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 Portal 2
Portal 2 is an amazing First-Person Action-Adventure and puzzle platform game developed and distributed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to Portal, portal 2 comes with lots of new levels, enhanced graphics and a user friendly interface. Portal 2 keeps the possession of almost half of the elements from Portal. The game includes single and multiplayer game modes and a lot of new characters. Portal 2 is quite difficult as compared to Portal. You’ll have to solve some seriously complex puzzles in order to advance to the next levels of the game. You’ll get to use some new techniques to solve problems if you really want to make portals. With a totally new and unique style, amazing visuals, objective-based story-line and an engaging game-play, Portal 2 is a fantastic Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.
#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 Divinity: Original Sin
Divinity: Original Sin is a marvelous Single-Player, Action-Adventure and a Cooperative Fantasy RPG video game by Larian Studios. The game lets you be a pair (Cooperative) of two Source Hunters who are basically the members of a faction that is destined to eliminate dangerous magic named The Source that with the help of The Sorcerers is swallowing up the realm on a very high pace. Your task is to gather up your party of individuals like you and go on to the most epic quests and adventures to hunt down the Sorcerers and finally eradicate the Dark magic The Source. To achieve the goals, you must get into the brutal combats, explore an open world, join your friends in a Co-Op multiplayer game-play and enjoy this cool game to the limits. With wonderfully created mechanics, enhanced graphics, unique character customization options, regular upgrades and a huge pile of DLC (Downloadable Content), Divinity: Original Sin is a wonder.
#4 Don’t Starve Together
Don’t Starve Together is a standalone Action-Adventure and Survival expansion pack of the original Don’t Starve with Multiplayer functionality. The game offers Reign of Giants mod that features new characters, new challenges, Puzzles, biomes, seasons and creatures to immerse you with the game-play a bit more tightly. As the same character of Wilson, you’ll have to explore a strange world filled with all the strangest creatures, hazards, dangers and wonders. In order to survive, you’ll have to gather as much resources as you can, craft items with all the available materials, build different structures, interact with other online players, fight them off of your property and save your items, or simply befriend other online players, explore the world together survive the harshest environment and Survive. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals, enhanced mechanics and an addictive game-play, Don’t Starve Together is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#5 Bully
Bully is an Open-World RPG Action game developed by Rockstar Games. The game’s main character is “Jimmy” who stands up against all the Bullies at Bullworth Academy. He puts his best efforts hard to bring peace and save all the weaker ones against all the bullies. Bully offers a Third-person perspective and allows you to navigate through the game world mostly on foot, Cycle or Skateboard. Your task is to get into the role of Jimmy, get admitted into the Bullworth Academy, Find out all the bullies and let them learn the hardest lessons to stop them from bullying.
Your main task is to bring peace to the Academy and be the one true savior of all the bullied. Besides your Bully hunting routines, you are also required to attend classes, hang out with your friends and be a normal student. Bully offers a multiplayer mode for the game in which you can compete with any of the players for higher rankings doDo give it a try if you haven’t yet and enjoy kicking bullies.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter, and Single-player video game available to play on Cross Platform. The game takes place in the in the fictional vice city in Miami and offers an open world environment. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Tommy Vercetti, following his release from jail. It is the sixth installment in the series of Grand Theft Auto and the first main released since 2001. After the protagonist is caught up in a drug deal, he attempts to find out those responsible while creating a criminal empire and enhancing his power from other criminal organization. The game uses third-person perspective to navigate the environment and offers a variety of weapons and vehicles. The player can explore the world from third-person view either on foot or by vehicle. The objective of the player is to complete a set of missions to earn points and face off enemies using different weapons, melee attacks, explosives, and firearms. After making enough money, the player can purchase different properties, tools, and arms. With high-quality graphics, detailed environment, engaging gameplay, and a superb story, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is the best game to play and enjoy.
