The Old City: Leviathan
The Old City: Leviathan is a Horror, Survival, Simulation, Adventure, First-person, and Single-player video game developed by PostMod Softworks. During the gameplay, the player can hear a conversation between two entities, and the first one is the character that the player controls. The second one is unseen in the environment.
The primary objective of the player is to sort out the story as though the player bounces into the conversation with no specific circumstances. The more you investigate, the more you will easily comprehend. There is nothing except the player and the world in the gameplay, and the player converse through the monologues.
The game takes the player to a lonely world and make progress by inspecting the story of the environment. The character’s thoughts and nature will unfold the story, and this condition has intended to be exciting and significant to the story of the game. The game has core features, such as Horror Environment, First-person Perspective, Thoughts of the Characters, and Monologues Communication.
#1 Call of Cthulhu
Call of Cthulhu is a Survival-Horror and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Role-playing elements, developed by Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game introduces the semi-open world environment and offers the perfect blend of themes of psychological horror and Lovecraftian into a storyline which features elements of stealth and investigation. The story follows an investigator named Edward Pierce, a private detective facing off an existential crisis. It takes place in the setting of 1924, where Boston doesn’t offer any case, the protagonist stops to consuming pills and alcohol to satisfy his mind. The hope of the Pierce shines when a strange briefcase lands on his deck. The protagonist is tasked with solving the death case of the Hawkins family, who strangely died in the fire. Only a clue is a picture painted by the crazy mother before her death. The player embarks on a journey to save complex cases to become the best detective. Call of Cthulhu includes prominent features such as Third-person Exploration, Become a Detective, 3D Environment, and more.
#2 Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Overture is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival, and Single-player video game created by Frictional Games and published by Paradox Interactive. The game acts as the first title in the series of Episodic Survival and Horror game Penumbra. The player assumes the role of the protagonist who can explore the land from a first-person perspective and face the terror. It blends the psychological horror, survival and adventure genres. The gameplay revolves around exploration and adventure elements where the player can interact with objects such as find, examine and collect objects to solve tricky puzzles. Most of the levels involve finding keys or other specific objects that can use to solve the problem and earn points. The game also brings physics-based puzzles where the individual objects must be placed or moved in real-time. The story takes place in the year 2001, revolving around the plot of Philip, the protagonist who is 34-year-old physicist, whose mother has recently passed away. With prominent features, detailed mechanics, and improved gameplay, Penumbra: Overture a terrific game to play.
#3 Don’t Starve
Don’t Starve, developed by Klei Entertainment is an Action-Adventure, Survival and Roguelike video game. The story features a Scientist named as Wilson who finds himself in a very dark and eerie place. In his struggle to survive, Don’t Starve tasks you to help Wilson keep him fed, healthy and mentally stable while avoiding various types of supernatural enemies who want to kill him. To add more depth to the gameplay, Don’t Starve offers Adventure mode that tasks the players to go against the Antagonist Maxwell and defeat him in epic encounters. The game offers Point and Click based combat in the game and allows you to be able to survive for as long as possible, keep on progressing throughout the gameplay by earning experience points and using upgrades such as Meat Effigy, life Giving Amulet and Touch Stone etc. Don’t Starve offers brilliant story and environments, fantastic game visuals and an immersive gameplay to enjoy.
#4 Subterrain
Subterrain is a wonderful Action-Adventure and Survival video game. The game puts you right into the shoes of Dr. West who finds himself stranded into an underground city on Mars. Your task is to survive by shooting your way through hordes of Zombies, find the exit and escape before it’s too late. Subterrain offers a Sci-Fi environment and lets you research and craft a number of weapons, explore the world around you and fight against the mutants. With a number of randomly generated game levels, cool weapons and a top down perspective, Subterrain offers brilliant visuals, a well-written story-line and an engaging game-play. Do try it out for an amazing Action-Adventure, Survival ans Exploration video game.
#5 Darkwood
Darkwood is an Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game that offers an Open World game-play with procedurally generated game levels. It blends in RPG, Action, Adventure and Roguelike elements beautifully and allows you to immerse yourself deeply into an amazing game-play. Left alone as an unknown character, you’ll have to seek for the reasons why you were left in this godforsaken and unforgiving world alone without any help. You’ll also have to scavenge for supplies, weapons and survive in an environment where countless terrors are waiting for you as you further deep into the world of Darkwood. Discover the secrets of unknown and solve challenging mysteries and puzzles, trade with or kill the mysterious natives of the Darkwood and survive till your last breath. With a number of skills to learn, perks to enjoy and crafting options, Darkwood lets you set traps for food and enemies, barricade yourself or go out hunting the hunters, it totally depends on the actions you perform. Be careful of all the creatures lurking in the dark, keep your sanity intact and find out the secrets of Darkwood.
