Adventure is a video game genre, in which the player takes on the protagonist’s role in an interactive story driven by puzzle-solving and exploration elements. The focus of the genre on story enables it to draw from other narrative media, film and literature, and encompassing the variety of literary genre. Most of Adventure games are designed for a Single-player mode, emphasizing on character and story makes Multiplayer design challenging. The term Adventure, originated from the computer text game in 1970s, Colossal Cave Adventure, referred to simply as Adventure. The primary genre’s elements include exploration, storytelling, and puzzle-solving. Adventure games can describe as the puzzle gameplay with a narrative element, where the game involves narrative-based rich content that the player will unlock in the form of episode, level, or part. Interactive Fiction, Text Adventures, Graphic Adventure, Point-and-Click Adventure Game, Puzzle Adventure Games, Walking Simulation, Visual Novel, etc. are prominent sub-genres of Adventure. Adventure game comes with a series of puzzles as well as, messages, locating and using items and equipment, interacting with NPCs and environment, opening locked doors, and exploration the new locations. Gathering and using Items, Puzzle-Solving, Story and Themes, Fantasy World, Conversation Tree, etc. are prominent features of Adventure genre.
#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 Little Big Planet
Little Big Planet (LBP) is a beautiful Action-Adventure and puzzle platform video game created by Media Molecule. This game is mostly based on user created content and that is why it is played, created and shared at the same time. Till date, this game can only be played on PlayStation alone or with your friends online on the same console. Little Big Planet consists of five games in the series. The game offers a number of fantastic characters including all the inhibitants of Litle Big Planet and themain character “The Sack Boy”. In order to complete the objectives, Little big Planet tasks you to traverse through amazing and beautiful environments, solve a number of challenging puzzles and enjoy beautifully embedded Platforming elements. Little Big Planet offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#3 Limbo
Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.
#4 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.
#5 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a great Action-Adventure and RPG game with super thrilling Hack and Slash elements. The game sets you up into the character of the Fateless One who after being resurrected gets destined to go against the Winter Fae, a dark entity with dark abilities and skills. Your task is to get out of the Lab before Winter Fae Swarms up the place, find Octienne, get the info about Winter Fae and eliminate em before its too late. Other tasks of the game include, exploration, find weapons and skills, go on quests to fight against the vicious enemy, and earn skill points to buy upgrades and stuff. This game is all about close combats and melee fights, so you’ll have one of the best experience of hardcore combats and the use of melee weapons like swords, hammers, knives etc. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a great Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and RPG video game to play and enjoy.
#6 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is an Action and Role-Playing Game (RPG) video game. The game sets in the fantasy world of Skyrim located in the territory of Tamriel, in which the protagonist roams in an open world and fights with the enemies. The game focuses on a war that started almost 200 years ago between Stormcloaks and Imperial Legion. The game kicks off with the protagonist being transferred for execution along with other Stormcloak soldiers and their leader Ulfric Stormcloak when a dragon suddenly comes and interrupts the procession by attacking and devastating the whole town. The protagonist runs and takes refuge in a nearby village of Riverwoods and starts gathering items and weapons and a place to live. Upon returning to Dragonstorm he slays a dragon and absorbs the soul of the dragon to use the abilities and fight against the Legion. The story continues and the protagonist continues his search of Paarthurmax. After finding Paarthurmax, player gets to the land of Legion and kills their lord and this installment of the Skyrim Series concludes. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim provides with an amazingly addictive and quite engaging game-play, a beautifully embedded and character oriented story along with super realistic graphics. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as an absolutely fantastic creation of Bethesda Softworks that will surely entertain you enough. Do try it out.
#7 Life is Strange
Life is Strange is a Single-player Graphic Adventure and Interactive Fiction video game by Square Enix. The game consists of five main episodes and focuses on the character of a Photography student named as Maxine Caulfield. Maxine Caulfield discovers out that she has the special ability to reverse time and any specific moment. The story takes a twist when Maxine foresees a huge Storm raging to destroy her town and that the time when she realizes that she’s the only one to prevent it from happening. Life is Strange allows the players to control the character of Maxine Caulfield and follow the narrative as it unfolds into all the storyful actions that the player character performs. Amazing trips to the past, fantastic quests, freedom to explore and the ability to manipulate environmental elements, loads of challenging puzzles and game ending based upon the actions performed by the character, Life is Strange offers a truly remarkable gameplay experience that is based on pure graphics and interactive elements. With an episodic gameplay, various character archetypes, a great story, graphic adventure nature and point-and-click puzzles, Life is Strange offers beautiful visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay to enjoy. Life is Strange is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox and Linux platforms.
