- #1 Recursive Ruin
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 315 reviews2022
Dev: Bit RotPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 17.4%, Philosophical 15.6%, Mystery 7.9%, Emotional 7.9%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #2 Playback Loop
96% matchVery Positive95% of 95 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: Time Manipulation 36.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 27.5%, First-Person 9.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Sci-fi 6.2%
- #3 Timeworks
95% 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: Time Manipulation 21.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Platformer 11.7%, First-Person 9.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
- #4 ECHOPLEX
96% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: Output Games
Windows · Mac
ECHOPLEX is a time-bending puzzle platformer with a full-motion video story. Trapped in a mysterious looping simulation, you are followed by an “Echo” -- a duplicate of yourself who repeats everything you do.
Why similar: Sci-fi 21.3%, First-Person 15.7%, Puzzle 15.4%, Story Rich 14%, Action 11.7%
- #5 The Entropy Centre
94% matchVery Positive89% of 4,295 reviews2022
Dev: Stubby GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 22% ★, Futuristic 11.8%, Puzzle Platformer 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.5%, First-Person 8.2%
- #6 Riven
94% matchVery Positive93% of 2,758 reviews2024
Dev: Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Philosophical 13.5%, Mystery 13.2%, Logic 10.6%, Emotional 9.6%, Puzzle 9%
- #7 Orbyss
93% matchVery Positive99% of 91 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: Time Manipulation 24.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Mystery 9.3%, Futuristic 9.2%, Sci-fi 8%
- #8 DESORDRE : A Puzzle Game Adventure
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: SHK Interactive
Windows
Immerse yourself in the multidimensional universe of Desordre. Solve intricate puzzles, push the boundaries of 4-dimensional thinking. Get ready for a unique experience where reflection takes on a whole new dimension. Created by one-man development studio SHK Interactive using Unreal Engine.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16%, Platformer 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #9 Eternal Threads
91% matchVery Positive86% of 856 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmonaut StudiosPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30% ★, Mystery 15.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Puzzle 8.6%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #10 The Talos Principle 2
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,065 reviews2023
Dev: CroteamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 28.1 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Philosophical 21.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, Logic 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #11 Prison Loop
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Leakage Games
Windows
Embark on a journey of anomalies and repetition in "Prison Loop," a captivating indie puzzle game. Trapped in a mysterious temporal loop within a high-security prison, your objective is to observe anomalies throughout the environment.
Why similar: Mystery 17.2%, First-Person 12.3%, Realistic 11.4%, Puzzle 11.2%, Action-Adventure 10.6%
- #12 THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 364 reviews2023
Dev: Three Dots GamesPub: Take Aim Games
Windows
Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?
Why similar: Logic 14%, Mystery 12.7%, Futuristic 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Action-Adventure 9%
- #13 Loophole
87% matchVery Positive99% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Levi Pinkert
Windows · Mac
A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.9% ★, Logic 29.1%, Puzzle 15.4%, 3D 5.7%, Atmospheric 4.1%
- #14 Faraday Protocol
89% matchVery Positive85% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: Red Koi BoxPub: Deck13
Windows · Linux
Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.
Why similar: Logic 12.6%, Mystery 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Puzzle Platformer 9.3%, Futuristic 9.3%
- #15 Time Loader
88% matchVery Positive83% of 555 reviews2021
Dev: FlazmPub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Emotional 14.8%, Platformer 12.9%, Sci-fi 11.4%
- #16 Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo: Closure Edition
83% matchVery Positive99% of 225 reviews2025
Dev: GallaPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Help the cursed souls of Limbo escape their endless time loop in the afterlife. As Kulebra, a newly-deceased snake, witness their grief and guide them toward closure through point-and-click puzzles, light stealth, and empathy-driven boss encounters.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 24.2% ★, Philosophical 18.3%, Mystery 13.8%, Emotional 13.5%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #17 Project Temporality
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 107 reviews2014
Dev: Defrost Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Experience the mind bending power of single player cooperation. Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our propriety engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 51.8% ★, Puzzle 20.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Action 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #18 REVISITOR
85% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: Lead Games
Windows
Revisitor is a first person puzzle-platformer game set in a futuristic virtual space. Use two different types of teleportation to both navigate and solve a series of increasingly challenging missions.
