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.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 Nihilumbra
Nihilumbra by Beautifun Games is a Physics-based, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist Born who walks, jumps on platforms and solves different puzzles in a virtual game world. As he further paces into the game, the protagonist encounters different enemies and defeats them by directly engaging in battles or by solving a number of different puzzles or by simply avoiding them. Born explores the game world divided into four parts with different objectives and puzzles to solve. Along with 3D graphics, a sleek look and different abilities the player possess, he modifies his appearance and the game world according to the environment and puzzles. Nihilumbra is available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS, Wii U and PlayStation Vita.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 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.
#13 Brilliant Bob
Brilliant Bob is another great Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform video game. The game offers fast-paced and challenging puzzle in amazingly beautiful game world. Brilliant Bob lets you get yourself engaged into amazingly thrilling 50 levels into 2 different game worlds, enjoy going through the platforms while having an appearance of almost 10 unique heroes, enjoy different camera perspectives, face eight different theme-based enemies, draw your sword and fight them off, use canons to shoot them down and use brilliant skills etc. with marvelous sandbox-style visuals, immersive game-play and a lot of other exciting things, Brilliant Bob is one amazing Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.
#14 Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest is a marvelous new Action-Adventure, RPG and Puzzle-Platformer video game by Microsoft Studios. The game takes you to an amazing 2D world where you control Ori The Spirit who eliminates enemies using the sacred spirit flames. With amazingly challenging puzzles, exploration, and epic enemy encounters, Ori gets tasked by the Spirit tree to accompany Sein The Guide, eliminate the forces of evil and restore the forest. Ori and the Blind Forest offers great visuals, addictive game-play and a wonderful story to follow. Ori and the Blind Forest is one of the newest and best Action-Adventure, puzzle-Platform video games that offer unique RPG elements to boost up the level of entertainment you’ll have while playing the game, so do try it out.
#15 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.
#16 Child of Light
Child of Light by Ubisoft Montreal is a marvelous Action-Adventure, Indie and Puzzle-Platform video game that tells the story of a young girl named Aurora who in the year 1895 awakens on the lands of Lemuria. After waking up she finds out that she is a long way from home, starts off her journey to her home but soon realizes that in order to reach home she’ll have to go through a Dark world filled with Dark Creatures of the evil queen of the Night. You are required to get into the role of Aurora, fight off all the Dark Creatures, Defeat the Queen of Night and free the Sun in order to bring light to the realm and finally reach home. Child of Light offers a great story filled with wonders, surreal visuals and sounds and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy. If you really want to play a really good game of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform genres, Child of Light is best for you. It offers a brilliantly immersive gameplay, a well-written story and a lot of other great things to enjoy.
#17 Deadlight
Deadlight by Tequila Works is a 2.5D Side-Scrolling, Puzzle-Platform video game packed with Horror and Survival elements. The game takes you back in time and leaves you in the City of Seattle, USA, tasks you to be the protagonist Randall Wayne, a long time Park Ranger who struggles to find his missing Family after a deadly Zombie Apocalypse. According to the story, Wayne goes through a number of different environments, solving challenging Puzzles and avoiding the Zombies termed as “Shadows”. In order to survive and find his family, Wayne must not be seen by the zombies. If you are a fan of games like Deadlight, you’ll know that this game is one amazing piece of art. Inclusion of the shooting and adventure elements makes this game even more engaging and quite fun to play. Deadlight offers brilliant visual details, a Dark theme, amazingly involving gameplay and a very well-written storyline. Do try it out, it’s fun to play.
#18 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.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 Tembo The Badass Elephant
Tembo, The Badass Elephant, is a fun Side-Scrolling Platform video game by Sega. Released back in 2015, Tembo The Badass Elephant is available to play on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game allows the players to be an Elephant named as Tembo. Tembo has a good number of Special abilities, and he can smash through different types of structures and things and is bound on a mission to save the Metropolis named as Shell City from a massive Evil Army that goes by the name of “Phantom”. The Army fails to stop the destruction caused by the Phantom, so the General Krenman enlists Tembo as the Hero and the savior of the Metropolis. Tembo The Badass Elephant allows the players to get into the character of Tembo and Serve the nation with your ultimate Services. The players are tasked to obliterate the foes by engaging themselves into a fast-paced gameplay and by running, jumping and smashing their way through the hordes of enemies. Tembo, The Badass Elephant, offers an environment inspired by the top notch Sonic the Hedgehog video game and implements the elements from top ranking franchises such as Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong. With a remarkably addictive and immersive gameplay, beautiful 16-bit visuals and loads of other exciting things, Tembo The Badass Elephant is a fantastic Action and Platform video game to play and enjoy.
