StarCraft
StarCraft is a Real-Time Strategy and Military Themed Sci-Fi video game by Blizzard Entertainment and Mass Media. The game is set in an era of Earths 25th Epoch and features three Species “Humans, Terrans and Zerg” Fighting a tremendously destructive war for dominance over a distant Galaxy named as Koprulu. The game itself is a wonderful masterpiece because of its amazingly addictive and quite engaging nature, amazing Characteristics and a wonderful Sci-Fi background. This fantastic game is about the race known as Protos who struggles to survive from mass extinction as the fierce Sarah Kerrigan gets more stronger with the help of Zerg Broods. StarCraft offers 7 new units, modified AI (Artificial Intelligence) moods and behaviors, new terrains to explore, a unique Level Editor, enhanced scripting and game engine capabilities etc. Furthermore, StarCraft offers an exciting new expansion pack named as StarCraft: Brood War that makes this game even more engaging and immersive. With a powerful narrative, great storyline, beautifully designed game visuals and an epic gameplay, StarCraft is one of the most exciting RTS video game to play and enjoy.
#1 Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Dragonfall is a super engaging Action-Adventure, Cyberpunk-RPG and Hack and Slash video game by Harebrained Schemes. This epic game provides with an amazing strategy based game-play that lets you experience a wonderful mix up of all the above mentioned elements. The game is about the return of the dark magic that unleashed powerful mythical creatures and among them was the one mighty Dragon named as Feuerschwinge who emerged from the mountains of Germany and brought heavy destruction and chaos with it. German Forces kept on fighting off the Feuerschwinge and after four months of heavy fights and destruction they finally shot it down and that was called The Dragonfall. Years later in 2054, Germany becomes the hub of tech and the population is now doubled as the Elves and Trolls have joined the populace, giant corporations have corrupted the Govts. and now Germany is in the control of Flux State after the heavy anarchy and chaos. With a lot of new threats and you as a Shadow Runner, the Flux State hires you to go against the re-surfacing Feuerschwinge, eliminate it and restore the order. Would you accept the challenge? Shadowrun: Dragonfall offers brilliant realistic visauls and sounds, a well-written story and an immersive game-play tho enjoy.
#2 Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut
Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut is an amazing Cyberpunk RPG, Indie and Strategy video game by Harebrained Schemes. The game is loaded with redesigned interface, enhanced graphical world and upgraded combat system with cRPG experience. You can explore the game world by commanding your team of NPCs to assist you in different combats to complete the quests. You are allowed to enjoy turn based tactical combats to fight wisely with more than 200 spells and weapons to get rid of your enemies. You will experience melee combat along with long range fights using different spells and weapons. You will love 5 all-new missions included in redesigned interface to give more fun of the game play. Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut is a superb game to enjoy with upgraded combats.
#3 XCOM: Enemy Unknown
XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a Military Themed Tactical and Turn-Based RTS (Real Time Strategy) and MMO, Role Playing video game set in an era of Global Alien Invasion. The game is developed by Firaxis Games and allows you to control a technically advanced organization named as XCOM and defend the Earth. You are tasked to lead your troops in the field, fight off and capture the aliens, Build research labs, develop new technologies using alien technology, expand your Organization’s operations, manage XCOM’s assets, monitor alien activities and respond to wherever your assistance is required. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is an outstanding strategy video game with a lot of campaigns, action packed game-play, sleek and state of the art Graphics, great cinematic animations, a lot of fun filled mini games etc. XCOM: Enemy Unknown offers an amazing standalone expansion named XCOM: Enemy Within that adds tons of new stuff (Weapons, new missions, more upgrade options etc.) to the main game. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a great MMO and Strategy video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#4 Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition
Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition is an amazing inclusion to the Dungeons and Dragons series. This remake of Baldur’s Gate II: Shadow of Amn is super fantastic Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game that takes you to an amazing setting of Frogotten Realms and lands you in the continent of Faerun. Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition lets you be any one of the given characters (Neera The Wild Mage, Dorn II-Khan The Blackguard, Rasaad The Monk etc.) and lets you fight against a Wizard named as Irenicus who kidnaps, imprisons and tortures you to strip you off of your unique powers. Your task in the game is to be resistant to all the evil forces, get up and unleash the Hero inside yourself and destroy all the ultimate dark powers to defeat the Evil Wizard. You must go to the limits of destruction if you have to, if the destruction swallows up the realms, let it be. Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition offers a fantastic Story, realistic and enhanced visuals, sounds and mechanics along with a very immersive game-play.
#5 Shadowrun Returns
Shadowrun Returns is a Turn-based Tactical RPG and Sci Fi video game by Harebrained Schemes. The game allows you to choose your character from five different races, such as trolls, orcs, elves, dwarves and humans. You can choose to play as one of the six given classes such as Street Samurai, Decker, Rigger, Mage, Shaman or Physical Adept, or you can play without choosing any class. You can explore the game world by going through the strategic combats while completing different quests. You can customize your character at different stages of the game by getting different upgrades and skills including weapons. You will find different items to use or sell while interacting with the environment. Shadowrun Returns is a superb game to play and enjoy.
