She Remembered Caterpillars
She Remembered Caterpillars is a Puzzle, Isometric, and Single-player video game takes place in the hand-drawn world, developed by Jumpsuit Entertainment UG. The game brings the color-matching puzzle gameplay with the fungipunk aesthetic. It takes place in a phantasgamorphic land of living architecture, brightly-colored gammies, and more. The game spans in several chapters, and as the player advances through each episode, the strange universe will start revealing it. During the gameplay, the player will find out gorgeous artwork, and there are more than forty challenging levels of mind-blowing puzzles. Each new problem offers a fresh mechanic or a set of color. While playing the game, the player needs to use his wits to solve the challenging puzzles and must advance through the game to reveal more content to become the master. She Remembered Caterpillars offers key features such as Brain-bending Puzzles, Fresh Mechanics, a Hunting Soundtrack, and more.
#1 Polyroll
Polyroll is a 2D Platform, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game developed by Spicy Gyro Games and published by Shiny Dolphin Games LLC. The game brings an excellent storyline, in which Kaiser Kiwi has abducted almost all the roly polys and took them to his Castle. There’s only one hero who can save them all, named Polyroll. More than ten worlds are available, and each has its unique environment to explore. Over thirty-two levels await the player to test his platforming skills. Throughout the game, the player will face 11 fierce bosses, and each one has its unique fighting style and power. In the game, the player can navigate the environment from a side-scroll perspective, and his main objective is to become the master by taking down all the vicious bosses and saving all the kidnapped creatures. Polyroll includes core features such as 11 Worlds to Explore, Platform Challenges, Gather Gems, 11 Boss fights, Nefarious Bosses, and more.
#2 Catmaze
Catmaze is an Action Role-playing, Side-scroll, and Single-player Metroidvania video game brought to you by Redblack Spade. The storyline reveals that cats have been the primary source of the link between the world of Nav and the world of Yav, and for this particular ability, they were awarded nine lives. According to the plot, the mysterious creatures’ struggles to keep the secrets in the remote forests and dense thickets that have become home to mermaids, anchutkas, and more. In the game, the player as the protagonist can explore the world from a side-scroll perspective, and his main objective is to take down enemies while making points to advance through the game. During the gameplay, the player can run, jump, and attack his way through a set of levels, while due to RPG aspects, the player can interact with non-player characters. The game brings ancient tales to life in a massive labyrinth of Slavic villages and forests. In the game, the player needs to help the female protagonist named Alesha in challenging battles with mythical creatures. Catmaze includes a prominent feature such as Fascinating Battles, Metroidvania Gameplay, Search for Secret Paths, Role-playing Elements, and more.
#3 WarriOrb
WarriOrb is an Action-Adventure, Side-scrolling, and Single-player video game developed and published by Not Yet. The game comes with exciting gameplay, in which the player plays as a mighty demon who is imprisoned inside a ball body. However, the way to freedom is full of challenges, but don’t despise failure, every wrong decision discarded is another step toward victory. During the gameplay, the player must bounce and roll his way through a set of levels toward freedom and must avoid deadly traps to challenge his skills and reflexes. While playing the game, puzzles will provide the player with some time to think between traps. In the game, the player will deal with trade, exploration, action, and fight. Gather as many items as possible while navigating the land. Experience a tragic storyline of loss and desperation hidden behind the tale of a demon stuck inside a ball. WarriOrb includes key features such as a Comic Tale, Gather Items, Serious Conversation, Bounce, and Roll Your Way, Puzzles to Solve, and more.
#4 Unbound: Worlds Apart
Unbound: Worlds Apart is an Adventure, Atmosphere, Platformer, and Single-player video game takes place in the beautiful 2D world where the player moves from a side-scroll viewpoint. Alien Pixel Studios develops and publishes the game, and introduces a perfect blend of Puzzle-Platform and Atmosphere game elements where the main character named Soil can conjure magic portals to traverse between various realities. During the gameplay, the player needs to learn more about the catastrophe that ravaged the land. However, inside the specific portals, the physical properties of the main character or the land elements can alter, providing with new gameplay possibilities. The player will experience the gameplay in the cartoonish style, with a choice to experience fresh gameplay. The game takes the player in the beautiful hand-drawn world full of plentiful puzzles, and it comes with the non-linear storyline. Unbound: Worlds Apart offers core features such as Play with Portals, Non-linear Storyline, Hand-drawn Art, Non-linear Gameplay, and more.
