Dead Rising 4
Dead Rising 4 is an Adventure, Beat ‘em up, Survival Horror, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created by Capcom Vancouver and published by Microsoft Studios. It takes place in an open world environment explored by third-person perspective. The game serves as the 4th title in the series of Dead Rising. It introduces the return of Frank West and takes place in the Christmas-themed Willamette Colorado. Unlike its previous titles, the game doesn’t feature the timer system or co-op gameplay. According to the story, Frank West, who is a former photojournalist and works as the professor in the college. One of Frank West students named as Vicky Chu approaches the professor and convinces him to assist her interrogate a military component in Willamette Colorado, the place where the first zombie outbreak. The player can take on the role of the protagonist with a job to kill as many zombies as possible while exploring the game world to fulfill the objectives. The player can navigate the world from a third-person perspective and can smash them using a huge arsenal of weaponry. With enhanced mechanics, improved gameplay, and stunning graphics, Dead Rising 4 is the best game to play.
#1 Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.
#2 Rust
Rust is a Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game by Facepunch Studios. Currently, in the Alpha phase, Rust offers early access to the game on Steam. Set in a massive Open World, Rust allows you to survive in an unfriendly environment by simply crafting different items, exploration and by finding the supplies such as Food, Water, Shelter, loot, Weapons and medical Supplies, etc. It spawns you right in the middle of other online players and lets you use your wit to find ways in which you can survive. You must stay well fed to avoid starvation and drink plenty of water in order to eliminate the threat of being dehydrated. Encounters with the creatures will definitely result in your demise of win so you decide what to do. All the deadly creatures, harsh weather conditions, and all the obstacles must not defeat you if you want to survive. Rust with all the wonderful mechanics, visuals and immersive game-play is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#3 Darkwood
Darkwood is an Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game that offers an Open World game-play with procedurally generated game levels. It blends in RPG, Action, Adventure and Roguelike elements beautifully and allows you to immerse yourself deeply into an amazing game-play. Left alone as an unknown character, you’ll have to seek for the reasons why you were left in this godforsaken and unforgiving world alone without any help. You’ll also have to scavenge for supplies, weapons and survive in an environment where countless terrors are waiting for you as you further deep into the world of Darkwood. Discover the secrets of unknown and solve challenging mysteries and puzzles, trade with or kill the mysterious natives of the Darkwood and survive till your last breath. With a number of skills to learn, perks to enjoy and crafting options, Darkwood lets you set traps for food and enemies, barricade yourself or go out hunting the hunters, it totally depends on the actions you perform. Be careful of all the creatures lurking in the dark, keep your sanity intact and find out the secrets of Darkwood.
#4 Dead Island
Dead Island developed and published by Techland and Deep Silver is an Action, RPG, Shooting and Horror Survival video game. The game is set in a zombie-infested open world where you get into the role of the protagonist who struggles to survive by fighting off hordes of zombies and engages in combats using melee techniques, melee weapons and different kinds of guns. Dead Island features a game-play with a first person perspective in which the protagonist roams in an open world, completes different quests, and gathers XP (Experience points) by killing the enemies to buy upgrades, weapons and different skills etc. Dead Island provides with a thrilling game-play, a well-written storyline, state of the art graphics along with single and multiplayer gaming modes. Built using Chrome Engine 5, Dead Island is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Linux gaming platforms.
#5 Neo Scavenger
Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.
#6 The Long Dark
The Long Dark is a new Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Survival and Exploration-based video game that takes you to a Frozen World. The world around you gets devastated after a huge Geomagnetic event happens and the environment changes rapidly. Left in the wilderness, your task is to survive the chilling cold and all the threats Mother Nature throws at you. The game lets you think and find the ways to survive, explore the land, gather up the resources, create and craft different items with all the available materials, make shelter for yourself and keep yourself well fed by trapping the animals and drinking plenty of water. With an always changing environment and weather, loads of native creatures such as deer, rabbits, snakes, Wolves, Bears birds etc. you must know how to interact with them and how to survive the attacks. To save yourself from the unforgiving environment, you must know how to make cloths, harvest the wood to keep the fire burning, harvest different medicinal plants to make antibiotics and stuff etc. The Long Dark offers an amazing simulation like game-play, stunning visuals and lots of things to discover and Survive.
#7 Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Teleglitch: Die More Edition by Paradox Interactive is an amazing Rogue-like 2D Retro Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Top-Down Shooter video game that takes you to a cold, dark and mega corporations plighted future of a small and shadowy planet on the edge of the galaxy. The game puts you right into the character of a scientist who gets trapped into a laboratory after an experiment on Necrotic Tissue Reactivation goes wrong and all the subject turn into fearsome mutants. Now you must survive huge waves of mutant enemies by using your abilities and weapons of different types. You must explore the premises and collect valuables, supplies and weapons, kill the mutants and finally destroy the laboratory to further stop the virus from spreading. With all the amazing things Teleglitch: Die More Edition offers, it’s a magnificent game to play and enjoy.
