Inside
Inside is an Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game created and published by Playdead. The game offers side-scroll elements and lets you get into the role of a young boy to dive into the game world. The game offers the similar gameplay like Limbo. In the game, your main goal is to explore the surreal environment, solve a series of challenging puzzles and earn points. The character can run, walk, climb, swim, and interact and use objects to overcome obstacles to progress in the game. After progressing in the game, the boy gets the ability to control the bodies of enemies to complete puzzles. According to the story, the red-shirted boy trapped in a strange city populated with zombie-like peoples, worms, and pigs. In the game, you must use farm equipment and animals to escape to the city. With the best mechanics, addictive and immersive gameplay, superb visuals and exciting story, Inside is the best game to play and enjoy.
#1 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.
#2 Snapshot
Snapshot, developed by Retro Affect is an Action-Adventure, Side Scrolling and indie Puzzle-Platform video game. The story of the game revolves around a lonely Robot wandering in an abandoned virtual world. The only object of the game is to solve different platform puzzles and make pictures of your great adventure. With the help of the camera, you can add or remove any part of the game world to solve the puzzles. You can achieve game rewards by collecting all the stars in a game level and complete the level to gain skill points that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. A game level completed in provided game time and the images captured are responsible for your game rankings so you must complete a task in not more than the given time. Snapshot offers a great fun filled game-play, a good story to follow, amazing 2D graphics, beautiful sceneries and game music.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse is an Episodic, Comic Style Point-and-Click Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by Revolution Software. The game take you to Paris and let’s choose your character from two choices, The Fearless Amarican George Stobbart and a French journalist named Nico Collard. Your task in the game is to find out the truth about a Stolen Painting, a Murder and a possible worldwide destruction by the hands of the Devil. You must solve this mysterious case by using your true detective skills, logic and unique abilities. To complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through a lot of challenges, puzzles and a lot of difficulties because the strings are attached to the Devil himself. The mystery of Surpent’s Curse must be solved in order to save the world from chaos and destruction. With wonderful 5 episodes, amazing adventures across Europe, hand drawn visuals, a well written story and an amazingly addictive game-play, Broken Sword 5: the Serpent’s Curse is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#13 The Night of the Rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit is an wonderful Point-and-Click Puzzle, Platform Action-Adventure and 3D video game by Daedalic Entertainment. The game revolves around a little boy named Jerry Hazelnutt who wants to be a skilled magician. Jerry finds out a Formula of creating the Carrot Flame, mixes in different magical ingredients and suddenly a travel bag appears. Jerry opens up the case and finds a Magic Hat, Wand and a big Rabbit named Marquise De Hoto from a parallel Universe. Jerry becomes his apprentice and Hoto takes him to a fairyland named Mousewood. Jerry finds out that this world is soon going to be attacked by the cunning and cruel magician Zaroff, Gathers up his courage and asks Marquise to help him. Your task is to help Jerry defeat Zaroof by the use of your magic skills and by solving a number of magical puzzles. The fate of the Mousewood residents lies totally in your hands, so you must save the poor creatures. The Night of the Rabbit lets you explore, interact with Mice and Moles, solve a number of challenging puzzles etc. in a wonderfully created environment. With great visuals, great story and an immersive game-play, The Night of the Rabbit is a great game to play and enjoy.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 Capsized
Capsized is another marvel of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platforming gaming. The game offers intense action and exploration-based game-play in which your task is to be a Space traveler, leave your crashed ship and go on exploring a totally unknown planet, travel through amazingly challenging puzzles and platforms, fight against the vicious alien enemies, survive, save your crew and escape after repairing your ship. The inclusion of a jetpack to your inventory makes this game even more engaging as it helps you evade enemies and other hazards and lets you travel from one point to another speedily as well. With a brilliant Sci-Fi setting, eye catching visuals and a skirmishing and hardcore action-packed game-play, Capsized is a great new Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.
#17 BlackHole
BlackHole is an amazingly addictive Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by FiolaSoft Studio that offers brilliant Animated 2D Visuals, well written story and an engaging game-play that immerses you with the game-play. BlackHole lets you be a Hero, explore a wonderful world around, go through a series of platforms and find out the secrets and solve some of the most talked about mysteries. The game actually kicks off when your ship gets stuck in BlackHole and crashes on a planet-like object named as Entity. Your task is to accompany your AI companion Auriel, start exploring the Entity, fight off the enemy aliens, survive, save the knocked out crew and eventually repair the ship with collected parts and escape. With amazingly addictive agme-play, beautiful visuals and sounds etc, BlackHole is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game to play.
