- #1 Manifold Garden
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,585 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 35.2%, Adventure 33.4%, Indie 31.4%
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.
- #2 Starseed Pilgrim
97% matchMixed61% of 543 reviews2013
Dev: droqen
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 17%
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 47.9%, Adventure 36.5%, Exploration 15.7%
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.
- #3 Birth
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2023
Dev: Madison Karrh
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
Why similar: Adventure 41.4%, Indie 34.5%, Casual 24.1%
Why You'll Like It: An artistic, surreal point-and-click experience that uses abstract visuals to explore themes of loneliness and creation.
- #4 The Endless Empty
95% matchVery Positive97% of 320 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Indie 40.9%, Casual 15.3%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal RPG explores existential themes within a bizarre, abstract world that feels both haunting and contemplative.
- #5 Everything
94% matchVery Positive83% of 3,867 reviews2017
Dev: David OReilly
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 40.1%, Indie 32.8%, Exploration 17.3%, Adventure 9.8%
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.
- #6 FEZ
93% matchVery Positive93% of 16,274 reviews2013
Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 44.2%, Exploration 24.2%, Adventure 17.8%, Casual 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes perspective-shifting geometry and a vibrant, puzzle-filled world that rewards curiosity and unconventional thinking.
- #7 Sometimes to Deal with the Difficulty of Being Alive, I Need to Believe There Is a Possibility That Life Is Not Real.
94% matchVery Positive86% of 128 reviews2019
Dev: Jeremy CouillardPub: Akupara Games
Windows
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 53.8%, Exploration 46.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the same blend of surrealism, psychedelic aesthetics, and existential questioning about the nature of reality.
- #8 The Unfinished Swan
92% matchVery Positive83% of 2,036 reviews2020
Dev: Giant SparrowPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 32.1%, Indie 27%, Exploration 23.5%, Casual 17.4%
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.
- #9 Hyperbolica
91% matchVery Positive83% of 1,324 reviews2022
Dev: CodeParade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 31.5%, Exploration 25.3%, Casual 23.1%, Indie 20.1%
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.
- #10 Great God Grove
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,567 reviews2024
Dev: LimboLane
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 55.2%, Casual 44.8%
Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic and funny adventure that leans into surreal character interactions and vibrant, unconventional art.
- #11 Anodyne
91% matchVery Positive85% of 1,604 reviews2013
Dev: Melos Han-TaniPub: Analgesic Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 33.5%, Exploration 31.2%, Indie 26.5%, Casual 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It features a lo-fi, surreal dreamscape that encourages exploration and feels like a strange, introspective journey.
- #12 Recursive Ruin
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 327 reviews2022
Dev: Bit RotPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Exploration 43.3%
Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer features a surreal, shifting world that challenges the player's perception of space and reality.
- #13 Gorogoa
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,830 reviews2017
Dev: Buried SignalPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 35.3%, Casual 29.2%, Adventure 25.7%, Exploration 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A beautifully illustrated, surreal puzzle game that relies on shifting perspectives and abstract logic to tell its story.
- #14 Yume Nikki
87% matchVery Positive94% of 10,656 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Indie 32.5%, Adventure 23.9%, Exploration 22.6%, Casual 21%
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.
- #15 GLITCH DADDY
86% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Sad Mask Party
Windows
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 31.2%, Casual 24.2%, Exploration 23.3%, Indie 21.3%
Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic, surreal action-adventure that embraces visual chaos and abstract exploration.
- #16 YANKAI'S TRIANGLE
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 73 reviews2016
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 53%, Casual 47%
Why You'll Like It: An abstract, colorful puzzle game that focuses on geometric manipulation and minimalist design.
- #17 Donut County
84% matchVery Positive92% of 12,171 reviews2018
Dev: Ben EspositoPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 41%, Indie 34%, Adventure 24.9%
Why You'll Like It: An absurdist, colorful game that uses simple, satisfying mechanics to explore a bizarre and humorous world.
- #18 The Majesty of Colors Remastered
86% matchVery Positive96% of 69 reviews2018
Dev: Future Proof Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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%, Adventure 33.9%, Indie 30.1%
Why You'll Like It: A short, impactful experience that uses color and simple interactions to tell a story about perception and choice.
- #19 Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,655 reviews2012
Dev: CapybaraPub: Capybara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.
Why similar: Adventure 48.1%, Indie 37.9%, Casual 9.5%, Exploration 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly atmospheric, artistic journey that prioritizes mood and visual style over traditional gameplay mechanics.