Why similar: Platformer 20%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Puzzle 14.7%, Futuristic 14%, Sci-fi 13.6%
- #19 .T.E.S.T: Expected Behaviour — Sci-Fi 3D Puzzle Quest
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 91 reviews2018
Dev: Veslo Games
Windows · Mac
.T.E.S.T: Expected Behavior is a first-person brain twister with a sci-fi plot. On top of logic, you'll need a fast reaction speed, "outside the box" reasoning, and the skill to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.3% ★, Puzzle 19.2%, Sci-fi 17.3%, First-Person 9.1%, Adventure 5.7%
- #20 Hourglass
82% matchVery Positive90% of 392 reviews2021
Dev: Cyberwave
Windows
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, Time Manipulation 16.2% ★, Mystery 12%, Logic 10.6%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #21 Rue Valley
81% matchMixed65% of 1,624 reviews2025
Dev: Emotion Spark StudioPub: Owlcat Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Emotional 25.2%, Mystery 25.2%, Story Rich 14.8%, Exploration 12.5%, Atmospheric 12%
- #22 Chromatic Conundrum
80% matchVery Positive98% of 302 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 20.9%, Platformer 16.5%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, First-Person 10.9%
- #23 Memorrha
84% matchMixed65% of 152 reviews2019
Dev: StickyStoneStudio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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: Logic 16.6%, Mystery 15.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%, First-Person 9.5%
- #24 Complex Loop
82% matchVery Positive93% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: あみそ組
Windows
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Why similar: Sci-fi 50.3%, Exploration 29.7%, Adventure 20%
- #25 Braid, Anniversary Edition
78% matchVery Positive93% of 1,739 reviews2024
Dev: Thekla, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.9 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: Time Manipulation 25.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Platformer 13%, Logic 9.5%, Action-Adventure 9.2%
- #26 Chrono Recorder
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: ChronoGames
Windows
"ChronoRecorder" is a 3D puzzle game. Players can manipulate time and gravity. And you have to use that ability to solve problems. You might think this game is difficult if you don't use your brain.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 33.3%, Puzzle 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%, 3D 7.3%
- #27 The Swapper
79% matchVery Positive94% of 7,539 reviews2013
Dev: Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo CastellanoPub: Facepalm Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Sci-fi 17.9%, Puzzle 17%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Philosophical 14.3%, Platformer 12.1%
- #28 Chronoquartz
76% matchVery Positive99% of 467 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Stairs
Windows
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
Why similar: Mystery 27.7%, Puzzle 19.5%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Exploration 16.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%
- #29 Split - manipulate time, make clones and solve cyber puzzles from the future!
78% matchMixed63% of 62 reviews2023
Dev: GamePlanet
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In the future, giant city-states have emerged, separated from each other by indestructible barriers. Most professions have been taken over by machines. People work mainly as mechanics, programmers or operators.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 14.8%, Sci-fi 10.1%, First-Person 8.1%
- #30 The Mensional
77% matchVery Positive92% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Delil Timurtaş
Windows · Mac
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
Why similar: Platformer 22.9%, Mystery 19.6%, Puzzle 15.5%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Exploration 10.9%
- #31 Future Proof
77% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2018
Dev: Silhouette Valley Games
Windows
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Mystery 38.2%, Time Manipulation 22.5% ★, Puzzle 17.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Exploration 8.7%
- #32 Recompile
76% matchMixed69% of 175 reviews2021
Dev: PhigamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.
Why similar: Mystery 20.9%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Emotional 19%, Exploration 14.2%, Atmospheric 9.8%
- #33 Meet me at NooN
75% matchVery Positive100% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Pandaroo Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Could time go backwards? Meet me at NooN is a time manipulation turn-based puzzle-platformer with Tenet inspired mechanics. Control two characters, create perfect time loops and solve brain melting time puzzles.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Logic 18%, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 9.9%
- #34 Chroma Zero
73% matchVery Positive96% of 330 reviews2024
Dev: ekorzPub: ZeroXP
Windows
Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
Why similar: Logic 20.2%, Mystery 18.1%, Puzzle 11.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #35 OneShift
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,061 reviews2018
Dev: Mazen GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 47%
OneShift is a puzzle platformer where the player has the ability to freeze/unfreeze time and shift through worlds to collect blue cubes. But only one world can be active at a time. Later in the game, a world rotating mechanic is unveiled, which makes everything more complex!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.2%, Sci-fi 18%, Puzzle 17.7%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Action 8.1%
- #36 Where We Went
71% matchVery Positive98% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Oddcube Games
Windows
Where We Went is a narrative driven puzzle game. Step into the role of a mysterious character that can control ancient guardians to solve puzzles. Uncover the story behind your visit to the tomb and the reason for its existence!
Why similar: Mystery 19.4%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Emotional 16.5%, Puzzle 12%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #37 DE-EXIT - Eternal Matters
73% matchVery Positive83% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: SandBloom StudioPub: HandyGames
Windows
Embark on a surrealistic afterlife journey to discover the secrets of the broken and mysterious Plane of Memory in this cinematic adventure with a hint of stealth. Dive into a wonderful voxel world with an intense atmosphere and save the day!
