27 Best Puzzle Platform Games for Xbox 360

Rayman Legends is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game created by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Casablanca. The game provides with a similar game-play to Rayman Origins and allows up to 4 players for a simultaneous game-play in which you can explore dungeons, haunted lands and fight against vampires, ghosts, and the living dead etc. Rayman Legends provides with 120 levels of pure awesomeness, additional Lums and Teensies. This super cool re-mastered version of the game actually is a war going on between the Teensies and their nightmares so you must get up from you 100 yearlong sleep, encounter the nightmares and the Dark Teensies and free the 10 princesses and the good Teensies. Rayman Legends is a great Action-Adventure, and Puzzle platformer video game, do try it out.

Rayman Origins is a cool Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platrform video game that offers a Rayman Legends inspired game-play and mechanics and takes you to an amazing magical universe of Rayman Legends. The game offers 2D game-play and allows you to be the ultimate savior of the Glade of Dreams. The Darktoons have attacked on Glade of Realms and the council is looking for your help once more. You must team up with your best friend Globox and two other Wizards, embark on the journey to defeat the nefarious Darktoons and to restore peace and order into the Glade of Dreams. With great 2D visuals, a super engaging and addictive game-play, great story, multiplayer Co-Op, Epic boss and enemy fights etc. Rayman Origins is a thrillingly superb game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it.

Limbo is an award winning Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by PlayDead. The game offers wonderfully immersive game-play and lets you enjoy a Side-Scrolling marvel in which your task is to be a little kid, travel through a dark jungle, solve a number of puzzles in order to carry on your way and defeat some nasty monsters to survive. Huge Spiders, Bear Traps, Dark passages, machine enemies and anti-gravity guns are some of the obstacles that you are destined to go through, remain on your course and get out of this God-forsaken world and eventually find your missing sister. With a mesmerizing and amazing environment, brilliant visuals and an addictive and challenging game-play, Limbo is quite fun to play.

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.

Wik and The Fable of Souls is another great Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game by Reflexive Entertainment. The game makes you a Frog-man who traverses through the game world by using his unique jumping skills and uses his long tongue as the grapple and movers over and under countless platforms. A friend named Slotham accompanies you on your amazing adventures and helps you solve some complex puzzles. Wik and The Fable of Soul tasks you to explore the world around you, capture as much Grubs as you can and deliver them to Slotham. In order to capture the Grubs, you must solve challenging and complex puzzles, and save the grubs from other creatures and insects. With a wonderfully engaging game-play, beautiful graphics and surreal environment, Wik and The Fable of Soul is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.

Braid is a cool Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game Created by Hothead Games, Braid is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Steam, XBox 360 and PS3 and offers a number of cool upgrades and stuff. Although the gaming environment is quite similar to Super Mario but, the puzzles and game-play is quite like Limbo, Badland and Contre Jour etc. Another great feature included in the game is the ability of the player to reverse the time. For example. If you die in the game you can always reverse the time and save yourself whenever you reach the same point where you died previously. This feature alone attracts the players a lot. Six different playing scenarios, everyone with a unique set of challenging puzzles to solve and twisted structure of the game gets you to the whole new level of excitement and Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform gaming. Braid is a wonderful alternative to a lot of games of the same genre. Do give it a try and enjoy the ultimate fun.

Portal 2 is an amazing First-Person Action-Adventure and puzzle platform game developed and distributed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to Portal, portal 2 comes with lots of new levels, enhanced graphics and a user friendly interface. Portal 2 keeps the possession of almost half of the elements from Portal. The game includes single and multiplayer game modes and a lot of new characters. Portal 2 is quite difficult as compared to Portal. You’ll have to solve some seriously complex puzzles in order to advance to the next levels of the game. You’ll get to use some new techniques to solve problems if you really want to make portals. With a totally new and unique style, amazing visuals, objective-based story-line and an engaging game-play, Portal 2 is a fantastic Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play and enjoy.

Capsized is another marvel of Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platforming gaming. The game offers intense action and exploration-based game-play in which your task is to be a Space traveler, leave your crashed ship and go on exploring a totally unknown planet, travel through amazingly challenging puzzles and platforms, fight against the vicious alien enemies, survive, save your crew and escape after repairing your ship. The inclusion of a jetpack to your inventory makes this game even more engaging as it helps you evade enemies and other hazards and lets you travel from one point to another speedily as well. With a brilliant Sci-Fi setting, eye catching visuals and a skirmishing and hardcore action-packed game-play, Capsized is a great new Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video game to play.

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.

