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.
#1 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
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 Little Big Planet
Little Big Planet (LBP) is a beautiful Action-Adventure and puzzle platform video game created by Media Molecule. This game is mostly based on user created content and that is why it is played, created and shared at the same time. Till date, this game can only be played on PlayStation alone or with your friends online on the same console. Little Big Planet consists of five games in the series. The game offers a number of fantastic characters including all the inhibitants of Litle Big Planet and themain character “The Sack Boy”. In order to complete the objectives, Little big Planet tasks you to traverse through amazing and beautiful environments, solve a number of challenging puzzles and enjoy beautifully embedded Platforming elements. Little Big Planet offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#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 Badland
Badland is a Sandbox-style Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Frogmind specially designed for Android and iOS devices. The game is available to play on Windows Phone, Blackberry, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One and Steam (Windows) as well. The game allows you to be a dark jungle creature who struggles to get rid of the giant machine that is killing them all. The machine keeps on annihilating the jungle creatures and suck you up via a portal. After you wake up, you find yourself into a far part of the machine with no ways to get out. Your task is to simply start exploring and finding the ways to get out of the machine and to save your kin by destroying the it. In order to complete the objectives, you’ll have to solve some complex puzzles by the help of all the available objects and by manipulating them to make other useful objects and tools etc. Badland offers brilliant quality visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy.
#7 Funky Lab Rat
Funky Lab Rat is a marvelous new Side-Scrolling Puzzle-Platform video game by Hydravision Entertainment. The game features a Rat named as Diego who possesses some really strange powers and knows how to stop and rewind time, solve challenging puzzles and jumping beyond the limits. Once the Funky Lab Rat gets into a lab and get stuck there with no possible exit. Your task is to help the Rat try and get out the lab by jumping on the platforms, collecting the special pills and by solving the complex puzzles. In order to solve the puzzles, you can use your special ability to stop and rewind the time and when you reach a specific point in time, learn how the puzzle can be solved, return back and solve it. Rearranging the blocks, building new platforms and by jumping on them will definitely make you enjoy the game. Funky Lab Rat offers multiple game levels and with every passed level, the next game level gets hard, so you better be good at solving puzzles and stuff. With a number of different challenges, beautiful visuals, addictive game-play along with 84 game levels, 10 beautifully created game worlds and all the fun, Funky Lab Rat is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.
#8 Little Big Planet 2
Little Big Planet 2 by Media Molecule is a fascinating Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game kicks off when a Huge inter-dimensional vacuum cleaner named Negativitron that sucks up all the inhabitants of Little Big Planet including our little sackboy. The leader of the Semi-Secret group Alliance comes to their rescue and the organization decides to fight against the Negativitron and defeat it before it devastates the whole Craftworld. You get into the character of Larry Da Vinci the leader of The Alliance and start your journey into the world of Craftworld against the mighty Negativitron. You must go through a series of platform oriented worlds and use your skills to solve the puzzles, defeat your enemies and rescue the Sackboy along with all the other inhabitants of Little Big Planet. Little Big Planet 2 with a marvelous story, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play, is an amazingly addictive and engaging puzzle video game to play and enjoy.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 Vessel
Vessel, is a super exciting and addictive Physics-Based Action-Adventure and Steampunk themed Puzzle-Platform video game by Strange Loop Games. The story of the game revolves around a young, gifted and talented inventor named Arkwright. Game kicks off with the achievement of his new invention called Fluro. Fluro got produced in huge numbers and distributed all around the world. After some time the Fluro all around the world became self-aware and a widespread devastation occurred. As the inventor of Fluro it is now your duty to get to the bottom of why all of this happened. In order to fix the machines around the world you must start your journey. A really great gaming experience, graphics and a feeling like Rayman Legends makes it more awesome. You’ll defiantly enjoy it. Do try it out.
#12 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.
#13 The Swapper
When we talk about some really wonderful Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform games, The Swapper can’t be just missed. The Swapper is a brilliant Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform video game with a wonderful narrative, game-play and mechanics. The game is set in the distant quadrants of Space and takes you to an amazing journey of a Sci-Fi world. The Swapper lets you be a space wanderer with a special device that makes your clones and allows you to swap your consciousness into totally new bodies (Clones), solve some of the most challenging puzzles, go through amazingly beautiful environment build using clay models, and be part of a wonderful story and game-play. As compared to a lot of the titles with similar aesthetics, The Swapper is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that totally immerses you with the core game-play and lets you have an awesome experience.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 Papo & Yo
Papo & Yo tells the story about a very unusual friendship between a Human and a Monster. Quico is a Brazilian boy who loves to hang out with his Monster friend without any fear. Despite all the gory appearance of the monster, its razor sharp teeth and addiction to eating poisonous Frogs, Quico loves his friend and together they explore a magical world while solving challenging puzzles and manipulating the buildings and environment in an entirely unique way. The game tasks the players to control the character of Quico, build a friendship with the monster, and solve some of the hardest puzzles in an environment filled with all kinds of wonders. Papo & Yo lets the players learn to utilize monster’s emotions, use them to solve puzzles and to find the cure to save their friend. With a great mix up of action, puzzle solving and exploration-based elements, Papo & Yo lets the players enjoy an entirely unique and one of its kind story. All things considered, Papo & Yo offers a surreal, physics defying and one of the most heartfelt stories of all times. Try it out and it’ll take you to a whole new world of astonishment.
#17 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.
#18 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.
#19 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.
#20 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.