- #1 Future Proof
97% 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: Time Travel 41.2% ★, Mystery 13.1%, Puzzle 10.2%, 2D 5.8%, Retro 5.6%
- #2 Chronigma
96% 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 Travel 61.1% ★, Puzzle 14%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Sci-fi 6.7%, Top-Down 4.6%
- #3 Minit
96% matchVery Positive89% of 2,830 reviews2018
Dev: JWPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.
Why similar: Minimalist 38.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Puzzle 12.4%, Retro 10.1%, Adventure 6%
- #4 Chroma Zero
95% 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: Minimalist 18.5%, Puzzle 18.1%, Mystery 16.3%, Exploration 11.8%, Colorful 10.7%
- #5 Time Thief
94% matchVery Positive97% of 213 reviews2022
Dev: Matheus Mortatti
Windows · Mac · Linux
Time Thief is an action adventure game where leaving your village makes the clock tick. Manage your time to stay alive, stealing seconds from creatures around its overworld with your sword.
Why similar: Retro 19.1%, Exploration 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Top-Down 13.6%, Puzzle 9.4%
- #6 Loophole
94% 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 Travel 46.5% ★, Minimalist 18.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Top-Down 10.6%, Colorful 4.2%
- #7 Linelith
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,239 reviews2022
Dev: Patrick Traynor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.
Why similar: Puzzle 26.6%, Minimalist 16.5%, Top-Down 16.1%, Exploration 16.1%, Casual 8.2%
- #8 Chronescher
92% matchVery Positive85% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: PurpleSloth
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Time Travel 56.6% ★, Puzzle 24.4%, Colorful 9.4%, Adventure 4.1%, Indie 3.3%
- #9 Three Minutes To Eight
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 192 reviews2023
Dev: Chaosmonger StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.2% ★, Mystery 16.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
- #10 Causal Loop
90% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: Mirebound InteractivePub: Headup
Windows
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: Mystery 27.7%, Puzzle 19.5%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Exploration 16.3%, Atmospheric 10.3%
- #11 A Perfect Day
91% matchVery Positive85% of 1,812 reviews2022
Dev: Perfect Day Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Time Travel 36.4% ★, Puzzle 11.8%, Retro 11%, Investigation 10.2%, Exploration 9.5%
- #12 Stuck In Time
89% matchVery Positive84% of 1,037 reviews2021
Dev: Housemade Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 52.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.2%, Exploration 24.9%, Retro 16.2%, Minimalist 14.6%, Adventure 8.6%
- #13 OneShot
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 62,700 reviews2016
Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 28.7%, Puzzle 23%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Exploration 10.9%, 2D 7.9%
- #14 Chronology
89% matchVery Positive87% of 992 reviews2014
Dev: Bedtime Digital Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.9% ★, Puzzle 30.9%, Adventure 14.9%, Indie 7.4%, 2D 4.9%
- #15 Neoproxima
87% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Lonestone Studio
Windows
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Mystery 26.3%, Sci-fi 22.1%, Exploration 17.2%, Investigation 16%, Atmospheric 11.7%
- #16 TEST TEST TEST
86% matchVery Positive92% of 999 reviews2024
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.4% ★, Top-Down 16.4%, Puzzle 14%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Mystery 8.6%
- #17 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: Time Travel 64.6% ★, Puzzle 16.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Colorful 7%, Casual 3.1%
- #18 Pocket Watch
84% matchVery Positive95% of 136 reviews2021
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
A time-traveling adventure game on a tropical island. 🌴⛱️ Talk to animals, solve puzzles, and save the island from destruction . . .
Why similar: Puzzle 31.9%, Adventure 24.7%, Colorful 24%, Indie 14.4%, Singleplayer 5.1%
- #19 Lord Ambermaze
81% matchVery Positive94% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Potata CompanyPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Lord Ambermaze is a charming adventure set on a mysterious island where the world only moves when you do. Battle quirky enemies, solve clever puzzles, bond with island dwellers, and save your little sister by uncovering the dark lord’s terrible secret.
Why similar: Puzzle 28%, Pixel Graphics 25.3%, Exploration 23.5%, 2D 11.4%, Adventure 7.7%
- #20 Time Machine - Find Objects. Hidden Pictures Game
84% matchVery Positive81% of 102 reviews2021
Dev: Crisp App Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
An exciting adventure through space and time awaits for you in the newest hidden object game! Immerse yourself into a real investigation, full of intrigue and mysterious temporal anomalies!
