Mech Chip
Mech Chip is an Action-Adventure, Pixel Graphics, 2D, and Single-player video game developed by Plutoneus. It brings quite simple and atmosphere game about augmentation and exploration. There are eight pilotable machines available, and each has its unique upgrades. More than 140 rooms are here to explore, where the player will face over fifteen unique enemies. In the start, the player has an option to choose from more than thirty color palettes. It takes place in the 2D world where the player finds himself in the black and white environment where lots of platforms are available. During the gameplay, the player must control his character from a side-view, avoid challenging obstacles, gather coins, and struggle to reach the end of each level, while collecting coins to become the master. Mech Chip includes key features such as over 140 Rooms to Explore, more than 15 Enemy types, 30 Color Palettes, Eight Machines, and more.
#1 SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen
SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen offers the perfect mix of Action-Adventure, Role-playing, and Platform gameplay elements, developed and published by Planet Tobor. The player, as the protagonist finds himself in the beautiful world full of mystery and danger. According to the storyline, the player must take revenge from enemies and struggle to restore the peace. There are many playable characters, and in the start, the player has an option to choose one of them to jump into the game and explore the world from a side-scroll viewpoint to kill enemies. The game rewards the player with points which the player uses to increase his abilities. During the gameplay, the player can learn new skills to help him traverse otherwise impassable obstacles. The game lets him engage himself in a satisfying position and skill-based combat system. SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen offers key features such as Defeat Bloodthirsty Bosses, Find Modern Weapons, Explore the World full of Puzzles and Traps, and more.
#2 Rift Keeper
Rift Keeper is a Role-playing, Action, Metroidvania, and 2D Adventure video game developed and published by Frymore. The game puts you in the role of the protagonist who must embark on an epic journey to travel rifts and restore the balance in the hand-crated 2D world while experiencing the fast-paced action gameplay. The story reveals that the Rift Keeper is awakened from his deep slumber. A small town that he has summoned was silent. After that, he opens the rust old door of the church and four older men wearing red robes welcome him with a smile. There are more than thirty dungeons to explore, and each is full of enemies. During the gameplay, the player can loot epic gear as advances through the dungeons. In the game, the player must find out new weapons and accessories to grow in power. Rift Keeper includes good features such as Thirty Hand-crafted Dungeons, Loot Epic Gear, Unique Enemies, Embark on a Journey, and more.
#3 Anew: The Distant Light
Anew: The Distant Light is an Action-Adventure, Metroidvania, and Single-player video game developed and published by Resonator. The game is about a single-player adventure the game takes place across the massive open-ended world. During the gameplay, the player will navigate, fight, and solve puzzles through exotic and often surreal environments. While playing the game, the player should find out game-changing equipment, vehicles, and upgrades to expand his choices for travel and combat. Find out exotic creatures to unlock the power of Material and then repair his home ship, while finding his missing copilot and himself to complete the missions. The colossal world is full of diverse environments, puzzles, strange life forms, and surprises. The objective is to locate the path with non-linear gameplay and use the various ways of getting around, including skating, jetpacking, swimming, jumping, and more. Anew: The Distant Light offers prominent features such as discover unique Weapons, Playable Zone, Rotatable Alien Moon, Powerful Vehicles, and more.
#4 Void Memory
Void Memory is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, and Single-player Metroidvania video game created by Gustav and published by PsychoFlux Entertainment. The game introduces the battle-focused side-scroll platforming gameplay with action elements. The player can navigate several areas to gather different items and must battle against different types of enemies to test his limits. During the gameplay, probably the player would be taken down due to many failures. Preparation, analysis, and strict observation are the key elements to turn down the enemies. The storyline follows the protagonist, who born in a world full of darkness, should wander to encounter the relics for a person who created him. The objective of the player is to survive in the crumbling world and then start exploring a new era. There are four different equipment categories, and the game lets the player experience the 2D platform with original graphics. Void Memory offers core features such as Unlockable Hard Mode, Fourteen Regions, Four Equipment Categories, and more.
#5 Ghost Song
Ghost Song is an Action, Souls-like, Science-fiction, and Single-player Metroidvania developed by Old Moon and published by Adult Swim Games. In the game, a desolate moon is a place of history, curiosity, and terror. The player as the protagonist who finds himself on the surface from a long slumber and he needs to navigate the winding caverns below to reveal dark secrets, acquire new abilities, and confront powerful enemies. During exploration, the player will encounter the sleepy, stranded inhabitants of Lorian V and hear their exciting stories. While playing the game, the player will enjoy Metroidvania gameplay. Navigate the massively connected world full of discoveries and secrets. There are lots of non-player characters from which the player can interact to advance through the game. The objective of the player is to acquire new powers and weapons to find out new hidden areas to explore. Ghost Song offers brilliant features such as NPCs, Heart-touching Storylines, Raise your Pet, Discover new Areas, and more.
#6 Salt and Sanctuary
Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.
#7 Dead Cells
Dead Cells is an exciting Rogue-like, Metroidvania, and Single-player video game created and published by Motion Twin. The game can be described as a Roguevania, the mixture of Action-Exploration Metroidvania and Randomly-generated rogue-like games. In the game, the player controls the mass of cells that control the body of the prisoner at the start of the game. As the player explores the variety of dungeons and battle against deadly creatures within, the player gathers armour, unique-power-ups, and weapons to boost his power. Some enemies will offer cells when taken down, which the player can use to obtain power-ups like extra health potions, new items, and more. The player can spend these collected cells at the dungeon section’s end. If the player dies before completing the dungeons, he loses all the collected cells. Dead Cells includes core features such as Interconnected World, Replayability, Permadeath, Non-linear Gameplay, Exploration, Hidden Passages, Secret Rooms, and more. The game is played from a side-scroll viewpoint.
#8 Axiom Verge
Axiom Verge is a fun Indie Action-Adventure and 2D Platform video game by Thomas Hepp Games. The game offers a Side-Scrolling view and allows the players to enjoy a delightful Metroidvania feel. With a brilliant backstory, Axiom Verge allows the players to control the character of Trace, a Scientist who after getting injured and a black out gets up in an unfamiliar High-tech Ancient World. Axiom Verge focuses on Hardcore Metroidvania Action and Exploration and tasks the players to traverse through an entirely new world where many fears are lurking in the dark shadows. The game lets you have weapons that you can use to overcome the enemies and enjoy upgrading your gear and stuff with all the available power-ups (over 60 different items). With an absorbing and addictive gameplay, beautiful 2D graphics, great mechanics and an overall feel of an amazing adventure, Axiom Verge offer elements borrowed from the biggest Metroidvania games such as Blaster Master, Contra, Bionic Commando and Metroid. For an excellent Action-Adventure and Platform gaming experience, do try it out.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 Environmental Station Alpha
Environmental Station Alpha is a 2D Pixel Graphics, Adventure, Side-scroll Metroidvania, and Single-player video game developed Arvi Teikari and published by Hempuli Oy. The game introduces the Action-adventure gameplay with a retro aesthetic and emphasis on exploration. The player controls a robot who is sent to interrogate a strange mystery appear in an abandoned space station, with a mission to find out what exactly appeared. The space station is dangerous to explore because it is overrun by wildlife. Throughout the game, the player needs to reveal the secrets, battle against lots of bosses and pick up power-ups to figure the fate of the space station. It comes with an ambient soundtrack that engages the player into the gameplay. The player explores the environment from a side-scroll, fight against enemies, and at the end, he needs to face off bosses and must take down them to move forward to the next levels to become the master. With immersive gameplay, superb mechanics, and cool visuals, Environmental Station Alpha is a good game to play.