Parkour (also known as Free-running) is a type of video game where players aim to get from one point to another point in the challenging environment, without any equipment and in the most efficient and fastest way possible. Parkour element deals with vaulting, swimming, climbing, quadrupedal movement, rolling, and other exciting movements as deemed suitable for the environment and the situation. Assassin’s Creed, Mirror’s Edge, and InFamous video games are the best way to describe the Parkour element. In these games, players control the protagonist from either a first-person or a third-person perspective and explore the environment by performing exciting moves to reach their destination while climbing buildings, walking on walls, and superbly avoiding enemy attacks. Most of Parkour games take place in the open-world setting full of various structures that players can use to balance, jump, bounce, and more. Running toward a high wall, moving from the Position Hanging, Arm Jumps, Prevision Jumping, Vaulting over challenging Obstacles, etc. are prominent movements in Parkour video games.

13 Best Parkour Games for PS4

#1 Assassin’s Creed Syndicate

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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is an Action-Adventure, Stealth and Third-person Perspective video game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft. The game supports Single-player mode and serves as the 9th title in the series of Assassin’s Creed video game. The plot of the game takes place in the fictional history of the world and follows the struggle between Assassins, who battle against enemies for peace with liberty, and the Templars, who wants peace through order and chaos. The story takes place in Victorian ear London and focuses on twin assassins named as Evie Frye and Jacob as they explore the corridors of planned crime and struggle to take back the city from the Templar. It offers open-ended gameplay and enables the player freely roam the fictional London. During the gameplay, the player explores the wonderful landscapes from a third-person perspective and can navigate the land either or foot or by carriage. The game brings new travelling systems for the player and pure stealth and combat mechanics. In the game, the player control one of two lead protagonists such as Evie Frye and Jacob. The game deals with exploration, stealth, combat, and parkour elements. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

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#2 Titanfall 2

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Titanfall 2, the most anticipated game of the year 2016 is coming out in October 2016. This masterpiece is packed with all the ground shattering elements such as First-person Shooting, Stealth and Action, and it offers a brilliant multiplayer experience. The game mainly offers a similar gameplay as its predecessor but it includes a number of new features in the core gameplay. Titanfall 2 offers both single and multiplayer modes along with a Single-player campaign packed with all the ingenious twists, new characters and advanced battle mechs that you can pilot and reign hell over your enemies. The main fight is between the two main factions known as IMC and Militia and you are allowed to select anyone of them in the beginning, pilot your Battle Mechs, bring down everything that stands in your path and use sophisticated weaponry to a chaotic end. Unlike previous game, Titanfall 2 feature more advanced Titans, laced up with advanced and lethal weapons and armor easy of mobility. With a wonderful narrative, beautiful visuals and an immersive gameplay, Titanfall 2 offers a truly fantastic bond between man and the machine. Titanfall 2 can be Pre-Ordered on the game website.

#3 Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

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Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is an Action Role-playing, Third-person Perspective, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Monolith Productions. The game serves as the sequel to Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, released in 2014. The game starts the previous title’s narrative based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium and takes place after the events of The Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit. The game starts with the story of Talion and the elf lord’s spirit named as Celebrimbor, who shares the body of the protagonist, as they battle against Sauron. It offers open world environment played from a third-person view and cast you in the role of the protagonist who has unique natural athletic and combat skills, offering by the elf lord’s spirits. There are a variety of missions, and each mission contains a set of quests that you must complete at any cost using your parkour, stealth and combat abilities. The game features the hack and slash elements and lets you cut your foes into several pieces using your unique abilities and earn points. Middle-Earth: Shadow of War brings prominent features, highly detailed environment, advanced master, and more. Try it out.

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#4 Lightfield

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Lightfield offers Hyper Futuristic Racing gameplay with Parkour twist developed and published by Lost in the Garden for Xbox and PlayStation. The game takes place in the futuristic sci-fi environment where the player controls an anti-gravity ship to find the best omnidirectional way to the top. It supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and the game allows up to three players to compete against each other in Split-screen mode. During the gameplay, the player can manipulate the exciting world beyond the track boundaries and lose himself in the colourful environment and more. The player can explore the world from a third-person perspective, compete against friends in a variety of tracks while enjoying relaxing music. The ultimate task of the player is to cross the finish line before anyone to become the winner. Along the journey, the player can show off his parkour skills to impress his friends while avoiding challenging obstacles and other hurdles to reach the end of the track. It has three modes such as Time Trial, Race, and Exploration. Lightfield offers core features such as up to 4-player Split Screen mode, Stunning Surreal Futuristic Graphics, Energetic Electro Soundtrack, and more.

