- #1 Splat Cat
97% matchVery Positive89% of 126 reviews2022
Dev: Helen Spight
Windows · Mac
Wielding only your paintbrush, traverse your way through this 2D platforming artistic landscape and fight your creative block!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.1%, Platformer 22.2%, Puzzle 15.7%, Cute 8.7%, 2D 6.6%
- #2 Tag: The Power of Paint
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,027 reviews2022
Dev: Tag TeamPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
The world is your canvas in this innovative first-person puzzle platformer. Tag walls and other surfaces with different colors of spray paint to reveal new ways to navigate each level, including bouncing off, sliding across, and sticking to the surfaces you paint.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49%, Platformer 19.1%, Puzzle 18.8%, Family Friendly 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #3 The Multi-Medium
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 594 reviews2023
Dev: Micah Boursier
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45%, Platformer 25%, Puzzle 17.7%, 2D 8.3%, Singleplayer 4.1%
- #4 Gravity Error
96% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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: Indie 34.2%, Puzzle Platformer 27.2%, Platformer 18.7%, Puzzle 13.7%, 2D 6.1%
- #5 Colorful Recolor
94% matchVery Positive91% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: Gagonfe
Windows
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: Logic 35%, Puzzle 20.7%, Cute 16.7%, Platformer 15.3%, 2D 7.7%
- #6 Crayon Physics Deluxe
94% matchVery Positive86% of 1,176 reviews2009
Dev: Kloonigames
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
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: Indie 37.2%, Puzzle 26.3%, Family Friendly 19.7%, Cute 8.6%, 2D 4.9%
- #7 Doodler
93% matchVery Positive92% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: DenyingProduct
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create, Play, Share! Doodler is a puzzle platformer with a powerful map editor and workshop support that allows you to create levels to share with the world!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.4%, Indie 31.1%, Platformer 16.6%, Family Friendly 14.6%, 2D 5.4%
- #8 Color Phase
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 65 reviews2020
Dev: Heatwave Studios
Windows · Mac
Experience a colorful puzzle-platformer experience in Color Phase! Find and use different colors to interact with the world around you in a variety of different ways to reach your goal!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.7%, Platformer 23.2%, Puzzle 18.5%, Indie 12.6%, Cute 9.5%
- #9 Paint it Back
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 569 reviews2015
Dev: Casual Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Use logic as your paintbrush to restore lost works of pixel art. Try the demo!
Why similar: Puzzle 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #10 ROTA: Bend Gravity
91% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: Harmony Monroe
Windows · Linux
In ROTA gravity bends beneath your feet! Move blocks and twist gravity to solve puzzles. Collect all 50 gems and explore 8 vibrant worlds!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, Logic 18.9%, Puzzle 11.9%, Platformer 10.3%, Cute 9.3%
- #11 Way of Rhea
89% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Games by Mason LLC
Windows · Linux
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 31%, Logic 27.5%, Puzzle 16.3%, Indie 9.3%, Platformer 4.7%
- #12 Blink
90% matchVery Positive92% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: nextReality Games
Windows
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%
- #13 Super Perspective
89% matchVery Positive91% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: The Dashing Crate
Windows · Mac
A mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can switch between 2D and 3D at will!
Why similar: Indie 43.1%, Puzzle Platformer 38.8%, Puzzle 18%
- #14 Youropa
88% matchVery Positive87% of 704 reviews2018
Dev: frecle
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.1%, Platformer 21.9%, Family Friendly 20.4%, Puzzle 14.6%
- #15 Colored Effects
87% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: TACSOU
Windows · Linux
Colored Effects is a puzzle platformer game where you use different abilities to advance through levels. Each color grants a unique ability. Switch between the colors and their effects to collect gems, defeat bosses, and solve fun puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.1%, Logic 21.5%, Family Friendly 13.2%, Platformer 13.2%, Puzzle 12.5%
- #16 Timeworks
85% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Starworks Studios
Windows
Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.8%, Platformer 19.6%, Puzzle 16%, Logic 13.5%, Cute 10.2%
- #17 Color Symphony 2
86% matchVery Positive89% of 70 reviews2015
Dev: REMIMORY
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Experimental 25.4% ★, Indie 21.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Platformer 13.5%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #18 Lost Twins 2
84% matchVery Positive89% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Playdew
Windows · Mac
A cute yet challenging puzzle-platformer with a unique mechanic of moving the world itself to create new paths. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op mode to help Ben & Abi navigate this mysterious world. Test your logic skills by solving clever puzzles to help them find their way back home
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.7%, Logic 20.7%, Platformer 15.7%, Family Friendly 15.3%, Puzzle 11.7%
- #19 Glowkeeper
84% matchVery Positive98% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: oolimry
Windows · Mac · Linux
A luminescent puzzle game about manipulating elements. By the light of fireflies, link and dissolve elemental forces to construct bridges, break through obstacles, and traverse a glowing, interconnected world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.3%, Logic 26%, Puzzle 15.9%, Cute 10.6%, 2D 3.7%
- #20 Alter World
86% matchMixed68% of 598 reviews2015
Dev: Giorgi AbelashviliPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Enter the Alter World, a mysterious parallel reality where the rules are different and every step brings new challenges. Inspired by Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Alter World is a 2D platformer built around a unique mechanic that allows you to switch between two realities at any time to overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, and progress...
