Tomba!
Tomba! combines the elements of Side-scroll, and Platform. It is developed by Whoopee Camp and offers Single-player mode only. The game takes place in the group of Island based on the middle of the map. According to the story, the people of the Island lived with peace for many years. Suddenly, one day a group of evil pigs appeared and mutated the surrounding environment into fierce landscapes using their special powers. The pigs have stolen the bracelet of Tomba’s grandfather and a huge amount of gold. The game sets you on an epic adventure where you have to find a bangle and the gold that was stolen by pigs. Get into the role of the Tomba, explore the game world and complete each level using your abilities. Tomba can run, jump or climb on platforms. You can grab the enemies by jumping on the top and throwing them away. Score the highest points and challenge your friend to beat it. The game offers excellent mechanics, immersive mechanics, and superb visuals.
#1 Tulpa
Tulpa is a brilliant new challenging Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer Video game by Encryptique. The game provides with a surreal game-play in which you’ll have to travel through a haunted world with a girl named Olivia as her soul mate Tulpa. Your tasks are to explore the game world filled with mysterious, bizarre and deadly entities, solve some of the most challenging puzzles and riddles, interact with objects and go through a series of amazing obstacles in order to complete the game objectives. Tupla with amazing story-line, great visuals and an immersive game-play, is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Do give it a try.
#2 Waking Mars
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.
#3 Never Alone
Never Alone is a Single Player, Local Co-operative, Atmospheric Puzzle-Platform video game by Upper One Games. The game offers a game-play divided into 8 chapters and allows you to be an Alaskan Eskimo girl named as Nuna who along with her Companion, an Arctic Fox follows the stories in every chapter and completes various and challenging puzzles. Never Alone lets you swap between the two characters (Nuna and Fox) according to the puzzles in front of you and lets you pick different objects, solve puzzles and restore the balance in the core of Eternal Blizzard. Exploration element of the game lets you explore the game world, interact with objects and solve various puzzles based on physics and environmental wonders. Never Alone lets you use Bola, a special weapon made with weights and interconnected cords to smash into closed areas and open them up, get into new environments and enjoy immersing yourself into an amazingly addictive and quite engaging gameplay. Never Alone offers a story deeply inspired by Alaskan Folklore, that includes sub stories such as Blizzard man, The Little People, Manslayer, The Rolling Heads, The Sky People etc. Try it out and see if you can survive in harsh physical environments and can solve the twisted puzzles.
#4 Deponia
Deponia is a great Comic Style Point and Click Puzzle Platform, Action-Adventure and Indie video game. The game revolves around the characters of Rufus and Goal and lets you witness their cute Love Story in a funny environment. Rufus lives in a world filled with trash and always keeps on dreaming about going into the cleaner and richer world outside the dump he lives in. On day a lovely lady named Goal falls in the dump and Rufus hatches a plan to get into the rich world by helping her. Time goes by and Rufus Falls in love with her, goes through strangest and the hardest puzzles, keeps on struggling and finally reaches to the outer world and finds out her husband is dead. It now depends on you to help Rufus get out of Deponia, win Goal’s heart and eventually save the world and be part of the world of the riches. With cool story, beautiful hand drawn visuals, amazing characters, challenging puzzles and all the wonderful things, Deponia is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#5 The Fall
The Fall is a wonderful Episodic Action-Adventure, Sci-Fi Side-Scroller puzzle video game by Over the Moon. The game lets you be an AI named as A.R.I.D who wears a Combat Suit and goes on exploration of a Dark World. Your task is to go explore a huge game world, highlight and interact with different objects and engage yourself into the most epic and challenging puzzles from a side scrolling perspective. There are a lot of enemy drones out there on your path so you must know how to dram and shoot a gun to kill the drones or else they’ll kill you before you even know it. Advanced mechanics of the game allow you to run, jump and take cover behind the objects to evade enemy bullets. The basic objective of the game is to reach down to the main servers to manipulate your programming and saving the human inside you, so you must do so by not stopping and staying alive. You must also evade the Caretaker and stay away from him because he wants to reprogram your brain in order to shut you down. With super thrilling game-play, amazing story and best ever visuals, The Fall is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#6 The Cave