- #20 Mango
84% matchVery Positive90% of 134 reviews2021
Dev: Sad Mask PartyPub: NILWARE
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Adventure 28%, Casual 27%, Indie 26.3%, Exploration 18.6%
Why You'll Like It: A short, psychedelic first-person experience that prioritizes abstract visuals and a dream-like atmosphere.
- #21 Katamari Damacy REROLL
83% matchVery Positive93% of 6,689 reviews2018
Dev: MONKEYCRAFT Co. Ltd.Pub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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.
- #22 Pikuniku
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,882 reviews2019
Dev: Arnaud De BockPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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%, Adventure 31.9%, Indie 30.2%, Exploration 6%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, quirky adventure that uses simple geometry and absurdist humor to create a charming, lighthearted world.
- #23 A Short Hike
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 22,759 reviews2019
Dev: adamgryu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 29.7%, Indie 26.1%, Exploration 25.4%, 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.
- #24 Grow Home
81% matchVery Positive92% of 5,635 reviews2015
Dev: Reflections, a Ubisoft StudioPub: Infogrames
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 36.9%, Casual 28.1%, Exploration 23.6%, Indie 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes vertical exploration and unique, physics-based movement within a stylized, geometric environment.
- #25 Hypnospace Outlaw
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,578 reviews2019
Dev: TendershootPub: No More Robots
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 57%, Adventure 43%
Why You'll Like It: An experimental, nostalgic simulation that captures the feeling of exploring a bizarre, surreal digital landscape.
- #26 Scanner Sombre
80% matchVery Positive89% of 4,576 reviews2017
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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: Exploration 29.2%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 27.5%, Casual 15.5%
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.
- #27 World of One
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 97 reviews2017
Dev: Grimwood Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Adventure 37.3%, Indie 35.5%, Exploration 27.2%
Why You'll Like It: It presents a dark, surreal 2D platforming world that feels like a strange, isolated experiment in geometry and mood.
- #28 Minit
79% matchVery Positive89% of 2,907 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: Adventure 50.6%, Indie 43.3%, Exploration 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist design and time-loop mechanic encourage a unique form of exploration that feels both urgent and contemplative.
- #29 Chroma Zero
77% matchVery Positive96% of 364 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: Adventure 44.9%, Indie 28.1%, Exploration 27%
- #30 Strange Jigsaws
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 4,785 reviews2025
Dev: FLEB
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A game of strange jigsaws.
Why similar: Adventure 43.7%, Casual 42.2%, Indie 14.1%
- #31 A Chamber of Stars
76% matchVery Positive99% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows · Mac
The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
Why similar: Adventure 42.7%, Exploration 29%, Casual 28.3%
- #32 RGB GlitchGazer
75% matchVery Positive96% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
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 79.5%, Casual 20.5%
- #33 Andarin Weppes: Pre-Dementia
75% matchVery Positive93% of 194 reviews2024
Dev: MötivPub: Next in Game
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Adventure 69.8%, Exploration 30.2%
- #34 Euclidean Skies
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 62 reviews2019
Dev: Miro Straka
Windows
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 39.3%, Adventure 38.7%, Casual 22%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that revolves around manipulating geometric structures in a surreal, floating world.
- #35 Kitten Love Emulator
78% matchVery Positive89% of 57 reviews2018
Dev: TruePub: False
Windows
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 35.8%, Casual 33.4%, Indie 30.8%
- #36 UNIVERSAL WEIRDNESS
74% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows
A 2D hand-drawn puzzle adventure that spans multiple dimensions and universes. Encounter a diverse cast of characters and unravel mind-bending mysteries as you embark on unique adventures across different worlds.
Why similar: Casual 44.3%, Adventure 33.9%, Indie 21.8%
- #37 DREAMO - Puzzle Adventure
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2020
Dev: Hypnotic AntsPub: Carbon Studio
Windows
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 36.5%, Adventure 36.4%, Exploration 13.6%, Indie 13.5%
- #38 Night Reverie
73% matchVery Positive96% of 331 reviews2021
Dev: Somber Pixel
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 30.6%, Casual 28%, Adventure 25.3%, Indie 16.2%
- #39 Cranium Conundrum
77% matchMixed41% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Falling Star GamesPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!
Why similar: Casual 36.6%, Adventure 33.6%, Indie 29.8%
- #40 The Last Cube
73% matchVery Positive97% of 151 reviews2022
Dev: Improx Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.
