Uncharted

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Naughty Dog left Jak and Daxter behind and invented the modern cinematic action-adventure. Nathan Drake, a wisecracking fortune hunter claiming descent from Sir Francis Drake, chases El Dorado across an uncharted island with journalist Elena Fisher and mentor Victor Sullivan. Cover shooting, climbing and set-piece storytelling all clicked here, and the trio at its centre carried the entire series.

The game that defined the PS3 blockbuster

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Widely regarded as one of the greatest games ever made. Drake hunts Marco Polo's lost fleet and the fabled Shambhala across Nepal and Tibet, opening on a train carriage dangling off a Himalayan cliff. Among Thieves nailed traversal, added competitive and co-op multiplayer, and won a stack of Game of the Year awards — it is still the benchmark the whole genre is measured against.

Over 100 Game of the Year awards

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Bend Studio's Vita launch title is a prequel set before Drake's Fortune, following a younger Nate into Central America on the trail of a lost Spanish expedition. It leaned hard on the Vita's touchscreen and rear panel for climbing, charcoal rubbings and photo puzzles, and remains the only mainline-adjacent Uncharted not made by Naughty Dog.

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Drake's Deception dug into Nate and Sully's past while chasing the lost city of Ubar through London, France, Syria and the Rub' al Khali desert. It is the most spectacle-driven entry of the PS3 era — a burning château, a cargo plane collapsing mid-flight, a cruise ship capsizing around you — with a hand-to-hand combat overhaul and a much deeper multiplayer suite.

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection

Bluepoint Games rebuilt the three PS3 campaigns for PS4 at 1080p and 60fps, with improved textures, lighting and controls, plus new difficulty modes and photo mode. Multiplayer was dropped to focus entirely on the single-player trilogy, and the collection became many players' first route into the series before A Thief's End landed.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Nate is pulled out of retirement by his presumed-dead brother Sam to chase pirate Henry Avery's treasure at Libertalia. A Thief's End is the series at its technical and emotional peak — wide semi-open Madagascar driving, grappling hook traversal, rope physics, and an ending that gives Nathan Drake a genuine, final goodbye rather than another cliffhanger.

Best-selling entry in the series

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Originally planned as story DLC, The Lost Legacy grew into a standalone adventure starring Chloe Frazer and Uncharted 4 antagonist Nadine Ross hunting the Tusk of Ganesh through India's Western Ghats. It is tighter than the mainline games, with the series' most open hub, a genuinely great buddy dynamic — and, as of today, the last Uncharted game ever released.

The last new Uncharted, nine years ago

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection

Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy remastered for PS5 with fidelity, performance and 120Hz modes, DualSense haptics and near-instant loading, then ported to PC by Iron Galaxy later that year — the first time Uncharted appeared on PC at all. Multiplayer was cut again, and it is the newest Uncharted release of any kind.