#18 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.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 Deponia
Deponia is a great Comic Style Point and Click Puzzle Platform, Action-Adventure and Indie video game. The game revolves around the characters of Rufus and Goal and lets you witness their cute Love Story in a funny environment. Rufus lives in a world filled with trash and always keeps on dreaming about going into the cleaner and richer world outside the dump he lives in. On day a lovely lady named Goal falls in the dump and Rufus hatches a plan to get into the rich world by helping her. Time goes by and Rufus Falls in love with her, goes through strangest and the hardest puzzles, keeps on struggling and finally reaches to the outer world and finds out her husband is dead. It now depends on you to help Rufus get out of Deponia, win Goal’s heart and eventually save the world and be part of the world of the riches. With cool story, beautiful hand drawn visuals, amazing characters, challenging puzzles and all the wonderful things, Deponia is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#22 Papo & Yo
Papo & Yo tells the story about a very unusual friendship between a Human and a Monster. Quico is a Brazilian boy who loves to hang out with his Monster friend without any fear. Despite all the gory appearance of the monster, its razor sharp teeth and addiction to eating poisonous Frogs, Quico loves his friend and together they explore a magical world while solving challenging puzzles and manipulating the buildings and environment in an entirely unique way. The game tasks the players to control the character of Quico, build a friendship with the monster, and solve some of the hardest puzzles in an environment filled with all kinds of wonders. Papo & Yo lets the players learn to utilize monster’s emotions, use them to solve puzzles and to find the cure to save their friend. With a great mix up of action, puzzle solving and exploration-based elements, Papo & Yo lets the players enjoy an entirely unique and one of its kind story. All things considered, Papo & Yo offers a surreal, physics defying and one of the most heartfelt stories of all times. Try it out and it’ll take you to a whole new world of astonishment.
#23 The Cave
The Cave is a new addition to the amazing Puzzle-Platform genre and it offers Adventure-based game-play, takes you to the world of your liking. The game actually allows you to gather up your adventurer friends each equipped with brilliant personalities and stories, get into a world of wonders and follow the path you like and descend deeply into the mysterious and visually stunning locations, explore the cave with immense depths and secrets. The Cave aims on providing you with quality gaming, so it allows you to form a 3 member team out of 7 wonderful characters, descend into the cave, start exploring the world around you, switch between the characters whenever you want, perform different actions using the abilities of any individual character, solve challenging puzzles, interact with objects and craft new ones, unlock new caves by completing various tasks and enjoy every bit of your time playing this cool game. The Cave offers amazing story-line, cool graphics and an immersive game-play to enjoy
#24 Trine: Enchanted Edition
Have you played Trine? Yes or no! This enchanted edition of Trine will surely take you to further heights of excitement. The game actually continues the Puzzle oriented adventures of your three favorite heroes (Thief, Wizard and Knight) and takes you to a world of fairy-tales where your task is to simply engage yourself into amazing environment, solve some classical and challenging physics-based puzzles and enjoy beautiful environments, sights and the beauty of almost everything surrounding you. Trine: Enchanted Edition offers both online and Local Co-operative game-play in which you can accompany up to 3 players, save game in mid-level play, and enjoy enhanced and stunningly attractive visuals. It also allows you to create and craft physics-based objects to simply use them in order to beat the enemies and to clear the obstacles. With a beautiful setting consisting of huge castles, bizarre machines, amazing heroes, you are tasked to go through all the hazards of an enchanted environment and defeat the enemies and monsters in order to save the kingdom and the sacred machine named as Trine.
#25 Trine
Trine is a Single and Multiplayer Side-scrolling Action and Platform Puzzle video game by Frozenbyte. The game takes the players back to a medieval setting and allows them to control multiple characters such as a Thief, a Knight, and a Wizard. All the three characters are able to battle against the enemies using their special abilities and they can also solve loads of Environmental Puzzles. Trine offers a Multiplayer Co-operative mode as well in witch multiple players can control a number of characters simultaneously and solve the puzzles. According to the storyline, players are tasked to traverse through a forsaken and badly ruined Kingdom that after the demise of the King, plunges into the worst political turmoil. With the kingdom in ruins and weak at the borders, an Undead Army finds the situation in its favor and attacks the kingdom. The undead menace pushes all the souls out of the Kingdom but the ones with enough courage and will to defend their homeland. The destiny makes it happen and the Trio meets in a situation that longs for their help to save the realm. Zoya the Thief, Amadeus the Wizard, and Pontius the Knight are forced into a trio of the ultimate saviors by the Nature and the story takes a beautiful turn. The players are tasked to control all three of the characters and start off the journey to save the Kingdom by solving all the enchanting puzzles, and by defeating the Undead Army. Trine offers beautiful graphics, addictive gameplay and all the fantastic Puzzles to solve that definitely challenge the players’ abilities. So are you ready to get into the world of Trine?
