Games Like Alter World

In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.4%, Platformer 22.5%, Indie 20.3%, Puzzle 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that features atmospheric gravity-shifting mechanics and challenging puzzles.

Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something. Swap minds to see the world in different ways! Where one mind sees a bottomless pit, another might not. Where one sees a locked door, another sees a key. To change perspective is to change reality!

Why similar: Indie 40.3%, Platformer 25.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Puzzle 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on perspective-shifting puzzles that challenge the player to think about the game world in multiple ways.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 31.6%, Puzzle Platformer 28.7%, Indie 20.3%, Platformer 19.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex puzzle-platforming centered on creating and switching between clones to navigate environments.

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Platformer 34.5%, Indie 27.2%, Puzzle 24.4%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal puzzle-platformer that relies on rotating the 2D world to reveal new paths and dimensions.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35%, Indie 25%, Platformer 20.1%, Puzzle 19.9%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a color-shifting mechanic that changes the environment and allows players to pass through obstacles.

And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.3%, Platformer 24.4%, Indie 18.1%, Puzzle 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer where you rotate the entire world to navigate through challenging obstacles.

Backworlds is a multi-dimensional puzzle platform game in which you explore by painting. Solve environmental conundrums by using each world’s physical properties to your advantage, and use your own creativity to craft original solutions to the game’s puzzles.

Why similar: Indie 51.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows players to paint between two different dimensions to solve puzzles and traverse the environment.

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Why similar: Platformer 28.6%, Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Puzzle 23.8%, Indie 23%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle-platformer where the world only exists where there is light, forcing players to manipulate light sources.

Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.1%, Indie 29.8%, Platformer 21.9%, Puzzle 16.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on gravity-based puzzles and platforming challenges in a 2D environment.

Jump through boiling lava; run from perilous traps and saw blades; glide and climb through catacombs; fall into the abyss and overcome gravity. And don't forget to switch to a parallel dimension in time, because it’s Alteric!

Why similar: Indie 48.6%, Platformer 34.9%, Puzzle 16.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, difficult 2D platformer that shares a similar aesthetic and challenge level to Alter World.

Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult platformer that requires quick reactions and switching mechanics to overcome obstacles.

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.3%, Platformer 23.8%, Puzzle 15.5%, Indie 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D platformer that emphasizes puzzle-solving and precise movement.

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Platformer 53.8%, Indie 41.1%, Puzzle 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-difficulty platformer that replaces jumping with a gravity-flipping mechanic.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.7%, Platformer 17.6%, Puzzle 15%, Indie 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that uses time manipulation to solve complex spatial challenges.

CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.

Why similar: Platformer 30.8%, Indie 28.8%, Puzzle 23.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows the player to shift into a shadow world to walk on 2D surfaces created by 3D objects.

Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.

Why similar: Indie 69%, Platformer 31%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D metroidvania-style platformer with puzzle elements and a focus on exploration.

Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.2%, Platformer 22%, Indie 20.4%, Puzzle 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses physics-based manipulation to solve environmental challenges.

Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.2%, Platformer 31.7%, Indie 21.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven puzzle-platformer where each character has unique abilities that must be combined to progress.

Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.2%, Indie 22.5%, Platformer 21%, Puzzle 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that blends action and strategy to create unique level-based challenges.

A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

Why similar: Indie 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 29.4%, Platformer 24.7%, Puzzle 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that shares the dark, challenging aesthetic of the seed game.

Minimalistic puzzle game telling about a tricky life situation, which gets your Hero. Mysterious world and treacherous enemies. Strange laws of this weird reality. Here the help of friends is more dangerous than the attack of enemies! Welcome to NEONomicon!

Why similar: Indie 45.2%, Platformer 27.8%, Puzzle Platformer 27%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging platformer with puzzle-platforming elements and a distinct visual style.

Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

Why similar: Platformer 33.1%, Indie 33%, Puzzle 26%, Puzzle Platformer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that focuses on atmospheric exploration and dimension-based mechanics.

