Action Adventure Bucket List

Journey with Kratos and Atreus

Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross in the Western Ghats, the only entry without Nathan Drake.

Back to Baghdad in 861 and to the shape of the first game: one city, social stealth, no map full of icons.

The North Atlantic from the other side: a Templar hunting the assassins he used to work for.

The Vita prequel by Bend Studio, with a Panamanian jungle and touch controls nobody asked for.

Four flashbacks told at her own memorial - Rome, a Russian submarine, an Irish island and a New York skyscraper.

Babylon under siege and the Dark Prince arguing inside his head; the end of the Sands trilogy.

Lara in Egypt for a whole game, and the ending in which Core Design tried to kill her off.

The 2010 reboot by MercurySteam, with Patrick Stewart narrating and a combat system borrowed from God of War.

Crystal Dynamics take over and rebuild the controls; Lara moves the way she always should have.

The cel-shaded reboot with Elika beside you, in which you cannot die and the land is healed area by area.

Thor’s hammer, Helheim and Avalon, closing the story Legend started.

Five destinations from the Nevada desert to Antarctica, and the hardest level design the series ever shipped.

A bridge between the first two Sands games, built around freezing water into a climbable shape.

The troubled Paris-set reboot that ended Core Design’s run with the character.

The dark sequel: the Dahaka hunting the Prince through a time-split island fortress, with a nu-metal soundtrack.

A first-person Metroid on the DS, aimed with the stylus, with six rival hunters chasing the same relics.

Team Ninja give Samus a voice and a chain of command; the entry the series argues about.

MercurySteam rebuild Metroid II on the 3DS, with a melee counter that changes every encounter.

Samus sent to exterminate the Metroids on their home planet, on a Game Boy screen with no map.