#26 Pid
Physics-based Platformers are always fun, and the games like Pid makes it even more interesting with all the great things combines. Pid is an awesome Physics-based Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by Might and Delight that offers a challenging game-play and lets you enjoy amazing environments, best ever visuals and the exploration element. The game tells the story of a boy named Kurt who finds himself stuck on a distant planet and the only way to survive is to find his way back home. In order to complete the objectives of the game, you’ll have to act as Kurt, find aliens and get help from them or use the bizarre tools stuffed into your backpack. You’ll have to also use the gravity-defying beams of light to overcome every obstacle and platform, solve some unimaginably difficult puzzles and get help from everything possible. Pid offers amazing Co-operative game-play and allows you to accompany up to 3 players on your journey, switch between the characters and use their abilities to solve the puzzles and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. With a great story-line, stunning visuals and soundtracks, challenging and immersive game-play and all the wonderful stuff, Pid is a marvelous game to play.
#27 Feist
Feist is a wonderful 2D Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Finji. The game takes you to a wonderful setting of a Dark Forest, Hazardous Mountains and Dark Caves where you are destined to follow the giant creatures in order to complete the game objectives. In an environment where everything wants to kill you, you must survive by using your wit and platforming experience. Go through a number of obstacles, solve challenging puzzle and use the objects to throw at the beasts, run, duck and jump to survive the enemy attacks, you must reach to your goals instead of getting killed and complete the level. Feist offers a game-play deeply inspired by Limbo and it will definitely leave you spellbound with all the surreal background music and stuff. Try it out as and you’ll definitely enjoy every bit of this brilliant game.
#28 Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is an amazingly Addictive Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Exploration and Shooting video game. The game is set on an unknown Alien Planet where you start off your journey in a little spaceship. Your task is to simply go through a number of Alien Environments, interact with objects, solve some challenging puzzles in order to unlock more and move from platform to platform while exploring the world around you. Battling against the bizarre creature, solving challenging puzzles and avoiding all the hazards of the Alien world, you must reach down to the center of the planet and complete the game objectives all based up on the story. You must upgrade your Ship time to time as it will need your constant attention, or else you’ll not be able to go to the advanced levels of the game. With an astonishing setting, appealing and quite enhanced visuals, loads of stuff to discover and puzzles to solve along with cool visuals and an immersive game-play, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is one of the best alternatives to Deadlight.
#29 Costume Quest
Costume Quest, created by Double Fine Productions is an Action-Adventure, and Puzzle-platform video game. The game is based up on a Halloween theme and lets you choose a player character from a number of game heroes and enjoy an amazing game-play featuring Trick or Treating beautifully created game worlds. Costume Quest allows you to go on different fun filled quests, gather up your party on individuals, collect a number of required costumes and transform into some special and unique champions according to the scenario. This super cool game provides with a DLC pack in which you’ll find the character and costume of Grubbins a lot of new enemies, new quests/adventures, a lot of creepy trick or treat cards etc. You must in the end be able to bring peace to Repugia by killing all the monsters and completing all the objectives. Costume Quest is a wonderful Puzzle and Platform video game and it will definitely entertain you. Do try it out, its fun playing.
#30 Toby: The Secret Mine
Toby: The Secret Mine is a Challenging 2D Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. This super cool game is highly inspired by Limbo and Nihilumbra and offers an amazingly addictive and quite challenging game-play. According to the story-line, the game takes you to a setting of a small village that once was so peaceful, but the invasion of unknown entities made the village a place of tragedy. Most of the populace was abducted and those who were gone in search of the abductees, never returned either. Following all of the situation closely, little Toby stands up and plans on a journey to go rescue all the vanished and end the enemy incursion for good. You are required to help Toby go through an eerie and quite challenging environment, help him solve some interesting puzzles, avoiding the enemies and surviving in an environment filled with enemies and deadly traps. While on your adventure with Toby, enjoy beautiful hand-crafted visuals, amazingly challenging puzzles, deadly traps and various types of enemies, an immersive game-play and loads of hours of plain entertainment.
