Actions games are probably the most abundant in the video game catalog. Most of them are really good ones in their own right, so it is very difficult to determine the top tier in this category. In this Best Action Games article, we will list those we believe are the most worth playing. 

Which Are the Best Action-Adventure Games?

There is nothing better than getting your blood pumping while playing a good and stylish action video game. But, just a few games provide this deep feeling with the best balance between gameplay and action. Here are some of these video games!

Batman Arkham Collection

• Release Date: November 27, 2018
• Developer: Rocksteady Studios
• Publisher: Eidos Interactive | Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, X box One
• Metascore: 88

How can we talk about action games without discussing Batman, one of the greatest heroes of all time, within and outside the screen? And the Batman Arkham Series is very likely one of the best superhero games of all time.

Batman Arkham Collection is a compilation of the three great games developed by Rocksteady Studios: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight. 

In Arkham Asylum, the first game of the trilogy,  Batman’s trapped in the famous asylum with some of the most dangerous criminals of the comic. You must stop the Joker from using a lethal weapon, an experimental chemical drug.

In Arkham City, you’re incarcerated in a super-prison created by the major of Gotham. You must uncover the secrets of “Protocol 10.” It’s an action game full of side missions featuring specific villains of Gotham.

Arkham Knight, the last installment of the trilogy, is the video game that introduces the Arkham Knight, who is in a personal vendetta against the Dark Knight. 

The three games of this collection keep a similar fighting style, featuring the whole arsenal of Batman weapons. It also features a big interaction with the environment, discovering all the clues to advance in the adventures of the best detective in the world. 

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Key Features: 

• Great remastered and immersive graphics. 
• All the classic villains and other playable characters of Gotham's engrossing story.
• A huge arsenal of weapons that provide a different approach to combat.

Monster Hunter World

• Release Date: January 26, 2018
• Developer: Capcom
• Publisher: Capcom
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
• Metascore: 90

Monster Hunter: World is an action role-playing game and the fifth main installment of the famous Capcom franchise. As its name suggests, in Hunter: World, you control a hunter whose task is to hunt monsters, either killing or trapping them with a series of tools and weapons. 

You play Monster Hunter: World from a third-person perspective. This provides greater immersion in the world environments, which are some of the game's strongest points. 

As the hunter, you travel to the “New World,” a land filled with monsters. Your mission is to protect the “Research Commission,” a faculty that studies the new land. That said, you must equip your character with a series of tools and weapons that determine their abilities. 

There are fourteen archetypes of weapons, such as bow, hammer, and several pieces of armor, which can boost your abilities or play in detrimental. Your choice will determine the combat moves you can perform in regular and boss battles. 

Most equipment can be built from the loot you get from trapping, killing monsters, or rewarding combat. You can also purchase goods and equipment in Astera, your operation base. There, you can also improve your weapons and gear using a forge and the monster parts.  

As for open-world games, Monster Hunter World features a semi-open world with dozens of interconnected zones that integrate the general map of the game. Still, World is a game with a unique combat system with several aspects and factors, and one you must play!

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Key Features: 

• A complete new world with dozens of landscapes and areas to explore.
• Epic battles against enormous monsters. 
• Hundreds of quests that implies to hunt the most powerful monsters in the territory. 

Uncharted - Legacy of Thieves Collection

• Release Date: January 28, 2022
• Developer: Naughty Dog | Iron Galaxy Studios
• Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5
• Metascore: 87

Uncharted series is one of the most iconic action-adventure sagas of recent time, introducing us to the thief Nathan Drake. He’s a combination between Lara Croft of Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones – a cooky and brave character who at this point does not need presentation. 

Uncharted - Legacy of Thieves Collection is a compilation of the last two games of the saga, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. On this occasion, both games are remastered versions for PS5. 

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End follows the steps of Nathan Drake and his brother Sam attempting to live the final great adventure of the thief. The journey will conduct them to Madagascar, seeking the lost treasure of the pirate captain Henry Avery. Uncharted 4 features a more personal adventure than the previous games and a journey that will take you all over the globe.

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy puts you in the shoes of Chloe Frazer, a former partner of Nathan Drake, in her attempts to recover an ancient Indian relic. With the help of the mercenary, Nadine Ross, Chloe must to find the Tusk of Ganesh. The game also opens up a new scenario with exotic environments and ancient ruins. 

The Legacy of Thieves Collection is a compilation you have to play today if you’re a fan of these bad guys and their latest adventure.

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Key Features: 

• Two magnificent games featuring the greatest adventures of Nathan and Chloe. 
• A shooting style with the possibility of using several guns and weapons. 
• Incredible HD graphics that immerse you better in the experience. 

Grand Theft Auto V

• Release Date: September 17, 2013
• Developer: Rockstar North
• Publisher: Rockstar Games
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
• Metascore: 81

Grand Theft Auto V, or GTA V, is one of the classics of the action genre, and one of the best-selling games of all time. It has been released for three consecutive generation consoles, and seems not to have an ending point. 

