- #1 Time Loader
97% matchVery Positive83% of 534 reviews2021
Dev: FlazmPub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 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 36.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Emotional 15%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Platformer 7.3%
- #2 Chronology
96% matchVery Positive87% of 986 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: Puzzle Platformer 34.7%, Time Manipulation 25.1% ★, Platformer 9.8%, Time Travel 9.2% ★, Puzzle 8.5%
- #3 The Watchmaker
96% matchMixed49% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: Micropsia Games SpA
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
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: Time Manipulation 38.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Platformer 9.8%, Adventure 7.7%
- #4 Chronescher
94% matchVery Positive86% of 58 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 Manipulation 31.6% ★, Time Travel 16.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Emotional 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #5 Clockwork
95% matchMixed61% of 76 reviews2016
Dev: Gamesoft
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 79.5%, Adventure 11%, Indie 9.4%
- #6 Arise: A Simple Story
94% matchVery Positive92% of 2,975 reviews2020
Dev: Piccolo StudioPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Emotional 16.4%, Platformer 6.8%, Drama 6.6%
- #7 Ageless
93% matchMixed56% of 402 reviews2020
Dev: One More Dream StudiosPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Emotional 10.5%, Platformer 8.9%, 2D Platformer 7.2%
- #8 In His Time
91% matchVery Positive86% of 51 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: Puzzle Platformer 33.3%, Platformer 10.7%, Drama 10.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, 2D Platformer 8.7%
- #9 Lost Words: Beyond the Page
91% matchVery Positive95% of 823 reviews2021
Dev: Sketchbook DevelopmentsPub: Sketchbook Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.3%, Emotional 23.5%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #10 Pages of Time: Prologue
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,877 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: Hand-drawn 18.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Puzzle 11%, RPG 8.4%
- #11 Tyd wag vir Niemand (Time waits for Nobody)
89% matchMixed57% of 91 reviews2017
Dev: Skobbejak GamesPub: Skermunkel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 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: Indie 48.5%, Adventure 46%, Singleplayer 5.4%
- #12 Time Master
86% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: MorpheusZ
Windows · Linux
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: Time Manipulation 53% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.2%, Story Rich 7.4%, Puzzle 6.7%, Cute 5.7%
- #13 The Inner Darkness
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 107 reviews2017
Dev: Nauris Amatnieks
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Time Manipulation 48.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23%, Puzzle 8.6%, Retro 7.9%, Platformer 6.3%
- #14 YesterMorrow
87% matchMixed68% of 65 reviews2020
Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Blowfish Studios
Windows
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: Time Travel 17.1% ★, Platformer 16.8%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 14.2%
- #15 Super Puzzled Cat
84% matchVery Positive98% of 192 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: Time Manipulation 40.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, 2D Platformer 7.8%, Platformer 6.6%, Puzzle 6%
- #16 Hourglass
85% matchVery Positive90% of 390 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: Time Manipulation 33% ★, Puzzle Platformer 32.1%, Time Travel 13% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Adventure 4.8%
- #17 Timeworks
84% 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 29.5% ★, Time Travel 21.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Cartoony 7.2%, Puzzle 7%
- #18 Tick Tock Isle
86% matchVery Positive86% of 330 reviews2015
Dev: Squiddershins
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 69% ★, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 14.7%
- #19 The Gardens Between
83% matchVery Positive94% of 2,728 reviews2018
Dev: The Voxel Agents
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 49.1% ★, Emotional 20.4%, Time Travel 16.3% ★, Story Rich 7.1%, Puzzle 7%
- #20 A Perfect Day
82% matchVery Positive85% of 1,802 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 19.2% ★, Emotional 17.1%, Multiple Endings 14%, Hand-drawn 13%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #21 Evergate
82% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2020
Dev: Stone Lantern GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Evergate is a haunting 2D puzzle-platformer set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife with an original score recorded by a live orchestra. Navigate 85 challenging stages and unleash the extraordinary powers of the genre-defining 'Soulflame' to help a lost soul reincarnate on earth!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Emotional 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Platformer 6.7%
- #22 Carto
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,158 reviews2020
Dev: Sunhead GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 33.4%, Puzzle 17.3%, Story Rich 12.5%, Cute 12.4%, Indie 8.4%
- #23 Timespinner
81% matchVery Positive86% of 3,099 reviews2018
Dev: Lunar Ray GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 Manipulation 41.6% ★, Time Travel 17.7% ★, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Platformer 9%, RPG 6.6%
- #24 Eternal Threads
80% matchVery Positive86% of 817 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 40.6% ★, Time Travel 17.6% ★, Emotional 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Puzzle 7.2%
- #25 The Last Campfire
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 18,750 reviews2021
Dev: Hello Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
Why similar: Emotional 28.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.8%, Puzzle 16.1%, Story Rich 9.8%, Cute 8.1%
- #26 Souls of Chronos
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 165 reviews2023
Dev: FUTU StudioPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
The Apocalypse shattered a world in disarray. Facing his impending death, a young boy named Sid crossed paths with Torii, a girl who feeds on the energy of time. In the harbour town of Astella, a mysterious adventure is about to unfold along with the investigation of an unusual crime...