#9 Syberia
Syberia is a 2002’s Hit Single-player Point-and-Click Action and Adventure, Third-person video game by Microids. The game follows the story of Kate Walker, game Protagonist and a skilled Lawyer who tries to wrap up a deal for her client in Europe and Russia, but soon after reaching her destination, she is forced to run for her life. With amazing and realistic visual novel style, wonderful environments, brilliant characters and immersive game-play, Syberia allows you to experience the true hardships a Lawyer can go through and in her case, as the story-line suggests, you get a really good lesson out of that. Running for her life, Kate goes through a number of hardest phases of her life including the time when she receives calls on her Cell Phone from unknown numbers and a worsening relationship with her fiancé. According to the story of the game, Kate reaches to French Village named as Valadilene, where she attends the funeral of Toy Factory owner, an old lady named Anna Voralberg. After a visit to the local notary, Kate gets to know about the Old lady’s brother Hans, living in the North-East of Europe but his whereabouts are unknown. In order to transfer the ownership, Kate must find him and when she starts off her journey to find Hans, the story takes a massive turn that actually writes the fate of Kate. A drama begins that topples her life upside down. Now in order to go with the story and enjoy the game, you must get into the character of Kate and start exploring. Syberia offers a fantastic thrill filled Drama and an equally exciting game-play that makes this game one of the most amazing additions to this specific genre. If you are a fan of Action-Adventure gaming, you must play this game and raise the curtains off of the mysterious theme of the game. With all the amazing things combined, Syberia offers a unique story, a totally challenging and quite exciting game-play and beautiful 3D visuals for you to enjoy.
#10 The Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable is one wonderful First-person, Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic video game like Gone Home. The game allows you to be “Stanley” and lets you choose between your actions either to follow the story or not to follow the story, have a choice or don’t have a choice, act as Stanley or simply don’t act as Stanley, it totally depends on you. This twisted game allows you to explore a strange world, buildings etc. and slowly find out the meanings of almost everything, solve quenching puzzles and be part of a strange strange world. With awesomely engaging story and loads of new content, amazing visual details and background music, voice over etc., and a brilliantly immersive game-play, The Stanley Parable is a wonderful game to play.
#11 Pillars of Eternity
Pillars of Eternity is one of the best Action-Adventure and RPG and Hack and Slash video games. This wonderful game takes you to an amazing journey of an enchanted world where you destiny awaits you. With a great opportunity to recapture the deepest sense of Exploration, Adventure and Thrill of leading the most skillful companions to an amazing world of wonders and fantasies, the chance to engage yourself in the most epic battles and reaching out to success by going through hugely monster-infested dungeons, Pillars of Eternity is all about astonishment and wonderful things you experience. Pillars of Eternity is actually the Spiritual Successor to a number of top trending games such as Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale and Baldur’s gate series and offers a similar type of gameplay and mechanics. According to the story of the game, Pillars of Eternity takes place in the world of Eora, located in the region of Eastern Reach that is a home to a number of native races such as Free Palatinate of Drywood, Penitential Regency of Readceras and The Villains Republic etc. According to their Technological, Social and traditional aspects each of the nations belong to the Renaissance Era and they settled in the Eora in that era too. The games kicks off with a massive unrest in the Eora because of the discovery of certain facts about the souls that stated that the souls are not actually Metaphysical Abstractions but are quantifiable and calculable objects that can be transferred from one state to another, stored or manipulated in any way possible. Talking about the gameplay, the main character of the game arrives in Drywood in a shabby condition, his caravan gets destroyed with every soul and he’s the only survivor. Hiding in the caves, the protagonist gets exposed to unearthly energies and powers, drawn to earth by the cultist performing rituals related to their souls with the help of an advanced machine. The protagonist now becomes a Watcher, who can read souls as well as reading memories from the past. Because of these activities widespread in the lands, Drywood gets Cursed with a deadly plague known as HollowBorn and that leads to births without soul. A widespread chaos begins as the people start hunting the scientists and cultists as they think they are responsible. meanwhile the Thaos, the antagonist keeps on stealing the souls. it is now your duty to become the one savior, walk in the footsteps of Thaos, confront him and kill him to reverse the Plague and save the poor souls. With a brilliant story, amazingly addictive gameplay and loads of fantastic quests, epic PvP and PvE combats, great visuals and a well-written story, Pillars of Eternity in one of the best and most played Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game.
