Darklings
Darklings is an Arcade, and Single-player Side-scroll video game for mobile devices developed and published by MildMania. It brings an exciting storyline, in which Darklings has stolen all the stars from the world which is brought darkness and essence of light. The game lets the player join Lum on an epic adventure to restore the light. During the gameplay, the player experience the unique gesture driven gameplay with Noire artwork. It comes with an endless adventure, and the game takes place in the magical worlds. There are a variety of levels, and each level has a set of objectives that the player must complete to advance through the game. To save the world, the player needs to save the world by retrieving the stars and purging the darklings. Using the customization, the player changes the appearance of his character with more than ten customizations. Darklings include prominent features such as Sweet Artwork, Forty Creatures, 10 Customizations, Epic Boss Fights, Tactical Strategy, Challenging Objectives, and more.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 Trine 2
Trine 2, developed by FrozenByte is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle Platform and Side-Scroller video game. This super addictive and engaging sequel to the famous Trine allows you to be anyone of the three main game characters of Thief, Wizard and Knight. Trine 2 lets you engage yourself into challenging platform puzzles in a world of mystery. You can go against your opponents by the use of different magical abilities and skills all collected by gaining the skill points. The game supports up to 3 players in co-operative mode and offers multiplayer feature in online gaming. With an expansion pack named as Trine 2: Goblin Menace, Trine 2 provides with a super thrilling and engaging game-play, a well written story-line and surreal graphic qualities. Trine 2 offers beautiful visuals and sounds, objective-based story-line and a challenging game-play to enjoy.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 Tembo The Badass Elephant
Tembo, The Badass Elephant, is a fun Side-Scrolling Platform video game by Sega. Released back in 2015, Tembo The Badass Elephant is available to play on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game allows the players to be an Elephant named as Tembo. Tembo has a good number of Special abilities, and he can smash through different types of structures and things and is bound on a mission to save the Metropolis named as Shell City from a massive Evil Army that goes by the name of “Phantom”. The Army fails to stop the destruction caused by the Phantom, so the General Krenman enlists Tembo as the Hero and the savior of the Metropolis. Tembo The Badass Elephant allows the players to get into the character of Tembo and Serve the nation with your ultimate Services. The players are tasked to obliterate the foes by engaging themselves into a fast-paced gameplay and by running, jumping and smashing their way through the hordes of enemies. Tembo, The Badass Elephant, offers an environment inspired by the top notch Sonic the Hedgehog video game and implements the elements from top ranking franchises such as Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong. With a remarkably addictive and immersive gameplay, beautiful 16-bit visuals and loads of other exciting things, Tembo The Badass Elephant is a fantastic Action and Platform video game to play and enjoy.
#9 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.
#10 Inside
Inside is an Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game created and published by Playdead. The game offers side-scroll elements and lets you get into the role of a young boy to dive into the game world. The game offers the similar gameplay like Limbo. In the game, your main goal is to explore the surreal environment, solve a series of challenging puzzles and earn points. The character can run, walk, climb, swim, and interact and use objects to overcome obstacles to progress in the game. After progressing in the game, the boy gets the ability to control the bodies of enemies to complete puzzles. According to the story, the red-shirted boy trapped in a strange city populated with zombie-like peoples, worms, and pigs. In the game, you must use farm equipment and animals to escape to the city. With the best mechanics, addictive and immersive gameplay, superb visuals and exciting story, Inside is the best game to play and enjoy.
#11 SpeedRunners
SpeedRunners is a Platform, Side-scroll, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created by DoubleDutch Games and published by tinyBuild. The game offers fast-paced runner gameplay played from side-scroll perspective. It takes place in the thrilling world and features various characters, from which the player can select his favorite one with unique abilities. The primary objective of the player is to run along his fellows or other players and struggle to beat them or eliminate them from the race to become the hero. The player will win the match when reaches at the end of the stage before anyone. There are numerous levels available with unique obstacles and environment. Grappling Hooks, Bombs, Rockets, and Spikes are prominent weapons that the player can use during the race for defeat his opponent. The player collects unique power-ups while competing against opponents, and can run, swing around, fire rockets and jump in his way through different levels to knock his friends out. SpeedRunners offer core features such as Four-player Platformer Competition, multiple Weapons, Upgrades, Online Multiplayer, Designed Maps, and more. Try it out.