#8 Slender: The Arrival
Slender: The Arrival by Blue Isle Studios is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Sci-Fi Shooter video game and a direct sequel to the best selling game Slender: Eight Pages. The game starts with the protagonist (Player) inside an abandoned building. He can see the Slender Man outside but when he gets out in the open, the slender man goes to a much farther distance and can be seen on top of the hills. Loaded with just a flashlight, He starts searching for the pages and during his search slender man suddenly appears in front of him and because of slender man’s slightly changing behavior, he sometimes kills the protagonist and sometimes he leaves him alive with a little bit of his health wasted. The player carries on searching and if he finds out all the eight pages before the slender man gets to him, the search finishes and the level of the game concludes.
#9 Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Black Plague by Frictional Games and Paradox Interactive is the second installment of the Penumbra series. The story of the game is about the protagonist Philip moves away from the abandoned mine setting to find out the underground research base. On his way in the search of the Underground research base, Philip encounters with the dangerous and most eerily haunted beings who just want to him in a most mystical way. A series of puzzles makes him feel like being buried in the sand in in pitch black environmental wonder. Physics based puzzles like building the stairs out of boxes, placing boards to cross obstructions etc. are the most spell bounding tasks the protagonist is forced to complete in order to survive and continue his journey. With true HD graphics, a well written story-line and an engaging and challenging game-play, Penumbra: Black Plague proves to be a really wonderful Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#10 Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved is an Open World Third and First-person Survival and Action-Adventure video game by Studio Wildcard. The game offers a strictly survival-oriented gameplay and to survive, it allows the players to explore the Island, search for all the required resources (By breaking the stones, cutting down trees, etc.), and craft various items, build a base and enjoy being part of a truly remarkable world. Ark: Survival Evolved provides the players with an Ark, a map to the island that is 48 kilometers in total size. The map includes a land mass of 36 Square kilometers and an ocean that measures 12 Square kilometers. As Survival is the main bet in the game, Ark: Survival Evolved allows the players to build a Base, gather wood for Fire and items to craft Primary Weapons such as Pick Axe, Hatchet, and Spear, etc. Once the players have shelter, and they have crafted weapons, they can start exploring the island, reach to the Dinosaurs, Capture and Tame them (requires more resources). With all the Structural erections, Players can craft weapons by collecting more resources and technology needed for them. On advanced levels of the game, players can also create guns and part for them with the help of right resources and technology and experience. Ark: Survival Evolved lets the players earn Engram Points by Leveling up to the advanced stages of the game. Once on an advanced level, players can use Engram points to learn various techniques to craft items and enjoy the game even more. It includes more than sixty types of different Dinosaurs in the game and the players can either tame them, breed them for more species, ride on them or kill them for food or use their abilities to ease up a bit. Weapons can be mounted on Dinosaurs and players can use them while riding on them. Ark: Survival Evolved offers playability for both Male and Female characters and offers loads of customization options for the characters as well. All things considered Ark: Survival Evolved is a brilliant combination Action, Adventure, Survival and Crafting elements. So are you ready to ride on the back of a T-Rex to hunt for prey, fly on a Pterodactyl, build alliances with fellow players and fight off the enemies in a way it leaves really deep marks on them? Well, you should be because Ark: Survival Evolved is a fantastic game to play.
#11 Clive Barker’s Undying
Clive Barker’s Undying is a Horror-Survival, FPS (First-person Shooter) and Single-player video game developed by Dreamworks Interactive and published by EA Games. The game story of the game revolves around the protagonist named Patrick Galloway who is an adventurer and his efforts to interrogate the mysteries of the occult at the estate of his beloved fellow named Jeremiah Covenant. It takes place in the historical year 1923 and set in a fictional place where the protagonist receives a letter from his fellow, in which Covenant tells the protagonist about the occult matter. He wrote that his entire family has been destroyed. The game lets you get into the role of the protagonist, explore the game world, fight against monsters and enemies using classic weapons and complete a series of missions. It rewards you with experience points as you complete objectives and you can unlock further weapons using your points. The game is played from First-person perspective and combines the elements of shooting and role-playing. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, Clive Barker’s Undying is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#12 Project Zomboid
Project Zomboid is an Action, Horror-Survival, Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by The Indie Stone. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic-themed world where you are challenged by the game to survive as long as possible before dying. It offers an open environment invaded by zombies and you must face different challenges, pain, thirst, hunger, and tiredness. The ultimate task is to explore the game world, gather resources, and find foods to live alive for another day. It has two modes such as Survival and Sandbox. Build a shelter using different items, go to sleep to recover your energy and complete each and every level to prove yourself as the best survivor. Craft different weapons to attack zombies and eliminate them to earn experience points. Other features, modes, and levels will be unlocked as you gain experience. With horror gameplay, superb mechanics, addictive visuals, and horrific story, Project Zomboid is the best game to play and enjoy.