#12 Rust
Rust is a Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game by Facepunch Studios. Currently, in the Alpha phase, Rust offers early access to the game on Steam. Set in a massive Open World, Rust allows you to survive in an unfriendly environment by simply crafting different items, exploration and by finding the supplies such as Food, Water, Shelter, loot, Weapons and medical Supplies, etc. It spawns you right in the middle of other online players and lets you use your wit to find ways in which you can survive. You must stay well fed to avoid starvation and drink plenty of water in order to eliminate the threat of being dehydrated. Encounters with the creatures will definitely result in your demise of win so you decide what to do. All the deadly creatures, harsh weather conditions, and all the obstacles must not defeat you if you want to survive. Rust with all the wonderful mechanics, visuals and immersive game-play is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#13 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.
#14 Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game published by developed by Valve Corporation for multiple platforms. It serves as the sequel to Half-Life released in 1998 and takes place some years after Half-life’s event. The story follows the protagonist named as Gordon Freeman, who finds himself in the world that has been taken over by the alien faction. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary objective is to join the resistance force known as Alyx Vance and find a way to free humanity using a wide range of weapons including the gravity gun. Like it previous title, the game is single-player FPS divided into several chapters, casting the player in the role of Gordon Freeman. The player needs to navigate the environment from a first-person view and struggle to complete a variety of missions to earn points. The player receives experience points for kill enemies and can use them to unlock further features like weapons, upgrades, and power-ups. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#15 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.
#16 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..
#17 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a Third-person, Fast-paced Action and Thrill filled Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Mercury Steam. The game is set in the year 1047 and tells the story about the epic Alliance between Earth and Heaven that was threatened by the mighty and evil Lords of the Shadow. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow allows you to be the main protagonist Gabriel Belmont a skilled warrior who uses advanced skills and up to 40 unique Unlockable fighting combos and his special sword fighting abilities to kill the enemies. Your task is to use all the weapons along with secondary ones such as Knives, Holy Water, and Hammers etc. to eliminate your enemies. Laced up with all the advanced melee tactics and weapons, special magical spells, you’ll have to attack your enemies in a fast-paced manner and kill them before they get you. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow offers ultra-HD visuals, a well-written story and an engaging game-play. Try it out if you really love playing Action-Adventure and RPG video games and you’ll definitely love it.
#18 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.
#19 Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Dragonfall is a super engaging Action-Adventure, Cyberpunk-RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Harebrained Schemes. This epic game provides with an amazing strategy based game-play that lets you experience a wonderful mix up of all the above mentioned elements. The game is about the return of the dark magic that unleashed powerful mythical creatures and among them was the one mighty Dragon named as Feuerschwinge who emerged from the mountains of Germany and brought heavy destruction and chaos with it. German Forces kept on fighting off the Feuerschwinge and after four months of heavy fights and destruction they finally shot it down and that was called The Dragonfall. Years later in 2054, Germany becomes the hub of tech and the population is now doubled as the Elves and Trolls have joined the populace, giant corporations have corrupted the Govts. and now Germany is in the control of Flux State after the heavy anarchy and chaos. With a lot of new threats and you as a Shadow Runner, the Flux State hires you to go against the re-surfacing Feuerschwinge, eliminate it and restore the order. Would you accept the challenge? Shadowrun: Dragonfall offers brilliant realistic visauls and sounds, a well-written story and an immersive game-play tho enjoy.
#20 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.
#21 Braid
Braid is a cool Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game Created by Hothead Games, Braid is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam, XBox 360 and PS3 and offers a number of cool upgrades and stuff. Although the gaming environment is quite similar to Super Mario but, the puzzles and game-play is quite like Limbo, Badland and Contre Jour etc. Another great feature included in the game is the ability of the player to reverse the time. For example. If you die in the game you can always reverse the time and save yourself whenever you reach the same point where you died previously. This feature alone attracts the players a lot. Six different playing scenarios, everyone with a unique set of challenging puzzles to solve and twisted structure of the game gets you to the whole new level of excitement and Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform gaming. Braid is a wonderful alternative to a lot of games of the same genre. Do give it a try and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#22 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.
