Games Like Blue Prince

Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

Why similar: Mystery 39%, Puzzle 23.6%, Story Rich 13.1%, Atmospheric 8.5%, First-Person 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Blue Prince, this game centers on deep investigation and piecing together a complex mystery through observation.

The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.

Why similar: Puzzle 30.3%, Mystery 23.2%, Exploration 15.3%, Adventure 7.8%, Story Rich 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares a surreal, atmospheric approach to puzzle-solving within a mysterious, shifting environment.

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.3%, Exploration 17.4%, First-Person 12.5%, Mystery 8.6%, Nonlinear 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a masterclass in first-person exploration and environmental puzzle design.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Mystery 25.6%, Exploration 19.4%, Puzzle 15.7%, Story Rich 12%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of wonder and mystery found in exploring unknown, ever-changing spaces.

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Investigation 35.6%, Mystery 23.7%, Puzzle 15.1%, Story Rich 8.8%, Exploration 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly intense focus on deduction and investigation to solve intricate, multi-layered puzzles.

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Puzzle 41.8%, First-Person 16.2%, Exploration 15.5%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: The non-Euclidean, shifting architecture mirrors the unpredictable layout of the mansion in Blue Prince.

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.2%, Exploration 17.4%, First-Person 17.1%, Story Rich 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes perspective-based mechanics that challenge the player's perception of space in a way similar to Blue Prince's shifting rooms.

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.2%, Mystery 10.2%, Adventure 8.1%, Exploration 7.6%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features brilliant language-based puzzles and a strong sense of non-linear exploration.

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 24.9%, Exploration 21.2%, Mystery 20.7%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a dense, atmospheric puzzle-metroidvania that encourages deep investigation of every corner.

Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.6%, Exploration 21%, Mystery 11.7%, First-Person 10.6%, Story Rich 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential first-person puzzle-adventure that defined the genre of exploring mysterious, isolated locations.

The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.5%, Mystery 17.1%, Exploration 16.8%, Story Rich 16.1%, First-Person 15%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, story-rich experience combined with high-level first-person puzzle mechanics.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Roguelite 24.8%, Puzzle 21.3%, Story Rich 17.1%, Roguelike 16.8%, First-Person 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game blends roguelite mechanics with a dark, unfolding mystery that keeps the player constantly guessing.

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: Puzzle 23.2%, Mystery 17.6%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Exploration 14.1%, First-Person 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features surreal, gravity-defying architecture that rewards spatial reasoning and exploration.

Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.

Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Puzzle 17.3%, Mystery 16.8%, Exploration 12.4%, First-Person 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct successor to the classic puzzle-exploration formula, offering deep, immersive environmental storytelling.

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Why similar: Escape Room 35.7% ★, Puzzle 20.2%, Mystery 9.9%, Investigation 9%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the tactile, room-based puzzle-solving experience in a highly interactive first-person format.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Investigation 29.2%, Mystery 19.9%, Puzzle 14.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, mystery-driven experience that rewards careful observation and logical categorization.

The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

Why similar: Investigation 32.6%, Mystery 22.6%, Exploration 12.9%, Story Rich 9.6%, First-Person 9%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully combines a time-loop mystery with investigation and exploration in a confined, atmospheric setting.

A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.

Why similar: Puzzle 23.5%, Mystery 20.8%, Exploration 16.1%, First-Person 10%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the creators of Myst, it provides a classic first-person puzzle experience in a strange, alien environment.

Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.

Why similar: Investigation 24.3%, Mystery 18.6%, Puzzle 15.8%, Exploration 10.1%, First-Person 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at providing a thoughtful, atmospheric first-person puzzle experience with a strong sense of place.

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Why similar: Puzzle 74.7%, Singleplayer 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The recursive, shifting nature of its puzzles perfectly captures the feeling of navigating complex, changing spaces.

Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.

Why similar: Mystery 21.3%, Nonlinear 19.6%, Puzzle 16.9%, Exploration 12.9%, First-Person 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world puzzle game offers a vast, non-linear environment filled with diverse logic challenges.

Enter The House of Da Vinci, a new must-try 3D puzzle adventure game. Solve mechanical puzzles, discover hidden objects, escape from rooms and dive into the authentic atmosphere of the Renaissance. Use all your wits to find out what's behind your master's disappearance.

Why similar: Mystery 22.5%, Puzzle 17.1%, Escape Room 14.9% ★, Exploration 11.2%, Investigation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on intricate, mechanical puzzles that require careful investigation of the environment.

Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.

Why similar: Escape Room 27.3% ★, Mystery 12.9%, Puzzle 11.1%, Investigation 11%, Nonlinear 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a classic escape-room experience with a strong focus on manor-based exploration and mystery.

Place your faith and embrace the Void.

Why similar: Mystery 42.6%, Puzzle 31.9%, Story Rich 7.7%, Adventure 6.5%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its hidden depths and roguelite-adjacent puzzle structure make it a perfect match for fans of mysterious, challenging games.

Unique events transport you to the halls of a long-forgotten crypt. The only means of escape lies locked within a stone pedestal, along with a note from your mysterious ally. His words promise assistance, but only serve to entice you into a compelling world of mystery and exploration.

Why similar: Puzzle 39.7%, Mystery 29.3%, Escape Room 10.1% ★, Atmospheric 7.2%, Adventure 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic series that emphasizes the tactile nature of mystery and puzzle-solving in a confined space.

Experience the reversed escape room game. Solve many different types of puzzles and venture deeper and deeper into the mansion's heart. Investigate what lies behind the mysterious letter from your dearest friend.

Why similar: Escape Room 35.8% ★, Mystery 14.9%, Puzzle 13.8%, Exploration 8.5%, First-Person 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines detective-style investigation with puzzle-solving in a highly atmospheric setting.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.6%, First-Person 18%, Exploration 14.9%, Story Rich 14.1%, Stylized 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game plays with perspective and scale to create mind-bending puzzles that feel fresh and unpredictable.

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle 32.3%, Exploration 28.1%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Atmospheric 7%, Stylized 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It hides a massive, complex mystery behind a deceptively simple exterior, rewarding deep exploration.

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: Puzzle 72.1%, Indie 10.1%, Level Editor 8.6%, Singleplayer 6.5%, Atmospheric 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges the player to rewrite the rules of the game itself, offering a unique, logic-heavy puzzle experience.

Every corner of this manor holds secrets. You inherit not just the estate, but scattered letters and an intricately designed puzzle. Eyepieces transcending spacetime plunge you into others' memories. Traverse 16 themed chambers, unravel nested mechanisms, until you unveil the buried past...

Why similar: Escape Room 30.8% ★, Mystery 19.3%, Puzzle 17.1%, First-Person 6.3%, Atmospheric 5.4%

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

Why similar: Escape Room 32.5% ★, Mystery 15.5%, Investigation 13%, Puzzle 12.3%, Exploration 9.1%

Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.

Why similar: Investigation 24.9%, Mystery 20.1%, Puzzle 14.4%, Exploration 9.5%, Story Rich 8.5%

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.6%, Mystery 18.6%, Exploration 13.5%, First-Person 9.9%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features beautiful, exploration-heavy puzzle gameplay centered around uncovering ancient secrets.

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Mystery 20.3%, Puzzle 20.2%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 11.3%, Nonlinear 8.5%

Explore the haunted halls of the infamous Atlas Theater, a 1940’s era movie palace that played host to a shocking Hollywood tragedy. Solve intricate puzzles, discover startling artifacts, and evade sinister forces to uncover the twisted truth behind the theater’s dark history.

Why similar: Escape Room 28.6% ★, Mystery 14.5%, Investigation 14.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 7.6%

Can you escape from Waterfall Tower? A puzzle-focused escape room game, made in the vein of the classic graphic adventures of old.

Why similar: Escape Room 32.6% ★, Investigation 20.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, Mystery 11.8%, Exploration 7.9%

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!

Why similar: Escape Room 47.9% ★, Puzzle 18.1%, Mystery 15.3%, Story Rich 6.7%, First-Person 4.9%

The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.

Why similar: Investigation 29.9%, Mystery 20.1%, Puzzle 15.9%, Story Rich 9%, First-Person 8.5%

You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

Why similar: Puzzle 35.3%, Exploration 20.4%, First-Person 16%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Stylized 7.3%

Moncage is a unique puzzle adventure game where you explore a fascinating world trapped inside a mysterious cube. With each face displaying a unique scene, you’ll have to leverage the illusions and discover the hidden links to solve the puzzle.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.7%, Exploration 11.8%, Adventure 8.1%, First-Person 7.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%

This is Interesting is a psychological horror mystery based game with roguelite elements. You are being watched, and you aren't really sure why. Delve through the depths of memory to uncover the mystery behind the gray purgatory you find yourself in.

