Figment
Figment is an Action-Adventure, Puzzle, Isometric, and Single-player video game published and developed by Bedtime Digital Games. The game revolves around musical adventure takes place in the recesses of the human mind. It welcomes you in the surreal world full of deepest thoughts, memories, urges, and lots of voices. According to the story, the mind has been quick for several years, something has changed. Strange thoughts have begun to emerged, taking the form of brutal creatures who spread chaos and fear in the place they visit. The world’s last hope is grumpy dusty, a former voice of the mind, has come back to help the mind to face the fear. The game embarks the protagonist and his friend named as Piper on an epic adventure through various sides of mind, where they have to solve complex puzzles to calm down the mind, and find the way to defeat the terrifying creatures to restore the courage. Figment includes core features such as the Hand-drawn World, Musical Performance, Fight Nightmares, Use both Brain and Brawn, etc. Try it out.
#1 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.
#2 Funky Lab Rat
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.
#3 Little Big Planet 2
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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 Vessel
Vessel, is a super exciting and addictive Physics-Based Action-Adventure and Steampunk themed Puzzle-Platform video game by Strange Loop Games. The story of the game revolves around a young, gifted and talented inventor named Arkwright. Game kicks off with the achievement of his new invention called Fluro. Fluro got produced in huge numbers and distributed all around the world. After some time the Fluro all around the world became self-aware and a widespread devastation occurred. As the inventor of Fluro it is now your duty to get to the bottom of why all of this happened. In order to fix the machines around the world you must start your journey. A really great gaming experience, graphics and a feeling like Rayman Legends makes it more awesome. You’ll defiantly enjoy it. Do try it out.
#7 Portal 2
Portal 2 is an amazing First-Person Action-Adventure and puzzle platform game developed and distributed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to Portal, portal 2 comes with lots of new levels, enhanced graphics and a user friendly interface. Portal 2 keeps the possession of almost half of the elements from Portal. The game includes single and multiplayer game modes and a lot of new characters. Portal 2 is quite difficult as compared to Portal. You’ll have to solve some seriously complex puzzles in order to advance to the next levels of the game. You’ll get to use some new techniques to solve problems if you really want to make portals. With a totally new and unique style, amazing visuals, objective-based story-line and an engaging game-play, Portal 2 is a fantastic Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.
#8 The Swapper
When we talk about some really wonderful Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform games, The Swapper can’t be just missed. The Swapper is a brilliant Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform video game with a wonderful narrative, game-play and mechanics. The game is set in the distant quadrants of Space and takes you to an amazing journey of a Sci-Fi world. The Swapper lets you be a space wanderer with a special device that makes your clones and allows you to swap your consciousness into totally new bodies (Clones), solve some of the most challenging puzzles, go through amazingly beautiful environment build using clay models, and be part of a wonderful story and game-play. As compared to a lot of the titles with similar aesthetics, The Swapper is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that totally immerses you with the core game-play and lets you have an awesome experience.
#9 Machinarium
Machinarium is a wonderful Point and Click Puzzle and Graphic Adventure video game by Amanita Design. The basic objective of the game is to solve a series of challenging puzzles and brain teasers by the use of your intuition and puzzle solving skills. Machinarium offers a Unique Story, a challenging game-play along with best visuals. According to the storyline, your task in the game is to solve a number of challenging puzzles, go through a series of obstacles, use your wit and Point and Click skills to get out of difficult situations and enjoy immersing yourself into a gameplay in which every thing is linked by an Overworld. Machinarium offers a dialogue based gameplay and allows you to interact with the written statements in order to perform the tasks and keep on playing until you are finished with all of the exciting game levels. With an amazing two-tier hint system, walkthroughs, loads of mini games, beautiful visuals, a truly very well written storyline and exciting gameplay, Machinarium is a fun Point and Click Puzzle-platform video game to play and enjoy.
#10 Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is a Side-scroll, Platform, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by GT Interactive Software. It takes place in the two-dimensional world, in which you can assume the role of the protagonist named as Abe, who must traverse across the globe to solve mind-bending puzzles, navigate the obstacles, and avoid enemies. The story revolves around the protagonist, who is a slave at the meat processing factory named as RuptureFarms. The protagonist decides to escape when he discovers that he and his friends are to be killed. The task of the player is to explore the land and save as many people as possible to score the points. The player will die if attacked by an enemy, dropped from a height, collided with an obstacle, or even hold a grenade for a long time. The game mixes a limited stealth element and lets the player avoid the enemy attack, and slay them to progress through the storyline. Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee includes core features such as Side-scrolling Action, Save the Mudokons, and more. With excellent mechanics, brilliant graphics, and smooth controls, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is the best game to play.