Action Adventure is the video game genre includes video games that bend core elements from both Action and Adventure genres. The use of the Action Adventure is more liberal with the decline of adventure genre from mainstream popularity. It isn’t uncommon for players to apply the term of Action or Adventure to define the genre of fiction to which the video game belongs. It is a hybrid genre and the perfect combination of an element from an Adventure and Action games, especially essential elements like Puzzles and Platform. The genre needs some physical skills like action games, but also offer numerous characters, storyline, dialogue, an inventory system, and other features of Adventure games. These types of games provide fast-paced gameplay than pure Adventure games because they offer both conceptual and physical challenges. It usually offer the mixture of complex story elements, displayed for players using video and audio. The story in the game relies upon the movement of the player’s character. Although Action Adventure video games are complicated and diverse to classify, there are some subgenres of Action Adventure video games available such as First-person Action Adventure, Third-person Action Adventure, Immersive Sim, Platform Adventure Games, Isometric Platform Adventure, Stealth Games, Survival Horror, and more.
#1 Rayman Legends
Rayman Legends is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game created by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Casablanca. The game provides with a similar game-play to Rayman Origins and allows up to 4 players for a simultaneous game-play in which you can explore dungeons, haunted lands and fight against vampires, ghosts, and the living dead etc. Rayman Legends provides with 120 levels of pure awesomeness, additional Lums and Teensies. This super cool re-mastered version of the game actually is a war going on between the Teensies and their nightmares so you must get up from you 100 yearlong sleep, encounter the nightmares and the Dark Teensies and free the 10 princesses and the good Teensies. Rayman Legends is a great Action-Adventure, and Puzzle platformer video game, do try it out.
#2 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#3 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Third-person, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh game in the series of Grand Theft Auto and first main game after Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It takes place in the fictional city called San Andreas based in Nevada and California. The story revolves around the protagonist named Carl Johnson “CJ” who returns to his homeland after the death of his mother. The protagonist finds his family and beloved friends in disarray, and the entire course of the game he struggles to reestablish his gang, fight against corrupt officers, and unearth the secrets behind his mother’s death. There are a massive variety of weapons, vehicles, and equipment that you can use during the gameplay and drive any vehicle that you see in your path. The protagonist can run, climb walls, jump, and drive different vehicles and bicycles. You can explore the environment either on foot or by vehicle and earn lots of money by accomplishing missions. Interact with NPCs and objects to further progress through the game and show off your driving skills. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant visuals and superb controls, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the best game to play amuse.
#4 Prototype
Prototype is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game by Activision. The game offers an Open World Environment, and it is set in Manhattan, USA. Prototype follows the character of an Amnesic and powerful Shapeshifter named as Alex Mercer, who sets out to fight against the Blacklight, a deadly plague that consumes the humanity of Individuals and converts them into altered ferocious monsters. Alex keeps on fighting the monsters as well as finding the truth about his lost past. Struggling hard against the monsters, Alex also comes into massive conflict with the US military and the operatives of Blackwatch, a Black operation force. With the freedom to roam free, Alex keeps on getting farther into the enemy territory and finding the secrets while the player controls the character of Alex Mercer. Prototype offers plenty of room for gameplay along with sophisticated weaponry, fantastic graphics quality, and excellent combat mechanics. Prototype provides the ability to experience the game in Sandbox style while playing it and enjoy it even more. With its amazingly addictive nature, Prototype is one of the most played and liked Action-Adventure, Stealth, and Shooter video game. It also has a sequel named as Prototype 2 that expands the story to further distances and enhances the great experience. Do try it out.
#5 Assassin’s Creed: Origins
Assassin’s Creed: Origins is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Stealth element developed and published by Ubisoft. It is the 10th title in the series of Assassin’s Creed and serves as the successor to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate released in 2015. The plot takes place in the Ancient Egypt during the period of Ptolemaic and revolves around the fictional history of real-world events. The story of the game focuses on the centuries-long battle between the Order of the Ancients and the Brotherhood of Assassins. The Order of the Ancients wants peace through forceful imposition while the Brotherhood of Assassins wants peace by promoting the liberty. The player takes on the role of the protagonist and can explore the fictional landscapes from a third-person view. The ultimate task is to complete a variety of quests to progress through the story, earn experience points, and unlock new skills. He can freely roam the environment on horseback, foot, camel-back, boat and more. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Assassin’s Creed: Origins is the best game to play and enjoy.
