Bard’s Tale
The Bard’s Tale is a fantastic Fantasy-based Action-RPG video game. The game tasks you to be the main character Bard, whose beloved Princess Caleigh is kidnapped by an unknown enemy. It is now your responsibility to free her by using your Strength, Dexterity, Charisma, Luck and Vitality along with the finest combat skills. With a number of different difficulty levels, The Bard’s Tale lets you modify your player character with the help of all the given options, choose your talents and skills, choose your play style and get into the game-play. The Bard’s Tale lets you use two handed weapons and that makes the game a bit more interesting because two hand weapons means fast action and a thrilling game-play. The game is played from a top-down perspective that allows you to enjoy it a bit more. With solid Action and Thrill, amazing Action-RPG elements, beautiful visuals and an engaging game-play, The Bard’s Tale is a great game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#1 Torchlight
Torchlight, published by Runic Games and Perfect World is an Action and RPG video game released back in 2009. The game offers a fantasy-based gameplay and is set in the fictional world of Torchlight. Torchlight and its surrounding are based upon massive systems of Caverns and Dungeons and are attractions for all the adventurers and explorers. The Caverns and Dungeons hold unlimited riches and are filled with all kinds of gory monsters. The main character of the game is a skilled adventurer who explores the Caverns and Dungeons while fighting off the monsters and collecting all sorts of resources such as Weapons, Gold and various other types of loots. The game allows the players to be that Badass hero, explore the caverns and dungeons, collect Gold, Weapons, and other items, get to the Town and sell the items to NPCs and in return get the Quests. While on quests, the players can travel to various locations in dungeons, fight off Unique Bosses, and advance with the story. There are also Sidequests available that the players can have and complete them to earn experience points and loads of other rewards including the upgrades. Torchlight offers an isometric view (Top Down Perspective), beautifully created 3D graphics and addictive gameplay to enjoy. For all those who love playing games with Action and RPG elements and Isometric perspective, Torchlight would definitely be a great source of entertainment.
#2 Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 is Tactical Action, RPG and Post-Apocalyptic video game set in an alternate history. Wasteland 2 is the first ever Sequel to the 1988’s popular Wasteland video game and it offers more enhanced game mechanics, graphics and core gameplay etc. The game is based on a Nuclear War that started when a cluster of Meteors hit various Nuclear sites. A huge Nuclear war started out that almost totally devastated the world. The day when all this happened, some of the U.S. Army Engineers were working in a desolate Desert deep into the Southwestern region, minutes after the Cataclysmic event they went into hiding in the prison they were setting up for the Death Row prisoners. The Soldiers sought shelter in the prison and when the time was right, they got back up to the surface and started searching for the Survivors, who ever was found, teamed up with them and all of the survivors formed the Desert Rangers, years after the Nuclear Holocaust. Wasteland 2 starts off 15 years after the events of Wasteland and connects the story to its predecessor in a way that it literally feels like the same. Wasteland 2 is a kind of strategic game that allows you to play as anyone of the available characters, Control a total number of seven characters (Three main and 4 NPCs), Explore the game world, face some of the worst ever mutants and nightmarish creatures, fight them off with all the available weapons such as guns, melee weapons and stuff, earn experience points, develop new skills, get health updates, and complete a number of quests, etc. With all the amazingly bashing Combats, hardcore Action and Thrill, Wasteland 2 offers a fantastic Story-driven gameplay, unique characters and fabulous visuals to enjoy. If you haven’t yet played this game, try it out and enjoy all the Post-Apocalyptic fun.
