What Never Was
What Never Was is an Adventure, Puzzle, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with Atmospheric, Mystery, and Walking Simulator elements. The game was developed and published by Acke Hallgren, and available to play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. It takes place in the late 20s, where an old but kind man named Howard James Wright, perishes. Leaving behind many adventures, valuable relics, he is also leaving his granddaughter named Sara behind. The game puts the player in the role of the female protagonist, who upon navigating come to know that not everything about her grandpa attic is what it seems. It lets the player experience the unique gameplay with the mix of First-person perspective game heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving. There are many tasks that the player needs to complete by clearing out her grandpa attic. It offers the story-driven gameplay and increasing the difficulty level as the player approaches to high levels.
#1 Lume
Lume is a marvelously engaging and quite addictive 3D Adventure and Puzzle video game that offers Action aesthetics as well. The game is all set up on a cardboard like environment and allows you to set yourself up into the character of a young girl who lives in her grandfather’s home. In the start of the game, the electricity goes out and the game tasks you to go on an adventure to restore it by solving a series of challenging puzzles. While on your adventure, your grandfather mysteriously disappears and you get an additional task to find him. In a world entirely made of cardboard and papers, you must solve the puzzles to find you grandfather and restore the power and enjoy the puzzle-adventure aesthetics. Lume offers brilliant visuals, an awesome story-line and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#2 The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour is a wonderful addition to the series of The 7th Guest. This wonderful Puzzle Adventure video game will once again take you to an abandoned mansion, lock you up good and will let you escape by solving the challenging puzzles. The game allows you to be the famous Carl Denning Jr. who works a T.V to host a Mystery show named as Case Unsolved. After the sudden disappearance of your girlfriend and the producer, it is now your duty to solve the mystery and finally know about the truth. The 11th Hour takes you to the abandoned mansion and tasks you to solve some really interesting and challenging puzzles in order to know the real thing. Interaction with objects, collecting them and solving puzzles by combining them or by using them individually are the trickiest parts of the game, so you better be good at that. With a whole bunch of amazing puzzles, the creepiest setting of the game, brilliant visuals, a good story and a wonderfully immersive game-play, The 11th Hour is a great game Adventure and Puzzle video game to play and enjoy.
#3 The Room
The Room is a 3D puzzle, adventure, and mystery-based video game developed by Fireproof Games. The game offers a brilliant and challenging game-play in which you go through several boxes built using complex physical mechanisms. You are tasked with solving the mysterious puzzles to open the boxes. Each box has a different mystery that takes the character to new levels. Furthermore, it offers a tutorial mode to learn about the game environments and master gaming skills.
It offers layers of compelling problems that do not allow you to take your eyes away from the gaming screen. It consists of realistic graphics that provide you a natural view of various levels of the game. In addition, the amazing secrets of all the stages make it difficult for the user to stop playing. So start playing and solve enigmatic mysteries and give yourself an enhanced dose of entertainment.
#4 Starship Titanic
Starship Titanic is a Point-and-Click, Graphics Adventure and Single-player Puzzle video game developed by The Digital Village and published by Nightdive Studios. The game offers the huge starship where the game takes place, and the player is tasked with repairing by finding the missing parts of the control system. The main gameplay involves interacting with bots inside the ship and solving the mind-bending puzzles. It introduces the text parser like other Adventure games where the player can interact with other characters. The story starts with the house of the player character on the planet Earth, which is demolished when a cruise ship crash-lands through the roof. The game is played from a first-person viewpoint and can move on the ship by clicking on the locations using the mouse cursor and moving to the next frame. The player can also use the mouse to pick up and store items in his inventory and can use when needs. In the starting of the game, the player has a device known as PET (Person Electronic Thing), serving as the toolbar on the screen’s top. The device has five modes such as Personal Baggage, Chat-O-Mat, Remote Thingummy, Designer Room Number, and more.
#5 Receiver
Receiver is a First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game developed and published by Wolfire Games for Multiple Platforms. The game tries to portray the realistic gun mechanics through the use of unique reloading system, where the reloading’s each step is assigned a different button. In the game, the player scavenges audio tapes and items which uncover the storyline in the randomly generated environment. In the game, the player as the protagonist must search for eleven audio taps scattered around the randomly generated land. Flashlights and ammunition are scattered throughout the game environment to collect as well. The player starts the game with a handgun, either a Colt M1911A1 pistol, a Smith and Wesson Model 10 Revolver, or a Fire Glock 17 Pistol. The player has a random inventory of spare magazines and ammunition for his weapon, and the game starts with the player searching for audio tapes using the flashlight. The player will encounter sentry turrets and hover drones while navigating the environment that will attack the player to kill. With immersive gameplay, superb mechanics, and stunning graphics, Receiver is the best game to play.
#6 AntVentor
AntVentor is an Adventure, Puzzle, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game created by LoopyMood for Multiple Platforms. It comes with thrilling gameplay, in which the game puts you in the role of an ant and lets you explore the world. The game acts as the first chapter of the AntTrilogy series, revolving around an ant and thrilling adventure in a realistic macroworld. The story follows a small inventor ant who has a big dream, despite the small size. He lived a simple life, until you appeared, and broke his mechanism, as well as ruined his plans. Now, it’s your job to do whatever to help an ant, not only return to his peaceful life but also complete his long-cherished dream. Together you need to overcome difficulties and have many awesome adventures, which are starting in the first chapter. AntVentor includes prominent features such as Original Atmospheric Music, Comical Moments, Macroworld, Huge and Tiny Inhabitant, and more.