Games Like Altered

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Why similar: Sokoban 54.4% ★, Minimalist 14.3%, Puzzle 12.5%, Difficult 12.4%, Strategy 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features recursive, mind-bending spatial puzzles that perfectly capture the 'thinking outside the box' nature of Altered.

Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.

Why similar: Sokoban 31.5% ★, Nonlinear 12.2%, Grid-Based Movement 12.1%, Difficult 12.1%, Puzzle 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful 3D puzzle game that combines difficult, grid-based movement with a meditative, atmospheric presentation.

An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

Why similar: Sokoban 29.8% ★, Difficult 11.2%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Surreal 9.2%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world, non-linear sokoban game that emphasizes exploration and discovery in a charming, relaxing setting.

Push, slice, ingest, flip, and squish worms in this puzzle game in which you play as a little sentient tin can.

Why similar: Sokoban 48.5% ★, Grid-Based Movement 18.4%, Puzzle 11.7%, Stylized 5.1%, Relaxing 5%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply complex, grid-based puzzle game that offers a high level of challenge and creative problem-solving.

Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 21.8%, Surreal 20.4%, Difficult 16.4%, Puzzle 12.1%, Family Friendly 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes surreal, perspective-shifting mechanics in a 3D space that feels very similar to the abstract nature of Altered.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Sokoban 38.3% ★, Difficult 27.4%, Puzzle 21.1%, Minimalist 4.2%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for rule-breaking, logic-based puzzle games that force players to constantly rethink their approach to the environment.

Tackle thorny problems in this plant pushing puzzle game. Learn to maneuver like a cactus as you grow your way back to the desert!

Why similar: Sokoban 47.1% ★, Difficult 21.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, Strategy 5.9%, Relaxing 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique, spatial-manipulation mechanics that provide a fresh and difficult take on the classic sokoban formula.

Protecting nobles from mud may look simple on the surface, but the intricate cape arranging puzzle mechanics ensure steadily increasing difficulty. Join the Knights on their quest to preserve dignity, and mindmuck is practically guaranteed! Playtime 10-35h.

Why similar: Sokoban 33.1% ★, Difficult 12.9%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Grid-Based Movement 9.2%, Minimalist 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A clever, logic-heavy puzzle game that requires careful planning and spatial awareness to navigate obstacles.

A difficult open world puzzle game about plumbing.

Why similar: Sokoban 32.3% ★, Difficult 13%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Grid-Based Movement 10.1%, Puzzle 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, difficult, and highly satisfying grid-based puzzle game that focuses on efficient movement.

Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.

Why similar: Sokoban 38% ★, Nonlinear 12.4%, Puzzle 11%, Relaxing 9.8%, Grid-Based Movement 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, exploration-driven puzzle game that emphasizes a relaxing atmosphere and non-linear progression.

An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

Why similar: Sokoban 30.7% ★, Difficult 11.2%, Surreal 10.7%, Open World 8.9%, Relaxing 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, open-world puzzle game that focuses on charming, grid-based movement and exploration.

Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 25.6% ★, Nonlinear 11.8%, Difficult 10.2%, Surreal 10%, Grid-Based Movement 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, satisfying sokoban game that introduces unique mechanics to keep the puzzle-solving feeling fresh.

Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.

Why similar: Nonlinear 24%, Difficult 18.1%, Surreal 13.9%, Puzzle 10.1%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world, non-linear puzzle game that rewards observation and environmental deduction in a beautiful, minimalist setting.

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: Difficult 48.4%, Puzzle 32.3%, Family Friendly 11.6%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, recursive puzzle game where you enter rooms within rooms to manipulate the environment in clever ways.

A simple 3d puzzle game.

Why similar: Sokoban 38% ★, Difficult 33.7%, Puzzle 22.6%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered one of the most difficult and rewarding sokoban games, focusing on deep, layered logic.

A quirky 3D puzzle game about three musicians forming a band and trying to score their breakout hit.

Why similar: Sokoban 37% ★, Nonlinear 14.9%, Difficult 14%, Surreal 12.7%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D, quirky, and strategy-focused puzzle game that shares the playful yet challenging spirit of Altered.

A word-less abstract puzzle game about language.

Why similar: Sokoban 27.8% ★, Nonlinear 10.5%, Grid-Based Movement 9.8%, Difficult 9.4%, Surreal 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D, logic-based puzzle game that captures the relaxing, minimalist feel of similar genre titles.

Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.

Why similar: Minimalist 59%, Puzzle 34.2%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract, rule-deduction game that encourages non-linear exploration and experimentation to solve its puzzles.

A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.

Why similar: Sokoban 38.3% ★, Grid-Based Movement 15.6%, Difficult 13.6%, Minimalist 11.4%, Puzzle 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A time-travel-based puzzle game that incorporates logic and sokoban mechanics in an indie setting.

A game about 2D puzzles in 3D space.

Why similar: Sokoban 48.4% ★, Difficult 14.9%, Minimalist 11.8%, Puzzle 10.1%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D, atmospheric puzzle game that focuses on spatial manipulation and exploration.