Why similar: Indie 51.4%, Puzzle Platformer 25%, Platformer 12.8%, Puzzle 10.8%
- #21 Hue
83% matchVery Positive93% of 11,385 reviews2016
Dev: Fiddlesticks GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.9%, Indie 29%, Platformer 17.4%, Puzzle 16.9%, 2D 4.6%
- #22 Nomori: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive94% of 159 reviews2022
Dev: Enchanted Works
Windows
Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a shattered spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to move forward, whichever way that is.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.3%, Puzzle 20.7%, Cute 15%, Family Friendly 14.9%
- #23 Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles
82% matchVery Positive90% of 104 reviews2020
Dev: Luminawesome Games Ltd.Pub: Wired Productions
Windows
Meet Lumote, the squishiest bioluminescent creature, in this beautiful 3D puzzle platformer. Take control of the world’s inhabitants on a quest into the Great Depths to seize control from the Mastermote.
Why similar: Beautiful 32.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Indie 17.9%, Platformer 9.4%, Family Friendly 7.7%
- #24 Fourmiworld
80% matchVery Positive97% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: CZDOOM
Windows · Linux
Carve your own path through Fourmiworld - an "open-world-ant-farm-metroidvania". Play as an interdimensional urban explorer girl, collect Gamut to unlock new abilities, and discover the sights, plights, & soundbites of a surreal alien dimension.
Why similar: Indie 57.4%, Platformer 21.4%, 2D 10.4%, Puzzle 5.9%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #25 Painter Simulator
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 60 reviews2023
Dev: SolvertoPub: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
PAINTER SIMULATOR is a new generation game in which the emphasis is placed on the player's imagination and perceptiveness. Create the world in the colors you want to see with a brush.
Why similar: Indie 32%, Family Friendly 27.3%, Puzzle 19.8%, Cute 16%, Singleplayer 4.8%
- #26 Curyeux
78% matchVery Positive93% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Campus ADN 2024-2025Pub: Campus ADN
Windows
Dive into the mind of Lucienne, a tormented painter. Leap through emotional memories, solve puzzles where shapes deceive and emotion leads the way. A dreamlike platformer where each painting brings you one step closer to yourself.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.2%, Family Friendly 29.6%, Platformer 18.1%, Puzzle 12.8%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #27 Skala
79% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2022
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.1%, Logic 20.9%, Platformer 15%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 10.9%
- #28 Braid, Anniversary Edition
77% matchVery Positive92% of 1,888 reviews2024
Dev: Thekla, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.7%, Platformer 21.4%, Logic 16.1%, Puzzle 16%, 2D 6.9%
- #29 CreaVures
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 176 reviews2011
Dev: Muse Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Take control of five cute, mystical creatures of miniature proportions called CreaVures. CreaVures always travel in pairs, and they must use their special abilities to help each other solve interesting platforming puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 72.2%, Platformer 27.8%
- #30 Rogue Worlds
77% matchVery Positive93% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Cognitive ForgePub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rogue Worlds is a chaotic tactical roguelite platformer where you wield the environment and creative abilities to overcome challenges. Outwit powerful guardians and blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths! This is the Lite edition of Aura of Worlds.
Why similar: Platformer 57.2%, Indie 28.8%, 2D 8.7%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #31 Chicory: A Colorful Tale
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,003 reviews2021
Dev: Wishes Ultd.Pub: Finji
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.
Why similar: Indie 62.9%, Cute 15%, Puzzle 12.2%, Family Friendly 4.7%, 2D 3.4%
- #32 Togges
78% matchMixed67% of 224 reviews2022
Dev: Regular StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Togges is a charming and colourful 3D Puzzle-Platformer. Go on adventures, stack adorable living blocks and solve puzzles around the Cosmos to save the Galaxy from the threats of the Void.
