- #1 The Multi-Medium
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 534 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 44.8%, Platformer 24.4%, Puzzle 17.8%, 2D 8.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #2 Gravity Error
97% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 36.5%, Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, Platformer 17.7%, Puzzle 13.3%, 2D 6.2%
- #3 Blink
96% 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%
- #4 Colorful Recolor
95% matchVery Positive94% of 85 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 16.8%, Platformer 14.8%, 2D 8%
- #5 Way of Rhea
94% 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 30.3%, Logic 27.4%, Puzzle 16.2%, Indie 10%, Platformer 4.5%
- #6 CreaVures
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 175 reviews2011
Dev: Muse Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 34%
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 74.6%, Platformer 25.4%
- #7 Crayon Physics Deluxe
93% matchVery Positive86% of 1,153 reviews2009
Dev: Kloonigames
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.6 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 39.2%, Puzzle 25.3%, Family Friendly 19%, Cute 8.4%, 2D 4.9%
- #8 Colored Effects
91% matchVery Positive95% of 62 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 29.9%, Logic 21.7%, Family Friendly 13.3%, Platformer 12.8%, Puzzle 12.5%
- #9 And Yet It Moves
92% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,324 reviews2009
Dev: Broken Rules
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 1.8 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: Indie 29.8%, Platformer 27.3%, Experimental 18.4% ★, Puzzle 13.2%, 2D 5%
- #10 Paint it Back
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 563 reviews2015
Dev: Casual Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Use logic as your paintbrush to restore lost works of pixel art. Try the demo!
Why similar: Puzzle 53.5%, Indie 46.5%
- #11 Youropa
90% matchVery Positive87% of 694 reviews2018
Dev: frecle
Windows
Median: 48 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%, Platformer 21.5%, Family Friendly 20.7%, Puzzle 14.8%
- #12 Splat Cat
89% matchVery Positive89% of 125 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 33.8%, Platformer 21.5%, Puzzle 15.8%, Cute 8.9%, 2D 6.9%
- #13 Tag: The Power of Paint
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,002 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 48.9%, Puzzle 19%, Platformer 18.7%, Family Friendly 10.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #14 Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles
89% matchVery Positive90% of 103 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 31.2% ★, Indie 19.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Platformer 9.1%, Family Friendly 7.7%
- #15 Timeworks
86% 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 38.7%, Platformer 19.2%, Puzzle 16.2%, Logic 13.6%, Cute 10.4%
- #16 Color Symphony 2
88% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2015
Dev: REMIMORY
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 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 24.3% ★, Indie 23.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Platformer 13%, Puzzle 8.1%
- #17 Hue
85% matchVery Positive92% of 11,146 reviews2016
Dev: Fiddlesticks GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
Why similar: Indie 31.2%, Puzzle Platformer 29.5%, Platformer 16.3%, Puzzle 16.3%, 2D 4.6%
- #18 Super Puzzled Cat
84% matchVery Positive98% of 192 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 33.1%, Platformer 14.6%, Indie 13.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Cute 9.6%
- #19 Recursed
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 637 reviews2016
Dev: PortponkyPub: Shambles Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 35.2%, Puzzle Platformer 31.2%, Puzzle 18.8%, Family Friendly 8%, 2D 6.9%
- #20 Alter World
86% matchMixed68% of 579 reviews2015
Dev: Giorgi AbelashviliPub: SA Industry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Inspired by Stephen King’s book - “The Dark Tower”, Alter World is a 2D platformer with interesting gameplay mechanics. Player can pass on an alternative universe anytime and use an alternative realms to move to another level. Levels are unique, with puzzles. player will have to react quickly and assess when to move between the Worlds.