#6 Far Cry Primal
Far Cry Primal is a fantastic new Action-Adventure and Survival video game by Ubisoft and Ubisoft Montreal. The game adds up a brilliant new type of genre in the series and offers a truly very immersive and quite jaw dropping experience. Far Cry Primal takes you back to 10,000 B.C in the beginning of Mesolithic Era. Set in the fictitious Oros Valley in the Central Europe, Far Cry Primal features an Open World environment filed up with all kinds of that time’s Flora and Fauna such as animals like Prehistoric Mammoths, Wolves, Cave Bears, Irish Elks, Wooly Rhinos, Saber-Toothed Cats, Cave Lions, Brown bears, Deer and Badgers etc. With only challenge of the game, Survival, Far Cry Primal lets you be a prominent Wenja Tribe man named Takkar, tasks you to explore the Oros valley without any weapons and lost of dangers. In order to survive, Far Cry Primal lets you capture and tame wild animals, collect different types of resources and build weapons, tools etc. You must build a special place among all the fellow tribesmen by using your skills and abilities of survival. Other prominent game tasks include scavenging, hunting, building structures by the use of all the natural resources and your abilities etc. With a very immersive nature, all the fantastic aspects of wild life and life without necessary resources, struggle and your survival abilities, brilliant visual details and all the fun, Far Cry Primal is one fantastic Action, Adventure and Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#7 Infamous: Second Son
Infamous: Second Son is an Action-Adventure, Open World, and Single-player video game created by Sucker Punch Production and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It offers the similar gameplay like its previous game named Infamous and allows the player controls the protagonists possesses superpowers that he can use in combat to defeat his foes. The game takes place in the fictional world, and the player is to travel across the world either on foot or by vehicle. The story revolves around the protagonist named Delsin Rowe who fighting against an organization named (D.U.P.) Department of Unified Protection. The game is played from a third-person perspective, and the player can move freely without any limitation. He has to complete a series of missions, fight against foes using his super powers, and advanced weapons and earn experience points and money that he can use to unlock further content and more. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb visuals, Infamous: Second Son is the best game to play and enjoy.
#8 Mafia 3
Mafia 3 is a third marvelous entry in the Mafia series developed by Hanger 13 and published by 2K Games. The game combines the elements of Action-Adventure, Open World, and Shooting, and lets you play the role of the protagonist named as Lincoln Clay. It takes place in 1968 in the fictional city called New Orleans. The story revolves around the protagonist who is an orphan and his companion named Vietnam veteran, and their adventure to create a new criminal organization to fight against Italian Mob. You can play the game from the third-person perspective, in which you as Lincoln Clay must take revenge on your friends who killed by Local mobs. It offers classic weapons, vehicles and environment and lets you complete challenging missions. Explore the game world, fight against enemies using different weapons and earn money. You can unlock other areas of the game by accomplishing missions. Mafia 3 includes core features such as Exciting Missions, different Vehicles, 3D Open Environment, Upgradable Weapons, Exciting Story, and more. Mafia 3 is the wonderful game as compared to other Action-Adventure games.
#9 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.
#10 Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition
Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Turn-based Combat, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Larian Studios. The game brings a fabulous gameplay for you, in which you can gather your teammates and can jump into the brutal environment full of enemies. During the gameplay, you can discuss your decisions with your companions, fight against foes in turn-based system, and can explore the massive environment to interact with non-player characters and the landscaper to progress through the game. You assumes the role of the protagonist, a young source hunter with a task to save the world from black force who struggle to destroy it. The game embarks you on an epic quest to murder the enemies, investigate the routine murder and fulfill the requirements of each objectives to advance through the game. It introduces Split-screen Co-op Mode, Massive Environment to Manipulate, Multiplayer Interaction and more. There are different characters from which the player chooses his favorite one to start his quest. Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition includes prominent features such as dynamic Split-Screen, Pen-and-Paper like Freedom, new Modes, Tons of Enhancement, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#11 Hidden Agenda
Hidden Agenda is an Action-Adventure, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. During the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist, who is a homicide detective named as Becky Marney and Felicity Graves, the district attorney, both involved in the serial killer’s case called The Trapper. The game introduces quick time events that decide the end of the story, including the protagonist’s survival or death. It has two different modes such as Story and Competitive. In story mode, you can invite up to five friends into the investigation and can ask questions about one another. One player has a chance to control the team, and make a strong decision, discuss evidence with others and struggle to work out the identity of the killer. Hidden Agenda includes prominent features such as Two Distinct Protagonists, Exploration, Two different Modes, Solve Cases, and more. With thrilling gameplay, superb mechanics, and addictive controls, Hidden Agenda is the incredible game to play and enjoy.
#12 Journey
Journey is an amazingly Addictive Action-Adventure and Indie Art and Exploration video game that offers both Single and Multiplayer Support. Developed by the “ThatGameCompany”, the game is set in a huge Desert and lets you be a Robed Figure who is destined to go through a distant mountain range, explore the world and interact with other online players, communicate via musical chimes and assist each other in different game tasks. In order to find the secrets about a lost civilization, and to calm your curious nature, you get tasked with solving some puzzles and exploring the world. The Online multiplayer mode allows you to discover other online players, communicate via text and speech and chimes, assist each other in solving a number of puzzles, and keep o progressing through the game levels. With truly remarkable environments, scenarios, beautiful background music, visuals and an amazingly addictive, and immersive gameplay, Journey will definitely leave you spellbound. Do try it out and enjoy one of its kind, Art, Exploration and Adventure experience.
#13 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is probably one of the best Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game ever. This epic Action-Adventure and RPG video game is recently released and provides with an amazingly action-packed game-play that will take you to an amazing open world setting in which you act as a Highly Trained Monster Slayer who is available for Hire. Unlike the stories of the previous two games of The Witcher series, Geralt goes on a personal mission. The story starts up from where it ended in The Witcher 2, and Geralt, after concluding the chapters, moves on with his new life. The new Mission takes Geralt to the Darkest ever times as an otherworldly Army known as The Wild Hunt casts its mysterious spell over the Northern Kingdoms. A new era of bloody wars, chaos and destruction starts up and once again the responsibility falls upon your shoulders to stop The Wild Hunt and restore the Order in the Realm. This open world Fantasy-based video game allows you to go on epic quests, fight against the most fearsome and mysterious beings of all time, engage yourself into the most brutal and epic battles, lead armies and fight as it is your favorite hobby. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt offers state of the art visual details, a great story driven game-play, amazing weapons, skills, new enemies and much more to discover and enjoy.
