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 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.
#2 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.
#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 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#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 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.
#9 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.