#23 Hero Siege
Hero Siege is another wonderful Fantasy-based Action-Adventure video game that offers Fast-paced, Top-Down Hack and Slash, Rogue-like and RPG elements and allows you to go full scale against the enemies, Kill them all by your super cool sword wielding and gun slinging skills, improve your offensive and defensive skills and abilities by fighting selflessly, loot all the things you can and explore a massive game-world. With super cool visuals, an addictive game-play and countless hours of plain entertainment, Hero Siege features Online Multiplayer Support, Randomly generated game world, levels, collectibles, dungeons, enemies, bosses, 170 above unique characters, a lot of achievements to unlock, 4 difficulty levels, beautiful Rogue-like visuals and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy this cool game.
#24 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.
#25 Darkwood
Darkwood is an Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game that offers an Open World game-play with procedurally generated game levels. It blends in RPG, Action, Adventure and Roguelike elements beautifully and allows you to immerse yourself deeply into an amazing game-play. Left alone as an unknown character, you’ll have to seek for the reasons why you were left in this godforsaken and unforgiving world alone without any help. You’ll also have to scavenge for supplies, weapons and survive in an environment where countless terrors are waiting for you as you further deep into the world of Darkwood. Discover the secrets of unknown and solve challenging mysteries and puzzles, trade with or kill the mysterious natives of the Darkwood and survive till your last breath. With a number of skills to learn, perks to enjoy and crafting options, Darkwood lets you set traps for food and enemies, barricade yourself or go out hunting the hunters, it totally depends on the actions you perform. Be careful of all the creatures lurking in the dark, keep your sanity intact and find out the secrets of Darkwood.
#26 The Long Dark
The Long Dark is a new Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Survival and Exploration-based video game that takes you to a Frozen World. The world around you gets devastated after a huge Geomagnetic event happens and the environment changes rapidly. Left in the wilderness, your task is to survive the chilling cold and all the threats Mother Nature throws at you. The game lets you think and find the ways to survive, explore the land, gather up the resources, create and craft different items with all the available materials, make shelter for yourself and keep yourself well fed by trapping the animals and drinking plenty of water. With an always changing environment and weather, loads of native creatures such as deer, rabbits, snakes, Wolves, Bears birds etc. you must know how to interact with them and how to survive the attacks. To save yourself from the unforgiving environment, you must know how to make cloths, harvest the wood to keep the fire burning, harvest different medicinal plants to make antibiotics and stuff etc. The Long Dark offers an amazing simulation like game-play, stunning visuals and lots of things to discover and Survive.
#27 Bendy and the Ink Machine
Bendy and the Ink Machine is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with Psychological Horror and Puzzle elements developed and published by TheMeatly Games. The game offers the first-person puzzle-based gameplay that starts in a past of animation and ends in the dark future. It lets you assume the role of the protagonist named as Henry, who revisit the demons of his past by navigating the workshop of the abandoned animator named as Joey Drew Studios. You can explore the land, interact with objects and environment to fulfil the objectives while encountering strange creatures who scares and fend off your character by completing the task. It comes with a detailed world and offers a series of levels to accomplish. The gameplay consists of five chapters such as Moving Pictures, The Old Song, Rise and Fall, and more. Bendy and the Ink Machine offers core features such as Multiple Chapters to accomplish, Episodic Gameplay, Multiple Characters, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#28 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.
#29 World of Goo
World of Goo is a beautiful Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by 2DBoy. This wonderful Mix up of Indie, Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and Point and Click elements allows you to build massive structures with nothing but Goo Balls. The game offers five main chapters all filled up with challenging levels, with unique music, graphic themes and a totally unique environment. The amazing multiplayer feature allows the players from around the world to build amazing towers using goo balls and enjoy competing against each other. With a super engaging game-play, cool visuals and sounds etc., World of Goo is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. If you haven’t played it yet, you should definitely try it out. It’ll make you an addict.