#22 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an epic Graphic Puzzle, Action-Adventure, and Indie video game by Starbreeze Studios AB. The game focuses on two brothers and allows you to control both of them, lead them both on a journey based on a fairy tale and enjoy a super addictive and amazing co-op game-play. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons lets you solve a lot of amazingly complex puzzles, explore the whole game-world, fight against the enemies and Bosses etc. You must also find the cure (Water of Life) for your ailing father, you must help and look out for each other, survive and bring the cure safely. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons features super beautiful graphics and scenarios, an addictive game-play and a great story. As an alternative to The Silent Age this game will definitely provide you with tons of entertainment.
#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 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.
#25 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.
#26 Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a masterpiece when we talk about the Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform, and Stealth games. This brilliant game is inspired by the letters sent by the World War 1 vets from both sides. Valiant Hearts: The Great War features four main characters and allows you to switch between them when needed. The basic objective of the game is to help a young German soldier find his love, survive, sacrifice and maintain friendships throughout the game-play and kill the enemies at the same time. The main antagonist of the game is Baron Von Dorf, a general in German army who turns the life of the young soldier upside down by dragging him into places where nobody else would go ever want to go. You must act according to the story and go through a number of harsh situations, use your skills, weapons and wit to defeat enemies and finally get together with your family. Valiant Hearts: The Great War with an amazing World War 1 setting, battles between the German and French armies, amazing visuals, a great story and an engaging game-play, is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Try it out for an amazing gaming experience with a different touch. You’ll definitely like it a lot.
#27 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.
#28 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.
#29 Limbo
Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.
#30 Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender
Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender is a Fast-paced Action-Adventure, Platform and Arcade Retro Shooter (Run and Gun) video game similar to Broforce. The game offers a 2 player Co-Op gaming mode and allows you to blast your way through hordes of mechanical sea monsters in order to get to the Underwater Milk Mine. Once you have captured the Mine, you have to defend it against all the monsters and keep on drinking the Health Full Fat Milk. You must find all the Cats like you, pour them milk and make them stronger in order to fight off the enemies. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender is one of the coolest new alternatives to Broforce. Do try it out.
#31 Defy Gravity: Extended
Defy Gravity: Extended by Diamond Interactive is a wonderful Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and Indie video game that allows you to enjoy Platforming and Puzzle aesthetics on one place. The game focuses on a female protagonist named as Kera and allows you to control her, manipulate the environment and objects by using your special gravity gun and pace through amazingly challenging puzzles, obstacles etc. and enjoy being part of an amazing journey. With unique physics-based game-play, great visuals, 24 challenging game levels, super cool quests and a lot of other wonderful things, Defy Gravity: Extended is a cool game to play. Try it out and you’ll definitely love every bit of this game.
#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 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.
#36 Deadlight: Director’s Cut
Deadlight: Director’s Cut developed by Tequila Works and published by Microsoft Studios is an Action, Side-scroll, Horror-Survival and Single-player video game for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the Seattle in 1986 and revolves around the story of the protagonist named as Randall Wayne, who is a former park ranger. The protagonist is looking for his family in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. He left the group whom he has connected, and the protagonist must struggle to traverse the fictional world to find the safe zone, where he believes his family will be saved and waiting. The zombies threaten the world and the player can assume the role of the protagonist. His ultimate goal is to explore the world, avoid zombie hordes and survive as long as possible to save her family. The player can navigate the world from the side-scroll perspective and can move from right to left and left to right. The protagonist can crouch, long jump, walk, roll, and can perform more acrobatic moves. With superb various of puzzles, exciting story, and engaging gameplay, Deadlight: Director’s Cut is the best game to play and enjoy.
