List of all action adventure pc games

Votes: 4, Believing light and darkness must remain in balance, Master Xehanort seeks to spark war against the "tyranny of light" to restore equilibrium. T Action, Adventure, Drama. Set shortly after Revenge of the Sith, the player takes on the role of a Jedi padawan being hunted by the Empire after Order Votes: 8, M Action, Adventure, History. Desmond Miles is trained to become a modern-day Assassin through the resurrected memories of ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who uncovers a massive Templar conspiracy in Renaissance Italy leading to the new Pope.

M Action, Adventure, Western. A deputy is sent to the town of Hope County to arrest Joseph Seed, a corrupt evangelical religious leader who rules the town with the help of his disturbed followers. M Action, Adventure, Horror. In , a lone survivor of a plane crash named Jack discovers an abandoned underwater utopia, only to find out that the mystery behind its creation is much more sinister than he first believed.

Votes: 18, Two years after a devastating global pandemic, bounty hunter Deacon St. John faces a brutal struggle for survival, and a reason to live.

Votes: 5, In , the first successfully-bonded Big Daddy is reawakened to save his Little Sister from the clutches of Rapture's new leader, Sofia Lamb. Votes: 9, M Action, Adventure, Crime. Prison inmates Vincent and Leo initially clash, but after Vincent helps Leo win a fight, they warm up to each other and decide to escape together. Votes: 2, M Action, Drama, Mystery. Votes: 14, Assemble a team of Marvel Heroes from a huge cast including the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men and more to prevent galactic devastation at the hands of the mad cosmic tyrant Thanos and his ruthless warmasters, The Black Order.

A video game where you play as sailor, privateer and assassin Edward Kenway exploring on and around the islands in the Caribbean Sea during the early 17th century.

Votes: 15, The American Colonies, It's a time of civil unrest and political upheaval in the Americas. As a Native American fights to protect his land and his people, he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution. Votes: 16, Desmond Miles continues to travel the memories of Ezio Auditore, bringing him to turn-of-the-century Rome with Ezio rebuilding the assassin order to bring down the tyrannical Borgia rule.

A man is sent to the flying city of Columbia to find a missing girl. However, upon arrival he discovers that the city, its people, and his objective are all not what they seem.

Votes: 19, Years have passed since the legions of hell have set foot in this world, but now a new demonic invasion has begun, and humanity's last hope will rest in the hands of three lone demon hunters, each offering a radically different play style. This retractable chain whip swishes and slashes with deadly precision, and it's probably the closest thing PC has to God of War's Blades of Chaos, which, let's not forget, is arguably one of the most satisfying hack and slash weapons of all time.

It also doubles up as a grappling hook, letting Gabriel soar to ever greater heights as he heads towards Dracula's castle looming forever on the horizon, whether it's taking down the game's Shadow of the Colossus-style Titan bosses or sniffing out secret areas in the world around him.

Lords of Shadow can be a bit serious at times, and there are other games on this list that do the whole 'evil, screen-hogging demon' thing with a bit more style and sense of playfulness. In terms of epic scale and thrilling set-pieces, though, Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow still holds up as one of today's action greats. Just a shame about the sequel, eh? Nuclear Throne is crunchier than a box of cornflakes. Nothing dies in its wasteland without going splat, no gun fires without a reverberating thud.

The deep wailing of the big robotic dog, moments before it vapourises you. Disaster lurks behind a moment's hesitation, or a split-second misjudgement.

The path there is paved with ignoble deaths. We think we all knew that we needed an action adventure version of The X-Files, didn't we? Jesse Faden is drawn to the Federal Bureau of Control essentially what would happen if Mulder and Scully were given an entire clandestine wing of government and accidentally becomes the head of the entire place by picking up a magic gun.

At the same time, the building is being attacked by an entity called The Hiss, a malevolent energy seeping from another dimension. Mondays, am I right? What follows is an original and satisfying shooty action game, because you don't have to just shoot bad guys - you can also hurl fire extinguishers at them.

