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Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.

Dead Cells is an exciting Rogue-like, Metroidvania, and Single-player video game created and published by Motion Twin. The game can be described as a Roguevania, the mixture of Action-Exploration Metroidvania and Randomly-generated rogue-like games. In the game, the player controls the mass of cells that control the body of the prisoner at the start of the game. As the player explores the variety of dungeons and battle against deadly creatures within, the player gathers armour, unique-power-ups, and weapons to boost his power. Some enemies will offer cells when taken down, which the player can use to obtain power-ups like extra health potions, new items, and more. The player can spend these collected cells at the dungeon section’s end. If the player dies before completing the dungeons, he loses all the collected cells. Dead Cells includes core features such as Interconnected World, Replayability, Permadeath, Non-linear Gameplay, Exploration, Hidden Passages, Secret Rooms, and more. The game is played from a side-scroll viewpoint.

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.

Dex is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game created and published by Dreadlocks Ltd for Multiple Platforms. The game is set in an open world environment, and it mixes the side-scroll gameplay with Action and Role-playing elements, taking place in the cyberpunk-themed world. The main focus of the game is on exploration and non-linear gameplay like other Role-playing games. In the game, the player controls the main character named Dex, an eponymous character who receives a set of challenging quests from Non-player Characters. Each quest in the game has several possible solutions and it up to the player which one of them to select. The story centres on the protagonist, a young woman, who is living in Harbor Prime, a city ruled by corporations that are associated with a secret authority called the Complex. The player becomes a target of the Complex that summons and sends it assassins to her in order to save, but she is rescued by a hacker called Raycas who assists her to safety. There are several challenging levels, and each has a set of objectives that the player needs to complete.

Waking Mars proves to be a wonderful game that truly offers a brilliantly addictive and quite immersive gameplay and a great story as well. being one of the most played and well liked Action-Adventure and Puzzle Platform video game, Waking Mars takes you to the planet Mars in the year 2097 when after the discovery of life, the first human mission gets trapped into a system of caves. In order to survive the only option seems to be adopting the alien ecosystem, so you must start acting like aliens (Martians), explore the planet, fight off the enemies, survive and save the crew. To explore the planet, Waking Mars lets you use Jetpacks and to fight off the aliens, it allows you to use your tactics and weapons when needed. You must also master the behaviors of different creatures and learn the ways to be part of a breathing ecosystem, discover the secrets, collect the items and finally get out of the planet. With a an amazingly addictive open ended game-play, super cool visuals and sounds, Waking Mars is a fantastic new Action-Adventure and Puzzle Platform video game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try if you haven’t played this marvel yet.