#6 Age of Survival
Age of Survival takes you to an amazing experience of Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival and Crafting elements. The game is basically a simulation in which you are stranded on an unknown Island located on the far side of the Coast of Africa. You’ll have to survive in an unforgiving environment filled with all the hazards a man can think of. Wilde creatures such as Boars, Lions, Elephants, Crocodiles, Rhinos and Hippos are your hosts and you are left to totally survive on your own. Your task is to explore the world around you, interact with the objects you see, build structures using all the available materials, craft items such as weapons, and tools that will help you survive. Kill the beings you see as enemies and just survive. With all the wonderful visuals, immersive game-play and all the wonderful things combined, Age of Survival is a great game to play and enjoy.
#7 Don’t Starve Together
Don’t Starve Together is a standalone Action-Adventure and Survival expansion pack of the original Don’t Starve with Multiplayer functionality. The game offers Reign of Giants mod that features new characters, new challenges, Puzzles, biomes, seasons and creatures to immerse you with the game-play a bit more tightly. As the same character of Wilson, you’ll have to explore a strange world filled with all the strangest creatures, hazards, dangers and wonders. In order to survive, you’ll have to gather as much resources as you can, craft items with all the available materials, build different structures, interact with other online players, fight them off of your property and save your items, or simply befriend other online players, explore the world together survive the harshest environment and Survive. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals, enhanced mechanics and an addictive game-play, Don’t Starve Together is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#8 Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a Horror Survival and Action-Adventure video game produced in the studios of Frictional Games. The game is about a man named Daniel who finds himself in an asylum like castle and has absolutely no memory of his past. He gets up, picks up the notes with strange writings scattered all around the place, and starts finding his way out of the haunted castle. While walking down the corridors, he feels the presence of an unknown entity who keeps on following him wherever he goes. Haunted by the fear and bizarre happenings and voices all around him, he struggles to remember his past and get rid of the unearthly being following him. Your task is to get into the character of Daniel, start exploring the Asylum. collect all the notes and objects necessary to plan your escape. Amnesia: The Dark Descent offers beautifully created visuals, a great storyline and an addictive gameplay to enjoy.
#9 Rust
Rust is a Multiplayer Action-Adventure and Horror-Survival video game by Facepunch Studios. Currently, in the Alpha phase, Rust offers early access to the game on Steam. Set in a massive Open World, Rust allows you to survive in an unfriendly environment by simply crafting different items, exploration and by finding the supplies such as Food, Water, Shelter, loot, Weapons and medical Supplies, etc. It spawns you right in the middle of other online players and lets you use your wit to find ways in which you can survive. You must stay well fed to avoid starvation and drink plenty of water in order to eliminate the threat of being dehydrated. Encounters with the creatures will definitely result in your demise of win so you decide what to do. All the deadly creatures, harsh weather conditions, and all the obstacles must not defeat you if you want to survive. Rust with all the wonderful mechanics, visuals and immersive game-play is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#10 Neo Scavenger
Neo Scavenger is another great Action-Adventure and Survival video game that leaves you right in the middle of a Wasteland and lets you survive in an unforgiving environment, find out who you really are and why are you here. The game totally lets you decide what to do with your life and where to go from here, how to start exploring the world, how to scavenge for all the necessary items and supplies and how to approach all the ones you encounter. In order to survive, you’ll have to keep yourself properly fed, and drink plenty of water because the dehydration element will challenge you again and again, lack of weapons and tool will force you to collect different materials and create useful items. You must know how to survive in an apocalyptic environment or else you’ll perish. With a marvelously unique setting, turn-based game-play, permadeath element presence, choices between sandbox or story modes, amazing crafting abilities and a totally realistic gaming experience, Neo Scavenger is one of the brilliant games of this genre ever created. Do try it out.
