Are you tired of playing the regular shoot em’ up or beat em’ up titles? Then why not give these few picks a try? These are a few of the most popular Platformer and puzzle games like Portal which will give you some really interesting gameplay elements and also give your brain a little work out with some pretty cool puzzles.
1. Narbacular Drop:
Narbacular Drop which was developed by Nuclear Monkey Software for your Windows PC, is actually the very first legendary title from which all games similar to Portal were born. In includes a simple plot involving a princess, who is the main character you will be playing as here. After being captured by a fiendish demon you are locked up in a dungeon, so now in order to escape and defeat the demon, you have to solve a series of puzzles where you have to make certain sets doorways with the help of an elemental being known as ‘Wally’ that you can walk through, so as to find a way out. Doorways can be created by pointing on a natural surface and clicking that location, they can even be created on the floor or ceiling of an area. You can proceed to the next particular level after completing each of the puzzles which have various traps such as big boulders and heavy blocks that may kill your character. There are a total of 6 different levels to complete, so make sure you don’t exit abruptly while playing or you will lose your progress, as there is no save feature present here.
2. Mirror’s Edge:
Mirror’s Edge puts a whole new twist on the first person action element by combining both platform and puzzle concepts into this single epic title. Developed DICE in collaboration with Electronic Arts, here you will be playing the role of a female runner namely Faith, who is part of a group of professional couriers that transport important physical information via rooftops in order to avoid detection by highly advanced government security systems. Playing as a runner you will learn how to jump over rooftops and use various objects in the environment such as doors and ramps to help you reach your destination. There is a unique feature here called ‘Runner Vision’ which determines the direction in which you need to travel by highlighting certain objects you can use, you can even slow down time which the ‘Reaction time’ option in case you need time to decide which route you have to take or what your next move should be. You won’t be able to use weapons at first but your characters lighting fast fighting moves will be able to disarm your enemy and use his weapon. This one also has a special time attack option where you can use certain challenging maps to test your runner’s skills in a race against the clock.
3. Tag: The Power of Paint
Enter a world of color with this famous Portal alternative developed by Tag Team for your Windows PC; here you aim to complete nine different black and white worlds all with the help of three different color types and each of them have their own distinct abilities, which will help you move towards your objective. The first color you will be starting off with is green which when painted on any surface will allow you to jump horizontally, then comes red, which helps you gain an energy thrust and lastly blue which will help you climb vertical walls like spider-man, you can even erase a spot of paint by using a spray of white color. This one is sure to provide you with loads exciting puzzles to solve as your gun never runs out of paint and if you fall of a height, then don’t worry about losing your life because you will automatically spawn at the beginning of the level of which you started or at your nearest check point.
4. Qube:
Here is another rather unusual pick title the Qube which literally means that you will be solving puzzles involving the manipulation of 3D cubes. Once you start playing, your character finds himself inside a white room lined up with cubes of identical size with some special type of glowing gloves attached to your hands. These gloves can be used to control certain types of colored blocks which will help you move from one room to the next till you reach an exit point where you will graduate to another level with more challenging puzzles and quests to unravel. The different kinds of blocks or cubes to help you reach are goal are yellow ones, which expand or contract to make a set of stairs, greens ones provide you with movable balls or solid squares that have be used in certain ways, red cubes can be extended to very high bars like structures and blue ones act as springboards that will launch you in the air onto another platform. There are also purple colored blocks that help you rotate entire rooms and there are also other fascinating chambers that are dark and contain luminous cubes. The elaborate puzzles and detailed world design make it an important addition to our list of games similar to Portal.
Conclusion:
There top four games like Portal are really creative and unique in their own way. They not only give you thrills but also provide you with the satisfaction of sorting out an assortment of interesting problems, puzzles and mazes, using your own ingenuity and logical skills.