Why similar: Adventure 46.8%, Indie 29.7%, Casual 23.5%
- #41 Curse or Love
71% matchVery Positive91% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: 小橘子糖_official
Windows
A Denpa Bishoujo Psychological Horror Curio: A Visual Novel ❦ Mild Horror, Mild Suspense, and a Hint of Whimsical Madness ❦ We Hope You Find Your Own "Happy Ending" Among Multiple Conclusions ❦ A Major Plot Twist, Perhaps? ❦ Glimpse a sliver of truth in the liminal space between life and death.
Why similar: Casual 68.3%, Indie 31.7%
- #42 Syke
71% matchVery Positive83% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Digital Monkeys LLC
Windows
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 35.2%, Adventure 32.9%, Exploration 31.9%
- #43 Paper Beast
71% matchVery Positive94% of 712 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Reef
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 36.4%, Exploration 26.3%, Indie 21.8%, Casual 15.6%
- #44 She Remembered Caterpillars
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 567 reviews2017
Dev: jumpsuit entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Pub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 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: Indie 100%
- #45 Fearful Symmetry & The Cursed Prince
72% matchVery Positive85% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Gamera Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 33.6%, Adventure 27%
- #46 sun-rise.exe
70% matchVery Positive89% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: louis morel
Windows
Adventure through bizarre and intricately made levels in this 2D platformer game.
Why similar: Adventure 91.3%, Indie 8.7%
- #47 Andarin Weppes
69% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: MötivPub: Next in Game
Windows
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Adventure 41.9%, Exploration 29.1%, Indie 29%
- #48 Paper Beast - Folded Edition
70% matchVery Positive84% of 233 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Reef
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 36.2%, Casual 34.6%, Exploration 21.7%, Indie 7.5%
- #49 Ligo
68% matchVery Positive100% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Anthony Berleur
Windows
Explore a mysterious non-linear world filled with puzzles and secrets. Make small creatures work together to lift the curse and reconnect the world.
Why similar: Exploration 37.2%, Adventure 36.1%, Indie 26.7%
- #50 Roman Sands RE:Build
67% matchVery Positive91% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Arbitrary MetricPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #51 Night Reverie: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive92% of 281 reviews2020
Dev: Somber Pixel
Windows
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 34.4%, Casual 30.3%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 14.2%
- #52 Until Then
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 19,464 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Adventure 48.4%, Casual 34.6%, Indie 16.9%
- #53 Tandis
68% matchVery Positive95% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: Mahdi Bahrami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tandis is a puzzle game where you discover mind-bending geometric shapes.
Why similar: Casual 44.4%, Indie 36.5%, Exploration 19%
- #54 KunSpace
66% matchVery Positive97% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: DeadManLiPub: DeadManKUN
Windows
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 33.6%, Indie 26.6%, Exploration 20.7%, Adventure 19%
- #55 Chicory: A Colorful Tale
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,003 reviews2021
Dev: Wishes Ultd.Pub: Finji
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 47.2%, Adventure 46.7%, Casual 6.2%
- #56 Way of Rhea
67% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Games by Mason LLC
Windows · Linux
A puzzle game with challenging puzzles, but forgiving mechanics. Master the use of your color changing staff to solve mind bending puzzles, unlock new areas, and help out your friends. Undo any mistake with the press of a button.
Why similar: Adventure 48.7%, Exploration 33.2%, Indie 18.1%
- #57 Six Sides of the World
70% matchVery Positive86% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Cybernetik Design
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Six Sides of the World is a puzzle videogame that takes you into an intergalactic journey through different star systems riddled with brain-racking challenges.Spatial orientation, logic and pure wit will be your weapons to go through the different cube shaped planetary systems.
Why similar: Casual 32.3%, Adventure 29.7%, Indie 27%, Exploration 11%
- #58 Umiro
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 178 reviews2018
Dev: Diceroll StudiosPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 54.1%, Indie 45.9%
- #59 Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
63% matchVery Positive96% of 287 reviews2026
Dev: SlugGlovePub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Linux
Create unique spells by combining magical runes to solve puzzles your way. Transform objects, manipulate time, and discover the mysteries of a world where everyone has vanished, leaving only 12 people behind. Every puzzle has multiple solutions - if you can imagine it, you can probably do it.
Why similar: Adventure 36.2%, Casual 35.5%, Exploration 28.4%
