Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Octodad: Dadliest Catch is an Action-Adventure and Indie video game created by Young Horses. This super thriller is all about destruction, deception and fatherhood. The game lets you be the protagonist “Octodad” a huge Octopus in human form who struggles to prove his existence by completing the tasks with his long and boneless tentacles. Octodad: Dadliest Catch lets you control the protagonist, help him out with his mistrusting wife and a terrible trip to a local aquarium. This super cool game examines your patience, control over yourself and the ability to deal with heavy stress and living with a normal human family etc. Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a sequel to the original Octodad and features with dynamic game details, enhanced mechanics and a great story to follow. Do try it out, you’ll like it for sure.
#1 Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey
Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey is an episodic Puzzle Point and Click and Adventure video game. This 3D game surrounds the interacting characters, game world exploration and a lot of puzzles to solve. Developed and published by Red Thread Games, this is the most favorite and highest ranking game in the whole series. The futuristic story of the game is set in 2220 and represents two parallel universes named Stark and Arcedia. The protagonist of the game Zoe Castillo breaks the news that the Dreams of the residents of both universes are being stolen by the conspirators and she sets out to ruin their intentions. Betrayed badly and left for dead previously in Dreamfall, Zoe thinks this is the chance to find the purpose of her life. The game features a non-open world environment but several freely roaming levels like Europolis and Marcuria and repays the players with power-ups on collecting every secret and clearing the level. Graphically rich gaming environment and game-play with a third person perspective enhances the charm of playing this awesomely amazing and addicting game to play.
#2 The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us is an Interactive Drama, Episodic and Graphic Adventure video game developed by “Telltale Game”. The story of the game is based on “Bill Willingham” Comic Book Series named as “Fables”. The game takes you back to the past in the year 1986 and fits you right into the character of “Bigby Wolf” a law enforcing officer. “The Wolf Among Us” starts off with you as the protagonist saving a fable girl from the attack of a woodsman. You take her to your place where she heals her wounds and leaves saying that “You are not as bad as People think you are”. Chapter ends and in next chapter someone gives you the news of the fable girl’s head resting at a Woodsman doorstep. Sherrif “Ichabod Crane” orders you to investigate and solve the case and take “Snow White” with you as your assistant. “The Wolf Among Us” is a super thrilling and exciting case solving and detective video game that lets you solve murder cases by investigating and collecting the clues/evidences and by interacting with objects and NPCs. The game has a twisted and strange story that literally makes you dive deep into imagination and curiosity. Wolf Among Us offers a brilliant Episodic, Interactive and Story Driven gameplay and beautiful visuals to enjoy.
#3 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.
#4 Kentucky Route Zero
Kentucky Route Zero is an Episodic Point-and-Click Action-Adventure video game developed and published by Cardboard Computer. This indie game is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS and Linux. The narrative of the game whirls around the life of a truck driver and his dog. The driver along with his dog, accepts to travel to Kentucky to deliver the antique goods and on his way to Kentucky he slips off the road and gets lost. He interacts with strangers and with so many different things to find his way back to Kentucky and reaches to Equus Oils a pitch black gas station. At Equus Oils the real adventure of his life begins. Game features astonishingly amazing game-play, superb graphics and environment. One thing that is quite different about this game is the absence of verbal dialogue. Instead of a verbal dialogue the game uses text-based dialogue to interact with people and things. This epic game is worth trying. Do give it a go and enjoy all the fun.
#5 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a great Point and Click Adventure game developed and published by The Astronauts. This game was initially developed solely for PC (Microsoft Windows) but later on the company decided to launch a PlayStation 4 compatible version and that is expected to get in to markets in early 2015. The story of the game starts with a mysterious letter from a young boy Ethen Carter to Detective Paul Prospero about some supernatural events, murders and vanishing of Ethan all set to happen in near future. Detective Paul reaches the residence of Ethan and finds out that Ethan has already vanished. Detective Paul starts exploring Red Creek and gets to know about its dark secrets. This entangled storyline game traps Detective Paul in an endless world of puzzles and bizarre events all created by Ethan. He makes him solve some really weird murder cases of his family members and forces detective Paul Prospero to battle with un-natural beings. This amazing adventure game provides with an open world gaming environment, cool graphics and game-play.
#6 Murdered: Soul Suspect
Murdered: Soul Suspect is and adventure game developed by Alright Games and Published by Square Enix. The story of the game kick starts from an American town named Salem. With a third person perspective, the player controls the main character of the game Ronan (formerly and agent) and explores the town walking and running through different places and buildings like churches, apartments, graveyards etc. Ronan is bound to collect different collectibles scattered around the town. Ronan being a ghost gets the advantage to use a lot of ghostly powers and benefits himself along the way and the story continues. The game comes with a lot of amazing and special characters like a ruthless serial killer Bell, Julia the wife of Ronan, Abigail a Puritan era girl, Cassandra Ronan’s mother and Joy the only witness to the murder of Ronan. Ronan is back to finish what he started and wows to kill his killer. Amazing graphics, details and gameplay forces you to stick to your chair and play till you get tired. Packed with all the action and drama, Murdered: Soul Suspect is worth giving a try. You can play this game on PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Xbox 360.
