Affordable Space Adventures
Affordable Space Adventures is a Puzzle-based Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by knapNok Games for Nintendo Wii U. It takes place in the fantastic space environment where the game puts the player in control of a customer, who has purchased an Affordable Space Adventures from the company of UExplore. It starts with a video, described a recently discovered planet, which is ready to explore by the customers of the company, even promising to enable the customers to take control and colonize their piece of the planet. The game introduces the customer to the small craft, which he can use to explore the surface of the planet. A strange incident appears at the end of the video, where the protagonist finds that the mothership has been crashed in the hostile environment, leaving the player with no option but navigate the environment. During the game, the player controls the spaceship which can move in two dimensions and can interact with environment in few ways. Affordable Space Adventures comes with prominent features such as Experience the Trilling World, Two Level Difficulty (Tourist and Technical), Play with Friends, and more.
#1 Braid
Braid is a cool Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game Created by Hothead Games, Braid is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam, XBox 360 and PS3 and offers a number of cool upgrades and stuff. Although the gaming environment is quite similar to Super Mario but, the puzzles and game-play is quite like Limbo, Badland and Contre Jour etc. Another great feature included in the game is the ability of the player to reverse the time. For example. If you die in the game you can always reverse the time and save yourself whenever you reach the same point where you died previously. This feature alone attracts the players a lot. Six different playing scenarios, everyone with a unique set of challenging puzzles to solve and twisted structure of the game gets you to the whole new level of excitement and Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform gaming. Braid is a wonderful alternative to a lot of games of the same genre. Do give it a try and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#2 Badland
Badland is a Sandbox-style Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Frogmind specially designed for Android and iOS devices. The game is available to play on Windows Phone, Blackberry, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One and Steam (Windows) as well. The game allows you to be a dark jungle creature who struggles to get rid of the giant machine that is killing them all. The machine keeps on annihilating the jungle creatures and suck you up via a portal. After you wake up, you find yourself into a far part of the machine with no ways to get out. Your task is to simply start exploring and finding the ways to get out of the machine and to save your kin by destroying the it. In order to complete the objectives, you’ll have to solve some complex puzzles by the help of all the available objects and by manipulating them to make other useful objects and tools etc. Badland offers brilliant quality visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy.
#3 Wik and The Fable of Souls
Wik and The Fable of Souls is another great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Reflexive Entertainment. The game makes you a Frog-man who traverses through the game world by using his unique jumping skills and uses his long tongue as the grapple and movers over and under countless platforms. A friend named Slotham accompanies you on your amazing adventures and helps you solve some complex puzzles. Wik and The Fable of Soul tasks you to explore the world around you, capture as much Grubs as you can and deliver them to Slotham. In order to capture the Grubs, you must solve challenging and complex puzzles, and save the grubs from other creatures and insects. With a wonderfully engaging game-play, beautiful graphics and surreal environment, Wik and The Fable of Soul is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.
#4 Nihilumbra
Nihilumbra by Beautifun Games is a Physics-based, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist Born who walks, jumps on platforms and solves different puzzles in a virtual game world. As he further paces into the game, the protagonist encounters different enemies and defeats them by directly engaging in battles or by solving a number of different puzzles or by simply avoiding them. Born explores the game world divided into four parts with different objectives and puzzles to solve. Along with 3D graphics, a sleek look and different abilities the player possess, he modifies his appearance and the game world according to the environment and puzzles. Nihilumbra is available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS, Wii U and PlayStation Vita.
#5 Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP is a Graphic Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platformer and indie video game by Caypybara Games. The game revolves around the character of Scythia and allows you to be part of the two super amazing worlds, one is the real world and the other is a dream world. You can jump from one world to another according to your states. For example, if you want to visit the dream world, you must sleep and if you want to get back to the real world, you must wake up. You can explore a massive sandbox type game world and interact with objects, find out the passage ways or you can eat the Red Mushrooms to boost up your energy levels to continue your journey. You can go on different quests to find the Trigones by traveling through the passageways. The story of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery seems kind of twisted one but it will surely engage you in some exciting Puzzles and Adventures and you will enjoy this game for sure. Do try it out.
