Games Like And Yet It Moves

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 48.4%, Puzzle 22.6%, Indie 9.8%, Experimental 7.6% ★, 2D 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the surreal, atmospheric, and experimental puzzle-platformer nature of the seed game, utilizing light and shadow as a core mechanic.

The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Why similar: Platformer 29.2%, Puzzle 26.2%, 2D 11.8%, Puzzle Platformer 9.4%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a core mechanic centered on rotating the world to manipulate gravity and perspective, mirroring the primary gameplay loop of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Platformer 71.2%, Indie 13.7%, 2D 7.5%, Puzzle 3.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on gravity-flipping mechanics that force players to rethink navigation, similar to the spatial awareness required in the seed game.

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 57.9%, Puzzle 23.1%, Indie 11.5%, 2D 2.1%, Puzzle Platformer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title revolves around shifting the perspective of a 2D world to solve puzzles, offering a similar sense of spatial discovery.

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: Platformer 48.1%, Puzzle 23.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.5%, Indie 10%, 2D 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational experimental puzzle-platformer, it challenges players to manipulate time and space in ways that feel as inventive as rotating the world.

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: Platformer 53.8%, Indie 21.1%, Puzzle 17.9%, 2D 4.1%, Puzzle Platformer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on perspective-shifting and spatial manipulation, requiring the player to view the environment from different angles to progress.

Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

Why similar: Platformer 46.6%, Puzzle 20.3%, Indie 12.1%, Puzzle Platformer 7.9%, Casual 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly utilizes a world-rotation mechanic to solve puzzles, making it one of the closest mechanical experiences to the seed game.

Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!

Why similar: Platformer 50.1%, Puzzle 29.2%, Indie 12.1%, Puzzle Platformer 3%, 2D 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game relies heavily on fluid physics and environmental manipulation to solve complex puzzles within a platforming framework.

A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle 38.5%, Platformer 32%, Indie 20.5%, Casual 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a physics-based puzzle-platforming experience with a unique, atmospheric aesthetic that feels experimental and distinct.

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 29.8%, Platformer 27.3%, Experimental 18.4% ★, Puzzle 13.2%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: Players manipulate the environment by painting and altering the world, which provides a similar sense of agency over the physics of the level.

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Why similar: Puzzle 54.9%, Indie 22.1%, 2D 9%, Casual 6.5%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is a highly experimental, physics-based puzzle game that shares the quirky, artistic charm and creative problem-solving found in the seed game.

Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.

Why similar: Platformer 49.2%, Puzzle 18.8%, Indie 13.2%, Puzzle Platformer 9.4%, Casual 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist, physics-based platformer focuses on momentum and environmental interaction, capturing a similar contemplative puzzle vibe.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Why similar: Puzzle 50.8%, Indie 23.5%, Casual 13.2%, 2D 8.5%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: The hand-drawn, paper-like aesthetic combined with physics-based puzzle solving makes it a strong thematic and mechanical match.

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.

Why similar: Platformer 53.9%, Puzzle 21.8%, Indie 12.8%, Casual 3.8%, 2D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, well-designed puzzle-platformer that focuses on environmental interaction and clever level design.

An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Why similar: Platformer 40.4%, Puzzle 18.5%, Experimental 17.6% ★, Indie 11.9%, Puzzle Platformer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a highly experimental movement mechanic where you reshape your character to navigate, similar to the unconventional movement in the seed game.

Snapshot is the tale of a lone robot lost in an abandoned world. Armed with only his trusty camera, Pic sets forth on his great adventure. A camera might not seem like enough for a puzzle platforming adventure, but this camera is different from most: It has the ability to capture and remove from the world the very objects that it...

Why similar: Platformer 52.6%, Puzzle 20.5%, Indie 15.2%, Casual 7%, Puzzle Platformer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: The game uses a camera mechanic to capture and manipulate objects in the environment, emphasizing physics-based puzzle solving.

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: Platformer 63.2%, Indie 10.7%, 2D 9.8%, Puzzle Platformer 7.5%, Casual 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-driven, its minimalist approach to platforming and unique character physics echoes the experimental spirit of the seed game.

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: Platformer 36%, Experimental 19% ★, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 10.9%, 2D 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It uses color-based mechanics to change the environment, which creates a similar puzzle-platforming challenge.