#7 L.A Noire
L.A Noire is an Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama, Third-person Shooter and Stealth video game by Team Bondi. Featuring the protagonist Cole Phelps the game is set in the city of Los Angeles. Cole Phelps recently joined in as the Detective after serving for years as an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Being a police officer, Phelps worked in a lot of police departments and in every Department, he worked with different partners having different sets of skills in crime investigations and interrogations. Players get to solve the cases of different kinds, assigned to them as the investigation tasks and by using their skills, they are meant to put the responsible behind the bars. This amazingly twisted and amalgamated series of fast-paced action and adventure includes crime scene investigations, interrogations, fieldwork and super thrilling gun battles between the law-breakers and the lawmakers. Player mostly uses melee attacks, a lot of weapons and rides vehicles of different kinds in an open world environment. With greatly 3D graphics, exhilarating game-play and an appealing and well-inscribed story-line, L.A Noire takes you to a new dimension of Action-Adventure and Shooting game experience.
#8 Tales from the Borderlands
Tales from the Borderlands based on the original Borderlands is an Episodic, Interactive Drama and Graphic Action-Adventure video game developed by Telltale Games. Set in the Borderlands universe, this point and click graphic adventure video game lets you be anyone of the two main protagonists Rhys and Fiona, Explore the game world, interact with game objects, engage yourself into conversations with NPCs and make choices that will eventually effect the story and will set the course of events. Tales from the Borderlands provides with some gun-play elements too and features the same mechanics that were previously used with Borderlands and provides with procedurally generated guns and ammunition. Tales from the Borderlands have some more episodes yet to come out and will definitely amaze you with what it has to offer. For a great Adventure and interactive Drama experience, you should totally play this game.
#9 Syberia
Syberia is a 2002’s Hit Single-player Point-and-Click Action and Adventure, Third-person video game by Microids. The game follows the story of Kate Walker, game Protagonist and a skilled Lawyer who tries to wrap up a deal for her client in Europe and Russia, but soon after reaching her destination, she is forced to run for her life. With amazing and realistic visual novel style, wonderful environments, brilliant characters and immersive game-play, Syberia allows you to experience the true hardships a Lawyer can go through and in her case, as the story-line suggests, you get a really good lesson out of that. Running for her life, Kate goes through a number of hardest phases of her life including the time when she receives calls on her Cell Phone from unknown numbers and a worsening relationship with her fiancé. According to the story of the game, Kate reaches to French Village named as Valadilene, where she attends the funeral of Toy Factory owner, an old lady named Anna Voralberg. After a visit to the local notary, Kate gets to know about the Old lady’s brother Hans, living in the North-East of Europe but his whereabouts are unknown. In order to transfer the ownership, Kate must find him and when she starts off her journey to find Hans, the story takes a massive turn that actually writes the fate of Kate. A drama begins that topples her life upside down. Now in order to go with the story and enjoy the game, you must get into the character of Kate and start exploring. Syberia offers a fantastic thrill filled Drama and an equally exciting game-play that makes this game one of the most amazing additions to this specific genre. If you are a fan of Action-Adventure gaming, you must play this game and raise the curtains off of the mysterious theme of the game. With all the amazing things combined, Syberia offers a unique story, a totally challenging and quite exciting game-play and beautiful 3D visuals for you to enjoy.
#10 The Longest Journey
The Longest Journey offers a great Point-and-Click, Action-Adventure, Exploration and Puzzle experience for all the lovers of these specific genres. With amazing new characters, brilliant setting and an immersive game-play, The Longest Journey lets you be part of a multi-layered and a great story that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time. The game is set in the two parallel universes named as Stark and Arcadia and it allows you to be the protagonist April Ryan, a student living in Stark City who has the magical ability to move between the two universes. You as the protagonist will have to move to the Arcadia Universe where she meets with the White Dragon who tells her about the coming adventure. Soon after meeting the White Dragon, April gets attacked and suddenly shifts back to the main Stark universe. In order to find out the source of attack and who is behind it, you’ll have to move to a number of locations, interact with objects and NPCs, collect the clues and solve some challenging puzzles and finally reach to source and conclude the story. With a number of great characters, a marvelous setting, immersive game-play and stat of the art visuals, The Longest Journey is a fun game to play.
#11 Deadly Premonition
The last entrant on our list of games like “State of Decay” is Deadly Premonition. Deadly Premonition is developed by “Access Games” in collaboration with “Rising Star Games and is available to play on PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gaming platforms. The game is a super hit amalgamation of Open world, Psychological Horror Survival and shooting elements. The game kicks off with the investigation of the murder of “Becky Adams and Diane”. Protagonist as the investigator “York” find out that the murders are a work of the “Raincoat Killers” and suspects Thomas in the murders and Thomas after some time dies with a hook in his neck. Thomas’s death halts the investigation a bit but “York” keeps on gathering the evidence. Emily joins the investigation with York and finds out the final victim “Carol”. Carol infects Emily with red seeds and she falls ill. York leaves Emily with Kaysen and continues the investigation, encounters George and makes him confess the murders and kills him. The game concludes. The story of the game is a bit twisted and takes you to the heights of amazingness in horror-survival and psychotic experience. Try it out and you’ll definitely have your head spinning.