#31 Ronin
Ronin is a wonderful Turn-based, Side-Scrolling, Action-Platformer video game like Mark of the Ninja. The game features a female protagonist who embarks on a mission to kill the five most prominent figures of a massive and powerful corporation. Ronin offers wonderful Action-oriented game-play in which it allows you to use your best stealth, sword and platform abilities in order to complete the game objectives. Just like Mark of the Ninja, Ronin allows you to stay out of the sight of guards and other enemies while pacing through a number of environments, kill the enemies by the use of your sword, guns and other weapons, use grappling hook to deceive your enemies and attack with a flash. With 15 levels of pure awesomeness, amazing visuals, super fast-paced game-play and amazing objectives to complete, Ronin is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#32 Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures
Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures is a wonderfully addictive and a Fantastic Adventure-based Run ‘n’ Gun plus Puzzle-Platform video game. It offers amazing paper and card visuals and takes you to a world where everything is built using paper and card. The game offers Stick Figure characters and tasks you to jump on rooftops, fly in the air, run between pirate ships wielding a sharp sword or race in four wheeled buggies on moon, kill your enemies and enjoy an amazing combination of multi-genre aesthetics in one place. Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures allows you to immerse yourself into epic Local Co-operative game play, team up with 3 or four players, traverse through the world, solve some challenging puzzles and fight in epic team based or Duels to defeat the enemies and enjoy your time playing this marvelous game. With a variety of different characters, good story, beautifully created visuals and an engaging game-play, Stick ‘Em Up 2: Paper Adventures is a fun game to play.
#33 Aquaria
Aquaria is an Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling and 2D Puzzle-Platform video game similar to Child of Light. The game is set in a huge Underwater World full of wonders and ancient treasures. As the protagonist Naija, your task is to simply explore the underwater world, go through the darkest caves, interact with the objects in beautiful sun-lit oases in order to find your lost past, find the treasures hidden for centuries and battle against all the unforgiving and brutal underwater beasts and monsters and uncover the secrets of Aquaria. With an enchanted story, colorful world, surreal soundtracks and visuals, huge amount of creatures to interact with and an amazingly addictive game-play, Aquaria is one of the best games of this specific genre.
#34 Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Valdis Story: Abyssal City is another great Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platformer and RPG video game similar to Child of Light. The game lets you be the protagonist named Wyatt, explore the ancient wrecks of a Holy City, battle against a number of different types of Demons, Angels and Ferals, defeat the enemies with your superior sword fighting skills, martial arts and magic etc. Your basic task is to choose a side, Myrgato or the Alagath, fight of the humongous beasts, and take the years old war to an end, restore the order into the realm and save the remaining human populace. Valdis Story: Abyssal City features exploration, intense combats against the enemies, super cool weapons and armors, amazing setting, great story, beautiful visuals and sounds and an immersive game-play. Try it out as an alternative to Child of Light and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.
#35 Ibb and Obb
Ibb and Obb is an Action, Co-op, Puzzle-Platform, and Multiplayer video game created and published by Sparpweed. The game focuses on two-player co-op gameplay takes place in the world full of puzzles where the gravity goes down and up. There are a variety of stages and can be completed by working together. It consists of fifteen levels, and you can get into the role of the protagonist and need a true friend to co-op or find online to play the game. Each level has unique gameplay and music that you enjoy. Ibb and Obb offer core features such as Warm Soundtracks, Secret Levels, Enhance your Skills through progress, Online and Local Co-op, and more. With superb gameplay and wonderful graphics, Ibb and Obb is a brilliant game to play and amuse.
#36 SpeedRunners
SpeedRunners is a Platform, Side-scroll, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created by DoubleDutch Games and published by tinyBuild. The game offers fast-paced runner gameplay played from side-scroll perspective. It takes place in the thrilling world and features various characters, from which the player can select his favorite one with unique abilities. The primary objective of the player is to run along his fellows or other players and struggle to beat them or eliminate them from the race to become the hero. The player will win the match when reaches at the end of the stage before anyone. There are numerous levels available with unique obstacles and environment. Grappling Hooks, Bombs, Rockets, and Spikes are prominent weapons that the player can use during the race for defeat his opponent. The player collects unique power-ups while competing against opponents, and can run, swing around, fire rockets and jump in his way through different levels to knock his friends out. SpeedRunners offer core features such as Four-player Platformer Competition, multiple Weapons, Upgrades, Online Multiplayer, Designed Maps, and more. Try it out.