Why similar: Family Friendly 23.3%, Puzzle 20.4%, Platformer 19.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Cute 16.1%
- #33 gravilon
79% matchMixed59% of 1,254 reviews2015
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 48%, Platformer 27.2%, Puzzle 15.8%, 2D 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #34 Heart Star
75% matchVery Positive96% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: Adventure Islands
Windows · Mac
Heart Star is an adorable puzzle platformer where you guide two little friends through two parallel worlds. Swap between the worlds to solve unique puzzles. Overcome all obstacles with the power of teamwork!
Why similar: Indie 46.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Platformer 9.8%, Family Friendly 9.4%, Cute 6.4%
- #35 Floodcore
73% matchVery Positive96% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: Floodcore Team
Windows
Floodcore is a puzzle adventure game in which you explore an ancient civilization in a flooded world, and discover a mysterious power to overcome the temple's challenges.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31%, Logic 18.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, Indie 14.9%, Family Friendly 14.8%
- #36 FIND KITTENS 6: After us
71% matchVery Positive97% of 336 reviews2025
Dev: Very Very LITTLE Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore the continuation of this mysterious robotic world of another civilization, finding cute cats and paint black - white locations with colored paints.
Why similar: Indie 35.9%, Family Friendly 21.9%, Puzzle 17.3%, Cute 9.9%, 2D 9.5%
- #37 Please, Touch The Artwork
74% matchVery Positive84% of 510 reviews2022
Dev: Thomas Waterzooi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A cozy puzzler with story. Recreate paintings by applying lines & colors in a specific order. Explore beautiful mazes & collect letters of a poem. Help two sweethearts find a path towards each other. Three games in one. Hints when stuck. 160+ paintings, 3~4 hours, set to a chill soundtrack.
Why similar: Family Friendly 31.5%, Puzzle 30.7%, Cute 23.4%, 2D 8.4%, Singleplayer 6%
- #38 Color Symphony
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,294 reviews2014
Dev: REMIMORY
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Color Symphony is a game program utilizing the human recognition ability and visual senses, and various colors are used to play the game by changing colors to disrupt the cognition or to strengthen the cognition. The player can control the enemy, eliminate obstacles or build new roads with different colors.
Why similar: Indie 32.4%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Experimental 20.8% ★, Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 5.4%
- #39 Chromatic Conundrum
70% matchVery Positive99% of 369 reviews2026
Dev: Digs
Windows
Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.5%, Platformer 25.8%, Puzzle 20.4%, Indie 14.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #40 And Yet It Moves
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,336 reviews2009
Dev: Broken Rules
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
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 31.5%, Experimental 19% ★, Platformer 17.5%, Indie 17.5%, Puzzle 9.3%
- #41 Semblance
74% matchVery Positive85% of 404 reviews2018
Dev: NyamakopPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, Indie 23.6%, Platformer 13.9%, Family Friendly 13.1%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #42 Summon The DUDES!
71% matchVery Positive97% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Inanity Catchers Team
Windows
A quirky 2D puzzle platformer where your most powerful tool is… the DUDES!
Why similar: Platformer 36.2%, Puzzle 27.9%, Indie 23.5%, 2D 7.8%, Singleplayer 4.6%
- #43 Areia: Pathway to Dawn
73% matchVery Positive84% of 63 reviews2020
Dev: Gilp Studio
Windows
Create your own paths combining the different elements available in this uniquely crafted world. Immerse yourself in a relaxing experience where your actions shape not only your surroundings but also your fate.
Why similar: Beautiful 42.9% ★, Indie 29.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Puzzle 7.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #44 Gizmos: Steampunk Nonograms
73% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Oleg Sereda
Windows
Solve challenging nonograms (also known as picross, griddlers, etc.) to decipher a message from a distant planet!
Why similar: Beautiful 39.7% ★, Logic 16.3%, Indie 15.2%, Family Friendly 9.9%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #45 Adapta Solva Legacy
71% matchVery Positive96% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Ares BrazeltonPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
Adapta Solva is a short puzzle platformer adventure. Play as an Adaptarian to absorb elements from magical shrines to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles. Uncover the truth behind your creation in a world laid to ruin by an unknown cause.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.3%, Platformer 25.4%, Puzzle 20.1%, Cute 12.1%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #46 Manifold Garden
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,585 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Experimental 40.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 27%, Puzzle 15.9%, Indie 14.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #47 Coloring Voxels
69% matchVery Positive82% of 463 reviews2025
Dev: ToastieLabs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Bring vibrant worlds to life block by block! Our revolutionary blend of Voxel Art and Color-by-Numbers lets you build stunning 3D dioramas from the ground up. As the second entry in our hit Coloring genre, this game evolves the relaxing joy of 2D coloring into an immersive 3D experience!