Why similar: Time Travel 33.2% ★, Puzzle 14.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.2%, 2D 5.7%
- #21 TEMPUS
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: k148 Game Studio
Windows
TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?
Why similar: Exploration 27.9%, Sci-fi 21.2%, Investigation 19.4%, Mystery 9.6%, Puzzle 7.4%
- #22 Crime O'Clock
82% matchMixed69% of 505 reviews2023
Dev: Bad SeedPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
Why similar: Mystery 22.2%, Puzzle 20.1%, Investigation 19.4%, Sci-fi 14.3%, 2D 10.5%
- #23 Between Time: Escape Room
82% matchVery Positive80% of 345 reviews2021
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?
Why similar: Time Travel 49.6% ★, Puzzle 17%, Investigation 11.9%, Exploration 9.8%, Adventure 5%
- #24 Pages of Time: Prologue
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,907 reviews2022
Dev: Starbeings Studio
Windows
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 48.1%, Adventure 14.8%, 2D 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Indie 8.4%
- #25 Rue Valley
79% 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: Time Travel 41.8% ★, Mystery 14.4%, Exploration 12%, Colorful 8.3%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #26 MotionRec
77% 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: Puzzle 16.4%, Retro 16.3%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Exploration 12.8%
- #27 Evoland 2
80% matchVery Positive87% of 3,889 reviews2015
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Evoland 2 is an unique RPG, with its graphic style and gameplay changing as you progress through a deep storyline based on time travel.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.8% ★, Retro 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Fantasy 7.6%, Adventure 7.6%
- #28 Your Future Self
81% 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 16.3%, Retro 14.1%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Adventure 11.2%
- #29 The Entropy Centre
78% 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: Puzzle 31.4%, Sci-fi 27.8%, Exploration 18%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Adventure 7.4%
- #30 In Stars And Time
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,335 reviews2023
Dev: insertdisc5Pub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Why similar: Time Travel 55.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Fantasy 11.1%, 2D 8.8%, Atmospheric 7%
- #31 Hexed Time
75% matchVery Positive98% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Petra Emmer
Windows
Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.6% ★, Puzzle 24%, Exploration 12.7%, 2D 8.2%, Adventure 5.8%
- #32 Super Drift Blade
74% matchVery Positive96% of 376 reviews2025
Dev: Liujiajun
Windows
Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle 23.2%, Exploration 23%, Top-Down 19.8%, 2D 11.8%, Colorful 11.7%
- #33 Timespinner
77% matchVery Positive86% of 3,123 reviews2018
Dev: Lunar Ray GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.4% ★, Exploration 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Fantasy 10.1%
- #34 Redactem
78% matchMixed67% of 440 reviews2016
Dev: Elliott JonesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.
Why similar: Minimalist 25.7%, Puzzle 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 20.6%, 2D 11.9%, Casual 9.5%
- #35 Blue Prince
71% matchVery Positive87% of 18,310 reviews2025
Dev: DogubombPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?
Why similar: Puzzle 25.1%, Mystery 23.6%, Exploration 18.2%, Investigation 17.4%, Atmospheric 6.7%
- #36 A Timely Intervention
76% matchVery Positive84% of 61 reviews2017
Dev: Aldorlea Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
"A Timely Intervention" is an innovative RPG featuring animated battle visuals, polished gameplay mechanisms, an intricate storyline and a cast of colourful characters. Developed by the team behind "The Tale of a Common Man", it's a must-have for fans of the genre!
Why similar: Time Travel 47.9% ★, Exploration 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Top-Down 7.3%, Fantasy 6.3%
- #37 Complex Loop
73% 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: Time Travel 58% ★, Sci-fi 15.3%, Exploration 13%, 2D 8.4%, Adventure 5.3%
- #38 Meet me at NooN
73% 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: Puzzle 51.4%, Exploration 32.5%, Casual 11.4%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #39 Timelie
73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,510 reviews2020
Dev: Urnique Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.
Why similar: Puzzle 37%, Sci-fi 25.2%, Atmospheric 17.5%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 5.7%
- #40 Induction
75% matchVery Positive90% of 187 reviews2017
Dev: Bryan Gale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect.