And fly, as well. Control has been compared to things like Twin Peaks, because of the general tone. Walls shift. New areas reveal option extras, like a kind of pan-dimensional fungus. You don't have a mini-map, but you do have a map you can bring up sometimes, and cross reference with the helpful signs on the walls. It's like having a telekinetic firefight in an NHS hospital, but if the hospital was a concrete brutalist beauty, and it absolutely owns.

Where can I buy it: Epic. The best thing about Katana Zero is the way it displays text by popping character dialogue out one letter at a time or slamming down whole words communicate pace, and making letters shake and shatter as make people angry and interrupt them. The reason for so many people being angry around you is because of the second best thing in the game: its action, in which you're an urban samurai with a sword and a time-rewind ability hacking your way through neon-lit 2D platformer levels.

Each of those levels is short - maybe 4 or 6 enemies, and finishable in under 30 seconds. The trick is that it's a try-die-retry process to get to the point where you can finish it without dying. You'll smash through a door, knocking down the enemy standing behind it, and be immediately shot by a second enemy at the other side of the room. Try again. Smash; knock down; this time, use your sword to deflect the bullet that killed you last time.

Throw a knife in his head and move on. Restarts are instant and your incrementally gained mastery of each micro-level causes you to slip into a flow state.

You can't help but feel like a whiz when a set of enemies who each killed you the first time you encountered them fall by your sword based on muscle memory alone. There is much in Katana Zero that's familiar, narratively and aesthetically, but it hardly matters when it feels so good to play.

Judge a man not by his words, but by his dodge roll. You swoosh between the tortured souls of the underworld, dashing and whacking your way to the surface.

Few attempts will feel the same. On one run, Aphrodite might imbue that dash with a charm effect, weakening the blows of your enemies. Dionysis might make them drunk, or Zeus might help you call down lightning blasts. Those buffs build up and over each other, changing the fundamentals of your attacks, twirling you towards a different strategy for every escape.

You can play for dozens of hours and Hades will still feel fresh. The gods offer patter with their abilities, commenting on your foolishness over accepting help from their peers. The last time we played, a newly-added Hermes apologised for showing up late. Hades is impressively cohesive, and tied to some of the best dodging money can buy. Where can I buy it: Steam , Epic. Judged purely by its punching and shooting, GTA V is lackluster compared to many of the other games on this list, but there's more to action than just propelling objects into flesh.

GTA V excels both in creating cinematic action set-pieces, and in wild and unpredictable physics chicanery. On the one end of that scale, you've got the scripted story missions. There's an early mission in which have you to catch your son on the hood of your car as he hangs from the back of a boat careening down a freeway, which is pure Michael Bay.

There's also the bank heists, which are pure Michael Mann. They are the highlight of the story, and each requires you to sync the actions of the game's three protagonists in order to break in, complete your objective, and make a messy getaway. At the other end of the scale is the open world, with all its pedestrians, cars, planes, explosives, and ingredients for mayhem. In single-player, it's a playground in which you can wreak havoc. Hop into GTA Online and it's even better, brought alive by the chaos of other players with whom you can cooperate to complete stunts, heists, or just to tool around, making your own fun.

Nier: Automata is a game of many faces. One minute it's a bullet hell shmup, the next you're riding around on the back of a moose in an open world RPG smashing in the faces of sentient tin cans.

It's a hard game to boil down, but at the core of this action-packed sci-fi story about reclaiming the earth from destructive robots or is it? Like all of Platinum's games, Nier: Automata's stylish combat is simple to execute but tricky to master. The important thing, though, is that every button tap makes you feel like a seasoned badass, whether you're slicing and dicing your way to victory or hacking and slashing through the robotic hordes.

It's also the glue that holds this thousand-ideas-a-minute game together, uniting its ambitious story-telling with its deep role-playing elements. There's simply nothing else like it. Hyper Light Drifter is one of the best action games, and it contains maybe the best single action of any game on this list. It's not the sword swipes or freezing blasts or any of the other enemy-popping actions you can perform in this beautiful hack-and-slash Zelda-like.

