Salt and Sanctuary
Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.
#1 The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings developed by Polish Studios, CD Projekt Red and published by Atari, Inc., Badnai Namco Games and CyberFront in the same year of 2011. This super addicting game is a sequel to The Witcher and is packed with great Action-Adventure, RPG and intense Hack and Slash elements. The game is based on the story from a novel written by a Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. From its first appearance in the market to the present day, this game is a real success. Graphics, game-play and story-line is quite to its predecessor. With an open world gaming environment, Stealth mode, tons of new content and bug fixes, this game attracts the players a lot. The Witcher, genetically mutated Geralt takes you to an amazing land of wonders. Battles with monsters and humans and their extremely disastrous super powers are a key element in the success of the game. Playing this game won’t cost you a bit of tiredness and make you feel sorry for your precious time. Give it a try and experience an extremely engaging and thrilling nature of the game.
#2 Dark Souls
Dark Souls is an RPG game packed with Action-Adventure and Hack and Slash elements. It is developed and published by From Software. This game provides an open world environment, enhanced graphics, challenging game-play, an updated user interface, and an advanced A artificial Intelligence (AI)I system. You can play it on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4. The game takes you to a fictional and mysterious world.
The player starts his journey with many weapons and rations and a little gathering of companions, and on his way to the badlands, he engages with the creatures. This game features realistic and eye-catching graphics, and the open-world allows him to interact with people, objects, and other things. Playing Dark Souls will definitely be a good experience because of its amazing story, addictive gameplay, and brilliant visuals. These features make Dark Souls among the top choices of combat gamers.
#3 Darksiders 2
Darksiders 2 is a brilliant Hack and Slash, RPG and Action-Adventure video game by Vigil Games. This game belongs to the Darksiders series and lets you be the protagonist Death, one of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse. The game amalgamates interactive puzzle elements with the super thrilling Action, RPG and Hack and Slash game-play and tasks you to go through various environments consisting of things such as Doors, Elevators, Portals, and Platforms etc. In an open world environment, Darksiders 2 lets you explore the game world on foot or your special Horse named as Despair, traverse through a number of dungeons, complete a number of quests and side quests, engage in epic boss fights along with thrilling PvP melee combats with other enemies and enjoy immersing yourself into a brilliantly engaging game-play. Darksiders 2 offers multiple means of travel and one of them is teleporting from one location to another. Your primary weapons are two sharp edged Scythes that you can use to slice up your enemies or you can use your secondary weapons (Hammers, Axes, Maces etc.) as well. With a very interesting and very well-written story line, fantastic visuals and an immersive game-play, Darksiders 2 is one of the best games of Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash genres. Do try it out.
#4 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a Third-person, Fast-paced Action and Thrill filled Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Mercury Steam. The game is set in the year 1047 and tells the story about the epic Alliance between Earth and Heaven that was threatened by the mighty and evil Lords of the Shadow. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow allows you to be the main protagonist Gabriel Belmont a skilled warrior who uses advanced skills and up to 40 unique Unlockable fighting combos and his special sword fighting abilities to kill the enemies. Your task is to use all the weapons along with secondary ones such as Knives, Holy Water, and Hammers etc. to eliminate your enemies. Laced up with all the advanced melee tactics and weapons, special magical spells, you’ll have to attack your enemies in a fast-paced manner and kill them before they get you. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow offers ultra-HD visuals, a well-written story and an engaging game-play. Try it out if you really love playing Action-Adventure and RPG video games and you’ll definitely love it.
#5 Ninja Gaiden 3
Ninja Gaiden 3 offers a brilliant Combination of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, RPG and Ninja Assassin aesthetics. The game features the protagonist Ryu who gets summoned by the Self Defense Force (SDF) of Japan currently fighting against a massive Terrorist Organization run by the most notorious leader The Alchemist. Ryu joins the Self Defense Force of Japan, starts fighting against the Alchemist forces and himself, captures him in East London. After the Capture of Alchemist, another group of terrorist’s attacks Ryu, The Alchemist gets free and Ryu gets beaten and wounded badly. The Alchemist flees the scene leaving Ryu at the scene, alive but with severe injuries. A chunk of time passes, Ryu gets himself right, follows the Footsteps of The Alchemist and finds him taking refuge in the Rub-Al-Khali, a desert covering almost the Third of the Arabian Peninsula. In order to eliminate The Alchemist, Ryu fights off hordes of his accomplices and finally reaches to Alchemist’s Den where he gets into a One on One melee Combat with The Alchemist and kills him after a long run of bloody fight. Ryu Returns to Japan and the Story Concludes after the demise of Alchemist and his Terrorist organization. Ninja Gaiden 3 offers a fantastic mix-up of multiple genres such as Action, Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash elements along with a wonderful story, great visuals and an immersive game-play.
