Ratropolis
Ratropolis is a Strategy, Card, Side-Scrolling, and Single-player video game developed by Cassel Games for Windows. The player plays as a rat savior who needs to protect the rat citizens from predators and strange creatures throughout the gameplay. It is all about strategy where a good leader can perform the task correctly.
The player has to create a safe ratropolis and then hire the military to defend the base from various enemies. The game offers 120 cards for different sections, such as economy, military, building, and other skills. From eight cards, the player begins his adventure, where the key feature is to collect an efficient deck for protecting the rats.
In the multiplayer mode, the player can share cards with friends to help them or take cards from them also. As the city campaign falls, the game ends, but it has multiple endings depending on the management of the player. As the player advances, he can unlock new cards to enhance the performance. To save ratizens from the destruction, manage cards well, and follow a proper strategy.
The game has four different leaders, where each leader has specific abilities and management skills. Significant highlights of the game are Side-Scrolling, Leadership, Real-time Strategy, 120 Cards, Multiple Endings, and Four Characters.
#1 Cave Story Plus
Cave Story Plus is one of the best Action filled Stealth, Puzzle-Platform and indie games. The game offers a unique storyline based on Mysterious themes and it takes you to an amazing world of Mimiga, the land of the Free Running Rabits named as Mimigas. After the attack of the mad Scientist, the Mimigas, are in grave danger and they are in dire need of your help. You act as an amnesiac boy, who wakes up in Mimiga with no memories of his past but he knows he has to save Mimiga and all of its resident Mimigas. Your task is to run, jump, fly and shoot your way through a series of platforms, explore a massive game world and eventually reach to the Mad Scientist. You must defeat the delusional Scientist and save the Mimiga. Cave Story Plus features enhanced graphics, great background music, over 20 boss battle game levels, amazing weaponry, four different game endings, a Metroid inspired setting, Easy Controls, a wonderfully simple storyline, brilliantly immersive and engaging game-play etc. try it out and you’ll definitely love this game.
#2 La-Mulana
La-Mulana is a cool Action-Adventure Puzzle-Platform and Side-Scrolling video game by Nigoro. The game lets you be a Whip wielding adventurer named Lemeza who goes on a journey to explore the tomb of La-Mulana. Your task is to find the Secret Treasure of Life by going through a series of tombs and mausoleums. In order to achieve your goals, you must run and jump over different platforms, kill the enemies by using your whip and other available resources, avoid scary traps and obstacles, Fight off the monsters of the Deep and make your way through the most epic and hardest setting ever. Puzzle solving and reacting fast is the key to success in this marvelous game, so you must be attentive to the smallest details in order to complete the objectives. With a wonderful environment, beautiful 2D visuals, an engaging game-play and all the great things combined, La-Mulana is a great game to play and enjoy.
#3 Spelunky
Spelunky is an Indie, Rogue-like Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and RPG video game developed by Derek Yu. The game lets you be a Spelunker in the game world who gets tasked with exploring a great number of tunnels/caves, collecting different items, saving the damsels and killing the enemies. You can kill the enemy by using your whip on him or by simply jumping on his head just like you did in Mario games. Spelunky provides with four different game worlds and a number of randomly generated game levels filled with a lot of exciting things. The game awards you with points on every enemy kill and finding new treasure, area, valuable and location etc. The enemies in the game include snakes, yetis, man eating plants, ghosts etc. and each of them requires a unique set of skills for you to kill them, so you must use your earned points to buy upgrades regularly or else you’ll get killed by any of your gruesome enemies. The amazing rogue-like game environment makes it more fun to play and enjoy. Try it out.
#4 Axiom Verge
Axiom Verge is a fun Indie Action-Adventure and 2D Platform video game by Thomas Hepp Games. The game offers a Side-Scrolling view and allows the players to enjoy a delightful Metroidvania feel. With a brilliant backstory, Axiom Verge allows the players to control the character of Trace, a Scientist who after getting injured and a black out gets up in an unfamiliar High-tech Ancient World. Axiom Verge focuses on Hardcore Metroidvania Action and Exploration and tasks the players to traverse through an entirely new world where many fears are lurking in the dark shadows. The game lets you have weapons that you can use to overcome the enemies and enjoy upgrading your gear and stuff with all the available power-ups (over 60 different items). With an absorbing and addictive gameplay, beautiful 2D graphics, great mechanics and an overall feel of an amazing adventure, Axiom Verge offer elements borrowed from the biggest Metroidvania games such as Blaster Master, Contra, Bionic Commando and Metroid. For an excellent Action-Adventure and Platform gaming experience, do try it out.
#5 VVVVVV
VVVVVV is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that offers a similar game-play as Spelunky. This immersive game fixes you up into the character of Captain Viridian who gets lost in an alternative dimension while searching for five of his missing crew members. The game allows you to reverse gravity to avoid obstacles like Spikes, Greenish Ghosts and Deep pits etc. and carry on with your mission. With a heavy influence from Commodore 64, Super Meat Boy and Chiptune, VVVVVV offers vibrant visuals, an amazingly immersive and engaging game-play along with a wonderful story-line. For an amazing Super Meat Boy type experience, you must play this game, it fun.