It's the simple, short distance dash you use to dodge those enemies and to chain your attacking flurries together. Dash once and you'll think: ooh. Dash again and you realise that you need never take another ordinary step again - walking is for chumps. Dash a few more times and you realise that the world is designed to encourage your newfound haste, with frequent secret areas only reachable via speculative dashes beyond the edges of the floor.

Dash your way through a portion of the game and you realise the best thing of all: there's an update that allows you, with the correct timing, to chain your dashes together, accelerate and maintain top speed forevermore. Hyper Light Drifter contains mainly delights, and its mixture of action, exploration and story is never less than satisfying. You should dash, not walk, to play it. TowerFall has this feature where the arrows, when fired, will home in on their assumed target just a little.

With this, arrows will bend around corners, duck under platforms, and otherwise nail targets who would have been missed. You can turn it off but won't: it's simply another rule in this competitive and cooperative arrow shooter, and it allows for the most spectacular moments of skill to be performed by even the most fat-fingered players.

You'll leap through the bottom of the screen, exploiting the screenwrap to appear back at the top, and fire an arrow directly down and into the head of an enemy that just a moment ago seemed to be pursuing you.

You'll be leaping through the air when an arrow is about to hit you, and you'll perform a dash move, not to dodge it, but to catch and steal that arrow in mid-air for yourself. You'll fire it back at your opponent and use it to pin them to a wall. You'll perform these actions with a mixture of panic and intent, your fingers leading your brain by a couple of seconds as the cramped levels shrink smaller as the time limit approaches.

Or you'll work together with friends in the fabulous cooperative campaign, in which you fight through progressively more difficult waves of enemies in progressively more difficult levels. The same satisfying combat carries over and enemy movements and AI are a fair replacement for most humans, but what's new is that you and your friend s will naturally take roles within each challenge: one person handling the top of the screen, the other handling the bottom; or both sticking close together, covering each other's backs and trying not to fall victim to friendly fire.

In whatever mode you play, TowerFall is a delight. It's an action game that makes you feel precise even when you're a fool like us, and that alone is a marvel. When Capcom gave the first Resident Evil a fresh lick of paint back in , a lot of its old survival DNA was left in tact. We assumed they'd do the same when it came to re-animating the dead corpse of Resident Evil 2, but this remake ended up being far more substantial - and was all the better for it.

Instead of sticking doggedly to its ageing source material, Capcom had the guts to completely turn everything on its head, merely using the events of the game as a stage for its own, fresh brand of horror. It's still the same game underneath, of course, but the remake is just so damn good at being scary. Zombies that were once a bit of a joke back in the day are now bitey, gnashing menaces that gave us the heebie jeebies. A lot of this is down to the game's new perspective.

Instead of fixed cameras, the game hugs the backs of Leon and Claire like Resident Evil 7. Tight corners can now hide nasty surprises more organically, and that in turn is far scarier than it was before. Only time will tell which one gives worse nightmares. It may seem a little dated by today's standards, but Vanquish remains the definitive third-person shooter on PC. Made by the action wizards over at PlatinumGames, Vanquish might look like your average sci-fi cover shooter on the surface, but underneath it's an athletic, bumsliding rollercoaster of a game that makes moving through its striking space station environments just as important as lining up your reticule.

Kathy is a strong-willed journalism major who must come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently departed grandfather. Armed with her motorcycle, a pack of cigs, and a notepad, Kathy delves into a local mystery surrounding her hometown that will take her on a harrowing journey of emotional and personal turmoil. As she follows a trail of clues left by her grandfather, questions emerge: What was Joseph Rain really looking for that night all those years ago?

What turned him into a mere shell of a man, confined to a wheelchair? What secret did a suicidal young artist take with her to the grave, and why are so many people in Conwell Springs going mad? The truth is dark, sinister, and yours to uncover. In the dead of night a fierce storm rages across North Wales.