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

Why similar: Platformer 44.9%, Puzzle 24.9%, Indie 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 6.4%, 2D 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The core mechanic involves shifting the color of the world to interact with objects, providing a similar layer of environmental puzzle-solving.

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: Platformer 40.6%, Puzzle 37.3%, Indie 10.8%, Puzzle Platformer 4.8%, 2D 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features atmospheric, physics-based puzzle mechanics that challenge the player's perception of space and movement.

Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground.

Why similar: Platformer 52.7%, Indie 29.9%, Puzzle 7.4%, 2D 4.1%, Action 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic physics-based platformer that uses unique movement mechanics to navigate challenging terrain.

Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Platformer 64.8%, Puzzle 10.3%, Puzzle Platformer 9.5%, Indie 7.3%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on gravity-based movement and momentum to navigate levels, mirroring the spatial focus of the seed game.

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: Platformer 58.7%, Puzzle 15.6%, Indie 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 10.1%, Action 2%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines platforming with physics-based puzzles, requiring the player to manipulate objects to clear paths.

Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.

Why similar: Platformer 52.8%, Puzzle 22.3%, 2D 9.6%, Puzzle Platformer 7.4%, Casual 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer relies on environmental interaction and exploration rather than traditional combat, fitting the seed game's casual yet clever design.

Grimind is a 2D, physics based, adventure, platform game in horror/creepy theme. Grimind casts you into forgotten caves and ancient crypts, without memories. While being there you have to demonstrate great manual skills to pass obstacles and solve non trivial puzzles to get out of scary environment and additionally discover what are you...

Why similar: Platformer 72.1%, Indie 20.6%, 2D 5.2%, Action 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features physics-based platforming in a dark, atmospheric environment that emphasizes environmental interaction.

Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Why similar: Platformer 59.2%, Puzzle 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 8.4%, Indie 7.2%, Action 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game utilizes physics-based interactions and character abilities to solve environmental puzzles in a 2D space.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Platformer 46.9%, Puzzle 20.1%, Indie 11.5%, Puzzle Platformer 10.4%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its atmospheric, physics-based puzzle-platforming and surreal art style align well with the experimental nature of the seed game.

A crash landing on a world inhabited by bee-like lifeforms. Stranded, our hero must unravel the rules of this uncharted planet to find their way home. Navigate a world where left is right, up is down, and you don't know where the simulation ends and you begin.

Why similar: Platformer 46.3%, Indie 17.3%, Puzzle 16.3%, Casual 9.9%, 2D 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a puzzle-platforming experience that relies on clever mechanics and spatial logic to progress.

Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!

Why similar: Platformer 36.7%, Puzzle 32.1%, Indie 23.7%, Action 4.7%, Casual 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based simulation game where you guide fluid through obstacles, emphasizing the same physics-first approach as the seed game.

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: Platformer 48.8%, Puzzle 20.4%, Indie 16.8%, 2D 8.3%, Puzzle Platformer 5.7%

The Sun and Moon, the winner of Ludum Dare 29, is a platformer with a unique mechanic: you can dive into the ground. Momentum is conserved but gravity is reversed, letting you fling yourself high into the air or deep beneath the surface.

Why similar: Platformer 57%, Indie 22.8%, Puzzle 14.9%, Action 5.3%

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

Why similar: Platformer 40.6%, Puzzle 19.1%, Indie 13.5%, Casual 8.8%, Puzzle Platformer 6.7%

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Platformer 49.5%, Puzzle 18.2%, 2D 8.1%, Puzzle Platformer 7.7%, Indie 7.6%

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

Why similar: Platformer 50.9%, Puzzle 21.9%, 2D 9.1%, Puzzle Platformer 8%, Indie 5.5%

Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.

Why similar: Platformer 51.2%, Puzzle 22.7%, Indie 11.5%, Puzzle Platformer 9%, 2D 3.6%

In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.

Why similar: Platformer 45.8%, Puzzle 19.9%, 2D 9.6%, Puzzle Platformer 7.9%, Surreal 6.3%

A quirky 2D puzzle platformer where your most powerful tool is… the DUDES!

