Best Adventure Games
3,545 Adventure games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
RiME
Released: May 26, 2017
Critic rating: 72.6 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A third-person exploratory action/adventure title in which a boy ends up on a mysterious island and makes his way through its highly stylized environments, containing puzzles and slight navigation challenges, to get to the bottom of why he's ended up there and to reach the end of the road he's inadvertently begun to travel.
Donkey Kong 64
Released: Nov 22, 1999
Critic rating: 74.0 / 100 • 191 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 64, Wii U
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
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Helltaker
Released: May 11, 2020
Critic rating: 74.0 / 100 • 183 votes
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Visual Novel
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Dex
Released: May 7, 2015
Critic rating: 69.4 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Discover the truth behind an enigmatic AI striving to reach the Singularity, a theoretical “event horizon” in which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and all bets about the future will be off.
Pokémon Ultra Moon
Released: Nov 17, 2017
Critic rating: 82.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
"Take on the role of a Pokémon Trainer and uncover new tales, and unravel the mystery behind the two forms reminiscent of the Legendary Pokémon.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Released: Feb 28, 1997
Critic rating: 78.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 64, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds.
Haunting Ground
Released: Apr 21, 2005
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
The story follows Fiona Belli, a young girl who the player must guide through Belli Castle and its immediate environments in an effort to escape.
Nights Into Dreams...
Released: Jul 5, 1996
Critic rating: 67.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Sega Saturn
Game modes: Single player, Split screen
The story follows the teenagers Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair, who enter Nightopia, a dream world where all dreams take place.
Gunfire Reborn
Released: Nov 17, 2021
Critic rating: 74.0 / 100 • 45 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, roguelite and RPG.
Klonoa: Empire of Dreams
Released: Jul 19, 2001
Critic rating: 74.0 / 100 • 22 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Wii U, Game Boy Advance
Game modes: Single player
A colorful and fun puzzle game with inventive level design, filled with great ideas that bring joy and delight to any gamer that enjoys a challenge.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Released: Nov 4, 2016
Critic rating: 77.2 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare delivers three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.
Hue
Released: Aug 30, 2016
Critic rating: 77.9 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Hue is a stark puzzle platformer where you shift the hue of the world, creating rifts when colours collide.
Shadowrun Returns
Released: Jul 25, 2013
Critic rating: 72.5 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The year is 2054.
Axiom Verge 2
Released: Aug 11, 2021
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
You may have played Axiom Verge, or heard it referenced as a benchmark for indie “metroidvania” adventures.
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
Released: Dec 20, 2001
Critic rating: 73.9 / 100 • 113 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo GameCube
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle is a complete conversion of Sonic Adventure 2 from the Dreamcast with additional features.
Gone Home
Released: Aug 15, 2013
Critic rating: 73.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
Released: Sep 8, 2020
Critic rating: 78.3 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Fighting, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The hit RPG returns!
The Godfather
Released: Mar 21, 2006
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 2
Game modes: Single player
The Godfather puts you into the action of the legendary films, while you relive the classic moments of the Corleone family.
Pathologic 2
Released: May 23, 2019
Critic rating: 63.2 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Pathologic 2 is a reimagining of the original, focused on the Haruspex, Artemy Burakh.
My Friend Pedro
Released: Jun 20, 2019
Critic rating: 73.4 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
Need for Speed: Rivals
Released: Nov 15, 2013
Critic rating: 80.2 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Racing, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Players assume the role of both cops and lawbreakers in Need for Speed: Rivals, which is the inaugural outing of Ghost Games – the rebranded EA Gothenburg studio in Sweden.
Palia
Released: Dec 14, 2023
Critic rating: 87.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Palia is a free-to-play life simulation MMO where players take on the role of humans who have mysteriously appeared in a world primarily inhabited by a species called the Majiri.
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD
Released: Jun 27, 2024
Critic rating: 78.2 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
A remaster of the 3DS game for Nintendo Switch.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
Released: Jun 23, 2020
Critic rating: 67.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Are you ready, kids?
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
Released: Nov 6, 2013
Critic rating: 69.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Strategy, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3
Game modes: Single player
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus (known as Ratchet & Clank: Nexus in Europe) is a 2013 platform video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.