Explore is one of the best facets of games, mainly for advanced ones, that take video games beyond the territory of Super Mario Bros. and Pong and invite players to engage themselves within the fantastic world. Beyond the completion of challenging missions, objectives and advancing through the plot, video games that brings exploration as the option enable players to engage themselves within the digital environments fully, searching for video game’s facets that elude the player, who would select instead to breeze through the storyline for finishing the game. The modern games, taking place in the open world environment offers the exploration elements, in which the player commands the protagonist and explore the environment from either a first-person perspective or a third-person viewpoint while struggling to complete the variety of missions or engaging himself/herself in free roaming. In some games, the player has the choice to select and drive the vehicle to cover the long distance to accomplish the mission. GTA series is the best example of exploration games, where the player controls the character from a third-person perspective, manipulate the open environment from a third-person perspective and can snatch any vehicle he like during the gameplay to drive for free roaming. There is a list of best exploration games of all the times.
#1 Dark Souls 3
Dark Souls 3 is recently released marvel and a fantastic new addition to the Dark Souls series. This amazing Single and Multiplayer Action-RPG offers gameplay similar to its predecessors but includes a lot of new weapons (Bows, Projectiles, Shields and Swords etc.), enemies, new attack types, new Combat features, new skills and abilities etc. Dark Souls 3 takes you to the Kingdom of Lothric where the First Flame is dying out and because of that the Age of Dark is about to come. Your task is to get into the character of an Undead known as the Ashen One, and stop the Age of Dark and the Apocalypse of Dead from happening. In order to achieve the goals, you must find and return the three Lords of Cinder and the Prince Lothric to the Firelink Shrine before it’s too late. The Lords of Cinder abandoned their thrones years back and they are all protected by the Watchers, a group of Warriors and are linked as one by the soul of Yhorm the Giant (Single Soul). You must fight off the Yhorm the Giant and the Lords of Cinder, collect their essences and powers, bring them back to the Firelink Shrine along with the Prince Lothric and finally return them all back to their thrones. The Lords will then be gone to fight of the Soul of Cinder and all of the Lords who linked the Fires previously, and save the Lothric. Dark souls 3 offers four different endings of the game all based up on the actions you perform during the gameplay. Dark Souls 3 offers a very well written storyline, amazingly addictive and immersive gameplay, enhanced game mechanics and visuals for you to enjoy the game.
#2 Persona 5
Persona 5 combines the elements of Role-playing and Social Simulation developed and published by Altus. The game supports Single-player mode only and it is the sixth title in the series of Persona, which is the part of the marvelous franchise of Megami Tensei. The game takes place in the fictional Tokyo, and centers on the protagonist, who has transferred to the fictional Shujin Academy after being put on probation. During school days, the protagonist and his other students awaken to their special powers, become the masked vigilantes and navigate the stunning Metaverse world to steal ill from the adults’ hearts. The game offers the amazing gameplay like its previous installments. It incorporates role-playing, dungeon crawling and social simulation elements. The player can take on the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to explore the environment from third-person perspective, interact with NPCs and complete a set of quests to progress through the game. The game rewards the player with experience points and can be used to unlocked further content in the game. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#3 Darkest Dungeon
Darkest Dungeon is a Turn-Based RTS, Action-RPG, Adventure, Dungeon Crawler and environmentally Gothic video game with great Rogue-like elements. The game lets you be a Great War Lord and allows you to recruit, train and lead a team of great warriors to explore a dark world of darkest dungeons. Your main objective is to explore the dungeons and collect the valuables, and encounter the most brutal and incredibly stressing horrors and enemies. You must lead your team of heroes and explore the game world with courage, determination and bravery. You must kill your enemies and return to your settlement as true heroes. Darkest Dungeon provides with the creepiest enemy bosses and a number of game levels to play and enjoy the game. Every valuable collected and every enemy killed allows you to win game points that you can use to buy upgrades and fight your enemies with more courage and power. Darkest Dungeon is one of the best game of this specific genre and it will definitely leave you spell bounded for a great amount of time. Do try it out.
#4 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.
#5 Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia is a Critically Acclaimed and Award winning remake of the fantastic Video game that released back in 1989. This time the game is back for the first time with all the Next Gen aesthetics and offers loads of fantastic elements such as new and Epic journys, amazingly unique characters, enhanced game mechanics and loads of other fantastic things. Created by one of the most popular Developers Ubisoft, Prince of Persia takes you to a whole new level of Action, Adventure, Platform and Hack and Slash genre experience. Prince of Persia lets you play with a new prince character, enjoy a new storyline, Open World environment, revamped Combat system, enhanced new visuals, new enemies and antagonists, allies etc. Packed with all the fast-paced action and thrill, the game allows you to master the art of acrobatics, new fighting techniques and strategy, enjoy amazing parkour and engage yourself into epic combats, slay the eternal enemies, corrupted lords and other darkest entities. Explore the beautiful world of Persia, traverse through a number of different open world environments, be allied with one of the history’s most deadliest character, Elika an AI (Artificial Intelligence), go on to defeat all kinds of monstrous enemies and free the world of all the corrupted and disloyal anarchists. Furthermore, Prince of Persia allows you to solve a number of challenging puzzles and enjoy playing this marvel. Prince of Persia is one of the greatest hits of all times. Do try it out if you haven’t yet played it.
