NIVA
NIVA is an Exploration, Art, Indie, Adventure, and Single-player video game offered by NIVA Team. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a forest god having all the powers and abilities that a god has and can regain the charm of the forest by utilizing these abilities.
While exploring the forest, the player can control the character from a third-person perspective. The player can grow trees, herbs, and give everything a charming look to view the environment realistic and attractive. The character equips some horns on his head, and as his horns touch anything in the forest, they turn to gold as the magical power.
The game is pure RPG, as the player adopts the role of a God that can do anything to make the forest fantastic and attractive. Core features of the game are Third-person View, Powers of a God, and Open-world.
#1 Dream
Dream is a great First-person Action-Adventure, Platform, Indie and Exploration and Art-based Simulation by HyperSloth. The game revolves around the character of Howard Phillips a young boy who is kind of lazy and spends most of his time sleeping. The boy is a lucid but powerful dreamer and amalgamates you with his dreams in a totally bizarre but realistic way. Dream is based on the dreams of Howard Phillips and it takes you to the amazing world where you as the Howard will have to explore different abstract worlds, solve amazing puzzles, interact with objects and find clues about your (Howard’s) future. Dream offers a wonderful non-linear narrative, brilliantly engaging game-play, a well-written story, great visuals and a lot more to discover and enjoy to the limits. Dream is a fun game to play and it features Oculus Rift support too along with the PC.
#2 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.
#3 Naissancee
Naissancee is a cool First-person Puzzle Platformre and Adventure video game developed and published by Limasse Five. The game is about a girl named Lucy who gets lost in a Futuristic and Sci-Fi complex Building and is running for her life. A giant creature is chasing her and she must evade that creature in order to survive. in order to survive the attacks and to live, the game tasks you to solve a number of challenging puzzles, interact with objects and manipulate them etc. Naissancee includes a lot of challenging puzzles that Lucy must complete in order to live and finally get out of this bizarre world. Naissancee provides with a challenging game-play, cool visuals and an amazing story that leaves you spellbound for quite some time. Do try it out, its an amazing game to play.
#4 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.
#5 Cylne
Cylne is an immersive First-person Action-Adventure, Exploration and Puzzle-Platform video game that takes you to a surreal world based on fantastic art. Your task in the game is to select a chapter, Explore the world, built over the most puzzling enigmas and offers an environment that will make you head spin. You as the main character are required to solve that enigmas by using your brilliant puzzle solving abilities, interact and encounter the strangest ever life forms, gather up clues and solve every puzzle in the world surrounded by a Dark Halo. With six amazing chapters, amazingly designed environments, multiple environmental mechanisms to get help and solve the complex puzzles, ability to walk, fly, float and dive deep into the abyss, you’ll be able to enjoy every bit of the game. Cylne offer beautiful visuals, an addictive game-play and a marvelous environment to enjoy the game.
#6 MirrorMoon EP
MirrorMoon EP takes you to an amazing world of Puzzles set up in the Outer Space. This brilliant Exploration and Puzzle-Platform game tasks you to solve some mysteries by going through a series of puzzles. The game starts off on a red planet and lets you spin around its moon, interact with objects and get help to solve the puzzles and enjoy every bit of your time while playing the game. MirrorMoon EP supports Multiplayer mode in which you can share galaxy maps with your friends, and name the stars in the galaxy if ever you reach the location first. MirrorMoon EP offers an exciting new kind of puzzle-solving experience and if you play it, it’ll definitely amaze you with all the wonderful things it has to offer.
#7 Rememoried
Rememoried is a First-person Exploration and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game leaves you in an impossible environment and is all about Memories and Dreams. As you traverse through the game world, you memories will turn into dreams and the only way to get out of this situation is forgetting them. To forget your dreams and memories, you’ll have to go through some complex puzzles and once you have totally forgot your dreams, you can move to the next level of the game and the whole procedure starts again with new memories and new dreams. Rememoried offers kind of twisted game-play and an environment that will definitely make your head spin. The ability to use your surrounding environment to forget, fly, fall and walk is what makes this game quite interesting. Just try it out and you’ll definitely enjoy this masterpiece.
#8 Mind: Path to Thalamus
Mind: Path to Thalamus is a First-person, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that takes you to an amazing world of wonders filled up with all the surreal and fantastic elements. This mind-bending games lets you use the objects and find ways to solve some of the most enigmatic puzzles ever. In order to complete the tasks, you’ll have to go through the cycles of day and night, change the weather by modifying the fog and rain and change the surrounding environment completely and find ways to finally get out of your own mind. You must use all of your abilities and tools provided in order to escape the reality and follow the trail your mind creates. With a number of 30 amazing puzzles, fantastic environments, ability to turn day into night and night into day, great visuals and voice overs and immersive game-play, Mind: Path to Thalamus is one of the best Action-Adventure, puzzle-platform, Art and Exploration video game to play and enjoy.