#5 Foxyland 2
Foxyland 2 is a 2D Action-Adventure, Platform, and Single-player video game played from a side-scroll perspective, developed by BUG-Studio and published by Crescent Moon Games. The story follows the main character named Foxy, who purchased a house with the help of Jenny and other small foxes. All was perfect until a strange evil named Duke and his vicious brother named Jax attacked and smashed almost everything, as well as abducted the little foxes. After that, both characters Foxy and Jenny are forced to set off a dangerous but exciting journey across the island to fend off the evil brothers to carry out their evil plan. The player navigates the environment from a side-scroll perspective, and he can run, jump, and attack his way through a set of levels while gathering coins to make points. There are more than forty hand-crafted levels, and each level comes with serious challenges that the player needs to complete. New locations are here to navigate, such as Hot Desert, Dense Forests, and Mushroom Valleys.
#6 Balthazar’s Dream
Balthazar’s Dream is a 2D Action-Adventure, Pixel Graphics, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game developed and published by Psilocybe Games. The storyline follows a kid named Dustin who goes into a coma after being attacked by an ice cream truck. However, his injuries are dangerous, and unfortunately, there’s no hope of him waking up. As the story progression, his god sleeps his side, dreaming of strange land full of wonders, known as Balthazar. The best friend of the protagonist is trapped in a strange world where there is no way in the area the dog will move even a second away from his owner. During the gameplay, the dog can use his nose to follow his owner, while the other presence of the dog is the ability to lurk in the darkness. The game sets out the player on an epic adventure to rescue his owner, venturing through the nightmare with determination and love only a dog can possess. There are ten challenging levels and three dogfights with bosses. Balthazar’s Dream offers core features such as Emotional Soundtrack, Five Different Dog Breeds, Three Dogfights, and more.
#7 Wuppo
Wuppo is a 2D Platform, Action, and Single-player Adventure video game developed by Knuist and Perzik and published by Soedesco Publishing. The story of the game revolves around a character who after losing its home, must traverse the width and length of the land to locate a new place to live. From the cavernous Bliekopolis to the metropolitan heaven, the character will find out magical places and discover strange creatures. But Wum isn’t the traditional hero in the game and using the wit and charm the player can succeed in his journey. The game uses hand-drawn graphics, and it comes with an extensive soundtrack and a massive land to navigate. During the gameplay, the player can navigate the wondrous land full of Wums, Fnakkers, and other strange creatures. While playing the game, the player needs to resolve an ancient battle on his quest for a new home. Battle against numerous enemies and gather as many filmstrips as possible to find the detailed history of the world. Wuppo includes key features such as Several Items to Use, Gather Filmstrips, Numerous Enemies, and more.
#8 Shantae Risky’s Revenge: Director’s Cut
Shantae Risky’s Revenge: Director’s Cut is a 2D Platform, Side-scroll, Metroidvania, and Single-player video game developed and published by WayForward for Multiple Platforms. This brand new version of the original game blends all the content from previous releases and includes even more. It introduces the pixel-based masterpiece which remains intact, HD graphics, and extra new challenges to test the player’s skills. During the gameplay, the player will discover lots of new elements, including new illustrations, emoticons, unlockable achievements, controller support, and more. The game comes with the revised Warp system that is perfect for speed runners and returning players alike. Loads of new challenging levels await the player, and each level is full of vicious zombies, deadly labyrinths, strange creatures, and more. While playing the game, the player can use his power to foil the lady pirate to rescue the Sequin Land from doom. Shantae: Risky’s Revenge: Director’s Cut includes key features such as Side-scroll Action, 2D Graphics, Powerful Creatures, Rescue Golden Babies, and more.
#9 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.
#10 Wik and The Fable of Souls
Wik and The Fable of Souls is another great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Reflexive Entertainment. The game makes you a Frog-man who traverses through the game world by using his unique jumping skills and uses his long tongue as the grapple and movers over and under countless platforms. A friend named Slotham accompanies you on your amazing adventures and helps you solve some complex puzzles. Wik and The Fable of Soul tasks you to explore the world around you, capture as much Grubs as you can and deliver them to Slotham. In order to capture the Grubs, you must solve challenging and complex puzzles, and save the grubs from other creatures and insects. With a wonderfully engaging game-play, beautiful graphics and surreal environment, Wik and The Fable of Soul is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.