GTA V takes place in an open world featuring the fictional city of Los Santos and the surroundings based on the city of Los Ángeles and south California. You control Michael de Santa, Trevor Philips, and Franklin Clinton, who are trying to escape from their life of ambushes and robbery. You can access the three characters in the screen's bottom right corner and check their stats above their image. 

GTA V introduces some changes in comparison to the previous games of the franchise, such as more fluid movements of games like Red Dead Redemption and effects such as the bullet time of the Max Payne video game. 

When you commit a crime, the police will arrive at the specific site of the crime and start the chase. Depending on the “level” of your crimes, the police may be supported by stronger forces such as the FBI or even the US Army.

GTA V also featurea a multiplayer mode, in which you can be part of a gang of thieves in their attempts for completing heits. You’ll face the police and must to escape from the crime scene and find the extraction point. 

Finally, do not miss to complete your robbery to find your way out of a life of crime. GTA V is a game will provide you hours of fun, no matter if you’re the bad guy. 

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Key Features: 

• An entire city to discover, plus surrounding zones, and thousands of things to interact with.
• Three main characters, each with a unique personality and stats. 
• A huge set of vehicles, weapons, and ways to complete your ambushes. 

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

• Release Date: October 5, 2018
• Developer: Ubisoft Quebec
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Stadia
• Metascore: 83

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is an action-adventure game and the fifth installment of the Assassin’s Creed series. In this opportunity, you follow a Spartan mercenary building their path through the Peloponnesian War while fighting on both sides of the conflict.

Just like its predecessor, Origins, Odyssey is set in an open world, putting special focus on exploration and stealth. You can choose to explore the world either on horseback or on foot. In the journey, you’ll find several NPCs that will give you side missions. You also discover sites of interest to collect crafting materials and hidden treasures. 

While the campaign conducts the mercenary to find their family, an alternative questline can lead you to face the mystical creatures of Atlantis. You can also participate in battles on one side of the war. Winning will reward you with interesting loot. 

If you commit a war crime, steal or hurt innocent people, a bounty is placed on you, meaning that several NPCs mercenaries will arrive to hunt you. You can enter a battle against these mercenaries, pay them or kill the character who places the bounty.

Odyssey also focuses on RPG elements with expanded dialogue and upgrade options, so the relation and interaction between you and the surrounding world are fundamental to improving your chances. 

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Key Features: 

• A massive open-world recreating ancient Greece. 
• Main and side missions that determine the direction of the events. 
• A live environment with which you can interact by talking, hunting, etcetera. 

Red Dead Redemption 2

• Release Date: October 26, 2018
• Developer: Rockstar Studios
• Publisher: Rockstar Games
• Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia
• Metascore: 97

Red Dead Redemption 2 is an action-adventure game set in the wild west and the third installment of the Red Dead series and the prequel to Red Dead Redemption of 2010. In this chapter, you follow the outlaw Arthur Morgan who is trying to leave the Van der Linde gang and gain his freedom.

The game is set in an open world featuring a fictional version of the far west, Midwestern, and the south of the United States. RDR2 is played from a third-person perspective while you complete a series of specific quests in linear scenarios. Completing missions will allow you to advance in the story. 

You can also roam freely in the world and explore all the corners of this fictional western scenario. In your wandering, you can enter into a fight against enemies using melee attacks, firearms, or explosives. 

You can find several landscapes with wildlife and things that enrich the general gameplay. There are also several settlements you can visit and where you can buy consumables, eat to keep your health, and even steal a horse. 

Arthur can participate in random events in every corner of the world. If you help people in these events, you’ll be rewarded. The outlaw can also be part of side activities in the company of strangers, such as dueling and bounty hunting. At the same time, hunting wild animals to get food, income, and materials is inevitable.

The game focuses heavily on your personal choices. Sometimes you can accept additional missions or not, which will lead you to expand the plot. Choices also are related to the conversations with NPCs, letting you select different dialogue trees. Depending on your answer, you can have a friendly chat or insult them. Your decisions will affect the Honor System, which, at the same time, influences the story and outcomes.

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Key Features:

• A huge open-world recreating a fictional far west with dozens of landscapes. 
• A survival system that implies hunting, eating, keeping your health, etcetera. 
• Hundreds of quests to build your outlaw career or to help people. 

God of War

• Release Date: April 20, 2018
• Developer: Santa Monica Studios
• Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
• Metascore: 94

God of War of 2018 has to be in any great action games list of ours. Not for nothing, this game has one of the highest scores on Metacritic and is considered one of the best games of the past generation of consoles.   

God of War is based on Norse Mythology, contrary to the previous games of the franchise. Most of the game takes place in Scandinavia and follows the story of two protagonists: Kratos, the former God of war, and his son, Atreus, in their attempts to spread his mother’s ashes at the highest peak of the nine realms.

God of War is played from a third-person perspective and presented in a continuous shot without loading screens or camera cuts. The game does not feature an open-world map, rather semi-open interconnected scenarios which you can explore freely. Throughout these maps, you’ll face notorious Norse mythological foes, such as draugrs, wulvers, and dark elves.

In the gameplay, Kratos uses the Leviathan Axe, a magical weapon infused with ice elemental magic. You can throw the Leviathan to smash or stun enemies, and magically summon it back. He also uses the Guardian Shield, both defensively or offensively. What’s more, Kratos can rely on his fists in hand-to-hand combat.