#30 SteamWorld Dig
SteamWorld Dig is an Action-Adventure, Platform and Single-player Mining video game with Metroidvania developed and published by Image and Form. The game cast you in the role of the protagonist named as Rusty, a lone mining steam-bot who arrives at an old town. It takes place in the underground environment, and your task is to dig the old earth, search valuables while unearthing the threat. Steampunk and Western themes inspire the game, and the game introduces an underground world full of terrors, treasure, and mysteries. It consists of a variety of levels, and each level offers a challenging gameplay with challenging objectives. Control the character and start navigating the environment from side-scroll view, avoid hurdles, unleash power-ups and find treasure to progress through the game. Use your points to unlock further content in the game and become the master. SteamWorld Dig offers prominent features such as a Rich World, Underground Environment, Human Civilization, Degenerated Races, and more. SteamWorld Dig is the best Platform game to play and enjoy.
#31 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game (most commonly known as Fallout) is an RPG (Role Playing Game) open-world single-player video game set in an apocalyptic era in a devastated alternate reality. The game features the protagonist as an inhabitant of a nuclear shelter known as Vault. The player is tasked to find out the water chip to save many people from dying of thrust. The protagonist gets 150 days to find the water chip till the water ends. If he is failed to find out the chip, mutants will attack the vaults and kill everybody.
Because of short options, the protagonist joins the mutant army remaining in disguise, and keeps searching for the water chip. He finally approaches a possible chip location and finds it in the hands of the master. The player must kill the master after long-lasting combat, destroys the whole mutant facility, and returns to the vault. The interesting storyline keeps you tied up to the gaming station for hours.
#32 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game developed and published by Capcom for multiple platforms. It is the 11th installment ad twenty-fourth title overall in the franchise of Resident Evil. It is the first game in the marvelous series available to be played from the first-person view. The story centers on the protagonist named as Ethan Winters, as he finds his beloved wife named as Mia, which leads him to a plantation by the Baker Family. The protagonist crafts weapons and other tools to face off Baker Family and the Molded, a form of bacteria. The primary objective is to explore the world from the first-person perspective and fight against zombies and other creatures using handguns, flame throwers, chainsaw, and shotgun, etc. There are a series of levels, and each level requires a completion of certain objectives to progress. The player can assume the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to fight against enemies and the Baker Family to rescue his wife Mia from dangers. With enhanced mechanics, engaging gameplay and brilliant controls, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the best game to play and enjoy.
#33 Castle Crashers
Castle Crashers is a 2D Action-Adventure, RPG, Hack and Slash and Beat ‘em’ Up video game by The Behemoth. The game is set in a Fictitious Medieval Era Kingdom and lets you be the Ultimate Savior who frees the Kidnapped Princesses and kills the Evil Magician by the use of his bravery, Sword and intuition. The game takes place in a fictional Medieval Era in a Medieval Universe and it kicks off with the Four brave Knights attending a party, in King’s massive Castle where the evil dark Wizard arrives and steals the Mystical Gem and kidnaps the Princess. As the most Brave and courageous beings, The Kings sends the Knights to rescue the Princess and to retrieve the Gem. According to the storyline, your ultimate goal is to find and defeat the Dark Wizard along with his minions and monster legions. Now in order to complete the game objectives, you must gather your team, go hunt down the bizarre and brutal Cyclops, a strange cat-fish and all the aliens. With a very involving story, epic gameplay, loads of enemies and all the monster fighting fun, Castle Crashers is one amazing Action-RPG video game to play and enjoy.
#34 Avernum: Escape from the Pit
Avernum: Escape from the Pit is another cool Action-Adventure, Strategy and RPG video game that offers a gameplay inspired by Divinity: original Sin. The game is set in Avernum, the land of subterranean races consisting of Misfits, Rogues, Brigands etc. who are all struggling hard to get rid of the strange Darkness that is filled with otherworldly monsters. You are thrown into the Pit of a volcano and the surface is under the brutal reign of king Hawthorne who sends everyone down the pit, who misbehaves, or speaks out or is not the one who should live on surface of Avernum. You must rise and form an allegiance with all the mighty ones rotting in the pit and suffering from the wrath of the Monsters. You must also gather up the people like you who have unique skills and magic spells as their weapons. Together you have to try and relieve the king off of his duties by killing him and along with him all the Dark forces, you must also kill all the dangerous monsters in the pit and destroy it forever. Avernum: Escape from the Pit is a superbly engaging Fantasy and Adventure based game that definitely will take you to an out of this world gaming experience.