Blink into a world of after-images, where you can walk on light. Solve puzzles by manipulating lights and blinking between worlds. Explore hand drawn landscapes while uncovering the secrets behind this strange power.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure puzzle-platformer that features teleportation mechanics to bypass obstacles.

An inventive, thought-provoking puzzle platformer. Use powerups in each environment, and your own inherent gravity-bending powers, to complete each level. The more you play, the more story details you'll uncover.

Why similar: Indie 45.3%, Platformer 34.4%, Puzzle 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that relies on gravity manipulation to navigate levels.

Gravity Cat - it's a puzzle-platformer. You play as a cat who has an ability to change the gravity.

Why similar: Indie 34.8%, Platformer 27.3%, Puzzle Platformer 27%, Puzzle 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult platformer that uses gravity-switching mechanics to create challenging puzzles.

A 3d puzzle platformer that takes you along a journey of wisdom, through the 64 unique worlds that draw inspiration and teachings from the I Ching [Book of Changes], one of the oldest oracles in human history.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.3%, Platformer 25.5%, Puzzle 22.4%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D puzzle-platformer that requires logical thinking and spatial awareness to navigate.

Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.

Why similar: Puzzle 61%, Indie 39%

Classic 2D platforming that blends elements of: Nikola Tesla, puzzles, inventions, 1800's-era undead and a sprinkling of the maniacal Thomas Edison. Throw in a dash of randomly generating level sectors, a zesty squeeze of items and a pinch of indie love... Tasty!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced platformer that incorporates puzzle elements and environmental hazards.

Turner is a 2D platformer puzzle game set in an insane asylum where you take the role of Turner, a man with a troubled past and an unstable state of mind. Complete over 500 levels by rotating the world around you.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.4%, Indie 35.2%, Puzzle 20.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that focuses on navigating through complex, trap-filled levels.

A mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can switch between 2D and 3D at will!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.8%, Indie 35.8%, Puzzle 20.4%

Upside Down will immerse you in an incredible adventure. Sharpen your reflexes for this fast-paced, precise puzzle-platformer.

Why similar: Indie 80.8%, Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle Platformer 9.4%

Parallax is a first-person puzzle game with two overlapping worlds. Weave back and forth between black and white as you try to be in the right place, in the right dimension, at the right time. Use switches, boosters and gravity to help you reach the exit. Can you conquer every mind-bending level?

Why similar: Indie 39.8%, Puzzle Platformer 33.8%, Puzzle 26.5%

Wenjia is a 2D platform game with puzzle-solving elements. Players can freely travel between two realms (the material world and the energy world), each of them with different challenges and obstacles. Players must utilize both realms’ mechanisms to reach their final goal.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.9%, Platformer 22.5%, Indie 21.9%, Puzzle 16.7%

Summon portals to overcome vicious beasts, devious puzzles and fiendish platforming challenges. Master the unique powers of each portal to stop the collapse of reality, while exploring lush, hand-drawn worlds and unraveling a deep narrative full of mysteries.

Why similar: Indie 50%, Platformer 50%

Eron is a 2D platform game that allows the player to actively switch between two parallel realms. The player will have to depend upon this power to finish each level.

Why similar: Indie 60.9%, Platformer 39.1%

A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.4%, Indie 25.3%, Platformer 19.2%, Puzzle 16%

Shift Quantum is a brain-busting platformer using a unique mechanic called SHIFTING, a way to twist your environment and invert space around you. Bend your mind to reach the exit of each level and unveil the secrets of a strange program. Extend the experience, create and share your own levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.3%, Indie 31.4%, Platformer 17.6%, Puzzle 10.7%

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Platformer 35.3%, Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Indie 20.1%, Puzzle 19.4%

Enter the hauntingly beautiful shadow world of In His Time, a 2D puzzle-solving adventure game. There you will meet Olly and join him to solve puzzles throughout each step of his emotional journey of growth and self-discovery.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.2%, Platformer 21.8%, Indie 18.4%, Puzzle 12.6%

Stonerid is a challenging 2D platformer, which the most important feature are two parallel, different worlds. Over 30 different levels to complete, unconventional game style and lots of dangerous traps and monsters make it extremely difficult to rise to the challenge.