Why similar: Multiple Endings 20.2%, Hand-drawn 20%, Emotional 18.8%, Drama 10.5%, Story Rich 10%
- #27 Braid, Anniversary Edition
77% matchVery Positive93% of 1,697 reviews2024
Dev: Thekla, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.0 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 29.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18%, Time Travel 8.5% ★, Hand-drawn 8.2%, Cartoony 7.2%
- #28 Once Again
78% matchVery Positive91% of 1,001 reviews2022
Dev: RB Wolf DesignPub: RB Wolf Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 61.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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: Emotional 22.6%, Time Travel 19.5% ★, Hand-drawn 16.1%, Drama 9.8%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #29 Pocket Watch
79% matchVery Positive95% of 135 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: Adventure 30.2%, Indie 27%, Puzzle 25.2%, Cute 14.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #30 Chronoquartz
75% matchVery Positive99% of 437 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: Time Travel 39% ★, Puzzle 21.5%, Retro 17.9%, 2D 9.8%, Adventure 6%
- #31 Tick Hop
76% matchVery Positive80% of 197 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 Platformer 31.5%, 2D Platformer 16.2%, Platformer 12%, Puzzle 11.3%, Cartoony 9.2%
- #32 OneShift
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 989 reviews2018
Dev: Mazen GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.1 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 55%, Puzzle 23.6%, Indie 10.2%, Adventure 9.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #33 Chrono Recorder
76% 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 51.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 34.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #34 Chronigma
72% matchNo user reviews100% of 286 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 50% ★, Time Travel 27.9% ★, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Puzzle 8%, Story Rich 3.7%
- #35 Read Clock Time
75% matchVery Positive90% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Five Percents
Windows
Everyone knows the dial of a mechanical watch, but sometimes the position of the hands makes you wonder!?
Why similar: Puzzle 37.6%, Cartoony 28.7%, Cute 13.8%, 2D 10.8%, Indie 7.6%
- #36 Reviver
73% matchVery Positive92% of 217 reviews2025
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 27.9%, Emotional 24.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Puzzle 12.4%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #37 Timelie
73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,501 reviews2020
Dev: Urnique Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Time Manipulation 50.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 25.8%, Puzzle 9.6%, Cute 5.5%, Adventure 3.6%
- #38 Aarik And The Ruined Kingdom
73% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Shatterproof Games
Windows · Mac
Guide Aarik through wreck and ruin in this relaxing perspective puzzle adventure where the puzzle is your environment. Using your fathers crown repair, rework and rewind to mend your broken world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.1%, Puzzle 22.5%, Cute 13.2%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 3.7%
- #39 OneShot
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 61,459 reviews2016
Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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: Multiple Endings 22.9%, Story Rich 21%, Puzzle 16.1%, Cute 11.2%, Indie 7.9%
- #40 She Remembered Caterpillars
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 552 reviews2017
Dev: jumpsuit entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Pub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on, told in the format of a color-based puzzle game. A tale as the bond between parent and child, this lush and bewildering title will have players testing their wits against a variety of challenges, all beautiful and very strange.
