Action-Adventure

Game genre concept

A very vague genre often involving lots of action in form of bloody combat, somewhat spacious environments, and an occasional environmental puzzle. Also includes adventure games that are very action oriented.

1120
games
77
platforms
See also: Action-RPG

The `adventure´ bit in action-adventure does not refer to adventure game genre but rather adventure fiction/film genre, thus these should not have the adventure genre included in most cases.

The sub-genres should not be all marked as action-adventure by default, as they do not always adhere to the concept of action-adventures even if they adhere to the definition of the sub-genre.

Proper description. Will keep it here instead of the proper spot until this tag ceases being useful in actual use.
Informal group for finding action-adventure sub-genres.

Popular tags

actionrpg adventurerpg dandylike dungeoncrawler gtalike hackandslash lootemup manicshooter meleesim metroidvania mmog openworldsurvivalcrafting pacifisthorror roguelike roguelite soulslike spectaclebrawler stealthgame tactical visualnovel zeldalike

Parent group

Action

Child groups

Survival horror, Hack and Slash, Metroidvania, Stealth game, Grand Theft Auto-like

Games by year

80828486889092949698000204060810121416182022 882244660

The first Action-Adventure video game was released in 1980.

Capcom, Ubisoft and Eidos published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux 253
Windows 234
X360 77
PS3 74
PS2 68
Mac OS X 42
PS4 38
Xbox 30
Xbox One 25
Wii 24
GameCube 20
PS 20
MS-DOS 12
Dreamcast 11
PSP 11
Switch 10
NES 9
Mac OS Classic 7
Atari 400/800 7
Wii U 7
Tandy Coco 6
Amiga 6
Nintendo DS 6
C64 6
ZX Spectrum 5
Atari 2600 5
N64 5
Apple II E 5
GBC 5
Mobile 4