#6 XCOM: Enemy Within
XCOM: Enemy Within is a Downloadable Content Pack for the XCOM: Enemy Unknown released for multiple platforms developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The DLC pack introduces new gameplay elements, as well as features new themes of transhumanism. The gameplay and plot remain the same like the original title with some extra features. In the game, the player needs to manage the headquarters of XCOM in real-time, but most of the gameplay comprises turn-based combats against rogue human faction and invading aliens. The game includes the Meld (the new resource), the player must lead his army to fight enemies while securing Meld. Single-player campaign consists of forty-seven maps and introduces thirteen maps in multiplayer mode. XCOM: Enemy Within offers core features such as New Soldier Abilities, New Equipment, and Weapons, Strategic Resources, Multiplayer (Maps, Units, and Abilities), etc. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#7 Slay the Spire
Slay the Spire is an engaging Deck-Building, Rogue-like, and Single-player video game created by Mega Crit Games for multiple platforms. The game blends the rogue-like and card games to offers the best Single-player video game. During the game, the player needs to craft his unique deck, encounter strange creatures, find relics of immense power, and defeat enemies to advances through the game. There are two core characters each with its unique abilities and power, and the player can select one of them to jump into the world to fulfil the tasks. The game offers more than two-hundred cards each with unique skills. The player will discover hundreds of cards and can include them in his deck with each attempt at climbing the Sphere. Slay the Spire includes core features such as Randomly Generated World, over 50 Combat Encounters, 200 Implemented Cards, Tons of Unlockable and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#8 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a Single-player Role-playing video game. The game is set in the Star Wars Universe and the story takes places four thousand years before the Galactic Empire. The story revolves around the player character who escapes his ship with a skilled pilot named as Carth Onasi soon after the attack of a former Jedi and now a Dark Lord named as Darth Malak. Soon after their escape this ship crashes on a planet Taris, where a martial law gets imposed by Darth Malak in search of a skilled Jedi Padawan Bastilla Shan. Player character finds other Jedis on Taris and finds Shan before Darth Malak and rescues her from the clutches of a swoop biker gang and escapes Taris before the imminent destruction. Player character takes refuge in a Jedi Academy on the planet Dantooine and learns to be a Jedi, finds the lost Star Map and knows about the Star Forge, the ultimate source of Darth Malak’s military power and resources. This is where the player gets into the play and the game tasks the player to find the truth about his/her identity, find and save the Darth Raven, save him and destroy the Star Forge. With all the dramatic story and thrilling events, blasting encounters and a typically Star Wars influenced gameplay, fantastic visuals and a remarkable characters, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the best games of the series.
#9 Monster Rancher
Monster Rancher is a Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Life Simulation created and published by Tecmo. It is the first game in the series of Monster Rancher. The game revolves around breeding, raising, and fighting. It takes place in the fantasy-themed world populated with different monsters. Each monster has its unique skills, power, and abilities. Your main goal is to select your monster, take care of them by feeding, breeding, and training. One day, your monster will turn into fighting machines. Explore the game world, fight against other trainers using your monsters and defeat them to level-up. Play as the solo or against other players in multiplayer mode your main task is to prove yourself as the best trainer around the globe. You can play with your monsters different games and can earn hit points that you can use to unlock further content. With the stunning environment, immersive gameplay and superb mechanics, Monster Rancher is the superb game to play and enjoy.
#10 Far Cry Primal
Far Cry Primal is a fantastic new Action-Adventure and Survival video game by Ubisoft and Ubisoft Montreal. The game adds up a brilliant new type of genre in the series and offers a truly very immersive and quite jaw dropping experience. Far Cry Primal takes you back to 10,000 B.C in the beginning of Mesolithic Era. Set in the fictitious Oros Valley in the Central Europe, Far Cry Primal features an Open World environment filed up with all kinds of that time’s Flora and Fauna such as animals like Prehistoric Mammoths, Wolves, Cave Bears, Irish Elks, Wooly Rhinos, Saber-Toothed Cats, Cave Lions, Brown bears, Deer and Badgers etc. With only challenge of the game, Survival, Far Cry Primal lets you be a prominent Wenja Tribe man named Takkar, tasks you to explore the Oros valley without any weapons and lost of dangers. In order to survive, Far Cry Primal lets you capture and tame wild animals, collect different types of resources and build weapons, tools etc. You must build a special place among all the fellow tribesmen by using your skills and abilities of survival. Other prominent game tasks include scavenging, hunting, building structures by the use of all the natural resources and your abilities etc. With a very immersive nature, all the fantastic aspects of wild life and life without necessary resources, struggle and your survival abilities, brilliant visual details and all the fun, Far Cry Primal is one fantastic Action, Adventure and Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#11 FTL: Advanced Edition
FTL: Advanced Edition is a mix of Rough-like and Strategy elements developed and published by Subset Games for multiple platforms. The game supports Single-player mode only and introduces new playable race named as the Lanius with several event, equipment, and ships. It also includes a clone bay, that creates a crew consists of clones, hack drones to target enemies ships and a mind control system to take over the crew member of the enemy. In the game, you can assist the crew of a single spacecraft, and your ultimate goal is to deliver critical information to an allied flight consists of eight sectors while avoiding alien factions. Navigate the space environment, collect resources and earn points to upgrade your ship and enhance his abilities. FTL: Advanced Edition offers cool features such as Complex Gameplay, Unique Lifeform, Six different Alien Races, Procedurally Generated Galaxy, Be a Captain, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#12 Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life is a Role-playing and Single-player Simulation developed by Victor Interactive Software and published by Marvelous Interactive. The game serves as the part in the series of Harvest Moon and comes with improvements. It puts the player in the role of the protagonist, who starts the game with a cow, and later acquire castle as well as sheep, male horses, and chickens. In the game, the cow will produce milk for forty days after that he’ll stop producing milk, and the player must impregnate her to continue making milk. The game starts with a player making the choice of pointed ears or floppy dog. During the gameplay, the player can explore the land from a third-person perspective, collect milk from cows and sell to earn money. There are various objectives to accomplish to advances through the game and the player must complete them to become the master. The player must create and run a farm, and must build a successful life with family and fellows. Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life includes core features such as 40 new Characters, Raise the Child, Marriage System, and more.
