All-time Game Rankings

Half-Life 2

Valve

2004 · FPS

Play as Gordon Freeman in occupied City 17, joining Alyx Vance in a human resistance. Fight through a first-person shooter whose combat and world are shaped by a strong emphasis on physics.

Hotline Miami

Dennaton Games

2012 · Top-Down Shooter

Fight through a single-player action game built around gunplay and close combat. Its encounters combine firearms with violent fighting at close range, keeping both forms of combat central to the experience.

Portal 2

Valve

2011 · Puzzle Platformer

Solve physics-based test chambers and explore Aperture Science's laboratories, encountering GLaDOS along the way. A separate two-player cooperative campaign adds its own story and chambers, asking partners to think through portal puzzles together.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered

CD PROJEKT RED

2015 · Open World

Play as hired monster slayer Geralt of Rivia and search a dark fantasy open world for your adopted daughter, Ciri. This remastered edition presents that role-playing quest with upgrades and enhancements.

Balatro

LocalThunk

2024 · Roguelike Deckbuilder

Build a poker-inspired deck, combining valid hands with Joker abilities to earn enough chips to beat each blind. Adjust your cards and synergies throughout a run to overcome the boss blind and final ante.

Baldur's Gate 3

Larian Studios

2023 · CRPG

Create a character, gather companions, and explore the Forgotten Realms with a parasite in your brain. Use spells, environmental interactions, and party tactics in combat, making choices that shape relationships and the story.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sandfall Interactive

2025 · JRPG

Lead Expedition 33 to stop the Paintress from painting death, exploring a world inspired by Belle Époque France. Fight unusual enemies in a turn-based RPG that incorporates real-time mechanics into its battles.

Counter-Strike 2

Valve

2012 · FPS

Take part in competitive action in this entry in the Counter-Strike series. The focus is on competition between players, continuing the series' established premise in a new chapter.

Cult of the Lamb

Massive Monster

2022 · Action Roguelike

Start a cult and venture into unfamiliar regions to gather a loyal community of woodland followers. Spread your teachings in a land of false prophets as you pursue becoming the one true cult.

DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED

QLOC, FromSoftware, Inc.

2011 / 2018 · Souls-like

Return to Lordran in a single-player action game presented as a remaster of the original. This edition revisits that setting with high-definition visuals and a presentation running at 60 frames per second.

DAVE THE DIVER

MINTROCKET

2023 · Roguelite

Explore the deep sea and catch fish by day, then manage a sushi restaurant at night. Join Dave and his unusual friends as this single-player adventure RPG investigates the mysterious Blue Hole.

Deep Rock Galactic

Ghost Ship Games

2020 · FPS

Explore caves and mine minerals as dwarven space miners while fighting alien hordes to survive. This FPS supports one to four players in procedurally generated, destructible environments built around working together.

Dishonored

Arkane Studios

2012 · Stealth

Play a supernatural assassin seeking revenge in a first-person action adventure. Combine powers, weapons, and unusual gadgets to eliminate targets, using the flexible combat system to devise your own approaches.

Doom (1993)

1993 · No source tag

Fight demons and possessed soldiers from a first-person perspective while searching maze-like bases for exits, keys, and switches. Manage ammunition, health, and armor from the moons of Mars to Hell, finding weapons along the way.

ELDEN RING

FromSoftware, Inc.

2022 · Souls-like

Explore connected open fields and dungeons, seeking weapons, spells, and equipment for your chosen combat style. Defeat enemies and bosses by balancing attacks with damage avoidance, using terrain knowledge, summons, and careful timing.

Fallout: New Vegas

Obsidian Entertainment

2010 · Open World

Take on a role in an action RPG set in New Vegas. Play alone in a setting centered on the city, combining the game's action and role-playing identity.

FTL: Faster Than Light

Subset Games

2012 · Roguelike

Take a spaceship and its crew through a randomly generated galaxy in a single-player simulation. This strategy roguelike frames the journey around guiding your vessel through an adventure that can end in defeat.