#6 Closure
Closure is a fantastic new Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game by Eyebrow Interactive that takes you to an amazingly eerie Dark World of Closure. Your task is to solve some of the most bizarre, mysterious and challenging puzzles, interact with and manipulate a lot of different objects, craft a number of things and complete the game objectives in order to clear the levels. The game lets you be a Spider like demonic creature and allows you to explore the game-world and set your course according to the stories of three Human Characters, travel through a mysterious world and eerie environments and enjoy. Closure offers great story, surreal visuals and an immersive game-play. Do try it out for an amazing Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform experience.
#7 Thomas Was Alone
Thomas Was Alone is a 2D Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle-Platformer and Indie video game by Mike Bithell. The game is set in an Anti-Gravity environment and is about the friendships, jumping and floating together. Your duty is to guide a cluster of boxes through a series of obstacles by using your unique Puzle solving skills and finish the levels. Thomas Was Alone features great background music, amazing voice over and quite addictive and fun filled game-play. The boxes in the game are basically World’s first AI’s and this game lets you program them and perform different tasks with them to see if they have perfected or there is any need of redesigning. Thomas Was Alone includes some great features such as over a 100 challenging and addictive game levels, more than 10 cool player characters, super challenging and quite engaging game-play etc. If you really like to play Puzzle-Platform games, you should not miss Thomas Was Alone. it’ll definitely entertain you good. Do try it out.
#8 Tormentum: Dark Sorrow
Tormentum: Dark Sorrow is an amazing Point-and-Click Action-Adventure and Puzzle Platform, indie video game set in a dreamlike environment filled with nightmarish hazards and other horrors. The game offers a Dark theme and a mix up of miserable and depressing characteristics in a world of fear and agony. The game kicks off with the protagonist locked up into a cage with almost no memory of what happened to him. The air ship that you are in lands in a castle and the castle and surrounding area becomes your new prison. Your task in the game is toexplore, interact with things and objects around you and find ways to get out of this castle and eventually from this whole horror filled world. To achieve the goals, you’ll have to solve challenging puzzles, find and collect different items scattered all around the castle and use them to get out. Tormentum: Dark Sorrow offers multiple language supports, great story, wonderful comic style visuals and an addictive and horror game-play to enjoy.
#9 Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse is an Episodic, Comic Style Point-and-Click Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by Revolution Software. The game take you to Paris and let’s choose your character from two choices, The Fearless Amarican George Stobbart and a French journalist named Nico Collard. Your task in the game is to find out the truth about a Stolen Painting, a Murder and a possible worldwide destruction by the hands of the Devil. You must solve this mysterious case by using your true detective skills, logic and unique abilities. To complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through a lot of challenges, puzzles and a lot of difficulties because the strings are attached to the Devil himself. The mystery of Surpent’s Curse must be solved in order to save the world from chaos and destruction. With wonderful 5 episodes, amazing adventures across Europe, hand drawn visuals, a well written story and an amazingly addictive game-play, Broken Sword 5: the Serpent’s Curse is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#10 The Night of the Rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit is an wonderful Point-and-Click Puzzle, Platform Action-Adventure and 3D video game by Daedalic Entertainment. The game revolves around a little boy named Jerry Hazelnutt who wants to be a skilled magician. Jerry finds out a Formula of creating the Carrot Flame, mixes in different magical ingredients and suddenly a travel bag appears. Jerry opens up the case and finds a Magic Hat, Wand and a big Rabbit named Marquise De Hoto from a parallel Universe. Jerry becomes his apprentice and Hoto takes him to a fairyland named Mousewood. Jerry finds out that this world is soon going to be attacked by the cunning and cruel magician Zaroff, Gathers up his courage and asks Marquise to help him. Your task is to help Jerry defeat Zaroof by the use of your magic skills and by solving a number of magical puzzles. The fate of the Mousewood residents lies totally in your hands, so you must save the poor creatures. The Night of the Rabbit lets you explore, interact with Mice and Moles, solve a number of challenging puzzles etc. in a wonderfully created environment. With great visuals, great story and an immersive game-play, The Night of the Rabbit is a great game to play and enjoy.
#11 Snapshot
Snapshot, developed by Retro Affect is an Action-Adventure, Side Scrolling and indie Puzzle-Platform video game. The story of the game revolves around a lonely Robot wandering in an abandoned virtual world. The only object of the game is to solve different platform puzzles and make pictures of your great adventure. With the help of the camera, you can add or remove any part of the game world to solve the puzzles. You can achieve game rewards by collecting all the stars in a game level and complete the level to gain skill points that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. A game level completed in provided game time and the images captured are responsible for your game rankings so you must complete a task in not more than the given time. Snapshot offers a great fun filled game-play, a good story to follow, amazing 2D graphics, beautiful sceneries and game music.
