Hidden Agenda
Hidden Agenda is an Action-Adventure, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. During the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist, who is a homicide detective named as Becky Marney and Felicity Graves, the district attorney, both involved in the serial killer’s case called The Trapper. The game introduces quick time events that decide the end of the story, including the protagonist’s survival or death. It has two different modes such as Story and Competitive. In story mode, you can invite up to five friends into the investigation and can ask questions about one another. One player has a chance to control the team, and make a strong decision, discuss evidence with others and struggle to work out the identity of the killer. Hidden Agenda includes prominent features such as Two Distinct Protagonists, Exploration, Two different Modes, Solve Cases, and more. With thrilling gameplay, superb mechanics, and addictive controls, Hidden Agenda is the incredible game to play and enjoy.
#1 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.
#2 The Last of Us
The Last of US, developed by NaughtyDog is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooting and Interactive Drama video game set in an Apocalyptic Era. The Horror Survival and RPG element makes this game stand out as one of the best games of this genre. The Last of US focuses on the characters of Joel and his daughter Sarah who both are trying to survive in the outbreak of Cordyceps Fungus, responsible of turning almost all of the humanity into the Monsters and Undead. If anybody comes into the contact with them, turns into one of them and this keeps on going until there is nobody left. While trying to scavenge for food and supplies, a soldier’s bullet kills Sarah and Joel goes against the forces and all the weapon holders. He becomes a smuggler and starts finding “Robert” for a huge supply of weapons and ammunition. When Joel encounters Robert, he tells him to have sold all the weapons to a Rebel group Fire Flies. Tess kills Robert and Teams up with Joel, Ellie joins the gang too and they all start their journey to eliminate the head of Rebel group. This is where you get into the play and take over the character of “Joel”. You must lead your team and encounter the rebels who actually are the real culprits who spread the Cordyceps Fungus. The Last of US allows you to use all kinds of weapons and engage in massive battles against the enemies so you must reach to the Rebel Head and kill him before he kills you and your team mates. The Last of US provides a great blend of variant stories and mixes them up in a very dramatic way and puts Action-Adventure, Shooting, RPG elements on a great show just for you to play and enjoy the game to the heights of entertainment.
#3 Until Dawn
Until Dawn is a recently released Marvel and a brilliant new addition to the Action, Interactive Drama and Horror-Survival genres. Published by Sony Computer Entertainment, Until Dawn is set in the Western Canadian region and features eight teenagers who decide to spend the vacation on Fictional Blackwood Mountain. They planned the Holiday at the same point where their 2 friends were lost one year ago. Just moments after their arrival at the Blackwood Mountain, a Psychopath attacks them. The only way possible to live is to survive and this is the point where story involves you in the gameplay. In order to survive and to perform a number of tasks, Until Dawn lets you switch between all eight characters, make some of the most critical decisions and advance into the gameplay as the story tell you. Until Dawn offers an episodic touch to the game and lets you conclude the game with different endings all based up on the actions you perform and the decisions you make during the gameplay. This impressive game features a number of items that you can find while exploring the game world and use them to plan your survival or simply make a decision such as sacrificing a player for the sake of others, getting into trouble to get to an item or leap forward and encounter the psychopath etc. With a very horror filled game story and environment, dark clean visuals and a truly remarkable gameplay, Until Dawn is one of the best Action, Horror-Survival and Interactive Drama video game to play and enjoy.
#4 Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a Graphic Adventure video game published by Square Enix and developed by Deck Nine. The game serves as the 2nd title in the series of Life is Strange and it is a prequel to the first installment, revolves around the 16-year-old girl named as Chloe Price and her relationship with her schoolmate named as Rachel Amber. It takes place in the stimulating environment, played from a third-person perspective. It offers the similar gameplay to its predecessor and doesn’t support time travel feature anymore. The game introduces a Backtalk feature, enabling the player to call up Chloe to get out of the precarious situation. The player as the protagonist can explore the world from a third-person view, interact with object and environment to complete the missions and score points. As the player progresses through the game, it becomes challenging to play and unlock additional content to enjoy. With enhanced mechanics, graphics, and controls, Life is Strange: Before the Storm is the wonderful game to play.