#8 Darksiders
Darksiders is one amazing Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash video game that offers wonderful RPG elements and allows you to be the main protagonist named as War who is one among the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. The game is set in an apocalyptic era and allows you to roam freely in an open world, combat and slash your way through the equally equipped enemies, defeat enemy bosses and earn experience points plus the game currency. The game world is divided into numerous parts and every part of the game world has its own enemy boss and Darksiders lets you defeat every boss and acquire its weapon and skills to enhance your powers. With a special weapon, a boomerang-style throwing blade is your primary weapon in the game that helps you target your enemies from a brief distance and kill them in order to get more points. With a wonderful story, cool mechanics, brilliant visuals and an immersive game-play, Darksiders is a superb Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and RPG game to play.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a Military-themed, First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the 4th title in the series of Call of Duty and takes place in the World War II settings. The story starts in the year 2011, where a leader has executed the unnamed country’s president in the Middle East, and the movement of ultranationalist ignites the civil war in Russia. The conflict takes place in different locations such as the Middle East, Russia, Azerbaijan, and more. The multiplayer campaign introduces various game features and consists of the leveling system that enables the player to unlock further weapons, attachments, etc. to advance to the match. There are six playable characters, and the player can select one of them to get into the world where he has accomplished a variety of missions, in which he must kill enemies, save innocents and more. The player as the soldier has equipped with lots of weapons like a rifle, pistol, grenades, etc. that he can use to kill enemies and also can use melee combat. With improved mechanics, gameplay, graphics and soundtracks, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the best game to play and enjoy for those players who love playing military-based video games.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#15 Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 is a Horror-Survival video game for those players who love playing Horror-filled games. It combines the elements of Action, Shooter and Zombie developed and published by Capcom. The game supports Single-player mode only, and it is the 6th entry in the series of Resident Evil. The story focuses on the special agent of the US government named Leon S. Kennedy, who is a female and sent on an epic mission to save Ashley Graham, the daughter of US President who is kidnapped by a sinister cult. The game takes place in the rural area of Spain and casts you in the role of the protagonist and lets you fight against hordes of violent villagers. You explore the world from a third-person perspective and can use different weapons to slaughter foes. It centers on the action, shooting and massive crowds of foes in open-ended areas. There are several missions, and you have to complete each one to gain access to new weapons, by gathering enough experience points and use them to get upgrades. Resident Evil 4 includes key features such as Global Leaderboards, Customization Controls, Challenging Missions and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#16 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.
#17 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..
#18 Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is a Hack and Slash plus Action-Role Playing Game by Snowblind Studios. It is wonderful game to play and enjoy, in this game you can customize your character with the help of experience points getting them by defeating the enemies. You can have maximum skills and abilities for you character by going through different levels of the game. After every four levels of the game, you are given some extra strength, wisdom and intelligence as well. baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is set in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeon and Dragons world where it allows you to select your character from three main classes such as Humans, Dwarves and Elves, customize your character with the help of Experience Points collected via wining over the enemies, engage your self into epic Campaigns, Quests etc. use and develop your skills as you proceed in the game and enjoy an amazing Dungeons and Dragons type gameplay. With a brilliant game setting, enhanced game mechanics and visuals and a truly addictive gameplay, Baldur’s gate: Dark Alliance is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno is a fantastic Single and Multiplayer Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game by Visceral Games and Artificial Mind and Movement. The game features the protagonist Dante, a Crusader laced up with his primary weapon Death Scythe and the Holy Cross. According to the Storyline, Dante goes on a mission to eliminate the Hell’s Minions and engages into epic Combats, Platform and environmental Puzzles. The story takes another turn when the King goes on to search for a Holy Relic that is hidden under the folds of mystic environments. The king entrusts Dante with all the prisoners but Dante kills the Prisoners and the King sends him to find the Holy Relic as to punish him. Dante embarks on an epic journey to find the Holy Relic and reaches down to the Palace of King Saladin where he gets stabbed multiple times by the Assassins. Wounded badly, Dante returns back to Florence, Italy to his Father and his one true Love Beatrice, but instead finds them dead. Beatrice’s Soul appears in front of him and tells him all about how she and Dante’s father got killed. Dante Vows to revenge and descends into an opening into the ground at the spot where Hell and Earth borders. Dante reaches to the Hell’s Gate where he encounters the Minions of Lucifer, starts killing them selflessly, encounters Lucifer and kills him after a series of fast-paced and Action-filled melee combats. Dante then finds the Holy Relic and the game concludes. With a very interesting story, state of the art visuals and a super thrilling game-play, Dante’s Inferno is a wonderful game to play.
