The Best Cover Games

Update, : OU added at rank #4.
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HUNTDOWN (2020)

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Android IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

Challenge yourself in this hard-boiled arcade shooter. Choose from 3 different bounty hunters in this classic arcade setup. Run, jump and take cover in a futuristic city environment. Haul bullets at your enemies with a great variety of guns. Keep your cool while planning your advancement as objects around you shatter into pieces from explosions and bullets that whistle over your head. Kill the minions, then go after their leaders. Collect your bounty. Make a healthy living — by making living unhealthy.


  • cooperative
  • boss-fight
  • cover
  • shooter
  • retro
  • boss
  • cyberpunk
  • arcade
  • hockey
  • pixel
  • action
  • platform
  • dystopian
  • 2d
  • classic

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Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (2022)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is an action-adventure game set in an epic globe-trotting journey. You will control Nathan Drake, a thief, and his brother Sam as they search for the legendary pirate treasure. Join Chole Frazer on her quest to track down the jeweled tusk of Shiva's son and enjoy the same quality of story, characters, action, and general intrigue that the series is known for delivering.

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Pros:
  • Epic adventure with real emotions
  • Fun melee
  • Stealth
  • And heavy action combat
  • Excellent narrative driven gameplay
  • Great puzzle-solving mechanics
  • Beautiful visuals with ultra settings
Cons:
  • Hardware intensive
  • Aim assist or manual aiming required for shooting
  • Puzzles can be challenging

  • stealth
  • adventure
  • shooter
  • cover
  • action-adventure
  • puzzle
  • platform
  • story
  • action
  • combat
  • narrative
  • fps
  • third-person
  • tps
  • controller-support

3

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (2022)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga is the very best Lego game to date, and one of the best Star Wars games ever made. With 45 levels and 140 side missions, you can explore more than 20 planets while engaging in lightsaber combat, third-person shooting, and melee combat. Enjoy a combination of classic slapstick humour, brilliant sight gags and great voice acting as you collect 731 puzzles, 135 level challenges, and 380 characters.


Pros:
  • Revamped formula with new camera angle
  • Lightsaber combat better than ever
  • Third-person shooting feels great
  • Huge amount of things to do
  • Hilarious writing
  • Open areas full of secrets to explore
Cons:
  • Melee combat could be better
  • Lack of levels dedicated to spin-off films such as Rogue One or Solo
  • The Mandalorian only represented by a playable character

  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • cover
  • puzzle
  • combo
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • tps
  • exploration
  • split-screen
  • third-person
  • battle
  • sandbox
  • platform
  • fight

4

OU (2023)

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Xbox Series X stadia Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

"Between somewhere and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.

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  • shooter
  • cover
  • loot
  • cooperative
  • sci-fi
  • rpg
  • narrative

5

Aliens: Fireteam Elite (2021)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.


  • shooter
  • cooperative
  • aliens
  • cover
  • tps
  • third-person
  • survival
  • card
  • horror
  • fight
  • wave

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Mafia II Classic (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 4

Vito Scaletta has started to make a name for himself on the streets of Empire Bay as someone who can be trusted to get a job done. Together with his buddy Joe, he is working to prove himself to the Mafia, quickly escalating up the family ladder with crimes of larger reward, status and consequence… the life as a wise guy isn’t quite as...

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  • open-world
  • crime
  • cover
  • driving
  • remake
  • shooter
  • story
  • classic
  • third-person
  • stealth

7

Gears Tactics (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.


  • cover
  • squad
  • tactical
  • shooter
  • turn-based
  • strategy
  • tps
  • cooperative
  • battle
  • wave
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • war

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West of Dead (2020)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

West of Dead is an action-packed roguelike gothic western set in the ever-shifting landscape of Purgatory, Wyoming. You take on the role of William Mason, a gunslinging cowboy with a burning skull for a head, as you explore and battle your way through various enemies and obstacles. Equip yourself with an array of weapons like pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles and TNT to defeat your foes!


Pros:
  • Variety of weapons available to choose from
  • Punchy and vicious weaponry
  • Interesting storyline
  • Tight design
  • Ron Perlman's powerful narration
  • Automatic reloading of guns allows for faster paced combat
  • Procedurally generated levels encourage exploration
Cons:
  • Controls can be tricky to master at first
  • No free import option from previous games in series

  • rogue-like
  • twin-stick
  • cover
  • shooter
  • western

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Quantum Break (2016)

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Xbox One PC Windows

From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.


  • cover
  • tps
  • narrative
  • shooter
  • story
  • live-action
  • sci-fi
  • action
  • manipulation
  • time
  • platform
  • third-person
  • combat
  • villain
  • interactive

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Max Payne 3 (2012)

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Xbox 360 Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 3

No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. This complete edition of Max Payne 3 includes the complete original game and all previously released downloadable content.


  • cover
  • shooter
  • tps
  • multiplayer
  • action
  • narrative
  • story
  • graphic
  • noir
  • violent
  • bullet-time
  • bullet

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