Degrees of Separation
Degrees of Separation is an Adventure, Casual, Puzzle, Side-Scrolling, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game offered by Moondrop. During the gameplay, the player assumes the role of one protagonist from the two available, named Ember or Rime, in single-player mode. In local multiplayer mode, two players can take the role of both the protagonists.
Both characters can solve obstacles of the puzzle environment with the mutual understandings between them, and their cooperation will bring them closer or apart them depends upon the decision of the players. While playing the game, both the players can judge their understandings and the power of convincing each other.
The game offers a mixture of cold and hot environments for the players, and during the gameplay, the characters can run, jump, dodge, and climb up to overcome obstacles in the game. One character is the male protagonist, and the other is the female protagonist, where the player is set free to select the desired character.
As the player gets advance, the difficulty becomes more difficult for the player, and he faces more complex puzzles. Utilizing the powers and methodology of understanding each other, the players can gain success and complete the required mission. The game has core features, such as Two Protagonists, Multiple Puzzles, Mutual Understandings, and Dual-mode Environment.
#1 Gris
Gris is a superb Adventure, Platform, and Single-player video game by Nomanda Studio. It has a single-player mode and takes place in the gorgeous world where the player takes on a female protagonist, a nameless protagonist, who finds herself in the palm of a crumbling statue of a woman. As she struggles to sing out, she speedily becomes choked up, and the hands of the statue crumble, dropping the girl to the colorless environment. After landing, she continues walking forward to find a number of strange structures that look to be powered by a strange point of light. While exploring, the player can gather these lights to obtain new abilities, including turning into a block of stone, to create new ways, and more. The game provides the player fantastic world free of frustration, danger, and death. The player explores the beautifully crafted world brought to life with detailed animation, delicate art, and an elegant original score. Gris includes prominent features such as Relaxing Music, Detailed World, Exploration Gameplay, a compelling Storyline, etc. Check it out, and embark on a journey to find color and hope.
#2 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.
#3 Another Sight
Another Sight is an Adventure, Steampunk, Puzzle, and Single-player video game created by Lunar Great Wall Studios and published by Fish Eagle. The game takes the player on a surreal fantasy adventure with elements of steampunk takes place in London in the past year 1899. With an emphasis on character and culture, the game mainly revolves around the emotional development of the relationship between two protagonists such as Kit and Hodge. During the navigation, they meet in the darkest construction site in London, after Kit loses her sight when the tunnel collapses. Both characters join each other for an adventure into an unexpected, with Hodge struggling to prove himself to be a faithful companion. The gameplay is superb, and the player moves across the world from a side-scroll perspective. While navigating the world, the player will experience the surreal world with superb animation effects. Thief Simulator includes prominent features such as Narrative-driven Gameplay, an Emotional Adventure, and more.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 The Silent Age
The Silent Age is a Puzzle, Point and Click Puzzle Adventure and Indie video game set in the year 1972 in a fictional game world. The game features the protagonist Joe who tries to save the world from extinction by time traveling to different locations in past and future. Your task is to set yourself up into the character of Joe, solve puzzles in a point-and-click type of environment, go to different adventures and manipulate different realities in time and complete the game objectives. The game provides with a marvelously well-written story-line, realistic 3D graphics and easy user interface with easy touch controls and quite engaging and involving game-play. The Silent Age is available to play on PC, Mac, Steam, Android, iOS and Kindle Fire platforms.
#11 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.
#12 DeadCore
DeadCore, developed by 5 Bit Games is a First-Person Action-Adventure and Physics-Based Puzzle-Platform video game set in an alternate reality. The game lets the players traverse through a number of environmental hazards by using their special abilities and eliminate the enemies by the use of futuristic weapons and skills. The basic objective of the game is to reach to the top of a revolutionary Tower and finish the level. DeadCore is one of the best games of this specific genre and is a great source of entertainment for all the enthusiasts. With a number of challenging puzzles, a lot of different environments to go through, Unique skills and abilities to master, DearCore offers beautifully created visuals, objective-based story and an engaging game-play to enjoy.