Garry's Mod

Facepunch Studios

2006 · FPS

Spawn objects, weld them together, and experiment with physics to build vehicles, machines, or strange contraptions. With no predefined goals, you can also pose characters or explore community-made modes such as Prop Hunt.

God of War

Santa Monica Studio, Jetpack Interactive

2018 / 2022 · Hack and Slash

Fight to survive as Kratos in a world of Norse gods and monsters, long after his revenge against Olympus. Alongside that struggle, teach his son how to survive the same unforgiving world.

Hades

Supergiant Games

2020 · Action Roguelike

Hack and slash through the Underworld as you try to escape the realm of the god of the dead. The action takes the form of a roguelike dungeon crawl.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

343 Industries, Splash Damage, Ruffian Games, Bungie, Saber Interactive

2019 · FPS

Follow the Master Chief's journey through a collection of six action games built for PC. The integrated package supports single-player play as well as cooperative and competitive multiplayer.

Hollow Knight

Team Cherry

2017 · Metroidvania

Explore a connected underground kingdom, fighting creatures and bosses with dodges, dashes, and slashes. Gain abilities to extend your reach, equip Charms for different powers, and use mapping tools to chart your own route.

INSIDE

Playdead

2016 · Puzzle Platformer

Guide a hunted boy through a story-driven platformer that combines action with challenging puzzles. Follow his path toward the center of a dark project, accompanied by moody visuals and an ambient soundtrack.

Kerbal Space Program

Squad

2015 · Education

Run the Kerbals' space program by assembling spacecraft from a range of parts. Test your designs against realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics, which determine whether the craft actually flies.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Warhorse Studios

2025 · Open World

Take the role of young Henry in a story-driven action RPG set in fifteenth-century medieval Europe. Explore an open world as you follow his journey through a historical setting built around his perspective.

Left 4 Dead 2

Valve

2009 · FPS

Fight through infected cities, swamps, and cemeteries with fellow survivors, using firearms and melee weapons to stay alive. An adaptive AI Director changes enemies, routes, and weather in response to your team's performance.

Lethal Company

Zeekerss

2023 · Survival Horror

Scavenge abandoned industrial moons for scrap, working with your crew to meet the Company's profit quota. Guide teammates using the ship's radar or join them inside, hauling valuables back before nighttime dangers escalate.

Max Payne

Remedy Entertainment

2001 · Action

Play an undercover cop framed for murder, fighting through a violent city night while police and the mob hunt you. This single-player action game follows a fugitive cornered by enemies on both sides.

Nier: Automata

Square Enix, PlatinumGames Inc.

2017 · Action / RPG

Follow androids 2B, 9S, and A2 as they fight to reclaim a dystopian world dominated by powerful machines. This single-player action RPG centers on their struggle against the forces controlling that world.

Outer Wilds

Mobius Digital

2019 / 2020 · Exploration

Explore a solar system trapped in an endless time loop and investigate the mystery behind its repeating existence. This single-player, open-world adventure makes the loop surrounding the entire system the central premise of exploration.

Papers, Please

Lucas Pope

2013 · Point & Click

Take up an assignment at Grestin Border Checkpoint after your name is selected in a labor lottery. This single-player adventure pairs the posting with government-provided accommodation for your family in East Grestin.

PEAK

Team PEAK

2025 · Action Roguelike

Climb the mountain at the center of a mysterious island to seek rescue as a stranded nature scout. Go alone or cooperate with others, knowing even a small mistake can end the attempt.

Persona 5 Royal

ATLUS

2022 · JRPG

Lead the Phantom Thieves through dungeons and strategic turn-based battles while exploring Tokyo and building relationships. Customize your party, fuse Personas, and enter corrupt people's minds to change their ways.