#12 Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines is an Action-Adventure, RPG and a first and third person shooter game by Troika Games. The game takes place on four fictional locations of Santa Monica, Hollywood, downtown Los Angeles and Chinatown and revolves around the seven clans of vampires divided according to their abilities and for the sake of their race by their government. The seven clans of the vampires include Toreadors, Ventures, Brujah, Malkavians, Gangrel, Nosferatu and Anarchs. The story of the game kicks off with the protagonist killed and then resurrected as a Fledgling vampire. The sire of the Fledgling gets executed because of breaking the laws but the Fledgling gets a chance to live. The story paces on and the Fledgling gets transferred to Santa Monica to help the ghouls in destroying the warehouse of Sabbat an enemy vampire clan. The real action begins and the Fledgling indulges in hardcore action by melee attacking the enemies in close combats and heavy gunfights. As a ban on revealing the identity in humans, the Fledgling only uses guns and melee weapons to fight and returns to the LaCroix honored by the win over the enemies. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines features an awesomely well-written storyline, open world gaming environment and dashingly destructive game-play filled with action-adventure and shooting elements. Do give it a go if you haven’t yet and enjoy all the fun.
#13 Back to the Future: The Game
Back to the Future: The Game by Telltale Games is an episodic, Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama and third person thriller video game. The game is set in the same year as the movies 1986 and features Doctor Brown and Marty McFly in their time travel adventures. Back to the Future: The Game is split into 5 extremely adventurous episodes in which Marty McFly discovers the DeLorean time machine and Doctor Brown makes it possible to travel to exactly 1 minute in the future. You act as Marty McFly and try to solve the mystery about the disappearance of Doctor. In the game, after traveling to past you’ll find out about Irving Tannen who actually is the mind behind the capture of the Doctor Brown. After this event, the game becomes a a hard struggle as you try to free the Doctor from “Irving”. The game is played from a third person perspective and provides with great graphic details along with a marvelous storyline. The game lets you interact with NPCs and explore the huge open world, solve puzzles etc. for a better game-play experience.
#14 Alan Wake
Alan Wake, a Third Person Shooter, Action-Adventure Video game by Remedy Entertainment. The game is set in the fictitious town of Bright Falls and the story of the game revolves around the character of the protagonist Alan Wake, a novelist by profession who suddenly loses his wife and sets out to find the truth about her disappearance. You get into the character of Alan Wake and start your journey, interact with The Taken, the most bizarre, creepy and murderous entities to find out the clues about your wife’s disappearance. You must fight them in order to fulfill your desire of revenge. The game lets you use different weapons, skills etc. to encounter the Taken. Alan Wake features a hardcore, action-packed and psych-horror game-play along with super dynamic 3D graphics, an open world environment and an engaging game-play and story. Alan wake is based on episodic play and it offers an amazingly twisted game plot that strongly binds the characters with the story and features a marvelous blend of Action-Adventure, Horror and Shooting elements. Try it out and you’ll love everything this game has to offer.
#15 Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Shooter and Interactive Drama video game made by Quantic Dream. This Psyche thriller Film Noir drama is set in the city of New York and its story revolves around the character of protagonist Lucas Kane. Lucas Kane gets assigned on a task to solve the murder cases committed by a man who controls people’s minds by using his super natural powers and then kills them. The Killer gets aware about the activities of Lucas and follows him to a Dinner where he forces his spell over Lucas’s brain and makes him kill a man. You must get into the character of the protagonist and find out the truth about the killer’s spell over you. You must also speed up your investigations in order to stop the killer from killing more innocent people. You must go through the sessions of physical and mental therapy to reduce the manipulation caused by the killers spell. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy provides with different game endings, all based up on the actions performed by you and the path selected by you. A mental health bar keeps on telling you about your sanity levels so you must keep track of that or else you’ll end up killing another person. With an amazing psycho-horror game story, state of the art graphics and an engaging game-play, Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy is a great game to play, you must try it out.
#16 The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Are you familiar with Sherlock Holmes? Well Sherlock Holmes was a finest detective the world has ever seen. Sherlock Holmes had the unique skills of solving the most difficult cases and nobody else could find the clues and evidence that he could. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is based on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and is developed by Frogwares for all the detective games lovers. The game is set in the year 1890s and takes you back to an old depiction of London where Sherlock Holmes along with his companion Dr. Watson, is trying to solve a very uncommon case. After the game starts, it puts you into the character of Sherlock Holmes and lets you solve the case by using the strategies and techniques that Sherlock Holmes used back then. You play as Sherlock Holmes and try to solve the case of a missing “Samoan Necklace”. Near the solution of the case you notice that the necklace is not original. The thief has put an imitation of the original one on the scene and the real Necklace is still missing. This discovery makes you feel a bit dizzy because all of the investigation seems of no use. You must find the original necklace. Use your best skills and techniques to examine the clues and evidence, go to different locations to investigate people and collect more evidence. The game lets you jump into the character of DR. Watson to observe the situation more adequately. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes lets you travel from one location to another by walking, running or on any vehicle available. You can solve side puzzles to focus on the real matter too if you want. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes provides with a great episodic storyline and an engagingly addictive game-play for you to play and enjoy. Do try this game out for a great Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama experience. You’ll like it for sure.