Deadlight by Tequila Works is a 2.5D Side-Scrolling, Puzzle-Platform video game packed with Horror and Survival elements. The game takes you back in time and leaves you in the City of Seattle, USA, tasks you to be the protagonist Randall Wayne, a long time Park Ranger who struggles to find his missing Family after a deadly Zombie Apocalypse. According to the story, Wayne goes through a number of different environments, solving challenging Puzzles and avoiding the Zombies termed as “Shadows”. In order to survive and find his family, Wayne must not be seen by the zombies. If you are a fan of games like Deadlight, you’ll know that this game is one amazing piece of art. Inclusion of the shooting and adventure elements makes this game even more engaging and quite fun to play. Deadlight offers brilliant visual details, a Dark theme, amazingly involving gameplay and a very well-written storyline. Do try it out, it’s fun to play.

Contrast, as it tells by the name, is a wonderful Action, Adventure-based Puzzle-Platform video game that lets you jump in to the two worlds (Real and Shadow) in blink of an eye. The game is set in two different worlds, one is realistic 3D world and the other is a 2D Shadowy world. In the times of 1920’s, your task is to jump into the play, get into the character of a young girl named Didi, and use your special powers to dreamscape from one realistic world to another shadowy world. Both of the worlds are connected by an unknown force and you are required to manipulate the laws, move to worlds and engage yourself into epic Physics-based puzzles, solve them and complete the story. It allows you to manipulate the light sources, make shadows and go through an immense amount of obstacles to complete the objectives of the game. With an ability to shift whenever you want, crafting abilities, amazingly challenging puzzles, exploration on a large scale and easy controls, Contrast offers a dreamlike film-noir game-play, amazing story-line and beautiful visuals to enjoy. Do try it out, it’ll definitely entertain you well.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an epic Graphic Puzzle, Action-Adventure, and Indie video game by Starbreeze Studios AB. The game focuses on two brothers and allows you to control both of them, lead them both on a journey based on a fairy tale and enjoy a super addictive and amazing co-op game-play. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons lets you solve a lot of amazingly complex puzzles, explore the whole game-world, fight against the enemies and Bosses etc. You must also find the cure (Water of Life) for your ailing father, you must help and look out for each other, survive and bring the cure safely. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons features super beautiful graphics and scenarios, an addictive game-play and a great story. As an alternative to The Silent Age this game will definitely provide you with tons of entertainment.

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

Physics-based Platformers are always fun, and the games like Pid makes it even more interesting with all the great things combines. Pid is an awesome Physics-based Puzzle-Platform and Action-Adventure video game by Might and Delight that offers a challenging game-play and lets you enjoy amazing environments, best ever visuals and the exploration element. The game tells the story of a boy named Kurt who finds himself stuck on a distant planet and the only way to survive is to find his way back home. In order to complete the objectives of the game, you’ll have to act as Kurt, find aliens and get help from them or use the bizarre tools stuffed into your backpack. You’ll have to also use the gravity-defying beams of light to overcome every obstacle and platform, solve some unimaginably difficult puzzles and get help from everything possible. Pid offers amazing Co-operative game-play and allows you to accompany up to 3 players on your journey, switch between the characters and use their abilities to solve the puzzles and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. With a great story-line, stunning visuals and soundtracks, challenging and immersive game-play and all the wonderful stuff, Pid is a marvelous game to play.

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a masterpiece when we talk about the Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform, and Stealth games. This brilliant game is inspired by the letters sent by the World War 1 vets from both sides. Valiant Hearts: The Great War features four main characters and allows you to switch between them when needed. The basic objective of the game is to help a young German soldier find his love, survive, sacrifice and maintain friendships throughout the game-play and kill the enemies at the same time. The main antagonist of the game is Baron Von Dorf, a general in German army who turns the life of the young soldier upside down by dragging him into places where nobody else would go ever want to go. You must act according to the story and go through a number of harsh situations, use your skills, weapons and wit to defeat enemies and finally get together with your family. Valiant Hearts: The Great War with an amazing World War 1 setting, battles between the German and French armies, amazing visuals, a great story and an engaging game-play, is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Try it out for an amazing gaming experience with a different touch. You’ll definitely like it a lot.

Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender is a Fast-paced Action-Adventure, Platform and Arcade Retro Shooter (Run and Gun) video game similar to Broforce. The game offers a 2 player Co-Op gaming mode and allows you to blast your way through hordes of mechanical sea monsters in order to get to the Underwater Milk Mine. Once you have captured the Mine, you have to defend it against all the monsters and keep on drinking the Health Full Fat Milk. You must find all the Cats like you, pour them milk and make them stronger in order to fight off the enemies. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Aqua Kitty: Milk Mine Defender is one of the coolest new alternatives to Broforce. Do try it out.