Planescape: Torment

1999 · No source tag

Explore Sigil and other planes as an immortal amnesiac, recruiting companions and recovering clues to your past. Resolve quests through conversation, with dialogue or stealth often offering alternatives to combat.

Portal

Valve

2007 · Puzzle Platformer

Step into the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories in a single-player action game. Take on an experience set within this enigmatic research facility, with you alone at the center of play.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Rockstar Games

2019 · Open World

Play as outlaw Arthur Morgan, robbing, stealing, and fighting across America while federal agents and bounty hunters pursue your gang. Internal divisions force you to weigh personal ideals against loyalty to the people who raised you.

Resident Evil 2

CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

2019 · Survival Horror

Face the chaos of Raccoon City as a deadly virus turns its residents into flesh-eating zombies. This single-player action game places your struggle for survival in a city overrun by the outbreak.

Resident Evil 4 (2005)

Capcom

2005 / 2014 · Survival Horror

Take the role of special agent Leon Kennedy on a mission to rescue the US president's kidnapped daughter. This single-player action adventure is the original game, centered on that rescue assignment.

Return of the Obra Dinn

Lucas Pope

2018 · Adventure / Indie

Enter a single-player adventure whose premise centers on the Obra Dinn, a ship lost at sea. The disappearance of that vessel forms the maritime starting point for the game's story.

RimWorld

Ludeon Studios

2018 · Colony Sim

Manage a science-fiction colony where simulated relationships, psychology, climate, trade, medicine, and combat interact. An AI storyteller draws on those systems to generate stories from the colony's people and their surrounding world.

Satisfactory

Coffee Stain Studios

2024 · Base Building

Explore an alien planet from a first-person perspective and build factories that rise across multiple floors. Work alone or with friends, combining conveyor-belt construction with open-world exploration and some combat.

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition

FromSoftware, Inc.

2019 · Souls-like

Pursue revenge and restore your honor in a single-player action adventure. This Game of the Year Edition centers on finding your own way through a quest for retribution.

Slay the Spire

Mega Crit

2019 · Roguelike Deckbuilder

Build a deck, encounter strange creatures, and discover powerful relics as you take on the Spire. This single-player deckbuilder combines card play with roguelike structure, making your deck the center of the journey.

Stardew Valley

ConcernedApe

2016 · Life Sim

Turn your grandfather's overgrown farm into a home by growing crops, raising animals, and crafting useful equipment. Explore caves for resources and build relationships with townspeople as you develop your farming life.

Subnautica

Unknown Worlds Entertainment

2018 · Open World Survival Craft

Craft equipment and pilot submarines to explore an alien ocean while trying to stay alive. Navigate coral reefs, volcanoes, and cave systems, using your wits around wildlife as you push into the depths.

Team Fortress 2

Valve

2007 · Hero Shooter

Choose among nine classes, each with its own tactical abilities and personality, in this action game. Modes, maps, equipment, and hats provide variety around that class-based foundation.

Titanfall® 2

Respawn Entertainment

2016 · FPS

Fight as a pilot alongside a titan in a single-player campaign or multiplayer battles. Weapons, customization, and progression support the partnership, with the action built around you and your titan operating together.

Undertale

tobyfox

2015 · Bullet Hell

Play a single-player RPG in which defeating everyone is not a requirement. Your journey leaves room for an approach that does not depend on destroying the characters you encounter.

Vampire Survivors

poncle

2022 · Action Roguelike

Cut down swarms of night creatures and try to stay alive until dawn. Your choices can build into escalating power against hundreds of monsters in this gothic horror action game with roguelite elements.

Garry's Mod

Facepunch Studios

2006 · FPS

Spawn objects, weld them together, and experiment with physics to build vehicles, machines, or strange contraptions. With no predefined goals, you can also pose characters or explore community-made modes such as Prop Hunt.

Euro Truck Simulator 2

SCS Software

2012 · Immersive Sim

Drive cargo between European cities, completing freight deliveries while growing your own trucking company. Buy garages, hire drivers, and expand your fleet, then customize your trucks with performance upgrades and cosmetic parts.

