Games Like Archibald's Adventures

Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. Help him clear out over 100 rooms to make his new home liveable again!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the puzzle-platformer style of Archibald's Adventures with its level-based structure and clever environmental mechanics.

In Stealth Inc 2, you play the role of a clone escaping a sinister and high-tech testing facility. Stealth Inc 2 tests both your brain and your reflexes over 60 varied levels linked together in a sprawling overworld.

Why similar: Action 35.3%, Indie 33.7%, Adventure 31%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar laboratory setting filled with deadly traps and robots that require careful timing and puzzle-solving to bypass.

Explore thirteen different castles, overcoming a variety of puzzles and traps while you attempt to escape

Why similar: Casual 57.7%, Indie 42.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the mansion-exploration vibe with its retro-inspired puzzle-platforming and trap-avoidance gameplay.

The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg in a level using a set number of tools.

Why similar: Casual 47.5%, Indie 39.9%, Action 7.9%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that emphasizes strategic movement and item usage to navigate increasingly complex levels.

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: Indie 43.6%, Action 29.3%, Adventure 27.1%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes physics-based electricity mechanics to create challenging platforming puzzles that feel very similar to the experimental nature of the seed game.

Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile. You were sent on a expedition to slay the monsters inhabiting the surface of this planet. In this adventure you end up being the villain. Game contains two basic controls, many puzzles and lots of guns and enemies.

Why similar: Action 27.3%, Casual 26.9%, Adventure 23.1%, Indie 22.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-adventure game that features robot-themed exploration and platforming challenges.

Fight your way through the dungeons of the Alchemist's Castle, collect power ups and take back what is rightfully yours from the Alchemist himself in this old-school metroidvania!

Why similar: Indie 35.1%, Action 35%, Adventure 29.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, focused 2D platformer that emphasizes exploration and puzzle-solving within a mysterious environment.

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: Casual 52.1%, Indie 47.9%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that relies on unique character abilities to navigate environmental obstacles.

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: Indie 44.8%, Adventure 34.8%, Action 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that focuses on environmental interaction and atmospheric puzzle-solving.

In Hatup you'll have the mission to go through different challenges with your hat that will allow you to progress through the game's stages. Using different mechanics you will face many challenges and with different levels of difficulty.

Why similar: Action 34.7%, Casual 33.2%, Adventure 32%

Why You'll Like It: A charming action-adventure platformer that focuses on simple, effective puzzle mechanics to progress through levels.

Darwin’s Test is a first-person action and puzzle game that immerses you into a futuristic universe. You play as an amnesic patient following an experimental care protocol. Who are you ? Where are you ? So many questions to solve to discover the truth !

Why similar: Action 35.9%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 29.3%

Why You'll Like It: This indie title blends platforming with puzzle elements in a way that feels very reminiscent of Archibald's experimental theme.

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: Indie 73.4%, Casual 19.1%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A seminal puzzle-platformer that uses time manipulation to solve intricate environmental challenges.

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

Why similar: Indie 58.2%, Action 26.6%, Adventure 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, gravity-flipping puzzle-platformer that rewards precision and quick thinking.

Schrödinger’s Cat is a fun, frantic, wacky and colourful puzzle-laden platform game. Following an emergency, the Particle Zoo is overrun with hungry leptons, sticky-fingered gluons and massive bosons. Schrödinger’s Cat must sort out this chaos!

Why similar: Action 30.2%, Adventure 27.3%, Casual 22.9%, Indie 19.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure platformer that uses quirky puzzle mechanics to navigate its vibrant, science-themed world.

In this first-person puzzle escape room game, you are trapped in the mysterious Mystwood mansion. Explore the mansion and find hidden compartments while solving puzzles and deciphering codes to find a way out. Will you escape or linger to uncover the mansion's final secret?

Why similar: Casual 48.1%, Adventure 33%, Indie 18.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the 'trapped in a mansion' theme with a strong focus on puzzle-solving and environmental exploration.

A Meat-Like/Hedge-Like Mashup! Dr. Proventriculus is snatching up the Chickabirbs! Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps to rescue them! And remember, there are no rings...

Why similar: Action 39.7%, Adventure 30.6%, Indie 29.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced precision platformer that tests your reflexes and timing in a way similar to the more difficult levels of Archibald's Adventures.

In this pixel-perfect homage to the classic action platformers, you play as Sydney Hunter - an explorer who gets trapped inside a Mayan pyramid while he's out exploring!

Why similar: Action 38.8%, Adventure 33.3%, Indie 27.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled platformer that emphasizes exploration and trap-avoidance in a dangerous environment.

You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.

Why similar: Adventure 50.8%, Indie 49.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique gravity-manipulation mechanic that creates deep puzzle-platforming gameplay in a whimsical setting.

Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Why similar: Adventure 35.3%, Action 35.1%, Indie 29.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, puzzle-heavy platformer that features excellent environmental storytelling and trap-avoidance mechanics.

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

Why similar: Indie 49.1%, Adventure 33.7%, Action 9.9%, Casual 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that relies on environmental traps and physics to challenge the player.

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Why similar: Action 49%, Adventure 43.7%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer where you use yarn mechanics to solve puzzles and traverse the environment.

The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana is a dark adventure game set inside the haunted mansion of a mysterious magician who vanished several years ago. Resolve a maze of riddles and perplexing puzzles to unlock doors and secret passages, or be doomed to spend eternity trapped inside the inescapable mansion.

Why similar: Adventure 36.4%, Casual 36.3%, Indie 27.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy adventure game set in a mysterious mansion that shares the thematic DNA of the seed game.

Can you overcome the mysteries of the Millionaire Manor and stop the macabre machinations of a madman?

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: A mansion-themed puzzle game that focuses on hidden objects and logic, appealing to the puzzle-solving aspect of the seed.

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Why similar: Indie 79.9%, Action 20.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging action-platformer that emphasizes tight controls and quick respawns for puzzle-like level navigation.

Shift Happens is a cooperative platformer for two. You and a friend shift your mass, throw each other and puzzle your way through four stages of stylized imaginary worlds. Including the occasional backstabbing and taunting. Play with a friend on a couch, online or even special singleplayer levels.

Why similar: Action 50.2%, Indie 49.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative puzzle-platformer that uses character-switching mechanics to solve environmental obstacles.

150 levels total! through 10 worlds start from beginner levels, advance levels or expert levels.

Why similar: Action 27.2%, Casual 26.8%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 20.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual platformer that offers straightforward, level-based action and adventure gameplay.

Dungeon Gambit Boy is a constantly aggressive platform game, on which you’re a boy that lives in the caverns and must rescue the missing villagers within the long paths of the Blaite universe, wearing fancy clothing, a bow and his funny and defenseless fists.

Why similar: Action 27.7%, Casual 26.1%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: An indie action-platformer that features simple, level-based challenges and a casual, accessible feel.

Unusual and NOT Safe Experiments is an action-puzzle game where you control a robot trying to escape from an abandoned complex, overcoming traps and solving puzzles.

Why similar: Action 100%

The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.

Why similar: Indie 50.7%, Adventure 49.3%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy platformer that focuses on movement and discovery in a vast, interconnected world.

Play as a conductor trapped in a haunted and crazy mansion! As a concert begins, a jealous ghost appears and takes possession of your orchestra. To free them, you must explore every corner of the mansion, complete musical challenges, and rebuild your troupe.

Why similar: Action 33.9%, Adventure 29.3%, Casual 28.8%, Indie 8%

A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! 📜🐀 Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!

Why similar: Action 40.7%, Adventure 36.6%, Indie 22.7%

In this hard to master platformer you will slay zombies, avoid deadly traps and unleash your true potential through a variety of skills and abilities.

Why similar: Casual 26.6%, Action 26.2%, Adventure 24.7%, Indie 22.5%

Join the adventures of Little Jack. You will need to solve many interconnected puzzles that involve finding keys, pushing crates in order to reach the exit door. The game will have 4 difficulty levels so that each person regardless of its skill level can enjoy this game.

Why similar: Action 35.5%, Adventure 33.4%, Indie 31.1%

The great arcade challenge in physics based platform world. Join the hardcore journey of 200 levels with puzzle elements and claim the title of Ultimate Solid!

Why similar: Action 36.6%, Adventure 34.4%, Indie 29%

What The Hack! Is a humoristic, story puzzle game, where you, a computer program, tries to avoid getting destroyed by escaping a facility. Doing so by hacking and hijacking devices in your surroundings.

Why similar: Casual 54.5%, Action 23.9%, Adventure 21.6%

After a psychologist visit goes terribly wrong, you find yourself trapped in the mind of a game developer on the brink of physical and emotional burnout during the final stages of an intense project. Experience a metroidvania-lite drenched in anxiety and based on a very true story.

Why similar: Action 54.8%, Adventure 45.2%

Four exciting worlds, twenty levels of platform action and puzzle. Four amazing mini games to discover. Great rewards await to those who venture and defeat the might and ruthless King Hong.

Why similar: Casual 28.8%, Action 27%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 19.9%

Clockwork is a time-bending puzzle-platformer that tells the story of Atto, a lonely mechanical boy in the great city of Watchtower. Explore the city, discover its mysterious past, control time and fight terrifying boss battles. Clockwork features over 60+ hand-drawn, steampunk-inspired levels.