Why similar: Mystery 15.3%, Emotional 14.1%, Platformer 13.7%, Action-Adventure 10.2%, Puzzle 8.9%
- #38 Your Future Self
74% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Mystery 29.4%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Adventure 19.7%, Story Rich 15.9%, Atmospheric 11.4%
- #39 Venineth
73% matchVery Positive81% of 265 reviews2020
Dev: Venineth TeamPub: mort-art
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 19.1%, Mystery 14.2%, Futuristic 12.7%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Adventure 9.4%
- #40 Nomori: Prologue
71% 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: Time Manipulation 31.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 28.5%, Puzzle 11.8%, Exploration 11%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #41 Orten Was The Case
70% matchVery Positive96% of 151 reviews2023
Dev: Woodhill Interactive
Windows · Mac
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33% ★, Mystery 22.1%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, Puzzle 8.7%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #42 Tyd wag vir Niemand (Time waits for Nobody)
74% matchMixed57% of 92 reviews2017
Dev: Skobbejak GamesPub: Skermunkel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manipulate time to your will at any moment to solve challenges, avoid deadly traps and make it to the end of this strange journey.
Why similar: Adventure 27.4%, First-Person 26.3%, Atmospheric 22.3%, Exploration 19.2%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #43 Timeloop: Sink Again Beach
70% matchVery Positive91% of 362 reviews2022
Dev: Fang's Lab
Windows
A non-linear first-person action adventure in a pirate setting. A single player time travel simulation game. Unusual gaming experience.Moving in space and time, the player must understand what is happening on the island and how the main character can move away from there.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 29.7% ★, Mystery 14.3%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Action-Adventure 10.6%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #44 Clinically Dead
72% matchVery Positive81% of 84 reviews2018
Dev: Mogila GamesPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
FPP puzzle game where the TIME is the COLOR. The colors you see are not just the art style, they represent the time in specific point on the level. Time and space are connected and moving through a level changes the time. Learn more about the unique mechanics from the second video.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.6% ★, Adventure 12%, Mystery 11.5%, Logic 11.3%, Action 11.3%
- #45 Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer
72% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2018
Dev: Fishing Cactus
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 26%, Philosophical 17.7%, Platformer 12.8%, Logic 10.9%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #46 The Art of Reflection
67% matchVery Positive97% of 145 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 29.7%, Logic 16%, First-Person 12.6%, Puzzle 11.6%, Exploration 9.7%
- #47 Overloop
69% matchVery Positive94% of 247 reviews2022
Dev: Charge GamesPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21%, Platformer 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Mystery 11.8%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #48 ReThink
71% matchVery Positive82% of 292 reviews2017
Dev: Yaeko
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As an inmate of a government-controlled Correctional Facility in the year 2275, you have the right to prove yourself worthy of being part of Society again. Show your skills in logical thinking by solving puzzles of varying size, type and difficulty in this first-Person puzzle game, and redeem your freedom!
Why similar: Logic 23.8%, Sci-fi 14.6%, First-Person 13.4%, Puzzle 13.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.3%
- #49 ENDLING
67% matchVery Positive88% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Team HumansPub: TelePresent Games
Windows · Mac
Live the perfect day, break the cycle, and discover the truth about yourself in this short, quirky sci-fi mystery about freedom, choice, and loneliness.
Why similar: Philosophical 33.4%, Emotional 15.5%, Mystery 13.4%, Sci-fi 11.5%, First-Person 9.6%
- #50 Time Lock VR 1
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 807 reviews2017
Dev: WR-VRGPub: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A VR puzzle game with sci-fi and escape room elements: control time, solve challenges, fight enemies, and explore worlds across different timelines.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.3% ★, Puzzle 18.5%, Action-Adventure 16.6%, 3D 9%, Action 6.3%
- #51 Chronigma
64% matchNo user reviews100% of 501 reviews2025
Dev: C3BGames
Windows · Mac
Master time in this story-rich time-bending puzzle game. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.7% ★, Logic 23.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Futuristic 8.5%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #52 MotionRec
64% matchVery Positive100% of 388 reviews2025
Dev: HANDSUMPub: PLAYISM
Windows
MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Puzzle 9%
- #53 Shadow Alchemist
66% matchVery Positive96% of 100 reviews2024
Dev: PostHuman Interactive
Windows
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: Puzzle Platformer 31%, Mystery 22.3%, Puzzle 13%, Exploration 12.3%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #54 Quern - Undying Thoughts
67% matchVery Positive91% of 3,956 reviews2016
Dev: Zadbox EntertainmentPub: Blue Brain Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Mystery 23.7%, Puzzle 13.3%, First-Person 11%, Story Rich 10%, Exploration 9.8%
- #55 DragonLoop
64% matchVery Positive93% of 551 reviews2025
Dev: 沙因
Windows
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 53.3% ★, Action-Adventure 19.5%, Platformer 12.3%, Action 6.3%, Adventure 6.1%
- #56 Machinika: Museum
65% matchVery Positive93% of 6,181 reviews2021
Dev: Littlefield StudioPub: Dear Villagers
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?
Why similar: Mystery 18.3%, Logic 13.7%, Sci-fi 12%, Futuristic 11.3%, Puzzle 10.1%