Why similar: Indie 54%, Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #21 Chicory: A Colorful Tale
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,869 reviews2021
Dev: Wishes Ultd.Pub: Finji
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 64.8%, Cute 14.2%, Puzzle 11.4%, Family Friendly 4.4%, 2D 3.2%
- #22 Chromatic Conundrum
80% matchVery Positive98% of 277 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%, Platformer 24.9%, Puzzle 20.3%, Indie 16%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #23 Painter Simulator
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 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 33.9%, Family Friendly 26.4%, Puzzle 19.1%, Cute 15.7%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #24 Semblance
81% matchVery Positive85% of 398 reviews2018
Dev: NyamakopPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: Indie 25.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Platformer 13.2%, Family Friendly 12.9%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #25 Heart Star
81% matchVery Positive96% of 80 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 49.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, Platformer 9.1%, Family Friendly 9%, Cute 6.2%
- #26 gravilon
82% 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 50.5%, Platformer 25.3%, Puzzle 15.1%, 2D 7%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #27 The Art of Reflection
77% matchVery Positive97% of 139 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 40.8%, Logic 20.5%, Puzzle 16.3%, Indie 13.2%, Platformer 5.9%
- #28 Oscuro Blossom's Glow
78% matchVery Positive95% of 62 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 27.4%, Platformer 17.3%, Family Friendly 13%, Puzzle 12.4%, Indie 12.2%
- #29 Togges
79% matchMixed70% of 200 reviews2022
Dev: Regular StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 23.5%, Puzzle 20.5%, Platformer 18.7%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Cute 16.4%
- #30 Altered
78% matchVery Positive100% of 123 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 34.5%, Puzzle 30.8%, Indie 29.4%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #31 Areia: Pathway to Dawn
79% matchVery Positive84% of 62 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 40.8% ★, Indie 31.6%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Puzzle 7.5%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #32 Manifold Garden
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 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 38.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, Indie 16%, Puzzle 15.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #33 Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures
77% matchVery Positive88% of 89 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 25.7%, Indie 21.3%, Platformer 18.1%, Logic 16.9%, Puzzle 13.7%
- #34 Braid, Anniversary Edition
73% matchVery Positive93% of 1,697 reviews2024
Dev: Thekla, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 39.5%, Platformer 20.8%, Logic 16.2%, Puzzle 16.1%, 2D 7.3%
- #35 ROTA: Bend Gravity
76% matchVery Positive93% of 86 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 29.1%, Logic 20.8%, Puzzle 13.1%, Platformer 11%, Cute 10.4%
- #36 Lost Words: Beyond the Page
74% matchVery Positive95% of 823 reviews2021
Dev: Sketchbook DevelopmentsPub: Sketchbook Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.8%, Platformer 23%, Puzzle 18.8%, 2D 8.4%, Singleplayer 5%
- #37 FEZ
73% matchVery Positive93% of 16,036 reviews2013
Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Indie 28.7%, Platformer 23.9%, Puzzle 17.2%, Beautiful 15.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 9.7%
- #38 Color Phase
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 63 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 34.3%, Platformer 22.4%, Puzzle 18.5%, Indie 13.8%, Cute 9.6%
- #39 Piece by Piece
70% matchVery Positive100% of 142 reviews2026
Dev: Neon Polygons
Windows · Mac
Piece by Piece is a literal puzzle platformer where each level is fragmented into puzzle pieces. Clear each puzzle by connecting and unconnecting each piece to make your way through each of our 100 handcrafted levels. Discover new themes and mechanics along the way!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.7%, Indie 17.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Platformer 11.1%, Logic 7.6%
- #40 Mu Cartographer
75% matchVery Positive88% of 231 reviews2016
Dev: Titouan Millet
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
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 83.3%, Puzzle 16.7%
- #41 Etherborn
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 444 reviews2019
Dev: Altered MatterPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
Why similar: Beautiful 23.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Indie 17.4%, Experimental 13.4% ★, Platformer 11.7%
- #42 Baba Is You
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,702 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Indie 31.5%, Puzzle 27.9%, Logic 22.5%, Cute 9.7%, 2D 4.8%
- #43 Another Perspective
72% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2014
Dev: SaraJS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 48.8%, Platformer 20.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, 2D 3.3%
- #44 One Line Coloring
71% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: MythicOwl
Windows
A vibrant world of colorful shapes awaits! Connect the dots to uncover charming objects in this colorful take on a classic paper puzzle game. Complete lively dioramas and relax yourself in the pastel world of One Line Coloring.
Why similar: Experimental 22.2% ★, Family Friendly 18%, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 12.7%
- #45 Rogue Worlds
68% matchVery Positive97% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Cognitive ForgePub: indie.io
Windows · 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!
