The most beautiful adventure games you can play

“Adventure” is sort of that key video game genre that completely defines the experience you get with the medium, because what would games be without exploration and engaging levels that let you travel between locations? It's grown a lot and some titles not only do it well, but also look just as good.

With graphics cards constantly receiving new iterations and console systems constantly upgrading to the best solution to deliver the most remarkable technical specifications and graphics, adventure games have become more and more expensive and look like Hollywood hit projects.

ten Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700

Ratchet and Clank is a series that always has fun and fantastic action platforming adventures in store for the iconic titular duo, and latest release brings some of the best stories, visuals and graphics in their new home on PS5 and PC. Truly, this is the most beautiful Ratchet & Clank game.

This is partly due to the diversity of biomes and planets the duo travel to, brought about by the dimensional rifts opened by the Dimensionator's malfunction at the start of the game. It is also the first game to introduce a new protagonist, Rivet , which you can also play as.

9 Baldur's Gate 3

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 2060 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Baldur's Gate 3 is a sprawling adventure title based on the world and mythology of D&D, one of the longest you can play and replay endlessly to get all the different results, and the graphics aren't too bad either. Divided into three lengthy acts, the areas and character models in Act 1 alone will fascinate you as much as any of the spells a wizard or warlock can cast.

Your adventure begins on the Nautiloid, a tendril-shaped Lovecraftian Mind Flayer ship where you and several other passengers are trapped and infected by a tadpole. Your quest is to get rid of them and eventually venture into the city of Baldur's Gate, with choices and exploration playing one of the most important roles.

8 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 or AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Deciding to ignore older generation consoles, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was to be graphically even better than Fallen Order and greatly expand on the elements that made the original a cinematic success. The new planets, picturesque environments, flora and fauna as well as the variety of enemies are simply spectacular.

The story directly follows the events of Fallen Order with a small time jump that sees the beloved characters in very different circumstances than when you last left them. There's a lot more exploration and activity, as well as combat assistance from companions. It's like playing Uncharted: Star Wars Edition.

7 Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 570

Speaking of Unexplored, the latter two games, conveniently bundled into the Legacy of Thieves collection for PS5 and PC, are the most visually stunning action-adventure games you can own. The end of a thief takes you to Madagascar, the archipelagos of emerald green waters and the lush lands of the legendary Libertaliawhile Lost Legacy is set amidst the mountain ranges of India's Western Ghats.

Both games are extremely action-packed with many memorable set pieces and moments and have some of the best writing this genre has to offer. A Thief's End follows Nathan Drake and Sully on their most personal adventure to save Nate's older brother, and Lost Legacy is a sequel that follows antagonists-turned-protagonists Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross, with the return of Sam Drake.

6 A Plague Tale: Requiem

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Both Plague Tale the games feature equally harrowing adventures in rat-infested 14th-century France, although the sequel makes graphical improvements and increases the number of rats that can be generated on screen. from 5,000 to 300,000. It's quite a rodent problem for Amicia de Rune and her companions.

Requiem also expands the world of the series and takes you to many new environments and locations in the story while introducing new characters to help Amicia and her little brother Hugo along the way. It's both shockingly gruesome and incredibly picturesque in places, with absolutely stunning graphics.

5 God of War Ragnarok

The next release of Kratos' story in the God of the war The series involves the arrival of Ragnarok, and to stop it, he and Atreus will have to leave the World Tree and undertake quests throughout the nine Norse realms. This means that many more beautiful locations will appear in places such as Svartalfheim, Asgard, and Vanaheim.

The graphics of the 2018 game were pretty epic, but God of War Ragnarok outdoes itself purely with the expanded map, story, and bestiary of creatures found in Norse mythology, not to mention Valhalla's companion story DLC. which mixes elements of the Greek saga.

4 The Witcher 3 with next-gen update

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX 480

Here you have another great fantasy game with really rich graphics, especially with the Next-Gen update for The Witcher 3. It just makes things incredibly more realistic and realistic, despite the game's premise and creature design. The best part is that it’s also free!

The Witcher 3 is a continent-spanning adventure, filled with some of the most unique beasts, characters, and locations from Sapkowski's famous book series. The environments and mythological creatures are incredibly well designed, and it's a story full of emotion, romance, and suspense.

3 Red Dead Redemption 2

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480

GTA 6 is guaranteed for this title, but Red Dead Redemption 2 is perhaps the most gorgeous and detailed Rockstar video game to date. The historical setting is seamlessly recreated and the immersive quality of the gameplay far exceeds that of the original 2010 game.

You move around a lot in the game with your gang led by the notorious Dutchman van der Linde, setting up camp in each new location while avoiding the law. In a prequel version of the narrative, Red Dead 2 shows you the events that led to John Marston's predicament in the first game through the perspective of Arthur Morgan.

2 The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered

Just when you thought Naughty Dog couldn't top the graphics of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Part 2 quickly blew these out of the water with the brutal and incredibly realistic details of its bleak post-apocalyptic world. The PS5 remastered version only helps improve the quality.

From the combat to the level and environment design, Seattle, Jackson, Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City all feel perfectly overgrown with vegetation and cordyceps mushrooms, with the roguelike mode “No Return” further showcasing these well-designed levels in a whole new aesthetic. The designs and animations of the weapons, gore system and grotesque infected are unlike any other adventure game.

1 Death Stranding Director's Cut

• Recommended graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 590

Hideo Kojima is a developer known for pushing the boundaries of the medium and aims to design the most innovative concepts, systems and graphics with each new release (looking at you OD and Death Stranding 2). For the moment, Death Stranding is the best example and fits into the adventure genre!

What can be said about Death Stranding that hasn't already been written? The game has one of the strangest and most mind-blowing stories you can still play, coupled with some of the most detailed terrain and crossing physics and graphics as out of this world as the BTs. Plus, there are enough famous stars with realistic models to convince you that you're in a Hollywood production.