Aquaria
Aquaria is an Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling and 2D Puzzle-Platform video game similar to Child of Light. The game is set in a huge Underwater World full of wonders and ancient treasures. As the protagonist Naija, your task is to simply explore the underwater world, go through the darkest caves, interact with the objects in beautiful sun-lit oases in order to find your lost past, find the treasures hidden for centuries and battle against all the unforgiving and brutal underwater beasts and monsters and uncover the secrets of Aquaria. With an enchanted story, colorful world, surreal soundtracks and visuals, huge amount of creatures to interact with and an amazingly addictive game-play, Aquaria is one of the best games of this specific genre.
#1 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.
#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 Rayman Legends
Rayman Legends is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game created by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Casablanca. The game provides with a similar game-play to Rayman Origins and allows up to 4 players for a simultaneous game-play in which you can explore dungeons, haunted lands and fight against vampires, ghosts, and the living dead etc. Rayman Legends provides with 120 levels of pure awesomeness, additional Lums and Teensies. This super cool re-mastered version of the game actually is a war going on between the Teensies and their nightmares so you must get up from you 100 yearlong sleep, encounter the nightmares and the Dark Teensies and free the 10 princesses and the good Teensies. Rayman Legends is a great Action-Adventure, and Puzzle platformer video game, do try it out.
#4 Rayman Origins
Rayman Origins is a cool Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platrform video game that offers a Rayman Legends inspired game-play and mechanics and takes you to an amazing magical universe of Rayman Legends. The game offers 2D game-play and allows you to be the ultimate savior of the Glade of Dreams. The Darktoons have attacked on Glade of Realms and the council is looking for your help once more. You must team up with your best friend Globox and two other Wizards, embark on the journey to defeat the nefarious Darktoons and to restore peace and order into the Glade of Dreams. With great 2D visuals, a super engaging and addictive game-play, great story, multiplayer Co-Op, Epic boss and enemy fights etc. Rayman Origins is a thrillingly superb game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it.
#5 Little Big Planet
Little Big Planet (LBP) is a beautiful Action-Adventure and puzzle platform video game created by Media Molecule. This game is mostly based on user created content and that is why it is played, created and shared at the same time. Till date, this game can only be played on PlayStation alone or with your friends online on the same console. Little Big Planet consists of five games in the series. The game offers a number of fantastic characters including all the inhibitants of Litle Big Planet and themain character “The Sack Boy”. In order to complete the objectives, Little big Planet tasks you to traverse through amazing and beautiful environments, solve a number of challenging puzzles and enjoy beautifully embedded Platforming elements. Little Big Planet offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 Tomba!
Tomba! combines the elements of Side-scroll, and Platform. It is developed by Whoopee Camp and offers Single-player mode only. The game takes place in the group of Island based on the middle of the map. According to the story, the people of the Island lived with peace for many years. Suddenly, one day a group of evil pigs appeared and mutated the surrounding environment into fierce landscapes using their special powers. The pigs have stolen the bracelet of Tomba’s grandfather and a huge amount of gold. The game sets you on an epic adventure where you have to find a bangle and the gold that was stolen by pigs. Get into the role of the Tomba, explore the game world and complete each level using your abilities. Tomba can run, jump or climb on platforms. You can grab the enemies by jumping on the top and throwing them away. Score the highest points and challenge your friend to beat it. The game offers excellent mechanics, immersive mechanics, and superb visuals.
#9 Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender
Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender is a Fast-paced Action-Adventure, Platform and Arcade Retro Shooter (Run and Gun) video game similar to Broforce. The game offers a 2 player Co-Op gaming mode and allows you to blast your way through hordes of mechanical sea monsters in order to get to the Underwater Milk Mine. Once you have captured the Mine, you have to defend it against all the monsters and keep on drinking the Health Full Fat Milk. You must find all the Cats like you, pour them milk and make them stronger in order to fight off the enemies. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender is one of the coolest new alternatives to Broforce. Do try it out.
#10 Aqua Kitty UDX
Aqua Kitty UDX is an Action, Side-scroll, and Arcade video game developed and published by Tikipod for Nintendo Switch. The game offers both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and comes with enhanced mechanics and all-new epic Dreadnought mode. In the game, the player has his mighty team of kittens have overcome the challenge of water to drill down under the deep ocean seabed and struggle to begin extracting huge reverse of what seems to be naturally forming. The game lets the player get ready for the fast-paced submarine experience while defending the cute kittens from vicious mechanical sea creatures. The new modes take the player into the depth of the deep ocean. There the player must fly through and must effort to demolish the massive multi-screen enemy craft while saving imprisoned kittens. There are a series of levels, and the player needs to complete each one while scoring the best points to become the master. Explore the world from a side-scroll viewpoint while experiencing the arcade gameplay. With thrilling adventure, superb mechanics and smooth controls, Aqua Kitty UDX is the wonderful game to play.