#14 Terraria 2
Terraria 2 is an Action-Adventure, Survival, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Re-Logic and published by 505 Games. The game combines the elements of Side-scroll, Sandbox, crafting, exploration, and combat. You assume the role of the protagonist, and your primary goal is to manipulate the 2D randomly generated the world. You can start the game with three primary tools such as a sword for combat, a pickaxe for mining and an axe for woodcutting. Explore the world, collect resources, craft useful items and fulfill challenging tasks to progress through the game. It becomes difficult, as you advanced. There are a variety of items available, and you can find them only in certain areas of the map, stored in rare and common containers. Craft new items, and use different items to take down enemies. Slimes, Demon eyes, Zombies, Region-specific Enemies, etc. are prominent foes in the game. Score the highest points and use them to unlock further content in the game. With brilliant mechanics, addictive gameplay and superb visuals, Terraria 2 is an excellent game to play and enjoy.
#15 Child of Light
Child of Light by Ubisoft Montreal is a marvelous Action-Adventure, Indie and Puzzle-Platform video game that tells the story of a young girl named Aurora who in the year 1895 awakens on the lands of Lemuria. After waking up she finds out that she is a long way from home, starts off her journey to her home but soon realizes that in order to reach home she’ll have to go through a Dark world filled with Dark Creatures of the evil queen of the Night. You are required to get into the role of Aurora, fight off all the Dark Creatures, Defeat the Queen of Night and free the Sun in order to bring light to the realm and finally reach home. Child of Light offers a great story filled with wonders, surreal visuals and sounds and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy. If you really want to play a really good game of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform genres, Child of Light is best for you. It offers a brilliantly immersive gameplay, a well-written story and a lot of other great things to enjoy.
#16 The Last of Us
The Last of US, developed by NaughtyDog is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooting and Interactive Drama video game set in an Apocalyptic Era. The Horror Survival and RPG element makes this game stand out as one of the best games of this genre. The Last of US focuses on the characters of Joel and his daughter Sarah who both are trying to survive in the outbreak of Cordyceps Fungus, responsible of turning almost all of the humanity into the Monsters and Undead. If anybody comes into the contact with them, turns into one of them and this keeps on going until there is nobody left. While trying to scavenge for food and supplies, a soldier’s bullet kills Sarah and Joel goes against the forces and all the weapon holders. He becomes a smuggler and starts finding “Robert” for a huge supply of weapons and ammunition. When Joel encounters Robert, he tells him to have sold all the weapons to a Rebel group Fire Flies. Tess kills Robert and Teams up with Joel, Ellie joins the gang too and they all start their journey to eliminate the head of Rebel group. This is where you get into the play and take over the character of “Joel”. You must lead your team and encounter the rebels who actually are the real culprits who spread the Cordyceps Fungus. The Last of US allows you to use all kinds of weapons and engage in massive battles against the enemies so you must reach to the Rebel Head and kill him before he kills you and your team mates. The Last of US provides a great blend of variant stories and mixes them up in a very dramatic way and puts Action-Adventure, Shooting, RPG elements on a great show just for you to play and enjoy the game to the heights of entertainment.
#17 Terraria
Terraria is an open world Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Voxel-based Sandbox video game set in a 2D game world. The game lets you be part of the game world with three basic tools, a pickaxe, a sword and a wood cutting axe and allows you to explore, gather resources and fight off your enemies. The game world is filled with things that would like to slay you so you need to be a bit more careful while exploring. As the game mainly focuses on night time game-play, the enemies attack at night, so you must be a bit more attentive to the details and your surroundings. Combats are normally melee type so you will have a better chance of earning the XP points that will help you buy some upgrades. Because of being a 2D game, Terraria seems a bit different than other sandbox games, but it isn’t actually. You’ll experience almost the same game-play and a lot of other exciting things. Terraria is available to play on multiple platforms.
#18 Rogue Legacy
Rogue Legacy, developed by Cellar Door games is an Action-Adventure, Rogue-like RTS and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game provides with tons of engaging and quite addictive game-play that includes randomly generated dungeons, a lot of different types of enemies, Bosses with unique combat abilities and techniques, four epic game settlements to explore, collect items and kill your enemies. Rogue Legacy also includes secondary abilities for the players like Magic, and different elemental attacks that cause serious damage to the enemy. If you die in the game, all of your HP shrinks to zero and all your abilities are then transferred to a secondary player who continues your adventure until the last player, when the last player dies, the game ends. Rogue Legacy provides with great level details, clean graphics and an amazingly engaging game-play.
#19 The Talos Principle
The Talos Principle is a marvelous Action-Adventure and a First-person perspective Puzzle-Platform video game by Devolver Digital. The game puts you into the character of a Robot with Human Conscience and allows you to go through 120 challenging and immersive puzzles all set up into different environments. Exploding Drones, Wall mounted Guns along with all other hurdles and the objective to find out all the Sigils are the key elements of this wonderful game. You must stay alive in order to complete the game objectives and find out the truth about your existence, purpose etc. and determine your nest course of actions. Exploration about the humans and technologies, civilizations passed before you and finding the clues is what makes this game more unique and addictive. With wonderful storyline, cool visuals and a super engaging game-play, The Talos Principle is a wonderful game to play and enjoy..