#22 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.
#23 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.
#24 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.
#25 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is an Action-Adventure, Military-based, First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. It is the sixth entry in the series of Call of Duty and the direct sequel to Modern Warfare. The game revolves around the Task Force 141, controlled by the United States Army Rangers and the Captain Soap Mac Tavish as they attempt to take over Vladimir Makarov, who is the leader of Russian party. There are different protagonists such as Gary Roach, James Ramirez, Army Rangers, and more. Select your character and dive into the fictional world where you have to fight against enemies using a variety of military weapons and defeat them to earn experience. Your character can perform various actions like crouch, sprint, lay prone, jump, and more. You can use stealth element to avoid enemy attack. Explore the massive environment from the first-person perspective, and collect power-ups to maintain your health bar. There are different modes such as Multiplayer, Spec Ops, Campaign and more. In Single-player Campaign, you must navigate the environment and have to complete eighteen levels to progress through the game. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and superb mechanics with smooth controls Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#26 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.
#27 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.
#28 Okami
Okami, developed by Clover Studio, Ready at Dawn and Hexa Drive and published by Capcom is an Action-Adventure, RPG and Fantasy game released for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Wii gaming platforms. The game thrives in the history of Japan and bases on many Japanese mythologies and legends. The story of the game tells us about a heavenly entity named Amaterasu who descends to earth and saves it from the darkness. It changes its appearance into a wolf and roams the land, kills all the hostile creatures and removes the dark spells and nourishes the land. Okami features an amazing game-play that resembles the one in Zelda, a super engaging and involving story, woodcut (Water color styled) 3D graphics and an open world. Having a close resemblance to Zelda this game is a wonderful piece of art and it will surely entertain you a lot.
#29 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.
#30 Shadow of the Colossus
Shadow of the Colossus, is another spectacular piece of art in the line of Action-Adventure and RPG gaming. This masterpiece is developed by Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The story of the game features a young man named Wander who lost a girl named Mono and while searching for her, he enters the Land of Forbidden. Wander travels across the land on a horse and defeats sixteen humongous beings The Colossi, who actually are portrayed as his enemies. The protagonist fights against every Colossi after finding the beam of light and after defeating the Colossi, he restarts from the starting point. Every next Colossi emerges from a new lair and comes with new powers and battle tactics. If the Protagonist is defeated the game ends and starts from the beginning. With an open world, enhanced graphics and a great storyline that player is provided with, a third person gaming perspective and a single player gaming mode. Considering all the fantatic things in the game, Shadow of the Colossus is one amazing Action-Adventure and RPG video game to play and enjoy. You’ll definitely like it. “Shadow of the Colossus” is available to play on PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 only.
#31 Alice: Madness Returns
Alice: Madness Returns is an Adventure, Action, Platform, Female Protagonist, Hack and Slash and Single-player video game developed by Spicy Horse Games and published by Electronic Arts. The game is the sequel to American McGee’s Alice and offers action-packed and horror gameplay. The story follows the character named Alice Liddle, a little girl suffering from Trauma caused by the death of her beloved parents in a strange accident. The protagonist was discharged from the hospital now she lives as traumatized orphans and Dr. Argus Bumpy treat her. It takes place in the world of Wonderland corrupted by an evil force. To learn about her past and get rid of the Trauma, she must explore the game world, interact with NPCs and fight against enemies using the weapons. You can navigate the game world from a third-person perspective, and your character can jump, dodge, run and attack. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, exciting story and superb graphics details, Alice: Madness Returns is the best game to play and enjoy.
