Games Like BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition

Contre Jour is a fantastic Physics-based Puzzle-Platform video game by the top Developer Chillingo. Available on a number of platforms such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone and blackberry, Contre Jour offers a Limbo and World of Goo inspired game-play and lets you control a one eyed blob named and Petit who moves via ropes slinging its way through a number of obstacles, environments and worlds. Your basic task is to use the blob to collect all the luminous objects in your way by solving some complex puzzles and by avoiding the obstacles. Contre Jour offers easy swipe and touch controls, brilliant visual details and an addictive game-play. Try it out and you’ll definitely love it.

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.

Funky Lab Rat is a marvelous new Side-Scrolling Puzzle-Platform video game by Hydravision Entertainment. The game features a Rat named as Diego who possesses some really strange powers and knows how to stop and rewind time, solve challenging puzzles and jumping beyond the limits. Once the Funky Lab Rat gets into a lab and get stuck there with no possible exit. Your task is to help the Rat try and get out the lab by jumping on the platforms, collecting the special pills and by solving the complex puzzles. In order to solve the puzzles, you can use your special ability to stop and rewind the time and when you reach a specific point in time, learn how the puzzle can be solved, return back and solve it. Rearranging the blocks, building new platforms and by jumping on them will definitely make you enjoy the game. Funky Lab Rat offers multiple game levels and with every passed level, the next game level gets hard, so you better be good at solving puzzles and stuff. With a number of different challenges, beautiful visuals, addictive game-play along with 84 game levels, 10 beautifully created game worlds and all the fun, Funky Lab Rat is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.

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.

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.

Little Big Planet 2 by Media Molecule is a fascinating Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game kicks off when a Huge inter-dimensional vacuum cleaner named Negativitron that sucks up all the inhabitants of Little Big Planet including our little sackboy. The leader of the Semi-Secret group Alliance comes to their rescue and the organization decides to fight against the Negativitron and defeat it before it devastates the whole Craftworld. You get into the character of Larry Da Vinci the leader of The Alliance and start your journey into the world of Craftworld against the mighty Negativitron. You must go through a series of platform oriented worlds and use your skills to solve the puzzles, defeat your enemies and rescue the Sackboy along with all the other inhabitants of Little Big Planet. Little Big Planet 2 with a marvelous story, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play, is an amazingly addictive and engaging puzzle video game to play and enjoy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.