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  • Machinarium

  • Solve puzzles, quests, brain-teasers and mini-games to rid the city of the wicked Black Cap Brotherhood robots. Gorgeous hand-drawn graphics and animations bring the robot's story to life, using unique comic bubbles and symbols to convey the plot. Available in steam or website.

    tags: games puzzle-game
  • Braid

  • Braid is a platforming game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles.

    tags: games platforming-game puzzle-game single-player single-player-campaign
  • Super Meat Boy

  • Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and is the successor to Edmund McMillen's and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released on the Newgrounds website in October 2008.

    tags: full-controller-support games platform-game single-player
  • VVVVVV

  • In VVVVVV, the player controls Captain Viridian, who is lost in an alternate dimension, in search of the missing members of his spaceship's crew. Instead of jumping, the player is able to control the direction of gravity, allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors and ceilings of the environment. The graphical style of VVVVVV is heavily influenced by the Commodore 64; similarly, the game's music is entirely chiptune.

    tags: games gravity platforming-game
  • Another World

  • Also known as Out Of This World™, Another World is a pioneer action/platformer that released across more than a dozen platforms since its debut in 1991. Along the years, Another World™ has attained cult status among critics and sophisticated gamers alike.

    tags: adventure-game games platform-game retro-game rotoscoping
  • Deadlight

  • Deadlight is a 2012 sidescrolling survival horror cinematic platforming video game. The game tells the story of Randall Wayne, a former park ranger who sets out to find his family in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Intended as a throwback to the classic sidescrolling games of the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Prince of Persia, Another World and Flashback.

    tags: 2-5d-3d-characters-in-2d-backgrounds- games platform-game side-scroller single-player
  • Minilens

  • Welcome to the Minilens experiment.

    tags: platform-game platforming-game puzzle-game
  • Of Light & Shadow

  • "Of Light & Shadow" is an award winning sidescroll puzzle-platformer for PC/Mac with a slight twist; the game combines two areas in each level, light and shadow, as well as two protagonists in one playable character, Mr. Light and Dr. Shadow. While either can only survive in light or shadow areas respectively, the player has to constantly switch between them and make the right decision about whose abilities to utilise. The game starts off with two introductory levels for each protagonist. While Mr. Light should feel like your typical platformer character, Dr. Shadow is more of a cognitive challenge with puzzles and, since being an unhurried academic, timing. After these separate tutorials, for the rest of the game the player can switch between the two complementary characters at any time to pass through levels full of moving platforms, tricky puzzles and many hazards that insistently try to harm you. »

    tags: creative-commons games jump-and-run platform-game puzzle-game
  • Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

  • In this 2D action adventure so damn twisted, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures as you make your way to the center of the mysterious Shadow Planet! Solve complex puzzles and upgrade your ship with alien technology as you fight to save your home world.

    tags: 2d-games action-adventure platform-game puzzle-game
  • Nihilumbra

  • Use the power of the colors to change the world around you, and join Born on his adventure while he tries to stay alive and escape from his inevitable fate: being consumed by the pure emptiness. The Void.

    tags: dark-game platform-game puzzle-game strategy-game
  • Knytt Stories

  • In Knytt Stories, each level is its own little adventure. One level is included with the game, where you have to stop a machine that draws the life out of the planet. To find more levels to play, download the expansion pack or go to http://knyttlevels.com/ to find some made by the community.

    tags: Portable adventure-game games platform-game
  • Crazy Hamster

  • The winter is coming. Crazy hamster forgot to store his supplies. Now he has to visit different lands before winter to find food. Hamster is so crazy that he sees nothing but fruits. The lands he visits are full of traps and obstacles he won't even notice. You have to help him and neutralize those traps. There's no time to loose, the hamster has already set off!Control the world Hamster lives in by building bridges, extinguishing fire or putting a ladder. Change the land's slant to accelerate Hamster's speed. »

    tags: games platform-game
  • Indivisible

  • Indivisible is inspired by classics like Valkyrie Profile and Super Metroid, but with the unique character, world, and gameplay depth Lab Zero is known for, and will feature a stunning soundtrack by legendary Japanese game music composer, Hiroki Kikuta.

    tags: 2d-games action-game action-rpg games indie-game
  • Kentucky Route Zero

  • Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

    tags: adventure-game artistic minimalistic point-and-click