Miles from any town, Chris Selwood seeks refuge in a remote roadside cafe. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and try to piece together what happened to the missing villagers of Hearth.

Inspired by 80s Sci-Fi horror and contemporary surrealist cinema, Chasing Static delivers a unique take on the narrative adventure genre through new audio driven gameplay mechanics and non-linear exploration.

Shibukawa, capital of Japan, Water drips from the cracked ceiling onto the edge of your bed as the incessant rain masks the whine of a refrigerator and the neon hum of the city outside. You don't recognise the heavy breath in your ear nor the warmth of the body lying next to you The world's gone to hell, and it's taking you down with it.

Welcome to Shibukawa. You are Anna Isobe, a cybernetically enhanced cop in a world that's left you behind. Once a shining hope for the future, cyborgs have become taboo, replaced by drones and automata that make even your heightened abilities obsolete. Stuck in a thankless job surrounded by indifferent eyes you still have a duty to protect and serve, and that's just what you're going to do.

The Sundew is a dark adventure game set in the aftermath of a devastating future war, where the world as we know it was twisted by flames into a terrifying new dystopia. What begins as a normal day quickly becomes something else, and soon a lonely beat cop will hold the fate of the world in her hands. Wield the sonic screwdriver as you join the Thirteenth Doctor voiced by Jodie Whittaker on a quest to save the universe, and meet the Tenth Doctor along the way voiced by David Tennant in a guest appearance.

Experience an unforgettable adventure through space and time, face terrifying monsters and solve a mind-bending mystery! Enter the Chaosverse, where reality itself is threatened by a series of time-breaking glitches, and partner with two formidable Doctors as you seek to uncover a deeper mystery.

Now for non-VR platforms, Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality features brand-new gameplay, new challenges and new locations to explore, with a reimagined and expanded story that builds on the previous game The Edge of Time. Move onwards, move upwards, and leave nothing behind. Navigate expertly designed puzzles in a breathtakingly lovely voxel-based world.

Play as Abby, the marionette, and make your way through a medieval fairy tale world to find freedom. Come in, come in! In the mood for a story, are we? One day, she escapes the circus and gets to explore a mystical world. Alas, freedom comes at a cost and Abby soon finds herself dragged into the dangers this world has to offer: In a war-torn, medieval fairy tale, surrounded by ravaged, starving citizens and hunted by the relentless cut-throat Tonda, Abby has to cross raging rivers, make it through bandit camps and around traps.

Her adventure is always accompanied by the lyrical rhymes of puppet master Jack, who tells her story while holding the strings of his puppets firmly in his ever-helpful hands. Who can Abby trust? Can she find a way to truly break free? Despite dangling from her threads, will Abby learn that she can still influence her destiny?

Don't you see, the threads holding you up — also hold you back. Play as a tiny sugar glider in your very own nature documentary. Glide among the trees, fight dangerous predators, and explore beautiful environments as you embark on a high-flying journey to save your family. From the creators of cult classic Nightmare House 2, comes an imaginative psychological horror experience that challenges your expectations and ushers you through the deepest corners of your mind.

As you awake in the corridors of an inexplicable building, you find the environment takes on a life of its own and leads you to discover a series of victims, all exposed to the same experimental therapy.

In your search for answers, bizarre visions emerge and introduce a host of imposing horrors. With your sanity in question, you have no choice but to rely on your instinct…and a cat named Tonia. In Sound Mind is a witty first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Get up close with music-inspired creatures, solve puzzles as you explore ancient ruins, and use music-based magic on your quest to save the Harpa, a mythical creature whose habitat is on the brink of destruction.

The Harpa is the heart and soul of the Ionian forest. With every tree felled and burned by the approaching Tritone army, her spirit weakens. You and your sister Allegra are Ionia's brave new heroes, embarking on a quest to heal this mythical creature with the power of music before it's too late.

