Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse mixes the Metroidvania and Platform elements developed and published by WayForward Technologies for multiple platforms. It is the third installment in the series of Shantae and offers the exciting gameplay with improved visuals, mechanics and controls. The game focuses on the protagonist, who is a half-genie named as Shantae and revolves around her struggle to save Sequin Land from the new enemy known as the Pirate Master, with the assist of her nemesis called Risky Boots. Like its previous titles, the game casts the player in the protagonist’s role, who can attack enemies using her hair as a weapon. After losing her genie power in the previous entry, the player has to make use of various items that the player collect during the course of the game. These items include a pistol that the player can use to shoot enemies, a hat that can be used to glide through the air, a scimitar that can destroy blocks and more. The game has various levels, and the player must explore each one to fulfil the requirements of the game to save the day. Unlock additional content using the earned points and face massive bosses at the end of each stage. Check it out, and have fun.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 DLC Quest
DLC Quest is not actually a Stealth-based game but it offers wonderful Puzzle-Platform aesthetics and lets you immerse yourself into an amazingly addictive game-play ever. Being actually the parody of Downloadable Content, DLC Quest lets you jump on challenging platforms, solve some challenging puzzles on your way, collect coins in order to buy upgrades and stuff and enjoy the ultimate fun. To play more levels of the game, DLC Quest lets you buy new maps by spending the collected gold coins, get into new game worlds and enjoy engaging yourself in to epic enemy encounters, collecting items and interacting with the NPCs, killing some zombies and firing your special guns etc. The final battle against the boss in each level makes this game more addictive and challenging. For an amazing Gunpoint like gaming experience, do try this brilliant game.
#4 BattleBlock Theatre
BattleBlock Theatre is an Action oriented, Casual, and Indie Puzzle-Platform video game developed by The Behemoth. The game is about an unnamed being who sets out to free his friends kidnapped by the gruesome technologically advanced Cats. His ship wrecks on an island and he too gets abducted by the Cats. You must act as the protagonist Aka. The loner and free your friends at any cost or the technological cats will kill them all. BattleBlock Theatre lets you jump on some brilliantly themed platforms and kill the enemies. You must use your special skills and weapons in order to achieve your goals. Some key features of this brilliant game include! Co-Op game-play, different arenas to engage yourself in, over 450 levels of pure awesomeness great animations and some wonderful graphics. For an amazing Action filled Puzzle-Platform gameplay experience with a bit twist and turns, you must play this game. You’ll love it.
#5 Disney DuckTales Remastered
Disney DuckTales Remastered is a Metroidvania, Side-scroll and Platform video game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Capcom. The game supports Single-player mode and serves as the HD remake of DuckTales, released in 1989. It represents the 2D hand-drawn characters in 3D modelled levels. The game revolves around the protagonist named as Scrooge McDuck like the original title, where the protagonist must travel around the world to find five treasures to increase his fortune. During the gameplay, the player can swing his cane to break and strike objects and can bounce on it like a stick to attack foes from above. This method enables the player to reach the higher areas, as well as bounce across the difficult obstacles and hazards that would hurt the player on his foot. It comes with a variety of levels, and the difficulty will be increased as the player advances through the story. The game rewards the player with points, and the player can challenge his friends to beat his record. Disney DuckTales Remastered is the wonderful Platform game to play.
#6 Warp
Warp is the mix of Stealth, Action, and Puzzle genres, offering the super gameplay in which the player is able to warp through objects and doors and cause creatures to explode. The game supports Single-player mode developed by Trapdoor and published by Electronic Arts for Multiple Platform. The story of the game starts from a first-person viewpoint of the player being pulled out of what occurs to be a cave by the team of scientists. The character of the player named Zero, is confused as the team of scientist take him to the secure facility of military. After that, he discovers that two scientists performing a surgery on him and extracting an object when he fades in and out of consciousness. After the surgery, a fellow alien try to contacts Zero through telepathy and informs that it can sense other alien species in the facility and they should escape together. Warp includes core features such as Three Possible Endings, 3D Environment, Stealth Elements, Puzzle-solving Gameplay, and more. Check it out, and have fun.