#20 Thief
Thief created by Eidos Montreal is an amazingly mind-blowing Action-Adventure, Stealth and a Third-Person Shooter video game. The game is set in a Dark Fantasy World where you’ll see an amazing combination of Victorian, Gothic and Steampnk aesthetics. Thief features the protagonist Garrett who is destined to go on some of the most dangerous and engaging missions to assassinate the top leadership of mega Corporations because of their system corrupting and self-favored policies. The protagonist thinks that they are the only cause of a worldwide wave of poverty and hunger while they are living their lavish lives without the fear of anything. Your task is to get into the character of the protagonist and use your best Stealth, Action, and Combat skills, use all the stealthy weapons like Silenced guns, Fiber Wires, knives etc. to eliminate the enemies and complete the game objectives. Melee combats and traditional melee weapons are the best part of this game along with the option to hide behind objects and dragging the bodies of enemies to hide them etc. With super cool story, an engaging game-play and state of the art visuals, Thief is a great Action, Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Shooter video game to play and enjoy.
#21 Trine 2
Trine 2, developed by FrozenByte is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle Platform and Side-Scroller video game. This super addictive and engaging sequel to the famous Trine allows you to be anyone of the three main game characters of Thief, Wizard and Knight. Trine 2 lets you engage yourself into challenging platform puzzles in a world of mystery. You can go against your opponents by the use of different magical abilities and skills all collected by gaining the skill points. The game supports up to 3 players in co-operative mode and offers multiplayer feature in online gaming. With an expansion pack named as Trine 2: Goblin Menace, Trine 2 provides with a super thrilling and engaging game-play, a well written story-line and surreal graphic qualities. Trine 2 offers beautiful visuals and sounds, objective-based story-line and a challenging game-play to enjoy.
#22 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an Action-Adventure, Exploration, Open World, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Kojima Productions. It is the 9th entry in the series and 11th overall. The game takes place in the historic year in 1984, after the events of Ground Zeroes. The story centers on the mercenary leader as he attempts to get into the border of Kabul Province and the Angola Zaire to take revenge from those people who killed his forces. The game features open environment and lets the player explore the environment from a third-person perspective. The player can use traditional weapons to take down enemies using stealth elements and cane earn points by completing a set of missions. The player can manipulate the world either on foot or by horseback. The player needs to sneak from different points in the exciting world, avoid enemy guards, and remain undetected. It features day/night cycles and introduces weather system to make the game challenging. The game rewards the player with points per kill. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain includes prominent features such as Open World, Lots of challenging Missions, Stealth elements, Melee Combat, and more. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the best game for hardcore players.
#23 Devil May Cry 4
Devil May Cry 4 is the latest addition to the already trending and one of the most played series Devil May Cry. The game offers a marvelous combination of Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements and tells the story of a new character named as Nero. Nero possesses multiple demonic powers and is on a mission to encounter the main character, Dante. In the previous game, Dante assassinates the Demons from the Order of the Sword along with their Leader and removes them from existence. The story starts off where it ended in the previous game, and the player gets to control both Dante and Nero. Both of the main characters are now hunting down the Evil and have similar goals. Devil May Cry 4 focuses on close combats including the Melee and allows the players to use different weapons such as Firearms, Swords and loads of other things to Hack and Slash their way through the hordes of demonic enemies. Devil May Cry 4 offers an engaging gameplay, revamped game mechanics, and new characters and rebuilt graphics and offers a great Action-focused experience to all the hardcore fans of the series.
#24 Batman: Arkham Knight
Batman: Arkham Knight is an Action-Adventure, Super Hero, Exploration, Open World and Single-player video game created by Rocksteady Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the fourth main entry in the series of Batman: Arkham and takes place after the event of Batman: Arkham City 2011. The story focuses on the protagonist named Batman and his competitor named Scarecrow who want to destroy Gotham City. With the help of Arkham Knight, he becomes the stranger foes of Batman. The player can take on the role of the protagonist, explore the game world from a third-person perspective with exciting tasks, in which he has to fight against foes using stealth, melee combat, and detective skill elements. The player can navigate the world either on foot or by Batman special vehicle called Batmobile. There are a massive variety of missions full of puzzles, objectives, and challenges. Earn experience points and uses them to unlock further content. Batman: Arkham Knight offers key features such as be the Batman, New Batmobile, Epic Foes, Explore the Gotham City, Most Wanted Missions, New Combat and Gadgets. Try it out.