The Cave is a new addition to the amazing Puzzle-Platform genre and it offers Adventure-based game-play, takes you to the world of your liking. The game actually allows you to gather up your adventurer friends each equipped with brilliant personalities and stories, get into a world of wonders and follow the path you like and descend deeply into the mysterious and visually stunning locations, explore the cave with immense depths and secrets. The Cave aims on providing you with quality gaming, so it allows you to form a 3 member team out of 7 wonderful characters, descend into the cave, start exploring the world around you, switch between the characters whenever you want, perform different actions using the abilities of any individual character, solve challenging puzzles, interact with objects and craft new ones, unlock new caves by completing various tasks and enjoy every bit of your time playing this cool game. The Cave offers amazing story-line, cool graphics and an immersive game-play to enjoy
#7 Feist
Feist is a wonderful 2D Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Finji. The game takes you to a wonderful setting of a Dark Forest, Hazardous Mountains and Dark Caves where you are destined to follow the giant creatures in order to complete the game objectives. In an environment where everything wants to kill you, you must survive by using your wit and platforming experience. Go through a number of obstacles, solve challenging puzzle and use the objects to throw at the beasts, run, duck and jump to survive the enemy attacks, you must reach to your goals instead of getting killed and complete the level. Feist offers a game-play deeply inspired by Limbo and it will definitely leave you spellbound with all the surreal background music and stuff. Try it out as and you’ll definitely enjoy every bit of this brilliant game.
#8 Costume Quest
Costume Quest, created by Double Fine Productions is an Action-Adventure, and Puzzle-platform video game. The game is based up on a Halloween theme and lets you choose a player character from a number of game heroes and enjoy an amazing game-play featuring Trick or Treating beautifully created game worlds. Costume Quest allows you to go on different fun filled quests, gather up your party on individuals, collect a number of required costumes and transform into some special and unique champions according to the scenario. This super cool game provides with a DLC pack in which you’ll find the character and costume of Grubbins a lot of new enemies, new quests/adventures, a lot of creepy trick or treat cards etc. You must in the end be able to bring peace to Repugia by killing all the monsters and completing all the objectives. Costume Quest is a wonderful Puzzle and Platform video game and it will definitely entertain you. Do try it out, its fun playing.
#9 Aquaria
Aquaria is an Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling and 2D Puzzle-Platform video game similar to Child of Light. The game is set in a huge Underwater World full of wonders and ancient treasures. As the protagonist Naija, your task is to simply explore the underwater world, go through the darkest caves, interact with the objects in beautiful sun-lit oases in order to find your lost past, find the treasures hidden for centuries and battle against all the unforgiving and brutal underwater beasts and monsters and uncover the secrets of Aquaria. With an enchanted story, colorful world, surreal soundtracks and visuals, huge amount of creatures to interact with and an amazingly addictive game-play, Aquaria is one of the best games of this specific genre.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 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.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#15 DeadCore
DeadCore, developed by 5 Bit Games is a First-Person Action-Adventure and Physics-Based Puzzle-Platform video game set in an alternate reality. The game lets the players traverse through a number of environmental hazards by using their special abilities and eliminate the enemies by the use of futuristic weapons and skills. The basic objective of the game is to reach to the top of a revolutionary Tower and finish the level. DeadCore is one of the best games of this specific genre and is a great source of entertainment for all the enthusiasts. With a number of challenging puzzles, a lot of different environments to go through, Unique skills and abilities to master, DearCore offers beautifully created visuals, objective-based story and an engaging game-play to enjoy.
#16 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.
#17 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.
#18 Limbo
Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.
#19 World of Goo
World of Goo is a beautiful Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by 2DBoy. This wonderful Mix up of Indie, Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and Point and Click elements allows you to build massive structures with nothing but Goo Balls. The game offers five main chapters all filled up with challenging levels, with unique music, graphic themes and a totally unique environment. The amazing multiplayer feature allows the players from around the world to build amazing towers using goo balls and enjoy competing against each other. With a super engaging game-play, cool visuals and sounds etc., World of Goo is a brilliant game to play and enjoy. If you haven’t played it yet, you should definitely try it out. It’ll make you an addict.