#17 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.
#18 The Walking Dead: Season Two
The Walking Dead: Season Two, based on the Comic Book named The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman is an Episodic, Graphic Point-and-Click Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game. The game follows the story-line of the first season and continues from where it was ended previously. You can set yourself up into the character of Clementine (Previously the companion of Protagonist) and get into the play by exploring the world around you, interacting with the objects, engage yourself in the conversations with AI and NPCs, and by reacting to the replies given by the NPCs and change the course of events and endings of the game. Season Two of the game provides with a 400 Days game play in an apocalyptic world filled with Zombies and allows you to amaze yourself with a super thrilling and survival based game-play. The Walking Dead: Season Two is no doubt a great Graphic-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game to play and enjoy. You must play it.
#19 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an epic Graphic Puzzle, Action-Adventure, and Indie video game by Starbreeze Studios AB. The game focuses on two brothers and allows you to control both of them, lead them both on a journey based on a fairy tale and enjoy a super addictive and amazing co-op game-play. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons lets you solve a lot of amazingly complex puzzles, explore the whole game-world, fight against the enemies and Bosses etc. You must also find the cure (Water of Life) for your ailing father, you must help and look out for each other, survive and bring the cure safely. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons features super beautiful graphics and scenarios, an addictive game-play and a great story. As an alternative to The Silent Age this game will definitely provide you with tons of entertainment.
#20 Braid
Braid is a cool Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game Created by Hothead Games, Braid is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam, XBox 360 and PS3 and offers a number of cool upgrades and stuff. Although the gaming environment is quite similar to Super Mario but, the puzzles and game-play is quite like Limbo, Badland and Contre Jour etc. Another great feature included in the game is the ability of the player to reverse the time. For example. If you die in the game you can always reverse the time and save yourself whenever you reach the same point where you died previously. This feature alone attracts the players a lot. Six different playing scenarios, everyone with a unique set of challenging puzzles to solve and twisted structure of the game gets you to the whole new level of excitement and Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform gaming. Braid is a wonderful alternative to a lot of games of the same genre. Do give it a try and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#21 Resonance
Resonance, Developed by XII Games is an Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game. The game is about the death of a Physicist in a lab accident and the pursuit for his hidden Legacy (Resonance Tech) between the people of a specific group. Resonance lets you control four main characters of the game and allows you to switch between them according to the scenario. You as the detective have to find out a deadly Technology named Resonance in order to save the humanity. Resonance is the technology that professor Morales working on when the accident happened. The tech is now stolen by some dangerous terrorist organization and you have to find it before its to late. In order to find out Resonance you will have to go to lab to collect clues and object that can help you with your investigation. Resonance is a super thriller Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama video game presented in a cinematic and Film Noir style. You’ll be provided with a best story and amazing graphic details in this game. Try out this masterpiece and you’ll definitely be a fan.
#22 Never Alone
Never Alone is a Single Player, Local Co-operative, Atmospheric Puzzle-Platform video game by Upper One Games. The game offers a game-play divided into 8 chapters and allows you to be an Alaskan Eskimo girl named as Nuna who along with her Companion, an Arctic Fox follows the stories in every chapter and completes various and challenging puzzles. Never Alone lets you swap between the two characters (Nuna and Fox) according to the puzzles in front of you and lets you pick different objects, solve puzzles and restore the balance in the core of Eternal Blizzard. Exploration element of the game lets you explore the game world, interact with objects and solve various puzzles based on physics and environmental wonders. Never Alone lets you use Bola, a special weapon made with weights and interconnected cords to smash into closed areas and open them up, get into new environments and enjoy immersing yourself into an amazingly addictive and quite engaging gameplay. Never Alone offers a story deeply inspired by Alaskan Folklore, that includes sub stories such as Blizzard man, The Little People, Manslayer, The Rolling Heads, The Sky People etc. Try it out and see if you can survive in harsh physical environments and can solve the twisted puzzles.
#23 Edna and Harvey: The Breakout
Edna and Harvey: The Breakout, is a graphic Action-Adventure and Interactive Drama game developed by Daedalic Entertainment. The game features the protagonist as a young woman named Edna who gets stuck in a mental hospital with her toy rabbit Harvey and she wants to get out of the facility. You as the protagonist will have to solve a number of point-and-click puzzles in order to gather clues and objects. The gathered objects and clues are the only things that can help you escape so you better be good at puzzle solving or else you’ll keep stranded inside the hospital. The puzzles in the game are all based up on the results you get by solving the previous puzzles. If you solve a puzzle with perfect combinations you’ll advance in the game but if you are failed to solve the puzzles, you’ll lose the game. Edna and Harvey: The Breakout has a great story, great graphics and a super addictive Film-Noir game-play. Do give it a try, you’ll definitely love it.