#11 FarSky
FarSky takes you to an amazing world of Seas where you’ll witness an amazing Action-Adventure and Survival experience ever. The game lets you be the protagonist named Nathan who gets lost in the deep seas after his submarine gets crashed badly. With no possible way to go, you’ll have to remain in the seas and learn how to survive as all the sea creatures do. In order to survive, you’ll have to get familiar with the environment, gather up the resources such as different materials to craft different items and tools, build a base, build an oxygen making and storing unit, use different weapons to secure yourself from all the hazards of the sea and explore to the limits. In order to stay well fed, you must create a fish hunting and keeping farm and survive as long as you can. The ultimate goal is to find all the missing pieces of your crashed submarine, repair them and repair your submarine and escape the seas. With a colorful and randomly generated environment, amazing sea creatures to interact with, cool visuals and an immersive game-play, FarSky is a brilliant game to play.
#12 Slender Man
Slender Man is an indie Psycho-Horror and Survival game, featuring a faceless being (Slender Man) that is mostly found occupying some abandoned or haunted places. Playing this game is truly a different and quite exhilarating experience. Dressed in a black and white suit, the Slender Man is controllable by the game player presenting a First-person gaming perspective. The story of the game is about acquiring the clues to solve some deep end mysteries behind the most terrifying legends of all time. The game offers brilliant visuals, loads of dark and haunted environments, dark theme and all the excitement that you seek for. Because of being one of the most creepiest games, Slender Man takes you to the heights of entertainment. Do try it out if you love playing games with dark thematic and enjoy the ultimate fun, and thrill.
#13 The Long Dark
The Long Dark is a new Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Survival and Exploration-based video game that takes you to a Frozen World. The world around you gets devastated after a huge Geomagnetic event happens and the environment changes rapidly. Left in the wilderness, your task is to survive the chilling cold and all the threats Mother Nature throws at you. The game lets you think and find the ways to survive, explore the land, gather up the resources, create and craft different items with all the available materials, make shelter for yourself and keep yourself well fed by trapping the animals and drinking plenty of water. With an always changing environment and weather, loads of native creatures such as deer, rabbits, snakes, Wolves, Bears birds etc. you must know how to interact with them and how to survive the attacks. To save yourself from the unforgiving environment, you must know how to make cloths, harvest the wood to keep the fire burning, harvest different medicinal plants to make antibiotics and stuff etc. The Long Dark offers an amazing simulation like game-play, stunning visuals and lots of things to discover and Survive.
#14 The Forest
The Forest is a super exciting Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and First-person Exploration video game. The game takes you to a mysterious forest on an unknown island and leaves you in the middle of cannibalistic beings after your plane crashes there. In order to survive you’ll have to hunt down the resources and supplies such as Food, Water, medicinal items and materials to make weapons, shelter etc. The unique crafting system of the game allows you to gather up the required resources and build shelters to live in, weapons to kill the deadly attacking cannibals, set traps for food and to prevent the cannibals from reaching out to your shelters. The Forest lets you experience one of the most horrifying game-plays from first-person perspective and enjoy. With an amazing story-line, clean visuals and a challenging game-play, The Forest is a great game to play.
#15 Teleglitch: Die More Edition
Teleglitch: Die More Edition by Paradox Interactive is an amazing Rogue-like 2D Retro Action-Adventure, Survival RPG and Top-Down Shooter video game that takes you to a cold, dark and mega corporations plighted future of a small and shadowy planet on the edge of the galaxy. The game puts you right into the character of a scientist who gets trapped into a laboratory after an experiment on Necrotic Tissue Reactivation goes wrong and all the subject turn into fearsome mutants. Now you must survive huge waves of mutant enemies by using your abilities and weapons of different types. You must explore the premises and collect valuables, supplies and weapons, kill the mutants and finally destroy the laboratory to further stop the virus from spreading. With all the amazing things Teleglitch: Die More Edition offers, it’s a magnificent game to play and enjoy.