#5 Friday the 13th: The Game
Friday the 13th: The Game is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Third-person Exploration video game created by IllFonic and published by Gun Media. The game comes with both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and offers a stunning gameplay based on the film franchise of the same name. It focuses on asymmetrical multiplayer gameplay, allowing up to seven players controlling the Camp Crystal Lake counselors while one player guiding the antagonist named as Jason Voorhees. It consists of semi-open world, where the player explore the world and interact with each other. The primary task of the player controlled the Jason Voorhees to kill as many councilors as possible to progress through the game. During the gameplay, the player get access to special abilities including sense nearby counselors and can teleport anywhere in the world where the player want. The task of the counselors is to fulfill the objectives that will let the players to escape from the camp. There are more than 12 counselors available to choose from including Adam Palomino, A.J. Mason, Chad Kensington, Deborah Kim, and more. With thrilling gameplay, stunning graphics, and smooth controls, Friday the 13th: The Game is the incredible heart-pumping game for those, who love playing horror-survival games.
#6 Blues and Bullets
Blues and Bullets is an Episodic, Action-Adventure and Single-player video game created and published by A Crowd of Monsters. The game offers an exciting gameplay and it offers a well-written story, revolving around the protagonist named as Eliot Ness, an agent who jailed the gangster with name AI Capone. As the story proceed, the retired agent (the protagonist), who runs a diner known as Blues and Bullets. During the gameplay, someone informs the protagonist that the gangster AI Capone needs the help to search for his abducted granddaughter. Now, the player must explore the environment from a third-person perspective, where he has to find clues about the disappearance of the missing girl, interact with non-player characters, and progress through the game. The game also comes with a shooting sections and the clues will be matched to witnesses. As the game advances, it becomes challenging to play. Blues and Bullets offers prominent features such as Multiple Chapters, Find Clues, and more.
#7 Alien: Isolation
Alien: Isolation is one of the best Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival, Stealth and Shooter video game. The game offers a similar gaming experience to System Shock 2 video game and allows you to be the protagonist Amanda Ripley who embarks on a journey to find her mother Ellen Ripley and on her way to the secrets, she encounters the otherworldly aliens, engages into amazing combats with them on a space station named as Sevastopol. She gets trapped on the station and the only way out is to fight all the aliens, kill them using the advanced tech weapons and gadgets, eventually complete the game objectives. Alien: Isolation offers a huge arsenal of weapons at your disposal, a wonderful setting and story-line along with brilliant visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy.
#8 The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead, Developed and published by Telltale Games is an Action-Adventure, Graphic and Interactive Drama based on the comic book (The Walking Dead Comic Book Series) of Robert Kirkman. The game is set in an era of Zombie Apocalypse in Georgia, the story revolves around the life of the protagonist Lee Everett a former university professor, and a young girl named Clementine. Lee Everett helps a group of survivors stay alive and he leads them. Due to an open world gaming environment and a third person gaming perspective the player along with all the people roams freely and interacts with the item easily. The player controls the protagonist and helps him and other people fight against the hordes of zombies using every weapon they have. The life rate of survivors depends on the fighting abilities of all the fighters. With super cool graphics, a well-written storyline and many weapon choices, The Walking Dead provides with an amazingly fascinating game-play.