#25 Dishonored 2
Dishonored 2 is a Stealth, Action-Adventure and Single-player video game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It offers a fictional Empire known as Isles where the game takes place and majority of the game part set in the city of Karnaca. In the game, the player can play either Emily or her guard and Father and the story revolves around their struggle to recover the throne. Both Corvo and Emily have a supernatural abilities and the game features non-lethal moves, and introduces a chaos system. The main aim of the player is to explore the world from first-person perspective and take down a set of enemies to gain chaos. The player can interact with other players and he can immerse himself in completion the variety of missions. The game rewards the player with experience as progress through the story and unlocks further content to manipulate. The game offers open world environment and combines the elements of Steampunk, Assassin, Female Protagonist, Magic, and more. Dishonored 2 includes prominent features such as The Assassins, Supernatural Abilities, Imagination World, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#26 Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a masterpiece when we talk about the Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform, and Stealth games. This brilliant game is inspired by the letters sent by the World War 1 vets from both sides. Valiant Hearts: The Great War features four main characters and allows you to switch between them when needed. The basic objective of the game is to help a young German soldier find his love, survive, sacrifice and maintain friendships throughout the game-play and kill the enemies at the same time. The main antagonist of the game is Baron Von Dorf, a general in German army who turns the life of the young soldier upside down by dragging him into places where nobody else would go ever want to go. You must act according to the story and go through a number of harsh situations, use your skills, weapons and wit to defeat enemies and finally get together with your family. Valiant Hearts: The Great War with an amazing World War 1 setting, battles between the German and French armies, amazing visuals, a great story and an engaging game-play, is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Try it out for an amazing gaming experience with a different touch. You’ll definitely like it a lot.
#27 Friday the 13th: The Game
Friday the 13th: The Game is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Third-person Exploration video game created by IllFonic and published by Gun Media. The game comes with both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and offers a stunning gameplay based on the film franchise of the same name. It focuses on asymmetrical multiplayer gameplay, allowing up to seven players controlling the Camp Crystal Lake counselors while one player guiding the antagonist named as Jason Voorhees. It consists of semi-open world, where the player explore the world and interact with each other. The primary task of the player controlled the Jason Voorhees to kill as many councilors as possible to progress through the game. During the gameplay, the player get access to special abilities including sense nearby counselors and can teleport anywhere in the world where the player want. The task of the counselors is to fulfill the objectives that will let the players to escape from the camp. There are more than 12 counselors available to choose from including Adam Palomino, A.J. Mason, Chad Kensington, Deborah Kim, and more. With thrilling gameplay, stunning graphics, and smooth controls, Friday the 13th: The Game is the incredible heart-pumping game for those, who love playing horror-survival games.
#28 Batman Arkham
Batman Arkham is an Action-Adventure and Stealth video game series based thoroughly on DC Comics and the characters from it. Batman Arkham consists of three main games and a prequel in the series and allows the players to enjoy a brilliant Stealth-based gameplay. The main games in the series include Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, and Batman: Arkham Knight and the Prequel is titles as Batman: Arkham Origins. Batman: Arkham Origins was published as the prequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum and it is one of the best games in the series. The Series also offers games for mobile devises and allows the players to enjoy the games such as Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Batman: Arkham Underworld, on almost all of the portable devices. The series has three more titles as the Collections that include Batman: Arkham Bundles, Batman: Arkham Collection, and Batman: Return to Arkham. There is one Virtual Reality game being developed currently known as Batman: Arkham VR and it will soon be published on all major platforms. Throughout the series, all the games are filled with high quality graphics, action and adventure and are the best examples of fantastic stealth games till date. The Latest Inclusion to the Series is “Batman: Arkham VR” available to play on PS4 (PlayStation 4). For all those who love the character of Batman, Batman Arkham series in truly a great source of entertainment. If you haven’t yet tried any game of the Batman Arkham series, now is the time you should.
#29 Outlast
Outlast is a First-person Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game, developed and published by Red Barrels. This Psyche-horror game set in psychiatric hospital and features Miller Upshur as a patient of the above mentioned hospital who is incapable of any combat but knows about how to clear his way. With only a camcorder and a notebook in his inventory, he tries to get out of the facility and on his way out he faces the most unbelievable and unearthly hazards. Crawling and sliding through the vents, he carries on, on his way and gets followed by some really bizarre and strange beings, all trying to kill hm. Dodging all of the difficulties he continues his effort and finally gets out of the asylum but only to find out that he never actually is free yet. The twisted story and events of the game make you think like being a patient of the asylum too. You are forced to think like Miles and all the fears seem to be so real that you feel something crawling on your back. Play the game and feel the creepiness if you like playing games packed with Horror and Survival elements. You’ll definitely like it.
#30 God of War
God of War is the first game in the God of War series and focuses on Combo-based Combat. The game combines the elements of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, Platform and Puzzle. It lets you control the protagonist named Kratos and jump into the game world where you must fight against evil forces to save your kingdom. God of War takes place in an ancient world populated by the Olympian gods, and other beings. The game offers six fictional locations to explore such as the Aegean Sea, the city of Athens, Desert of Lost Souls, Temple of Pandora, the land of underworld and more. According to the story, the protagonist serves the gods of Olympian. Kratos received a task from the goddess named Athena to kill Ares, the god of War, who tricked the protagonist into killing his beloved daughter and wife. The game embarks you on an adventure to take revenge from goddess to the murder of your wife and daughter. It has a series of missions you must complete at any cost. The primary weapons of the character are the blade and chaos a pair of blades fixed to the chain. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, exciting story, God of War is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#31 Dark Souls
Dark Souls is an RPG game packed with Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements. It is developed and published by From Software. This game provides an open world environment, enhanced graphics, challenging game-play, an updated user interface, and an advanced A artificial Intelligence (AI)I system. You can play it on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4. The game takes you to a fictional and mysterious world.
The player starts his journey with many weapons and rations and a little gathering of companions, and on his way to the badlands, he engages with the creatures. This game features realistic and eye-catching graphics, and the open-world allows him to interact with people, objects, and other things. Playing Dark Souls will definitely be a good experience because of its amazing story, addictive gameplay, and brilliant visuals. These features make Dark Souls among the top choices of combat gamers.
