Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved is an Open World Third and First-person Survival and Action-Adventure video game by Studio Wildcard. The game offers a strictly survival-oriented gameplay and to survive, it allows the players to explore the Island, search for all the required resources (By breaking the stones, cutting down trees, etc.), and craft various items, build a base and enjoy being part of a truly remarkable world. Ark: Survival Evolved provides the players with an Ark, a map to the island that is 48 kilometers in total size. The map includes a land mass of 36 Square kilometers and an ocean that measures 12 Square kilometers. As Survival is the main bet in the game, Ark: Survival Evolved allows the players to build a Base, gather wood for Fire and items to craft Primary Weapons such as Pick Axe, Hatchet, and Spear, etc. Once the players have shelter, and they have crafted weapons, they can start exploring the island, reach to the Dinosaurs, Capture and Tame them (requires more resources). With all the Structural erections, Players can craft weapons by collecting more resources and technology needed for them. On advanced levels of the game, players can also create guns and part for them with the help of right resources and technology and experience. Ark: Survival Evolved lets the players earn Engram Points by Leveling up to the advanced stages of the game. Once on an advanced level, players can use Engram points to learn various techniques to craft items and enjoy the game even more. It includes more than sixty types of different Dinosaurs in the game and the players can either tame them, breed them for more species, ride on them or kill them for food or use their abilities to ease up a bit. Weapons can be mounted on Dinosaurs and players can use them while riding on them. Ark: Survival Evolved offers playability for both Male and Female characters and offers loads of customization options for the characters as well. All things considered Ark: Survival Evolved is a brilliant combination Action, Adventure, Survival and Crafting elements. So are you ready to ride on the back of a T-Rex to hunt for prey, fly on a Pterodactyl, build alliances with fellow players and fight off the enemies in a way it leaves really deep marks on them? Well, you should be because Ark: Survival Evolved is a fantastic game to play.
#1 Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Hydrophobia: Prophecy, the remake of 2011’s Hydrophobia is a Horror-Survival and Action-Adventure video game developed by Dark Energy Digital. The game is exclusively available to play on PC and PlayStation Netwrok. Hydrophobia: Prophecy features a lot of new game levels, puzzles, new game narrative, enhanced graphics, textures and animations. This mind-blowing and jaw dropping game is set on a floating city and the story revolves around the character of the protagonist Kate Wilson who after a deadly terrorist attack gets infected and tries to get off the sinking ship she was traveling on moments ago. In attempt to rescue the chief she gets infected with a virus but manages to escape to safety with the chief. story continues and she goes through a lot of action and adventure filled phases of the game where she battles her way out to the antagonist Mila. Later on, she finds and battles Mila, kills her in a deadly duel at a shopping mall, avails the antivirus, injects herself and the game ends. Hydrophobia: Prophecy is an amazing Horror-Survival and Action-Adventure video game to play and enjoy.
#2 Saw II: Flesh and Blood
Saw II: Flesh and Blood is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game developed by Zombie Studios and published by Konami. It is the 2nd installment in the series of Saw and focuses on Third-person Exploration elements. It offers a horrific gameplay based on the scary film of the same name and takes place between the 1st and 2nd part of the movies. The game introduces the son of David Tapp named Michael, as the new playable character. The primary objective of the protagonist is to find clues behind the death of his beloved father. He becomes the target of the brutal antagonist named Jigsaw Killer and his apprentice wearing a strange costume. The player manipulates the world from a third-person perspective and can interact with non-player characters and environment to find a way to escape. The player uses different weapons, items and can use melee combat to take down enemies. There are a variety of missions, and the player must complete each one by solving puzzles, objectives and more. With breathtaking gameplay, heart-pumping environment, and original sound effects, Saw II: Flesh and Blood is the best game to play.
#3 Dino Crisis 3
Dino Crisis 3 is an Action-Adventure and Single-player video game published by Capcom and developed by Capcom Production Studio 4. The gameplay focuses on fighting a dinosaur or other reptiles like previous titles, but the foes in the title aren’t real dinosaurs. The enemies are mutation created from DNA extracted from different species of dinosaurs. The environment of the game takes place in outer space, on a huge space station. The game is set the futuristic year 2548, where a team known as S.O.A.R. is sent to investigate the ship, whose weapons suddenly activated. As the game advances, a beam destroys the space station and then the shuttle, slaughtering everyone except for Sonya Hart, Patrick Tyler, McCoy, and Commander Jacob Ranshaw. At the beginning of the game, the player has to select his playable character from available, explore the land to battle enemies and investigate the case to uncover the truth behind the scene. Dino Crisis 3 includes core features such as a variety of Weapons, Multiple Playable Characters, Exploration, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#4 Dead Island
Dead Island developed and published by Techland and Deep Silver is an Action, RPG, Shooting and Horror Survival video game. The game is set in a zombie-infested open world where you get into the role of the protagonist who struggles to survive by fighting off hordes of zombies and engages in combats using melee techniques, melee weapons and different kinds of guns. Dead Island features a game-play with a first person perspective in which the protagonist roams in an open world, completes different quests, and gathers XP (Experience points) by killing the enemies to buy upgrades, weapons and different skills etc. Dead Island provides with a thrilling game-play, a well-written storyline, state of the art graphics along with single and multiplayer gaming modes. Built using Chrome Engine 5, Dead Island is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Linux gaming platforms.
