Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut
Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut is an Action-Adventure, Puzzle, and Single-player video game developed by Toxic Games for multiple platforms. Throughout the course, the player has to control the avatar to reach an exit through a series of levels. The character has special gloves that will help the player to reach the exit by performing several functions on specific blocks.
The player finds himself in an ancient temple with a pair of gloves. These gloves allow him to interact with specific blocks in the walls, floors, and ceilings of the rooms. Different blocks have particular functionalities such as purple blocks that can rotate sections of walls, green blocks provide a sphere or cube, and yellow blocks permit to make stair-like structures.
New puzzles get to unlock as the player progresses, for example, the bulk of the chambers get dark except some colored-blocks, and the player has to remember the location of other blocks.
#1 Portal
Portal, developed by Valve Corporation is a First person, Physics-based Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist named Chell who solves puzzles by teleporting and getting help from the objects by using the special The Apurture Science Handheld Portal device. The device opens up two spatial portal on two different planes and the protagonist travels through these two portals and solves the puzzles, interacts with a number of items and crafts different things. The player character gets challenged by AI (Artificial Intelligence) who goes by the name of GlaDOS. Each time the player solves a puzzle, he gets a Cake as the reward that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. With it’s amazingly addictive and immersive nature, Portal offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and puzzles and a challenging game-play to enjoy.
#2 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.
#3 The Ball
The Ball is a great Portal inspired First-person Puzzle-platform and adventure video game developed by Teoti Studios and published by Tripwire Interactive. In the game, the player gets to be in the character of a young archeologist who gets trapped in a huge cave while finding some ancient artifacts. While searching for the artifacts, he finds out a strange metallic round object known as “The Ball”. In order to get out of the cave, the protagonist gets bounded to solve various Physics-based Puzzles and make his way out of the cave. He picks up the ball and the ball helps him solve the puzzles, and he finally gets out of the cave, the game concludes. During the time he spends in the cave, the protagonist combats with different spooky creatures and the Ball helps him stay alive. This game is quit fun to play due to its unique storyline. You must give it a try. With enhanced Unreal Engine 3, The Ball offers beautifully created visuals, realistic scenarios and a totally addictive gameplay. The Ball is playable on Microsoft Windows and Ouya only.
#4 Quantum Conundrum
Quantum Conundrum is a challenging First-person, Physics-based Puzzle-platform video game developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game features the protagonist as a boy who walks, runs, jumps and interacts with different objects to solve various physics based puzzles to make his way to the next level of the game. After manipulating the objects of the rooms, and solving enough puzzles, the protagonist reaches to the a door that leads to the finish line of the level and lets the player engage in the next puzzle. With all the wonderful scenarios and very good graphics, Quantum Conundrum is an interesting game to play and enjoy. You must try it out.
#5 Tag: The Power of Paint
Tag: The Power of Paint, developed by Tag Team and published by DigiPen is a First-person Physics-based Puzzle-Platform video game playable on PC (Microsoft Windows) with Direct X9 or 9C installed on it. The game is set in a gray-scale landscape in which the protagonist roams solving the platform puzzles. The player uses a Paint Gun to Tag and solve the puzzles. The gun is filled with 3 types of surface altering paints. The paints fired from the gun help the player jump on platforms that are built by the specific properties of the specifically colored paint. Player keeps on firing and jumping on the platforms until he reaches on a point where he mixes different colors and solves the mega puzzle by shooting a mixture of paints. When the final puzzle is solved, the player finds an opening and advances to the next level through it. Tag: The Power of Paint is an awesomely engaging game to play and enjoy. You should totally check it out.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 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.