#13 Dead Synchronicity
Dead Synchronicity is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game created by Fictiorama Studios and published by Daedalic Entertainment. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic themed world in future and offers the episodic gameplay where the player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Michael, who an amnesiac. According to the storyline, the player wakes up in the apocalyptic new world, where lots of humans known as the Dissolved have a dangerous disease that kills them. During the gameplay, the player can explore the secret areas, struggling to work out what is going on while confused by dreams and strange visions that cloud his brain. The game introduces the dystopian, a dark blood-stained plot, and space-time distortions atmosphere. There are several objectives that the player needs to complete to save the humanity. As the game progresses, it becomes difficult to play. With addictive gameplay, superb graphics, and smooth controls, Dead Synchronicity is the best game to enjoy.
#14 Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima is an Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game takes place in the historical-themed world in the year 1274 where Samurai warriors are legendary defenders of the fictional Japan. According to the story, the fearsome Mongol Empire threatens the environment of Tsushima, dominating the local population and wrecking the havoc. In the game, the player acts as one of the last remaining or surviving samurai, raise from the ashes to fight back. In the game, honorable tactics isn’t enough for the player and won’t lead the player to victory. The player must struggle to move beyond his samurai traditions to find the new way of battling, the path of ghost as the player wage an unconventional conflict for the freedom of the fictional Japan. The player navigates the environment of Japan from a third-person perspective, use his might sword to slay enemies and make an effort to restore the peace to save the world from being destroyed. Ghost of Tsushima is the wonderful game to play.
#15 Fortnite
Fortnite offers the superb blend of Third-person Perspective, Battle Royale, Survival, and Sandbox elements and supports Co-op, Single-player, and Online Multiplayer modes developed and published by Epic Games for multiple platforms. The game is about exploration, scavenging items, crafting weapons, building different structures, and fighting against hordes of enemies and zombie-like creatures. There are different characters from which the player can select his favorite one to start his adventure. In Fortnite game, players need to work together to scavenge items that they can use to defend and build structures and complete a variety of objectives to progress through the game.
During the gameplay, the player can edit each wall of the structure with a 3×3 grid, roofs, lay downstairs, and more. The game contains two different modes, one of which is Fortnite: Save the World, offering a co-op shooter-survival gameplay for up to four players to battle against zombies and defend objects using fortification players can build. The second mode of the game is Fortnite Battle Royale mode which comes with free-to-play Battle Royale gameplay where up to 100 players parachute on an island to battle against each other to be the last person standing. There are four different character classes such as soldier, ninja, constructor, and Outlander each class has its unique abilities and personality.
Explore the world from a third-person view, interact with non-player characters, progress through the game by completing objectives, and survive as long as possible to become the master. Fortnite offers core features such as Open World, Forest Environment, lots of Challenging Levels, and more.
#16 Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne is a fantastic hit of 2003 by Blizzard Entertainment that offers a wonderful combination of action and real-time strategy elements. The game adds up several new troop units to the game, along with new buildings, new shops, and hero characters for every race in the game.
Furthermore, it adds two new auxiliary and most advanced races. Both races further add several fantastic things to the game, such as the Naga race in all four of the main campaigns, unlike before, and they have their own playable troop units, weapons, enemies and allies, etc. It offers new maps and enhanced game mechanics, longer campaigns, enhanced game mechanics, and visuals and keeps you busy in fantastic and quite immersive gameplay.
#17 Last Day on Earth Survival
Last Day on Earth Survival is a Free-to-play, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing, Survival, and Strategy video game developed and published by Kefir for mobile platforms. The game offers the zombie-apocalyptic where it takes place and puts the player in the role of the survivors who must effort to survive as long as possible. The player can explore the environment from a top-down perspective, encounter other survivals (real-player), face infected people, and search for weapons, objects, items, and equipment. He can communicate with other players and teams up to survive together. There are a series of levels, and each level comes with a set of objectives that the player must accomplish to progress through the game. Using the crafting feature, the player can create weapons, assemble a vehicle, and useful objects to kill enemies. As the game progresses, the environment and level become tough. Last Day on Earth Survival includes prominent features such as Improve Strategic Skills, Navigate the Environment, Wild Animals, Maintain Health, Build Shelters, and more. Try it out.
#18 God of War III
God of War III is an action-adventure, hack and slash, single-player video game for PlayStation developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio. The game is the fifth entry in the fabulous series of God of War. The game takes place in ancient Greece and focuses on Greek Mythology. The player can take on the role of the protagonist named Kratos, who is a former god. The game puts the player on an epic adventure to fight against gods, monsters, and Titans to find Pandora.
