ICO
ICO is an Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Team Ico and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game offers fantastic story, in which a boy was born with horns the people of the area considered the boy was a bad omen. They all left the boy in the fierce forest. During his exploration, the boy encountered a girl named Yorda who is the daughter of the Queen of the Castle. The Queens wants to use the body of her daughter to extend her life. The game lets you get into the role of the protagonist a boy with horns and the goal is to find a way to escape from the castle with Yorda, defend her with enemies, and solve complex puzzles throughout levels. Explore the game world, interact with NPCs, navigate obstacles, and help Yorda across hurdles. The game is played from the third-person perspective. Your character can run, jump, pull and push objects, and can perform the various actions to solve puzzles. Earn experience points by defeating enemies and use to unlock new content. With detailed environment, addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, ICO is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#1 Proteus
Proteus is a great Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform and Exploration-based video game by Twisted Tree. The game takes you to an amazing dream-like world and leaves you on an island where you as the player will have to interact with objects, explore and solve some challenging puzzles in order to complete the game objectives. Proteus offers a procedurally generated game map and lets you experience traveling through the superbly designed valleys, ruins and a lot of other amazing wonders. With super fine graphics, amazing story and an immersive and engaging game-play, Proteus is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video games.
#2 Gone Home
Gone Home is a First-person Indie Action-Adventure and Interactive Fiction Simulation developed by The Fullbright Company. The game takes place in the year 1995 and allows you to explore a mansion after coming back home after one long year. Every member of your family is vanished and you are left clueless about their sudden disappearance. In order to find them you must find clues, interact with objects and solve a number of challenging puzzles and mysteries. The game lets you be Kaitlin and allows you to explore the game world from a First-person Perspective, complete various game objectives in order to earn rewards, open up new areas and search for messages scattered all around the game world. Gone Home is an interactive video game that allwos you to look at objects, interact with them and keep on collecting the clues, objects and open up new game world areas to enjoy the game.
#3 Firewatch
Firewatch is a First-person Action, Adventure and Mystery video game. The game takes the players back to the year 1989 and leaves them right in the middle of the Shoshone National Forest and lets them be Fire Lookout named as Henry. The game revolves around two main characters, Henry and Delilah, Henry’s Supervisor and tells the story of a mystery that formed over a Conspiracy. Firewatch is full of mysterious incidents, happenings, and all the pondering situations. According to the storyline, Henry works as a Fire Lookout, Delilah Assists him as a Supervisor and the story is about finding the roots of mystery that rocked the minds of the characters of the game. It all starts when Delilah Calls on Henry to investigate an illegal Firework at a Lake. Henry reaches to the spot only to find out two teenage girls Skinny Dipping who blame him for leering. On his way back to his watch tower, Henry finds a Cave locked and sees the shadows of a shrouded figure, returns to his Watch Tower and finds it completely ransacked. Next day, Henry gets to Communication line where he finds it cut along with a note from the girls. He plots to scare them away but finds their Camp abandoned. Some time later, on another location, Henry finds a Disposable Camera that belongs to Brian, son of Ned, the outdoorsman, and a fellow Fire lookout. Brian and Ned are both missing. This is where player’s character gets into the play. The game tasks the players to search for Brian, and Ned and the mission Girls, and solve the Mystery that’s bothering Henry big time. Firewatch is all about mysteries and amazing happenings that lead to an epic open world gameplay. With a great story, plenty of room for the gameplay, open world environment, fantastic characters and their own stories, Firewatch offers a remarkable and kind of twisted gameplay to enjoy. For all those who love playing mystery games, Firewatch would definitely be a great source of entertainment.