Black Myth: Wukong

Game Science

2024 · Souls-like

Journey as the Destined One through landscapes drawn from Journey to the West, confronting powerful foes. Combine staff techniques, spells, transformations, and equipment to develop combat strategies while uncovering the stories behind your adversaries.

Portal 2

Valve

2011 · Puzzle Platformer

Solve physics-based test chambers and explore Aperture Science's laboratories, encountering GLaDOS along the way. A separate two-player cooperative campaign adds its own story and chambers, asking partners to think through portal puzzles together.

Baldur's Gate 3

Larian Studios

2023 · CRPG

Create a character, gather companions, and explore the Forgotten Realms with a parasite in your brain. Use spells, environmental interactions, and party tactics in combat, making choices that shape relationships and the story.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered

CD PROJEKT RED

2015 · Open World

Play as hired monster slayer Geralt of Rivia and search a dark fantasy open world for your adopted daughter, Ciri. This remastered edition presents that role-playing quest with upgrades and enhancements.

Hollow Knight

Team Cherry

2017 · Metroidvania

Explore a connected underground kingdom, fighting creatures and bosses with dodges, dashes, and slashes. Gain abilities to extend your reach, equip Charms for different powers, and use mapping tools to chart your own route.

Lethal Company

Zeekerss

2023 · Survival Horror

Scavenge abandoned industrial moons for scrap, working with your crew to meet the Company's profit quota. Guide teammates using the ship's radar or join them inside, hauling valuables back before nighttime dangers escalate.

BeamNG.drive

BeamNG

2015 · Automobile Sim

Drive and customize cars or trucks, testing your setups across open environments, delivery scenarios, and time trials. Soft-body physics simulates vehicle components in real time, making damage and handling central to your experiments.

Hades

Supergiant Games

2020 · Action Roguelike

Hack and slash through the Underworld as you try to escape the realm of the god of the dead. The action takes the form of a roguelike dungeon crawl.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

Nicalis, Inc., Edmund McMillen

2014 · Action Roguelike

Fight through randomly generated encounters as Isaac, finding unusual treasures that transform his body and abilities. Use those changes to battle mysterious creatures, uncover secrets, and work toward safety in an action RPG shooter.

Bloons TD 6

Ninja Kiwi

2018 · Tower Defense

Set up defenses against the Bloons in a 3D tower defense strategy game. Plan your defense on your own or cooperate online, with the challenge centered on stopping the returning Bloons.

Schedule I

TVGS

2025 · Management

Manufacture and distribute drugs across Hyland Point, growing from a small dealer into a kingpin. Expand the operation through properties, businesses, and employees, combining citywide distribution with managing an increasingly large criminal enterprise.

Vampire Survivors

poncle

2022 · Action Roguelike

Cut down swarms of night creatures and try to stay alive until dawn. Your choices can build into escalating power against hundreds of monsters in this gothic horror action game with roguelite elements.

The Forest

Endnight Games Ltd

2018 · Open World Survival Craft

Build, explore, and struggle to survive after a passenger jet crash leaves you in a mysterious forest. This first-person survival horror game pits you against a society of cannibalistic mutants.

Subnautica

Unknown Worlds Entertainment

2018 · Open World Survival Craft

Craft equipment and pilot submarines to explore an alien ocean while trying to stay alive. Navigate coral reefs, volcanoes, and cave systems, using your wits around wildlife as you push into the depths.

Deep Rock Galactic

Ghost Ship Games

2020 · FPS

Explore caves and mine minerals as dwarven space miners while fighting alien hordes to survive. This FPS supports one to four players in procedurally generated, destructible environments built around working together.

People Playground

mestiez

2019 · Sandbox

Experiment on ragdolls in a large open space by shooting, stabbing, burning, poisoning, or crushing them. This single-player simulation centers on trying different destructive actions and observing what happens to the bodies.