#37 Cranium Conundrum
Cranium Conundrum is an Adventure, Side-scroll, Co-op, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Falling Star Games and published by Sometimes You. The game is a mix of Puzzle-Platform and Physics-based elements, taking place in the worlds of a dream that the player created. It features a level editor and enables the player to build multiple levels and place different objects in them. The player can take on the role of the little character, and his ultimate task is to explore the world from side-scroll view, interact with objects and fight against enemies to score the points. There are a series of levels available, and each level offers different background setting and a set of objectives to complete. The player can run, jump, climb a ladder and avoid obstacles to progress further. As the game proceed, it becomes difficult to play. Cranium Conundrum offers core features such as Customization, Level Editor, different Environments, Mind-bending Puzzles and more. Check it out and have fun.
#38 Samorost 3
Samorost 3 is an Adventure, Puzzle and Single-player video game developed and published by Amanita Design available to play on multiple platforms. The game mixes the Point and Click and Adventure elements, and it is the third installment in the series of Samorost game and the sequel to Samorost 2. The game takes place on five planets and up to four moons. The gameplay is similar to its predecessors and consists of no dialogue, only an animated thought gibberish’s system. You assume the role of the protagonist named as Gnome on an epic journey through space, comprises a variety of planets. The protagonist equips with a flute and inventory. Your primary job is to explore the environment, gather items, solve mind-bending puzzles and avoid obstacles that come in your way. It offers a brilliant story starts when a flute falls new the house of the protagonist, and he decides to search out the secret behind the flute. With prominent features, exciting gameplay, intense environment, and smooth controls, Samorost 3 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#39 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.
#40 Year Walk
Year Walk is an Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game published and created by Simogo for multiple platforms. The game offers a strange gameplay revolves around the protagonist named as Daniel Svensson, who visiting his lover named as Stina. The protagonist warns by his Stina about the dangers of the year walking, and tells her about her cousin who had died while immersive in the activity. After returning home, the main character prepare himself to engage in the year walk. The player assumes the protagonist’s role, who set out himself on an epic adventure. The player encounters multiple fairies and a variety of strange creatures while exploring the church. There are a set of levels and each level needs a completion of certain tasks. The game offers a puzzle-based gameplay, in which the player must solve numerous puzzles to progress. Primary objective of the player is to uncover the truth behind the scene and unlock further mysteries. Year Walk offers core features such as New Puzzles, new Locations, Hint System, Achievements, and more.
#41 Saira
Saira is a Free-to-play, 2D Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game with emphasis on Exploration and Side-scrolling elements developed by Nicklas Nygren and published by Kreatoriet AB. The game offers a non-linear gameplay and takes place in the massive world to explore. It puts you in the role of the female protagonist named as Saira, a photographer, who is specializes in capturing the dangerous animals and places around the universe digitally. According to the story, the protagonist finds herself as only the remaining person in the vast universe. She has no weapons and equipment to face enemies. The player must manipulate the world, use his wits to progress through the story, and effort to solve well-crafted puzzles to earn points. There are different locations to explore and the game has multiple ends, depending on the decision taken by the player during the game. Up to sixty puzzles available to accomplish with unique soundtracks. Saira can run, jump, and walk his way through multiple levels to find the secrets behind the scene. Saira offers core features such as Multiple Endings, Non-linear Gameplay, Surprising Creatures, and more. Try it out.
#42 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.
#43 Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (also known as Shantae: ½ Genie Hero) is an Adventure, Platform, Side-scroll and Single-player video game developed and published by WayForward Technologies for multiple platforms. It is the 4th title in the series of Shantae and serves as the first title to be designed for HD game platforms. Like previous titles, the player can take on the role of the protagonist named as Shantae, who is a half-genie and can use her hair as a weapon to attack foes. During the game, the player can obtain dances that enable her to transform into different forms and each form has its unique abilities that can access inaccessible areas. The game offers a new transformation such as monkey, elephant and a bat, a crab, a mouse, and more. The transformations can be upgraded with new abilities using the earned points. The game split into several stages and the player can replay each stage to obtain new items to progress through the game. New Relic System, Compelling Characters, Arcade-style Action Stages, Magical Attack, etc. are prominent features in the game. Try it out, if you want to battle against huge bosses.
