Dex
Dex is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game created and published by Dreadlocks Ltd for Multiple Platforms. The game is set in an open world environment, and it mixes the side-scroll gameplay with Action and Role-playing elements, taking place in the cyberpunk-themed world. The main focus of the game is on exploration and non-linear gameplay like other Role-playing games. In the game, the player controls the main character named Dex, an eponymous character who receives a set of challenging quests from Non-player Characters. Each quest in the game has several possible solutions and it up to the player which one of them to select. The story centres on the protagonist, a young woman, who is living in Harbor Prime, a city ruled by corporations that are associated with a secret authority called the Complex. The player becomes a target of the Complex that summons and sends it assassins to her in order to save, but she is rescued by a hacker called Raycas who assists her to safety. There are several challenging levels, and each has a set of objectives that the player needs to complete.
#1 VVVVVV
VVVVVV is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that offers a similar game-play as Spelunky. This immersive game fixes you up into the character of Captain Viridian who gets lost in an alternative dimension while searching for five of his missing crew members. The game allows you to reverse gravity to avoid obstacles like Spikes, Greenish Ghosts and Deep pits etc. and carry on with your mission. With a heavy influence from Commodore 64, Super Meat Boy and Chiptune, VVVVVV offers vibrant visuals, an amazingly immersive and engaging game-play along with a wonderful story-line. For an amazing Super Meat Boy type experience, you must play this game, it fun.
#2 Adventures of Pip
Adventures of Pip takes the players to a beautiful world of Low and High-Resolution beings and offers a fantastic combination of 2D Side-scrolling and Action-Platform elements. Released back in the mid of 2015, Adventures of Pip is available to play on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Nintendo Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and iOS. According to the storyline, an unknown Evil turns the kingdom upside down, turns the King and Queen into Pixels and Abducts Princess Adeline. Pip gets selected to rescue the princess and to eliminate the evil of Queen DeRezzia. The player gets to be the Mighty Pip, a single Pixel that goes on an epic adventure of saving the Damsel in Distress. While going through the 2D Low and High-resolution environments, player’s tasks are to defeat the enemies, pick up upgrades and evolve into an 8 and 16-bit Hero gradually. Keep on switching between the evolution to gain more power and to complete various levels of the game. Keep in mind that the Pip can walk, jump, run, float, break blocks and collect loads o fantastic upgrades, so don’t rely on one or two abilities. Keep on pursuing the bad guys and finally, reach the end, defeat the Evil Queen DeRezzia and free the Princess from her Clutches.
#3 Adventure Story
Adventure Story is a Side-scroll, Platform and Single-player video game created by Rendered Ideas for mobile devices such as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. The game takes you on an epic adventure with exciting levels. It comes with stunning story, where the protagonist and his brother were taking a nap in forest of flowers on a peaceful day. Suddenly, an evil named as Hippo appeared out to spread chaos. All the inhabitants of jungle fear from the brutal monsters and run across the jungle to save their lives. The protagonist named as Chingu ran, but his beloved brother couldn’t run and captured by the monster. After realizing the guilt, the protagonist decides to save his little brother and take revenge from evil and teach the monster lesson. The game explores the world from a side-scroll perspective, encounter enemies and crush them to advance through the level. The game consists of up to fifty unique levels with increasing difficulty and each level offers the cute and beautiful graphics. Adventure Story offers core features such as Epic Gameplay, Intuitive Controls, Ability to Double Jump, 50 Levels, and more.
#4 Gunslugs
Gunslugs is a Pixel-Graphics, Action, platform, Retro-style, and Single-player Side-scroll Shooting video game developed and published by OrangePixel. The game offers a brilliant story, revolving around an evil duck and his minions, struggling to take over the planet with his evil army using the advanced technology and the extensive collection of soldiers. The world needs a hero, and you are the last hope of your people. You must jump into the world where you have to battle against evil Duck and his minions to save the planet. During the gameplay, you can battle in jungles, plane yards, arctica, and the gate of hell. You can use the jetpack to fly and shoot eggs for guns. It focuses on fast-paced gameplay with a run and jumps mechanics, taking place in the procedurally generated environment and introduces the element of perma-death. You have to collect coins and can use them to purchase upgrades, improvements, and mini-games like Donkey Kong, etc. Gunslugs includes prominent features such as Several Levels, different Mini-Games, Gunslugs Heroes, Upgrades, Weapons, Permadeath, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#5 Swordigo
Swordigo is a mix of Action Role-playing, Metroidvania, Adventure, and Platform elements developed and published by Touch Foo for Android and iOS. The game offers Single-player mode and has the similar gameplay to Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Metroid. According to the plot, the player awakes at the mid-night feeling strange and goes outside for fresh air when a strange man informs him that the mentor went into the forest and didn’t come back. After exploring the woods, the player discovers the master die. To learn the first magic bolt the player is sent to the house of Elder. As the story advances, the Elder tells the player to find the Mage Blade and must defeat the Corruptors. The game mainly focuses on side-scroll action-adventure gameplay, where the player can run, swing, jump, and can use magic spells his way through a series of levels. By killing enemies, the player receives experience points and can use these points to level up health, magic, or attack power.