Why similar: Puzzle 46.6%, Hand-drawn 36.1%, Indie 17.4%
- #41 DragonLoop: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: 沙因小分队
Windows
The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 51.5% ★, Time Travel 22.5% ★, Hand-drawn 8%, 2D Platformer 5.7%, RPG 3.4%
- #42 Future Proof
74% 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 32% ★, Time Manipulation 20.4% ★, Puzzle 9.9%, RPG 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
- #43 Orten Was The Case
71% matchVery Positive96% of 147 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 72.3% ★, Puzzle 11.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, Adventure 6.3%
- #44 Candleman: The Complete Journey
72% matchVery Positive92% of 1,247 reviews2018
Dev: Candleman Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.
Why similar: RPG 21.2%, Adventure 15%, Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle 14.2%, Indie 14%
- #45 A Void Hope
70% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Elden Pixels
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.8%, Retro 18.8%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Platformer 9.7%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #46 Loophole
68% matchVery Positive99% of 138 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 50% ★, Time Travel 30.6% ★, Puzzle 11.1%, Indie 4.4%, Cute 2.6%
- #47 Little Gods of the Abyss
68% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: PLAY MephistowaltzPub: GRAVITY
Windows
A 3D adventure combining precise platforming action with environmental puzzles. Purify the corrupted Primal Gate and restore the flow of time to a shattered world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Emotional 19.8%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Platformer 9.3%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #48 The Path Home
67% matchVery Positive99% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: kakuhitoPub: michikusa
Windows
"The Path Home" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle game where you explore a strange world with a girl. Use panels to "flip" black and white tiles and reshape the puzzle world. The girl always searches for the "shortest path to the goal," but avoiding fake goals and reuniting her with the crow is up to you.
Why similar: Puzzle 36.7%, Story Rich 22.7%, 2D 17.5%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 9.2%
- #49 Retro Machina
69% matchVery Positive87% of 252 reviews2021
Dev: Orbit StudioPub: SuperGG.com
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.
Why similar: Emotional 22.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Platformer 8.1%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #50 Simulation world
70% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2021
Dev: 007berd
Windows
Simulation World - This is a puzzle, story and open world. Feel the vanilla atmosphere as you progress through the puzzles. Rescue the simulation from a virus that wants to destroy the computer world
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.1%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Puzzle 11.3%, Platformer 10.5%, 2D Platformer 10.1%
- #51 Elroy and the Aliens
65% matchVery Positive97% of 429 reviews2025
Dev: Motiviti
Windows · Mac · Linux
Slope City, 1993. Talking robots, ancient alien secrets, and a mysterious message from the past. Follow Elroy and Peggie through a portal to find Elroy's father, missing for 18 years. A heartfelt point & click adventure where the puzzles make sense and the story stays with you.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 20.7%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Cartoony 17%, Puzzle 16.1%, Story Rich 11.4%
- #52 Minute of Islands
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 939 reviews2021
Dev: Studio FizbinPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.4%, Hand-drawn 21.8%, Cartoony 11.1%, Platformer 9.7%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #53 TEST TEST TEST
65% matchVery Positive92% of 991 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 23.4% ★, Multiple Endings 21.2%, Cartoony 17%, Puzzle 13.9%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #54 In Between
70% matchVery Positive85% of 473 reviews2015
Dev: GentlymadPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.4%, Emotional 16.6%, Hand-drawn 16%, Platformer 10.4%, Puzzle 8.9%
- #55 What Lies in the Multiverse
67% matchVery Positive92% of 705 reviews2022
Dev: Studio VoyagerPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Time Manipulation 38.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Time Travel 18.5% ★, 2D Platformer 7.1%, Puzzle 6%
- #56 The Great Perhaps
69% matchVery Positive81% of 838 reviews2019
Dev: Caligari GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
Why similar: Time Travel 37% ★, Cartoony 13.4%, Adventure 12.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 10.5%
- #57 The Mensional
68% matchVery Positive92% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: Delil Timurtaş
Windows · Mac
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.8% ★, Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 17.5%, 2D 8.3%, Indie 8.2%
- #58 Chrono Gear: Warden of Time
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 901 reviews2025
Dev: Team Chrono GearPub: holo Indie
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Turn back the clock and fight to repair Time itself in this cinematic action platformer with fast sword combat and time-based powers. You are the Warden of Time, Ouro Kronii - be proud and fight hard!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 55.2% ★, Time Travel 18.4% ★, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Platformer 7.3%, 2D 3.1%