The gameplay is similar as compared to its previous entries and based on combo-based combat. Kratos equips with his main weapons, such as Exile and Blades, to slaughter monsters and vicious gods. There are different types of creatures such as harpies, Cyclopes, sirens, and more. It is capable of climbing, jumping, running, and swinging by using ropes. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant visuals, and a superb story, God of War III is a wonderful game.
#19 Harvest Moon
Harvest Moon is a popular Farming Simulation that offers RPG, Dating, and Social elements developed by Amccus and published by Natsume and Nintendo. The game became a huge success after its initial release and broke many records. The Story of Harvest Moon revolves around a young boy responsible for managing and maintaining his long-lost father’s farm and restoring it to its original condition.
Furthermore, the game gives the option to divide the daily tasks into different times. The required tasks are farming, raising the livestock, fishing, and romancing around. Harvest Moon allows the players to not forget about social and marital affairs.
The players can date, romance, marry many Non-player Characters, have families, raise children, and enjoy every bit of their virtual life. The game’s social element allows the players to manage or attend special events such as the side quests, enjoy conversations with people, enjoy Harvest Festival, Egg Festival, New Year’s Day, Winter Solstice, dance with girls, and go on dates, and other such events.
#20 Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics is an RPG game developed by Square Enix. It offers amazingly addictive and fascinating gameplay packed with essentials and a unique combat system. Set in the fictitious medieval era kingdom “Ivalice,” the story revolves around a high-born cadet named Ramaza Beoulve who gets trapped into the most brutal conflict of the time, The Lion War, between two high-class Nobel factions. The war intensifies as the lust for the throne clouds the judgment of the faction heads, and a cruel era of blood and gore starts up.
The protagonist gets destined to find out the causes of the war, and in pursuit of completing the objectives, he becomes a crucial part of the War itself. With an amazing Plot and Story, great action-oriented game-play, and an amazing Medieval Era setting, Final Fantasy Tactics takes you to a totally different side of this specific genre. Final Fantasy Tactics is a wonderful game. Most of you will be familiar with this title, but what about all those similar games packed with almost Final Fantasy Tactics like elements, game-plays, and stuff.
#21 The Room
The Room is a 3D puzzle, adventure, and mystery-based video game developed by Fireproof Games. The game offers a brilliant and challenging game-play in which you go through several boxes built using complex physical mechanisms. You are tasked with solving the mysterious puzzles to open the boxes. Each box has a different mystery that takes the character to new levels. Furthermore, it offers a tutorial mode to learn about the game environments and master gaming skills.
It offers layers of compelling problems that do not allow you to take your eyes away from the gaming screen. It consists of realistic graphics that provide you a natural view of various levels of the game. In addition, the amazing secrets of all the stages make it difficult for the user to stop playing. So start playing and solve enigmatic mysteries and give yourself an enhanced dose of entertainment.
#22 American Truck Simulator
American Truck Simulator or also known as ATS is a brand new Vehicle Driving Simulation by SCS software. The game is a parallel sequel to the popular Euro Truck Simulator 2 (By SCS Software), and it offers a similar gaming experience. Along with being a massive hit and a fantastic Driving Simulation, American Truck Simulator is a Business Management Simulation as well as it allows the players to grow their business by moving goods to various locations on the game map. Every goods delivery rewards the players with money and experience points that they can use to buy upgrades, more vehicles and hire more NPC drivers. Unlike Euro Truck Simulator 2, American Truck Simulator offers a time-based gameplay and focuses more on delivering the goods with fewer damages. If a goods delivery is late and there are a lot of damages to the goods, the driver gets to pay the damages with money in his/her bank. As mentioned earlier, the player can buy more Trucks, hire more drivers and spend the money on upgrading them with all the necessary items such as Repairs, Fuel, and Structural upgrades, etc. Another important part of the game is that it allows the players to manage their own Trucking business by hiring more NPC drivers and keeping on adding more Trucks to the fleet. That way players can enjoy both Driving and Business Simulation at the same time. American Truck Simulator offers various locations in the game including California, Nevada, Arizona, Mexico, and Canada and features different types of Trucks, environments and day and night cycles as well. With a fantastic game setting (USA), beautiful and fluent 3D graphics, enhanced game mechanics and addictive gameplay, American Truck Simulator is one of the best Driving Simulations to try.
#23 Worms
Worms is a Single and Multiplayer Artillery-based Strategy video game by Team17. Developed back in 2007, the game is actually a remake of the 1995’s popular Worms video game and it is available to play on Xbox, PlayStation and iOS platforms. The game allows the players to control a small platoon of Worms and battle against the Computer AI (Artificial Intelligence) and other player controlled teams of Worms. Worms offer a beautiful cartoon-style Animations and allows the players to carry various types of weapons, command over the controlled worms via communications such as being continuously in contact with other players or by using voice commands. Worms offer a detailed tutorial to learn about the game, loads of Single-player missions and challenges, Multiplayer mode with all the team-based matches as well as offline gameplay. With a wonderfully addictive gameplay, beautiful visuals, and enhanced mechanics as compared to the previous version of the game, Worms is one amazing Strategy video game to play and enjoy.