Half-Life 2

Valve

2004 · FPS

Play as Gordon Freeman in occupied City 17, joining Alyx Vance in a human resistance. Fight through a first-person shooter whose combat and world are shaped by a strong emphasis on physics.

Portal

Valve

2007 · Puzzle Platformer

Step into the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories in a single-player action game. Take on an experience set within this enigmatic research facility, with you alone at the center of play.

RimWorld

Ludeon Studios

2018 · Colony Sim

Manage a science-fiction colony where simulated relationships, psychology, climate, trade, medicine, and combat interact. An AI storyteller draws on those systems to generate stories from the colony's people and their surrounding world.

Resident Evil 4

CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

2023 · Survival Horror

Play as Leon S. Kennedy as he searches a secluded European village for the president's kidnapped daughter. This single-player action adventure places that search among locals whose behavior signals something is wrong.

Phasmophobia

Kinetic Games

2020 · Horror

Use ghost-hunting equipment to gather evidence of paranormal activity with your team. This psychological horror game supports four-player online cooperation, making the investigation and the evidence you collect the center of the experience.

Satisfactory

Coffee Stain Studios

2024 · Base Building

Explore an alien planet from a first-person perspective and build factories that rise across multiple floors. Work alone or with friends, combining conveyor-belt construction with open-world exploration and some combat.

R.E.P.O.

semiwork

2025 · Horror

Locate valuable objects and carefully retrieve them for extraction, handling items governed by physics. This online cooperative horror game supports groups of up to six players working to satisfy their creator.

Counter-Strike

Valve

2000 · FPS

Coordinate with teammates on strategic missions, attacking enemy sites and rescuing hostages. This team-based online action game ties your role to the team's success, making cooperation part of each side's contest.

Undertale

tobyfox

2015 · Bullet Hell

Play a single-player RPG in which defeating everyone is not a requirement. Your journey leaves room for an approach that does not depend on destroying the characters you encounter.

ULTRAKILL

Arsi "Hakita" Patala

2020 · FPS

Tear through enemies with varied weapons in a fast retro first-person shooter that scores your style. Recover health by getting showered in enemy blood, linking aggressive combat with keeping yourself alive.

Balatro

LocalThunk

2024 · Roguelike Deckbuilder

Build a poker-inspired deck, combining valid hands with Joker abilities to earn enough chips to beat each blind. Adjust your cards and synergies throughout a run to overcome the boss blind and final ante.

Dying Light

Techland

2015 · Survival Horror

Roam a city overrun by zombies, scavenging supplies and crafting weapons to face the infected. This first-person action survival game sets that routine inside an open world devastated by a mysterious viral epidemic.

ELDEN RING

FromSoftware, Inc.

2022 · Souls-like

Explore connected open fields and dungeons, seeking weapons, spells, and equipment for your chosen combat style. Defeat enemies and bosses by balancing attacks with damage avoidance, using terrain knowledge, summons, and careful timing.

Factorio

Wube Software LTD.

2020 · Base Building

Build automated factories that produce increasingly complex items in an infinite 2D world. Combine simple elements into larger production systems, then protect your factory from creatures that threaten what you have built.

Don't Starve Together

Klei Entertainment

2016 · Open World Survival Craft

Fight, farm, build, and explore together while trying to survive the wilderness. This standalone multiplayer expansion centers on shared survival, bringing cooperative play to the world introduced by the original game.

Slay the Spire

Mega Crit

2019 · Roguelike Deckbuilder

Build a deck, encounter strange creatures, and discover powerful relics as you take on the Spire. This single-player deckbuilder combines card play with roguelike structure, making your deck the center of the journey.

Resident Evil 2

CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

2019 · Survival Horror

Face the chaos of Raccoon City as a deadly virus turns its residents into flesh-eating zombies. This single-player action game places your struggle for survival in a city overrun by the outbreak.