#3 Diablo 3
Diablo 3, the third installment in the Diablo Game series is developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Diablo 3 is an Action-Adventure and Role Playing Game (RPG) and is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gaming platforms. With a huge fan base, Diablo 3 sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is still persistent in markets. The game features a much similar game-play to its predecessors Diablo and Diablo 2 but the storyline is a bit different. With the block buster Expansion pack Reaper of Souls this game is topping the Ranks among big names of the time. The game is set in the Dark Fantasy in the Sanctuary and allows you to choose your character from 6 different choices (Demon Hunter, Witch Doctor, Monk, Crusader, Barbarian and Wizard), select the best skills and spells and go explore the game world to uncover the plot about the extreme power you can have and eventually start ruling the realms once more. The story focuses on Deckard Cain and Leah investigating about the ancient texts when suddenly a mysterious star falls on the Cathedral, makes a huge crater and Deckard Cain disappears in it. Your task is to go to the Cathedral, Start investigating about the star that struck the cathedral and the sudden disappearance of Deckard Cain. After the Rescue of Cain you must go fight and defeat the King Leoric Aka. The Skeleton king because it’s the only way to reach out to the fallen star. In order to complete the objectives, you must first find out the three pieces of the Sacred Sword, forge a Mighty Sword and kill the Skeleton King with it and eventually reach to the Fallen Star. Diablo 3 is a wonderful game of this specific genre and provides with a wonderful game-play, cool visuals and a great story.
#4 Legend of Grimrock
Legend of Grimrock, created by Almost Human Ltd. is an Action-Aand Hack and Slash video game. The game provides with a lot of dungeon crawling and strategically special game levels in which the player gets fit into the role of a prisoner who is thrown into the Pit of mount Grimrock. You after taking over the character of the protagonist must crawl through the dungeon, fight off the monsters and other dangerous prisoners, interact with objects, solve puzzles and find and repair the machine that opens up the portal to the outer world. Your life depends on the actions you perform so be careful. You must also find out the hidden equipment in order to fill up your inventory and gain the experience points. After the portal machine gets repaired, you must go through it and find the Tomb of the Creators who then will lead you to the Undying One and you’ll be able to complete the objectives of the game after blowing up the great Mount Grimrock. Legend of Grimrock is an amazing game to play and enjoy. For a super exciting Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash game-play, do play this awesome game. You’ll definitely like it.
#5 The Binding of Isaac
The Binding of Isaac is an exciting Action-Adventure, Rogue-like Puzzle-Platform and Dungeon Crawl video game by Edmund McMillen. The game offers an amazing Puzzle and challenge based game-play that is about Adult Subjects such as Child Abuse, Gender Identity, Abortion and Suicide etc. The game offers a story deeply inspired by a Biblical writing about a boy named Isaac whose mother gets tested for her Faith in god and to prove herself she gets demanded to sacrifice her Son (Issac). After this the Boy, Isaac descends into the basement of his house all filled up with a number of different types of Monsters, and his ultimate goal is to survive. Your task is to control the character of Isaac along with six other unlock-able characters, traverse through a procedurally generated world made up of countless Dungeons with Rogue-like aesthetics. With a brilliantly designed, The Legend of Zelda inspired environment and visuals, Epic real-time Combats, loads of challenging puzzles, thrilling encounters with enemy bosses, and all the mind-bending scenes, The Binding of Isaac is one amazing Action-Adventure, Rogue-like puzzle-Platform, Shooting and Dungeon Crawling video game to play and enjoy.
#6 Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction is a Downloadable Content Pack for the Hack and Slash Action Role-playing video game Diablo II developed by Blizzard North and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Unlike the original expansion pack of the game, Diablo: Hellfire serves as the first party expansion pack in the game. The DLC pack introduces new content in the form of two new compelling character classes (the Druid and the Assassin), new weapons, and improved environment. The game supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes. In the beginning of the game, the player needs to define his character classes from available and struggle to explore the world from an isometric world to complete the quests. According to the story, the protagonist successfully ventures into the hell and takes down Diablo in Act 4, upon coming back to the Pandemonium Fortress, they encountered the Archangel Tyrael with an urgent summon. There are more than thirty-three Runes available, which the player has to place into the sockets and gain multiple bonuses from gems. Diablo II: Lord of Destruction includes prominent features such as Fifth Act, Two New Characters, Runewords, Hundreds of Cube Recipes, Crafted Items, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.