- #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%, Platformer 22.1%, Puzzle 15.8%, Cute 8.8%, 2D 6.7%
- #2 Tag: The Power of Paint
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,015 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%, Platformer 19%, Puzzle 18.9%, Family Friendly 10.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #3 The Multi-Medium
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 579 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 44.9%, Platformer 24.9%, Puzzle 17.8%, 2D 8.4%, 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 34.5%, Puzzle Platformer 27.1%, Platformer 18.6%, Puzzle 13.7%, 2D 6.2%
- #5 Colorful Recolor
94% matchVery Positive91% of 102 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 15.2%, 2D 7.7%
- #6 Doodler
94% matchVery Positive91% 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 32.2%, Indie 31.4%, Platformer 16.4%, Family Friendly 14.6%, 2D 5.4%
- #7 Crayon Physics Deluxe
93% matchVery Positive86% of 1,172 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 37.4%, Puzzle 26.2%, Family Friendly 19.7%, Cute 8.6%, 2D 4.9%
- #8 Color Phase
92% matchMostly Positive72% 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 34.6%, Platformer 23.1%, Puzzle 18.6%, Indie 12.7%, Cute 9.5%
- #9 Paint it Back
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 568 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 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #10 ROTA: Bend Gravity
91% matchVery Positive91% of 95 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 26.7%, Logic 19%, Puzzle 11.9%, Platformer 10.3%, Cute 9.4%
- #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 30.8%, Logic 27.6%, 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 43.4%, Puzzle Platformer 38.6%, Puzzle 18%
- #14 Youropa
88% matchVery Positive87% of 702 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%, Platformer 21.8%, Family Friendly 20.5%, Puzzle 14.6%
- #15 Colored Effects
87% 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 21.6%, Family Friendly 13.3%, Platformer 13.1%, 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 38.7%, Platformer 19.5%, Puzzle 16.1%, Logic 13.6%, Cute 10.3%
- #17 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 27.6%, Logic 20.8%, Platformer 15.6%, Family Friendly 15.3%, Puzzle 11.7%
- #18 Color Symphony 2
86% matchVery Positive88% of 69 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 25.3%, Indie 21.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 13.4%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #19 Hue
84% matchVery Positive93% of 11,340 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: Puzzle Platformer 29.8%, Indie 29.3%, Platformer 17.3%, Puzzle 16.9%, 2D 4.6%
- #20 Alter World
86% matchMixed69% of 596 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 51.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #21 Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles
83% 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 32.3% ★, Indie 18.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Platformer 9.4%, Family Friendly 7.8%
- #22 Fourmiworld
81% matchVery Positive97% of 104 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 57.6%, Platformer 21.2%, 2D 10.5%, Puzzle 5.9%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #23 Nomori: Prologue
82% 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 49.1%, Puzzle 20.8%, Cute 15.1%, Family Friendly 15%
- #24 Painter Simulator
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 59 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 32.2%, Family Friendly 27.3%, Puzzle 19.7%, Cute 16.1%, Singleplayer 4.8%
- #25 Curyeux
79% matchVery Positive94% of 130 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 33.1%, Family Friendly 29.8%, Platformer 18%, Puzzle 12.8%, Singleplayer 4.8%
- #26 Skala
80% matchVery Positive89% of 319 reviews2022
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.9%, Logic 21%, Platformer 14.9%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 11%
- #27 CreaVures
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 176 reviews2011
Dev: Muse Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 3.7 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 72.5%, Platformer 27.5%
- #28 Braid, Anniversary Edition
77% matchVery Positive92% of 1,856 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 39.5%, Platformer 21.2%, Logic 16.2%, Puzzle 16%, 2D 7%
- #29 Rogue Worlds
78% matchVery Positive95% of 73 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 56.8%, Indie 29.1%, 2D 8.8%, Singleplayer 5.4%
- #30 Togges
78% matchMixed67% of 220 reviews2022
Dev: Regular StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.0 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 23.4%, Puzzle 20.4%, Platformer 19.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Cute 16.2%
- #31 Chicory: A Colorful Tale
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,988 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 63.2%, Cute 15%, Puzzle 11.9%, Family Friendly 4.7%, 2D 3.4%
- #32 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 48.2%, Platformer 26.9%, Puzzle 15.7%, 2D 7%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #33 Heart Star
76% 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 47.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 9.7%, Family Friendly 9.4%, Cute 6.4%
- #34 Floodcore
73% matchVery Positive96% of 220 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 30.8%, Logic 18.9%, Puzzle 17.7%, Indie 15%, Family Friendly 14.8%
- #35 Summon The DUDES!
