Games Like Cube & Star: An Arbitrary Love

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Exploration 34.1%, Indie 33.5%, Adventure 32.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features mind-bending, non-Euclidean geometry and surreal exploration that mirrors the abstract world-building of the seed game.

Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour.You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.You are an explorer, discovering new places, new rules, and new fascinations.

Why similar: Indie 50.1%, Adventure 35%, Exploration 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares an emphasis on minimalist, abstract exploration where the player must decipher the rules of a mysterious, shifting environment.

You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.

Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Indie 35.4%, Casual 24.5%

Why You'll Like It: An artistic, surreal point-and-click experience that uses abstract visuals to explore themes of loneliness and creation.

A surreal post-life adventure

Why similar: Indie 42.8%, Adventure 41.8%, Casual 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal RPG explores existential themes within a bizarre, abstract world that feels both haunting and contemplative.

Wander through a shifting simulation that feels both tragic and hilarious. Observe, interact, or simply exist as the world reshapes around you — a meditative, overstimulated reflection on what it means to keep going when everything’s falling apart.

Why similar: Indie 56.1%, Exploration 43.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the same blend of surrealism, psychedelic aesthetics, and existential questioning about the nature of reality.

Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

Why similar: Casual 40.5%, Indie 34.5%, Exploration 16.4%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply philosophical experience that allows you to explore the universe from the perspective of anything, capturing the same existential wonder found in the seed game.

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Indie 46.2%, Exploration 23%, Adventure 17%, Casual 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes perspective-shifting geometry and a vibrant, puzzle-filled world that rewards curiosity and unconventional thinking.

From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.

Why similar: Adventure 31.1%, Indie 28.6%, Exploration 22.6%, Casual 17.7%

Why You'll Like It: Players explore a blank, minimalist world by splashing paint to reveal the environment, echoing the seed game's focus on spreading color.

Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.

Why similar: Adventure 30.6%, Exploration 24.5%, Casual 23.6%, Indie 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: A game focused entirely on non-Euclidean geometry, offering a disorienting and fascinating exploration experience similar to the seed game's spatial puzzles.

A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!

Why similar: Adventure 32.7%, Exploration 30.2%, Indie 28.2%, Casual 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a lo-fi, surreal dreamscape that encourages exploration and feels like a strange, introspective journey.

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Why similar: Indie 36.7%, Casual 29.2%, Adventure 24.7%, Exploration 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A beautifully illustrated, surreal puzzle game that relies on shifting perspectives and abstract logic to tell its story.

As a strange being from beneath the ocean, discover the beauty of the surface world. What relationship will you have with the humans? Can you survive? Will they?

Why similar: Casual 36.1%, Adventure 32.4%, Indie 31.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, impactful experience that uses color and simple interactions to tell a story about perception and choice.

You have a strange dream where you meet a creature named Glitch Daddy, telling you that the world is ending very soon. Then, you wake up and go to unravel the truth through a wild, abstract psychedelic journey.

Why similar: Adventure 28.1%, Casual 26.5%, Indie 24.5%, Exploration 21%

Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic, surreal action-adventure that embraces visual chaos and abstract exploration.

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Why similar: Indie 33.7%, Adventure 23.3%, Exploration 21.5%, Casual 21.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic surreal exploration game that tasks players with navigating a series of abstract, dream-like worlds with little guidance.

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: Adventure 56.8%, Exploration 43.2%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer features a surreal, shifting world that challenges the player's perception of space and reality.

THE WORLD IS ENDING AND THE GODS ARE SQUABBLING! Suck up and launch dialogue in a world of puzzles, puppets, and weird gods… or THE RIFT WILL CONSUME US ALL!

Why similar: Adventure 54%, Casual 46%

Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic and funny adventure that leans into surreal character interactions and vibrant, unconventional art.

A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.