Why similar: Platformer 51.2%, Puzzle 23.3%, Casual 11.2%, Indie 6.4%, 2D 5.6%

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 37.9%, Platformer 24.6%, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Surreal 10.2%, Indie 9.2%

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: Platformer 53.4%, Indie 18.8%, Puzzle 14.2%, 2D 8%, Casual 3.5%

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

Why similar: Platformer 43.7%, Puzzle 18%, Indie 11.8%, 2D 7.5%, Casual 7.2%

Somewhere between a platformer, a puzzle game and a great big dollop of pure fun, Fly’N will challenge your skills through more than forty levels set in a luxuriant world. Experiment with the four Buds to save the World-Trees from Dyer, the loony hair-dryer who intends to destroy their Helys!

Why similar: Platformer 68.2%, Indie 13.3%, Puzzle 9.2%, 2D 6.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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 60.1%, Puzzle 18.7%, Indie 8.6%, 2D 6%, Puzzle Platformer 3.4%

Innoquous 5 is a huge puzzle-platformer... with a twist! Hit a gravity arrow or jump into a flipper and you can rotate gravity, opening new paths through each of the huge collection of levels!

Why similar: Platformer 43.4%, Puzzle 19.7%, Indie 16.7%, Casual 9.5%, Puzzle Platformer 5.5%

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: Platformer 56.2%, Indie 23%, Casual 6.2%, 2D 5.4%, Action 4.9%

a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares

Why similar: Platformer 41.7%, Puzzle 23%, Indie 13.1%, Casual 7.8%, 2D 6.7%

In the year 1905, Albert Einstein published the theory of special relativity, suggesting that nothing could move faster than the speed of light. What if any mortal could break that constant? Stretch it beyond its limits? Would human beings finally be able to find a way to cheat death and win over immorality?

Why similar: Platformer 40.8%, Puzzle 28.5%, Indie 19.4%, Casual 7.6%, Action 3.7%

Inner silence - cheerful 2D platformer puzzle game

Why similar: Platformer 44.5%, Puzzle 14.2%, Indie 13.3%, Casual 7.9%, Action 7.4%

Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

Why similar: Platformer 58.7%, Indie 19.6%, Puzzle 15.4%, Action 3.2%, Casual 2.1%

Master momentum in this unique jumping game that features no jump button! Preserve your potential energy and fall to new heights as you solve these clever puzzles and maneuver your way to victory.

Why similar: Platformer 46.5%, Puzzle 17.6%, Indie 10%, 2D 8.8%, Puzzle Platformer 6.8%

RUBATO, an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre!

Why similar: Experimental 35.9% ★, Platformer 25.4%, Puzzle 12.6%, Indie 9.4%, 2D 6.8%

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

Why similar: Indie 56.4%, Platformer 27.3%, Casual 7.6%, Action 3.6%, 2D 3%

OneShift is a puzzle platformer where the player has the ability to freeze/unfreeze time and shift through worlds to collect blue cubes. But only one world can be active at a time. Later in the game, a world rotating mechanic is unveiled, which makes everything more complex!

Why similar: Puzzle 41%, Indie 21.6%, Casual 16.2%, Puzzle Platformer 11.6%, Action 6.1%

Slip is a fast paced side scrolling platformer featuring a two color, swap mechanic. Using your two colors flee from Steve and his wretched purple beam through a multitude of obstacles and enemies. Slip combines the elegant simplicity of platforming with a polarity mechanic to create an easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master...

Why similar: Platformer 63.4%, Indie 28.7%, Action 7.9%

Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.

Why similar: Platformer 30.1%, Puzzle 29.8%, Indie 17.7%, Casual 11.8%, 2D 6.5%

Spin jump and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 47.6%, Casual 15.8%, 2D 14.9%, Puzzle Platformer 12.6%, Action 8%

A small logic game where all levels are the same but ways to win are not

Why similar: Platformer 41.1%, Experimental 22.5% ★, Puzzle 19.2%, 2D 6.3%, Casual 4.8%

Be the weapon! Swing like an axe, thrust like a spear, and soar like an arrow in this physics-based platformer. Flip, throw, and carve your path to the peak! Rage burns, revenge awaits... Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Platformer 68.8%, 2D 16.5%, Casual 8.9%, Singleplayer 5.9%

2D puzzle-action game in black and white

Why similar: Indie 31.1%, Puzzle 28.4%, Casual 17.3%, 2D 9.9%, Action 9.2%