The Consuming Shadow
The Consuming Shadow is an Adventure, Horror, 2D, and Single-player video game developed by Ben Yahtzee Croshaw for Windows. Throughout the gameplay, the player assumes the role of the savior that needs to explore the land, fight his way through different dungeons. An ancient faction has invaded the world, and the player must save the land from the attackers.
The player must complete all the quests to make progress through the game. The game comes up with four playable characters where each one offers specific abilities and features. The player must utilize a different strategy to find and solve the puzzles.
More than ten missions are there and a vast collection of encounters where the player must complete all the missions. Almost 20 different monsters are there for the player to fight against unique powers. Join the adventure, face off the monster, gather various collectibles, and uncover the secrets of the world.
#1 MO: Astray
MO: Astray is an Action, Adventure, Puzzle-Platform, Side-Scrolling, and Single-player video game offered by Archpray Inc. During the gameplay, the player needs to survive and defeat the bosses to complete the level. The character in the game is MO, and the giant bosses trap the MO while he was playing.
The player needs to get rid of the bosses by surviving their attacks and complete the levels. Each level contains difficulty and more powerful bosses along with enemies, but the player has to survive their attacks. The power of the bosses gets lower by hitting them again and again.
The character can jump, remain in the air for a short time, and stick from one pace to another place for its survival. Enemies can attack from any side of the screen to attack you, so you need to be careful and active while playing the game. The game has significant features, such as Little Guy, Survival Gameplay, Epic Bosses, Dangerous Locations, and Side-Scrolling.
#2 Monster Sanctuary
Monster Sanctuary is an Action, RPG, Exploration, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, and Single-player video game offered by Moi Rai Games. During the gameplay, you assume the role of a protagonist and battles with enemies for the monster sanctuary. On your way, you will face numerous enemies and obstacles, but you need to overcome all hurdles by utilizing your skills and abilities.
The game offers several modes to play, such as Magmapillar, Valero, Blob, Lion, and Rocky. Each contains different missions and gameplay. There are four different levels to play, such as feather storm, might, sidekick, and air sickle. The game offers different power-ups for the character such as Ignite, Claws, Stone Rain, Firestorm, and Jewel Blast.
The player can jump, run, swim, and interact with the NPC’s in different ways. An AI pet is also along with you to overcome all hurdles in your way. You can upgrade the skills, equipment, and inventory to make the character more powerful and to improve the rank. The player can utilize multiple abilities, such as tidal wave, solar burst, arcane bolt, and the bubble burst to eliminate numerous enemies.
You need to collect all the collectibles and countless treasures to earn more points to be on the top of the Leader Board. The game has several features, such as Different Abilities, Several Modes, Skills, Equipment, NPC Interaction, AI Pet, Four Levels, and 2D Graphics.
#3 Flynn: Son of Crimson
Flynn: Son of Crimson is an Action, Adventure, Indie, Side-Scrolling, Casual, and Single-player video game offered by Studio ThunderHorse. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a protagonist named Flynn, who is an orphan guy and follows the shadows of his beginnings by awaking the ancient Crimson powers.
The player can utilize abilities like melee attacks and other skills to overcome hurdles during the journey. This game offers more than 40 different levels, and each level contains several enemies with a black ring at the end, which takes the player to the next level. If the player loses its health at one level, the health remains the same for the next level and can recover the health by finding the treasure boxes.
The game offers several weapons at once and can switch the weapon according to the situation, such as sword to kill the enemies, an ax to cut hurdles, claws drill to make paths, etc. The protagonist can run, jump, dodge, and climb upstairs to complete the missions. The game has core features, such as Different Levels, Treasure Boxes, Switchable Weapons, Multiple Abilities, and 2D Graphics.
#4 Sea Salt
Sea Salt is an Action, Horror, RTS, Atmospheric, Mythology, and Single-player video game offered by YCJY Games. During the gameplay, you are an old God who can gather impossible revulsions to scourge the human lands. You have the authority of penance, and humanity is also borrower to their sins.
The game offers multiple apostles having different abilities and powers, such as 3x spitters, 4x Worms, etc. and the virtual gold can unlock other apostles in the game. Your army will come from the water to take revenge from the oppressors that deny you or try to compete for your strength. The army will attack foes and kill them, and you can also interact with several NPC’s in the game.
The player can also unlock the different cards, such as Worms that move slowly and can generate corrosive damage against the oppressors, the swarm who can run fast but weak and good for the surrounded enemies. The game has core features, such as Several Cards, Multiple Apostles, NPC Communication, Different Abilities, and 2D Graphics.
#5 Noita
Noita is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed and published by Nolla Games for Microsoft Windows. The game takes place in the 2D world, and it mixes the action elements with rogue-lite, setting in the land where every pixel is simulated. During the gameplay, the player needs to fight, explore, freeze, burn, and evaporate his way through the randomly generated world using the powerful spells. During the gameplay, the player needs to navigate a series of environments from coal mines to wastelands while delivering deeper in search for strange mysteries. The game allows the player to experience the pixel-based physics gameplay and must create powerful spells as he tries to delve deeper into the caverns. While playing the game, the player can use magic to crush the enemies and manipulate the land around him. Noita includes prominent features such as Randomly Generated World, Create Powerful Spells, Action Rogue-lite, a set of Environments to Explore, and more.