#6 Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno is a fantastic Single and Multiplayer Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game by Visceral Games and Artificial Mind and Movement. The game features the protagonist Dante, a Crusader laced up with his primary weapon Death Scythe and the Holy Cross. According to the Storyline, Dante goes on a mission to eliminate the Hell’s Minions and engages into epic Combats, Platform and environmental Puzzles. The story takes another turn when the King goes on to search for a Holy Relic that is hidden under the folds of mystic environments. The king entrusts Dante with all the prisoners but Dante kills the Prisoners and the King sends him to find the Holy Relic as to punish him. Dante embarks on an epic journey to find the Holy Relic and reaches down to the Palace of King Saladin where he gets stabbed multiple times by the Assassins. Wounded badly, Dante returns back to Florence, Italy to his Father and his one true Love Beatrice, but instead finds them dead. Beatrice’s Soul appears in front of him and tells him all about how she and Dante’s father got killed. Dante Vows to revenge and descends into an opening into the ground at the spot where Hell and Earth borders. Dante reaches to the Hell’s Gate where he encounters the Minions of Lucifer, starts killing them selflessly, encounters Lucifer and kills him after a series of fast-paced and Action-filled melee combats. Dante then finds the Holy Relic and the game concludes. With a very interesting story, state of the art visuals and a super thrilling game-play, Dante’s Inferno is a wonderful game to play.
#7 Killer is Dead
Killer is Dead lets the players enjoy a Futuristic Story that takes place in a world of Technological Advancements and Space Travel. Presenting Hardcore Action, Thrill and Hack and Slash elements, Killer is Dead focuses on the main character named as Mondo Zappa, a skilled Marksman, and an Executioner who works for the Bryan Execution Firm. Bryan Execution Firm is controlled by a Cyborg known as Bryan Roses, who commits himself to finding and killing all the dangerous Criminals in the world. Mondo takes jobs of killing various Criminals from Bryan and acts according to the storyline of the game. The game offers different types of weapons that the players can use while combatting against the criminals. The Weapons include a Katana Sword and various firearms that can be accessed by manipulating the Cybernetic Left Arm of Mondo, the protagonist. With all the amazingly addictive and Fast-paced gameplay, beautiful locations and 3D graphics, Killer is Dead offers a truly remarkable backstory and a futuristic Action and Hack and Slash experience for all the lovers of both Sword Fighting and Shooting genres. killer is Dead is available on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
#8 DARK SOULS: Prepare To Die Edition
DARK SOULS: Prepare To Die Edition is an Action Role-playing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game with an emphasis on Hack and Slash elements developed by FromSoftware and published by Namco Bandai Games. The game takes place in the breathtaking world of Lordran, where the player will unearth the storyline when Knight Artorias still lives. It introduces new bosses, online matchmaking system, and PvP Arena. During the gameplay, the player assumes the role of the protagonist who must navigate the environment from a third-person perspective, fight brutal monsters and slay them before they kill the player. A dark fantasy world full of thrilling dungeons, fearsome enemies, and online interaction. The ultimate task of the player to overcome obstacles, avoid murderous traps and progress through the game by killing the numerous monsters and enemies to score the experience points and use them to unlock additional content. DARK SOULS: Prepare To Die Edition includes prominent features such as Network Play, Mastery Earns Progression, Seamless World, Character Development, and more. Try it out.
#9 Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 2, developed by From Software is a Hack and Slash, Action-Adventure and RPG video game that is set in a Hostile Drangleic world and allows you to explore it and engage in combats and battles against your enemies. Dark Souls 2 offers both PvP and PvE events for you to get into and fight against the opponents. Every kill means a win for you, the soul of the player who gets defeated by you, accumulates and turns into experience points and currency for you. You can use the experience points and currency to buy upgrades, power-ups, weapons and skills etc. Because of the open world nature of the game, you encounter a lot of enemies while exploring but you can always kill them with your mighty sword. Multiplayer gaming mode allows you to team up with other online players or go against them and fight them off of your areas. Dark Souls 2 is one of the best Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and RPG games and it will definitely entertain you to the limits. Do try it out.
#10 Bayonetta
Bayonetta offers a brilliant amalgamation of unique Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash elements and allows you to get into the character of a Witch named as Bayonetta. Laced up with sharp edged weapons, Guns and Magic, Bayonetta fights against the Angelic enemies and allows you to enjoy a fast-paced action and thrill filled game-play. According to the story, the game kicks off in the city of Vigrid, where you control the character of Bayonetta and engage yourself into epic Long and close range combats (Melee Combats), use your special magical powers, swords and guns in order to kill the enemies, summon a number of different unholy and gigantic creatures, monsters etc. to fight off the enemies. With an edge of superior powers, Bayonetta lets you devastate your enemies completely along with capturing their weapons and powers. With every Angel kill, the game awards you with skill points that you can use to buy upgrades (Weapons, Magic and Skills etc.). With a wonderful Hack and Slash game-play, cool visuals and mechanics, Bayonetta offers an amazingly addictive and immersive experience ever. Do try it out.