#44 Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition comes with additional content such as New Areas, New Abilities, New Secrets, multiple Modes, and more. The game mixes the Puzzle-Platform, Metroidvania and Side-scroll elements developed by Moon Studios GmbH and published by Microsoft Studios. It takes you on a thrilling, atmospheric adventure, where you takes on the role of Ori, a white guardian spirits, and Sein, the spirit tree of the forest. The player is tasked to explore the environment and move between platforms to solve the puzzles to progress through the game. The game brings a system known as Soul Links, enabling the player to rescue at will and an upgrade system that offers the player the ability to improve the skills of the character. During the gameplay, the player will discover two new environments and can master two new abilities such as Light and Dash burst. The forest is dying after a storm, and the player has to find a solution to save the forest by completing tasks. Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition includes prominent features such as various Levels, Mind-bending Puzzles, Hand-painted Artwork, Animated Characters, and more.
#45 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.
#46 Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco the Dolphin is an Underwater, 2D Adventure, Action, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game developed and published by Sega. The game takes the player in an underwater adventure where the player will experience the life of Ecco, who is a young Dolphin. It offers endless ocean where the player controls the character from a side-scroll perspective to complete the tasks. The title serves as the first title in the series of Ecco the Dolphin video game. During the gameplay, the player must travel through time to battle against hostile extraterrestrials in the ocean of the planet Earth and on the spacecraft of an alien. In the game, the player can do aesthetic spin the air when jumping. There are a series of challenging levels and the player must complete each one to score the points. As the player proceeds through the game, it becomes challenging to play. The player discovers an ancient library and a time machine, when traveling to the sunken city of Atlantis. Ecco the Dolphin offers an exciting gameplay, brilliant graphics, and smooth controls.
#47 Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is an Action, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player video game, created by Press Play and published by Microsoft Studios. It acts as the sequel to the previous title, Max and the Magic Maker, released in 2010 by the same developers. The storyline follows the protagonist named as Max, reaches home from his school one day and discovers his brother named Felix playing and smashing his beloved toys. After that, the protagonist starts to search online using the search engine for a way how to get rid of his young brother. Then, suddenly a mystery portal opens, and his brother disappear. It is the blend of physics-based and Puzzle-Platform elements and the game takes place in the stunning environment played from 2.5D perspective. There are seven chapters available as well as twenty challenging levels. All the levels in the game are linked to offer a single journey. In the game, the player can use the magic element to solve the complex puzzles to earn points. Other levels will be unlocked, as the player advances through it. With addictive features, immersive gameplay, and stunning visuals, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is the fascinating game to play.
#48 Forma.8
Forma.8 is an Adventure, Metroidvania and Single-player Action video game developed and published by MixedBag Srl. The game takes place in the huge world and offers a thrilling story revolves around the protagonist, who is stuck on the surface of the alien planet. As the protagonist, you must fulfil the requirements of the mission to save your life and find a way to escape. Explore the environment to find and restore the lost, but powerful energy resource before it’s too late. During the gameplay, you must solve dozens of mysteries, unlock power-ups, and progress in the adventure to earn points. During the gameplay, you can battle against deadly enemies and can face powerful bosses. It offers beautiful hand-drawn vector graphics and smooth 60FPS. Uncover the truth behind the scene and show off your abilities to become the master. Explore the dystopian land from a side-scroll perspective and immerse yourself in adventure experience. With the superb story, addictive gameplay and smooth controls, Forma.8 is the best game to play and enjoy.
#49 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.
#50 Wik and The Fable of Souls
Wik and The Fable of Souls is another great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Reflexive Entertainment. The game makes you a Frog-man who traverses through the game world by using his unique jumping skills and uses his long tongue as the grapple and movers over and under countless platforms. A friend named Slotham accompanies you on your amazing adventures and helps you solve some complex puzzles. Wik and The Fable of Soul tasks you to explore the world around you, capture as much Grubs as you can and deliver them to Slotham. In order to capture the Grubs, you must solve challenging and complex puzzles, and save the grubs from other creatures and insects. With a wonderfully engaging game-play, beautiful graphics and surreal environment, Wik and The Fable of Soul is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.