As you follow Allegra on her journey to save the Harpa, you'll soon discover that your every action has an impact on the world around you. Set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magical TOEM in this hand-drawn adventure game. Chat with quirky characters, solve their problems by snapping neat photos, and make your way through a relaxing landscape! The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti is a video game about great expectations, famous folk singers, lingering shadows, space Gods, hallucinogens, individuality, reptile shops, and wild imaginations.

It's an action, adventure, exploration, narrative driven, musical-laser-light-battle kind of game. Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. The rich fled to Mars but venture back to a desolate Earth for a round of golf. Each hole in the wasteland offers its own little story and possible puzzle to sink the perfect shot. Play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as neon signs and poignant graffiti take swings at current events, Silicon Valley culture and humanity.

Piece together the full story of how humanity fell through three distinct sources. The Radio Nostalgia From Mars broadcast that gives a glimpse into the lives of those who escaped.

Be accompanied by a purposefully composed soundtrack as well as personal stories broadcasted on Radio Nostalgia From Mars. The station caters to citizens of Mars, nostalgic for Earth as they listen to music from the s, and dial in to share their memories of the planet.

A smooth-voiced radio DJ keeps the show flowing with updates and announcements hinting at a not-so-glamorous life on Mars. Three distinct modes mean every golfer can find something for their tastes. Casual players can focus just on the story and a relaxing scenic round of golf in Story Mode. Those looking for an extra challenge can beat each hole under par using skill and puzzle solving through Challenge Mode. Easy-to grasp controls and a minimalist UI underpin the whole game so anyone can easily pick up and play at their own pace.

It's - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next?

It's up to you. But progress is slow, until he saves Eda, a witch who can pick up on the sound of asteroids. However, what appears to be a blessed encounter, will end up becoming a lifelong burden Echo of Starsong is a narrative puzzle adventure game. Asteroids emitting a sound known as "Starsongs" have become the center of conflict for the immense power they hold.

Determined to claim asteroids of his own, a young man ventures out with a girl who can imitate starsongs, lending her voice to unravel an ancient myth deep in the heart of space. Play as Ali, a high school junior gone AWOL from band camp to seek revenge on the loan sharks that threaten her mom's video store. Fighting with your mom is YOUR job. No one else gets to do that. Maybe you'll profit from the latest collectible plushie craze, and make an interesting friend or two along the way. User Score: 5.

In the perpetually rainy city of New Stone, Blake, your average office worker, finds his world turned upside down when a series of incriminating events cause him to question what to do and who he should become.

Blake: The Visual Novel is a graphic novel styled immersive thriller game, set in a tech-intelligent universe. Join the three skelebros -Lefti, Midi, and Righti- on a grand road trip through the cutesy world of the dead. After realizing they wasted their lives watching horror movies, they decide to embark on a big adventure.

Spanning across 4 episodes released separately, each containing 3 chapters with their own area, microgames, mechanics, and story! Meet all sorts of boney folk and get into heaps of trouble. Before you know it, you'll be well on your way to solving a murder mystery on a cruise ship or starting a high school band to skip out on class. Cyan, the indie studio that created beloved classics Myst and Riven, has reimagined Myst.

Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own. Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor's gaze and his pesky cat.

As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments. Behind the Frame is a vivid, interactive fiction about an aspiring artist on the cusp of finishing the final piece of her gallery submission. A relaxing, eloquent experience that can be played at any pace.

Become immersed in a panoramic world filled with resplendent colors, beautiful hand-animated visuals, and a smooth, easy-listening soundtrack. As a passionate artist, seek the missing colors that will bring your paintings to life - all while remembering to take the occasional coffee and breakfast breaks that keep you going.

There is more than what meets the eye, for every painting has a story to tell. Well, Agent, it looks like the Zoraxis organisation is up to their old tricks with a new scheme for world domination.

It's up to you to expose their diabolical plot and put a stop to it. Putting your telekinetic abilities and problem solving skills to the ultimate test, you'll once again be risking your life to solve dastardly puzzles and decipher secret codes in all-new highly interactive environments and surroundings. Are you expected make it out alive?