Dispatch

AdHoc Studio

2025 · Choose Your Own Adventure

Manage a team of misfit superheroes and choose who to send to emergencies across the city. This workplace comedy also makes you balance office politics, personal relationships, and your own ambition to become a hero.

Slime Rancher

Monomi Park

2017 · Exploration

Play as Beatrix LeBeau, making a living by wrangling slimes on the Far, Far Range. This single-player ranching simulation follows her attempt to establish a new life a thousand light-years from Earth.

Detroit: Become Human

Quantic Dream

2020 · Choices Matter

Make choices that shape the fate of humans and androids in a near future where machines have surpassed human intelligence. A branching narrative changes its outcome in response to the decisions you make.

Mount & Blade: Warband

TaleWorlds Entertainment

2010 · Open World

Assemble a band of warriors, lead them into battle, and expand your realm in a war-torn land. This action RPG centers your campaign on claiming the throne of Calradia.

Palworld

Pocketpair

2026 · Creature Collector

Fight, farm, build, and work alongside creatures called Pals in an open-world survival and crafting game. Play alone or cooperate with others, making those creatures part of your work and survival.

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator

Landfall

2021 · Sandbox

Lead wobbling armies into physics-driven battles, drawing fighters from ancient, spooky, and fantasy settings. Create your own units, watch the simulations unfold, and send your army against friends in multiplayer.

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition

FromSoftware, Inc.

2019 · Souls-like

Pursue revenge and restore your honor in a single-player action adventure. This Game of the Year Edition centers on finding your own way through a quest for retribution.

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

PopCap Games, Inc.

2009 · Tower Defense

Plant defenses such as peashooters and cherry bombs to stop zombies from invading your home. This Game of the Year edition challenges you to think quickly and counter many different zombie types.

DELTARUNE

tobyfox

2025 · Bullet Hell

Explore a mysterious world with new and familiar characters, choosing whether to fight or spare opponents in action-filled battles. This RPG tells a parallel story to Undertale, pairing exploration with those combat decisions.

Tomb Raider Game of the Year

Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal, Feral Interactive (Mac), Nixxes

2013 · Third-Person Shooter

Follow Lara Croft's origin story in a single-player action adventure. This Game of the Year edition traces her transformation from a young woman into a survivor hardened by her experiences.

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Team Salvato

2017 · Psychological Horror

Join a literature club and write in an attempt to connect with its girls. The setup pairs that club premise with disturbing content intended for players who can handle unsettling material.

Stray

BlueTwelve Studio

2022 · Exploration

Play as a lost cat trying to escape a forgotten cybercity and return to its family. Untangle an ancient mystery as you work toward a way out and a path back home.

American Truck Simulator

SCS Software

2016 · Immersive Sim

Drive American trucks and deliver different cargoes across California, Nevada, and Arizona. The trucking simulation pairs your delivery work with routes through desert landscapes, recognizable landmarks, and other scenery from those states.

Fallout: New Vegas

Obsidian Entertainment

2010 · Open World

Take on a role in an action RPG set in New Vegas. Play alone in a setting centered on the city, combining the game's action and role-playing identity.

Dead Cells

Motion Twin

2018 · Metroidvania

Explore an ever-changing castle and fight its keepers in a 2D action platformer with roguelite structure. With no checkpoints, death sends you back to learning from your mistakes and trying again.

Titanfall® 2

Respawn Entertainment

2016 · FPS

Fight as a pilot alongside a titan in a single-player campaign or multiplayer battles. Weapons, customization, and progression support the partnership, with the action built around you and your titan operating together.

MiSide

AIHASTO

2024 · Psychological Horror

Care for a virtual character, then find yourself inside the game you were playing. This single-player adventure uses that shift from caring for someone on screen to entering their world as its premise.

Red Dead Redemption 2

Rockstar Games

2019 · Open World

Play as outlaw Arthur Morgan, robbing, stealing, and fighting across America while federal agents and bounty hunters pursue your gang. Internal divisions force you to weigh personal ideals against loyalty to the people who raised you.