#24 The Night of the Rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit is an wonderful Point-and-Click Puzzle, Platform Action-Adventure and 3D video game by Daedalic Entertainment. The game revolves around a little boy named Jerry Hazelnutt who wants to be a skilled magician. Jerry finds out a Formula of creating the Carrot Flame, mixes in different magical ingredients and suddenly a travel bag appears. Jerry opens up the case and finds a Magic Hat, Wand and a big Rabbit named Marquise De Hoto from a parallel Universe. Jerry becomes his apprentice and Hoto takes him to a fairyland named Mousewood. Jerry finds out that this world is soon going to be attacked by the cunning and cruel magician Zaroff, Gathers up his courage and asks Marquise to help him. Your task is to help Jerry defeat Zaroof by the use of your magic skills and by solving a number of magical puzzles. The fate of the Mousewood residents lies totally in your hands, so you must save the poor creatures. The Night of the Rabbit lets you explore, interact with Mice and Moles, solve a number of challenging puzzles etc. in a wonderfully created environment. With great visuals, great story and an immersive game-play, The Night of the Rabbit is a great game to play and enjoy.
#25 Gone Home
Gone Home is a First-person Indie Action-Adventure and Interactive Fiction Simulation developed by The Fullbright Company. The game takes place in the year 1995 and allows you to explore a mansion after coming back home after one long year. Every member of your family is vanished and you are left clueless about their sudden disappearance. In order to find them you must find clues, interact with objects and solve a number of challenging puzzles and mysteries. The game lets you be Kaitlin and allows you to explore the game world from a First-person Perspective, complete various game objectives in order to earn rewards, open up new areas and search for messages scattered all around the game world. Gone Home is an interactive video game that allwos you to look at objects, interact with them and keep on collecting the clues, objects and open up new game world areas to enjoy the game.
#26 Dear Esther
Dear Esther is a cool First-person Action-Adventure, RPG, Indie, Interactive Fiction and Art-based video game. The game takes you to a remarkable world where an unknown entity named Esther partially takes control of yourself and allows you to explore an amazingly huge game world from a first person perspective. After a road crash you found yourself into the world of Esther but it seems like you have been summoned by the Esther, for what motives, that’s what you have to find out. The purely story driven game-play allows you to explore, interact and find the answers about what happened on the motorway, what is the significance of aerial, who is Esther and why did she summoned you here etc. With a mysterious background, great visuals, an immersive game-play, surreal surroundings, great sounds etc, Dear Esther is an amazing game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.
#27 Mind: Path to Thalamus
Mind: Path to Thalamus is a First-person, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that takes you to an amazing world of wonders filled up with all the surreal and fantastic elements. This mind-bending games lets you use the objects and find ways to solve some of the most enigmatic puzzles ever. In order to complete the tasks, you’ll have to go through the cycles of day and night, change the weather by modifying the fog and rain and change the surrounding environment completely and find ways to finally get out of your own mind. You must use all of your abilities and tools provided in order to escape the reality and follow the trail your mind creates. With a number of 30 amazing puzzles, fantastic environments, ability to turn day into night and night into day, great visuals and voice overs and immersive game-play, Mind: Path to Thalamus is one of the best Action-Adventure, puzzle-platform, Art and Exploration video game to play and enjoy.
#28 Naissancee
Naissancee is a cool First-person Puzzle Platformre and Adventure video game developed and published by Limasse Five. The game is about a girl named Lucy who gets lost in a Futuristic and Sci-Fi complex Building and is running for her life. A giant creature is chasing her and she must evade that creature in order to survive. in order to survive the attacks and to live, the game tasks you to solve a number of challenging puzzles, interact with objects and manipulate them etc. Naissancee includes a lot of challenging puzzles that Lucy must complete in order to live and finally get out of this bizarre world. Naissancee provides with a challenging game-play, cool visuals and an amazing story that leaves you spellbound for quite some time. Do try it out, its an amazing game to play.
#29 BioShock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite is an FPS (First Person Shooter) video game developed by Irrational Games. The game is set in the year 1912 and features the protagonist Booker DeWitt, a former Pinkerton Agent. DeWitt gets tasked with finding and bringing back a girl named Elizabeth from the floating city of Columbia. DeWitt reaches to the spot where she was kept and frees her but soon after her rescue they both get involved with local factions (The Nativists and Elite). After some time, DeWitt gets to know about Elizabeth’s special and strange powers that can actually manipulate the continuum of Space and Time. Elizabeth soon gets involved with the city’s most bizarre and vague enigmas. Booker starts leading units of faction operatives into fights against the enemies as the ethnic wars between America and Columbia reach to the new levels of insanity and devastation. This marvelously created game features super realistic visual details, game-play and a great storyline to follow. The open world environment makes the game more engaging as it allows the player to explore the world and engage in different activities. Bioshock Infinite is always fun to play and enjoy because of its super addictive nature and blasting game-play with great mechanics. Do try it out for an amazing Action, Adventure and FPS game-play experience.
#30 Remember Me
Remember Me is an Action and Adventure game developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by CapCom. This cool game is offered on PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The story of the game revolves around the protagonist Nilin’s character who is a memory hunter working for an underground organization called Errorists. In the game Nilin struggles to recover her memories on her way on a great quest on which she will take down all her enemies by indulging herself in deadly combats and using her special powers against them. The marvelously written story of the game leads to exploration, ultimate action and adventure along with all the great features of game such as open world gaming environment, lustrous graphics and gameplay etc. This game is an amazing amalgamation of action, adventure and RPG elements. Do give it a try if you want to play Action and Adventure games with stealth elements.