#32 The Evil Within 2
The Evil Within 2 is the sequel to The Evil Within video game, released in 2014 developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is a mix of Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game available to play on multiple platforms. It offers a thrilling story and starts after the events at Beacon Mental Hospital. According to the plot, the protagonist has left the Krimson City Police Department to unearth the secret about the organization known as MOBIUS, but continuously haunted by his experience at Beacon, the death of his beloved daughter, and the disappearance of his wife. The gameplay is similar to its predecessor and it puts the player in the role of the protagonist, a detective named as Sebastian Castellanos, who must jump into the brutal world to find and save his daughter named as Lily. The player navigates the environment from a third-person perspective, interact with landscape and objects to find information about the quests and can accomplish the requirements of each task to progress through the story. The game features a crafting system, enabling the player to collect resources to craft new items like ammo. With brilliant mechanics, and superb graphics, The Evil Within 2 is the best game to play.
#33 Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil 6 is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, Third-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Capcom. It is the ninth major entry in the series of Resident Evil and the first game available to play on PlayStation and Xbox platforms. The game tells the story from the perspective of protagonist named as Chris Redfield, who is a founder and former member of the Bio-Terrorism Security Assessment Alliance. In the plot, the world is invaded by an evil corporation named as Neo-Umbrella. The protagonist must confront the forces behind the terrorist attack with newly C-virus around the world. The gameplay revolves around four different interwoven storylines, each character has its unique styles and abilities. There are four different scenarios and each scenario offers one of four main protagonists such as Chris Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy, Jake Muller and more. The player can select his character to get into the world where he has to fight for his life and complete a set of missions to progress through the game. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant visuals and superb story, Resident Evil 6 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#34 Prey
Prey is an Action-Adventure, Open-world, Horror, and Single-player video game developed by Bethesda Studios for multiple platforms. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of an unnamed protagonist, who finds himself on the space station orbiting the moon. The game takes the player to 2032, where an experiment to alter humanity forever has gone wrong.
The space station has occupied by hostile aliens, and the player has dug into the dark secrets. The player must survive using the tools found on the station. While exploring the station, the player views the environment from a first-person perspective.
The player can equip alien abilities to develop a combination of powers and upgrade the character’s skills as well. The game allows the player to craft useful items with the gadgets and tools on the station to overcome dangerous obstacles. Using the wits and abilities, the player has to defend the conditions for humanity.
#35 The Evil Within
The Evil Within is a wonderful Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Third-person Shooter video game that takes this specific genre to a whole new level. The game lets you be Sebastian Castellanos, a skilled detective who is haunted by a cloaked and mysterious entity with immense paranormal powers. Set in a type of apocalyptic open world, The Evil Within lets you scavenge for items like medical supplies, food, weapons etc. and allows you to unfold the mysteries that are directly connected to the entity haunting you. Enemies in the game are equally equipped as yourself and because of that the combats in the game are quite action-packed and to properly dispose of the enemies, you must be skilled enough to survive. With a huge arsenal of weapons but limited ammunition, amazing abilities to master, various types of enemies to combat with and a great story to follow along with wonderful visual details and an engaging game-play, The Evil Within is one of the best Third Person, Action-Adventure and Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#36 Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is a Military-themed, Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Single-player and Multiplayer video game published by Activision and created by Treyarch. It is the 12th entry in the series of Call of Duty and serves as the sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops II, released in 2012. The game takes place in the future 2065, after the event of the original title, in which the world is facing upheaval from new technologies to climate change. The gameplay is similar to the previous title, and the story revolves around the team of black ops soldiers. It offers two new modes such as a Nightmare and the Zombie mode. The game is designed to support up to four-player gameplay, enabling for the massive and open environment to explore with less corridor shooting. In the starts, the player can customize his character’s clothing and appearance using tons of items, and accessories. The Campaign offers its progressing system, which lets the player unlock tokens and use them to unlock different gears and weapons. With the highly detailed environment, an arsenal of weaponry, and new technologies Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the incredible military-themed game to play and enjoy.
#37 Mass Effect: Andromeda
Mass Effect: Andromeda developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game for multiple platforms. It is the fourth marvelous installment in the series of Mass Effect games. The game starts within the Milky Way Galaxy during the futuristic century in 22nd, where the humans are trying to populate new home worlds in the massive Galaxy known as Andromeda. There are two playable characters, and the player assumes the role of either Sara Ryder or Scott, both are members of the military who joins the force and wakes up in Andromeda. In the story, the player must explore the galaxy to find out the humanity’s homeland while encountering antagonistic alien race known as Kett. The game is a mix of Action Role-playing and Third-person Shooter elements. It features up to six different character classes, each with its unique skills and plays style. The player needs to earn experience points by fulfilling missions and use them to unlock further content in the game. Try it out.
#38 Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game created by Ubisoft. This extraordinary game takes you to an alternate reality and lands you right into the fictitious setting of United States where you act as a vigilante named Aiden Pierce. Watch Dogs tasks you to act as the protagonist and infiltrate the network systems of mega corporations who store all the data of online behaviors of humans to its mega servers. The hackers faction, Watch Dogs helps you get into the systems and after a little time you get to know that the mega corporations and other high ranking people are the responsible for the death of your niece and countless other people. This information pushes you to the limits to burn down the mega corporations and all the enemies of humanity. You start a war against them using your hacking abilities and act as the story of the game suggests. Watch Dogs provides you with a thrilling and action filed game-play, a great story and an open world to play and enjoy the game to the limits. Do try it out if you haven’t played it yet.