#5 Gemini: Heroes Reborn

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Gemini: Heroes Reborn is an Action-Adventure, Female Protagonist, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Time Manipulation and Parkour elements developed and published by Phosphor Games. The game deals with First-person Action elements and enables the player assumes the role of the female character named as Cassandra, who is twenty-year-old. According to the plot, the protagonist is a young woman and embark herself on an epic journey to find out incredible powers in the unique Universe and solve the tricky puzzles to uncover her past. During the gameplay, the player has to master his special powers like telekinesis and time shifting as she navigates the huge underground facility. In the game, she has to battle against enemies through a variety of levels and find out the secrets from her mysterious past. Along the journey, the player will discover the antagonist named as Trevor Mason, and he/she must effort to complete his special powers to defeat him. As the game advances, further challenging missions will be unlocked to explore. Gemini: Heroes Reborn offers core features such as Time Shift, Time Scout, TK Projectile, Open World and more.

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#6 ClusterTruck

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ClusterTruck is a First-person Platform, Parkour, and Single-player video set in the stunning environment developed by Landfall Games and published by tinyBuild. In the game, the player controls the character from a first-person perspective and struggle to jump onto the moving trucks, while avoiding obstacles and truck crashes and pile-ups. During the gameplay, the player can’t touch anything other than trucks, if the player touches other things or land on the surface, the game ends and the player needs to start the task from beginning. There are a series of stages with increasing difficulty. The game rewards the player with points based on how fast the player reaches to the goal and the style points’ number based on different tricks like jumping off the moving trucks. The player can use his earned points to purchase one of several abilities, such as double jump, boost of speed, and more. It offers the campaign mode, gradually get more and more challenging to play. Truck Cannon, the Grappling Hook, Time Control, etc. are unlockable new abilities. ClusterTruck offers core features such as Level Editor, Achievements, Relay System, Online Leaderboards, Campaign mode, and more.

#7 Dying Light

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Dying Light is a First-Person Action, RPG Open World and Horror-Survival Video game by Techland. The game revolves around the character of the protagonist an undercover agent who is tasked to infiltrate the city of Harran. The city is infested with the undead (Zombies) and your task is to stay alive, by the use of your Parkour skills, Unique Combat Techniques and advanced weaponry. Featuring a Zombie Apocalypse, Dying Light is one of the best game of this specific genre. If you are a hardcore fan of Apocalyptic and chaotic themes, you must be familiar Dying Light, because the game offers a true action and thrill filled gameplay that will definitely let you enjoy it big time. Dying Light offers Close combats against the enemies that you can also call the Melee Combats and it lets you use a number of tools as your melee weapons and allows yo to enjoy the deadly encounters from close. You must stay alive in order to complete the game objectives and to save the others depending on you. Dying Light offers a fantastic story and portrays it impressively enough to lets you immerse yourself into the gameplay and feel like being actually a part of the game world. With a great game setting, beautifully created game visuals, adrenaline pumping gameplay and Co-Op multiplayer game mode, Dying light is a great Action, RPG, horror and Survival video game to play and enjoy.

#8 Assassin’s Creed: Origins

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Assassin’s Creed: Origins is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Stealth element developed and published by Ubisoft. It is the 10th title in the series of Assassin’s Creed and serves as the successor to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate released in 2015. The plot takes place in the Ancient Egypt during the period of Ptolemaic and revolves around the fictional history of real-world events. The story of the game focuses on the centuries-long battle between the Order of the Ancients and the Brotherhood of Assassins. The Order of the Ancients wants peace through forceful imposition while the Brotherhood of Assassins wants peace by promoting the liberty. The player takes on the role of the protagonist and can explore the fictional landscapes from a third-person view. The ultimate task is to complete a variety of quests to progress through the story, earn experience points, and unlock new skills. He can freely roam the environment on horseback, foot, camel-back, boat and more. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Assassin’s Creed: Origins is the best game to play and enjoy.

#9 Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

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Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is the second in line and a part of the fantastic Action, Platform, and Parkour game series Mirror’s Edge. The game is actually a reboot of the original Mirror’s Edge video game and offers the same characters, locations and amazing parkour elements in a newly re-imagined fashion. The game lets you sneak into the guise of Faith once again and enjoy being a Freerunner and a Freedom Fighter at the same time. Traverse through the totalitarian City of Glass and enjoy the amazing parkour and action. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is basically a First-person Action and Adventure platformer video game that allows the player to control the character of Faith Connors, traverse through the City of Glass, Explore and perform Parkour Moves to complete various missions. Fighting the enemies is a whole different story as it involves amazing fighting skills and parkour at the same time. Unlike the previous Mirror’s Edge game, the combat is pretty much revamped as it is totally new and unique in so many different ways. There is no gun use in the game, and instead, players can focus on Faith’s Fighting, Running and Parkour skills and use these abilities as the primary weapons as well. Furthermore, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst allows the players to explore in the Free Roam mode, enjoy more freedom in traversal, select multiple paths for an objective completion. The player can also enjoy Campaigns in the game as well as Side Activities such as various types of races, time trials on different locations, solve environmental Puzzles and enjoy the game. With a grand narrative, amazingly addictive gameplay and all the Parkour fun, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is a great new Action, Platform and Parkour video game to play and enjoy.