#11 Nihilumbra
Nihilumbra by Beautifun Games is a Physics-based, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist Born who walks, jumps on platforms and solves different puzzles in a virtual game world. As he further paces into the game, the protagonist encounters different enemies and defeats them by directly engaging in battles or by solving a number of different puzzles or by simply avoiding them. Born explores the game world divided into four parts with different objectives and puzzles to solve. Along with 3D graphics, a sleek look and different abilities the player possess, he modifies his appearance and the game world according to the environment and puzzles. Nihilumbra is available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS, Wii U and PlayStation Vita.
#12 Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP is a Graphic Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platformer and indie video game by Caypybara Games. The game revolves around the character of Scythia and allows you to be part of the two super amazing worlds, one is the real world and the other is a dream world. You can jump from one world to another according to your states. For example, if you want to visit the dream world, you must sleep and if you want to get back to the real world, you must wake up. You can explore a massive sandbox type game world and interact with objects, find out the passage ways or you can eat the Red Mushrooms to boost up your energy levels to continue your journey. You can go on different quests to find the Trigones by traveling through the passageways. The story of Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery seems kind of twisted one but it will surely engage you in some exciting Puzzles and Adventures and you will enjoy this game for sure. Do try it out.
#13 Closure
Closure is a fantastic new Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game by Eyebrow Interactive that takes you to an amazingly eerie Dark World of Closure. Your task is to solve some of the most bizarre, mysterious and challenging puzzles, interact with and manipulate a lot of different objects, craft a number of things and complete the game objectives in order to clear the levels. The game lets you be a Spider like demonic creature and allows you to explore the game-world and set your course according to the stories of three Human Characters, travel through a mysterious world and eerie environments and enjoy. Closure offers great story, surreal visuals and an immersive game-play. Do try it out for an amazing Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform experience.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse is an Episodic, Comic Style Point-and-Click Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by Revolution Software. The game take you to Paris and let’s choose your character from two choices, The Fearless Amarican George Stobbart and a French journalist named Nico Collard. Your task in the game is to find out the truth about a Stolen Painting, a Murder and a possible worldwide destruction by the hands of the Devil. You must solve this mysterious case by using your true detective skills, logic and unique abilities. To complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through a lot of challenges, puzzles and a lot of difficulties because the strings are attached to the Devil himself. The mystery of Surpent’s Curse must be solved in order to save the world from chaos and destruction. With wonderful 5 episodes, amazing adventures across Europe, hand drawn visuals, a well written story and an amazingly addictive game-play, Broken Sword 5: the Serpent’s Curse is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#17 The Night of the Rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit is an wonderful Point-and-Click Puzzle, Platform Action-Adventure and 3D video game by Daedalic Entertainment. The game revolves around a little boy named Jerry Hazelnutt who wants to be a skilled magician. Jerry finds out a Formula of creating the Carrot Flame, mixes in different magical ingredients and suddenly a travel bag appears. Jerry opens up the case and finds a Magic Hat, Wand and a big Rabbit named Marquise De Hoto from a parallel Universe. Jerry becomes his apprentice and Hoto takes him to a fairyland named Mousewood. Jerry finds out that this world is soon going to be attacked by the cunning and cruel magician Zaroff, Gathers up his courage and asks Marquise to help him. Your task is to help Jerry defeat Zaroof by the use of your magic skills and by solving a number of magical puzzles. The fate of the Mousewood residents lies totally in your hands, so you must save the poor creatures. The Night of the Rabbit lets you explore, interact with Mice and Moles, solve a number of challenging puzzles etc. in a wonderfully created environment. With great visuals, great story and an immersive game-play, The Night of the Rabbit is a great game to play and enjoy.
#18 Snapshot
Snapshot, developed by Retro Affect is an Action-Adventure, Side Scrolling and indie Puzzle-Platform video game. The story of the game revolves around a lonely Robot wandering in an abandoned virtual world. The only object of the game is to solve different platform puzzles and make pictures of your great adventure. With the help of the camera, you can add or remove any part of the game world to solve the puzzles. You can achieve game rewards by collecting all the stars in a game level and complete the level to gain skill points that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. A game level completed in provided game time and the images captured are responsible for your game rankings so you must complete a task in not more than the given time. Snapshot offers a great fun filled game-play, a good story to follow, amazing 2D graphics, beautiful sceneries and game music.