#11 X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a great Mix Up of Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, RPG and Beat ‘em’ Up aesthetics. The game is based on the character of the same name Wolverine and kicks off with Wolverine Being hunted by a group of soldiers, in order to save his life he must fight them off or they will kill him with the modern tech weapon. X-Men Origins: Wolverine tasks you to be the protagonist Wolverine save yourself from the hunters and get back to the agency where you’ll be assigned different tasks and in order to complete the tasks you have to use your Titanium Claws, futuristic weapons and your hands to knock down the enemies in epic Melee combats. X-Men Origins: Wolverine with an amazingly addictive game-play, a great story and visuals plus open world gaming environment is a super thrilling game to play and enjoy. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is one of the best Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and RPG games to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#12 Transformers: Devastation
Transformers: Devastation takes the Transformers series games to further limits and offers an entirely Unique Concept of Action and Hack and Slash gaming. Developed by the famous Platinum Games, Transformers: Devastation features a fast-paced Brawler, Shooter and Action oriented gameplay and combines it with a brilliant Hack and Slash routine to offer more room for gameplay. With the amazing Comic Book styled visuals and environmental approach, Transformers: Devastation lets the players engage themselves into hardcore Robot action, Vehicular Combats and an entirely immersive experience of Shooting elements. The game offers five playable robot characters (including Optimus Prime, Sideswipe, Bumblebee, Wheeljack, and Grimlock) and allows the players to control them to wreak havoc on the Decepticons. Transformers: Devastation offers plenty of room for the gameplay and allows the players to enjoy five different difficulty levels, overhauls for enemy compositions, a unique character and skill customization system, enhanced game mechanics, and loads of other great features, upgrades, and perks. With all the intense combats, action and thrill and the best 3D graphics, Transformers: Devastation is a great game to play and enjoy.
#13 Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is a cool Third-person Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash, RPG and Beat ‘em’ Up video game from the Ninja Gaiden series. The story of the game revolves around the character of Yaiba Kamikaze, a Ninja with special Ninja and Skills and abilities. After an outrage in the Clan, Yaiba Kamikaze turns against all of his Clan Elders and kills them and soon after that challenges Ryu Hayabusa, the leader of the clan. After a series of combats, Ryu Hayabusa slices up Yaiba’s left arm and that results in the death of Yaiba. After being resurrected, Yaiba Kamikaze emerges from the dead and follows the trail of Ryu Hayabusa, encounters him one last time and kills him. After killing Ryu Hayabusa, Yaiba finds out that the Forge Industries is manipulating every event from the very start and the recent Zombie outbreak is one of its doing. Yaiba travels to Ukraine where Russian Army invades Ukraine and the protagonist teams up with the Ukrainians and fight off against the forces and zombies all together and finally brings down the Forge Industries along with all of its owners and plotters. With great story, an amazingly engaging game-play and a lot of other cool things, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is a great Action-Adventure and RPG game to play and enjoy. try it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.
#14 Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a great Action-Adventure and RPG game with super thrilling Hack and Slash elements. The game sets you up into the character of the Fateless One who after being resurrected gets destined to go against the Winter Fae, a dark entity with dark abilities and skills. Your task is to get out of the Lab before Winter Fae Swarms up the place, find Octienne, get the info about Winter Fae and eliminate em before its too late. Other tasks of the game include, exploration, find weapons and skills, go on quests to fight against the vicious enemy, and earn skill points to buy upgrades and stuff. This game is all about close combats and melee fights, so you’ll have one of the best experience of hardcore combats and the use of melee weapons like swords, hammers, knives etc. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is a great Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash and RPG video game to play and enjoy.
#15 Arcania Gothic 4
Arcania: Gothic 4 is a cool Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game set in the southern seas. The game features the protagonist, a war hero who gets his wedding ruined because of a neighboring king’s attack. His wife gets killed and he vows to avenge her death. In order to fulfill the game objectives, the protagonist journeys to the land of evil to fight against the dark forces who led the king to devastate his kingdom. This is where you get into the play and your task is to explore the evil lands, fight against the huge and mighty forces of enemies, eliminate them, absorb their powers and finally kill the king. Arcania Gothic 4 features an amazing Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash game-play ain which you are allowed to use weapons such as Swords, Axes, Hammers etc. and engage yourself into the most epic combats of the time. With a well-written story, enhanced visuals and sounds and a lot of other cool things, Arcania Gothic 4 is a wonderful game to play.
