Top 12 Single Player games of 2010s

You want to just talk about some fun games? So we're listing 10 surprisingly brilliant single player games. This is pretty broad. Some just came out of nowhere others are more interesting than they look on the surface. This list could have probably had a hundred games on these are our choices. We're looking forward to hearing yours down the comments maybe for part 2. Anyways, let's get started off.

10. Spec Ops: The Line

Spec Ops: The Line

There are so many gritty third person shooters out there and it really takes a lot to stand out and show itself as something more than the others and man did Spec Ops do that. It really sets itself apart by just having an incredible campaign like from pretty much start to finish.

It's got so many cool ideas that crammed into there as you make your way through a story that's clearly influenced by Classics like Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness. The story really goes in some really dark and unexpected directions in ways that we weren't used to seeing in games when it dropped in 2012. You play as Captain Martin, Walker leader of a three men Elite Delta Force Team sent into a sand storm ravaged by on a recon mission. Ultimately you have to take out your old Commander Colonel John Conrad. In doing so you're going to fight through the city making our way through some really interesting and stressful combat encounters.

Honestly, it is one of the coolest shooter campaigns we've seen in a while that said it still had its faults. I mean, yeah, the multiplayer was kind of whack but this isn't a list of ten great multiplayer games. Now, is it single player still came dashing away the we're still talking about it eight years later.

9. The Wolf Among Us

The Wolf Among Us

Back in the day Telltale Games really did put out some pretty great single player experiences, but if you had to pick just one good go with The Wolf Among Us hands down. Being a Telltale Game. So You know, you're getting a well-made adventure game with a cool cel-shaded art style and some really good characters and dialogue interactions. The story is based on a comic series Fables.

Although the game takes place around 20 years prior to that in 1986. Manhattan, in a world where mythical creatures mask their appearance and live side by side with humans. You're Bigby Wolf formerly the Big Bad Wolf, here Sheriff of Fable Town area of the city.

Gameplay is what you'd expect walking around and collecting environmental information, navigating dialogue, making big moral decisions that will determine the story going forward. Engaging in some really cool action scenes that were above and beyond the stuff you see in games like The Walking Dead up until that point. It's some of Telltale's best work and if you haven't checked it out yet. What are you doing? There's a second one coming.

8. The Stanley Parable.

The Stanley Parable

Now, this game is strange. You spawn into an office building, go on walking around the environment and interacting with objects. The story is presented by a way of a narrator who is constantly telling you what's going on as you explore and the story can branch and change based on your choices and the actions you perform. It's an incredibly simple game, but it goes in some really weird and interesting places. Which culminates a total of 10 possible endings with a single run of the game taking you around 1 hour.

Anything else we say about this game will spoil the surprises, but know that if you like a small short quirky game experience, you've probably love this one.

7. What Remains of Edith Finch?

What Remains of Edith Finch

This is a first-person exploration game where you play as a member of the finch family who visits the finch family home. The Finches are supposedly plagued with some curse that causes all but one member of each generation to die in an unusual ways leaving one member to continue the family name.

The house is a bit weird. As you explore it you learn how each family member died, by exploring their bedrooms which act as a bit of a shrine. I guess. They seemed to be left mostly untouched as you interact. Each Shrine you experienced a memory of that family member with each one burying. Gameplay and it shows you how that person dies. This is very much one of the games you would use as an example when talking about video games as an art form. The story is very well thought out and I honestly don't think there is anything else like their narrative hooks you, almost immediately.

Learning more and more about this family over the course of the game is really cool because it's a really interesting family and there are some really cool twists and turns. We don't want to talk about them because you know, spoilers. If you're a fan of games like Gone Home, Firewatch etc. This is the One that you definitely have to jump into because it's one of the weirder ones in this genre of games.

6. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

It has a really cool gameplay mechanic. One that really makes it stand out of others. You take on the role of Two Brothers, who are set out to find a cure for their sick father.

What's really cool is you control both brothers at the same time. So it's kind of like a single-player co-op game, I guess. Each brother is controlled by one of two thumbsticks at once. While you explore environment solving puzzles and fighting bosses. This is a killer game, one that gets pretty emotional. Like it definitely hits you in the feels a bit.

It's made by the dude who made The Way which is a great Co-op him as well. So this dude knows what he's doing. He's also a film director and his experience with that 100% carries over into this game. I'd highly recommend checking both of his games out honestly because they're both very good.

5. Undertale

Undertale

It was a game, that seemingly came Came out of nowhere. It looks like yet another Retro-Style cutesy Adventure game, but what it did, with the story and its approach to just combat and classic RPG stuff, in general, is what really makes it stand out.

What starts out as a simple adventure of you: a young boy falling into a mysterious underground could become something much more. So the ancient creatures, friendly and otherwise, how you engage with them. The cool part is when encountering a monster, if you try to kill, your combat, you flee or attempt to confront them because exploration puzzles a lot of fun.