#39 Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping dogs is an Action-Adventure and Third Person Shooter video game that takes you to the environmental wonders of the Hong Kong. The game features the protagonist Wei Shen an undercover police officer who infiltrates the Sun On Yee triad to take down their organization. The game lets you experience an awesomely engaging and thrilling game-play by using your fighting, shooting and parkour skills against your enemies. You can walk, run, fight with pedestrians, drive different vehicles and even fly planes in an open world. As being the police officer and a criminal at the same time, Sleeping Dogs lets you get into both law enforcing and criminal activities and this makes the game more engaging. You get a handful of different weapons, melee and firearms both at your disposal all the time. Sleeping Dogs is one of the best Action-Adventure and Shooter video game that provides with super realistic graphics, an amazing story, an open world and a thrilling game-play. Do try it out.
#40 Bloodborne
Bloodborne is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by From Software. Throughout the game, the player, as an unnamed protagonist, makes his way through different locations of the Yhamam, where many enemies are waiting for a fighter. The player creates the character and determines the basic details such as gender, hairstyle, name, skin color, body shape, etc.
The player also has to determine a starting class that provides a basic backstory for the character, and the player has to follow the same gameplay as per the storyline. Different storylines allow the player to have a unique playstyle; for example, in one storyline, the player serves as a cowardly weakling. At the same time, another requires the player to be a ruthless killing machine.
The player may need to purchase useful items, such as clothing. The character can level up by talking to the Doll or upgrading the weapons. The last two boss battles occur in a different world, but the rest of the battles engage in the game’s world.
#41 Spelunky
Spelunky is an Indie, Rogue-like Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and RPG video game developed by Derek Yu. The game lets you be a Spelunker in the game world who gets tasked with exploring a great number of tunnels/caves, collecting different items, saving the damsels and killing the enemies. You can kill the enemy by using your whip on him or by simply jumping on his head just like you did in Mario games. Spelunky provides with four different game worlds and a number of randomly generated game levels filled with a lot of exciting things. The game awards you with points on every enemy kill and finding new treasure, area, valuable and location etc. The enemies in the game include snakes, yetis, man eating plants, ghosts etc. and each of them requires a unique set of skills for you to kill them, so you must use your earned points to buy upgrades regularly or else you’ll get killed by any of your gruesome enemies. The amazing rogue-like game environment makes it more fun to play and enjoy. Try it out.
#42 A Way Out
A Way Out is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Multiplayer video game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts. The game has no Single-player campaign, is only playable either Split-screen Co-op mode between two-player or online with other players from all over the world. The plot focuses on the protagonist named as Vincent Moretti, who is recently sent to jail for a brutal murder. In Jail, the protagonist encounters a thief named as Leo Caruso, who had been arrested for a massive theft. As the story progresses, a group of criminals sent in the jail by the crime boss named as Harvey attempts to murder Leo, but Vincent Moretti intervenes. In the game, the player either controls Leo or Vincent, two prisons who must struggle to break out of prison and remain undetected from authorities. The game offers the similar gameplay to Far Cry 4, where the player can join online events, hosted by the friends of the player. A Way Out is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#43 For Honor
For Honor developed by Ubisoft Montreal is a mixture of Fighting, Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements for hardcore players. It supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and enables you to assume the role of the historical warriors and soldiers such as Vikings, Samurai, Knights, etc. within the medieval-themed world played from a third-person perspective. The game takes place during the historical period inspired fantasy setting. There are three different factions available such as The Chosen Samurai, The Blackstone Legion Knight, and The Warborn Vikings and these three factions offer samurai, Viking and knight respectively. Multiplayer mode offers the similar gameplay to Single-player campaign, featuring AI minions, Perks, Art of Battle System. Domination, Brawl, Duel, Skirmish and Elimination are five prominent modes in the game. You as the protagonist must explore the world, fight rivals and kill them to complete a variety of missions while scoring the highest points to level-up your abilities. For Honor includes core features such as Story Campaign, Battle Control System, Conquer Foes with Friends, and more. Try it out, if you are die-hard fan of hack and slash genre.
#44 Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age: Inquisition is a great Action-Adventure and RPG video game by Bio Ware and is a direct sequel to Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: II. The game puts you into the character of Herald of Andraste who after the attack on Mages and Templar meeting vows to kill the enemies. He forms up an Organization named Inquisition with the help of Cullen and Ambassador Josephine. The game lets you be Herald of Andraste and tasks you eliminate the monsters and demons who swarmed through the Rift, opened at the blast site. You must explore various sites on the game map, Strengthen up Inquisition by recruiting more individuals (Mages and Templars) like you, engage in gruesome battles and combats with the enemy and kill them all. You must also get help from your Dragon as the Boss enemy Corypheus has one to help him out with the destruction. Dragon Age: Inquisition concludes when the Boss Corypheus is dead, so you must focus on his allies too and kill them with your mighty sword and your unnatural powers. Dragon Age: Inquisition is one of the best MMORPGs to play and it will definitely provide you with tons of entertainment for sure.