#16 Diablo 3
Diablo 3, the third installment in the Diablo Game series is developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Diablo 3 is an Action-Adventure and Role Playing Game (RPG) and is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gaming platforms. With a huge fan base, Diablo 3 sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is still persistent in markets. The game features a much similar game-play to its predecessors Diablo and Diablo 2 but the storyline is a bit different. With the block buster Expansion pack Reaper of Souls this game is topping the Ranks among big names of the time. The game is set in the Dark Fantasy in the Sanctuary and allows you to choose your character from 6 different choices (Demon Hunter, Witch Doctor, Monk, Crusader, Barbarian and Wizard), select the best skills and spells and go explore the game world to uncover the plot about the extreme power you can have and eventually start ruling the realms once more. The story focuses on Deckard Cain and Leah investigating about the ancient texts when suddenly a mysterious star falls on the Cathedral, makes a huge crater and Deckard Cain disappears in it. Your task is to go to the Cathedral, Start investigating about the star that struck the cathedral and the sudden disappearance of Deckard Cain. After the Rescue of Cain you must go fight and defeat the King Leoric Aka. The Skeleton king because it’s the only way to reach out to the fallen star. In order to complete the objectives, you must first find out the three pieces of the Sacred Sword, forge a Mighty Sword and kill the Skeleton King with it and eventually reach to the Fallen Star. Diablo 3 is a wonderful game of this specific genre and provides with a wonderful game-play, cool visuals and a great story.
#17 Fable 2
Fable 2 is a brilliant Open World Action-RPG video game created by Lionhead Studios. Fable 2 offers gameplay and mechanics similar to its predecessor. Released back in 2008 Fable II won the best game of the year award because of its unique story and all the fantastic characters and a brilliant Story-driven gameplay. Set in the vicinity of fictional Land of Albion, Fable II offers a story after the events of the main game Fable and takes you to the Colonial Era, the era of highwaymen and Enlightenment. Guns and ammunition is still missing from the gameplay but the small towns have now turned into giant buildings and castles and Fable II lets you choose between the male and female characters. Fable II offers both interactive and non interactive cut scenes throughout the game that never last for more than five minutes. As a true companion, Fable II allows you to have a Companion in the game, a Dog that the main character befriends as a child and it stays with him for the rest of the story. The Dog can help you eliminate the enemies or perform a number of tasks for you or simply lead you to the Quest objectives. one fantastic thing about your companion is that it never dies and that means a full time support while you are playing the game.Unlike Fable, Fable II lets you build relationships in the game, you can get married, have children, raise a family and enjoy your life in the game as you would like to. Character morphing is one of the most prominent features of the game that totally depends on the actions of the characters in the game, you can be Good, Evil or Pure or Corrupt just according to your activities in the game. In other words, you can say that the game actually lets you build a personality that totally depends what you want to be. The Job system in the game lets you complete a number of different jobs and get paid accordingly, earn money, feed your family and keep on going with your life. With a brilliantly immersive gameplay, fantastic Quests, NPCs, a great storyline, amazing characters, Co-=Op multiplayer support and loads of other fun things, Fable II offers a best ever Action-RPG experience ever.
#18 The Last Remnant
The Last Remnant is a cool Turn-based, Action-RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Square Enix. The game takes place in a fictional world and lets you choose a character from four different races and select the best skills for yourself. You act as Rush Sykes who goes on an epic journey against a huge army of monsters managed by antagonist, DAVID companies the protagonist Rush. Your objective is to go against the monsters as a skilled gladiator, kill all of them and free “Irina”. Irina is in possession of the monster leader and he won’t let her go away without a fight so you should give him what he wants, kill him, destroy the arks of Remnants and free your sister. The Last Remnant features a great action-packed game-play and good story and cool visuals along with a great ARPG and Hack and Slash experience that you won’t find in a lot of other games of this specific genre.
#19 Bastion
Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.
#20 Overlord 2
Overlord 2 continues the unique and a bit humorous adventures of the Original Overlord. This time the series offers a more enhanced and quite brilliant version of Overlord game and allows you to be an unnamed Overlord (the son of the Overlord of previous game), who tries to set his mark by overtaking the Glorious Empire. Your task in the game is to simply go against the Emperor Solaris who is keen to remove all the dark magic that is engulfing the whole empire day by day. Overlord 2 offers all the cool things that you enjoyed in Overlord such as your multi colored minions, your towers, all the powers your dad had in the previous game along with your adviser Gnarl. With a number of weapons, all the mean powers and your advanced minions, your task is to simply overthrow the Emperor, seize the throne and continue with the story-line to finish the game. Overlord 2 offers enhanced game mechanics, a new world based on the Roman Empire like environment, Amazing dark powers to experience along with beautifully created visuals and an addictive game-play. Try it out as an alternative to Gothic and you’ll be amazed at what this game will offer.