#9 Fract OSC
Fract OSC is a Music-based First-person Puzzle-platform and Exploration video game. The game throws you into the midst of forgotten places and tasks you to explore, interact with objects and uncover the secrets of a world built totally on the sound and music. Your task is to simply gather up the parts and build the broken and dismantled machinery by solving some complex puzzles and bring the world to life again. The machines you’ll build will start producing music and other different sounds and that sounds will eventually recreate the world. Fract OSC offers a beautifully created Open World that you can explore, solve some classic music-based puzzles and enjoy the stunning and quite mesmerizing visuals, addictive game-play and all the things around you. Try this fantastic Art and Exploration filled Puzzle-Platform video game and entertain yourself for hours. Fract OSC is fun to play.
#10 Master Reboot
Master Reboot is hauntingly amazing, First-person Puzzle-platform, Exploration and Interactive video game that offers a way in which you can preserve your memories to Soul Cloud and enjoy making your soul immortal. The game is set in Soul Cloud world where death is not final and after the death your memories live on with your soul that is uploaded to Soul Cloud. The exploration and puzzle-platforming elements make this game more engaging as you traverse through the world and try solving the puzzles on floating islands, towns, skyscrapers etc. and every location is a storage for the memories of different people. This mind-boggling and psych based video game is one of the best that offers an intriguing story-line, wonderful adventures, amazing environments and an engaging game-play that will immerse you deep into the world of Soul Cloud. Do give it a try, it’ll definitely be a great source of entertainment for you.
#11 Tri: Of Friendship and Madness
Tri: Of Friendship and Madness is a cool Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Interactive-Fiction and First-Person Exploration and Art video game by Rat King Entertainment. The game takes you to the world of oddities, lets you explore a huge open world from a first-person perspective, find the magical powers of Tri, master them and create your own path in order to know about the wonders of the world around you. If you really want to enjoy this game, you’ll have to go through the twisted corridors, cross the huge gantries, go through a series of dungeons and solve some of the most challenging and complex puzzles by using the powers of Tri and enjoy being part of a strange world. With amazing first-person puzzle, brilliant visuals, objective-based story-line and an addictive game-play, Tri: Of Friendship and Madness is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#12 Only If
Only If is a wonderful First-Person, Action-Adventure, Interactive-Fictional Art and Exploration video game. The game allows you to be Anthony Clyde who after a full night of partying, wakes up on a strange bed with no memory of what happened last night. He gets up and finds himself locked into an unknown building and tries to escape but fails. Your task is to help Clyde explore the building, interact with the objects, find clues, solve some challenging puzzles and escape. The antagonist, who locked you up is the one making hurdles for you, so you must solve every puzzle he throws at you, go smashing through every hurdle and obstacle he puts in your way and use the collected objects as a combination or individually to finally escape the place. With a wonderful setting, great visuals, and an immersive game-play, Only If is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#13 The Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable is one wonderful First-person, Action-Adventure, Interactive Fiction and Graphic video game like Gone Home. The game allows you to be “Stanley” and lets you choose between your actions either to follow the story or not to follow the story, have a choice or don’t have a choice, act as Stanley or simply don’t act as Stanley, it totally depends on you. This twisted game allows you to explore a strange world, buildings etc. and slowly find out the meanings of almost everything, solve quenching puzzles and be part of a strange strange world. With awesomely engaging story and loads of new content, amazing visual details and background music, voice over etc., and a brilliantly immersive game-play, The Stanley Parable is a wonderful game to play.
#14 JazzPunk
JazzPunk is a brilliant new First-Person Action-Adventure and Interactive-Fiction plus Art video game. The game allows you to be the unnamed protagonist, explore the game world, interact with objects and NPCs, solve some challenging puzzles, play mini games and enjoy engaging yourself into multiple amazing missions in which you are free to act on the pace you like. With amazingly simple controls, well-written objective-based story, environmental manipulation options, a crazy addictive game-play and a lot of other fun things, JazzPunk is a cool game to play. The additional Wedding Qake mode that allows you to go full scale against the AIs, makes this game even more fun. Try it out and you’ll definitely love what it has to offer.