#37 Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an Action, Side-scroll Platform, Single-player and Multiplayer Space Shooter video game created and published by Asteroid Base for cross-platform. You can play the game alone or with up to four players. Your job is to pilot a spaceship with a set of stations inside it. The station of the ship controls the engine, weapons, cannon, shield and the map. During the game, you can control the single avatar with a task to protect the ship from damage, maintain the balance and attack enemies to crush them. You will discover gift boxes while exploring the environment which consists of gems. The gems offer the new and enhanced power to the station. The game comprises up to four campaigns, and each campaign has four levels to complete and a boss fight. The task of the regular levels is to locate and save the assortment of abducted creatures including foxes, frogs, bunnies and more. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime includes core features such as Co-op Gameplay, Upgradeable Ships, Deep Challenge, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#38 Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap
Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap is an Action-Adventure, Platform, Side-scroll and Single-player video game created by Lizardcube and published by DotEmu. The game serves as the remake of Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap, released in 1989, developed by Westone Bit Entertainment. It takes place after the events of Wonder Boy in Monster Land, where the player assumes the role of the adventurer, upon eliminating the Mecha Dragon, has become afflicted with curse transforming him into a Lizard-Man. According to the plot, the player must travel around the world and struggle to defeat all the dragons presented in the world to return to his original form. Like previous installment, the player can navigate different lands, smashing enemies to collect items such as fireballs and arrows, and currency which can be used to unlock or purchase new weapons. There are a variety of levels and each level has a set of objectives that the player has to accomplish at any cost. As the game proceed, it becomes difficult to play. Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap includes prominent features such as Three difficulty Levels, 8-bit Graphics, Unearth the Dark Secrets, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#39 Typoman
Typoman is an incredible 2D Word, Side-scroll, Surreal, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player Adventure video game developed and published by Brainseed Factory. The game offers impressive gameplay where the player slips into the role of the stick figure made of letters. The ultimate task of the player is to struggle to make his through the dark and hostile world. Despite the stature of the player, he has a special ability which he can use to craft words. During the gameplay, the player needs to unleash his inner power, and use his wits to select the word, because the words can either be a curse or a blessing. It has a dark environment which the player navigates from a side-scroll perspective. There are numerous stages, and the player has to complete each one at any cost. The player will encounter the mind-bending puzzles and must solve all of them to advance through the game. Typoman includes prominent features such as Distinct Soundtracks, Atmospheric World, Solve Challenging Puzzles, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#40 The Mooseman
The Mooseman is an Adventure, 2D Atmosphere, Mythology, and Single-player Puzzle video game created and published by Vladimir Beletsky. The game takes the player in the mysterious world of ancient myth, heavily inspired by a finna-Ugric creature of old pagan times. The storyline of the game starts with the words, a long time ago, when a king named Yen shaped the world. In the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist known as The Mooseman, who can see all that is buried to the mortal eye. During the gameplay, the player can explore three different layers of the universe, first of whom is the lower world inhabited by spirits of the dead reside. While playing the game, the player will explore the world inspired by animal style. He can also dive into the thick atmosphere of komi music. The Mooseman offers prominent features such as Unlock new Abilities, Learn the Ancient Myths, Dive into the Deep Atmosphere, and more. Try it out, and have fun.
#41 Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition is an Adventure, First-person Perspective, and Single-player Stealth video game developed and published by Frictional Games for Multiple Platforms. The game is set in a stimulating environment, in which the player moves his character following the first-person perspective and can encounter unique places full of suspense. It mixes the Horror-Survival elements with Adventure and stealth gameplay. It comes with both titles and provides you with an underground sophisticated atmosphere to navigate. Take on the role of the protagonist named Philip, who embarks on a journey to reveal the truth behind the disappearance of his father. Surrounded by strange creatures and assaulted by horror from all sides, the protagonist must gather vital clues and try to solve the vexing puzzles while fighting against psychological terrors that assail the mind and invade to strip the protagonist of his sanity. During the gameplay, the player must assist the protagonist in completion of all assigned objectives by locating clues and solve tricky puzzles. Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition includes prominent features such as Cutting-edge Graphics, Compelling Storyline, Puzzle Solving Challenges, and more.
#42 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.
#43 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.
#44 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.
#45 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.
#46 Trine 2: Complete Story
Trine 2: Complete Story is an Action Role-playing, Puzzle-Platform, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Frozenbyte. The game combines the elements of Side-scroll, Puzzle, Action and Platform and offers an exciting gameplay where you can take on the role of one of three heroes. It takes place in the fantastic fairytale world invaded by deadly creatures. Get into the world by selecting your character and immerse yourself in fun-filled activities. Navigate the game world, interact with objects, solve physics-based puzzles using water, magic, gravity and fire and progress through the game. The primary goal is to accomplish a set of levels to fend off antagonist and destroy his unholy plans to destroy your world. Trine 2: Complete Story includes features such as three different Heroes, Physics-based Puzzles, Twenty Exciting Levels, Plenty of Skills and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.