Why similar: Action 28.7%, Casual 27.1%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 19.3%

In Trials of the Gauntlet, You wake up in the courtyard of a Steampunk mansion, your arm replaced with an electric grappling hook. You use your new arm to solve puzzles, traverse the mansion and fight your way to the top of the clock tower where you confront the mad scientist who did this to you.

Why similar: Indie 100%

You a hero, so have to explore a world full of dangers. overcome various difficulties, traps and demons.

Why similar: Action 33.8%, Adventure 24.7%, Casual 23.8%, Indie 17.8%

Trap Them revolves around demanding puzzle gameplay about outsmarting and trapping the enemies while avoiding getting trapped yourself. Collect all the crystals without getting caught by the RoboTTech robots while exploring the depths of the mountain.

Why similar: Action 28.1%, Casual 26.9%, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 21%

Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!

Why similar: Casual 75.6%, Adventure 24.4%

In ZRoll you will encounter many difficult levels. You will need to jump over the platforms, use different mechanisms and collect ancient totems to earn achievements and pass the levels.

Why similar: Casual 40.8%, Action 22.4%, Adventure 20%, Indie 16.8%

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: Action 37.6%, Adventure 34.1%, Indie 28.4%

Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!

Why similar: Action 37.4%, Casual 35.7%, Adventure 26.9%

Jelly Killer - Retro Platformer The Adventures Of A Young Bioweapon. In this game you will act like the young bioweapon. You will encounter lots of traps and puzzles. You will have to possess human bodies to pass the game to the end. Good luck!

Why similar: Action 27.3%, Casual 26.9%, Adventure 24.2%, Indie 21.6%

Mooch is an arcade experience where player must rely only on his reflex and agility. Main protagonist is puppet Blink who starts dangerous mission to find soul pieces of his friend Tula. Watch your every step. Even passages that seem safe may hide deadly traps.

Why similar: Casual 36.1%, Adventure 35.8%, Indie 28.2%

In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!

Why similar: Indie 38.2%, Action 34%, Adventure 27.9%

Fifo’s Night is a 3D puzzle-platformer set in and around an enchanted, sprawling mansion. Explore elaborate rooms within, find hidden collectibles, fight a variety of monsters, and solve puzzles in an exciting game for all audiences.

Why similar: Casual 45.1%, Adventure 32.3%, Indie 22.6%

Trapped in an abandoned asylum with the sinister Doctor Viscera, who will stop at nothing to keep you there as his test subject for cruel experiments. Explore the old GrimmHaus Asylum in this PSX-style survival horror game.

Why similar: Adventure 52.6%, Action 33%, Indie 14.3%

Puzzle a shivering jello through 48 levels of a haunted house. But beware! Scary monsters are waiting in the dark! Your only chance of survival is to scare the monsters back before the jello quivers, shivers and faints from fear. Fight evil witches, rattling skeletons and rusty knights with an arsenal of crazy weapons!

Why similar: Casual 35.9%, Action 35%, Indie 29.1%

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

Why similar: Indie 55.2%, Casual 16.7%, Action 15.3%, Adventure 12.9%

Hargrave finds himself inside the walls of a mysterious labyrinth filled with strange robots. Find the way out, or find what's hidden deep inside.

Why similar: Adventure 39.2%, Casual 38.8%, Indie 22%

Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!

Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 28.3%

An exciting game, full of traps and mysteries to be solved in each of its 96 levels. In this hostile story you must put all your skills to the test to solve the hidden enigmas and lead Frank to the end of this compelling story in 2D.

Why similar: Action 46.6%, Casual 44.4%, Adventure 4.9%, Indie 4.2%

You play a shrinking scientist in a race against time: Can you find all necessary formulas and ingredients to produce the antidote and stop shrinking, before you are too small to operate the life-saving lab equipment?

Why similar: Action 35.4%, Casual 34.9%, Indie 29.7%

Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?

Why similar: Adventure 60.7%, Indie 39.3%

Chip is an isometric puzzle game with robots, electricity and fancy dress! The player must help recharge Chip - a plucky little red robot - who has been imprisoned by the nefarious villain, Rust.

Why similar: Indie 51.3%, Action 35.7%, Casual 13%

Find Out - this is an adventure game in which you will have to escape from an unknown location, surrounded by a large maze.

Why similar: Indie 37.8%, Action 21.2%, Adventure 20.6%, Casual 20.3%

Stuck in the Underworld without the slightest clue why, a young fiend has a bit of a mystery to solve in this action/adventure platformer. With a world to explore, a past to uncover, and quite the task to complete, players must embark on a quest filled with monsters, towns, dungeons, bosses, and various platforming challenges.

Why similar: Action 36.4%, Adventure 34.3%, Indie 29.3%