Until Dawn
Until Dawn is a recently released Marvel and a brilliant new addition to the Action, Interactive Drama and Horror-Survival genres. Published by Sony Computer Entertainment, Until Dawn is set in the Western Canadian region and features eight teenagers who decide to spend the vacation on Fictional Blackwood Mountain. They planned the Holiday at the same point where their 2 friends were lost one year ago. Just moments after their arrival at the Blackwood Mountain, a Psychopath attacks them. The only way possible to live is to survive and this is the point where story involves you in the gameplay. In order to survive and to perform a number of tasks, Until Dawn lets you switch between all eight characters, make some of the most critical decisions and advance into the gameplay as the story tell you. Until Dawn offers an episodic touch to the game and lets you conclude the game with different endings all based up on the actions you perform and the decisions you make during the gameplay. This impressive game features a number of items that you can find while exploring the game world and use them to plan your survival or simply make a decision such as sacrificing a player for the sake of others, getting into trouble to get to an item or leap forward and encounter the psychopath etc. With a very horror filled game story and environment, dark clean visuals and a truly remarkable gameplay, Until Dawn is one of the best Action, Horror-Survival and Interactive Drama video game to play and enjoy.
#1 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is an Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game developed and published by Capcom for multiple platforms. It is the 11th installment ad twenty-fourth title overall in the franchise of Resident Evil. It is the first game in the marvelous series available to be played from the first-person view. The story centers on the protagonist named as Ethan Winters, as he finds his beloved wife named as Mia, which leads him to a plantation by the Baker Family. The protagonist crafts weapons and other tools to face off Baker Family and the Molded, a form of bacteria. The primary objective is to explore the world from the first-person perspective and fight against zombies and other creatures using handguns, flame throwers, chainsaw, and shotgun, etc. There are a series of levels, and each level requires a completion of certain objectives to progress. The player can assume the role of the protagonist and his ultimate task is to fight against enemies and the Baker Family to rescue his wife Mia from dangers. With enhanced mechanics, engaging gameplay and brilliant controls, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the best game to play and enjoy.
#2 Metro: 2033
Metro: 2033 is a Hardcore Action-Adventure, Horror-Survival and First-person Shooter video game and a direct sequel to Metro last Light. The game is set in a Post-Apocalyptic era and takes you to the city of Moscow, Russia. Once again you’ll play as Artyom and your task is to survive and save the humanity from the reign of mutant creatures and their sudden deadly attacks. In order to complete the tasks, you’ll have to scavenge an open world for items like food, weapons, ammunition and medical supplies, fight against the mutants using different weapons in close and long distance combats and survive until every one of the enemies is killed or is neutralized in any other way possible. With an amazing game-play similar to its predecessors and Fallout series games, a great story to follow, ultra-realistic visuals and an amazingly realistic game setting, Metro 2033 is a great Action, horror, Survival and First Person Shooter video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 The Darkness 2
The Darkness 2 is a wonderful FPS, RPG and Psychological Horror-Survival video game by Digital Extremes. You’ll have to control the character of Jackie Estacado, the leader of the Franchetti Criminal Family. Your task is to act as Jackie Estacado, use your Dark powers against the rival gang that recently attacked you, eliminate them and enjoy engaging yourself into amazingly haunting and psychological horror filled game-play. Exploration, artifacts and items collection, amazingly blasting enemy encounters and the deep prowess of dark powers makes this game more and more involving as you further flow with the story-line. With a great dark setting, unbelievably stressing situations, and your ability to cater with the problems, hardcore encounters with the bizarre creatures and enemies, loads of cool weapons to shoot down the enemies, super fine and dramatic event depictions, eye-catching visuals and a brilliant story, The Darkness 2 is one amazing game to play and enjoy.
#6 Resident Evil
Resident Evil is a popular Single-player Horror-Survival and Shooter video game developed by Capcom and published by Nintendo. The game is also known as Bio Hazard in Japan and some other parts of the world. This one is the first game in the Resident Evil series and provides the saga basis. The game’s story features the character of Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine.
Both of the characters are part of S.T.A.R.S, an elite task force that travels to Raccoon City to investigate the sudden disappearance of their team members. While searching for the clues, they get trapped inside a huge mansion filled with all kinds of gory monsters and Zombies. The players can either select Chriss or Jill as the main character, explore the mansion and uncover the secrets about the disappearance of the team members and the Zombie outbreak.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 The Forgotten Ones
The Forgotten Ones is an FPS, Action-Adventure video game that sets you up into the character of “Grobuskna Vladinov” who loses his parents during the time of “Holocaust” to a Doctor cum Mad Scientist. One day he receives an unknown phone call from a stranger that totally changes the way he thinks and encourages Grobuskna to start his twisted journey. By profession Grobuskna is a Detective and he is on a hunt of the Nazi officers that contributed to the Holocaust and are now scattered all around the world. You are required to get into the character of Grobuskna and start hunting down the Nazi officers you think were part of the Holocaust and were involved in war crimes. “The Forgotten Ones” allows you to explore the world from a First person perspective, engage in combats, melee attacks etc., find the enemies and kill them to bring them to justice. With a complex inventory system, 18 different and sophisticated weapons, horror filled environments, Vehicular combats, Multiple Game endings based up on your actions, great story and a wonderfully engaging and action-packed game-play, “The Forgotten Ones” is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 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.
#13 Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.
#14 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.
#15 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.