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Key Features: 

• A completely new story in a fresh scenario in Scandinavia. 
• A new throwable weapon that enriches the possibilities of the battle system. 
• Two different playable characters to expand the God of War plot. 

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

• Release Date: October 26, 2021
• Developer: Eidos Montreal
• Publisher: Square Enix Europe
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
• Metascore: 80

Marvel’s Guardian of the Galaxy is an action-adventure game that follows the adventures of Star-Lord and his friends in their attempts to eradicate a new threat from the galaxy. In this great adventure, you control Peter Quill from a third-person perspective. Besides, you’re helped by other team members, including Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora, and Drax the Destroyer.

As Star-Lord, you can use four firing modes with your blaster: ice shots, lightning shots, wind shots, and plasma shots. The other team members also have four unique abilities, such as bombs and explosives, in the case of Rocket Raccoon, or roots to immobilize enemies, in the case of Groot.

Your performance in battle is rated by a Momentum gauge, which allows you to deal significant damage once you maximize the team’s momentum. Enemies can be stunned if their stagger bar is depleted. When you kill enemies, you gain experience points, which you can use to unlock abilities for the Guardians. 

Guardians of the Galaxy is mostly linear, but you can explore the scenarios freely to get collectibles, costumes, and consumables. All the characters have unique abilities which let you access new areas.

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Key Features: 

• A new Guardian’s story not included in the comic book. 
• The opportunity of participating in the whole team with strategy and special attacks.
• Four special blaster attacks to produce unique stats and reach different objectives. 

Death Stranding

• Release Date: November 8, 2019
• Developer: Kojima Productions
• Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
• Metascore: 82

From the beginning, Death Stranding is a weird game. We can rate this title as an action game, but also as a survival and resource management one. Hideo Kojima, its creator and the genius behind other masterpieces, such as Metal Gear Solid V, said that DS is a “strand game.” 

Death Stranding is set in the United States after a cataclysm. In this context, you control Sam Porter Bridges, a courier whose task is to deliver supplies throughout the devastated world. 

Death Stranding is set in an open world and incorporates several social elements, such as the option of leaving all the things you want on the map, which can be found by other players. As Sam Bridges, you must move between isolated cities providing supplies to the survivors and connecting the communications system. 

Your performance is evaluated by the company based on successful deliveries and other factors. Good evaluations will improve your statistics, such as weight capacity and stability.

But to survive in your path throughout the vast landscapes of this devastated world, you will have to evade dangers that can attack you and rob your cargo. To do this, you are equipped with a robotic sensor “Odradek” that points nearby “Beached things,” Demens, and members of MULEs,  a faction of cargo thieves.

Death Stranding is a sci-fi video game that will provide you with hours and hours of interesting gaming and a challenging experience.

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Key Features: 

• A devastated open world full of threats and rain that infects everything. 
• Social elements with which you can connect with other players. 
• Incredible actors who bring to life iconic characters, such as Norman Reedus, and Mads Mikkelsen. 

Hades

• Publisher: Supergiant Games

• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Hades is a roguelike-action game with several hack & slash elements that follows the adventures of Zagreus in his attempt to escape from Hell. Hades is characterized by its fast-paced mechanics and extreme combat very similar to those you can find in familiar games, such as Devil May Cry 5. Escape from the gods and unleash the chaos in your path. 

Horizon Forbidden West

• Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment

• Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5

The second chapter of the Horizon saga and the direct sequel to Zero Dawn. Here you control Aloy again while she’s exploring the mysterious frontier known as the Forbidden West, a fictional version of the west of the United States. She and her band of companions start the quest to discover the source of a plague that kills everything. A marvelous title with impressive music and where you’ll feel free! 

Marvel’s Spider-Man

• Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment

• Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5

After hearing its name, you know what to expect. Marvel’s Spiderman is an incredible game based on the classic character that shows us the hero in his best moment. This time, our arachnid friend must stop the crime lord Mister Negative and his attempts to spread a lethal virus in New York while dealing with the personal problems of Peter Parker.  

Doom Eternal 

• Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
• Platform: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

Doom Eternal is the only shooter on this list but still a good action game that follows the path of the Doomslayer on a mission to end the consumption of the Earth by Hell. A game where rules do not exist, just bullets and lasers crossing the screen to kill the horror that looms from the underground.  

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

• Publisher: Electronic Arts

• Platform: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Stadia, Xbox Series X|S

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is one of the latest games based on the space opera of George Lucas. Fallen Orden follows the path of the Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis who is being hunted by the Imperial Inquisitorius while trying to rebuild the Jedi Order and complete his training. A game that requires you to unleash all your power to become a Jedi master. 

Dark Souls

• Publisher: Namco Bandai Games

• Platform: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Dark Souls is considered by many people the best game of the past decade. And there’s a high probability they’re right. Dark Souls determined many of the most used mechanics of the most relevant games of recent years  – Elden Ring – and established a new paradigm regarding strategy battles and leveling up. So head to your destiny and defeat all the obstacles you’ll find in your path!