasing his beloved girlfriend. As the story advances, the protagonist discovers himself in the hell after the accident, where the protagonist must deal with a skateboard-loving Death to come back to his life under few conditions. The player assumes the role of the protagonist (Sam) and according to the deal, the player can survive twenty-four hours performing all the actions of his body manually. It offers the 2D animated adventure gameplay where the player controls the bodily function of Sam. During the gameplay, the player can interact with non-player characters, explore the environment and can interact with objects to fulfill the tasks. Manual Samuel includes prominent features such as Hilarious Story, Hand-Drawn 2D Art-style, Brutal-time Attack Mode, Play Solo, 600 Lines of Dialogue, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#19 Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered is an Adventure, Story Rich, Detective, and Single-player Exploration video game developed by Aspyr for Multiple Platforms. The game serves as the improved version of the previous title, introducing the interactive gameplay, in which the player assumes the role of the protagonist. It offers an intuitive control scheme and split-screen presentation with the game’s mysterious and narrative. As the protagonist, the player can move across the world from a third-person viewpoint, interact with NPCs, solve tricky puzzles, and struggle to complete each level to advance through the game. During the gameplay, the player can roam freely in an open world era, and he has an opportunity to unleash his detective skills by completing a set of cases. There are four different characters, and each has its unique storyline, cases to solve, and more. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered offers prominent features such as Original Scenes, Cinematic Score, Multiple Characters, Extensive Replayability, Interactive Drama, and more. Try it out, and have fun.
#20 The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead, Developed and published by Telltale Games is an Action-Adventure, Graphic and Interactive Drama based on the comic book (The Walking Dead Comic Book Series) of Robert Kirkman. The game is set in an era of Zombie Apocalypse in Georgia, the story revolves around the life of the protagonist Lee Everett a former university professor, and a young girl named Clementine. Lee Everett helps a group of survivors stay alive and he leads them. Due to an open world gaming environment and a third person gaming perspective the player along with all the people roams freely and interacts with the item easily. The player controls the protagonist and helps him and other people fight against the hordes of zombies using every weapon they have. The life rate of survivors depends on the fighting abilities of all the fighters. With super cool graphics, a well-written storyline and many weapon choices, The Walking Dead provides with an amazingly fascinating game-play.
#21 BioShock
Bioshock, developed by 2K Boston in collaboration with 2K Australia and published by 2K Games is a First Person Shooter and an RPG (Role Playing Game) video game playable on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, PlayStation 03, Xbox 360 Cloud OnLive and iOS platforms. The game is set in the year 1969 and features the protagonist Jack who after a plane crash near an underwater city Rapture, tries to escape but instead discovers something out of this world. The city stood in the bottom of the sea for decades but its foundations started to crumble with the discovery of a Plasmid named ADAM intended to empower humans with super powers. Jack tries to escape the city but the only possible way to get out of the city gets stormed with the ADAM powered super humans and jack starts fighting with them in order to get out. By the use of different weapons and the Plasmid, Jack fends off the enemy and frees a bunch of the last remaining sane people who then turn the city’s defensive systems against the enemies. Jack continues his journey, keeps defeating the foes and finally gets out of the city by utilizing the stealth and melee techniques along with the use of different weapons. BioShock with a horror survival and biopunk (a mixture of Biotechnology and Punk) themed environment, a brilliant story-line and quite exciting game-play provides with an amazing FPS gaming experience. Do try it out.
#22 System Shock 2
System Shock 2, a great Action, RPG and a First-Person Shooter and Horror Survival video game developed by Irrational Games in association with Looking Glass Studios and published by Electronic Arts EA for PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X and Linux platforms. The game takes place in a revolutionary spaceship in the year 2114 and features the character of a soldier who struggles to cure a deadly infection that is infecting the ship with every passing minute. The infection gets boosted up in speed in the presence of the enemies who spread it, the protagonist picks up his gear and engages in heavy gunfights and combats with them to save the ship and engages in melee combats using the melee weapons and techniques as well. System Shock 2 features dynamic 3D graphics, a well-written story-line and a game-play filled with destructively thrilling and quite addicting action adventure and role playing elements. Play this game and you’ll definitely enjoy it a lot.
#23 Borderlands 2
Borderlands 2, developed by Gearbox Studios and published by 2K Games is an action, First-Person shooter and RPG (Role Playing Game) video game available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vista, Linux and Xbox 360. The game allows the player to complete different quests and collect different items such as loot and weapons, as a treasure seeker on a planet named Pandora. You get into the character of the protagonist a Vault Hunter and start the journey. As you advance in the game, you encounter the enemies and engage in battles and combats by using the guns and different weapons from a first person perspective. The game features a hardcore action and thrill filled game-play, a unique story-line along with single and multiplayer gaming modes to play the game with your friends and other players around the world online. You can play Borderlands 2 wonderful Action-Filled First-person Shooter video game to play and enjoy. You’ll find this game quite appealing and engaging, do try it out if you haven’t yet.