#24 Halo
Halo is a Militaristic Sci-Fi First-person Shooter video game series created and published Bungie, Ensemble Studios, and 343 Industries. The whole series focuses on an Interstellar War between the two most brutal enemies in the Galaxy, Humans and a Theocratic Alliance of Aliens named as Covenant. The main focus of the series remains on one particular character named as Master Chief John 17, a Supersoldier from an advanced breed of Soldiers known as Spartans. An Artificial companion, Cortana companies the Master Chief throughout the series. Halo Series offers a lot of other characters of utmost importance in the games and provides with different interconnected stories, objectives and environments as well. The series offers multi-genre games as well as Novels, Graphic Novels, and loads of other products. Halo Series offers 3 main titles as the Original Trilogy including Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3 along with Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians (As Reclaimer Saga releases), 5 Spin-offs Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo: Spartan Assault and Halo: Spartan Strike. Furthermore, Halo Series offers hardcore Action-packed video games, all packed up with different interconnected stories, different objectives, unique characters, and all the incredible Intergalactic conflicts over the possession of a Super Weapons called Halo Rings and of course to survive.
#25 City Car Driving – Car Driving Simulator
City Car Driving is an excellent Car Driving Simulation by Forward Development. The Simulation offers advanced Physics-based Car Driving experience for all the drivers and lets them learn to drive in different conditions, environments and situations. With a very realistic approach, City Car Driving offers high-quality graphics, physics-based mechanics and an easy to understand interface. It allows the players to modify car physics, appearance, vehicle type and lets them choose between the roads and conditions just as per their interests. That way, it actually offers a truly remarkable choice-based gameplay as well. Key features of City Car Driving include Multilingual support, both US and EU driving rules, Right and left hand Driving options, various weather, and environmental conditions, loads of different routes and roads, very detailed city maps, great visuals, realistic sounds and easy controls, etc. City Car Driving is the best simulation for all those who want to learn driving like pros. Do give it a try, and you’ll definitely like it.
#26 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.
#27 Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven is an Action-Adventure, RPG and a 3rd person Shooter video game developed by 2k Czech and published by Gathering of Developers for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. The game is set in the fictitious city of Lost Heaven and features a Mafioso named as Tommy, as the protagonist who is a taxi driver by profession but accomplishes different missions assigned to him by Don Ennio Salieri. The protagonist drives vehicles, runs, walks on foot, and kills the targets in order to advance in the game by engaging in combats with the enemies. In close combats, the protagonist uses melee tactics and attacks the enemies with different melee weapons. Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven offers vivid graphics, an amazing storyline and a thrillingly addicting game-play. Trying this game will surely be one of your best choices.
#28 Divinity: Original Sin 2
Divinity: Original Sin 2 serves as the sequel to Divinity: Original Sin is an Action Role-playing and Third-person Perspective video game published and developed by Larian Studios. The game comes with both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and takes place in the highly detailed landscape centers on after the event of the previous title. According to the story, Bishop Alexander announces all Sourcerers to be bad guys. A team of four players embarks on a quest to eliminate the enemies. There are different characters available, and the player selects one of them with stats from different races. He can create a team of three companions to help him. The companions can be played as a playable character in multiplayer mode. Human, Lizard, Elf, Undead, and Dwarf are the prominent character classes in the game. The player participates PvP battle arena against other players and can defeat them to become the master. It introduces the open-ended world to free roam where he can interact with non-player characters and can fight enemies to earn points. Divinity: Original Sin 2 offers core features such as Turn-based Combat, Hidden Secrets, different Classes, Split-screen Mode, Game Master Mode, and more. Try it out.
#29 War Robots
War Robots ( previously known as Walking War Robots) is an Action, Massively Multiplayer Online, and Third-person Shooter video game developed by Pixonic. The game is available to play on Mobile platforms such as Android and iOS. There are different types of massive robots, and the game lets the player pick one of them to dive into battle where he has to fight against Artificial Intelligence Robots or other real players around the globe. To immerse himself in team-based experience, the player has to interact with other players, team-up with them and battle against a rival team to win. The game introduces six vs. six modes, and the player will automatically add to the team through this matching system. The player can participate in PvP combat where he has to select another player to fight. Score the highest points and use them to unlock further weapons, armors and more. War Robots offers core features such as Twenty-four Robots, different Combination of Robots and Weapons, Epic PvP, Awards, Military Tasks and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#30 Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves is an Action-Adventure, Pirate-themed and Multiplayer video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios. It takes place in an open world environment and brings a thrilling gameplay deals with exploration, steering, firing cannons and more. In the game, the team of players traverse and navigate the open-ended environment via a ship of a pirate to fulfill various tasks to score the points. The player can embark himself on epic quests to collect loot, score the points and engage in deadly combat with other players from around the world. During the gameplay, the player can interact with the environment and non-player characters to progress through the story and can explore the landscape from a first-person perspective. It offers a beautiful world and the player can team up with other players and can battle enemies to score the points to prove himself as the best pirate in the game. With the highly detailed environment, wonderful graphics, and smooth controls, Sea of Thieves is the incredible game to play and enjoy.
