12 Minutes
12 Minutes is an Adventure, Simulation, and Single-player video game developed by Annapurna Interactive Entertainment for Windows. It takes place in a small apartment having two people, and the player has to play the game for the 12-minute cycle and solve a mystery. While solving the puzzle and roaming around the apartment, the player views the environment from a top-down perspective.
A man and his wife are living in an apartment where the player controls the husband and can perform various actions. The man has to come to know that his wife is pregnant, but a police officer arrives and accuses the wife of murdering his father. The player has to take action to prevent her arrest or find evidence of her innocence in 12 minutes.
If the player gets failed, the game restarts. The game has multiple outcomes, and it all depends on the collected information about the lady’s suspect. Join the adventure, collect shreds of evidence, struggle to make her innocence, and repeatedly play to bring the truth to light.
#1 The Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable is one wonderful First-person, Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic video game like Gone Home. The game allows you to be “Stanley” and lets you choose between your actions either to follow the story or not to follow the story, have a choice or don’t have a choice, act as Stanley or simply don’t act as Stanley, it totally depends on you. This twisted game allows you to explore a strange world, buildings etc. and slowly find out the meanings of almost everything, solve quenching puzzles and be part of a strange strange world. With awesomely engaging story and loads of new content, amazing visual details and background music, voice over etc., and a brilliantly immersive game-play, The Stanley Parable is a wonderful game to play.
#2 Doors
Doors is an Adventure, Puzzle, Horror, and Single-player Strategy game developed and published by Calvin Weibel. The game takes place in the breathtaking strange world where you can assume the role of the protagonist. You must traverse a mysterious world from the first-person perspective to find the bacon. The world is full of hardcore puzzles, and a variety of levels. Each level contains multiple doors, some of them leads to bacon, while other doors result in death. Explore the strange world, find out where you are, and unearth the secret behind the scenes. The gameplay is inspired by The Stanley Parable, Limbo, and the Portal series. In the beginning, you will face two different doors such as red and blue, and you must select one of them to continue the game. If you choose the correct door, you will receive bacon and need to solve puzzles to earn points, but if you select the wrong door, you will face death. Doors offer core features such as Strange Environments, different Doors, mind-bending Puzzles, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#3 Proteus
Proteus is a great Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform and Exploration-based video game by Twisted Tree. The game takes you to an amazing dream-like world and leaves you on an island where you as the player will have to interact with objects, explore and solve some challenging puzzles in order to complete the game objectives. Proteus offers a procedurally generated game map and lets you experience traveling through the superbly designed valleys, ruins and a lot of other amazing wonders. With super fine graphics, amazing story and an immersive and engaging game-play, Proteus is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video games.
#4 Thirty Flights of Loving
Thirty Flights of Loving is a First-person Action-Adventure, Indie and Interactive-Fiction video game that offers a fun filled gameplay experience. This short story game lets you explore the world of Thirty Flights of Loving from a first-person perspective and witness an amazing combination of Exploration, Object Finding and Puzzle gaming elements altogether. You can be a gunslinger, an explorer or a normal being in the game world, interact with the objects, find clues, interact with the NPCs, eliminate criminals, wave a stick at the stray animals and enjoy being part of a mystical world where everything is puzzling and you are the one to solve that puzzles. With amazing 3D graphics, an involving story and an engaging game-play, Thirty Flights of Loving is quite fun to play and enjoy.
#5 Q.U.B.E
Q.U.B.E is a First-person Physics-based Puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Toxic Games in collaboration with Indie Fund for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Wii U, iOS and PlayStation. The game kicks off with the player waking up after some bizarre event and finds himself wearing gloves with the ability to get in contact with some special differently colored blocks fitted into the walls, ceilings, floors and stairs. Each and every block is differentiated by its specific quality. The player reaches to an unknown bunker and tries to solve bizarre puzzles by using the colored blocks. The protagonist, with the help of player arranges the blocks in different orders to solve the puzzles and when the puzzles get solved, he advances to the next bunker, solves another puzzle and the game carries on, on its course. Game-play of Q.U.B.E is quite appealing and engagingly addictive. You’ll definitely feel awesome playing this game.
#6 Kairo
Kairo is a great First-person Exploration, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that offers a unique experience. The game takes you to an amazing world of Kairo and tasks you to explore it, go through a series of abandoned monuments, find out ancient machinery and solve some complex puzzles to start it up and find the true purpose of Kairo and your existence and fulfill your destiny. Kairo offers an unimaginable experience and allows you to enjoy a brilliant combination of exploration and puzzle solving elements. With a strange environment, mind boggling puzzles, amazingly attractive environment, engaging background music, coolest ever visuals, immersive game-play and Oculus Rift Support, Kairo will definitely amaze you with all the good stuff it has to offer. Do try it out.