#12 Vessel
Vessel, is a super exciting and addictive Physics-Based Action-Adventure and Steampunk themed Puzzle-Platform video game by Strange Loop Games. The story of the game revolves around a young, gifted and talented inventor named Arkwright. Game kicks off with the achievement of his new invention called Fluro. Fluro got produced in huge numbers and distributed all around the world. After some time the Fluro all around the world became self-aware and a widespread devastation occurred. As the inventor of Fluro it is now your duty to get to the bottom of why all of this happened. In order to fix the machines around the world you must start your journey. A really great gaming experience, graphics and a feeling like Rayman Legends makes it more awesome. You’ll defiantly enjoy it. Do try it out.
#13 Capsized
Capsized is another marvel of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platforming gaming. The game offers intense action and exploration-based game-play in which your task is to be a Space traveler, leave your crashed ship and go on exploring a totally unknown planet, travel through amazingly challenging puzzles and platforms, fight against the vicious alien enemies, survive, save your crew and escape after repairing your ship. The inclusion of a jetpack to your inventory makes this game even more engaging as it helps you evade enemies and other hazards and lets you travel from one point to another speedily as well. With a brilliant Sci-Fi setting, eye catching visuals and a skirmishing and hardcore action-packed game-play, Capsized is a great new Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.
#14 BlackHole
BlackHole is an amazingly addictive Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by FiolaSoft Studio that offers brilliant Animated 2D Visuals, well written story and an engaging game-play that immerses you with the game-play. BlackHole lets you be a Hero, explore a wonderful world around, go through a series of platforms and find out the secrets and solve some of the most talked about mysteries. The game actually kicks off when your ship gets stuck in BlackHole and crashes on a planet-like object named as Entity. Your task is to accompany your AI companion Auriel, start exploring the Entity, fight off the enemy aliens, survive, save the knocked out crew and eventually repair the ship with collected parts and escape. With amazingly addictive agme-play, beautiful visuals and sounds etc, BlackHole is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game to play.
#15 Limbo
Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.
#16 Botanicula
Botanicula, by Amanita Design is an Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platformer video game. The story of the game revolves around five Tree Creatures friends who started their journey to save the last Seed from the Evil Parasites. The Seed is the only hope of saving their tree home. You can choose any character from the five tree creature friends and act as the story of the game suggests. You must ravel against the evil parasites and bring back the seed of life. Botanicula is an amazingly beautiful game of this genre that can be played with friends, family and partners. Some great features of this marvelous game are! More than 150 different game worlds to explore, hundreds of humorous animations, a lot of hidden bonuses, great music and voice over etc. With superbly created 3D graphics and great story and all of the amazing stuff, this game will definitely provide you with a lot of fun filled hours of gaming.
#17 World of Goo
World of Goo is a beautiful Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by 2DBoy. This wonderful Mix up of Indie, Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and Point and Click elements allows you to build massive structures with nothing but Goo Balls. The game offers five main chapters all filled up with challenging levels, with unique music, graphic themes and a totally unique environment. The amazing multiplayer feature allows the players from around the world to build amazing towers using goo balls and enjoy competing against each other. With a super engaging game-play, cool visuals and sounds etc., World of Goo is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. If you haven’t played it yet, you should definitely try it out. It’ll make you an addict.
#18 Tulpa
Tulpa is a brilliant new challenging Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer Video game by Encryptique. The game provides with a surreal game-play in which you’ll have to travel through a haunted world with a girl named Olivia as her soul mate Tulpa. Your tasks are to explore the game world filled with mysterious, bizarre and deadly entities, solve some of the most challenging puzzles and riddles, interact with objects and go through a series of amazing obstacles in order to complete the game objectives. Tupla with amazing story-line, great visuals and an immersive game-play, is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.
#19 Little Inferno
Little Inferno, developed and published by Tomorrow Corporation is a First-person sandbox Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. Little Inferno takes place in a freezing cold game world in which the protagonist possesses Little Inferno, a fireplace. He uses the fireplace to burn different appliances and toys to keep him warm from the cold. Every burned object provides with money and the player uses the collective amount to buy more objects to burn. In the game, different combinations of objects provide with different amounts of money so the player combines the objects by solving different puzzles and makes new objects that when burnt, allow the player to get more money and warmth. By using the drag and drop interface, player combines different objects to burn. With HD graphics and amazingly easy user controls, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play, Little inferno is available to play on multiple platforms such as Windows, Nintendo Wii U, Mac OS X, iOS and Android.