#4 Beyond Eyes
Beyond Eyes is a fantastic, Adventure and Single-player video game revolves around a ten-year-old girl named as Rae. The game offers a brilliant gameplay developed by Tiger and Squid and published by Team17 for multiple platforms. According to the story, a ten-year-old girl has lost her sight after a horrible accident. The story is about a girl, who is interacting with the world around her and touches several objects. In the beginning, the world appears to be all while, but as the protagonist touches the individual objects, they are highlighted. The sound is the most important component in the game, offers an idea to the player about the location of the objects. There are several challenges available such as cross the road by hearing the sound of the cars and more. The game becomes challenging, as the player advances through the game. As the protagonist, the player must interact with the world, find her missing cat, and face the fears and ventures out into the challenging world. Beyond Eyes offers prominent features such as exciting Story, an epic Journey. Unlockable Achievements, and more. Try it out.
#5 The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest is an Adventure, Puzzle and Interactive Drama video game by Trilobyte and Virgin Interactive. The game offers a horror story, revolving around the protagonist, an amnesiac. The mansion of Henry Stauf has been abandoned. Stauf was a toy maker, make amazing and mind-bending puzzles and his home was his beautiful creation. The house of Stauf stands empty, and nothing can live in this house. Suddenly, you as the protagonist wake up in the house, and your ultimate task is to manipulate the house from door to door, fell the terror and solve a variety of puzzles to progress. The mansion comprises up to twenty-two surprising rooms awaits in the navigable haunted mansion. The game becomes terrifying and challenging to play, as you advanced. The 7th Guest offers core features such as Virtual Environment, Solve Puzzles, 22 Levels, Extensive Gameplay, Original Music and more. The 7th Guest is the excellent game to play and enjoy.
#6 Psychonauts 2
Psychonauts 2 is a Platform and Single-player video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Starbreeze Studios. The game serves as the sequel to Psychonauts and offers the improved gameplay, graphics and mechanics. It brings the similar gameplay to its predecessor. It lets the player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Raz, who is a newly graduated Psychonaut with psychic abilities. During the epic adventure, the player helped by two other players such as Milla Vodello and Sasha Nein in saving the head Psychonaut named as Truman Zanotto. According to the story, upon returning to Psychonaut Headquarters, the team discover something went wrong, the organization is not all that is seemed. After that, the team finds Zanotto absence and then start the investigation to uncover the secrets. During the gameplay, the player can use Psi-Powers like Levitation, Pyrokinesis, and Telekinesis, and can explore the mental worlds of NPCs. There are a series of challenging missions and the player has to accomplish each one to advance through the game to become the master. Psychonauts 2 is an incredible game with cool features to play and enjoy.
#7 Antichamber
Antichamber is a First-person, Single-player 3D Puzzle-Platform and Exploration video game by Demruth. It lets you go through a series of puzzles made up of incredibly designed objects, passages that lead to different locations and physics defying structures that actually are designed to make your mind wobble. Your task is simply to use your head, psychologically explore the world around you and find the solutions to some of the most complex puzzles ever created.The game allows you to be the protagonist, start up your journey from an Antechamber with Four walls around you. Each and every Wall has its own specific reasons and one of the wall has a window that shows you the passage you can get on and exit the Antechamber. Once you start your journey, you’ll find yourself in long passageways, rooms, corridors etc. filled with all kinds of objects based on twisted physics. Your task is to simply keep on looking for a way out while interacting with objects and solving countless challenging puzzles based on the objects you’ll see in the game. Antichamber allows yo to move freely in the game world, interact with whatever object you want, go to any direction you want and just enjoy this marvelous Action-Adventure, interactive Puzzle-Platform video game. With a wonderfully addictive game-play, beautiful 3D visuals, and loads of challenging puzzles, Antichamber is a super-engaging game to play.
#8 Portal
Portal, developed by Valve Corporation is a First person, Physics-based Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist named Chell who solves puzzles by teleporting and getting help from the objects by using the special The Apurture Science Handheld Portal device. The device opens up two spatial portal on two different planes and the protagonist travels through these two portals and solves the puzzles, interacts with a number of items and crafts different things. The player character gets challenged by AI (Artificial Intelligence) who goes by the name of GlaDOS. Each time the player solves a puzzle, he gets a Cake as the reward that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. With it’s amazingly addictive and immersive nature, Portal offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and puzzles and a challenging game-play to enjoy.