Owlboy
Owlboy is an Adventure, Platform and Single-player video game created and published by D-Pad Studio. The game takes place in the land of the Sky consists of an island separated by a catastrophic event. The player controls the protagonist named as Octus, who can fly and carry multiple objects during flight can throw at enemies to kill. There are a series of levels available, and the player can discover new allies while exploration that accompanies him during the epic journey, each character has its unique set of weapons and properties. During the gameplay, the player has to avoid obstacles, fight enemies to kill them and become the best adventurer around the world. The game takes the player in the monster-infested ruins world full of hidden secrets. The player can carry out anything in the level and can throw to kill enemies. As the game progress, it offers strong levels that the player has to accomplish at any cost. Owlboy offers core features such as massive Dungeons, Challenging Boss Battles, Mixture of Platform and Flight elements, and more. Check out the game and have fun.
#1 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.
#2 Rayman Legends
Rayman Legends is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game created by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Casablanca. The game provides with a similar game-play to Rayman Origins and allows up to 4 players for a simultaneous game-play in which you can explore dungeons, haunted lands and fight against vampires, ghosts, and the living dead etc. Rayman Legends provides with 120 levels of pure awesomeness, additional Lums and Teensies. This super cool re-mastered version of the game actually is a war going on between the Teensies and their nightmares so you must get up from you 100 yearlong sleep, encounter the nightmares and the Dark Teensies and free the 10 princesses and the good Teensies. Rayman Legends is a great Action-Adventure, and Puzzle platformer video game, do try it out.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.