Underworld Ascendant
Underworld Ascendant is an RPG, Action, Dungeon Crawler, and Single-player video game developed by Other Side Entertainment for Windows. It serves as a sequel to the Ultima Underworld and offers the same gameplay to the previous one. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist who gets into a magical world.
The player must make decisions to overcome challenges by controlling the character from a first-person perspective. The game has plenty of mysteries where the player must uncover lost secrets and gain favor with factions to increase his knowledge and strength. The game offers three archetypes as Combat, Stealth, and Magic, with unique abilities.
The player can mix all the archetypes to develop a unique hero and craft over a hundred different types of spells. The game comes up with more than 70 quests and numerous Side Bounties that reward the player for overcoming detection and test unlimited strategies.
#1 Guacamelee!
Guacamelee! Is a fantastic Action-Adventure, Beat em’ Up, Hack and Slash and RPG video game that features the player character named as Juan who embarks on a journey to save the El President’s Daughter. Juan is basically a wrestler type of character who uses punches and special skills to eliminate his enemies and to defeat the bosses. Guacamelee! Enables you to use grapple attack on your enemies and once they are in close range, kick them out for good using your iron hands. This brilliant fighting and beat em’ up game mostly focuses on melee combats and allows you to enjoy a side-scrolling game-play, with amazingly well designed mechanics and visuals. Every enemy kill awards you with coins that you can use to buy upgrades and stuff. With an amazing amount of challenging puzzles, ability to switch between the land of dead and the land of the living, fast-paced action and thrill filled game-play and all the wonderful things, Guacamelee! Is one amazing game to play.
#2 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.
#3 Toukiden: The Age of Demons
Toukiden: The Age of Demons is a great replacement of Monster Hunter. This radiant Action-Adventure and RPG video game is a Sony Exclusive and takes you to an amazing Medieval setting of Ancient Japan. The game sets you up as a Warrior named Mononofu, a specialized Ninja like Warrior and the ultimate weapon against the Hellish Demons known as Oni. Just like Monster Hunter, Lord of Arcana etc. your task is to fight of the Demons, slay them and craft weapons and other items with their horns and bones etc. Toukiden: The Age of Demons offers a really unique combat system and mostly features melee combats and forces you into amazing head on rivalries. With superbly written storyline, well balanced mechanics, super cool visuals and an immersive game-play, Tokiden: The Age of Demons is a wonderful alternative to Monster Hunter.