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2D arcade action games with elements of puzzle solving

piydek

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Recently I've played Trine and Rochard, two games I've had lots of fun with. I like the combo of arcade action with light puzzle solving. Can the codex recommend any other similar games to these? I've been searching around but can't really find anything.
 

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Draq, that's exactly the stuff I'm talking about. Unfortunately, I've played Another World and Flashback to the death back in the days on my Amiga.
 

SCO

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There is a flashback clone created in the twilight years of the amiga that might be unknown to you. I forget the name. Outrun? onEscapee. I haven't played it though.

Full game (mirror of the uploaded company version, pc version, reputed to be slightly inferior, but whatever)
http://uploaded.to/file/mpqnbjpp


There is also something that fits to a T (well, a inferior, actiony T) what you want that i forgot the name "Bermuda Syndrome" - (16 bits app, either use a 32 bits windows, wine* or dosbox with windows 3.1*). A french flashback clone about a guy in a jungle with dinosaurs.

Super Metroid/metroid redesign (just the translation, find the rom elsewhere) is one of the best of course.




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mahdi

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Maybe these will work:

The Neverhood
Abe's Oddysee/Exodus
Heart of Darkness (highly recommended)
Wild 9 (never played this)
Blackthorne
 

Unkillable Cat

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Aquaria is rather light on the puzzles, except for that horrible musical one at the end. It's more about exploration. Still worth playing.

You want puzzles and you enjoyed Trine? Play Lost Vikings. That one alone should keep you occupied 'till next year.
 

SCO

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If you REALLY want puzzles, try the Humans series.

Not much of a "arcade action" game though.
 

dragonfk

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Hmm maybe Spelunky? It's fun and maybe there are no straightforward puzzles, but still there are some head-sratchers when you get a killer set of blocks(every level of the game is built from blocks which are randomly set with each other, sometimes creating very fun combinations which at the same time are very difficult to pass without losing life or valuable gear).
 

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Lufia 2 for SNES.

More RPG than action though.
 

Metro

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Trine 2~ But really 2D Action game with light puzzle elements describes almost half of all indie games, see, e.g., Nightsky, Braid, Trine (which you've played), Limbo, etc.
 

piydek

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Thanks for the great recommendations guys, you know your stuff!

OnEscapee - played and finished that game back in the days on Amiga CD-rom. Great game. Nowhere near Flashback IMO, but on par with another world. It felt a bit forced at the time, but i had great fun with it. Really nice graphics. It goes the same for Lost Vikings and Fury of the furries - played and finished those on the Amiga as well - truly great games. Someone said "little big adventure" - i've played that as well way back, but that's an adventure game.

Abe's odysee/exodus - never played it but i've heard great things about it. does the steam version that's currently on sale work with Win7/32bit? I'm quite sure I'll play this. I've also acquired Heart of darness, hope it'll work on win7.

Bermuda syndrome seems good as well, i'll try it.

Initially, I forgot to mention a few of the games Metro is mentioning now: Braid I've finished and Limbo i'm playing ATM. I'd really really recommend limbo, along with trine and also rochard to anyone into this kind of games. Quite easy but great fun for a couple of days.
 

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Oh, forgot to mention: Blocks That Matter. Was in the Humble Bundle before this recent one and is also on sale for $2 during the current Steam sale.
 

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Nikujin, a challenging little platformer/puzzler, also, it is free.

Nikujin.jpg
 

Zergian

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Sorry, by translation you meant patch. OK.

I have to take the opportunity to recommend snesGT, in my experience the best snes emulator there is, disregarding the CPU hog that is bsnes. Here's the latest version:

http://www.emucr.com/2011/01/snesgt-v0230-beta-7.html

I recommend Super Metroid as well. Great atmosphere. The Redesign patch might make it too difficult though (I didn't get past the beginning, which has a timed escape episode, though there's no timed missions later iirc, apart from the very end).
 

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