#6 Blasphemous
Blasphemous is an Action-Adventure, Side-scroll Platform, and Single-player video game developed by The Game Kitchen and published by Team17 Digital Ltd. The game takes place in the stunning world where a foul curse has fallen upon the beautiful land of Cvstodia and its inhabitants. It puts you in charge of the protagonist, who is a survivor and stuck in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. Now, all responsibility to save the world is on you from the terrible fate and must reach the region of your anguish. During the gameplay, you navigate the nightmarish world full of discoveries and religion. While moving forward direction, you can use devastating combos and brutal executions to take down waves of enemies, vicious monsters and titanic bosses to rescue the world from being smashed. At the start, your objective isn’t easy, and you must find and equip relics to improve your skills and then release attack against enemies in an endless adventure to become the master. In the game, you can navigate the non-linear world that comes with fearsome enemies and deadly traps to overcome as you venture through the world contains a series of landscapes. Blasphemous includes prominent features such as Non-linear Gameplay, Brutal Combat, Executions, Customization, and more.
#7 Touhou Luna Nights
Touhou Luna Nights is a 2D Action, Metroidvania, and Single-player video game created and published by Vaka games Magazine. The game takes place in the 2D world where the player controls the female protagonist to navigate the world uses a side-scroll viewpoint. The story embarks the player on an epic journey to save the world from devastation. In the start, the player controls the character who can move from side-scroll view and his aim is to take down enemies while advancing through the game. The adapt graze system into a 2D game, offering the player a sense of tension in approaching to the enemy. A time stop system is also featured from the character’s ability and maps that use unique abilities like time stop. During the gameplay, the player will experience the increasingly difficult level that make the enemy more challenging. The game rewards the player with points and the player uses these points to unlock further content. Touhou Luna Nights includes core features such as Side-scroll Action, Platforming Gameplay, a Female Protagonist, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#8 Valfaris
Valfaris is an Action, Pixel Graphics, Retro-style, and 2D Single-player video game developed by Steel Mantis for PC. The storyline reveals that the fortress has reappeared back after vanishing from the galactic charts, in the orbit of a dying sun.
As the story advances, a fearless and proud son named Tyrion returns to his home to uncover the truth of its fate and then challenge the arcane evil. The game puts the player in the role of the protagonist, who is equipped with a mighty sword that the player can use to take down rival enemies.
The game sets the player to explore the world his way from a side-scroll, attack enemies using powerful weapons and face off bosses at the end of each stage to unlock further. The screen displays the health bars of the protagonist and the enemy against which the player is standing to take down. The difficulty level may increase as the player reaches to a high level, which means the player will face off challenging enemies and their bosses that are difficult to defeat.
#9 Rabi-Ribi
Rabi-Ribi is an Action-Adventure, Anime, Metroidvania, Side-scroll, and Single-player Shoot ‘em up video game developed by CreSpirit and published by Sekai Project. The game takes place in the thrilling environment and offers a well-written story revolves around the female protagonist named as Erina, whose is a rabbit and her life is turned down, when she discovers herself in the strange world and transformed into a human with rabbit ears. Along the way, the protagonist interact with pink-haired fairy, mysterious creatures and Ribbon, who selects to stay by the side of the protagonist. The game sets out all the heroes on an epic quest to restore the life of Erina. It mainly focuses on 2D platformer, exploration and shoot ‘em up elements that offers non-linear gameplay. The player can explore the land from a side-scroll view, battle enemies and can smash them before they smash the player or fend off him or her to fulfill the tasks. There are four different difficulty settings and the game offers more than nine areas and over twenty subareas to navigate. More than sixty items and upgrades can be used by the player while exploring the world. Rabi-Ribi includes core features such as 20 illustrate Characters, 40 Boss Battles, 100 Attack Patterns, Upgrades and more. Try it out.
#10 The Messenger
The Messenger is a 2D Pixel Graphics, Retro-style, Side-scroll, and Single-player Action video game developed by Sabotage and published by Devolver Digital for Microsoft Windows. According to the plot, the world is threatened by a demon army, and as the young ninja, the player must venture through the cursed environment. The game mainly deals with the classic platform and survival elements. The player embarks on an expansive time-travelling adventure full of humour, surprises, and thrills. During the game, the player will experience the acrobatic and dynamic gameplay as well as worthy ninja adventure. He can discover new character upgrades, hidden levels, new abilities, and plenty of paths. There are many levels, and each level is full of enemies, hurdles, and obstacles that the player has to overcome at any cost while playing the game. The Messenger includes prominent features such as Dynamic Gameplay, Character Upgrades, New Abilities, Cast of Characters, Original Soundtracks, and more. Check it out, and have fun.