#20 Waking Mars
Waking Mars proves to be a wonderful game that truly offers a brilliantly addictive and quite immersive gameplay and a great story as well. being one of the most played and well liked Action-Adventure and Puzzle Platform video game, Waking Mars takes you to the planet Mars in the year 2097 when after the discovery of life, the first human mission gets trapped into a system of caves. In order to survive the only option seems to be adopting the alien ecosystem, so you must start acting like aliens (Martians), explore the planet, fight off the enemies, survive and save the crew. To explore the planet, Waking Mars lets you use Jetpacks and to fight off the aliens, it allows you to use your tactics and weapons when needed. You must also master the behaviors of different creatures and learn the ways to be part of a breathing ecosystem, discover the secrets, collect the items and finally get out of the planet. With a an amazingly addictive open ended game-play, super cool visuals and sounds, Waking Mars is a fantastic new Action-Adventure and Puzzle Platform video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try if you haven’t played this marvel yet.
#21 Child of Light
Child of Light by Ubisoft Montreal is a marvelous Action-Adventure, Indie and Puzzle-Platform video game that tells the story of a young girl named Aurora who in the year 1895 awakens on the lands of Lemuria. After waking up she finds out that she is a long way from home, starts off her journey to her home but soon realizes that in order to reach home she’ll have to go through a Dark world filled with Dark Creatures of the evil queen of the Night. You are required to get into the role of Aurora, fight off all the Dark Creatures, Defeat the Queen of Night and free the Sun in order to bring light to the realm and finally reach home. Child of Light offers a great story filled with wonders, surreal visuals and sounds and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy. If you really want to play a really good game of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform genres, Child of Light is best for you. It offers a brilliantly immersive gameplay, a well-written story and a lot of other great things to enjoy.
#22 Deadlight
Deadlight by Tequila Works is a 2.5D Side-Scrolling, Puzzle-Platform video game packed with Horror and Survival elements. The game takes you back in time and leaves you in the City of Seattle, USA, tasks you to be the protagonist Randall Wayne, a long time Park Ranger who struggles to find his missing Family after a deadly Zombie Apocalypse. According to the story, Wayne goes through a number of different environments, solving challenging Puzzles and avoiding the Zombies termed as “Shadows”. In order to survive and find his family, Wayne must not be seen by the zombies. If you are a fan of games like Deadlight, you’ll know that this game is one amazing piece of art. Inclusion of the shooting and adventure elements makes this game even more engaging and quite fun to play. Deadlight offers brilliant visual details, a Dark theme, amazingly involving gameplay and a very well-written storyline. Do try it out, it’s fun to play.
#23 Never Alone
Never Alone is a Single Player, Local Co-operative, Atmospheric Puzzle-Platform video game by Upper One Games. The game offers a game-play divided into 8 chapters and allows you to be an Alaskan Eskimo girl named as Nuna who along with her Companion, an Arctic Fox follows the stories in every chapter and completes various and challenging puzzles. Never Alone lets you swap between the two characters (Nuna and Fox) according to the puzzles in front of you and lets you pick different objects, solve puzzles and restore the balance in the core of Eternal Blizzard. Exploration element of the game lets you explore the game world, interact with objects and solve various puzzles based on physics and environmental wonders. Never Alone lets you use Bola, a special weapon made with weights and interconnected cords to smash into closed areas and open them up, get into new environments and enjoy immersing yourself into an amazingly addictive and quite engaging gameplay. Never Alone offers a story deeply inspired by Alaskan Folklore, that includes sub stories such as Blizzard man, The Little People, Manslayer, The Rolling Heads, The Sky People etc. Try it out and see if you can survive in harsh physical environments and can solve the twisted puzzles.