Of course not, you're expected to die! Also known as "12 Minutes". A young woman finds herself alone in the streets of Paris, far from home and abandoned by the love of her life. In that moment, she decides to live for herself and seek her own passions, as France marches towards a violent uprising that will change history forever. Navigate the twisting social politics of pre-revolutionary Paris in a game world that's different every time you play.

Court, snub and seduce your way to the top of society. Extend your influence, uncover the intrigue of the coming revolution, and ensure that you end up on the winning side of history. Summer , Today is the day! You hit the road. Flee the Regime. Try to survive. But every mile opens up a choice to make.

Your decisions will change your adventure, change the people you meet, maybe even change the world. There are thousands of roads across the authoritarian nation of Petria. Which one will you take? Faraday Protocol is a first-person, story-driven puzzle game that will test your curiosity and keen perception. You are Raug Zeekon: interstellar archeologist from planet Cunor. You have been sent by your company to investigate the source of a mysterious signal coming from an unexplored star system.

Solve intricate puzzles by re-distributing energy through the use of your Bia-Tool and demonstrate your abilities during the stations' challenges. The mysteries of Opis are hidden within its core. Who built it? When and why? And where are they now? Investigate lore elements spread throughout the station, interact with the governing A. Maya and Devin are separated in a city on fire.

In the year , before cell phones or Internet. They're on their own, wondering about the choices that brought them here, how they met, and what the future might hold. Inspired by Information Society's song of the same name, Fire Tonight is a lighthearted but thoughtful walk through the story of a relationship.

A story about believing in each other when the whole world tries to keep them apart. Help Maya find her way across the city by car, train, roller skate and rooftop all while avoiding police barricades, traffic jams and the spreading fire. Confined to his small apartment, Devin anxiously awaits Maya's arrival. He reminisces about their time together as he looks at all the mementos scattered around his place. Will Maya and Devin be able to find each other before the city is engulfed in flames?

Seed of Life is an epic adventure game about the persistence of life. You're Cora, the last known survivor of Lumia, a dying planet. Your only hope to save your homeworld is to activate the Seed of Life and rekindle the sun once again.

Will you be the light that conquers the darkness? A fusion of card-based RPGs and Adventure games, "Black Book" is a haunting tale of a young sorceress, who gave her life to serve the dark forces. Dive into the cold, yet alluring world of Russian folktales - and uncover the secrets that hide in the darkness. A young girl named Vasilisa, destined to become a witch, decides to throw her fate away and marry her beloved - but that dream is shattered when her betrothed dies under mysterious circumstances.

Aching for her lost love, Vasilisa seeks out Black Book - a demonic artifact, said to be powerful enough to grant any wish to the one who uncovers all 7 of its seals. Join Vasilisa in her adventures across Russian countryside, as she solves the woes of common folk by confronting demons and performing exorcisms. Fennel is a shy little fox who just moved into town. After discovering the local arcade, he makes new friends and gets swept up in a whirlwind adventure to save it from being shut down at the paws of greedy fat cat Peppermint Pepperbottom!

Button City is a colorful low poly narrative adventure game about friendship and community. Enter a pastel diorama world inspired by 90's nostalgia and filled with cute characters to befriend.

Complete quirky quests around town, play arcade games, collect fun costumes, solve puzzles and more as you follow a story about growing up and saving the things that are important to you.

No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary. A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

An online interpreter is tricked into reading an ancient book that summons a demon into her home. Loralyn works the night shift remotely from her home, live interpreting video calls from English to French and back again.

Currently pregnant, with a husband working far away and caring for her mentally ill father, she is desperately trying to keep her family together and safe but who is she prepared to sacrifice to survive?

The fiance, the baby, her father or herself? You take on the role of manager at a small but growing! As you cultivate and train the newest generation of young pop stars, you'll have to decide who to hire and who to fire, who gets promoted when things go well and who gets reprimanded when things get sour.

The personal lives of these young celebrities are a part of your business, and the life of a pop star isn't always a happy one.