#10 Valley

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Valley is an Action-Adventure, First-person Exploration, Parkour and Single-player video game set in the open environment developed by Blue Isle Studios. In the game, the player navigates the expansive world using the L.E.A.F. suit, a brutal exoskeleton that offers the speed and agility along with the ability to explore the death and life of living things. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist, who finds himself within a secluded valley. With the power of L.E.A.F. suit, the player can run, jump, and attack enemies his way through dangerous ruins, beautiful forests and the large environment. The world is explored through a first-person perspective, and the player can interact with environment and objectives to complete a series of tasks. During the gameplay, the player experience the unique twist on death, and the more the player die, the more the environment will die around the player. The player must enhance himself, upgrade his suit with new strengths and abilities. The world comprises charming creature, forest, ancient ruins, and dangerous enemies. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

#11 inFAMOUS First Light

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inFAMOUS First Light is a Standalone DLC (Downloadable Content) Pack Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by Sucker Punch Productions. The game puts the player in the role of the female protagonist named as Abigail Walker, a young woman who possesses superhuman powers. The plot takes place in the stunning world played from a third-person view. During the gameplay, the player uses her neon powers to take down enemies and travel the land while completing a variety of levels. The game focuses on the fictional version of Seattle and the prison known as Curdun Cay. It mixes the Open World, Action-Adventure, and Third-person elements. The player must complete levels, defeat foes, and accomplish the side missions to become the master. The player can fly in the air, jump from building to building, and navigate the city to reach the certain location. There are numerous missions available, and each mission needs a completion of certain objectives. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and detailed graphics, inFAMOUS First Light is the incredible game to play and enjoy.

#12 Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag

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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is an Action and Adventure, Stealth and Thirdperson Shooter video game developed by Ubisoft. Just like all of the games in Assassin’s Creed series, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is also set in a historical era. Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is the 6th and most recent addition to the series and the story of the game revolves around the family of the Assassin’s Creed 3 protagonist. According to the storyline, The game focuses on centuries old struggle between the Assassins and Templars. The Assassins fight for peace with a free will and the Templars believe in peace through Control and that is what is the root cause of conflicts between the two most powerful factions of the time. Set in the 21st century’s Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag lets you be an Abstergo Agent and relive the events of 18th Century that dates back to the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, follow the footsteps of a notoriously dangerous and Heroic pirate Edward kenway, The Grand father to the Father and Grandfather to the Protagonists of Assassin’s Creed III, Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhake:ton, who both were part of the massive conflicts between the Assassin’s and Templars. Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag offers a bit of different gameplay and mechanics as compared to the previous games in the series and allows you to focus on Ship-based Exploration in a widely Open World, experience wonderful Third-person land-based Exploration, hack and Slash and Shooting elements, Melee Combats, and fantastic Stealth elements as well. The Multiplayer mode of the game is back and offers more versatility in gameplay in land-based exploration on the game map consisting of three main locations such as Nassau, Kingston and Havana, a number of Islands, Forts, Sunken Ships, etc. With a very interesting and well-written storyline, superbly realistic visuals and a gameplay that forces you to get involved into it, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is one amazing inclusion to the Assassin’s Creed Series.

#13 Prototype

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Prototype is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game by Activision. The game offers an Open World Environment, and it is set in Manhattan, USA. Prototype follows the character of an Amnesic and powerful Shapeshifter named as Alex Mercer, who sets out to fight against the Blacklight, a deadly plague that consumes the humanity of Individuals and converts them into altered ferocious monsters. Alex keeps on fighting the monsters as well as finding the truth about his lost past. Struggling hard against the monsters, Alex also comes into massive conflict with the US military and the operatives of Blackwatch, a Black operation force. With the freedom to roam free, Alex keeps on getting farther into the enemy territory and finding the secrets while the player controls the character of Alex Mercer. Prototype offers plenty of room for gameplay along with sophisticated weaponry, fantastic graphics quality, and excellent combat mechanics. Prototype provides the ability to experience the game in Sandbox style while playing it and enjoy it even more. With its amazingly addictive nature, Prototype is one of the most played and liked Action-Adventure, Stealth, and Shooter video game. It also has a sequel named as Prototype 2 that expands the story to further distances and enhances the great experience. Do try it out.