#9 The Evil Within
The Evil Within is a wonderful Horror-Survival, Action-Adventure and Third-person Shooter video game that takes this specific genre to a whole new level. The game lets you be Sebastian Castellanos, a skilled detective who is haunted by a cloaked and mysterious entity with immense paranormal powers. Set in a type of apocalyptic open world, The Evil Within lets you scavenge for items like medical supplies, food, weapons etc. and allows you to unfold the mysteries that are directly connected to the entity haunting you. Enemies in the game are equally equipped as yourself and because of that the combats in the game are quite action-packed and to properly dispose of the enemies, you must be skilled enough to survive. With a huge arsenal of weapons but limited ammunition, amazing abilities to master, various types of enemies to combat with and a great story to follow along with wonderful visual details and an engaging game-play, The Evil Within is one of the best Third Person, Action-Adventure and Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#10 Metro: 2033
Metro: 2033 is a Hardcore Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and First-person Shooter video game and a direct sequel to Metro last Light. The game is set in a Post-Apocalyptic era and takes you to the city of Moscow, Russia. Once again you’ll play as Artyom and your task is to survive and save the humanity from the reign of mutant creatures and their sudden deadly attacks. In order to complete the tasks, you’ll have to scavenge an open world for items like food, weapons, ammunition and medical supplies, fight against the mutants using different weapons in close and long distance combats and survive until every one of the enemies is killed or is neutralized in any other way possible. With an amazing game-play similar to its predecessors and Fallout series games, a great story to follow, ultra-realistic visuals and an amazingly realistic game setting, Metro 2033 is a great Action, horror, Survival and First Person Shooter video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#11 Outlast
Outlast is a First-person Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game, developed and published by Red Barrels. This Psyche-horror game set in psychiatric hospital and features Miller Upshur as a patient of the above mentioned hospital who is incapable of any combat but knows about how to clear his way. With only a camcorder and a notebook in his inventory, he tries to get out of the facility and on his way out he faces the most unbelievable and unearthly hazards. Crawling and sliding through the vents, he carries on, on his way and gets followed by some really bizarre and strange beings, all trying to kill hm. Dodging all of the difficulties he continues his effort and finally gets out of the asylum but only to find out that he never actually is free yet. The twisted story and events of the game make you think like being a patient of the asylum too. You are forced to think like Miles and all the fears seem to be so real that you feel something crawling on your back. Play the game and feel the creepiness if you like playing games packed with Horror and Survival elements. You’ll definitely like it.
#12 Days Gone
Days Gone is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game developed by SIE Bend Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game takes place in the highly detailed environment populated by zombies. It offers an open world, and zombie-apocalyptic gameplay played from the third-person view. You assume the role of the protagonist named as Deacon St. John, who is a former bounty hunter and drifter. The story centers on after two years of a global pandemic appeared which slaughtered almost all of humanity and turned millions of people into zombie-like creatures. There are several objectives, and the game allows you to complete them in multiple ways. The protagonist equips with a sniper rifle, grenades and other weapons that can be used to kill zombies. Day-night and dynamic weather systems featured in the game, which affects gameplay making zombies weak and slow during the time of day. You can manipulate the world from third-person perspective either on foot or by vehicle. Interact with objects and attempts to use them against zombies to kill them and progress through the game. Using stealth element, you can hide from zombies for a short time and can use melee combat to kill them. Days Gone offers a detailed environment, different vehicles, a set of weapons, and smooth controls, Days Gone is the best game to play and enjoy.
#13 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game developed and published by Capcom for multiple platforms. It is the 11th installment ad twenty-fourth title overall in the franchise of Resident Evil. It is the first game in the marvelous series available to be played from the first-person view. The story centers on the protagonist named as Ethan Winters, as he finds his beloved wife named as Mia, which leads him to a plantation by the Baker Family. The protagonist crafts weapons and other tools to face off Baker Family and the Molded, a form of bacteria. The primary objective is to explore the world from the first-person perspective and fight against zombies and other creatures using handguns, flame throwers, chainsaw, and shotgun, etc. There are a series of levels, and each level requires a completion of certain objectives to progress. The player can assume the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to fight against enemies and the Baker Family to rescue his wife Mia from dangers. With enhanced mechanics, engaging gameplay and brilliant controls, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the best game to play and enjoy.