Solve diverse Sokoban puzzles to rescue cats trapped in alien dimensions in Meow Mission! Decorate your home with furniture for the rescued cats, and create lasting memories with their unique and charming personalities!

Why similar: Sokoban 39.2% ★, Difficult 15.5%, Family Friendly 8.7%, Grid-Based Movement 8.3%, Puzzle 8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, difficult sokoban game that provides a fun and accessible puzzle experience.

Place your faith and embrace the Void.

Why similar: Sokoban 68.5% ★, Puzzle 15.5%, Difficult 10.1%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, deep, and mysterious puzzle game that rewards players for looking beyond the surface of its mechanics.

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 22.5%, Open World 16.1%, Difficult 15.6%, Philosophical 10.6%, Nonlinear 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world, perspective-shifting puzzle game that encourages non-linear discovery and environmental logic.

Yugo Puzzle is a minimalist, relaxing, and satisfying puzzle game. Move jelly blocks left and right to merge them with the same color. It may sound simple, but it’s deceptively challenging. Enjoy the satisfaction of solving each puzzle.

Why similar: Sokoban 38.4% ★, Difficult 15.9%, Grid-Based Movement 11.3%, Minimalist 10.1%, Relaxing 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, difficult, and straightforward sokoban game that focuses on pure puzzle-solving satisfaction.

Oberty is mind-bending puzzle about combining shapes.

Why similar: Difficult 35.6%, Minimalist 25.5%, Puzzle 18.6%, Relaxing 13.7%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist and abstract puzzle game that provides a difficult, focused experience for fans of logic puzzles.

Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.

Why similar: Difficult 44.6%, Puzzle 25.3%, Sokoban 19.1% ★, Colorful 6.9%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: An extremely challenging spatial puzzle game that requires precise movement and clever planning to succeed.

Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 24.8%, Difficult 15.8%, Minimalist 14.7%, Puzzle 10%, Relaxing 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric, grid-based puzzle game that offers a casual and minimalist approach to spatial challenges.

Immerse yourself in the beautiful world of Hexologic. Solve challenging, yet rewarding puzzles, listen to relaxing music, dive deep into the game’s atmosphere and fall in love in with Sudoku again!

Why similar: Sokoban 45.7% ★, Puzzle 11.3%, Relaxing 11.2%, Minimalist 10.6%, Colorful 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, logic-based puzzle game that offers a relaxing yet mentally stimulating experience.

A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 22.8% ★, Difficult 16.9%, Open World 12.9%, Minimalist 11.2%, Relaxing 9.1%

Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

Why similar: Difficult 19.9%, Surreal 16.5%, Minimalist 10%, Relaxing 9.4%, Puzzle 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, grid-based puzzle game that offers a high level of difficulty and logical depth.

Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

Why similar: Difficult 25.1%, Puzzle 18.3%, Minimalist 16.2%, Relaxing 8.4%, Stylized 7.6%

Toroban is an infinitely wrapping puzzle game.

Why similar: Sokoban 42% ★, Nonlinear 19.2%, Grid-Based Movement 12.8%, Open World 11.3%, Puzzle 7.7%

Colorful Recolor is a fast-paced puzzle game with a kaleidoscopic collection of brain teasers. Play through 100 levels with engaging mechanics, striking biomes, 10+ distinct elements, and an abundance of colors. Paint your way through this colorful world!

Why similar: Sokoban 41.2% ★, Difficult 19.7%, Minimalist 10.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Strategy 7.2%

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Philosophical 17.9%, Surreal 17.9%, Nonlinear 15.6%, Difficult 12.2%, Minimalist 9.8%

Box: The Game is a fun puzzle game which will challenge your brain to think in different ways. All cubes attach to each other, your goal is to match the displayed shape to continue to the next level.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 19.8%, Difficult 17.1%, Minimalist 13.8%, Puzzle 10.4%, Family Friendly 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, single-player puzzle game that focuses on simple mechanics and satisfying, difficult levels.

Parcel is a brain-twisting puzzle game where unique character abilities are used in unison to solve interlocking laser conundrums. Switch between members of your colorful team of postpeople and make your way through over 120 futuristic mind-benders!

Why similar: Sokoban 48.8% ★, Difficult 15.4%, Grid-Based Movement 13.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, Colorful 4.5%

SOK is a sokoban classic puzzle game. The goal of the game is to move all the boxes to their positions. It's not as easy as it seems. The player can push one box at a time, but do not pull it off.

Why similar: Sokoban 49% ★, Difficult 17.6%, Minimalist 14.2%, Puzzle 9.8%, Colorful 3.7%

A minimalist roll playing puzzle game. About 10 unique puzzle mechanics, around 200 puzzles, and satisfying smooth procedural animations.

Why similar: Sokoban 45.7% ★, Nonlinear 17.4%, Minimalist 8.8%, Puzzle 8.3%, Strategy 6.9%

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: Difficult 25.1%, Surreal 20.1%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Puzzle 13.1%, Colorful 9%

A challenging and engaging puzzle game that will require you to move colored objects and place them on their respective platforms to explore through a series of increasingly complex levels.