#32 Mafia 2
Mafia 2 is a 3rd person, Open World, Action-Adventure and Shooting game developed and published by 2K Czech. This game is a direct sequel to Mafia: City of Lost heaven and is playable on Pc (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is based in the fictional cities of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit and it revolves around the life of a former army veteran now a gangster Vito Scalata, who wants to be a don someday. Vito Scalata continues to work hard and gathers a large file of his criminal activities in the law enforcement office. The protagonist of the game mostly travels on foot or in vehicles and a lot of ammunition travels with him. Where ever he finds his enemies he kill them and also works on assignments from his multiple bosses to earn money. The gameplay of Mafia 2 greatly resembles to the GTA series games but the storyline is quite different. Mafia 2 features an era of Empire Bay so the music in the game is also quite oldish but great, you’ll get a chance to drive vintage and famous cars from the years 1940 to 1950. With great graphics, an open world gaming environment and a third person perspective, the player is forced to enjoy the game.
#33 Far Cry
Far Cry is a Fast-paced Action and War-based Tactical First-person Shooter (FPS) video game series developed by Crytek and Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. With a lot of similarities to the Battlefield and its predecessors, Far Cry is one of the best Action games to play. The whole series features the character of a protagonist who single handedly or with teams, battles against the hostile enemies and uses the weapons of his choice as he advances according to the story of any game of the series specifically. The game features striking open world environments that cover the lands from the Himalayas to Africa, lets the players edit or create totally new maps, most sophisticated sets of graphics along with a compelling storyline and multiplayer gaming option. If you really want to experience an impressive and thrilling game-play, you must try Far Cry and enjoy the ultimate Action, Thrill, Shooting, and Drama altogether. Far Cry is available to play on
#34 Beyond Two Souls
Beyond: Two Souls by Quantic Dream is a super Thriller, Action-Adventure and Third-person Shooting video game. The story of the game features the protagonist Jodie Holmes and a ghost Aiden. Jodie and Aiden are spiritually linked to each other and because of the psychic link between the two, Jodie can communicate with people via Aiden, she can also perform psychic acts and manipulate physical objects. Because of her Psychic powers her foster parents leave her in the custody of Dr. Nathan Dawkins who further looks after Jodie and she spends the rest of her life in the Facility of U.S. Department of Paranormal Activity. Dr. Nathan with the help of Cole Freeman further nourishes her powers and seeks her help in opening a portal to another world. He builds a condenser and Jodie opens up the connection to another bizarre world but soon after discovering the presence of strange entities she shuts down the condenser and warns Dr. Nathan about not building another one, but the condenser remains open and that’s when the chaos begins. The portal remains open for long enough to get the attention of CIA and the agency dispatches Agent Ryan Clayton to investigate the matter. Agent Ryan Meets Jodie and recruits her to work with him. This is where you get into the character of Jodie and go on multiple missions, kill the enemies and hard targets etc. At some point the agency will use you for illegal means and that’s when you should go against the agency and hunt down the real culprits. This Film Noir Drama is one amazingly well written piece of art that also provides with a super engaging game-play and splendid graphics. Beyond Two Souls is a great Action-Adventure and Shooting video game to play and enjoy. You should totally play this game and enjoy an amazing blend of Action-Adventure, Shooting and Drama elements all together.
#35 Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection produced by Kojima Productions and published by Konami introduces all Metal Gear games that were released from 1987 through 2012. The series offers the Action-Adventure, and Stealth gameplay and supports Single-player mode only. Each game offers challenging gameplay with shooting elements and lets the player take on the role of the protagonist to fulfill a set of objectives and missions. The collection contains Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid, and more. The player needs to explore the environment, encounter enemies and kill them to earn experience points. The game rewards the player with rewards and points that the player can use to upgrade his weapons, and unlock further in the match. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection offers prominent features such as Detailed Environment, a set of Missions, Upgrades, a variety of Weapons and more. With exciting gameplay, fantastic mechanics, and excellent stories, Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection is the best video game series to play and enjoy.
#36 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.
#37 Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry video game series is a story of a character named Dante whose ultimate goal is to avenge the murder of his mother by eliminating the demons. The protagonist goes through heavy combats with the devils hacking and slashing all the evil forces using his battling tactics and all the available resources like weapons, skills and objects. With a huge success, Devil May Cry sold multi million copies worldwide and recently the company rebooted the series with another blockbuster game DMC: Devil May Cry. Devil May Cry is co-developed by Capcom and Ninja Theory and published by Capcom for multiple platforms like Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and iOS. Do try this game out and enjoy the ultimate fun and thrill.