#13 Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest is a marvelous new Action-Adventure, RPG and Puzzle-Platformer video game by Microsoft Studios. The game takes you to an amazing 2D world where you control Ori The Spirit who eliminates enemies using the sacred spirit flames. With amazingly challenging puzzles, exploration, and epic enemy encounters, Ori gets tasked by the Spirit tree to accompany Sein The Guide, eliminate the forces of evil and restore the forest. Ori and the Blind Forest offers great visuals, addictive game-play and a wonderful story to follow. Ori and the Blind Forest is one of the newest and best Action-Adventure, puzzle-Platform video games that offer unique RPG elements to boost up the level of entertainment you’ll have while playing the game, so do try it out.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 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.
#17 Windosill
Windosill is a Brilliant Puzzle-Platform and Adventure video game developed by Vectorpark. The game offers a fantastic Physics-driven game-play and takes you to a world built with multiple paintings and drags you deeply into the realm of twisted wonders. Everything you’ll see in the game world, is tangible and can be touched, bent or twisted. With eleven rooms all designed as giant paintings and filled with books, giant birds and monsters, Windosill tasks you to find all the hidden cubes, interact with objects, solve some complex puzzles and finish the level to move to the next one. With a very interesting and twisted game-play, objective-based story-line and beautifully haunted visuals, Windosill is a fantastic Adventure and puzzle-Platform video game to play.
#18 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.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 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.
#22 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.
#23 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.
#24 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.
#25 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.
#26 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.
#27 Mark of the Ninja: Remastered
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered is a Side-Scrolling, Action, Stealth, and Single-player video game for multiple platforms developed by Klei Entertainment. During the game, the player, as an unnamed ninja protagonist, has to sneak through different environments and don’t allow the guards to have a glance at the character by performing silent moves.
The game has plenty of levels partitioned into areas of light and darkness. As the player passes within a certain distance of an enemy, his face becomes spotted to the foe, and running sound also gives the character’s location.
The player gets points for performing unique actions, for example, quiet kills, passing by foes without making a noise, and threatening opponents to make them fall into disorder. The player must remain undetected to stay in action. If the foes detect the player, they will start searching for a limited period and then disappears. The enemies respond to each other by the sound of actions made by the player.
#28 Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Lost Words: Beyond the Page is an Adventure, Casual, Side-Scrolling, and Single-player video game developed by Triple Topping for Windows. It is a puzzle game set between the pages of the diary and the fantastic world where the player has to run on and interact with words to complete puzzles.
The game features two separate stories, such as one set in the real world, and another one within the pages of a book. The game comes up with plenty of words where each word becomes a platform for a tiny girl to leap from. The player will come to explore more secrets from the virtual world to the real world.
As the player progresses, he discovers more words and utilizes them to solve a variety of puzzles. Jump into the adventure, find lost words, solve puzzles, and experience both worlds. The core features of the game are Two Worlds, Lost Words, Challenging Puzzles, and Side-Scrolling Gameplay.
#29 Forgotton Anne
Forgotton Anne is an Adventure, Platform, and Single-player video game created by ThroughLine Games and published by Square Enix Collective. The game takes place in the fictional world where lost objects come to life, hoping one day they might be returned to the real world. In the game, the player commands the player named as Anne, an Enforcer who struggles to keep order in the forgotten environment, who embarks to extinguish a rebellion that could fend off her master named Banku and herself from returning to the world. The game lets the player imagine a beautiful place where everything including letters, old toys, socks, etc. are lost. The land of the game serves as the magical land populated by strange objects and creatures. There are several levels, and the player needs to complete each one to earn the points. Forgotton Anne includes prominent features such as Puzzle-solving Gameplay, Power of Amina, Forgotten Lands, Dialogue System, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#30 ICEY
ICEY is an RPG, Side-Scrolling, and Single-player video game developed by X.D. Network for multiple platforms. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a female protagonist whose main task is to confront before a villain Judas and his robots. The player has to help the protagonist in stopping the antagonist from distorting the world.
The player battles against different little and huge mechanical robots, and if the player wanders outside the commands assigned by the narrator, he becomes baffled and furious. The player utilizes a single weapon but can perform fast combos with the blade of the weapon.
The game allows the player to top off his shield meter by terminating foes with a rare kill move. Different skills are there where each one has a unique damaging ability and style. The significant features of the game are Different Skills, Shield Meter, Combos, Several Robots, Giant Antagonist, and Fighting Gameplay.