Why similar: Indie 27.7%, Casual 27.4%, Adventure 27.1%, Exploration 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, psychedelic first-person experience that prioritizes abstract visuals and a dream-like atmosphere.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Casual 40.9%, Indie 35.3%, Adventure 23.8%

Why You'll Like It: An absurdist, colorful game that uses simple, satisfying mechanics to explore a bizarre and humorous world.

YANKAI'S TRIANGLE is a love letter to TRIANGLES. A puzzling puzzle game about the beauty and joy of infinitely tapping on TRIANGLES for some reason.

Why similar: Indie 54%, Casual 46%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract, colorful puzzle game that focuses on geometric manipulation and minimalist design.

Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.

Why similar: Adventure 46.3%, Indie 39.7%, Casual 9.7%, Exploration 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly atmospheric, artistic journey that prioritizes mood and visual style over traditional gameplay mechanics.

The beloved roll-em-up game returns with fully updated graphics, completely recreated cutscenes and in full HD!

Why similar: Casual 100%

Why You'll Like It: The game's focus on gathering objects to grow and its vibrant, geometric aesthetic share a playful, surreal energy with the seed game.

Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!

Why similar: Casual 32.2%, Indie 31.7%, Adventure 30.4%, Exploration 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, quirky adventure that uses simple geometry and absurdist humor to create a charming, lighthearted world.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Adventure 29.1%, Indie 27.6%, Exploration 24.4%, Casual 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more grounded, its focus on open-ended exploration and vibrant, stylized visuals provides a similarly relaxing yet discovery-driven experience.

You are about to get on a journey around small planet-like worlds as if you were in the Little Prince's world. However, these ones are filled with monsters that are striving to kill you, deadly traps and riddles, which require you to be quick-witted and attentive.

Why similar: Indie 37.6%, Adventure 36.2%, Exploration 26.3%

Why You'll Like It: It presents a dark, surreal 2D platforming world that feels like a strange, isolated experiment in geometry and mood.

Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.

Why similar: Adventure 36.1%, Casual 28.7%, Exploration 23%, Indie 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes vertical exploration and unique, physics-based movement within a stylized, geometric environment.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Indie 58.1%, Adventure 41.9%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, nostalgic simulation that captures the feeling of exploring a bizarre, surreal digital landscape.

Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Why similar: Indie 29.1%, Exploration 28.2%, Adventure 26.9%, Casual 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist exploration game that uses a point-cloud visual style to reveal a dark, mysterious environment, focusing on the act of discovery.

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.

Why similar: Adventure 48.5%, Indie 45.3%, Exploration 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist design and time-loop mechanic encourage a unique form of exploration that feels both urgent and contemplative.

The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.

Why similar: Adventure 42.1%, Casual 29.3%, Exploration 28.5%

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

Why similar: Adventure 44.1%, Indie 29.8%, Exploration 26.1%

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

Why similar: Adventure 78.7%, Casual 21.3%

Euclidean Skies combines marvelous architecture and turn-based movements to create a beautiful world with mind-bending puzzles. The game’s focus is on shifting and rotating the world to gain tactical advantage and overpower the enemies in 55 elegant, but incredibly challenging levels.

Why similar: Indie 41%, Adventure 37%, Casual 22.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that revolves around manipulating geometric structures in a surreal, floating world.

Come explore a disgustingly LOVE-addled world! Solve 'puzzles' in ever-changing, emotion-based, overly-hyphenated levels -- while hunting down the murderer. Experience an ever tightening knot in your stomach as you realize: "Something is terribly wrong here, and I don't want to dig any deeper".

Why similar: Adventure 34.2%, Casual 33.6%, Indie 32.2%

Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...

Why similar: Adventure 69.8%, Exploration 30.2%

Adventure through bizarre and intricately made levels in this 2D platformer game.

Why similar: Adventure 90.6%, Indie 9.4%

A game of strange jigsaws.