You play sequences and lots of interesting dialogue and choices and couple this with a cool aesthetic and some great music -- you've got a match made in heaven for many players out there.

4. Subnautica

Subnautica

This is a wild one. At a glance, I get how it can just seem like another crafting and survival game, but it really does feel like so much more easily. Crash-landed and trapped on an alien world, surrounded by nothing but water. You have to explore and craft your way back to safety and off of the planet. But there's also a really cool alien mystery to pursue and unravel over the course of the game. Then doing so it's a long lonely journey in a desolate ocean where you'll only occasionally get a radio transmission from another person or pick up logs from the crew mates who perished in the crash. You're constantly finding new ways to go deeper and explore harsher, more remote parts of the ocean. Means to craft new personal gear, managing sources and power and making sure you don't get stranded at the bottom of the ocean, avoiding and fending off the dangerous wildlife that lurks beneath the surface.

This is really interesting spin on the survival genre and we haven't really seen anything like it aside from the Subnautica: Below Zero, a standalone expansion, that takes place on a different Frozen part of the same Planet a year later. So it really stands out and honestly, we're kind of crazy about it.

3. Hell-blade: Senua's Sacrifice

Hell-Blade: Senua's Sacrifice

I'm sure by now you all know that we're big fans of Hell-blade over here and for good reason. Here, you play a sin you who was journeying to Helheim to rescue the soul of her dead lover from the Goddess Hel. But there's way more in the game than that cellular suffers from psychosis. The Dev team actually worked with neuroscientists and nonprofit organizations to make sure that they included it right and made sure that it was accurately represented. It was a pretty intense representation with all the visual effects on screen for the voices in her head.

The gameplay is definitely the weakest part of the game, which I know doesn't sound good for a video game. But it isn't bad by any means. It's good enough to move the game along but the gameplay itself just isn't the point of the game. It's 100% about the Journey. Also Molina's organic performance is unreal. She had no experience with motion capture or voice acting and was just acting as a standard. But she did such a good job that they just rolled with it. It is probably something that you have to play.

2. A Plague Tale Innocence

A Plague Tale Innocence

This is an interesting one, leading up to the launch, it seemed pretty ordinary, then launches and it felt like a big budget game and it was thrilling and it took a lot of people by surprise. It has very much, become another he'll play tight game like a smaller unassuming game that you have to play. You play as a during 1349 and friends as it's being ravaged by a vicious plague, that is going on. You're trying to get your Brother through it.

Most of the game is stealth-based. Actually, you have one weapon a slingshot type thingy, which can be use to cause distractions around the guards etc. The game also has these insane waves of rats like armies of rats like World War Z zombies rats. You have to keep them at bay with stuff like fire, but you can also send them after enemies to devour them which you know, it's kind of messed up. Taking care of your brother doesn't ever come off as a chore either, which isn't annoying.

Like I said before this is an interesting one that just came out of nowhere and got everyone's attention for good reason and this game was all so gorgeous. It's so nice to look at and has some amazing environments.

1. Neir Automata

Nier: Automata

Man! where to start with this one. It certainly is an interesting one. What probably seems like your usual Japanese action RPG at first, really gets weirder and more interesting as you get deeper into it. Especially, after you spend a good Good 6 to 10 hours hacking and slashing your way through the game. You reach the end and it's, let's say "less than climactic" or satisfying. For Most games, you'd be like, "Well, I guess, that's it". But not here, at that point, You just ended one of the 26 possible endings and five main endings. Honestly, the game doesn't really reach its real ending until you wrap endings A through E. Even then there are 21 other than endings to discover and see if you really want to be done with the five.

Runs with the game taking around 40 hours. You're going to have a ton of time to really explore this Post-Humanity World. Deep into the game's truly interesting combat system. The story is a true unique experience and we don't want to ruin anything about it. Well, let's just say that it goes places and we'll just leave it at that. It really is one of the wildest single player experience as we played in a very Long time.

Before we go. We just have some quick bonuses for you.

Bonus 1: Life is Strange

Life is Strange

After seeing the first trailer for it. I knew it wasn't for me. Then for some reason, I played it anyway and I felt absolutely in love with it. Yeah, it's pretty cheesy and at times it feels like an even cheesier CW show. But it had a lot of heart and some really really cool character arcs, soundtrack, animation style and Cool Time-travel stuff.

Bonus 2: Titanfall 2

Titanfall: 2

This one was a huge surprise to see. As the first one didn't have a campaign. So I don't think any of us were really expecting much from Titanfall 2. But then we got an awesome Buddy-Cop story with some of the best time travel stuff. I've seen in video games ever. Go check it out

Those are 10 surprisingly amazing single player games. We want to hear from you. Which games make your favorite list from 2010s. The decade when gaming became a lot more that anyone could have imagoned. Anyway, let us know in the comments below your picks for the best single player campaigns.