The best action-adventure games have been capturing the thrill of an expedition ever since Indiana Jones swung across a chasm with his trusty whip to retrieve an idol from a booby-trapped tomb. From Pitfall through to Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, we got our fix through platformers or point-and-click adventure games, but then 1996's Tomb Raider melded the two together and perfected the action-adventure game - and it's only grown in popularity since.
The PC boasts some true classics of the genre, from classic tomb raiding to games with enough exploration to fill an entire sandbox - not the one in your backyard - so we've put together a list of the best action games around. This includes some of the finest games ever made on PC, action-adventure or otherwise, including several titles that changed the entire gaming industry.
There's no Uncharted here, as emulation or PlayStation Now doesn't count, but we'd take any one of these games over Sony's series. Here's the definitive list of the best action-adventure games on PC.
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