#6 The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
The Angry Video Game: Nerd Adventures is a great Action, Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by FreakZone Games. The game immerses you into the most epic and wonderful setting where you’ll have to go through challenging 10 levels and an amazingly fast-paced game-play by blasting away your enemies with your gun and your amazing fighting techniques. Running and jumping is the fun part in game because you’ll have to be more attentive to the obstacles and all the things planted there to kill you. The Angry Video Game: Nerd Adventures offers a lot of playable characters, upgrades, power-ups along with huge amounts of secrets, and galore. With a wonderful setting, The Angry Video Game: Nerd Adventures offers uniquely built graphics, an amazing game-play and a lot more exciting things.
#7 They Bleed Pixels
They Bleed Pixels is a fun Action, Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that offers beat ‘em’ up characteristics. The game offers a dark Gothic and Lovecraftian Theme and sets you up into the character of an unnamed girls who gets admitted to the Lafcadio Academy for Troubled Young Girls. Affected badly by the nightmares, she feels like being part of the scary world in which she transforms into a dark creature with claws and is bound to explore a dark world filled with gory monsters. You are required to help her go through a dramatically weird world, run, jump and walk on platforms, avoid obstacles like Ghosts, spikes, traps etc. and reach to the final stage where you’ll have to defeat the mega enemy to get rid of your nightmares once and for all. They Bleed Pixels offers unique and challenging puzzles, a number of scary game levels, cool visuals, a brilliant story and an immersive game-play.
#8 Rogue Legacy
Rogue Legacy, developed by Cellar Door games is an Action-Adventure, Rogue-like RTS and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game provides with tons of engaging and quite addictive game-play that includes randomly generated dungeons, a lot of different types of enemies, Bosses with unique combat abilities and techniques, four epic game settlements to explore, collect items and kill your enemies. Rogue Legacy also includes secondary abilities for the players like Magic, and different elemental attacks that cause serious damage to the enemy. If you die in the game, all of your HP shrinks to zero and all your abilities are then transferred to a secondary player who continues your adventure until the last player, when the last player dies, the game ends. Rogue Legacy provides with great level details, clean graphics and an amazingly engaging game-play.
#9 Adventures of Pip
Adventures of Pip takes the players to a beautiful world of Low and High-Resolution beings and offers a fantastic combination of 2D Side-scrolling and Action-Platform elements. Released back in the mid of 2015, Adventures of Pip is available to play on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Nintendo Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and iOS. According to the storyline, an unknown Evil turns the kingdom upside down, turns the King and Queen into Pixels and Abducts Princess Adeline. Pip gets selected to rescue the princess and to eliminate the evil of Queen DeRezzia. The player gets to be the Mighty Pip, a single Pixel that goes on an epic adventure of saving the Damsel in Distress. While going through the 2D Low and High-resolution environments, player’s tasks are to defeat the enemies, pick up upgrades and evolve into an 8 and 16-bit Hero gradually. Keep on switching between the evolution to gain more power and to complete various levels of the game. Keep in mind that the Pip can walk, jump, run, float, break blocks and collect loads o fantastic upgrades, so don’t rely on one or two abilities. Keep on pursuing the bad guys and finally, reach the end, defeat the Evil Queen DeRezzia and free the Princess from her Clutches.
#10 Fenix Rage
Fenix Rage is an amazingly addictive Puzzle-Platform video game by Green Lava Sudios. With a Similar game-play to some of the biggest names such as Spelunky and Super Meat boy, Fenix Rage sets you up into the character of Fenix who pursues an evil creature that freezer his town. With the wonderful abilities like Jumping, Running, and Dashing, Fenix Rage provides with 200 challenging levels, an immersive game-play and brilliantly developed visuals along with a number of great collectibles. Fenix Rage is probably the best and most popular Puzzle-Platform game inspired by the great Spelunky. Fenix Rage offers almost similar game-play, Edifice, Visual aspects, music and mechanics as Super meat Boy and provides with a lot of wonderful game levels to assess your Puzzle-Platform expertise. As the sole protagonist of Fenix Rage, This brilliant game pushes you into an epic pursuit of an evil creature who has destroyed your town. Now you must go after the creature, capture it and take your revenge. Fenix Rage offers 200 amazing game levels, and lets you jump your way to the end of each level, Collect Cookies and keep on pursuing your enemy creature. Fenix Rage, with beautiful visuals, great story and an addictive game-play is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#11 Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy is an Action-Adventure and independent Puzzle-Platform Video game developed by Team Meat. The game features Dark Red Cube character named Meat Boy who embarks on a journey to save his Heavily Bandaged Girlfriend named Bandage Girl from Malevolent Genius and an Evil Scientist Dr. Fetus. The game offers more than 300 levels of pure awesomeness filled with dreadful obstacles like Saw Blades, Crumbling Blocks, Chilling Fires and deep Pits etc. Super Meat Boy is divided into different chapters that have various difficulty levels and collectively all the chapters offer over 300 game levels. Furthermore, Super Meat boy offers thrilling boss battles, and encounters with loads of other enemies and obstacles etc. With a fast-paced gameplay, cool game mechanics and fantastic 2D visuals, Super Meat Boy is a fun game to play and enjoy.