Shovel Knight: King of Cards
Shovel Knight: King of Cards is an Adventure, Platform, and Single-player video game offered by Yacht Club Games. Throughout the gameplay, the player serves as Shoulder Bash, who has a twirl his way to the kingdom. The player has to build a deck by collecting different cards.
The game offers a new playable mode Joustus where almost 120 different cards are available to strengthen the deck. In PvP mode, the player can challenge the friends to be the king of cards. The player must collect plenty of treasures and heirlooms to achieve the Joustus crown.
As the player makes progress, the rank through the leaderboard improves. The player must earn a handsome amount of cash by betting large and to achieve the advanced cards. Jump into the adventure, make a durable deck, and be the master of cards. The game has significant features, such as 120 Cards, PvP Mode, New Mode, Platform, and Collectibles.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.