#13 Doom II: Hell on Earth
Doom II: Hell on Earth is a First-person Shooter, Single, and Multiplayer video game takes place in the Science-fiction and futuristic world. It is the 2nd release in the franchise of Doom published by id Software. The game puts the player in the protagonist’s role equipped with multiple advanced weapons, and his task is to explore the heart-pumping environment from a first-person, encounters lots of monsters and alien-like creatures and kill those using lots of weapons to prevent death. During the game, the player uses lots of other equipment like hand-grenade, pistol, and other arms to survive and can pick up different power-ups like health, ammo, and more to enhance his abilities. There are thirty levels available and split into four different areas such as City, Hell, UAC’s Starport and UAC Underground. Each zone offers a set of objectives and mind-bending puzzles that the player must complete at any cost to get access to another land. Doom II: Hell on Earth offers core features such as new Levels, brutal Enemies, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Multiplayer Mode, and more. Try it out.
#14 Sunless Sea
Sunless Sea is a mix of Exploration, Surreal, Role-playing and Rogue-like elements developed and published by Failbetter Games for multiple platforms. It offers the universe of Fallen London where the game takes place, in which the fictional London has been moved under the surface of the Earth to the Unterzee’s edge. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, who is a steamship captain and must explore the dungeons to battle against enemies and complete a series of quests to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player collects resources and can use to discover new locations, trading goods across the stunning environment, battling ships and take down zee monsters to advances through the plot. There are various types of rogue-like gameplay such as procedurally generated maps, permanent death, subsequent characters and more. The world is split into multiple islands and each island has a variety of quests, enemy types, and more. The player can sell items to earn money and use to raise his level. Sunless Sea is an addictive game to play and enjoy.
#15 Slender: The Eight Pages
Slender: The Eight Pages is a Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game, developed and published by Parsec Productions. The game brings the terrible gameplay based on the folklore meme figure, known as the Slender Man, who is described as the tall man warning black clothes with a white face with no facial features. It takes place in the midst of the forest during the midnight and is played from a first-person viewpoint. The ultimate objective of the player is to gather all eight pages located in different areas of the jungle while avoiding the Slender Man. The fog in the jungle grows thicker as the player gathers all pages, and the Slender Man appears closer to the character controlled by the player, though the sprinting speed of the character increases slowly. The Slender Man can move by creeping, and teleporting around the player, but only from the specific distance. In the game, the player is loaded with a flashlight to see through the dark environment. Slender: The Eight Pages is the brilliant game for those, who love playing Horror-Survival games.
#16 Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle is the perfect blend of Puzzle, Horror, and Strategy elements developed and published by Blue Wizard Digital for Multiple Platforms. The game has Single-player mode only, and the game enables the player to stalk and slay campers around over 100 puzzle-based levels with a horrific icon named as Jason Voorhees. According to the storyline, Jason will terrorize the victims around the world, from the Crystal Lake to the height of Manhattan, from snowy ski resorts to supermax prisons. The game brings the terrible gameplay and takes place in a 3D environment where the player assumes the role of the protagonist, whose face is covered with a mask. The main job of the player is to explore the environment, follow the instruction to complete each level, and frighten victims to score the points. As the player solve the puzzles, the game becomes tough to master and may be other levels will be unlocked to enjoy. There are more than 100 puzzles available and the player will experience Jason like never before. Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle includes core features such as 8 Episodes, Deadly Traps, R Mode, Leveling-up System, Murder Weapons, Four DLC and more.
#17 We Were Here
We Were Here is a Psychological Horror, Adventure, First-person Perspective, and Puzzle video game with VR (Virtual Reality) element developed and published by Total Mayhem Games. The game introduces both Single-player and Online Multiplayer mode in the stimulating environment. It comes with a compelling storyline, in which the player as the protagonist lost in the frozen wasteland and split up from his friend inside an abandoned castle. There is an only a single source to communicate with his partner is walkie-talkie with a familiar voice. The ultimate task of the player is to find a way out as soon as possible within time limit. The game acts as the free pilot episode in the series of co-op standalone puzzle-based adventures. Two characters are stuck inside the castle, with one of two players confined to a small part of the castle while other players explore the castle’s halls to find the player one in the game. Every room challenges the wits and ability of the player to communicate, using only voice. We Were Here includes prominent features such as Atmospheric Setting, Challenging Puzzles, Intriguing Environment, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#18 Six Days in Fallujah
Six Days in Fallujah is a Tactical and Third-person Shooter video game created by Atomic Games for Multiple Platforms. The game features both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and the game takes place in the stunning environment. The storyline of the game follows the squad of U.S. Marine from third Battalion, battling in the 2nd Battle of Fallujah in 2004. There are a series of challenging missions and the player as the protagonist needs to complete all tasks to advance through it. During the game, the player explores the environment from a third-person viewpoint, compete against enemies using several weapons while defeating foes to make points. The player can use his earned points to unlock further content, upgrade weapons and more. As the game advances, it becomes tough to master and the player needs to plan his strategy before taking any action. With core features, brilliant graphics, and superb controls, Six Days in Fallujah is the best TPS game to play.