Games Like BLACKHOLE

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Space 18%, Puzzle 16.4%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi puzzle-platformer that uses unique cloning mechanics to solve complex environmental puzzles in a space setting.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.7%, Difficult 27.3%, Platformer 18.7%, Indie 5.8%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features core gravity-flipping mechanics that serve as the primary challenge, much like the gravity-twisting puzzles in BLACKHOLE.

The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.

Why similar: Difficult 33.2%, Great Soundtrack 25.4%, Platformer 19.3%, Indie 5.8%, Adventure 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal precision platformer that captures the same level of difficulty and satisfaction found in hardcore platforming titles.

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30%, Difficult 29.1%, Platformer 12.8%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers high-difficulty precision platforming paired with a strong, character-driven narrative and an exceptional soundtrack.

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.2%, Platformer 10.6%, Difficult 9.4%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-puzzle platformer with a dark, sci-fi atmosphere that requires creative use of movement to overcome obstacles.

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

Why similar: Difficult 39.1%, Platformer 22.3%, Great Soundtrack 20.6%, Indie 6%, 2D 6%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive hardcore precision platformer that demands perfect timing and mastery of movement mechanics.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Platformer 22.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Difficult 15.5%, Puzzle 13%, Great Soundtrack 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that utilizes electromagnetism and polarity mechanics to navigate complex, physics-based environments.

N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Why similar: Difficult 38.3%, Puzzle Platformer 32.8%, Platformer 13.6%, Action 8.5%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based precision platformer that emphasizes momentum and tight control in a minimalist, challenging environment.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.9%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Puzzle 13.8%, Platformer 13.4%, Adventure 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that introduces color-shifting mechanics to alter the environment, similar to how gravity-shifting changes level traversal.

Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.3%, Difficult 30.2%, Platformer 21.8%, Indie 5.7%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult platformer that pairs its intense gameplay with a thumping, high-quality electronic soundtrack.

Take control of a nimble janitor to rid the world of dust and debris.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.5%, Difficult 28.4%, Platformer 21.5%, Indie 5.6%, 2D 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines demanding precision platforming with a rhythmic flow and an incredible, high-energy soundtrack.

Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging, psychedelic, rhythm-infused action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, Difficult 19.3%, Platformer 13.8%, 2D 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-based precision platformer that integrates music and movement into a cohesive, challenging experience.

A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.

Why similar: Difficult 22%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Platformer 7.8%, Space 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A precision platformer that replaces traditional jumping with magnetic polarity mechanics for unique movement challenges.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.7%, Platformer 17.4%, Space 9.8%, Difficult 8.6%, Great Soundtrack 7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that centers entirely on gravity manipulation to traverse levels.

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

Why similar: Platformer 25.8%, Great Soundtrack 20.5%, Puzzle 19.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, puzzle-focused platformer that rewards clever thinking and precise execution in a retro-inspired world.

Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Platformer 14.2%, Adventure 13%, Action 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi puzzle-platformer that emphasizes exploration and narrative depth alongside its mechanical challenges.

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: Puzzle Platformer 48.7%, Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%, Difficult 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that focuses on complex time-manipulation mechanics to solve intricate level designs.

Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.7%, Platformer 15.5%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Puzzle 11.6%, Difficult 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that allows players to manipulate the environment with different colors to gain new movement abilities.

Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Platformer 20.2%, Puzzle 16.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer centered on time-loop mechanics that requires players to coordinate with their past selves.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.9%, Platformer 20.5%, Difficult 17.3%, Indie 11.1%, Puzzle 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that requires players to master different elemental states to maintain momentum and flow.

They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.

Why similar: Difficult 50.2%, Platformer 25.8%, Action 9.8%, 2D 6.6%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, action-heavy platformer that features a dark aesthetic and punishing difficulty for experienced players.

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: Puzzle Platformer 39.2%, Platformer 20.6%, Sci-fi 13.1%, 2D 8.1%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven puzzle-platformer that focuses on character movement and environmental interaction to progress through levels.

Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to extinguish your fragile little life.

Why similar: GameMaker 22.5% ★, Platformer 22.3%, Puzzle 13.2%, Difficult 9.6%, Puzzle Platformer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-based puzzle-platformer that requires careful timing and movement to navigate lethal, trap-filled levels.

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: Puzzle Platformer 41%, Platformer 16.6%, Puzzle 13%, Adventure 9%, Action 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, physics-based puzzle-platformer that delivers a compelling, dark narrative through environmental storytelling.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.

Why similar: Difficult 38.5%, Platformer 19.2%, Great Soundtrack 14.4%, Adventure 7.9%, 2D 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that features world-shifting mechanics, allowing players to transform the environment to solve puzzles.

BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, Difficult 19%, Space 16.4%, Platformer 8.2%, Sci-fi 7.6%

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.5%, Platformer 25.1%, Puzzle 21.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.2%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle-platformer where light and shadow determine what objects exist, requiring careful environmental manipulation.

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: Puzzle Platformer 38.5%, Platformer 16.3%, Difficult 11.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that features gravity-defying beams and unique physics-based movement challenges.