#31 Empire Earth
Empire Earth by Stainless Steel Studios is a Real-time Strategy (RTS) video game. It’s the first game in the series and allows the players to be part of the world, Collect Resources, Construct buildings, produce and look for the Citizens, raise massive legions of Army and invade enemy civilizations to expand your reign. Empire Earth offers 500,000 years of World History and divides it to fourteen different eras. The game lets the players start from the Prehistoric Age and slowly grow into the most advanced and developed civilizations. With an exciting Expansion pack named as Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, Empire Earth adds up more new features to the gameplay and allows the players to enjoy it more. Furthermore, Empire Earth offers a fifteenth and new Epoch known as Empire Earth: Space Age that focuses on Advanced Space-based Civilizations and Colonization of the planets in the Empire Earth Universe. Empire Earth offers Epochs of different times and allows the players to enjoy gameplay in various eras such as Prehistoric Age, Stone Age, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Dark Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Imperial Age, Industrial Age, the Era of World War 1, World War 2, Modern Atomic Age, Digital Age, and the Nano Age. Space Age is added to the game as an expansion pack that comes separately. With a number of Single-player Campaigns such as Learning Campaign, Greek Campaign, English Campaign, German Campaign, and Russian Campaign, Empire Earth offers Multiplayer Campaigns as well. Empire Earth also provides several Sequels, and a major Expansion pack named as Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest. With a truly remarkable narrative, an impressively involving gameplay, beautifully created visuals and all the building and Construction fun, Empire Earth is a great RTS video game to play and enjoy.
#32 GTA
GTA, also known as Grand Theft Auto, is an Action-Adventure and Open World game developed and published by the Rockstar games. The game features a criminal who has contacts in the underworld. It covers three cities based on real-life visuals. The player is required to complete various missions to clear levels. The game maintains complete freedom for the player to roam in the city.
The gameplay focuses on Open World Environment where the player roams freely, blazing guns, and drives a vehicle he likes for any mission. It is a fantastic amalgamation of Action, Adventure, Third-person Shooting and Driving, RPG, Racing, Stealth, and engaging gameplay. Adult themes and violence make this game the most Controversial video game of the modern era. However, with worldwide fame and critically acclaimed labels, it has broken all the records of any previous Open World Action-Adventure video games.
#33 Command and Conquer: Red Alert
Command and Conquer: Red Alert is a RTS (Real-time Strategy), Single and Multiplayer video game created by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive. It is the second entry in the franchise of Command and Conquer and takes place in the historical-themed world where Allied Forces battle against a Soviet Union for take over the entire European mainland. It is set between 1946 and 1953 in a fictional Universe. The player can select his side, create his army, train and equip them with advanced weapons. Build his units and control his army through the game. Battle against another team, destroy their army, loot their resources and conquer the land. As a commander, you must fight for glory, defend your units from enemy and destroy the plans to take over land. The game becomes challenging, as the player advanced. Earn as many points as possible to unlock a further content in the game and collect medals and rewards to climb on ranking system. Command and Conquer: Red Alert offers enhanced mechanics, gameplay and graphics. It is the best game to play and enjoy.
#34 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.
#35 Frostpunk
Frostpunk is a Base-building, Strategy, Survival, and Single-player video game takes place in the Post-apocalyptic-themed environment developed and published by 11 Bit Studios for Microsoft Windows. It offers the frozen world, where the people develop the technology to oppose the cold. It puts you in the role of the ruler, who must manage both the infrastructure and the inhabitants. The game mainly deals with survival element where the heat means the life and every decision will affect the outcome of the story. As the protagonist, you must explore the land, gather resources, and command your team from both top-down and the third-person perspective. The primary task is to build your base, recruit your team of survivors like other RTS games (where the player recruit his team of the army) and command them in the game to complete the objectives. As the game advances, it becomes challenging to play and unlocks further features, missions, etc. Frostpunk offers core features such as City-Survive Gameplay, Make Decisions, Establish Laws, Explore the Frozen World, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#36 Euro Truck Simulator
Euro Truck Simulator is a vehicle simulation game developed by SCS Software. The game is set in the beautiful surroundings of Europe and takes you to an amazing tour of various cities from where you can pick up the cargo and deliver it to various locations. The game lets you choose your starting point chosen from various countries (Austria, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Switzerland). After you have started, you can pick up the cargo from the storage and deliver it to the assigned destination. Every goods drop allows you to earn money that you can use to buy a new truck from a number of European manufacturers (Mercedes, Renault, Scania, and Volvo) or you can upgrade the one you are having and expand your business to other countries. Euro Truck Simulator is a great driving Simulation/game and provides with an amazing game-play filled with a lot of great things. Talking about best games like Euro Truck Simulator, we have created a list of some really cool driving simulators/games for you to play and enjoy. Let’s take a look the list below.
#37 SimCity Buildit
SimCity Buildit is an addictive and quite brilliant Building and Management Simulation by Electronic Arts (EA). The game lets the players be the mayor of a city, construct various types of buildings, factories, research facilities, generate and collect resources, etc. To generate the resources, the players must build factories where they can forge Metal, plastic and other types of resources. Building parks, Apartments and a good sewerage system keeps the citizens happy, so the players will definitely have to manage their resources well and build beautiful houses and apartments for the people living in the SimCity. To supply clean water and continuous power supply, players will have to build power houses and a whole new system of water supply for each and every apartment in the city. The trade element of the game allows the player to collect resources from the factories, use them on the city and if they have extra they can sell them in markets and earn SimCity coins. Players can also visit neighboring cities, take a look at their design and buy some of the building material to use them in their own city. Good strategic and management abilities will always benefit good so the players must use their abilities to plan the city, water and power supply lines, keep the factories far from the population and must collect taxes to keep the economy in good shape. Building parks, assigning jobs to the people of the City and taking care of the law and order situations would definitely make the game more entertaining for the Mayor. With a remarkable gameplay, beautiful 3D visuals and all the building and management fun, SimCity Buildit is one of the best mobile simulations to enjoy. Do try it out.