#38 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.
#39 The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us is an Interactive Drama, Episodic and Graphic Adventure video game developed by “Telltale Game”. The story of the game is based on “Bill Willingham” Comic Book Series named as “Fables”. The game takes you back to the past in the year 1986 and fits you right into the character of “Bigby Wolf” a law enforcing officer. “The Wolf Among Us” starts off with you as the protagonist saving a fable girl from the attack of a woodsman. You take her to your place where she heals her wounds and leaves saying that “You are not as bad as People think you are”. Chapter ends and in next chapter someone gives you the news of the fable girl’s head resting at a Woodsman doorstep. Sherrif “Ichabod Crane” orders you to investigate and solve the case and take “Snow White” with you as your assistant. “The Wolf Among Us” is a super thrilling and exciting case solving and detective video game that lets you solve murder cases by investigating and collecting the clues/evidences and by interacting with objects and NPCs. The game has a twisted and strange story that literally makes you dive deep into imagination and curiosity. Wolf Among Us offers a brilliant Episodic, Interactive and Story Driven gameplay and beautiful visuals to enjoy.
#40 Machinarium
Machinarium is a wonderful Point and Click Puzzle and Graphic Adventure video game by Amanita Design. The basic objective of the game is to solve a series of challenging puzzles and brain teasers by the use of your intuition and puzzle solving skills. Machinarium offers a Unique Story, a challenging game-play along with best visuals. According to the storyline, your task in the game is to solve a number of challenging puzzles, go through a series of obstacles, use your wit and Point and Click skills to get out of difficult situations and enjoy immersing yourself into a gameplay in which every thing is linked by an Overworld. Machinarium offers a dialogue based gameplay and allows you to interact with the written statements in order to perform the tasks and keep on playing until you are finished with all of the exciting game levels. With an amazing two-tier hint system, walkthroughs, loads of mini games, beautiful visuals, a truly very well written storyline and exciting gameplay, Machinarium is a fun Point and Click Puzzle-platform video game to play and enjoy.
#41 Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Lord of the Rings: War in the North is a superb Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Snowblind Studios. The game is set in a medieval era and it allows you to select your player character from a number of choices Such as Humans, Elves, Dwarfs and Orcs, explore the game world and engage yourself into epic Combats with enemies, defeat them and complete the game objectives. Lord of the Rings: War in the North lets you build and control your own army of finest warriors, select 3 main characters (Online Friends or NPCs), control them during the game-play and switch between them to use their special abilities whenever you need them. The game offers a unique mechanism that allows you to develop both your skills and character as you further with the story, unlock a number of upgrades and enjoy immersing yourself into the most fantastic game-play ever. Lord of the Rings: War in the North lets you enjoy the game solo or you can team up with your friends in Co-Op multiplayer mode and enjoy the game. With only one main objective of Survival and Defeating the enemy forces, Lord of the Rings: War in the North offers a brilliantly immersive game-play, beautiful and realistic visuals and a well-written story-line to enjoy.
#42 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.
#43 Jak and Daxter
Jak and Daxter is a video game series by Naughty Dogs and Sony Computer Entertainment. It combines the elements of Platform, Action-Adventure, Racing and Third-person Shooter. The series takes place in the fictional universe that comprises science fantasy elements and focuses on the protagonists and their efforts to unearth the secrets of the world and the mysteries which is left behind by the horrible race known as Precursors. The series centered on story-based Platform gameplay and lets the player navigate environments and fight against various foes using melee attacks. It includes a substance known as Eco which can enhance the abilities of the character. Eco is available in different colors and each with different effects. Explore different scenarios, fight against enemies, use different weapons, and save your world by destroying. There are many games in the series, and each entry has different gameplay, foes, missions, and tasks. The protagonist can run, jump, move in any direction and can use melee attacks and weapons to take down his enemies. The franchise offers some games such as The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, Jak 3, Jak X: Combat Racing, Daxter, The Lost Frontier, Jak and Daxter Collection and more. With detailed Environment, Stunning Visuals, Engaging Gameplay, and Superb Mechanics, Jak and Daxter is the wonderful game video game series to play and enjoy.