#12 Leo’s Fortune
Leo’s Fortune is an Adventure, Platform, Puzzle and Single-player video game played from a side-scroll perspective developed by 1337 & Senri for multiple platforms. The game puts you in the role of the cute creatures and embarks on an adventure where you must find the thief who has stolen your gold. You can jump, explore and solve puzzles in your way through a variety of challenging levels to progress through the game. There are beautiful hand-crafted levels available with awesome graphics and a well-written story. Each level comes with its unique set of puzzles to solve, and the difficulties that you have to solve to move forward. Overcome obstacles, solve physics-based puzzles, and score the highest points to become the master. The game features unlockable achievements and enables you to unlock further levels using your points. Survive, Uncover the Mystery, Treacherous Platform Adventure, Twenty-four Level, etc. are prominent features in the game. Leo’s Fortune is an addictive puzzle game for those who love playing physics-based puzzle games.
#13 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.
#14 Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an Action, Side-scroll Platform, Single-player and Multiplayer Space Shooter video game created and published by Asteroid Base for cross-platform. You can play the game alone or with up to four players. Your job is to pilot a spaceship with a set of stations inside it. The station of the ship controls the engine, weapons, cannon, shield and the map. During the game, you can control the single avatar with a task to protect the ship from damage, maintain the balance and attack enemies to crush them. You will discover gift boxes while exploring the environment which consists of gems. The gems offer the new and enhanced power to the station. The game comprises up to four campaigns, and each campaign has four levels to complete and a boss fight. The task of the regular levels is to locate and save the assortment of abducted creatures including foxes, frogs, bunnies and more. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime includes core features such as Co-op Gameplay, Upgradeable Ships, Deep Challenge, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#15 Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (also known as Shantae: ½ Genie Hero) is an Adventure, Platform, Side-scroll and Single-player video game developed and published by WayForward Technologies for multiple platforms. It is the 4th title in the series of Shantae and serves as the first title to be designed for HD game platforms. Like previous titles, the player can take on the role of the protagonist named as Shantae, who is a half-genie and can use her hair as a weapon to attack foes. During the game, the player can obtain dances that enable her to transform into different forms and each form has its unique abilities that can access inaccessible areas. The game offers a new transformation such as monkey, elephant and a bat, a crab, a mouse, and more. The transformations can be upgraded with new abilities using the earned points. The game split into several stages and the player can replay each stage to obtain new items to progress through the game. New Relic System, Compelling Characters, Arcade-style Action Stages, Magical Attack, etc. are prominent features in the game. Try it out, if you want to battle against huge bosses.
#16 Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap
Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap is an Action-Adventure, Platform, Side-scroll and Single-player video game created by Lizardcube and published by DotEmu. The game serves as the remake of Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap, released in 1989, developed by Westone Bit Entertainment. It takes place after the events of Wonder Boy in Monster Land, where the player assumes the role of the adventurer, upon eliminating the Mecha Dragon, has become afflicted with curse transforming him into a Lizard-Man. According to the plot, the player must travel around the world and struggle to defeat all the dragons presented in the world to return to his original form. Like previous installment, the player can navigate different lands, smashing enemies to collect items such as fireballs and arrows, and currency which can be used to unlock or purchase new weapons. There are a variety of levels and each level has a set of objectives that the player has to accomplish at any cost. As the game proceed, it becomes difficult to play. Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap includes prominent features such as Three difficulty Levels, 8-bit Graphics, Unearth the Dark Secrets, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#17 Iconoclasts
Iconoclasts is an Action, Platform, and Single-player video game developed by Konjak and published by Bifrost Entertainment. The game mixes the 2D Platform with Metroidvania elements and involves the combination of fighting enemies, exploration, and solving complex puzzles using the tools of Robin. The game offers the plot that plays out as the player accomplishes levels. It takes place in the stunning world and emphasis on boss battles, and there are more than twenty bosses to fight. During the gameplay, the player can gain different tools more than the courses of the game and each with both puzzle-solving and combat functions. During the battle, the player uses the melee weapons and can use to grapple, turn bolts, and more. The player assumes the role of the protagonist, who lives in the land where the sinister, ruled by an unknown being called Mother, who has taken over the government. The player explores the world from a side-scroll perspective, the battle against enemies, and earn points to unlock further content. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, Iconoclasts is the wonderful game to play.