73% matchVery Positive97% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: Inanity Catchers Team
Windows
A quirky 2D puzzle platformer where your most powerful tool is… the DUDES!
Why similar: Platformer 35.9%, Puzzle 27.9%, Indie 23.7%, 2D 7.9%, Singleplayer 4.6%
- #36 FIND KITTENS 6: After us
71% matchVery Positive97% of 326 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 36%, Family Friendly 21.8%, Puzzle 17.2%, Cute 9.9%, 2D 9.6%
- #37 Please, Touch The Artwork
74% matchVery Positive83% of 506 reviews2022
Dev: Thomas Waterzooi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 30.6%, Cute 23.4%, 2D 8.5%, Singleplayer 6.1%
- #38 Chromatic Conundrum
71% matchVery Positive99% of 361 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 25.6%, Puzzle 20.4%, Indie 14.8%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #39 And Yet It Moves
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,334 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 31.4%, Experimental 18.9%, Indie 17.7%, Platformer 17.4%, Puzzle 9.3%
- #40 Semblance
75% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2018
Dev: NyamakopPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 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 25.1%, Indie 23.8%, Platformer 13.8%, Family Friendly 13.2%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #41 Color Symphony
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,294 reviews2014
Dev: REMIMORY
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.6 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 32.7%, Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, Experimental 20.7%, Platformer 13%, Puzzle 5.4%
- #42 Areia: Pathway to Dawn
74% 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 42.6% ★, Indie 29.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Puzzle 7.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #43 Adapta Solva Legacy
71% matchVery Positive96% of 95 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 25.3%, Puzzle 20.2%, Cute 12.2%, Singleplayer 5%
- #44 Coloring Voxels
70% matchVery Positive81% of 458 reviews2025
Dev: ToastieLabs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 48.1%, Family Friendly 28.3%, Puzzle 19.8%, Singleplayer 3.8%
- #45 Super Puzzled Cat
69% matchVery Positive99% of 210 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 33.8%, Platformer 14.9%, Indie 12.8%, Puzzle 10.9%, Cute 9.7%
- #46 Mu Cartographer
73% 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 80.7%, Puzzle 19.3%
- #47 Manifold Garden
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,512 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 26.9%, Puzzle 15.9%, Indie 14.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #48 Gizmos: Steampunk Nonograms
72% matchVery Positive92% of 50 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 39.3% ★, Logic 16.4%, Indie 15.4%, Family Friendly 9.9%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #49 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 26.2%, Indie 19.8%, Platformer 18.7%, Logic 17.1%, Puzzle 13.8%
- #50 Oscuro Blossom's Glow
68% matchVery Positive95% of 74 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 27.8%, Platformer 17.9%, Family Friendly 13.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Indie 11.3%
- #51 Recursed
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 665 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 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 32.3%, Puzzle 19.3%, Family Friendly 8.3%, 2D 6.8%
- #52 The Art of Reflection
67% 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 41.3%, Logic 20.6%, Puzzle 16.5%, Indie 12.3%, Platformer 6.1%
- #53 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 31.6%, Indie 27.7%, Singleplayer 5.3%
- #54 Playback Loop
67% matchVery Positive94% of 99 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 47.2%, Indie 28%, Puzzle 14.3%, Platformer 8.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%
- #55 Perspective
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,443 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 46.6%, Indie 27.3%, Puzzle 26.1%
- #56 Aura of Worlds
66% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2024
Dev: Cognitive ForgePub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 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 50.5%, Indie 34.4%, 2D 9.1%, Singleplayer 6.1%
- #57 FIND KITTENS 3: Steampunk
65% matchVery Positive92% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Very Very LITTLE Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 1.1 hrs≥1hr: 14%
Explore this amazing steampunk world finding cute cats and paint black - white locations with colored paints.
Why similar: Indie 36%, Family Friendly 21.6%, Puzzle 16.6%, Cute 10.1%, 2D 10%
- #58 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%
- #59 One Line Coloring
67% matchVery Positive93% of 58 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 22.8%, Family Friendly 17.9%, Logic 15.8%, Puzzle 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%
- #60 FEZ
65% matchVery Positive93% of 16,228 reviews2013
Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 26.7%, Platformer 24.8%, Puzzle 17.4%, Beautiful 16% ★, Puzzle Platformer 9.9%