Gravity Ghost is a physics game with a twist. Run, jump, and soar around planets, using gravity to glide through the air. Explore a shattered galaxy and rescue its survivors, armed with powerups and mysterious terraforming powers. Meet the 7 magical guardians and best their challenges. There's no killing, no dying, and no way to fail.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 62.2%, Indie 13%, Adventure 10.8%, Puzzle 7.1%, Story Rich 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that focuses on orbital gravity mechanics and fluid, non-violent movement.

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 19.8%, Platformer 17.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Difficult 8.9%, Puzzle 8.5%

"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Difficult 19.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Platformer 12.6%, Adventure 6.9%

Super Blasting Boy is a logical platform platformer made in the best traditions of retro games of the late 80's and 90's.

Why similar: Difficult 18%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Great Soundtrack 15.9%, Adventure 11.2%, Platformer 10.5%

Experience life in space using cutting edge drone simulation technology. You can never fail — build ships, make friends, live forever.

Why similar: Difficult 26.3%, Space 20.6%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Comedy 6.9%

Shift Quantum is a brain-busting platformer using a unique mechanic called SHIFTING, a way to twist your environment and invert space around you. Bend your mind to reach the exit of each level and unveil the secrets of a strange program. Extend the experience, create and share your own levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Great Soundtrack 21.4%, Difficult 12.4%, Platformer 9.7%, Action 7.6%

Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.8%, Difficult 15.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Indie 9%

Riverhill Trials is a first person, 3D PLATFORMER ADVENTURE with a dynamic environment. Fly your Space Ship, land on the strange planet and overcome its challenges: moving platforms, falling asteroids, traps and alien structures - you will be tested.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.2%, Space 17.4%, Adventure 17.1%, Platformer 13.8%, Indie 11.8%

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: Platformer 20.9%, Difficult 20.1%, Great Soundtrack 19.5%, Puzzle 12.8%, Indie 11.2%

An ex-minister ventures through the frozen depths of Hell in search of his kidnapped daughter.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.4%, Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Platformer 12.1%, Adventure 11.3%, Puzzle 9.4%

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: Difficult 26%, Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Adventure 16%, Action 13.8%, Puzzle 10.8%

When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!

Why similar: Difficult 21.2%, Great Soundtrack 21%, Platformer 14.6%, Adventure 14.6%, Action 14.3%

An absurd retro-platformer that tests your patience.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, Difficult 26.4%, Platformer 13.2%, Adventure 7.4%, Action 6.6%

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.9%, Difficult 26.2%, Platformer 12.8%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Puzzle 8.7%

YOU GOTTA GO IN THE SPACE HOLE In the near future, humans discover the missing piece for faster-than-light travel: giant glass spheres. Navigate your ball through the space hole(s).

Why similar: Space 26.4%, Puzzle 15.7%, Platformer 14.6%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Adventure 8.1%

Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!

Why similar: Difficult 41.9%, Great Soundtrack 32.2%, Platformer 11.5%, 2D 7.2%, Indie 2.3%

Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.5%, Puzzle 18.4%, Space 9.4%, Adventure 6.9%, Sci-fi 6.6%

Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!

Why similar: Difficult 17.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, Great Soundtrack 14.4%, Action 9.5%, Sci-fi 9%

Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Difficult 14.8%, Space 11.7%, Adventure 10.4%

A puzzle platformer with funky physics and mind boggling puzzles requiring out-of-the-box thinking and persistence. Only a few players were able to complete the game. Can you handle it?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, Difficult 18.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Adventure 10.5%, Puzzle 8.8%

Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding a wave of light through 100+ levels in this innovative action-puzzle game!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.3%, Difficult 16.5%, Space 15.8%, Indie 13%, Puzzle 12.8%

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict freighter. Be careful: getting in is often easier than getting out!

Why similar: Space 28.3%, Platformer 26.4%, Sci-fi 14.2%, 2D 11.1%, Action 9.9%

"The Superfluous" [soo-pur-floo-uh s] A cave-diving, sci-fi, rogue-lite, platformer with jet packs and lots of explosions. Help stop an apocalyptic asteroid on collision course with Earth. Lead a squad to the center of the asteroid and blast it into space dust.

Why similar: Difficult 24%, Platformer 17.1%, Adventure 12.5%, Action 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%

Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.

Why similar: Difficult 30.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Platformer 11.1%, Puzzle 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.1%

EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.5%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Puzzle 15.1%, Platformer 9.8%, Indie 6.4%

A vibrant sci-fi platform adventure game where you help Maxwell the dog explore unfamiliar worlds, make strange new friends and contend with mysterious forces - by jumping, shooting, slicing, shrinking, warping and drilling.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.1%, Platformer 18%, Space 10.5%, Adventure 9.7%, Action 7.7%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23.2%, Platformer 20.7%, Difficult 18.8%, Action 13.9%, Indie 13.4%

Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!

Why similar: Difficult 26.6%, Great Soundtrack 20.5%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Platformer 14.4%, Funny 5.6%

Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will to solve challenging puzzles and get out of uncomfortable situations involving desperate Norse Gods, Goblins, Dragons, and angry skeletons.

Why similar: Adventure 45.6%, Indie 28.3%, Puzzle 13.4%, Funny 8.3%, Story Rich 4.4%

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 49.9%, Puzzle 14.4%, Adventure 11.4%, Comedy 9.4%, Story Rich 7%