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 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.