#31 Grim Fandango Remastered
Grim Fandango Remastered is an Graphic-Adventure, Interactive Drama, and Episodic video game by Double Fine Productions. The story follows Mexican Folklores and fits you into the character of the protagonist Manny Calavera who works for the Department of Dead (DOD) and struggles to wipe off his wrong doings so that he can get the final reward. He stars in the game as Reaper who frees other people’s souls from the adversities and inspects about what kind of underworld travel packages are they awarded. Manny’s business unexpectedly starts crashing and he gets the instructions of giving someone a first-class package if he wants his business running. He declines the order and his business crashes badly, and he gets out in the open to investigate about the causes and possible motives behind all of what happened to him recently. You must help yourself in assembling up a crew of a beautiful woman (unnamed) and some trustworthy friends and start your investigation. Grim Fandango Remastered is a kind of twisted video game because of its unique story and characters.
#32 Lucius
Lucius is an Adventure, Horror-Survival, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game by Shiver Games. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets you assume the role of the villain protagonist named Lucius. He was born on 6th June as a normal boy, but everything completely changed on the protagonist’s 6th birthday. He is equipped with devil powers. The game is set in the fictional manor and the Devil tasks the Lucius to kill all the members of the manor. It embarks you on a bloody adventure where you have to kill your household. The more people your kills, the more powerful you will become. Lucius is played from a third-person view. It has a set of levels and each with similar tasks to kill people. Explore the game world, interact with NPCs, accomplish your tasks, and gain experience and power. Lucius offers core features such as 3D Horror Adventure, Open World, Breathtaking Atmosphere, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#33 Ghost Master
Ghost Master combines the elements of Strategy, Puzzle, Tactical and Simulation developed by Stick Puppies and published by Strategy First. The game supports single-player mode and casts the player in the role of an enemy, who is a Ghost Master. It takes place in the stunning environment and offers certain task to complete specific duties. The goals of the player comprise hauntings, renegade ghosts, avenge death and more. There are fourteen different levels to play and enjoy and each with different challenges, tasks, and objectives. The ultimate goal is to frighten the humans and force them to leave the area. The game offers the similar gameplay like Real-time Strategy game and lets the player at the start to select the ghost from which he wants to play. Each ghost has one or two objects. Ghost Master includes exciting features such as Fifteen Unique Adventures, 3D Environment, Special Effects, different Locations and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#34 Life is Strange: Episode 1
Life is Strange: Episode 1 is an immersive, Adventure, Episodic and Single-player Exploration video game that enables you to rewind effect and time the past, future, and present. The game brings an exciting gameplay for Life is Strange lovers and offers an addictive story follows the protagonist named as Max Caulfield, who is a photographic senior and finds that she is capable of reversing time while rescuing her beloved friend. After progressing the game, the protagonist finds herself investigating the strange disappearance of the student named as Rachel Amber in Arcadia Bay. You assume the role of the protagonist, who can manipulate the world from a third-person perspective and struggle to uncover the dark secrets of the strange world. The ultimate task for you to learn as soon as possible to change the time to fend off the devastation in future. It comprises multiple levels, and the player needs to accomplish each one to progress through the game and earn enough experience points. Life is Strange: Episode 1 includes core features such as Adventure Gameplay, Multiple Endings, Hand-Painted Visuals, Indie Soundtracks, and more. Try it out.
#35 Last Day of June
Last Day of June developed by Ovosonico and published by 505 Games is an Adventure, Puzzle and Single-player video game available to play on PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. The game offers a thrilling gameplay and story revolve around the couple called June and Carl, who suffer a tragedy when a car accident takes the life of June and leaves Carl in a wheelchair. During the gameplay, the player controls the protagonist named as Carl, who navigates the memories of his life with June and struggle to solve the mind-bending puzzles to change the events’ sequence that led up to the death of June. The game takes place in the beautiful world and introduces a story about love and loss. It has multiple levels, and each level needs a completion of certain puzzles to progress through the story. Last Day of June includes core features such as a Heart-driven Quest, Poetry in Motion, Empathy through Experience, Fate-altering Puzzles, Interactive Storyline, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#36 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.
#37 Keepsake
Keepsake is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, Third-person Perspective and Single-player video game developed by Wicked Studios and published by The Adventure Company. In the game, the player takes on the role of the main character named as Lydia. The game starts with the player investigating the case, in which he must find out what happened to Dragonvale Academy. Upon reaching to the location, the player found that the academy was deserted. In the school, the player discovers his best friend named as Celeste, who agreed to meet her but outside the school at the fountain. When she arrives, the school is demolished and her best friend is missing. With the assist of wolf, named Zak, the player embarks on an epic journey to find out what happened at academy and find reason behind the disappearance of her best friend and hundreds of people. The player explores the environment from a third-person perspective, interact with environments and non-player characters while controlling actions and movements of the player using point-and-click interface. With brilliant gameplay, best graphics, and cool sound effects, Keepsake is the best game to enjoy.
