Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 2, developed by From Software is a Hack and Slash, Action-Adventure and RPG video game that is set in a Hostile Drangleic world and allows you to explore it and engage in combats and battles against your enemies. Dark Souls 2 offers both PvP and PvE events for you to get into and fight against the opponents. Every kill means a win for you, the soul of the player who gets defeated by you, accumulates and turns into experience points and currency for you. You can use the experience points and currency to buy upgrades, power-ups, weapons and skills etc. Because of the open world nature of the game, you encounter a lot of enemies while exploring but you can always kill them with your mighty sword. Multiplayer gaming mode allows you to team up with other online players or go against them and fight them off of your areas. Dark Souls 2 is one of the best Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and RPG games and it will definitely entertain you to the limits. Do try it out.
#1 Legacy of Kain
Legacy of Kain is a Dark Fantasy, Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and Single-player video game series developed and published by Crystal Dynamics. The series takes place in the dark-fantasy-themed world called Nosgoth and Legacy of Kain is the first game in the series. It combines the elements of puzzle, exploration, role-playing and action and the story revolves around the protagonist named Kain, as he attempts to defy his destiny and struggle to restore the peace of his world. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is another entry in the series and introduces a new playable character named as Raziel. In the beginning, the game requires choosing your character to get into the world full of monsters and vampires. Your ultimate task is to navigate the environment from a third-person perspective, fight against hordes of enemies using a sword and take down them to earn experience points. The series consists of different entries such as Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, Legacy of Kain: Defiance, and more. With prominent features and addictive gameplay, Legacy of Kain is the best series of play and enjoy.
#2 Salt and Sanctuary
Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.
#3 Echo Night
Echo Night is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by From Software for PlayStation. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Richard Osmond, whose main objective is to find out the reason behind the damage of his journey ship.
The game has four endings depending on the player’s investigation, such as the real ending, good ending, bad ending, and a terrible ending. The real conclusion is the outcome where the player arrives at the nose of the ship and discovers a secret passage where he comes to face a blind man and converse with him.
After this, the player receives messages from Crea Rockwell in his apartment. In the good ending, the player reaches the nose of the ship and does not enter the secret passage and finds himself at his father’s house.
The bad ending is the ending where the player will come to take the red knife from the blind man, and in an awful end, the player doesn’t arrive at the nose of the ship in time. Echo Night game has core features, such as First-person Perspective, Exploration, Four Endings, and NPC Conversation.
#4 Shadow Tower
Shadow Tower is an Action, RPG, and Single-player video game developed by From Software for PlayStation. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Ruus Hardy, whose main target is to discover the hidden items by engaging in a battle against enemies. While exploring the world, the player controls the character from a first-person perspective.
Every killed enemy will raise the stats of the player, and the player must defeat as many enemies as possible to reach higher stats. The game offers an item that permits the player to enhance the character’s stats physically and some character customization. It takes the player to the continent of Eclipse, where the entire city is in the clutch of the underworld.
The player equips only a sword granted by an older man to defeat the demons and bring peace to the city. In the playfield, the player must gain shields to block the enemy’s attack and also grab all the collectibles to enhance the abilities and raise the stats. The core features of the game are First-person Perspective, NPC Interaction, A Sword, Dangerous Demons, Shields, and Character Customization.
#5 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.
#6 Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars
Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars by Spike Chunsoft is an Action-RPG video game. The game focuses on the character named as Wake Archus who becomes the ultimate Monster Hunter and the savior of the realm after finding out the Star God Sign on his hand and the death of his sister by the monsters. Wake gets into the school of individuals like him and starts enhancing his abilities to get deep into the Dusk Circles (The place where monsters appear) and kill the monsters. Because of the high amount of Ether in his body, his ability to go into the labyrinths of Dusk Circles and using the Star Energy makes him God’s Gift and he becomes famous all around. By creating the Star Child with the help of an S-rank female student, Wake ultimately gets able to eliminate all the monsters and dark forces once and for all. You are required to act as Wake Archus and complete the game objectives. With a number of great quests, amazing combats with monsters, hardcore action and thrill based game-play and wonderful visuals, Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars is a great RPG game to play and enjoy.
#7 Legend of Mana
Legend of Mana is a wonderful Single and multiplayer Action-RPG video game by Square. The game offers a non-linear game-play and lets you engage yourself into real-time battles with enemies, allows you to manipulate your surroundings simply by using the Land make System, Enjoy going on epic quests and have loads of fun. Legend of Mana is the Fourth main inclusion to the series of Mana that made presence in the markets after the popular Seiken Densetsu 3. The game is set in High Fantasy and allows you to be an unnamed hero who goes on epic quests and tries to restore the Land of Fa’Diel and the Tree of Mana. With its unique gameplay style, Legend of Mana allows you to shape the world around you as you like by using the unique Land Make System, generate and build new Regions of land, enjoy Non-Linear gameplay in epic quests and enjoy it to the limits. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Legend of Mana is a true predecessor of all the games of this specific genre and gameplay style. Legend of Mana offers beautiful visuals, addictive gameplay and loads of fun things to discover.
#8 Bastion
Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.
#9 Guacamelee!
Guacamelee! Is a fantastic Action-Adventure, Beat em’ Up, Hack and Slash and RPG video game that features the player character named as Juan who embarks on a journey to save the El President’s Daughter. Juan is basically a wrestler type of character who uses punches and special skills to eliminate his enemies and to defeat the bosses. Guacamelee! Enables you to use grapple attack on your enemies and once they are in close range, kick them out for good using your iron hands. This brilliant fighting and beat em’ up game mostly focuses on melee combats and allows you to enjoy a side-scrolling game-play, with amazingly well designed mechanics and visuals. Every enemy kill awards you with coins that you can use to buy upgrades and stuff. With an amazing amount of challenging puzzles, ability to switch between the land of dead and the land of the living, fast-paced action and thrill filled game-play and all the wonderful things, Guacamelee! Is one amazing game to play.