Why similar: Platformer 54.8%, Indie 30.7%, 2D 9%, Singleplayer 5.5%
- #46 Liquid Pinball
73% matchMixed68% of 114 reviews2016
Dev: RunServer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
In this colorful game you need to tilt the field to move liquids to exits, dying them to different colors and even splitting apart. Game has fascinatingly realistic liquid physics and graphics setting the tone, Liquid Pinball challenges players to conquer 60 levels in 5 scenarios of varying difficulty.
Why similar: Indie 62.4%, Family Friendly 18.8%, Puzzle 14.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%
- #47 Unbound: Worlds Apart
69% matchVery Positive84% of 1,299 reviews2021
Dev: Alien Pixel Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 45.7%, Platformer 30.1%, Cute 10.4%, 2D 8.8%, Singleplayer 5%
- #48 Nomori: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive94% of 156 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 48.9%, Puzzle 20.8%, Cute 15.3%, Family Friendly 15%
- #49 Doodler
71% matchVery Positive93% of 68 reviews2016
Dev: DenyingProduct
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.6 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: Indie 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Platformer 15.7%, Family Friendly 14.2%, 2D 5.5%
- #50 Mind Over Magnet
65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,301 reviews2024
Dev: Game Maker's Toolkit
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.2%, Logic 16.5%, Indie 16.3%, Platformer 14.6%, Puzzle 12.7%
- #51 Orbyss
65% matchVery Positive99% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Misty Whale
Windows
In this logic based puzzle game, switch between Orbs to solve puzzles and light up your world. Play co-op with yourself, freeze time, fly drones, play with sound… and overcome the evil shadow interfering with your quest.
Why similar: Experimental 38.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 31.1%, Puzzle 15.4%, Platformer 12%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #52 ANIMAL WELL
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,519 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 34.9%, Platformer 17%, Indie 16.6%, Puzzle 15.8%, Cute 7.7%
- #53 Crab Cakes Rescue
71% matchMixed69% of 118 reviews2014
Dev: Mission Critical StudiosPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Crab Cakes Rescue is a wacky puzzle game unlike any other. Find unlikely paths through nearly 100 zany levels by shedding your shell and building blocks where obstacles occur!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Platformer 15.5%, Puzzle 15.2%, Family Friendly 13.5%, Indie 12.7%
- #54 Hiiro
69% matchVery Positive86% of 311 reviews2016
Dev: Jon TiburziPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Hiiro is a 2D platform game focused on ambient exploration and puzzle solving. Discover a grand world filled with mysterious artifacts and forgotten ruins. Become immersed in relaxing gameplay and meditative music. Remain observant as you unravel an explanation for your solitude.
Why similar: Indie 28.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23%, Platformer 19.2%, Puzzle 11.9%, Cute 7.4%
- #55 Super Perspective
70% matchVery Positive90% of 51 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 45.6%, Puzzle Platformer 37%, Puzzle 17.4%
- #56 Please, Touch The Artwork
67% matchVery Positive84% of 464 reviews2022
Dev: Thomas Waterzooi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 31.3%, Puzzle 30.3%, Cute 23.4%, 2D 8.7%, Singleplayer 6.3%
- #57 Cranium Conundrum
72% matchMixed42% of 86 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%
- #58 What Lies in the Multiverse
66% matchVery Positive92% of 705 reviews2022
Dev: Studio VoyagerPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 70%, Puzzle 25%, Singleplayer 5%
- #59 CUBOTS The Origins
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Street Lamp Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Be a part of an adventurous journey in Cubots: The Origins. Explore and survive in beautiful, atmospheric environments!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.1%, Indie 21.4%, Logic 20.5%, Family Friendly 15.7%, Puzzle 12.5%
- #60 Aura of Worlds
65% matchVery Positive92% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Cognitive ForgePub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics rogue-lite platformer. Explore multiple dangerous worlds where you utilize creative abilities & wield the environment to your advantage. Blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths & outwit powerful guardians!
Why similar: Platformer 48.2%, Indie 36.5%, 2D 9.1%, Singleplayer 6.2%