#38 Orwell
Orwell is a series of video games created by Osmotic for multiple platforms. It mixes the Adventure, Dystopian, Atmospheric, Interactive Fiction, and Episodic elements and takes place in the country known as the Nation. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, a state operative who must monitor surveillance sources to locate the national security threats. Keep an Eye on You serves as the first title in this episodic video game series. According to the plot, the country where the game is set, it controlled by the government known as The Party. As the storyline advances, the party passes the Safety Bill, expanding the ability of the government to spy on its inhabitants in the name of national security. The game enables the investigations into people’s private communication of interest, but it doesn’t enable anyone player full access. The operations of Orwell is turning by two teams such as Investigators and Advisors. Investigators are those people who are working for the government outside of the Nation and search through the communication of selected people and unlock interest and items while Advisors are those people who work inside of the Nation, using the data chunks to determine the action’s course and more. Orwell is the wonderful game to play.
#39 Manual Samuel
Manual Samuel is an Adventure, Side-scroll, Single-player and Multiplayer awesome video game developed by Perfectly Paranormal and published by Curve Digital. The game offers a brilliant plot, revolving around the protagonist named as Sam, the son of the wealthiest CEO, who is hit by the truck while chasing his beloved girlfriend. As the story advances, the protagonist discovers himself in the hell after the accident, where the protagonist must deal with a skateboard-loving Death to come back to his life under few conditions. The player assumes the role of the protagonist (Sam) and according to the deal, the player can survive twenty-four hours performing all the actions of his body manually. It offers the 2D animated adventure gameplay where the player controls the bodily function of Sam. During the gameplay, the player can interact with non-player characters, explore the environment and can interact with objects to fulfill the tasks. Manual Samuel includes prominent features such as Hilarious Story, Hand-Drawn 2D Art-style, Brutal-time Attack Mode, Play Solo, 600 Lines of Dialogue, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#40 Balancelot
Balancelot is an Action-Adventure, Racing, and Single-player video game developed by AnvilBird Interactive and published by Jestercraft. The game takes the player in the 2D world where he can start navigating the environment from a side-scroll perspective. The storyline focuses on the protagonist, a poor squire who dreams of protecting and dominating the jousting tournament of the kingdom. But due to inadequate financial condition, he can’t afford a horse. It offers somehow similar gameplay to Happy Wheel, not precisely. In the game, the player must take on the character and control the unicycle through a set of levels to reach the end of each one to become the master. Each level has a set of obstacles and hurdles that the player needs to overcome to advance. The main objective is to balance the clumsy but functional the unicycle to progress through the game. While playing the game, the player can thrust the invading monsters with his sharpened lance as they sit on his way to glory. Climb over the dead enemies with the cycle may be the last climb the player takes. Defeat the enemies, drive before them and reach the end of each level to win. Balancelot includes prominent features such as Mythical Monsters, 20 Challenging Levels, Twisted Story, and more.
#41 Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga
Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga is an Adventure, Arcade, and Single-player video game played from a side-scroll perspective, developed by GrabTheGames Studios. The game takes place in the beautiful world and takes the player back in the historical period when dinosaurs existed. It introduces immersive gameplay inspired by 2.5D platformer adventure game takes place in the prehistoric time. In the game, the player assumes the role of the protagonist, a caveman who needs to navigate the levels and overcome challenging obstacles to advance through the game. Levels become challenging to complete as the player encounters new enemies, traps, and obstacles. The player starts the game with limited lives and upon coming in contact with enemies result in loss of al life. The game rewards the player with points, and further levels can be unlocked using the points the player earned by completing levels. With engaging gameplay, superb mechanics, and fresh graphics, Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga is brilliant to play.
#42 Climbros
Climbros is an Action, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game offered by Toucan Studio for Microsoft Windows. During the gameplay, the player can perform several actions like climb, swing, and jump. In the game, the player has to invent his climbing style and must overcome challenging obstacles lying before the player and reach the finish line the most efficient way. The game lets the player test his skills in various conditions like enormous trees, snowy rocks, or drifting asteroids. The co-op mode enables you to climb the rock with buddies and find the best way to achieve the common goal. The player navigates the environment from a side-scroll perspective, and his main objective is to reach the end of each level by revealing his climbing, jumping, and swinging abilities. Many challenging levels will put the player skills to test and will reward him with points to become the master. Climbros includes prominent features such as Cooperate, Exploration, and more.
#43 WASDead: REMASTERED
WASDead: REMASTERED is an Action-Adventure, Platformer, and Single-player video game developed by Alex Zelenskyi and published by Rock Path Collective. The game embarks the player on an epic adventure to reveal the secrets behind the story. In the game, the player assumes the role of an indie developer who is trapped in his undone game. Now, he can’t understand who to do next and how to come out from it. In the virtual world, the player must attempt to find the exit while struggling to stay alive. But keep in mind, the exit cost the cash. The game is specially designed for hardcore players, in which they control a character named R in an epic quest of gathering money. In the start, the player needs to assist the protagonist who wants to get rich and overcome all challenging obstacles that the virtual has in store for him. There are several challenging levels in Single-player mode, and the game features dynamic 8bit soundtrack. During the gameplay, the player needs to run, jump, and survive his way through many levels while earning money to exit from his undone game.