Why similar: Time Travel 65.9% ★, Puzzle 27.6%, Indie 6.5%
- #41 Leap Year
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,047 reviews2024
Dev: Daniel Linssen
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Exploration 21.5%, Puzzle 19.7%, Mystery 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Retro 11.7%
- #42 Eternal Threads
72% 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 Travel 41% ★, Mystery 14.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Investigation 11.4%, Exploration 8.4%
- #43 Super Puzzled Cat
70% matchVery Positive98% of 197 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 27.7%, Pixel Graphics 20%, 2D 19.6%, Colorful 16.8%, Adventure 7.6%
- #44 Orten Was The Case
71% 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: Mystery 40%, Puzzle 26.5%, Exploration 24.3%, Adventure 9.2%
- #45 Break the Loop
70% matchVery Positive85% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Mastodonte
Windows
Break the Loop is a turn-based Rogue-like RPG. Compose your team and create a timeline by selecting the events you'll go through. Each decision will bring you one step closer to the ultimate threat, but will you have accumulated enough power to stop the apocalypse?
Why similar: Time Travel 36.9% ★, Minimalist 17.5%, Fantasy 16.4%, 2D 11.2%, Colorful 8.6%
- #46 The Forgotten City
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,205 reviews2021
Dev: Modern StorytellerPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Time Travel 45.6% ★, Mystery 15.4%, Exploration 11.3%, Investigation 10.8%, Fantasy 5.4%
- #47 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: Exploration 24.2%, Adventure 21%, Atmospheric 18.5%, Fantasy 17.4%, Indie 14.3%
- #48 ANIMAL WELL
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,932 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 18.7%, Exploration 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Mystery 13.9%, Retro 9.7%
- #49 Peppy's Adventure
71% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2021
Dev: Pepite Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Peppy’s Adventure is a challenging 1-screen, tile-based, action-puzzle game controlled with directional inputs only. Help Peppy progress through unique levels and worlds to save his family from the Hooded Fox. Precise timing, fast thinking and trickery will be key to advance and unveil mysteries.
Why similar: Retro 25.1%, Puzzle 24%, Top-Down 23.9%, 2D 10.3%, Adventure 7.4%
- #50 Cramped Room of Death
69% matchVery Positive94% of 71 reviews2023
Dev: Hafiz Mohd RozlanPub: Nicalis, Inc.
Windows
A puzzle adventure in close quarters! Use your spear to defeat enemies and collect treasure, but plan your moves carefully—each room has tight turns, deadly traps and no margin for error.
Why similar: Puzzle 23.9%, Pixel Graphics 21.4%, Top-Down 16.8%, Exploration 9.4%, Fantasy 8.9%
- #51 Doors: Paradox
68% matchVery Positive91% of 1,989 reviews2022
Dev: Big Loop StudiosPub: Snapbreak
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A relaxing puzzle escape game! Make your way through a variety of hand-crafted 3D dioramas, look for useful objects, find hidden clues and solve fun puzzles! Unravel this mysterious adventure about chaos, order and the surreal.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.6% ★, Mystery 15.6%, Puzzle 15%, Exploration 10%, Atmospheric 7.3%
- #52 Cats in Time
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,390 reviews2021
Dev: Pine Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!
Why similar: Time Travel 58% ★, Puzzle 26.6%, Casual 6.3%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 2.4%
- #53 TIMEframe
72% matchMixed66% of 705 reviews2015
Dev: Random Seed Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction.
Why similar: Exploration 37%, Atmospheric 25.6%, Casual 17.6%, Indie 11.6%, Adventure 8.2%
- #54 The Mensional
69% matchVery Positive92% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Delil Timurtaş
Windows · Mac
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.7% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Mystery 10.7%, Exploration 10%, Minimalist 8.5%
- #55 Nomori: Prologue
68% 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 26.4%, Exploration 24.6%, Minimalist 23.1%, Colorful 13%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #56 Tick Hop
66% matchVery Positive80% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: 小磊又饿又困
Windows
"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 33.3%, Minimalist 23.9%, 2D 15.7%, Colorful 10.1%, Indie 7.2%
- #57 In His Time
67% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: TearyHand StudioPub: Kodansha
Windows · Mac
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: Exploration 21.6%, Puzzle 21.4%, 2D 16.3%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Adventure 9.2%
- #58 Time Loader
67% 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: Sci-fi 51.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Casual 14.3%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 8.3%
- #59 The Silent Age
67% matchVery Positive93% of 7,173 reviews2015
Dev: House On Fire
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!
Why similar: Puzzle 19.1%, Minimalist 18.9%, Sci-fi 17.5%, Exploration 15.5%, 2D 8.7%