DARK SOULS™ III

FromSoftware, Inc.

2016 · Souls-like

Face the darkness in the series' third numbered action game. Play on your own or with cooperative support as you take on the challenges of this sequel.

Celeste

Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd.

2018 · Precision Platformer

Guide Madeline toward the summit of a mountain while she faces her inner demons. Tackle hundreds of handcrafted platforming challenges, uncover secrets, and piece together the mountain's mystery as you climb.

Cuphead

Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.

2017 · Bullet Hell

Run, shoot, and take on a succession of boss-focused battles in a classic action game. Hand-drawn animation, watercolor backgrounds, and recorded jazz evoke the techniques and style of 1930s cartoons.

Valheim

Iron Gate AB

2026 · Open World Survival Craft

Explore, build, and battle to survive in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Play alone or in groups of up to ten, working toward a saga worthy of Odin.

It Takes Two

Hazelight Studios

2021 · Co-op

Work with a friend through a varied series of action-adventure challenges designed for cooperation. Play together online or on a shared screen, with Friend's Pass letting a friend join.

PEAK

Team PEAK

2025 · Action Roguelike

Climb the mountain at the center of a mysterious island to seek rescue as a stranded nature scout. Go alone or cooperate with others, knowing even a small mistake can end the attempt.

Helltaker

vanripper

2020 · Dating Sim

Play a short, single-player adventure centered on sharply dressed demon girls. Its premise places this cast of formally dressed demons at the heart of the adventure and its overall theme.

Project Zomboid

The Indie Stone

2013 · Open World Survival Craft

Loot, build, craft, fight, farm, and fish to survive a zombie outbreak, alone or with other players. Develop RPG skills in a customizable sandbox where a single bite can end your survival.

Half-Life: Alyx

Valve

2020 · FPS

Play as Alyx Vance in a VR-only action adventure about resisting the alien Combine. Set between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, the story puts humanity's survival at the center of your struggle.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sandfall Interactive

2025 · JRPG

Lead Expedition 33 to stop the Paintress from painting death, exploring a world inspired by Belle Époque France. Fight unusual enemies in a turn-based RPG that incorporates real-time mechanics into its battles.

Counter-Strike: Source

Valve

2004 · FPS

Join teammates in an action game built around Counter-Strike's teamplay. This Source-engine version carries that team-focused premise into a different technological framework, keeping teamwork at the center of play.

Geometry Dash

RobTop Games

2014 · Precision Platformer

Jump and fly through danger in a rhythm-based action platformer. The challenge brings those two forms of movement together with rhythm as you make your way through its hazards.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios

2011 · Open World

Explore an open fantasy world in a single-player RPG, choosing how to make your way through it. The setting offers a virtual world designed around freedom of exploration.

Inscryption

Daniel Mullins Games

2021 · Card Battler

Build a deck and work through escape-room-style puzzles in a single-player journey shaped by psychological horror. Roguelike deckbuilding and secrets hidden in the cards connect its strategy with the surrounding mystery.

Half-Life

Valve

1998 · FPS

Play a single-player action adventure where thinking is part of staying alive in a threatening world. The game also includes online multiplayer, letting you compete against friends and other players.

Life is Strange - Episode 1

DONTNOD Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)

2015 · Story Rich

Play the first episode of a single-player adventure where you can rewind time. Use that ability to affect the past, present, and future as the episodic story unfolds.

DAVE THE DIVER

MINTROCKET

2023 · Roguelite

Explore the deep sea and catch fish by day, then manage a sushi restaurant at night. Join Dave and his unusual friends as this single-player adventure RPG investigates the mysterious Blue Hole.

POSTAL 2

Running With Scissors

2003 · FPS

Spend a week as the POSTAL Dude, trying to finish everyday chores in a single-player action adventure. Buy milk, return an overdue library book, and seek Gary Coleman's autograph along the way.