#6 Avernum: Escape from the Pit
Avernum: Escape from the Pit is another cool Action-Adventure, Strategy and RPG video game that offers a gameplay inspired by Divinity: original Sin. The game is set in Avernum, the land of subterranean races consisting of Misfits, Rogues, Brigands etc. who are all struggling hard to get rid of the strange Darkness that is filled with otherworldly monsters. You are thrown into the Pit of a volcano and the surface is under the brutal reign of king Hawthorne who sends everyone down the pit, who misbehaves, or speaks out or is not the one who should live on surface of Avernum. You must rise and form an allegiance with all the mighty ones rotting in the pit and suffering from the wrath of the Monsters. You must also gather up the people like you who have unique skills and magic spells as their weapons. Together you have to try and relieve the king off of his duties by killing him and along with him all the Dark forces, you must also kill all the dangerous monsters in the pit and destroy it forever. Avernum: Escape from the Pit is a superbly engaging Fantasy and Adventure based game that definitely will take you to an out of this world gaming experience.
#7 Shadowgun
Shadowgun developed by Madfinger Games is a super Thriller Sci-Fi Stealth and Third-person Shooting video game for iOS and Android devices. If you are a true Third-person Shooting game enthusiast and you are a proud iPhone or an Android owner, you must be familiar with this brilliant game. John Slade’s marvelous Bounty hunting Skills, a rival like Dr. Edgar Simon and his Mutant Army, all of these characters combined and a brilliant hardcore action filled game-play is what leaves you quite spellbound.The game takes you to the future and lands you in the year 2350 where it sets you up as the protagonist John Slade, a trained and well skilled Shadowgun. A mega corporation known as Toltech hires you to find Dr. Edgar Simon, a renowned Bio Engineer and a former employee of Toltech. Dr. Edgar has stolen some of the most secret Genetic Samples and your task is to find Dr. Edgar and recover the stolen Genetic Samples. As Dr. Edgar has fled to another planet known as Eve, you must head to the planet Eve, fight off all of the aliens and other enemies, find the Doctor and recover the Sample. Toltech needs Edgar Dead or alive so you’ll have a free hand. With all the stealth and shooting skills, you must complete the game objectives in order to complete the missions. Shadowgun offers easy touch screen controls along with beautifully created 3D graphics, a great storyline and an immersive gameplay to enjoy.
#8 Braveland
Braveland is a wonderful Turn-based Strategy video game with amazing Indie aesthetics. This brilliant Old School takes you to an amazing Hexagonal grid-based setting and allows you to Explore, Craft, engage yourself into addictive and quite epic Turn-based Combats and be part of the legions of finest warriors of the time. Complete the ultimate goal of the game, that is to defeat the invading enemies and eventually save your world and people and become a skilled Commander of your army. The game allows you explore a massive game map, travel to any location easily, encounter your enemies randomly, collect a number of rare and quite valuable artifacts, use a number of fantastic combat skills and tricks, use upgrade to enhance your character’s talents and enjoy immersing yourself into an epic gameplay experience ever. With a fantastic game-play, great story and brilliant visuals, Braveland is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#9 Jade Empire: Special Edition
Jade Empire: Special Edition is a brilliant game with Role-playing, Action and Martial-Arts elements. The game takes place in the fantasy land and supports Single-player mode only. The plot revolves around an orphan who grew up under the care of tough master named Master Li, who runs a martial art school. A strange event occurs in the school and the Master Li become disappear. The game cast you in the role of the protagonist and assigned you a task to explore the world, find complex quests and struggle to save your Master. There are different fighting styles such as Magic, Transformation, Weapon and Martial Arts. Play as either male or female and customize your character using different abilities. Use different items, and combos to take down your foes. Earn experience points by completing tasks and progress through the game to unlock further features in it.Jade Empire: Special Edition offers core features such as Engaging Story, NPCs, and Mysterious Lands to Explore, New Foes and Monsters, different Fighting Styles, Customization and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#10 Lost Frontier
Lost Frontier developed and published by Mika Mobile is a Turn-based Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game available to play on Android and iOS. The game offers the western fantasy setting where it takes place. It has two exciting modes such as Story and Challenge. In Story mode, the player needs to dominate twenty-four challenging chapters, introducing the player to the gameplay, world, and characters of the game. In Challenge mode, the player must struggle to master the mechanics, and put his knowledge and skills to the test in the variety of twenty demanding missions. There are twenty types of unique units, and the player has to take command of a team of Wild West force, compete against enemies and score the best points to conquer the battlefield. In Custom Settings, the player select from a variety of detailed maps, play against AI or human players and set up rules. The game is played from an isometric perspective where the player complete levels to score the points while living as the legend. Check it out, and have fun.