#19 Tormentum: Dark Sorrow
Tormentum: Dark Sorrow is an amazing Point-and-Click Action-Adventure and Puzzle Platform, indie video game set in a dreamlike environment filled with nightmarish hazards and other horrors. The game offers a Dark theme and a mix up of miserable and depressing characteristics in a world of fear and agony. The game kicks off with the protagonist locked up into a cage with almost no memory of what happened to him. The air ship that you are in lands in a castle and the castle and surrounding area becomes your new prison. Your task in the game is toexplore, interact with things and objects around you and find ways to get out of this castle and eventually from this whole horror filled world. To achieve the goals, you’ll have to solve challenging puzzles, find and collect different items scattered all around the castle and use them to get out. Tormentum: Dark Sorrow offers multiple language supports, great story, wonderful comic style visuals and an addictive and horror game-play to enjoy.
#20 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.
#21 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.
#22 Capsized
Capsized is another marvel of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platforming gaming. The game offers intense action and exploration-based game-play in which your task is to be a Space traveler, leave your crashed ship and go on exploring a totally unknown planet, travel through amazingly challenging puzzles and platforms, fight against the vicious alien enemies, survive, save your crew and escape after repairing your ship. The inclusion of a jetpack to your inventory makes this game even more engaging as it helps you evade enemies and other hazards and lets you travel from one point to another speedily as well. With a brilliant Sci-Fi setting, eye catching visuals and a skirmishing and hardcore action-packed game-play, Capsized is a great new Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.
#23 BlackHole
BlackHole is an amazingly addictive Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by FiolaSoft Studio that offers brilliant Animated 2D Visuals, well written story and an engaging game-play that immerses you with the game-play. BlackHole lets you be a Hero, explore a wonderful world around, go through a series of platforms and find out the secrets and solve some of the most talked about mysteries. The game actually kicks off when your ship gets stuck in BlackHole and crashes on a planet-like object named as Entity. Your task is to accompany your AI companion Auriel, start exploring the Entity, fight off the enemy aliens, survive, save the knocked out crew and eventually repair the ship with collected parts and escape. With amazingly addictive agme-play, beautiful visuals and sounds etc, BlackHole is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game to play.
#24 Brilliant Bob
Brilliant Bob is another great Sandbox-Style Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform video game. The game offers fast-paced and challenging puzzle in amazingly beautiful game world. Brilliant Bob lets you get yourself engaged into amazingly thrilling 50 levels into 2 different game worlds, enjoy going through the platforms while having an appearance of almost 10 unique heroes, enjoy different camera perspectives, face eight different theme-based enemies, draw your sword and fight them off, use canons to shoot them down and use brilliant skills etc. with marvelous sandbox-style visuals, immersive game-play and a lot of other exciting things, Brilliant Bob is one amazing Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.
#25 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.
#26 Windosill
Windosill is a Brilliant Puzzle-Platform and Adventure video game developed by Vectorpark. The game offers a fantastic Physics-driven game-play and takes you to a world built with multiple paintings and drags you deeply into the realm of twisted wonders. Everything you’ll see in the game world, is tangible and can be touched, bent or twisted. With eleven rooms all designed as giant paintings and filled with books, giant birds and monsters, Windosill tasks you to find all the hidden cubes, interact with objects, solve some complex puzzles and finish the level to move to the next one. With a very interesting and twisted game-play, objective-based story-line and beautifully haunted visuals, Windosill is a fantastic Adventure and puzzle-Platform video game to play.
#27 The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories
The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories is a Puzzle-Platform and Single-player video game developed by White Owls Inc. The premise of the game is that the protagonist is looking for her beloved friend and love interest Emily after she goes missing on a trip. After the protagonist is trapped by lightning, she can’t die and need to inflict horrible wounds on herself to solve the tricky puzzles. Over the course, the player must unlock text messages that uncover her backstory and motivation for her self-harm. There are a set of levels, and each level comes with puzzles that the player should complete to become the master. Each level has its unique difficulty level, and it will increase as the player proceeds. Despite deadly traps across the island, the protagonist can revive from death. During the game, several traps can be overcome by bringing harm to the body. The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories includes vital features such as Thrilling Storyline, a Campaign Trip, Challenging Puzzles, and more.