#5 Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Condemned 2: Bloodshot, packed with Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooting, Fighting, Psycho-Horror-Survival and Interactive Drama aesthetics is a wonderful video game. The story of the game features Ethan Thomas as protagonist who leaves FBI after failing to solve a case. He goes a bit insane and lives as a homeless man on the streets of the fictitious Metro City. A mystifying incident causes insanity and phobia among all the homeless population and the protagonist gets infected too. Agency recruits him back to solve the murder of Malcolm Vanhorn. He partners with Rosa and starts investigating. After some time he finds out that the serial killer X is still alive and has killed Malcolm Vanhorn. He gathers the clues and sets out to find X. Agent Ethan connects the outburst of the mysterious phenomenon occurred recently with X and begins hunting him down. During his journey to find X, Ethan encounters the members of Oro (A league of mind controlling maestros) and defeats them and the mind-boggling story continues. Condemned 2: Bloodshot is a great Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, Shooter and Interactive Drama video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#6 Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival First and Third-person Shooter video game by Headfirst Productions. The story of the game revolves around the character of Jack Walters who is a mentally unstable freelance detective. He gets hired on a case of a missing person and travels to Innsmouth a mysteriously strange town situated in the cutout suburbs of America. While investigating in the Innsmouth, Jack feels the unseen presence of an unearthly force, under the heavy effects of that force, he begins hallucinating and degrading mentally. It depends on the player to control his situation or let him die by losing control and committing suicide. One possible way of preserving and restoring the sanity of the protagonist is to kill the enemies or find the sanctuary. If player fails to find the sanctuary, he dies under the heavy influence of graphical anomalies and sound distortions and the game ends. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth features a twisted and quite confusing game-play and a mysteriously impressive story-line, amazing visuals and a lot of other great things.
#7 White Noise: A tale of Horror
White Noise: A tale of Horror developed and published by MilkStone Studios is an indie Horror-Survival and Sci-Fi Action-Adventure video game. The story of the game kicks off with the player character teleported to an eerie forest. He starts his creepy search of eight tapes scattered all around the forest while avoiding the gory monster. With only a flashlight in his inventory, he starts walking and whenever he hears a White Noise, he nears a tape and with a bit more search he finds the tape. He searches further and if he finds all the eight tapes, he finishes the search and the episode concludes. If the player is caught by the monster the game ends. White Noise: A tale of Horror is an awesome Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game and it will surely give you enough creeps and chills to enjoy it. White Noise: A tale of Horror is available to play on Xbox 360 Only.
#8 Saw
Saw is a Horror-Survival video game for those players who love playing terrifying games developed by Zombie Studios and published by Konami. The game supports Single-player mode and available to play on PlayStation and Xbox platforms. The game is inspired by the horror movie having the same name. It casts you in the role of the protagonist named David Tapp who is detective and revolves around his struggle for his life. In the beginning, Tapp stuck in an abundant asylum and he must travel to collect clues and take revenge from Jigsaw for the murder of his beloved friends. As he navigate the environment, he encounter lots of people with past and his relation with them, whom he has to rescue. The asylum is populated with a strange inhabitant who wants to kill Tapp. There are challenging levels, and the protagonist must complete each one to save his and his friends life. Earn points and explore the world from third-person perspective, interact with NPCs, and objectives and complete tasks. With superb and horrific gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Saw is the best game to play and amuse.
#9 Clive Barker’s Jericho
Clive Barker’s Jericho is an Action, First-person Perspective, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game released by MercurySteam. It offers an exciting gameplay revolving around seven team members that you have to control during the match. It takes place in the unforgettable world invaded by deadly creations and monsters. Your ultimate task is to control all seven members team known as Jericho and guide them through various environments. You have to survive as long as possible to dominate the world. The game offers new features known as Quick Time Events, in which you must press the buttons shown at the top of the screen to survive. Each member has both primary and secondary attack such as rifle, grenades, and fire while secondary weapon like a pistol, and more. Engage yourself in FPS gameplay experience show off your shooting abilities by defeating a set of vicious creatures. Clive Barker’s Jericho is the best game horror game for hardcore players. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#10 Slender: The Arrival
Slender: The Arrival by Blue Isle Studios is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Sci-Fi Shooter video game and a direct sequel to the best selling game Slender: Eight Pages. The game starts with the protagonist (Player) inside an abandoned building. He can see the Slender Man outside but when he gets out in the open, the slender man goes to a much farther distance and can be seen on top of the hills. Loaded with just a flashlight, He starts searching for the pages and during his search slender man suddenly appears in front of him and because of slender man’s slightly changing behavior, he sometimes kills the protagonist and sometimes he leaves him alive with a little bit of his health wasted. The player carries on searching and if he finds out all the eight pages before the slender man gets to him, the search finishes and the level of the game concludes.
#11 Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is the perfect blend of Beat ‘em up, Action-Adventure, and Survival Horror elements developed by Capcom Vancouver and published by Capcom. The game brings both Single-player and Multiplayer modes to the gameplay, and it is reimagining the Dead Rising 2, with the protagonist of the game named Chuck Greene, who is replaced by Frank West (the protagonist in the first title). The entire video game focuses on What if scenario, where the protagonist named Frank West controlled the outbreak of Fortune City. It also modifies the plot of the Dead Rising 2 in regards to various characters along with their motives. After surviving the zombie outbreak that appeared in fictional city Willamette, freelance journalist (the protagonist) quickly became a hero for uncovering the truth behind the outbreak. The heroic fame of the protagonist soon disappeared due to controversies and scandals. The player assumes the role of the protagonist with an objective to regain the fame by complete the set of missions. The game starts with the player wearing a wrestling outfit and is lifted via platform into the battlefield (the ring) to slay zombies. With improved mechanics, new content, detailed graphics, and brilliant controls, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is the best game to play.