Why similar: Roguelite 23.9%, Mystery 21%, Puzzle 18.3%, Exploration 15.4%, Story Rich 7.3%

Explore a mystical, ever-changing dungeon in this isometric puzzle-adventure game. Master self-transmutation abilities and solve increasingly complex challenges as you uncover the secrets of your past.

Why similar: Mystery 29.2%, Puzzle 25.8%, Exploration 21.1%, Story Rich 12%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.3%, Exploration 25.9%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 11.7%

A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.

Why similar: Investigation 31.2%, Mystery 26.6%, Puzzle 20.2%, Story Rich 8.2%, Atmospheric 5.7%

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Mystery 21.2%, First-Person 20.9%, Exploration 18.8%, Story Rich 13.9%, 3D 7%

Dive into a world of puzzles, medieval mysteries, and strategic challenges. Navigate, solve, and leap your way through a thrilling adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.8%, Exploration 22.9%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Strategy 9.9%, 3D 8.6%

The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

Why similar: Puzzle 27.8%, Escape Room 24.2% ★, Mystery 23%, Exploration 5.5%, Story Rich 5.2%

Blankspace is an escape room visual novel with point-and-click elements. Investigate your surroundings, solve puzzles, make meaningful choices, and figure out the the mystery behind Chris and Beryl's predicament.

Why similar: Adventure 24.4%, Mystery 21.2%, Indie 19.9%, Puzzle 17.3%, Story Rich 8.7%

UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.

Why similar: Puzzle 23.9%, Indie 23.4%, Strategy 21.5%, Roguelike 15.7%, Adventure 15.5%

A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.

Why similar: Nonlinear 24.1%, Puzzle 22.9%, Exploration 17.2%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Stylized 9.3%

Step into the 1950s with My Hotel. As the new owner of a mysterious hotel, revive its glory through stylish renovations, solve hidden secrets, and master faction intrigues. A captivating blend of history and adventure awaits.

Why similar: Mystery 23.5%, Roguelike 14%, First-Person 11.4%, Story Rich 10.6%, Strategy 9%

3D Escape Room: Detective Story is an immersive 3D puzzle game that takes you to 1930s London. In the game, you play as an insightful private detective, searching for clues in realistic 3D environments, solving intricate puzzles and mini-games, and cracking bizarre cases.

Why similar: Escape Room 34.2% ★, Mystery 18.5%, Puzzle 14.6%, Exploration 9.2%, First-Person 4.4%

The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.

Why similar: Investigation 38.2%, Mystery 24.8%, Puzzle 15.9%, Exploration 7.9%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths. In this mysterious Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to find the hidden vault with the treasure. But you will find much more...

Why similar: Escape Room 31.4% ★, Investigation 22.1%, Mystery 13.3%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 7.4%

FREE TO PLAY: Kidnapped from your everyday life, you find yourself in a large theme park that feels more like an escape room. Solve puzzles, explore 12 themed islands, find resources, use your wits to escape.

Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Escape Room 16% ★, Puzzle 13.7%, Mystery 13.2%, Exploration 10.2%

Solve your way through this fast-paced rogue-lite puzzle game and outwit unforgiving creatures as you venture into the mysterious Power Plant!

Why similar: Roguelite 26.2%, Puzzle 21.4%, Mystery 18.4%, Roguelike 14.2%, Atmospheric 5.3%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 37.2%, Mystery 29.9%, Escape Room 15% ★, Atmospheric 4.4%, Adventure 3.7%

The Artisan of Glimmith is a cozy, relaxing puzzle game about coloring stained glass and restoring the artworks of a kingdom above the clouds. Explore a world of handcrafted puzzles designed with intent, where simple rules lead to delightful surprises.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.8%, Level Editor 21%, Exploration 14.4%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Create unique spells by combining magical runes to solve puzzles your way. Transform objects, manipulate time, and discover the mysteries of a world where everyone has vanished, leaving only 12 people behind. Every puzzle has multiple solutions - if you can imagine it, you can probably do it.

Why similar: Mystery 24.5%, Puzzle 19.3%, Exploration 14.8%, Story Rich 10.8%, Stylized 6.4%

Immerse yourself in an exciting journey on the island of dreams. Explore the open world and interesting places, while solving various puzzles that use environment.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.9%, Exploration 17.9%, Nonlinear 14.1%, First-Person 13.4%, Adventure 10.5%