Many gamers have been playing video games for several years now. But for starters, know that playing video games provides several benefits. Believe it or not, playing video games can improve cognitive abilities, problem-solving skills, logic, hand-to-eye coordination, multi-tasking abilities, decision-making, prosocial behaviors, attention to detail, and so much more.
This article will tackle 25 of the trendiest video games right now, from Grand Theft Auto V to DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT. Let us begin the ultimate rundown. And you must include these games in your collection.
1. Grand Theft Auto V
It has been a game since 2013, but Grand Theft Auto V is still the most popular video game right now, and for the best reasons.
This is an action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is also the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, following Grand Theft Auto IV from 2008 and the 15th installment overall.
Set within the fictional state of San Andreas, based on Southern California, this single-player story follows three protagonists, retired bank robber Michael De Santa, street gangster Franklin Clinton, and gunrunner and drug dealer Trevor Philips. The game also features their attempts to commit heists while under pressure from a corrupt government agency and powerful criminals.
Its open-world design lets players freely roam the open countryside that is San Andreas and the fictional city of Los Santos, based on Los Angeles.
2. Minecraft
Minecraft is a 3D sandbox game originally created by Markus “Notch” Persson. Mojang Studios maintains it, and it is a part of Xbox Game Studios, which is, in turn, part of Microsoft.
The game allows players to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. Aside from these blocks, the environment also features plants, mobs, and items.
Players can do activities in the game, including building, mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources in the game.
The game’s open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artworks on various competitive or collaborative multiplayer servers or their single-player maps.
3. Call Of Duty: Warzone
Call of Duty: Warzone, on the other hand, is a free-to-play battle royale video game launched in 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.
At launch, Call of Duty: Warzone features two main modes: Battle Royale and Plunder. Warzone also has introduced a new in-game currency system that can be used at “Buy Stations” in and around the map. “Loadout” drops are an example of where Cash can be traded for limited access to players’ custom classes. Players may also utilize Cash to buy products like “killstreaks” and gas masks. Cash can be located by looting buildings and killing players who have money on them.
4. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Tom Clancy’s Rainbox Six Siege is an Internet tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.
This game puts heavy emphasis on environmental destruction and cooperation among players. Each player assumes control of an attacker or a defender in various gameplay modes, such as rescuing a hostage, defusing a bomb, and taking control of an objective within a room.
The title has no campaign but features a series of short, offline missions known as “situations” that players can play solo. These missions have a loose narrative, focusing on recruits going through training to prepare them for future encounters with the “White Masks,” a terrorist group that threatens the world’s safety.
5. Marvel’s Spider-Man
Marve’s Spider-Man is a 2018 action-adventure game that Insomniac Games developed and Sony Interactive Entertainment published. Based on the popular Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, it tells an original narrative inspired by the long-running comic book mythology while drawing from different adaptions in other media.
In its main story, the superhuman crime lord Mister Negative orchestrates a plot to seize control of the criminal underworld of New York City. When Mister Negative threatens to release a deadly virus, Spider-Man must confront him and protect the whole city while dealing with the personal problems of his alter-ego, Peter Parker.
6. Fortnite
Fortnite is also an online video game Epic Games has developed and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the similar general gameplay and game engine. These modes are Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play battle royale game where up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing; Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative hybrid tower defense-shooter and survival game wherein up to four players fight off zombie-like creatures and defend objects with traps and fortifications they can build; and Fortnite Creative where players are given complete freedom to craft worlds and battle arenas.
7. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4
Here is another Call of Duty game that has made it to our top 25 list, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Stylized as Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII, this game is a 2018 multiplayer first-person shooter published by Activision and developed by Treyarch.
The game is the first Call of Duty title without the traditional single-player campaign mode. Instead, it features the Solo Missions mode, which focuses on the backstories of the multiplayer characters in the game, known as “Specialists.”
The missions happen between Black Ops II and III chronologically. Some of the Specialists also carried over from Black Ops III. It is interesting to note that the multiplayer mode is the first in the series not to feature automatic health regeneration. It introduces both predictive recoil and a new ballistics system.
The game also has three Zombies maps on release day (four if a special edition of the game, or the Black Ops Pass, was purchased). The locations of the maps include the RMS Titanic, a Gladiatorial Arena in Roman Egypt, and the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
The game also introduced a battle royale mode known as Blackout, featuring up to 100 players in each match. Many characters from this and other Black Ops titles can be used as the character model of the player in this mode.
8. Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Redemption 2, meanwhile, is a 2018 survival game developed and published by Rockstar Games, the makers of the Grand Theft Auto game series. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the third entry in the Red Dead series and a prequel to the 2010 game Red Dead Redemption.
The story is set in 1899 and follows the exploits of outlaw Arthur Morgan, a Van der Linde gang member, in a fictionalized representation of the Midwestern, Western, and Southern United States. He must deal with the decline of the Wild West while attempting to survive against government institutions, rival gangs, and other enemies.
There is also a game epilogue that follows fellow gang member John Marston, the protagonist in Red Dead Redemption.
9. Overwatch
Notice that many of the games on this list so far are action games. Overwatch is a 2016 team-based multiplayer first-person shooter game published and developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
Described as a “hero shooter,” Overwatch assigns players into two teams of six, wherein each player selects from an extensive roster of characters, known as “heroes,” with unique capabilities. Teams work to complete map-specific objectives within a limited period.
10. Roblox
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that Roblox Corporation has developed. The game allows users to program and play games created by other users. Sounds interesting, right? Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and launched in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua.
Here are the rest of the top 25 most popular video games right now:
11. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
12. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
13. League Of Legends
14. Super Mario Odyssey
15. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
16. The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
17. God Of War
18. Mortal Kombat 11
19. NBA 2K20
20. Madden NFL 20
21. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
22. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!
23. Rocket League
24. Far Cry 5
25. DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT
