Games Like Chronology

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 37.6%, Time Manipulation 22.7% ★, Platformer 16.1%, Time Travel 10.3% ★, Puzzle 10%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive time-manipulation puzzle-platformer that shares the same focus on rewinding and altering the environment to solve complex logic puzzles.

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 25.7%, Platformer 21.2%, Time Manipulation 21.1% ★, Puzzle 13.8%, Adventure 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique time-loop mechanic where you record your actions to cooperate with past versions of yourself, mirroring the puzzle-solving depth of Chronology.

The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.9%, Time Manipulation 24.9% ★, Platformer 10%, Time Travel 9.2% ★, Puzzle 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven puzzle game that focuses heavily on manipulating time to help characters and solve environmental mysteries.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.2%, Platformer 19.5%, Puzzle 15.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Chronology, this game uses a core environmental mechanic—shifting colors—to navigate obstacles and solve puzzles in a beautifully stylized 2D world.

Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31%, Platformer 27.4%, Puzzle 15.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic, atmospheric puzzle-platformer that focuses on the relationship between two brothers as they navigate a dark, industrial world.

Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 59.7%, Platformer 23%, Puzzle 15.3%, 2D 2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features two characters with opposing elemental powers that must work together to solve puzzles, perfectly capturing the dual-character dynamic of the Inventor and Snail.

Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.2%, Time Manipulation 28% ★, Platformer 18.2%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that explores time-travel consequences through a small robot's perspective, matching the whimsical yet thoughtful tone of the seed game.

The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34%, Time Manipulation 18% ★, Platformer 14.7%, Adventure 13.5%, Puzzle 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D puzzle-platformer centered on time-manipulation mechanics and a clockwork-themed world that feels thematically aligned with the Inventor's aesthetic.

CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.

Why similar: Platformer 31.6%, Puzzle Platformer 21.1%, Puzzle 19.9%, Adventure 16.5%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique perspective-shifting mechanic where you manipulate light and shadows to traverse a 2D world, similar to the timeline-swapping in Chronology.

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 37.1%, Puzzle 26.9%, Platformer 20.2%, Indie 7.8%, Adventure 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that uses a cloning mechanic to solve environmental puzzles, offering a similar level of cerebral challenge.

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 53%, Platformer 28.7%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 7%, 2D 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that relies on the unique abilities of different characters to progress, emphasizing a strong narrative connection between the protagonists.

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 36%, Puzzle Platformer 32%, Puzzle 16.3%, Indie 7.5%, Adventure 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that uses magnetism and electricity to navigate, offering a similar sense of discovery and environmental interaction.

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 38.7%, Platformer 24%, Puzzle 14.1%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you manipulate the environment by painting different colors to change the physics of the world.

Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.2%, Platformer 21.9%, Puzzle 8.4%, Indie 7.4%, Adventure 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a time-slowing mechanic that is essential for solving platforming puzzles, providing a similar gameplay loop to Chronology.

Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something. Swap minds to see the world in different ways! Where one mind sees a bottomless pit, another might not. Where one sees a locked door, another sees a key. To change perspective is to change reality!

Why similar: Platformer 26.7%, Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 15.2%, Puzzle 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A clever puzzle-platformer that forces you to shift between different perspectives of the same level to find the solution.

Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.9%, Platformer 24.1%, Puzzle 10%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features three distinct characters that must be swapped to overcome environmental puzzles, capturing the cooperative spirit of Chronology.

Snapshot is the tale of a lone robot lost in an abandoned world. Armed with only his trusty camera, Pic sets forth on his great adventure. A camera might not seem like enough for a puzzle platforming adventure, but this camera is different from most: It has the ability to capture and remove from the world the very objects that it...

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, Platformer 27.5%, Adventure 17.2%, Puzzle 15.6%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer where you use a camera to capture and move objects in the environment, requiring similar spatial thinking.