#44 Just Flip: A Physics Game by Jeff Weber
Just Flip: A Physics Game by Jeff Weber is a 2D Action, Sports, and Single-player video game for Microsoft Windows. The game offers exciting gameplay that players have never experienced before. In the game, the player controls a small character who needs to launch himself toward the finish line to complete the level. It offers the quite simple control allowing the player to flip only, but need a little practice to get a feel for the inertia of the flip. During the gameplay, the release and flip mechanics have been tweaked, honed, and iterated for over a year to make it satisfying. While playing the game, the player has to pull down and back for a sling-style shot anywhere on the screen and release to lunch the character. There are several levels, and each level has unique background of different color. The objective of the player is to reach the end of each level by performing flip and jumps. With engaging gameplay, quite simple graphics, and simple mechanics, Just Flip: A Physics Game by Jeff Weber is an excellent game to play.
#45 Nose Goes
Nose Goes is an Action-Adventure, Platform, and Single-player video game released with the blend of familiar elements such as Physics-based and Walking Simulator. It takes place in the 2D world where a cute character named Ronny Nose looking for your help to find his face. The physics-based game will leave you laughing and crying in the 2D platform gameplay. With challenging stages, satisfying mechanics, and a hilarious storyline, the game will need precision timing, balance, and patience. Only hardcore players can complete the game flawlessly. The physics-based controls will enable precise movement to navigate the challenging obstacles. During the gameplay, the player can pick up several power-ups like extra lives, snot rockets, and more. The game introduces a reward system through which the player claims his reward for each completed level. You can explore the environment from a side-scroll perspective, and his main task is to find his face while fighting against enemies to make points. Nose Goes include prominent features such as Side-scroll Platforming Gameplay, Beautiful Graphics, Challenging Obstacles, Sneeze Techniques, Complex Level Design, Reward System, etc.
#46 Miaou Moon
Miaou Moon is an Action, Platform, and Single-player video game that takes place in the 2D world where the player navigates the environment from a side-scroll viewpoint, developed by Stephane Valverde. The game introduces a unique physical platform and allows you to plan and time your moves to accomplish a massive collection of levels. Now, the protagonist, a captain named Miaou who can equip an Antigravity Belt to change everything. However, this prominent tool enables full control over the trajectories, with the unique ability to reduce the speed of the cat and the gravity as well. It mainly deals with exploration elements, and you have to find discovery to keep growing, hidden items and also shortcuts lurking around nooks and corners of the world. It is a survival game, in which you have a specific amount of energy to perform moves. Miaou Moon includes prominent features such as Epic Journey, Sense of Exploration, Multiple Goals to Achieve, Fresh Graphics Theme and more.
#47 Cranked Up
Cranked Up is an Adventure, Third-person Perspective, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by BBlack Studio for Microsoft Windows. The game takes place in the stunning where the player controls a massive cookie to reach the end of each level by avoiding challenging obstacles and hurdles. It takes place in the 3D world where the player experiences a brilliant storyline, revolving around a donut that lost his cup of tea. Now, the player should help donut find Mr. Mug in a crazy land controlled by Hawaiian Pizza. The story reveals that an evil pizza rules over the world and he has abducted a favorite cup of coffee and invades to cover all the food with pineapple. The main objective is to save the mug and find out a universe full of colorful characters. The game introduces a smart rocket system enables him to move from a side-scroll perspective, but despite its simplicity it remains tight. Cranked Up includes prominent features such as 3D Graphics, Side-scroll Action, Well-written Storyline, and more.
#48 Cup of Ethanol
Cup of Ethanol is an Action, Side-scroll, and Single-player Platformer video game released by Eoin Flanagan for Microsoft Windows. The game takes place in the 2D environment where the player assumes the role of a titular character who must explore the 2D land to reach the end to complete it. During the gameplay, the player can jump to overcome obstacles and can avoid hurdles to keep progressing through the area. There are up to 24 levels, and each has its unique background and a set of enemies. The world comprises several environments, ranging from icy cold mountains to lava pits. While playing the game, the player has to explore four different landscapes to find the pints to unlock additional content. Over seventy-two hidden treasures are available to gather, and the game features a level editor enable the player to create his custom stages and play to become the master. Cup of Ethanol includes prominent features such as 24 Levels, 72 Hidden Treasures, ten types of Enemies, and more. With engaging gameplay, superb graphics, and cool mechanics, Cup of Ethanol is a quite simple game to play for kids.
#49 Spec Ops: The Line
Spec Ops: The Line is a Military themed Tactical and Third Person Shooter video game developed by Yager Development and published by 2k games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming consoles. The story of the game follows the protagonist Captain Martin Walker who goes to the catastrophic Dubai to investigate about the dead American soldiers. This is the point when the mission changes and Walker along with his Elite Delta Force team starts searching for the survivors and engages into battle with the terrorists who kidnapped and killed the soldiers. The game lets you lead your team and engage in battles in a war like environment using state of the art weapons like futuristic rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers etc. To eliminate the enemies and free the hostages. Spec Ops: The Line offers four different game endings and allows you to mold the events and happenings and end the game with an ending you want. Spec Ops: The Line is a great Tactical Third-person Shooter video game, and you will definitely like playing it.