#18 Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is an Action, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game, created by Press Play and published by Microsoft Studios. It acts as the sequel to the previous title, Max and the Magic Maker, released in 2010 by the same developers. The storyline follows the protagonist named as Max, reaches home from his school one day and discovers his brother named Felix playing and smashing his beloved toys. After that, the protagonist starts to search online using the search engine for a way how to get rid of his young brother. Then, suddenly a mystery portal opens, and his brother disappear. It is the blend of physics-based and Puzzle-Platform elements and the game takes place in the stunning environment played from 2.5D perspective. There are seven chapters available as well as twenty challenging levels. All the levels in the game are linked to offer a single journey. In the game, the player can use the magic element to solve the complex puzzles to earn points. Other levels will be unlocked, as the player advances through it. With addictive features, immersive gameplay, and stunning visuals, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is the fascinating game to play.
#19 Forma.8
Forma.8 is an Adventure, Metroidvania and Single-player Action video game developed and published by MixedBag Srl. The game takes place in the huge world and offers a thrilling story revolves around the protagonist, who is stuck on the surface of the alien planet. As the protagonist, you must fulfil the requirements of the mission to save your life and find a way to escape. Explore the environment to find and restore the lost, but powerful energy resource before it’s too late. During the gameplay, you must solve dozens of mysteries, unlock power-ups, and progress in the adventure to earn points. During the gameplay, you can battle against deadly enemies and can face powerful bosses. It offers beautiful hand-drawn vector graphics and smooth 60FPS. Uncover the truth behind the scene and show off your abilities to become the master. Explore the dystopian land from a side-scroll perspective and immerse yourself in adventure experience. With the superb story, addictive gameplay and smooth controls, Forma.8 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#20 Unravel Two
Unravel Two developed by Coldwood Interactive and published by Electronic Arts, is a Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game for Multiple Platforms. The game is the sequel to Unravel, released in 2016 and it comes with improved graphics and controls. The storyline of the game revolves around two Yarns, small anthropomorphic creatures. Unlike the previous title, the game offers both Single-player and Multiplayer options, through local co-op only. Two Yarns can be controlled with either two or one players, which must work together to solve the challenging puzzles and explore the beautiful hand-crafted world. The game provides the player with a compelling storyline, taking place on an island contains a set of levels with increasing difficulty. The player can explore the world from a side-scroll perspective, run, jump, and solve tricky puzzles in his way to reach the end of each level. Unravel Two includes prominent features such as Beautiful Environment, Side-scroll Gameplay, Challenging Levels, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#21 Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is an Action, Platform, and Single-player video game developed by Game Atelier for multiple platforms. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Jin, who finds his Uncle Nabu turning everyone into animals by using magic across the kingdom.
The player has to confront before enemies and solves puzzles where he can gain six different animal forms. While attempting to save the kingdom, the player comes to the king’s court magician, Mysticat, who asks him to go on a quest and recover five animal orbs from across the kingdom to turn everyone normal.
The animals include a snake who can climb walls and enter small spaces, a dragon who can fly and spit fire projectiles, and a lion who can break the blocks. The player’s human form can dash him through obstacles. The core features of the game are Six Animals, Orbs, Characters, Upgrades, and Gemstones.