Why similar: Minimalist 33.5%, Puzzle 20.1%, Strategy 18.8%, Stylized 18.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Spread decks of cards to solve challenging spatial puzzles and progress through dream-like landscapes in this award-winning title. Traverse beautifully crafted, isometric puzzles that give way to a wordless coming-of-age story, that invites you to reflect on the formative moments of your own life.

Why similar: Sokoban 31.8% ★, Philosophical 15.5%, Difficult 13.4%, Surreal 11.2%, Relaxing 7.8%

Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.

Why similar: Sokoban 44.7% ★, Difficult 27.3%, Puzzle 15.7%, Colorful 6.1%, Indie 4.1%

Unitied is a minimalistic & relaxing puzzle game

Why similar: Strategy 18.9%, Difficult 18.8%, Minimalist 16.7%, Puzzle 12.9%, Relaxing 11.4%

SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!

Why similar: Difficult 21.7%, Nonlinear 20.7%, Sokoban 14.1% ★, Puzzle 12.7%, Minimalist 11.1%

Nurikabe World is a relaxing logic puzzle game where you solve puzzles by creating islands and connecting rivers to create beautiful sceneries. Experience different landscapes and seasons, solve puzzle campaigns and create your own levels.

Why similar: Difficult 19.3%, Minimalist 18.2%, Puzzle 15.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Relaxing 9.5%

A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that expand on classic sokoban gameplay with new and creative mechanics. Build your own devious creations with the included level editor!

Why similar: Sokoban 43.9% ★, Grid-Based Movement 17.6%, Difficult 17.5%, Puzzle 9.5%, Strategy 4.6%

Brain Break is a minimalistic but not simple puzzle game. The object of the game is to move all the cubes to their positions of their color. It's not as easy as it sounds! The player can push one cube at a time, but not pull it.

Why similar: Sokoban 55.6% ★, Minimalist 9.5%, Puzzle 8.7%, Relaxing 8.1%, Family Friendly 6.4%

Nonogram 3D: Mega puzzle is a logic and puzzle-solving game. Analyze the hints, then break and paint the puzzles to reveal hidden shapes. Inspired by nonograms (or picross), this 3D variant adds depth to the game while remaining accessible.

Why similar: Puzzle 19.1%, Strategy 15.3%, Relaxing 14.9%, Colorful 11%, 3D 10.9%

A crabby twist on the sokoban (box-pushing) genre, where you use deaths to create shells and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 55% ★, Difficult 13.9%, Puzzle 11.3%, Strategy 5.7%, Relaxing 3.9%

A simple 3A puzzle game.

Why similar: Sokoban 53.2% ★, Nonlinear 11.4%, Difficult 9.7%, Puzzle 9.5%, 3D 5.5%

Flux Caves is a 3D puzzle game. My plan is to create something which can be a challenge, but still you enjoy to play. I want to create a soothing environment and this is enhanced by slow piano-based music.

Why similar: Sokoban 44.9% ★, Nonlinear 16%, Open World 11.6%, Relaxing 7.5%, Puzzle 5.9%

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.

Why similar: Philosophical 22.7%, Surreal 17.3%, Puzzle 10%, Relaxing 9.9%, Stylized 9.5%

Run! The walls are shrinking! This is about solving puzzles by pushing boxes from collapsing secret room. Accurately plan your steps, avoid deep pits and traps, use polymer and portal wall in the room, and escape from the secret room to avoid being crushed into a puddle of flesh by the walls.

Why similar: Sokoban 39.4% ★, Difficult 15.1%, Grid-Based Movement 14.8%, Puzzle 7.9%, Nonlinear 7.3%

"Thermodynamic" puzzle where Maxwell's demon does work of block-pushing. Deal those hot blocks with cold blocks so that the demon doesn't get burnt.

Why similar: Sokoban 49.9% ★, Difficult 19.5%, Grid-Based Movement 18.2%, Puzzle 10.4%, Indie 1.3%

SokoPenguin is a Sokoban-style puzzle game, where you control a penguin who must push boxes to clear the path to its cozy igloo.

Why similar: Sokoban 41% ★, Grid-Based Movement 15.6%, Minimalist 8.1%, Puzzle 7.6%, Family Friendly 7.5%

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: Minimalist 31.3%, Difficult 25.1%, Puzzle 19.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Indie 8.4%

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Surreal 32.2%, Puzzle 26%, Nonlinear 19.4%, Difficult 7.5%, Minimalist 5.9%

You volunteered to participate in an AI research as part of an human control group. Solve over 50 different puzzles and use new gameplay mechanics and more player freedom to find creative ways to progress through the game's beautiful world.

Why similar: Minimalist 26.8%, Puzzle 23.5%, Relaxing 18.4%, 3D 12.9%, Strategy 10.9%

Challenging block-pushing puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 56.6% ★, Difficult 25.7%, Puzzle 11%, Indie 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Halve the blocks into two equal parts and solve the unique puzzles in a game with a blueprint visual style and meditative music

Why similar: Difficult 25.1%, Minimalist 21.1%, Puzzle 18.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Stylized 13.6%