#15 Psychonauts
Psychonauts is another super addictive Action-Adventure, Interactive-Drama and Puzzle-platform video game. The game revolves around the character of a young Psych named Razputin who starts up his journey of becoming a Psychonaut. In order to achieve the goals, you’ll have to help Razputin break into the Psychonaut’s training center, make a place for yourself there, defeat the enigmatic villain who have kidnapped your fellow campers. It is now your duty to free your fellow campers by the use of your special abilities and psychic powers. You must focus on telekinesis, levitation and project yourself into the minds of the enemies, fight them off, sabotage their facilities and eventually free your friends. Psychonauts offers an amazingly twisted game-play, a great story to follow along with amazing visuals and a lot of other great things.
#16 Homesick
Homesick is a brilliant First-person Action-Adventure, Interactive-Fiction and Indie video game that tasks you to explore an abandoned building, solve different puzzles, interact with objects, find the clues and eventually find out what happened here that made the residents abandon this huge building. With hell of a scary setting, hauntingly beautiful environment, countless challenging puzzles, exploration and Mystery, Homesick makes you feel being stuck into a strange domain between your nightmare and waking world. Homesick offers brilliant 3D visuals, a series of exciting puzzles, a wonderfully well-written story and an immersive game-play. Try it out and you’ll be amazed at every tiny detail of this marvelous piece of art.
#17 Thirty Flights of Loving
Thirty Flights of Loving is a First-person Action-Adventure, Indie and Interactive-Fiction video game that offers a fun filled gameplay experience. This short story game lets you explore the world of Thirty Flights of Loving from a first-person perspective and witness an amazing combination of Exploration, Object Finding and Puzzle gaming elements altogether. You can be a gunslinger, an explorer or a normal being in the game world, interact with the objects, find clues, interact with the NPCs, eliminate criminals, wave a stick at the stray animals and enjoy being part of a mystical world where everything is puzzling and you are the one to solve that puzzles. With amazing 3D graphics, an involving story and an engaging game-play, Thirty Flights of Loving is quite fun to play and enjoy.
#18 Dear Esther
Dear Esther is a cool First-person Action-Adventure, RPG, Indie, Interactive Fiction and Art-based video game. The game takes you to a remarkable world where an unknown entity named Esther partially takes control of yourself and allows you to explore an amazingly huge game world from a first person perspective. After a road crash you found yourself into the world of Esther but it seems like you have been summoned by the Esther, for what motives, that’s what you have to find out. The purely story driven game-play allows you to explore, interact and find the answers about what happened on the motorway, what is the significance of aerial, who is Esther and why did she summoned you here etc. With a mysterious background, great visuals, an immersive game-play, surreal surroundings, great sounds etc, Dear Esther is an amazing game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.
#19 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.
#20 The Talos Principle
The Talos Principle is a marvelous Action-Adventure and a First-person perspective Puzzle-Platform video game by Devolver Digital. The game puts you into the character of a Robot with Human Conscience and allows you to go through 120 challenging and immersive puzzles all set up into different environments. Exploding Drones, Wall mounted Guns along with all other hurdles and the objective to find out all the Sigils are the key elements of this wonderful game. You must stay alive in order to complete the game objectives and find out the truth about your existence, purpose etc. and determine your nest course of actions. Exploration about the humans and technologies, civilizations passed before you and finding the clues is what makes this game more unique and addictive. With wonderful storyline, cool visuals and a super engaging game-play, The Talos Principle is a wonderful game to play and enjoy..
#21 Journey
Journey is an amazingly Addictive Action-Adventure and Indie Art and Exploration video game that offers both Single and Multiplayer Support. Developed by the “ThatGameCompany”, the game is set in a huge Desert and lets you be a Robed Figure who is destined to go through a distant mountain range, explore the world and interact with other online players, communicate via musical chimes and assist each other in different game tasks. In order to find the secrets about a lost civilization, and to calm your curious nature, you get tasked with solving some puzzles and exploring the world. The Online multiplayer mode allows you to discover other online players, communicate via text and speech and chimes, assist each other in solving a number of puzzles, and keep o progressing through the game levels. With truly remarkable environments, scenarios, beautiful background music, visuals and an amazingly addictive, and immersive gameplay, Journey will definitely leave you spellbound. Do try it out and enjoy one of its kind, Art, Exploration and Adventure experience.
#22 Kairo
Kairo is a great First-person Exploration, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that offers a unique experience. The game takes you to an amazing world of Kairo and tasks you to explore it, go through a series of abandoned monuments, find out ancient machinery and solve some complex puzzles to start it up and find the true purpose of Kairo and your existence and fulfill your destiny. Kairo offers an unimaginable experience and allows you to enjoy a brilliant combination of exploration and puzzle solving elements. With a strange environment, mind boggling puzzles, amazingly attractive environment, engaging background music, coolest ever visuals, immersive game-play and Oculus Rift Support, Kairo will definitely amaze you with all the good stuff it has to offer. Do try it out.