DOOM

id Software

2016 · FPS

Play solo or in co-op in an action game with additional maps, modes, and weapons. The package includes three DLC packs alongside Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and updates to multiplayer progression.

Team Fortress 2

Valve

2007 · Hero Shooter

Choose among nine classes, each with its own tactical abilities and personality, in this action game. Modes, maps, equipment, and hats provide variety around that class-based foundation.

Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)

2010 · Turn-Based Strategy

Play a single-player strategy game with support for player-created content. Create, discover, and download maps, scenarios, and interfaces, using those community-made options to vary the strategy experience.

Resident Evil Requiem

CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

2026 · Survival Horror

Face the threat of death in a single-player action adventure with a horror premise. Your stated challenge is to escape that fate, within a nightmare concerning the living and the dead.

Oxygen Not Included

Klei Entertainment

2019 · Colony Sim

Manage a crew's survival deep inside an alien space rock in a space-colony simulation. Master science, overcome unfamiliar lifeforms, and use space technology to help your colony survive and potentially thrive.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

Larian Studios

2017 · Tactical RPG

Gather a party of up to four and take on tactical combat in an RPG adventure. Your companions share the journey, but only one of you can ultimately become a god.

God of War

Santa Monica Studio, Jetpack Interactive

2022 · Hack and Slash

Fight to survive as Kratos in a world of Norse gods and monsters, long after his revenge against Olympus. Alongside that struggle, teach his son how to survive the same unforgiving world.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Moon Studios GmbH

2020 · Metroidvania

Explore a vast, unfamiliar world, confronting towering enemies and solving challenging puzzles along the way. This single-player action journey follows Ori's quest to uncover the destiny awaiting them.

Devil May Cry 5

CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

2019 · Hack and Slash

Take on the role of a devil hunter in an action game. Play solo or use its supported online co-op, with demon hunting providing the central premise of the experience.

Among Us

Innersloth

2018 · Social Deduction

Join four to fifteen players in a space-set party game built around teamwork and betrayal. Play online or over a local network, where cooperation and player opposition are both part of the experience.

Split Fiction

Hazelight Studios

2025 · 3D Platformer

Work together in a co-op action adventure that takes you through many different worlds. Play online or on a shared screen, with cooperation forming the foundation of the journey across those settings.

Hotline Miami

Dennaton Games

2012 · Top-Down Shooter

Fight through a single-player action game built around gunplay and close combat. Its encounters combine firearms with violent fighting at close range, keeping both forms of combat central to the experience.

Risk of Rain 2

Hopoo Games

2020 · Third-Person Shooter

Fight hordes of monsters to escape an alien planet, either alone or with friends. Combine collected loot in unexpected ways and learn each character to turn a desperate landing into a chance at escape.

Outlast

Red Barrels

2013 · Horror

Explore Mount Massive Asylum as investigative journalist Miles Upshur in a first-person survival horror game. Stay alive long enough to uncover the institution's terrible secret as you investigate its threatening surroundings.

Persona 5 Royal

ATLUS

2022 · JRPG

Lead the Phantom Thieves through dungeons and strategic turn-based battles while exploring Tokyo and building relationships. Customize your party, fuse Personas, and enter corrupt people's minds to change their ways.

Castle Crashers®

The Behemoth

2012 · Beat 'em up

Hack, slash, and smash through a 2D arcade adventure, either alone or in co-op. Its action centers on fighting your way toward victory, with online and shared-screen cooperative options available.

Dishonored

Arkane Studios

2012 · Stealth

Play a supernatural assassin seeking revenge in a first-person action adventure. Combine powers, weapons, and unusual gadgets to eliminate targets, using the flexible combat system to devise your own approaches.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software

2022 · Open World

Web-swing through Marvel's New York as an experienced Peter Parker, fighting major crime and familiar villains. This remastered action adventure connects Spider-Man's battles with Peter's life in an original story.