#45 Saints Row 4
Saints Row 4, is an open world Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi, RPG and third person shooter video game. Saints Row 4 kicks off from where the Saints Row: The Third concluded. Third Street Gang’s Boss becomes the president of U.S and changes everything. The gangs, defeated by Third Street Saints are now forming alliances and an alien invasion is just about to happen. The protagonist multiplies his efforts with the Third Street Saints to act rationally and killing all the enemies for the sake of United States and the Third Street Gang. After a long lasting war with the aliens and the rival gangs combined, the President (Third Street Saints Boss) confronts Zinyak and kills him in the end of a bloody battle and moves towards the alliance of the Gangs of Steelport, eradicates them with all his might and man power and conquers the Zin forces. After the surrender of the Zin forces, the Boss becomes their new leader, acquires the Zin Time Trave Device and restores the order in present by going to the past and correcting all the errors. Zin invasion never happens and the gangs never show up on the surface of the earth, only Third Street Saints rules as a unanimous power and the boss still becomes the president of United States.
#46 Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs 2 or also known and Stylized as WATCH_DOGS2 is a marvelous new addiction to the series. This fantastic Action-Adventure, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game is originally scheduled to be released in November 2016 but you can Pre Order it on Official game Website. The game is set in the midst of Fictional setting of San Francisco and it allows you to be the protagonist Marcus Halloway who is a hardcore skilled Hacker. Your task in the game is to simply get connected to the Hacking Association named as DedSec and take down the Advanced Security System of the City, ctOS 2.0. This tiem the game features a new protagonist, from far reaches of Oakland, California and drags him all the way to San Francisco to achieve your one and only ultimate goal, to bring down the ctOS 2.0. Years earlier when the protagonist was just a child, ctOS framed him into a crime he did not commit and he paid a heavy price for that. Now is the time to take your revenge as a skilled hacker and a great marksman. In order to complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through a number of different types of enemies and that’s where you’ll have to show off your shooting and stealth skills. So are you ready for the ultimate adventure?
#47 The Last Guardian
The Last Guardian is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Exploration, Open World and Single-player video game created by SIE Japan Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The story revolves around a boy, the protagonist, who befriends with a massive half-bird-half-mammal creature named as Trico. The game mixes the third-person, puzzle, and action-adventure elements like its predecessors Shadow of the Colossus and Ico. During the gameplay, the player assumes the role of the unnamed protagonist with a task to cooperate with Trico to solve complex puzzles and explore the massive areas. The player can carry different objects, climb on structures, run and jump his way through a variety of levels to fulfill the objectives. The size of Trico enables the player to reach the areas that the boy can’t reach alone, and can battle guards who are trying to capture the protagonist. There are certain obstacles like gates and glass eyes are available which prevent Trico from progresses, and the must be eliminated or removed by the player. With well-written story, detailed graphics, and prominent features, The Last Guardian is a fascinating video game to play and enjoy.
#48 Yakuza 6
Yakuza 6 is an Action-Adventure, Open world, Exploration and Single-player video game developed and published by Sega for PlayStation platform only. It is the seventh major entry in the series of Yakuza and offers the similar gameplay to its previous entries with navigation combined with arcade style. You can assume the role of the playable protagonist named as Kazuma Kiryu and the takes place in the locations of Hiroshima and Kamurocho. According to the story, the protagonist is in the hospital, recovering from his injuries. A police officer comes to the hospital to tell the protagonist that they are planning to arrest him for his crime. The protagonist decides not resist his arrest and spends three years in the prison to live his life peacefully. After releases, Kiryu finds that Haruka is missing. There are a variety of missions, and each mission is challenging than others. Your act as the protagonist and your ultimate task is to navigate the environment from a third-person perspective while completing several missions to find Haruka. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, superb features with the detailed environment, Yakuza 6 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#49 Transistor
Transistor is a Sci-Fi, Action-Adventure and an RPG video game developed and published by Supergiant Games for PC, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam and PlayStation 4 gaming consoles. Transistor’s story revolves around the character of a female protagonist Red, who mourns the death of an unknown man killed by a large sword named as Titular Transistor. She vows to revenge and gets against a mighty army of the Robots named as Process. Red paces on in the game with the story and reaches Goldwick District where she gets to know about the machines are being controlled by Camerata a sinister faction of outlaws. She starts collecting the evidences and following the leads and finally reaches to the Highrise District. Red after a huge battle against the Process finally reaches to the core of the actions and destroys the whole Process system along with all the accessories and machines in the field. After that she returns back to the previous location and learns that the man died in the beginning cannot be revived and commits suicide. The game concludes. Transistor is one amazing Action-Adventure and RPG video game that will surely take you to the heights of excitement and amazingness of all the things this game has to offer. You should try it out and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#50 Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is a brilliant open world Action-Adventure, RPG, Hack and Slash video game by Monolith Productions. The game allows you to enter into the massive world of fun. You are going to enter into real hardcore battling world against the most powerful and strong monsters including different creatures of evil forces. You have a chance to test your skills and abilities here. You can customize your character by gaining experience points, multiple upgrades of weapons and skills. You have to control a character with amazing skills and abilities to fight against the enemies and after defeating them, there will be new addition of features for your character to improve heath, abilities and skills. By completing different quests and exploring the game world, you will unlock new levels to fight with the evil forces. Story of the game is based on the revenge of a murder of a family and wife of the hero. You have to be strong enough to survive and get it done. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is an attractive game to play and enjoy.