Xeodrifter
Xeodrifter is an Action-Adventure, Metroidvania and Single-player video game developed and published by Renegade Kid. It takes place in the beautiful world where the player commands the astronaut whose spaceship is destroyed by an asteroid and he must explore nearby four planets to repair his ship. The game revolves around the player to manipulate the planets, and each planet offers a unique environment. During the gameplay, the player can visit any planet in any order, but the navigation focuses on power-ups to unlock new areas. It offers the similar gameplay to Metroid and borrows some elements from another video game Mutant Mudds, released by the same developers. There are various levels, and each level has its unique difficulty setting. The game offers challenging gameplay, as the player advances through it. Xeodrifter offers cool features, brilliant visuals, and smooth controls.
#1 VVVVVV
VVVVVV is a great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game that offers a similar game-play as Spelunky. This immersive game fixes you up into the character of Captain Viridian who gets lost in an alternative dimension while searching for five of his missing crew members. The game allows you to reverse gravity to avoid obstacles like Spikes, Greenish Ghosts and Deep pits etc. and carry on with your mission. With a heavy influence from Commodore 64, Super Meat Boy and Chiptune, VVVVVV offers vibrant visuals, an amazingly immersive and engaging game-play along with a wonderful story-line. For an amazing Super Meat Boy type experience, you must play this game, it fun.
#2 Adventures of Pip
Adventures of Pip takes the players to a beautiful world of Low and High-Resolution beings and offers a fantastic combination of 2D Side-scrolling and Action-Platform elements. Released back in the mid of 2015, Adventures of Pip is available to play on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Nintendo Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and iOS. According to the storyline, an unknown Evil turns the kingdom upside down, turns the King and Queen into Pixels and Abducts Princess Adeline. Pip gets selected to rescue the princess and to eliminate the evil of Queen DeRezzia. The player gets to be the Mighty Pip, a single Pixel that goes on an epic adventure of saving the Damsel in Distress. While going through the 2D Low and High-resolution environments, player’s tasks are to defeat the enemies, pick up upgrades and evolve into an 8 and 16-bit Hero gradually. Keep on switching between the evolution to gain more power and to complete various levels of the game. Keep in mind that the Pip can walk, jump, run, float, break blocks and collect loads o fantastic upgrades, so don’t rely on one or two abilities. Keep on pursuing the bad guys and finally, reach the end, defeat the Evil Queen DeRezzia and free the Princess from her Clutches.
#3 Adventure Story
Adventure Story is a Side-scroll, Platform and Single-player video game created by Rendered Ideas for mobile devices such as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. The game takes you on an epic adventure with exciting levels. It comes with stunning story, where the protagonist and his brother were taking a nap in forest of flowers on a peaceful day. Suddenly, an evil named as Hippo appeared out to spread chaos. All the inhabitants of jungle fear from the brutal monsters and run across the jungle to save their lives. The protagonist named as Chingu ran, but his beloved brother couldn’t run and captured by the monster. After realizing the guilt, the protagonist decides to save his little brother and take revenge from evil and teach the monster lesson. The game explores the world from a side-scroll perspective, encounter enemies and crush them to advance through the level. The game consists of up to fifty unique levels with increasing difficulty and each level offers the cute and beautiful graphics. Adventure Story offers core features such as Epic Gameplay, Intuitive Controls, Ability to Double Jump, 50 Levels, and more.
#4 Gunslugs
Gunslugs is a Pixel-Graphics, Action, platform, Retro-style, and Single-player Side-scroll Shooting video game developed and published by OrangePixel. The game offers a brilliant story, revolving around an evil duck and his minions, struggling to take over the planet with his evil army using the advanced technology and the extensive collection of soldiers. The world needs a hero, and you are the last hope of your people. You must jump into the world where you have to battle against evil Duck and his minions to save the planet. During the gameplay, you can battle in jungles, plane yards, arctica, and the gate of hell. You can use the jetpack to fly and shoot eggs for guns. It focuses on fast-paced gameplay with a run and jumps mechanics, taking place in the procedurally generated environment and introduces the element of perma-death. You have to collect coins and can use them to purchase upgrades, improvements, and mini-games like Donkey Kong, etc. Gunslugs includes prominent features such as Several Levels, different Mini-Games, Gunslugs Heroes, Upgrades, Weapons, Permadeath, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#5 Swordigo
Swordigo is a mix of Action Role-playing, Metroidvania, Adventure, and Platform elements developed and published by Touch Foo for Android and iOS. The game offers Single-player mode and has the similar gameplay to Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Metroid. According to the plot, the player awakes at the mid-night feeling strange and goes outside for fresh air when a strange man informs him that the mentor went into the forest and didn’t come back. After exploring the woods, the player discovers the master die. To learn the first magic bolt the player is sent to the house of Elder. As the story advances, the Elder tells the player to find the Mage Blade and must defeat the Corruptors. The game mainly focuses on side-scroll action-adventure gameplay, where the player can run, swing, jump, and can use magic spells his way through a series of levels. By killing enemies, the player receives experience points and can use these points to level up health, magic, or attack power.
#6 Magic Rampage
Magic Rampage is an Action Role-playing, Side-scroll, Hack-and-Slash and Single-player video game developed and published by Asantee. The game introduces character customization and plenty of weapons to equip from knife to magical staves. The environment takes place dungeon and the game offers new enemies, secrets areas to explore and new obstacles in each dungeon. In the game, the player needs to search for bonuses and levels, struggle to strive in Survival mode, and join forces with NPCs to battle against challenging bosses. Magic Rampage is inspired by 90’s old classic platformer games, offering engaging and refreshed gameplay mechanics. The player can run, jump, and attack enemies using ranged weapons through the variety of levels to advance in game. He can explore the land from side-scroll perspective and try to score the best points to challenge his friends. With engaging gameplay, brilliant graphics and touch controls, Magic Rampage is the best game to play.
#7 Flood of Light
Flood of Light is a mix of Adventure, Role-playing, and Puzzle elements created and published by Irisloft for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The game features a Single-player mode, and the story follows a mysterious girl who is in a raincoat comes to the city submerged by rain. During gameplay, the player needs to subside the rain in order to rescue the city by illuminating the stone and lamp posts with the little light on the player hand. In the game, the player assumes the role of the mysterious girl with an aim to uncover who she is as the rain in the beautiful city subsidies. The game uses the unique mechanic and provides a brand new experience that players have never experienced before. Experience the evolving puzzles, in which the more puzzles the player solve, the more difficult light abilities the player receive to face. There are nine different chapters available, consisting of sixty levels and more than twenty unique mechanics. The game uses the hand-drawn graphics. The game comprises several hidden collectibles, which the player uses to uncover the hidden secret of the city. With immersive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and cool features, Flood of Light is the best game to play.
#8 The Deer God
The Deer God is a 2D Adventure, Pixel Graphics, and Single-player Platform video game played from a side-scroll perspective, developed by Crescent Moon Games. The game takes place in the breathtaking 3D world where the player sets off an epic adventure that will challenge his religion and platforming skills. It is a challenging game about reincarnation, survival, and karma, and all of these are set in a breathtaking and unique world. In the game, the player needs to feast his eyes on the brilliant lighting, dynamic day/night system, and abundant environment. The main job of the player is to become one of the most beautiful animals on Earth. The game allows the player to become a deer to explore the beautiful 3D pixel art land full of various animals and characters to interact. During the game, the player can use different power of statuses and level up his antlers. The Deer God includes key features such as Tons of Items, Find Secrets, Night and Day System, Various Quests, and more.