#14 Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is an Adventure and Single-player video game in the series of Adventure of Sherlock Holmes created by Frogwares and published by Bigben Interactive. It offers the similar gameplay to its previous titles, and the major part of the game involves examining clues and exploring crime scenes. Once the player finds out the clues, it will be added to deduction board. The game casts the player in the role of the protagonist, who must explore the environment from a third-person perspective, interact with NPCs and objects to collect clues and combine them to solve mystery cases. It puts the player in the experience of action and adventure to test the limits of his intelligence and nerves. It takes place in the fictional London threatened evil, and the player must take down them by completing the missions. The player assumes the role of the brilliant detective, and his primary goal is to uncover the secrets behind the mysteries. The game is about exploration, interrogations, battles, chases, and infiltration. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter offers prominent features such as Play as Sherlock Holmes, Explore Open Environment, Challenging Missions, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#15 Metro: 2033 Redux
Metro: 2033 Redux is an Adventure, Horror-Survival, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game created by 4A Games and published by Deep Silver. It brings an exciting story, in which the world was destroyed by an apocalyptic event, destroying almost humanity and transforming the planet Earth into a wasteland. The civilization of human entered into a new dark age with lots of challenges and dangers. It takes place in the future 2033, where a new generation was born and rise in an underground environment, and try their best to survive. You as the playable character can assume the role of the protagonist named as Artyom, who born on the last day before the devastation and raised underground. Your ultimate job is to manipulate the world, fight enemies who are the responsible for the destruction and kill them to restore your land. The environment can be explored from a first-person perspective, and you can use a variety of weapons to kill enemies and earn points. Two Play Styles (Survival and Spartan), Multiple Modes, Huge Arsenal of Weaponry, etc. are core features in the game to enjoy.
#16 The Evil Within 2
The Evil Within 2 is the sequel to The Evil Within video game, released in 2014 developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is a mix of Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game available to play on multiple platforms. It offers a thrilling story and starts after the events at Beacon Mental Hospital. According to the plot, the protagonist has left the Krimson City Police Department to unearth the secret about the organization known as MOBIUS, but continuously haunted by his experience at Beacon, the death of his beloved daughter, and the disappearance of his wife. The gameplay is similar to its predecessor and it puts the player in the role of the protagonist, a detective named as Sebastian Castellanos, who must jump into the brutal world to find and save his daughter named as Lily. The player navigates the environment from a third-person perspective, interact with landscape and objects to find information about the quests and can accomplish the requirements of each task to progress through the story. The game features a crafting system, enabling the player to collect resources to craft new items like ammo. With brilliant mechanics, and superb graphics, The Evil Within 2 is the best game to play.
#17 Until Dawn: Rush of Blood
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood combines the Horror-Survival, First-person Shooter, and Arcade elements published by Sony Interactive Entertainment and developed by Supermassive Games. The game serves as the marvellous spin-off from Until Down video game and introduces the player riding a horror-themed roller coaster while battling and shooting at object and foes. During the gameplay, the player plays on a thrilling roller coaster cart while fighting enemies. The game becomes more challenging and unlocks additional tasks to accomplish as the player advances through the storyline. There are seven different roller coasters available that include the same locations and characters. It has a huge arsenal of weaponry that the player uses during the gameplay to take down the enemies. The game is played from a first-person perspective, and the player will experience the journey through an amazing roller coaster. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood includes superb mechanics, horrific-themed world, and smooth controls, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is the best game to play.
#18 P.T.
P.T. is a Psychological Horror, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game developed by 7780s Studio and published by Konami. The game brings horror-filled exciting gameplay that takes you in the strange world where you will discover unknown being. Unlike Silent Hill video which focuses on Third-person Perspective, the game uses a first-person perspective, which revolves around an unnamed protagonist, who finds himself in the haunted suburban house. The available areas which the player can explore in the haunted house comprise an L-shaped corridor with two rooms, a bathroom, and more. During the gameplay, the player can perform limited actions like walking and zooming. To advance through the game, the player needs to explore the frightening events and struggle to solve cryptic puzzles. The player will notice several changes in the corridor each time he explore. Moreover, the player discovers a hostile ghost in the house with the name Lisa. P.T. includes prominent features such as 3D Environment, Heart-pumping Gameplay, First-person Action, and more. With superb mechanics, stunning visuals, and dynamic sound effects, P.T. is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.