#24 Machinarium
Machinarium is a wonderful Point and Click Puzzle and Graphic Adventure video game by Amanita Design. The basic objective of the game is to solve a series of challenging puzzles and brain teasers by the use of your intuition and puzzle solving skills. Machinarium offers a Unique Story, a challenging game-play along with best visuals. According to the storyline, your task in the game is to solve a number of challenging puzzles, go through a series of obstacles, use your wit and Point and Click skills to get out of difficult situations and enjoy immersing yourself into a gameplay in which every thing is linked by an Overworld. Machinarium offers a dialogue based gameplay and allows you to interact with the written statements in order to perform the tasks and keep on playing until you are finished with all of the exciting game levels. With an amazing two-tier hint system, walkthroughs, loads of mini games, beautiful visuals, a truly very well written storyline and exciting gameplay, Machinarium is a fun Point and Click Puzzle-platform video game to play and enjoy.
#25 Contrast
Contrast, as it tells by the name, is a wonderful Action, Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform video game that lets you jump in to the two worlds (Real and Shadow) in blink of an eye. The game is set in two different worlds, one is realistic 3D world and the other is a 2D Shadowy world. In the times of 1920’s, your task is to jump into the play, get into the character of a young girl named Didi, and use your special powers to dreamscape from one realistic world to another shadowy world. Both of the worlds are connected by an unknown force and you are required to manipulate the laws, move to worlds and engage yourself into epic Physics-based puzzles, solve them and complete the story. It allows you to manipulate the light sources, make shadows and go through an immense amount of obstacles to complete the objectives of the game. With an ability to shift whenever you want, crafting abilities, amazingly challenging puzzles, exploration on a large scale and easy controls, Contrast offers a dreamlike film-noir game-play, amazing story-line and beautiful visuals to enjoy. Do try it out, it’ll definitely entertain you well.
#26 Trine
Trine is a Single and Multiplayer Side-scrolling Action and Platform Puzzle video game by Frozenbyte. The game takes the players back to a medieval setting and allows them to control multiple characters such as a Thief, a Knight, and a Wizard. All the three characters are able to battle against the enemies using their special abilities and they can also solve loads of Environmental Puzzles. Trine offers a Multiplayer Co-operative mode as well in witch multiple players can control a number of characters simultaneously and solve the puzzles. According to the storyline, players are tasked to traverse through a forsaken and badly ruined Kingdom that after the demise of the King, plunges into the worst political turmoil. With the kingdom in ruins and weak at the borders, an Undead Army finds the situation in its favor and attacks the kingdom. The undead menace pushes all the souls out of the Kingdom but the ones with enough courage and will to defend their homeland. The destiny makes it happen and the Trio meets in a situation that longs for their help to save the realm. Zoya the Thief, Amadeus the Wizard, and Pontius the Knight are forced into a trio of the ultimate saviors by the Nature and the story takes a beautiful turn. The players are tasked to control all three of the characters and start off the journey to save the Kingdom by solving all the enchanting puzzles, and by defeating the Undead Army. Trine offers beautiful graphics, addictive gameplay and all the fantastic Puzzles to solve that definitely challenge the players’ abilities. So are you ready to get into the world of Trine?
#27 Feist
Feist is a wonderful 2D Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Finji. The game takes you to a wonderful setting of a Dark Forest, Hazardous Mountains and Dark Caves where you are destined to follow the giant creatures in order to complete the game objectives. In an environment where everything wants to kill you, you must survive by using your wit and platforming experience. Go through a number of obstacles, solve challenging puzzle and use the objects to throw at the beasts, run, duck and jump to survive the enemy attacks, you must reach to your goals instead of getting killed and complete the level. Feist offers a game-play deeply inspired by Limbo and it will definitely leave you spellbound with all the surreal background music and stuff. Try it out as and you’ll definitely enjoy every bit of this brilliant game.
#28 Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures
Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures is a wonderfully addictive and a Fantastic Adventure-based Run ‘n’ Gun plus Puzzle-Platform video game. It offers amazing paper and card visuals and takes you to a world where everything is built using paper and card. The game offers Stick Figure characters and tasks you to jump on rooftops, fly in the air, run between pirate ships wielding a sharp sword or race in four wheeled buggies on moon, kill your enemies and enjoy an amazing combination of multi-genre aesthetics in one place. Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures allows you to immerse yourself into epic Local Co-operative game play, team up with 3 or four players, traverse through the world, solve some challenging puzzles and fight in epic team based or Duels to defeat the enemies and enjoy your time playing this marvelous game. With a variety of different characters, good story, beautifully created visuals and an engaging game-play, Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures is a fun game to play.