#38 Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a Fast-paced Action Car Racing video game by Criterion Games. The game offers Open World environment in which you are allowed to compete against other racers, defeat them in different races such as Sprint, Circuit, Ambush etc. Need for Speed: Most Wanted is basically a remake of the 2005’s Need for Speed: Most Wanted and offers brilliant new enhancements in mechanics, visuals and game-play and provides with new vehicles, Race tracks and controls etc. If you have previously enjoyed this cool game, you should try this remake version of the game too. It’ll definitely make you love it even more with all the great stuff it has to offer. With all the thrill and adrenaline pumping action, Need for Speed: Most Wanted is available to play on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, iOS and Android Platforms. For all those who love playing Need fro Speed Series games, this game is actually a masterpiece. However, the game is a bit oldie now, if you play it, it’ll definitely entertain you good.
#39 Forza Horizon 3
Forza Horizon 3 is a Racing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios. The game takes place in an open-world environment called Austria, and it is the ninth marvelous entry in the series of Forza video game. It offers the similar gameplay to its predecessors. There are many licensed vehicles available, and you can select one of them to start your race against AI controlled character or against another player in a variety of events including time trials, drifting and more. Explore the detailed environment from a third-person perspective and take a chance to show off your driving skills and abilities in front of friends to impress them. Earn reputation points and use them to upgrade your vehicles and unlock further cars in the game for an ultimate race. To win the race, you have to cross the finish line first before your opponents or eliminate your competitors from race using your racing abilities. With the superb detailed open world, new vehicles, challenging events, etc. Forza Horizon 3 is the best game as compared to other Racing games. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#40 Ravenfield (Beta 5)
Ravenfield (Beta 5) is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Ragdoll and Single-player video game available to play on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The game revolves around between two factions such as the blue and the red. You can select one of them to start your game, and your main objective is to smash against a team using cars, helicopters, tanks and various weapons. The game takes place in the open environment and revolves around physics-based elements. It introduces a new vehicle as Quadbike, New Weapons, Helicopter, and Tanks. It supports Single-player and puts you on the battlefield against AI-controlled characters. Beat your foes and their bosses and earn the highest points to unlock further modes and weapons in the game. As you advanced, the game becomes challenging. The game features a flag multiplier, through this you gain extra points per enemy kill. With the massive environment, addictive gameplay, brilliant story, and superb controls, Ravenfield (Beta 5) is the best game to play and enjoy.
#41 Monster Hunter Generations
Monster Hunter Generations is an Action Role-playing game created and published by Capcom. The game offers both Single and Multiplayer modes and introduces new features such as Special Attacks, Play as Felynes, Combat Style, and more. It takes place in the stunning and dangerous environment populated with fierce dragons. The game puts you on an epic adventure to travel through the fictional land while hunting lots of dangerous dragons using your mighty sword. There are lots of quests, and each quest introduces unique environment, dragon, and a set of weapons. You can navigate the environment from a third-person perspective and can assume the role of the hunter. It includes fourteen different weapons such as Bows, Hammers, Swords, Lances, Guns, and more. You can create your character, customize its appearance and his playstyle from four different styles. With lots of exciting features, Ultra HD visual details, and brilliant controls, Monster Hunter Generations is the best game to play and enjoy.
#42 Roblox
Roblox, developed and published by Roblox Corporation is an MMO (Massively Multiplayer online) and a Sandbox video game available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS and Android platforms. The game lets you be part of a virtual world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself, explore an open world, interact with a lot of online players, play games together, make friends online and focuses on your creative and building abilities by manipulating the blocks and create whatever you want. You can talk over the mic or chat with your friends via an online text based platform. Everything you see in the game is basically situated inside the differently stylized, sized and colored bricks and blocks, and offers you a unique experience of Voxel based sandbox gaming. You get to visit different places, some provided by the game itself and some user created (Maps created by Lua 5.1 Programming Language), you can walk, run, jump, ride on skateboards, bikes, cars etc. and buy houses to live in. Roblox allows you to buy a structure and decorate it according to your likes and dislikes. If you don’t like a building or you want to destroy something you can totally bring it down and rebuild just according to your style and demands. The game provides you with best 3D graphics, two types of virtual currency (Tickets and Robux) to buy things, a lot of upgrades that you can buy with Tickets or Robux and a lot of other exciting things to do and enjoy.
#43 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.
#44 Stranded Deep
Stranded Deep is an Adventure, Survival, First-person Exploration, and Single-player video game published and developed by Beam Team Games. The game takes place in the Pacific Ocean, and the story centers on a plane crash survivor stranded in the deep waters. You, as the protagonist, find yourself in the life-invading scenarios. The game introduces dynamic day-night and weather systems and includes a building system to create shelters on an Island.
