The Ball
The Ball is a great Portal inspired First-person Puzzle-platform and adventure video game developed by Teoti Studios and published by Tripwire Interactive. In the game, the player gets to be in the character of a young archeologist who gets trapped in a huge cave while finding some ancient artifacts. While searching for the artifacts, he finds out a strange metallic round object known as “The Ball”. In order to get out of the cave, the protagonist gets bounded to solve various Physics-based Puzzles and make his way out of the cave. He picks up the ball and the ball helps him solve the puzzles, and he finally gets out of the cave, the game concludes. During the time he spends in the cave, the protagonist combats with different spooky creatures and the Ball helps him stay alive. This game is quit fun to play due to its unique storyline. You must give it a try. With enhanced Unreal Engine 3, The Ball offers beautifully created visuals, realistic scenarios and a totally addictive gameplay. The Ball is playable on Microsoft Windows and Ouya only.
#1 Portal
Portal, developed by Valve Corporation is a First person, Physics-based Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist named Chell who solves puzzles by teleporting and getting help from the objects by using the special The Apurture Science Handheld Portal device. The device opens up two spatial portal on two different planes and the protagonist travels through these two portals and solves the puzzles, interacts with a number of items and crafts different things. The player character gets challenged by AI (Artificial Intelligence) who goes by the name of GlaDOS. Each time the player solves a puzzle, he gets a Cake as the reward that can be used to buy power-ups and upgrades. With it’s amazingly addictive and immersive nature, Portal offers beautiful visuals and sounds, an objective-based story and puzzles and a challenging game-play to enjoy.
#2 Quantum Conundrum
Quantum Conundrum is a challenging First-person, Physics-based Puzzle-platform video game developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix for PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game features the protagonist as a boy who walks, runs, jumps and interacts with different objects to solve various physics based puzzles to make his way to the next level of the game. After manipulating the objects of the rooms, and solving enough puzzles, the protagonist reaches to the a door that leads to the finish line of the level and lets the player engage in the next puzzle. With all the wonderful scenarios and very good graphics, Quantum Conundrum is an interesting game to play and enjoy. You must try it out.
#3 Psychonauts
Psychonauts is another super addictive Action-Adventure, Interactive-Drama and Puzzle-platform video game. The game revolves around the character of a young Psych named Razputin who starts up his journey of becoming a Psychonaut. In order to achieve the goals, you’ll have to help Razputin break into the Psychonaut’s training center, make a place for yourself there, defeat the enigmatic villain who have kidnapped your fellow campers. It is now your duty to free your fellow campers by the use of your special abilities and psychic powers. You must focus on telekinesis, levitation and project yourself into the minds of the enemies, fight them off, sabotage their facilities and eventually free your friends. Psychonauts offers an amazingly twisted game-play, a great story to follow along with amazing visuals and a lot of other great things.