#6 Magic Rampage
Magic Rampage is an Action Role-playing, Side-scroll, Hack-and-Slash and Single-player video game developed and published by Asantee. The game introduces character customization and plenty of weapons to equip from knife to magical staves. The environment takes place dungeon and the game offers new enemies, secrets areas to explore and new obstacles in each dungeon. In the game, the player needs to search for bonuses and levels, struggle to strive in Survival mode, and join forces with NPCs to battle against challenging bosses. Magic Rampage is inspired by 90’s old classic platformer games, offering engaging and refreshed gameplay mechanics. The player can run, jump, and attack enemies using ranged weapons through the variety of levels to advance in game. He can explore the land from side-scroll perspective and try to score the best points to challenge his friends. With engaging gameplay, brilliant graphics and touch controls, Magic Rampage is the best game to play.
#7 Flood of Light
Flood of Light is a mix of Adventure, Role-playing, and Puzzle elements created and published by Irisloft for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The game features a Single-player mode, and the story follows a mysterious girl who is in a raincoat comes to the city submerged by rain. During gameplay, the player needs to subside the rain in order to rescue the city by illuminating the stone and lamp posts with the little light on the player hand. In the game, the player assumes the role of the mysterious girl with an aim to uncover who she is as the rain in the beautiful city subsidies. The game uses the unique mechanic and provides a brand new experience that players have never experienced before. Experience the evolving puzzles, in which the more puzzles the player solve, the more difficult light abilities the player receive to face. There are nine different chapters available, consisting of sixty levels and more than twenty unique mechanics. The game uses the hand-drawn graphics. The game comprises several hidden collectibles, which the player uses to uncover the hidden secret of the city. With immersive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and cool features, Flood of Light is the best game to play.
#8 The Deer God
The Deer God is a 2D Adventure, Pixel Graphics, and Single-player Platform video game played from a side-scroll perspective, developed by Crescent Moon Games. The game takes place in the breathtaking 3D world where the player sets off an epic adventure that will challenge his religion and platforming skills. It is a challenging game about reincarnation, survival, and karma, and all of these are set in a breathtaking and unique world. In the game, the player needs to feast his eyes on the brilliant lighting, dynamic day/night system, and abundant environment. The main job of the player is to become one of the most beautiful animals on Earth. The game allows the player to become a deer to explore the beautiful 3D pixel art land full of various animals and characters to interact. During the game, the player can use different power of statuses and level up his antlers. The Deer God includes key features such as Tons of Items, Find Secrets, Night and Day System, Various Quests, and more.
#9 Cally’s Caves 3
Cally’s Caves 3 is an Action-Adventure, Female Protagonist, Side-scroll, and Single-player Platform video game developed and published by VDO Games for Microsoft Windows. The game takes you in the 2D world where it let you engage yourself in an epic battle against vicious creatures and their boss who together abducted your parents. The story tells that parents of the hero have been kidnaped and take somewhere in an unknown location. Now, you need the female character to complete all assigned tasks to save her parents before it’s too late. There are a series of challenging levels, and each level comes with a set of obstacles that you need to overcome to reach the end to unlock further levels. During the gameplay, you can use your weaponry to kill enemies and make points, and then you these points to level up your weaponry. Many new character abilities will be unlocked as your character evolves the weapons into ultimate form. Cally’s Caves 3 includes incredible features such as Intense Boss fights, 310 Levels, 10 Zones to Explore, over 25 types of Enemies to Beat, and more.