Why similar: Indie 64.2%, Platformer 35.8%

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.4%, Platformer 21.8%, Puzzle 20%, Indie 13.9%

Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 56.8%, Puzzle 22.6%, Indie 12.3%, Platformer 8.3%

Islands sometimes appear out of the blue in the clouds. The mysterious Pocket Kingdom is one of them. Wander around its districts, solve puzzles and listen to the weird stories told by the locals. Unveiling the place's mysteries depends on it. So does getting out of it.

Why similar: Indie 73.1%, Puzzle 26.9%

A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 73.8%, Puzzle 26.2%

A puzzle game with challenging puzzles, but forgiving mechanics. Master the use of your color changing staff to solve mind bending puzzles, unlock new areas, and help out your friends. Undo any mistake with the press of a button.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.6%, Puzzle 27.9%, Indie 11.6%, Platformer 7.9%

A Dead World's Dream is a challenging retro platformerAs a peaceful alien, explore a harsh world looking for hidden species.Unlocking upgrades and power-ups, travel to even more treacherous places.Carefuly examine your surroundings before jumping toward new dangers and secrets.

Why similar: Platformer 100%

A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.6%, Indie 32%, Puzzle 25.4%

Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Traverse a haunting world set in 1939 Germany in search of a mysterious girl with rabbit ears. Utilize a little bunny in creative ways to solve puzzles. Levitate sheep, use them as torches or wolf bait and make your way through a dangerous land.

Why similar: Indie 58.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 10.9%

A surreal puzzle platformer that's as beautiful as it is challenging – discover two beings entwined by fate, a girl and her soulmate, left to travel through a hauntingly elegant world...

Why similar: Indie 40.3%, Puzzle Platformer 36.4%, Puzzle 23.3%

Color Symphony 2 is a puzzle action platformer that utilizes the ambiguity of color. Try to eliminate obstacles or find new paths by using color!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.1%, Indie 27.6%, Platformer 23%, Puzzle 14.3%

Explore a mystical, ever-changing dungeon in this isometric puzzle-adventure game. Master self-transmutation abilities and solve increasingly complex challenges as you uncover the secrets of your past.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 65.1%, Puzzle 27.9%, Indie 6.9%

The game has two realities, and in order to pass the level, you must move between them. Reality is not identical, objects and their position in different variations of the same room is different. You have to find a way out using these differences.

Why similar: Indie 68.2%, Puzzle 31.8%

Dive into the ethereal world of REHTONA – a single-player puzzle-platformer that features parallel universes and a mysterious branching storyline with alternate endings.

Why similar: Indie 100%

[3D 3rd Person Perma-Death Runner Game]Try to overcome various obstacles until the end.

Why similar: Platformer 100%

Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

Why similar: Indie 28.9%, Platformer 27.3%, Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, Puzzle 19%

Possess the living, aid the dead and flip between the worlds of Flipping Death - a puzzling adventure platformer where you find yourself filling in for Death. Maybe your new powers will help you solve the mystery of your own demise?

Why similar: Indie 59.8%, Puzzle Platformer 40.2%

A frantic adventure platformer - control twin sisters at the same time as they navigate intense, hand-crafted parallel worlds!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Explore a world like no other, where your keyboard becomes a level, and each key represents a room on that level. You’ll face various logic puzzles, challenging arcade levels, cunning enemies, and unexpected surprises.

Why similar: Indie 67.9%, Puzzle 32.1%

A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.1%, Puzzle 21.4%, Platformer 19.4%, Indie 10.2%