Why similar: Indie 47.9%, Family Friendly 28.3%, Puzzle 19.9%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #48 Mu Cartographer
72% matchVery Positive88% of 234 reviews2016
Dev: Titouan Millet
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Colourful sandbox toy - Experimental treasure hunt. Manipulate an abstract machine to shape and explore colourful landscapes, and find the mysteries hidden in a shifting world.
Why similar: Indie 80.6%, Puzzle 19.4%
- #49 Super Puzzled Cat
68% matchVery Positive99% of 219 reviews2025
Dev: Penguin Mug Games
Windows
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34%, Platformer 15%, Indie 12.7%, Puzzle 10.9%, Cute 9.6%
- #50 Nomori
68% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Enchanted Works
Windows
In the spirit world of Nomori, up and down start to lose all meaning. Open portals, rotate your perspective and use your wits to solve mind-bending puzzles. Journey across a whimsical world and reunite the spirits to find your way back home.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.5%, Platformer 19.8%, Family Friendly 17.3%, Puzzle 14.9%, Cute 12.6%
- #51 Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures
70% matchVery Positive88% of 90 reviews2023
Dev: Frozen Pixel
Windows
Start the best Enigmatic Adventure of your life! Explore 4 different worlds with smooth platforming, solve brain-teasing puzzles, and enjoy the beautiful scenery in the mysterious world of Joe Wander.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Indie 19.6%, Platformer 18.9%, Logic 17%, Puzzle 13.9%
- #52 Recursed
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 670 reviews2016
Dev: PortponkyPub: Shambles Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Indie 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 32.5%, Puzzle 19.3%, Family Friendly 8.3%, 2D 6.8%
- #53 Oscuro Blossom's Glow
68% matchVery Positive93% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Hongoneon
Windows
Join Selene in a charming platforming and puzzle adventure, where her ability to absorb and emit light from various flowers is key to activating mechanisms, overcoming obstacles, and navigating through environments that adjust depending on how you wield the light.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.9%, Platformer 18%, Family Friendly 13.1%, Puzzle 12.5%, Indie 11.2%
- #54 MONOWAVE
66% matchVery Positive94% of 72 reviews2026
Dev: Studio BBB Inc.
Windows · Mac
MONOWAVE is a puzzle adventure through colorful worlds powered by four emotions. Alone or with a friend, express your feelings through song, empathize with your spirit friends, and solve puzzles to find your way forward.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.9%, Platformer 20.7%, Cute 15%, Puzzle 15%, 2D 6.9%
- #55 Altered
69% matchVery Positive100% of 127 reviews2021
Dev: GlitchheartPub: Rooftop Panda
Windows · Linux
Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.
Why similar: Family Friendly 35.4%, Puzzle 31.7%, Indie 27.6%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #56 The Art of Reflection
66% matchVery Positive97% of 159 reviews2025
Dev: Hydrozoa
Windows
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 41.4%, Logic 20.8%, Puzzle 16.4%, Indie 12.1%, Platformer 6.1%
- #57 Garden Ink
65% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Kranich
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paint, combine and discover! Garden Ink is a cozy sandbox game. Combine decorations and use painting tools to customize your world. With hand-painted graphics and a relaxing soundtrack, it’s time to discover every cute surprise.
Why similar: Family Friendly 33.1%, Cute 29.1%, Indie 22.8%, Puzzle 10.9%, Singleplayer 4.1%
- #58 Playback Loop
66% matchVery Positive94% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: MapPack
Windows
Carefully capture tracks of your actions, then play them back to solve puzzles with the aid of your recorded ghosts. Immerse yourself in a cerebral first-person puzzle platformer, where strategically thinking several steps ahead is the key to success.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.4%, Indie 27.8%, Puzzle 14.3%, Platformer 8.7%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #59 Perspective
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,448 reviews2019
Dev: WiddershinsPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.8%, Indie 27.1%, Puzzle 26.1%
- #60 Cranium Conundrum
72% matchMixed41% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Falling Star GamesPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!
Why similar: Indie 100%