Best Adventure Games

Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Released: Jan 30, 2014

Critic rating: 73.6 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Platform, Simulator, Adventure, Indie

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood.

Titan Souls

Released: Apr 14, 2015

Critic rating: 72.4 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita

Game modes: Single player

Titan Souls is an indie action-adventure game centered around battling powerful bosses in a minimalist world.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Released: Nov 6, 2015

Critic rating: 76.8 / 100

Rating: M

Genres: Shooter, Adventure

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Call of Duty: Black Ops III deploys players into a dark, twisted future where a new breed of Black Ops soldier emerges and the lines are blurred between our own humanity and the technology we created to stay ahead, in a world where cutting-edge military robotics define warfare.

Leo's Fortune

Released: Apr 23, 2014

Critic rating: 74.0 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One

Game modes: Single player

Leo’s Fortune is an award-winning platform adventure game where you hunt down the cunning and mysterious thief that stole your gold.

Raji: An Ancient Epic

Released: Aug 18, 2020

Critic rating: 77.5 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player

Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India.

Super Ghouls'n Ghosts

Released: Oct 4, 1991

Critic rating: 70.0 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Platform, Adventure

Platforms: Web browser, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Wii, Wii U, New Nintendo 3DS, Super Famicom

Game modes: Single player

As dauntless knight Arthur you are caught up in the most dangerous of quests!

F.E.A.R. 3

Released: Jun 21, 2011

Critic rating: 75.8 / 100

Rating: M

Genres: Shooter, Adventure

Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

F.E.A.R.

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology

Released: Jun 29, 2017

Critic rating: 83.6 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Platforms: Nintendo 3DS

Game modes: Single player

Unlock the time traveling power of the White Chronicle once again in Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology.

Cars 2

Released: Jun 21, 2011

Critic rating: 75.0 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Racing, Adventure

Platforms: PlayStation 3, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen

Inspired by the Disney•Pixar animated film, Cars 2: The Video Game lets players jump into the Cars 2 universe with some of their favorite Cars personalities in exotic locations around the globe.

Lords of the Fallen

Released: Oct 13, 2023

Critic rating: 72.0 / 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

Lords of the Fallen is an action role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world split between the living realm (Axiom) and the dead (Umbral).

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

Released: Oct 21, 2008

Critic rating: 69.7 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Fighting, Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure

Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360

Game modes: Single player

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is a video game title encompassing three versions: a full-3D action game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360; a 2.5D sidescrolling beat em up action game for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2 (called Amazing Allies Edition), and a 2.5D side-scrolling brawler/platformer for the Nintendo DS.

The Sims Medieval

Released: Mar 22, 2011

Critic rating: 75.0 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Simulator, Adventure

Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac

Game modes: Single player

The Sims go back in time and get medieval!

Paratopic

Released: Mar 15, 2018

Critic rating: 72.1 / 100 • 27 votes

Rating: M

Genres: Adventure, Indie

Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac

Game modes: Single player

Smuggle contraband VHS tapes across the border.

Omikron: The Nomad Soul

Released: Oct 31, 1999

Critic rating: 70.0 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Fighting, Shooter, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Dreamcast, PlayStation 2

Game modes: Single player

Responding to the desperate pleas of a mysterious character from another dimension, your soul must enter the dark and futuristic city of Omikron.

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

Released: Feb 28, 2011

Critic rating: 70.0 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure

Platforms: PlayStation 3, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

The Saga continues.

The Adventure Pals

Released: Apr 3, 2018

Critic rating: 75.4 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

An epic adventure fueled by imagination.

Mercenary Kings

Released: Mar 25, 2014

Critic rating: 75.0 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Shooter, Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

In this frantic 2D action game, you are part of the Mercenary Kings, the most skilled team of warriors-for-hire on Earth, but when your comrades have fallen and the fearsome forces of CLAW have seized an island-wide top secret Laboratory Base, you must do what it takes to stop them.

Shivah

Released: Jun 1, 2006

Critic rating: 72.1 / 100 • 27 votes

Genres: Point-and-click, Adventure, Indie

Platforms: Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac

Game modes: Single player

Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City.

Spider-Man 2

Released: Jun 28, 2004

Critic rating: 68.3 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure

Platforms: Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2

Game modes: Single player

In the console version of "Spider-Man 2", Manhattan becomes a gamer's playground as you take the role of Spider-Man in a battle against the nefarious Doc Ock.

Ark: Survival Ascended

Released: Oct 25, 2023

Critic rating: 72.0 / 100 • 31 votes

Rating: T

Genres: Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie

Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Ark: Survival Ascended is a next-generation remaster of our beloved ARK: Survival Evolved, harnessing the power of Unreal Engine 5.

Call of the Sea

Released: Dec 8, 2020

Critic rating: 72.5 / 100

Rating: T

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player

Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition.

Sonic Colors

Released: Nov 11, 2010

Critic rating: 75.2 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Platform, Adventure

Platforms: Wii

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Sonic Colors, titled Sonic Colours in European and Australian markets, is a platforming game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in 2010.

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse

Released: Apr 25, 2013

Critic rating: 68.3 / 100

Rating: E

Genres: Platform, Adventure

Platforms: PlayStation 3, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox 360

Game modes: Single player

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a 2.5D platform game developed by Sega Studios Australia and published by Sega.

True Crime: Streets of LA

Released: Nov 3, 2003

Critic rating: 74.3 / 100

Rating: M

Genres: Fighting, Shooter, Racing, Adventure

Platforms: Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 2

Game modes: Single player

True Crime: Streets of LA is a free-roaming driving and action game similar in concept to Grand Theft Auto III.

LEGO The Incredibles

Released: Jun 15, 2018

Critic rating: 72.3 / 100

Rating: E10+

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure

Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

LEGO The Incredibles takes players on an adventure where they’ll control their favourite Incredibles characters and team up as a family to conquer crime and family life.