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is a brilliant Actin, Puzzle and Platform video game. The game provides with a 3D Adventure and Platform game-play. In Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts you can explore the game world along with running and jumping on platforms. The game focuses on two main characters Banjo and Kazooie and allows you to lead them on an adventure to sabotage the malevolent plans of Gruntilda the antagonist. You can start up your journey by selecting a character for yourself and fight your way to the boss or antagonist to complete the game objectives. After the Gruntilda is defeated along with her wicked plans, the game concludes. Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts seems a little bit different because of a bit different game-play but I assure you, it isn’t. You’ll experience quite similar game-play to the popular Mario series games and it will definitely entertain you well.

Banjo Kazooie is a Single-player Action-Adventure and Puzzle-platform video game by Rare. The game features two characters of Banjo and Kazooie and tells the story about their struggle against the vicious Antagonist named as Gruntilda. Gruntilda is after Banjo’s sister Tooty and wants to switch her degrading appearance with her beauty. To accomplish her foul objectives, Gruntilda creates a machine that transfers a person’s beauty to another. After completing her machine, Gruntilda goes to banjo’s house and abducts his Sister Tooty, while banjo is asleep. Banjo wakes up only to find out that Gruntilda has abducted Tooty and he sets out on a journey with kazooi to free his sister from the clutches of Gruntilda. On Tooty’s friend Bottles the Mole’s advice, Benjo and Kazooie set out to collect musical notes and pieces of Jigsaw that shows the map to Gruntilda’s lair. The players are required to get into the character of Banjo or kazooie, embark on the epic journey, collect musical notes and jigsaw pieces, reach down to Gruntilda’s lair and defeat her in a challenging Trivia game (Question and Answer based). After the defeat, Gruntilda fleas the scene and Benjo gets to be able to free Tooty. Banjo Kazooie offers a remarkable adventure based puzzle and platform gameplay and allows the players to enjoy an immersive experience.

Cobalt is an Action, Side-scroll, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Oxeye Game Studio and published by Microsoft Studios. The game takes place in the stunning world and consists of five different modes such as Deathmatch, Team Strike, Plug Slam, Survival, and more. There are a series of missions and you can get into the role of protagonist named Cobalt. Your task is to explore the game world, fight against foes using thirty-three melee weapons, and thirty-seven ranged weapons and complete tasks to further progress. You can play solo in single-player campaign or can fight against up to four players in multiplayer mode. Uncover the mysteries behind the disappearance of humans and unlock further content to the game to immerse yourself in side-scroll gameplay experience. Cobalt offers key features such as a variety of Weapons, over Eighty Maps to explore, Customization, mini-games and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.

Mini Ninjas, developed by IO Interactive is one of the best Action- Adventure, Platforms and Stealth video games like Mark of the Ninja. The game features six main player character that you can play with by switching momentarily, but in order to play with the other characters, you’ll have to rescue them from the enemies. On your journey to free the characters, you’ll have to go on different missions and use a number of weapons (Bombs, Swords, fishing Rods, knives etc.) to defeat your enemies. For a brief time (Until the other characters are rescued by you), you’ll have to play the game as Hiro who is laced up with sword, caltrops and shuriken and amazing magical skills (Firebal, Lightning Bolts, Camouflage and Time Manipulation etc.) and your task is to defeat your enemies who are animals possessed by dark spells. You can defeat them and tame them in order to use them against the enemies and eventually free all of the other characters. You can also collect different items such as Mushrooms, coins, flowers and ginseng roots and exchange them with weapons. With an immersive game-play, cool dynamics, great quest-based storyline and a lot of other great things, Mini Ninjas is a brilliant alternative to Mark of the Ninja. Do try it out.

Mini Ninjas Adventures is an Action-packed, Third-person Platform and Single-player Fighting video game available to play on Xbox 360. The game allows you to get ready to kick, battle and swipe your way through twenty-one challenging levels of intense ninja action. According to the plot, the game embarks you on an epic journey where you must struggle to take down enemies and assist the Hiro to save his master and his companions from the custody of Clutches of evil Samurai Warlord. Get ready to face the hordes of enemies that will push your abilities to the limit and test your skills. There are several ninja characters available and the game lets you a chance to pick up one of them and experience your dream ninja life. You can perform various ninja skills and can use special equipment to kill enemies. As the game proceeds, it becomes difficult to play. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Mini Ninjas Adventures is the wonderful game to play.