Strike is inadvertently transported into the past while attempting to repair a mysterious, abandoned clock tower. Endeavoring to return to the future, Strike must fix both the time machine and the island’s dysfunctional family who are responsible for much of the clock’s disrepair.

Why similar: Time Travel 52.6% ★, Adventure 29.3%, Indie 18.1%

Why You'll Like It: A short, charming adventure game centered around time-travel and fixing the timeline, mirroring the brevity and theme of Chronology.

Enter the hauntingly beautiful shadow world of In His Time, a 2D puzzle-solving adventure game. There you will meet Olly and join him to solve puzzles throughout each step of his emotional journey of growth and self-discovery.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.1%, Platformer 19.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Puzzle 9.2%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich puzzle-platformer that explores themes of time and memory through a 2D narrative lens.

Kelvin and the Infamous Machine is a hilarious point-and-click adventure in which you stumble irresponsibly through history to help legendary geniuses complete their masterworks!

Why similar: Time Travel 44.3% ★, Puzzle 20.8%, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 11.9%, 2D 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous point-and-click adventure that focuses on time-traveling to fix historical events, sharing the lighthearted narrative focus of the seed game.

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 39.5%, Time Manipulation 26.9% ★, Platformer 13.9%, Puzzle 8.4%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D puzzle-platformer that incorporates time-manipulation elements into its level design.

Clockwork is a time-bending puzzle-platformer that tells the story of Atto, a lonely mechanical boy in the great city of Watchtower. Explore the city, discover its mysterious past, control time and fight terrifying boss battles. Clockwork features over 60+ hand-drawn, steampunk-inspired levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 77%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses a time-recording mechanic to help you solve puzzles alongside a mechanical companion.

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 35.1%, Time Travel 22.1% ★, Time Manipulation 19% ★, Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A time-travel puzzle game that requires careful planning and manipulation of the environment to succeed.

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: Puzzle Platformer 45.3%, Platformer 24.8%, Puzzle 15.1%, Indie 12.4%, 2D 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that uses gravity-shifting mechanics to navigate, providing a similar challenge to timeline-swapping.

"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: Puzzle Platformer 53.6%, Time Manipulation 29.5% ★, Puzzle 13.2%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses time-recording mechanics to solve environmental puzzles.

RePete is a pixel art puzzle platformer about time travel and self-cooperation. You play as Pete, a special guy that can loop back in time to help his past self solve problems, collect gems, and reach new heights.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses a time-loop mechanic to help you solve stages by repeating your previous actions.

Watch is a free incremental game combined with collecting wristwatches integrated into Steam inventory.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A casual puzzle-platformer that focuses on perspective and environmental interaction.

Evolve through the history of video games in this fun-filled blast from the past.

Why similar: Platformer 45%, Adventure 34.5%, Indie 20.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D platformer that plays with game history and visual styles, offering a nostalgic feel similar to the classic adventure vibe of Chronology.

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: Time Travel 42% ★, Puzzle 30.9%, Adventure 15.1%, Indie 7.3%, 2D 4.8%

Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44%, Time Manipulation 18.2% ★, Platformer 18%, Puzzle 10.8%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that emphasizes environmental manipulation to progress through its levels.

Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. 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 43.3% ★, Time Travel 38.5% ★, Puzzle 14.7%, Indie 3.5%

Replay: VHS is not dead is a puzzle/ platform game, set in a movie-based universe. Record your characters’ movements. Use the remote control powers to bend time. Change character and play again to combine their actions.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.3%, Platformer 20.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Puzzle 13.1%, Indie 8.9%

This is a platform puzzle game related to our "WATCH" vision.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.6%, Platformer 22.1%, Puzzle 13.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Indie 6.2%

Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 51.7%, Platformer 18.1%, Puzzle 13.5%, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 3.6%

Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.5%, Time Manipulation 20.5% ★, Platformer 18.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Adventure 9.1%

A time-traveling adventure game on a tropical island. 🌴⛱️ Talk to animals, solve puzzles, and save the island from destruction . . .

Why similar: Adventure 47.8%, Indie 29.5%, Puzzle 22.6%

"Tick Hop" is a time-based puzzle platformer where players control the Guardian of Time. Navigate through levels made of time fragments, solving challenges and unlocking the past to restore the future. Manage a dynamic countdown and use time-altering items to overcome obstacles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.8%, Platformer 21.9%, Puzzle 13.8%, Indie 8.7%, Adventure 3.6%

2D puzzle platforming adventure with a heavy story about life and psychology told without words.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 64.1%, Adventure 20%, Indie 12.9%, 2D 3%

Take Jethro the Lion on a magical journey, traversing space and time to prevent the imminent collapse of the universe. Oh and your friend Ronald the Bear is missing, maybe you can find him whilst you’re out exploring?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.7%, Platformer 27.7%, Time Travel 17.2% ★, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 6.8%

A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.9%, Time Manipulation 29.9% ★, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 11.2%, Adventure 4.7%

Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.7%, Puzzle 18.2%, Platformer 18.2%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 9.2%

Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.3%, Time Manipulation 23.6% ★, Time Travel 19.8% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Adventure 6.5%

Zeno has accidentally banished his sister, so what now? Create paradoxes to help him complete trials and bring her back, obviously. Take on a wide variety of puzzles while collaborating with your past self and experiencing a fully-voiced cinematic story as you help Zeno bring her back.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.6%, Time Manipulation 37% ★, Puzzle 9.9%, Adventure 8.5%

Embark on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on this surprising and elastic point-and-click game. Grab, pull, and release to help them solve a bizarre investigation full of humor and meta-time travel!

Why similar: Adventure 49.5%, Puzzle 44.1%, Indie 6.4%

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: Time Travel 38.6% ★, Adventure 17%, Puzzle 16%, Time Manipulation 15.5% ★, Indie 9.8%

Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

Why similar: Platformer 26.7%, Time Travel 24.1% ★, Puzzle 17.1%, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 9.7%

Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.

Why similar: Adventure 48.3%, Time Manipulation 36.8% ★, Indie 9.2%, 2D 5.6%

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?

Why similar: Time Travel 39% ★, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 18.1%, Puzzle 13.7%, 2D 1.6%

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 37.5% ★, Time Travel 36.5% ★, Puzzle 17.6%, Indie 8.4%

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.3%, Platformer 21.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Adventure 7.1%, Indie 3.3%

An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 51.2%, Platformer 18.8%, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 9.8%, Indie 5%

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 36.9%, Time Manipulation 26.4% ★, Time Travel 19.9% ★, Puzzle 8.6%, Adventure 8.2%

YesterMorrow is a single-player time travelling 2D platformer, mixing action sequences with puzzle elements. Follow the engaging story of Yui, who travels back into the past to save her family and the remnants of a world now trapped in Never-ending Night.

Why similar: Adventure 26.4%, Platformer 24.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Indie 16.5%, Time Travel 12.2% ★

A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.8% ★, Time Travel 25.9% ★, Puzzle 16.1%, Adventure 13.5%, 2D 2.7%

Relaxing puzzle platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.8%, Platformer 18.3%, Puzzle 14.2%, Adventure 9.4%, Indie 8%

Hiiro is a 2D platform game focused on ambient exploration and puzzle solving. Discover a grand world filled with mysterious artifacts and forgotten ruins. Become immersed in relaxing gameplay and meditative music. Remain observant as you unravel an explanation for your solitude.

Why similar: Adventure 42.5%, Puzzle Platformer 24.7%, Platformer 16.7%, Puzzle 8.4%, Indie 6%

Time Up is a fast paced action platformer, with each level only being 9 seconds. Sieze every opportunity, plan your route, Survive various deadly traps, and reach the finish line! This game combines a variety of classic platformer elements: The levels are carefully designed to make them harder, yet more enjoyable to give the player a...

Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Platformer 32.2%, Indie 24%, 2D 3.7%