Why similar: Adventure 42.8%, Casual 42.1%, Indie 15%

The plane crashed, bringing an abrupt end to your journey. You regain consciousness in a strange lucid dream filled with interactive cube puzzles, where a mysterious voice guides you through the changing landscape. What is happening? Who are you? Do you have what it takes to wake up?

Why similar: Casual 37.1%, Adventure 35.3%, Indie 14.4%, Exploration 13.2%

Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!

Why similar: Casual 36.7%, Adventure 32.1%, Indie 31.2%

Worlds collide as your cursed inheritance throws you into the middle of a series of mysterious events. Discover terrifying secrets as you follow your uncle’s disappearance, and confront a terrible truth that will change your life forever in this cosmic horror first-person adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 42.8%, Exploration 35.6%, Indie 21.6%

Meet colorful characters, discover mysterious secrets, and reassemble the fractured remains of an ethereal crystal as you explore a series of abstract worlds based on dreams, nightmares, and the places in between.

Why similar: Adventure 58.1%, Exploration 41.9%

Night Reverie is a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures living in the house as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Exploration 29.6%, Casual 28.7%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 17.2%

An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.

Why similar: Adventure 35.4%, Exploration 25.4%, Indie 23.2%, Casual 16%

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: Adventure 51.6%, Exploration 26.4%, Indie 22%

Descend through absurd layers of history as a rat-dog-witch trying to escape employment and transcend reality. Explore weird museums, cosmic hallways, and your own bad dreams in a chaotic mash-up of art, humor, and a playable existential crisis.

Why similar: Casual 56.5%, Exploration 43.5%

Radiant One is art. It makes you think about the meaning of human existence in today's rapidly changing world.

Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Casual 36%, Indie 27.8%

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Indie 49.1%, Adventure 44.7%, Casual 6.2%

Syke is a first-person exploratory puzzle game set in a mysterious and beautifully warped reality. You play as an individual making their way through areas of strange geometry; solving puzzles to piece together the story of their love.

Why similar: Indie 37.3%, Adventure 31.9%, Exploration 30.8%

You find yourself in a strange world with no idea how you got there. As you explore more, the world gets increasingly convoluted and unstable. You are now in... The Backrooms.

Why similar: Casual 31.9%, Indie 28.8%, Exploration 24.3%, Adventure 15%

An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.

Why similar: Casual 35.4%, Adventure 35.3%, Exploration 21.2%, Indie 8.1%

Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.

Why similar: Adventure 61.7%, Exploration 38.3%

Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Exploration 33.4%, Casual 31%, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 15.1%

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: Indie 100%

Placed in a world without change, you must create fate by watering an ancient plant. Determine a future and live with it.

Why similar: Indie 33.4%, Adventure 32.1%, Casual 29.8%, Exploration 4.8%

Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

Why similar: Indie 52.6%, Adventure 47.4%

In an infinite-looping space, find the traces of the modifications made by kun and break them. You can safely leave by reaching the 2.5th level. There is also an endless mode available, allowing you to push beyond your own limits and see how many levels you can reach.

Why similar: Casual 33.9%, Indie 28%, Exploration 19.8%, Adventure 18.3%

You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.

Why similar: Adventure 41.1%, Exploration 29.4%, Indie 24.6%, Casual 4.9%

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

Why similar: Adventure 46.6%, Indie 32.8%, Casual 20.6%

Huey and Satura find themselves lost in the colorless world of Umiro with no memory of their past or how they arrived in this mysterious place. Draw your way through beautiful puzzles and guide Huey and Satura as they restore color to Umiro.

Why similar: Adventure 51.9%, Indie 48.1%

Fearful Symmetry is a fun puzzle game with a unique brain-teasing twist. Control two characters at the same time; both in different dimensions. It’s up to you to move the characters simultaneously in opposite directions to guide them through treacherous puzzles filled with traps.

Why similar: Casual 39.4%, Indie 35%, Adventure 25.7%