The Simpsons Game is an Action, Platform, Co-op, Single and Multiplayer video game for PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo by EA Redwood Shores. The game based on an animated television series called The Simpsons. It revolves around the five family members of Simpson such as Lisa, Bart, Homer, and Marge with Maggie. You can control four of five members and each with their unique skills and abilities. According to the story, the five members of the Simpsons are captured in a video game and have superpowers to solve several missions. The main objective is to save your home world and its creator named Matt Groening. You must travel through four different environments to gather key cards to unlock the mansion and save the world from destruction. The game consists of sixteen challenging levels, and each needs a specific power to accomplish. Explore the gameplay, defeat enemies and clear each level to progress. The Simpsons Game offers exciting features, head-up display, attack meter, health meter, etc. The Simpsons Game is the best game to enjoy.

Mega Man 9 is an Action, Side-scroll, Platform and Single-player video game created and published by Capcom for multiple platforms. It is the 9th title in the series of Mega Man and takes place in the 21st century. The game casts the player in the role of the android hero named as Mega Man and revolves around an exciting story. According to the storyline, the world is threatened by brutal robots who occurred and take over the world. The blame for the world’s destruction goes to Dr. Light (the creator of Mega Man). There are a variety of levels available, and each level is full of danger, minions of the antagonist, and obstacles. You must manipulate the world from a side-scroll perspective, fight against enemies and kill them using your weapons, and complete levels to progress in the game. Save the world from destruction and prove that Dr. Light is innocent by capturing the antagonist. The game becomes tough, as you advanced through it and can get access to additional content. Before facing the antagonist, you have to encounter mini-bosses and defeat them to find a way, leading to the antagonist. With the exciting story, brilliant graphics, and beautiful soundtracks, Mega Man 9 is the best game to play.

Mighty No. 9 is an Action Platform, Single-player and Multiplayer video game with an emphasis on Run and Gun element developed by Comcept and published by Deep Silver. The game takes place in the unforgettable environment and puts you in the role of the protagonist named as Beck, an android. According to the story, an unknown computer virus attacks the unit of his friend and multiple machines across the world. You as the protagonist must battle against virus-infected robots and find the villain who invades the fate of the planet. There are three different scientists involved in the story such as Dr. William, Dr. Benedict, and Dr. Soichiro Sanda each with its unique abilities and skills. The gameplay focuses on 2D platform elements with the twist of 2D and 3D artwork. You have to run, jump, and shoot your way through multiple levels at enemies and kill them to earn points. During the gameplay, you can use abilities and weapons of enemies after defeated. With superb gameplay, excellent mechanics, and detailed graphics, Mighty No. 9 is the best game to play.

Sonic CD is a Third-person, Side-scroll Platform, and Single-player video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for cross-platform. The game offers a thrilling gameplay and brings an exciting story focuses on the Sonic the Hedgehog, as the protagonist effort to rescue the little planet from the antagonist named as Dr Robotnik. It has the similar gameplay to its previous titles, and the game is distinguished by its unique mechanic of Time Travel. The player can get access to a different version of stages including graphics, music and layouts by travelling through the time. Throughout the game, the player ventures to take down the nemesis Doctor Robotnik, and travel through time in the past or future, where he must maintain his speed for several second and save the land from the worth of antagonist. The player can move four different zones and each with its unique music, and graphics. The game is divided into seven levels known as rounds. With superb gameplay, stunning visuals, and smooth controls, Sonic CD is the best game to play.

Dustforce is a Side-scroll, Platform, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Hitbox Team and published by Digerati Distribution. The game features four janitors and enables the player select one of them within the game and struggle to clean the world corrupted with filth and dust. During the gameplay, the player uses the acrobatic skills like double jumping, wall jumping, etc. to advances through more than fifty levels with the task to clean the areas covered by leaves. In the game, the player is attacked by filth-covered creatures and the player must take down them to score the points which he can use to proceed through the level. The performance of the player is ranked based on the completion and time, and the player can access to certain levels by completing the previous levels. The player explores the world from a side-scroll perspective and engage in the strange world where filth has invaded the creatures that live in the area. Dustforce has prominent features such as more than Seventy-five Levels, over 100 Community-made Levels, Online Leaderboards, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a wonderful game that offers a mixed up experience of the two most popular games Super Mario and Sonic. The game allows you to experience an amazingly similar game-play and a lot of other characteristics. You’ll get to play thirty two levels of pure retro arcade style Puzzle Platform game and gorgeously beautiful sceneries. According to the story line, you have to reach to the end of the game to fight off the antagonist and complete the task that game puts you to. You must kill all the enemies by either jumping on their heads or by shooting them with different pick up items. You must also collect the gems hanging in the air and different other power ups too. Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a great platform game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.