In the beginning, you have limited resources and items, however, as the game progresses, you will get access to further supplies essential to survive longer. It would help if you managed your vitals of thirst, blood, hunger against the challenges you face. It includes prominent features such as Terrain Variety, Co-op Gameplay, Random Collectibles, Physics-based Crafting System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#45 Day R Survival
Day R Survival is an Action, Role-playing, Survival, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by TLT Geims, OOO for Android and iOS. The game brings four exciting modes for you such as Real Life, Sandbox, Online, and Medium. It takes place in the large world and introduces the crafting element. It features an exciting story, in which you assume the role of the protagonist, who is a survivor and must face third, hunger, danger, and lots of brutal enemies during the gameplay. Using Carting option, you can create weapons, items, equipment, and other recipes to progress through the story. Your ultimate objective is to survive in the post-apocalyptic environment demolished by nuclear war, and you must avoid radiation. Survive as long as possible, build shelter, craft items, and collect food to maintain your health. Day R Survival includes superb features such as Survive in Post-apocalyptic, Online Mode, Live Chat, Crafting System, Hardcore Shelter, Co-op Mode, Enhance your Skills, Endless Possibilities, etc. Try it out.
#46 Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami is an Action, Violent, Top-down, and Single-player Shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in the fictional world Miami in 1989 and follows tow protagonists named Biker and Jacket. According to the story, the protagonist receives a calls who instruct them to start operation against the Local Russian Mafia. You can select your character and dive into the game world where you can explore it from top-down perspective with stealth element. As the story progress, the game becomes more challenging violent and you have to face different challenges such as powerful foes, and objectives. The entire game is divided into several chapters and each chapter has a set of several stages. Explore each level, obtain power-ups, score the highest points and unlock further content. Slaughter the members of Russian mafia using different weapons and keep your city clean from them. With breathtaking story, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Hotline Miami is the best game to play and enjoy.
#47 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Third-person, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh game in the series of Grand Theft Auto and first main game after Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It takes place in the fictional city called San Andreas based in Nevada and California. The story revolves around the protagonist named Carl Johnson “CJ” who returns to his homeland after the death of his mother. The protagonist finds his family and beloved friends in disarray, and the entire course of the game he struggles to reestablish his gang, fight against corrupt officers, and unearth the secrets behind his mother’s death. There are a massive variety of weapons, vehicles, and equipment that you can use during the gameplay and drive any vehicle that you see in your path. The protagonist can run, climb walls, jump, and drive different vehicles and bicycles. You can explore the environment either on foot or by vehicle and earn lots of money by accomplishing missions. Interact with NPCs and objects to further progress through the game and show off your driving skills. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant visuals and superb controls, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the best game to play amuse.
#48 Hello Neighbor
Hello Neighbor is an Action, Stealth, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by Dynamic Pixels and published by tinyBuild Games. The game takes place in the fictional land and introduces a variety of levels. The player assumes the role of the protagonist and his primary objective is to sneak into the basement of his neighbor’s home to unearth the terrible mystery. Each neighbor has its unique behavior, depending on the past action of the player. According to the story, the protagonist finds himself moving into a new home across the street of strange neighbors, who seems to be keeping a mystery in their home’s basement. The ultimate task of the player is to get into the home, collect objects needed to access and unlock the basement of the home. During the exploration, the player needs to move carefully without making any noise, otherwise the neighbor will chase and catch him. There are four inventory spaces available, same kind of items can’t be placed together in the same space. With superb gameplay, immersive soundtracks, high detailed graphics and smooth controls, Hello Neighbor is the best game to play and enjoy.
#49 Project IGI 2: Covert Strike
Project IGI 2: Covert Strike is an Action, Stealth-based, First-person Shooter, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created by Innerloop Studios and published by Codemasters for Microsoft Windows. The game serves as the sequel to Project IGI 2: I’m Going In and introduces improved gameplay, graphics, mechanics, and controls. Unlike the previous title, which offers only Single-player mode and now game saves, Project IGI 2: Covert Strike comes with Multiplayer mode, and limited save game capacity. The plot of the game introduces the rogue Chinese General named as Wu Xing as the main antagonist. The protagonist of the game named as David Jones, an agent of the Institute for Geotactical Intelligence, was set out on an epic mission to the Carpathian Mountains to recover the EMP chips robbed by a team of Russian Mafia. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, who can explore the world from a first-person perspective, use a huge arsenal of weaponry, and battle against enemies to score the points. There are a series of missions, and each mission needs completion of certain objectives to progress through the game. Project IGI 2: Covert Strike includes prominent features such as 19 Missions, Arsenal of Weaponry, Stealth-based Action, Detailed environment, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#50 Paragon
Paragon by Epic Games is a brand new Multiplayer Online battle Arena (MOBA) video game with Third-person perspective and beautifully created Symmetrical maps based up on bases situated on two different ends. The game allows you to be part of any of the two teams and defeat the other along with destroying their base and earn experience points by killing the enemies. Every base in the game is protected by the defensive structures such as Towers that attack the incoming enemies in order to protect the Base and all of the team mates. There are only three lanes on a map that you can follow to reach to the enemy bases and the lanes pass through the jungles. Each and every lane has a number of different additional resources hidden in the path that you can pick up and kill the incoming monsters and enemies. The game features mainly match-based gameplay so there are always two teams and you are free to join anyone of them at the start and Paragon allows you to control the “Hero”, a character that holds five types of unique abilities, skills and weapons etc. Furthermore the game lets you have minions with your team that keep on slowly pacing towards the enemy base and support the heroes while battling around. Paragon rewards you with experience points for every enemy kill and tower destruction and lets you utilize a deck of cards that you can use to purchase health, upgrades, artifacts and weapons etc. With a very dramatic nature, brilliant visual details and smooth gameplay, Paragon is one amazing MOBA video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.