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 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.
#2 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
#3 Year Walk
Year Walk is an Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game published and created by Simogo for multiple platforms. The game offers a strange gameplay revolves around the protagonist named as Daniel Svensson, who visiting his lover named as Stina. The protagonist warns by his Stina about the dangers of the year walking, and tells her about her cousin who had died while immersive in the activity. After returning home, the main character prepare himself to engage in the year walk. The player assumes the protagonist’s role, who set out himself on an epic adventure. The player encounters multiple fairies and a variety of strange creatures while exploring the church. There are a set of levels and each level needs a completion of certain tasks. The game offers a puzzle-based gameplay, in which the player must solve numerous puzzles to progress. Primary objective of the player is to uncover the truth behind the scene and unlock further mysteries. Year Walk offers core features such as New Puzzles, new Locations, Hint System, Achievements, and more.
#4 Trine 2: Director’s Cut
Trine 2: Director’s Cut takes the player on an epic adventure through the beautiful and magical worlds in this Platform, Side-scroll, Puzzle and Action video game developed and published by Frozenbyte. The game revolves around physics-based puzzle elements using gravity, water, fire and magic. During the gameplay, the player can assume the role of one of three heroes such as the knight, the Thief, and the Wizard. Each playable character has its unique skills and personality. Up to three players can embarks themselves on an epic journey in both online and local modes. The player can explore the world from a side-scroll perspective, interact with objects and environment to solve mind-bending puzzles, and progress through the game to earn points, which can be used to unlock additional content. As the player advances through the game, it becomes tough to master. Trine 2: Director’s Cut includes prominent features such as Three Playable Characters, Physics-based Puzzle Levels, Increasing Difficulty, Fairy-tale Lands, and more. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and beautiful environment, Trine 2: Director’s Cut is the incredible game to play.
#5 Typoman
Typoman is an incredible 2D Word, Side-scroll, Surreal, Puzzle-Platform, and Single-player Adventure video game developed and published by Brainseed Factory. The game offers impressive gameplay where the player slips into the role of the stick figure made of letters. The ultimate task of the player is to struggle to make his through the dark and hostile world. Despite the stature of the player, he has a special ability which he can use to craft words. During the gameplay, the player needs to unleash his inner power, and use his wits to select the word, because the words can either be a curse or a blessing. It has a dark environment which the player navigates from a side-scroll perspective. There are numerous stages, and the player has to complete each one at any cost. The player will encounter the mind-bending puzzles and must solve all of them to advance through the game. Typoman includes prominent features such as Distinct Soundtracks, Atmospheric World, Solve Challenging Puzzles, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#6 Trine 2
Trine 2, developed by FrozenByte is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle Platform and Side-Scroller video game. This super addictive and engaging sequel to the famous Trine allows you to be anyone of the three main game characters of Thief, Wizard and Knight. Trine 2 lets you engage yourself into challenging platform puzzles in a world of mystery. You can go against your opponents by the use of different magical abilities and skills all collected by gaining the skill points. The game supports up to 3 players in co-operative mode and offers multiplayer feature in online gaming. With an expansion pack named as Trine 2: Goblin Menace, Trine 2 provides with a super thrilling and engaging game-play, a well written story-line and surreal graphic qualities. Trine 2 offers beautiful visuals and sounds, objective-based story-line and a challenging game-play to enjoy.
#7 Nihilumbra
Nihilumbra by Beautifun Games is a Physics-based, Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game features the protagonist Born who walks, jumps on platforms and solves different puzzles in a virtual game world. As he further paces into the game, the protagonist encounters different enemies and defeats them by directly engaging in battles or by solving a number of different puzzles or by simply avoiding them. Born explores the game world divided into four parts with different objectives and puzzles to solve. Along with 3D graphics, a sleek look and different abilities the player possess, he modifies his appearance and the game world according to the environment and puzzles. Nihilumbra is available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS, Wii U and PlayStation Vita.
#8 Thomas Was Alone
Thomas Was Alone is a 2D Action-Adventure, RPG, Puzzle-Platformer and Indie video game by Mike Bithell. The game is set in an Anti-Gravity environment and is about the friendships, jumping and floating together. Your duty is to guide a cluster of boxes through a series of obstacles by using your unique Puzle solving skills and finish the levels. Thomas Was Alone features great background music, amazing voice over and quite addictive and fun filled game-play. The boxes in the game are basically World’s first AI’s and this game lets you program them and perform different tasks with them to see if they have perfected or there is any need of redesigning. Thomas Was Alone includes some great features such as over a 100 challenging and addictive game levels, more than 10 cool player characters, super challenging and quite engaging game-play etc. If you really like to play Puzzle-Platform games, you should not miss Thomas Was Alone. it’ll definitely entertain you good. Do try it out.
#9 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.
#10 Child of Light
Child of Light by Ubisoft Montreal is a marvelous Action-Adventure, Indie and Puzzle-Platform video game that tells the story of a young girl named Aurora who in the year 1895 awakens on the lands of Lemuria. After waking up she finds out that she is a long way from home, starts off her journey to her home but soon realizes that in order to reach home she’ll have to go through a Dark world filled with Dark Creatures of the evil queen of the Night. You are required to get into the role of Aurora, fight off all the Dark Creatures, Defeat the Queen of Night and free the Sun in order to bring light to the realm and finally reach home. Child of Light offers a great story filled with wonders, surreal visuals and sounds and an immersive game-play for you to play and enjoy. If you really want to play a really good game of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform genres, Child of Light is best for you. It offers a brilliantly immersive gameplay, a well-written story and a lot of other great things to enjoy.
#11 Badland
Badland is a Sandbox-style Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Frogmind specially designed for Android and iOS devices. The game is available to play on Windows Phone, Blackberry, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One and Steam (Windows) as well. The game allows you to be a dark jungle creature who struggles to get rid of the giant machine that is killing them all. The machine keeps on annihilating the jungle creatures and suck you up via a portal. After you wake up, you find yourself into a far part of the machine with no ways to get out. Your task is to simply start exploring and finding the ways to get out of the machine and to save your kin by destroying the it. In order to complete the objectives, you’ll have to solve some complex puzzles by the help of all the available objects and by manipulating them to make other useful objects and tools etc. Badland offers brilliant quality visuals and an addictive game-play to enjoy.
#12 Little Inferno
Little Inferno, developed and published by Tomorrow Corporation is a First-person sandbox Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game. Little Inferno takes place in a freezing cold game world in which the protagonist possesses Little Inferno, a fireplace. He uses the fireplace to burn different appliances and toys to keep him warm from the cold. Every burned object provides with money and the player uses the collective amount to buy more objects to burn. In the game, different combinations of objects provide with different amounts of money so the player combines the objects by solving different puzzles and makes new objects that when burnt, allow the player to get more money and warmth. By using the drag and drop interface, player combines different objects to burn. With HD graphics and amazingly easy user controls, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play, Little inferno is available to play on multiple platforms such as Windows, Nintendo Wii U, Mac OS X, iOS and Android.