Best Adventure Games
3,488 Adventure games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Released: Jan 28, 2022
Critic rating: 85.3 / 100
Mpopovich16's rating: 8.1
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The Pokémon Legends: Arceus game honors past Pokémon games’ core gameplay while infusing new action and RPG elements.
The Plucky Squire
Released: Sep 17, 2024
Critic rating: 87.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Storybook characters discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book and must jump between 2D & 3D realms to save their friends in this charming action-adventure.
Dune: Awakening
Released: Jun 10, 2025
Critic rating: 89.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Dune: Awakening is an open-world survival MMO set on the desert planet Arrakis.
Far Cry 4
Released: Nov 18, 2014
Critic rating: 86.4 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Discover the most diverse Far Cry world ever created.
West of Loathing
Released: Aug 10, 2017
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Say howdy to West of Loathing - a single-player slapstick, stick-figure comedy adventure role-playing game set in the wild west of the Kingdom of Loathing universe.
2064: Read Only Memories
Released: Jul 13, 2014
Critic rating: 82.6 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Point-and-click, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Ouya, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
In Neo-San Francisco, a vibrant city of low life and high tech, you will witness the world’s first sapient robot learning to grow and live as you become embroiled in the darkest scandal of 2064.
Gris
Released: Dec 13, 2018
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital.
Devil May Cry 5 + Vergil
Released: Aug 31, 2021
Critic rating: 81.1 / 100 • 22 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
The ultimate Devil Hunter is back in style, in the game action fans have been waiting for.
God of War: Origins Collection
Released: Sep 13, 2011
Critic rating: 87.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Game modes: Single player
God of War: Origins Collection (known as God of War Collection – Volume II in Europe and Australia) is a remastered port of the two PlayStation Portable instalments in the series—Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta—for the PlayStation 3 on a single Blu-ray Disc.
Genshin Impact
Released: Sep 28, 2020
Critic rating: 83.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Genshin Impact is an open-world action RPG, where you embark on a journey across Teyvat to find your lost sibling and seek answers from The Seven, the gods of each element.
Dark Cloud
Released: Dec 14, 2000
Critic rating: 81.1 / 100 • 78 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
One of the PS2's first RPGs, Dark Cloud is a title that challenges players to not only strategise, battle and solve puzzles, but also to create geographical landscapes using the new Georama system.
A Hat in Time
Released: Oct 5, 2017
Critic rating: 79.6 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers!
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice
Released: Jun 9, 2016
Critic rating: 81.4 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Visual Novel
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Android, iOS
Game modes: Single player
Ace Attorney 6 continues the investigation and courtroom of its predecessors, in which players take the role of the defense attorneys; Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice, and Athena Cykes, and try to defend their clients.
Just Cause 2
Released: Mar 23, 2010
Critic rating: 85.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Racing, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
In a lawless open-world paradise, use whatever means necessary to achieve your objective.
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
Released: Sep 30, 1992
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100 • 37 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Point-and-click, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, Amiga
Game modes: Single player
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow is an adventure game set in the fictional Land of the Green Isles.
Invisible, Inc.
Released: May 12, 2015
Critic rating: 85.6 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Released: Apr 24, 2025
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure, Visual Novel
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A new adventure from the creators of the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series!
Super Mario RPG
Released: Nov 17, 2023
Critic rating: 85.2 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Mario, Bowser, and Peach partner up to repair the wish-granting Star Road in this approachable role-playing adventure.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Released: Dec 4, 2018
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Tactical, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
From a team including former designers of HITMAN and PAYDAY comes Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, a tactical adventure game that combines the turn-based combat of XCOM with a real-time stealth and exploration of a post-human world reclaimed by nature… and Mutants.
Islets
Released: Aug 24, 2022
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania!
Life Is Strange
Released: Jan 29, 2015
Critic rating: 78.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Elite: Dangerous
Released: Dec 16, 2014
Critic rating: 82.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR, Mac, Oculus Rift, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
The next game in the Elite series - an amazing space epic with stunning visuals, incredible gameplay, breath-taking scope and award-winning sound.
South of Midnight
Released: Apr 8, 2025
Critic rating: 85.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
Game modes: Single player
South of Midnight is a new action-adventure from Compulsion Games.
Alan Wake: The Writer
Released: Oct 12, 2010
Critic rating: 86.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
The Writer is the final episodic chapter of DLC for Alan Wake, Remedy and Microsoft's harrowing horror action game.
Puppeteer
Released: Sep 5, 2013
Critic rating: 79.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
One dark moonlit night, a young boy named Kutaro was carried away by the maleficent Moon Bear King to a black castle where the unlucky lad was transformed into a puppet.