#16 Darkout
Darkout is another great inclusion to the Sandbox Genre and it offers wonderful Action-Adventure, Indie, Horror-Survival and RPG aesthetics. The game basically is focused on Survival and allows you to survive in a procedurally generated game world, craft different items like weapons, armors, shelter and research about new technologies to enhance your chances of survival and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. The world around you is called The Land of Illuna and is filled with dark enemies, so in order to survive and find the parts for your ship, you’ll have to go through hordes of enemies, kill them to level up your chances of survival, collect resources and master the survival. If you are a good crafter, your chances of survival are high, so you better be good at that. With eye catching dark world visuals, super thrilling game-play and a lot of other great things, Darkout is a quite a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#17 Sir, You Are Being Hunted
This super thriller, Action-Adventure, Horror Survival and shooter video game is a great creation of Big Robot Games. Sir, You Are Being Hunted lets you roam into an open world and survive the hordes of Hunters (Robots dressed as the Victorian Gentlemen). The robots are following you only to capture you and kill you after the investigation. You must survive using all the things like weapons and objects and escape the island. There are a lot of items of interests hidden in the towns, you can find them and use them to survive and plan your escape. The enemies are way too stronger in the game and they can get help from dogs, balloons or sentries etc. to keep you out from the premises you are not allowed to enter. The robots with all the unique tactics try to lure and capture you so you better be careful even when touching an object. Other great features of the game are the Unique and engaging game-play, Randomly generated game worlds, super realistic graphics and a great story. Sir, You Are Being Hunted is an awesome game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#18 Far Cry Primal
Far Cry Primal is a fantastic new Action-Adventure and Survival video game by Ubisoft and Ubisoft Montreal. The game adds up a brilliant new type of genre in the series and offers a truly very immersive and quite jaw dropping experience. Far Cry Primal takes you back to 10,000 B.C in the beginning of Mesolithic Era. Set in the fictitious Oros Valley in the Central Europe, Far Cry Primal features an Open World environment filed up with all kinds of that time’s Flora and Fauna such as animals like Prehistoric Mammoths, Wolves, Cave Bears, Irish Elks, Wooly Rhinos, Saber-Toothed Cats, Cave Lions, Brown bears, Deer and Badgers etc. With only challenge of the game, Survival, Far Cry Primal lets you be a prominent Wenja Tribe man named Takkar, tasks you to explore the Oros valley without any weapons and lost of dangers. In order to survive, Far Cry Primal lets you capture and tame wild animals, collect different types of resources and build weapons, tools etc. You must build a special place among all the fellow tribesmen by using your skills and abilities of survival. Other prominent game tasks include scavenging, hunting, building structures by the use of all the natural resources and your abilities etc. With a very immersive nature, all the fantastic aspects of wild life and life without necessary resources, struggle and your survival abilities, brilliant visual details and all the fun, Far Cry Primal is one fantastic Action, Adventure and Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#19 Dying Light
Dying Light is a First-Person Action, RPG Open World and Horror-Survival Video game by Techland. The game revolves around the character of the protagonist an undercover agent who is tasked to infiltrate the city of Harran. The city is infested with the undead (Zombies) and your task is to stay alive, by the use of your Parkour skills, Unique Combat Techniques and advanced weaponry. Featuring a Zombie Apocalypse, Dying Light is one of the best game of this specific genre. If you are a hardcore fan of Apocalyptic and chaotic themes, you must be familiar Dying Light, because the game offers a true action and thrill filled gameplay that will definitely let you enjoy it big time. Dying Light offers Close combats against the enemies that you can also call the Melee Combats and it lets you use a number of tools as your melee weapons and allows yo to enjoy the deadly encounters from close. You must stay alive in order to complete the game objectives and to save the others depending on you. Dying Light offers a fantastic story and portrays it impressively enough to lets you immerse yourself into the gameplay and feel like being actually a part of the game world. With a great game setting, beautifully created game visuals, adrenaline pumping gameplay and Co-Op multiplayer game mode, Dying light is a great Action, RPG, horror and Survival video game to play and enjoy.
#20 DayZ
DayZ is a Multiplayer Open World Horror-Survival and First, and Third-person Shooter video game by Bohemia Interactive. The game is set in the fictitious world of Chernarus City, Russia, where an unknown plague outbreak turns almost half of the population into deadly Zombies. As one of the survivors, player scavenges for Food, Water, Shelter and Medical Supplies while encountering and killing the Zombies and other mutant creatures, alone and with other survivors as a team. The main goal of the game is to stay alive for as long as possible in a world filled with Zombies and loads of other types of Mutant creatures. To stay alive, you must avoid getting infected by any means, keep on searching for the medicines and, food because food provides with nutrition that is needed to stay immune. DayZ offers no weapons at startup so you’ll have to use whatever you think can be a weapon and keep on exploring the world covering almost 225 Kilometer radius of Chernarus. You must also keep on searching insides of houses for any types of helping materials and useful tools that can come handy when there is nothing else to defend yourself against the deadly zombies, or you can simply make any abandoned home your refuge against all the deadly creatures lurking outside as a threat. The combats in the game are mainly Melee type so you must master the art of melee combats so whenever you get into a survival war against the enemies, you will be able to defend yourself. DayZ is all about Survival and your abilities to deal with situations like you experience in the game. With an amazingly haunting setting, brilliant visuals, and immersive gameplay, DayZ is one of the trendsetters of the games with similar subjects.