
a simple but difficult puzzle game
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a simple but difficult puzzle game

Lair of the Locksmith
A subtle and challenging logic puzzle platformer. Combine magic keys to unlock doors, find more keys, unlock more doors and rescue your fellow goblins from the lair of a devious dwarvish locksmith.

Death in the Night
A puzzle platformer with deadly dangers.
A subtle and challenging logic puzzle platformer. Combine magic keys to unlock doors, find more keys, unlock more doors and rescue your fellow goblins from the lair of a devious dwarvish locksmith.
Why similar: Difficult 34.2%, Puzzle Platformer 25.1%, Puzzle 21.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Indie 4.1%
A puzzle platformer with deadly dangers.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.8%, Difficult 34.7%, Puzzle 20.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%, Indie 1.8%
A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.5%, Difficult 35.2%, Puzzle 25%, Singleplayer 2.4%, Indie 1.9%
A 2.5D person puzzle game with creative puzzle solving. Put your own blocks into the level to get past deadly traps to the level exit without getting mangled. Complete levels quickly or with few blocks to get achievements!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.5%, Puzzle 23.6%, Strategy 20.8%, 2.5D 18.9%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Help Mother Bilby, as she struggles underground to find her children, in this magical indie, 2.5D puzzle-platformer game. Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey is an unforgettable adventure for those who love being challenged.
Why similar: 2.5D 31.5%, Puzzle Platformer 23.3%, Difficult 15.7%, Puzzle 14.8%, Cute 7.6%
Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..
Why similar: Difficult 26.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, 2.5D 19.5%, Puzzle 12.8%, Strategy 12%
A gravity-based puzzle game that will push your mind to always think and evolve. Hard but fair, constantly introduces new concepts for the player to overcome. For those who want to challenge themselves, and love to think.
Why similar: Difficult 35.8%, Puzzle Platformer 33.4%, Puzzle 23.4%, Indie 7.4%
Stuff your cheeks with onigiri and make friends with even more friends! In "Me and (My) Cat's Castle X", you control a character who transforms by stuffing their cheeks with onigiri. Take on the challenge of the "Cat's Castle" in this platformer!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.4%, Puzzle 25.1%, Difficult 20.1%, Singleplayer 5.2%, Indie 3.1%
Pokoh is a sliding puzzle game inspired by good old classic Sokoban but with its own flavour and mechanics. Your beloved wife has been stolen from your hands and it's your duty to rescue Pokah and bring her home.
Why similar: Difficult 35.2%, Puzzle 21.7%, Board Game 18.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Cute 3.7%
Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.
Why similar: Difficult 53.5%, Puzzle 33.8%, Cute 8.1%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Why similar: Difficult 35.6%, Puzzle Platformer 33.2%, Puzzle 26.5%, Indie 4.7%
A challenging single-player strategy puzzler with rule-based mechanics and hand-crafted levels.
Why similar: Difficult 51.9%, Strategy 24.6%, Puzzle 18.6%, Indie 4.9%
Join Max, the brave and clever cat, on a puzzle-platformer adventure to save his best friend, Erwin
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.3%, Strategy 24.2%, Puzzle 21.1%, Comedy 10.5%, Indie 1.9%
Darkness has fallen, and the Queen’s jewels have been stolen by the Swine kingdom. As your lands bravest warrior, only you can embark on this perilous quest to reclaim what was lost !
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, 2.5D 25.1%, Puzzle 16.1%, Strategy 15.3%, Arcade 12.3%
Playing a cute robot, you travel from room to room solving tough puzzles and overcoming tricky platforming that will test your skills. Collecting health is necessary, because when you die, all the health you’ve collected comes back. The catch is that you have to start over at the very beginning.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.2%, Difficult 31.4%, Puzzle 23.7%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 4.8%
Influence the game world through LOVE and HATE. Talk to the OTHER ONES and make use of them for the perfect path to the level’s goal. The successor to the popular puzzle game "About Love, Hate & The Other Ones" has reached the third dimension.
Why similar: Difficult 29.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23.3%, Puzzle 16.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Comedy 9.3%
Welcome to Sequential Dungeon, where 64 different levels in 8 uniquely themed floors await you in a simple yet challenging experience! Get ready to clear each of the levels in a limited amount of moves while mastering a varied array of different mechanics!
Why similar: Difficult 30.1%, Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Puzzle 22.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Indie 2.2%
fall platform is a puzzle game that consists of climbing as high as possible until reaching the top without falling, no saving possible, the game wants to be the most difficult on the steam market. legend has it that those who manage to finish the game will have an IQ between 120 and 200.
Why similar: Difficult 37.1%, Puzzle 22.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Blocking Blocks is a simple puzzle game where you direct a block from one square-shaped hole to another. The game is all about facing yourself and your own decisions. For example, if you're a casual player, the game is very casual to play; if you're not a casual player, then...
Why similar: Difficult 38.3%, Puzzle 23.4%, Strategy 21.5%, Arcade 14%, Indie 1.5%
Blend_It gives players a simple black-and-white image. The image has a value of 1 for white and 0 for black. These color values are combined through three operators: multiplication, addition, and subtraction Make it a more complex image!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.3%, Puzzle 23.4%, Strategy 22.9%, Board Game 15.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Dodo Life is a game about a dodo that desperately tries to find the island where its species lives, avoiding as much as possible not being extinguished on the way by cruel predators in a Jurassic era.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 43.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 27.5%, Puzzle 14%, Strategy 9.4%, Cute 5.1%
A cooperative puzzle adventure where a small flame and a girl journey together through the night. Guided by light, they brave wind and rain to reach the shrine.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.8%, 2.5D 36.3%, Puzzle 23%, Singleplayer 2.1%, Indie 1.8%
GET THE MANGO! Yeah Jam Fury tests your speed and ingenuity in over 100 levels of smiling face blocks. Utilize all three of your egos to create blocks, scale walls, and destroy everything in the way of your righteous fruit.
Why similar: Strategy 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Difficult 24.3%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 5.7%
A multi-gravity evolution of the classic block puzzle. Play across three interconnected arenas where gravity pulls left, up, and right instead of down.
Why similar: Difficult 30.1%, Puzzle 24.1%, Strategy 23.6%, Arcade 15.2%, Singleplayer 3.8%
A physics based puzzle game. Bounce the ball of angled surfaces to get it to the finish.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32%, Puzzle 21.3%, Difficult 15.2%, Arcade 14%, Strategy 13.5%
Incarnate Panco, a white little cat, on his journey to save all Elemalia's residents, trapped in their own home due to a terrible tempest. Control up to three different natural elements and interact with your environment to progress through puzzles and grab the coins dispersed around the world!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.9%, Strategy 28%, Puzzle 24.2%, Indie 5.9%
An unfinished ’80s classic returns, now complete and fully evolved in 2.5D style! Explore 100 tricky chambers, dodge traps and try to escape with your treasures (and your life)!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.3%, 2.5D 25%, Puzzle 18.5%, Arcade 10.5%, Singleplayer 2%
Control two independent pixels as you avoid any and all obstacles in the crazily hard and addictive game that is Twixel!
Why similar: Difficult 29.3%, 2.5D 22.2%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Puzzle 12.5%, Arcade 11.2%
Onwards to the past! Learn the real power of science! Help the professor and his loyal companion deal with hordes of dinosaurs.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 38.9% ★, Difficult 23.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Puzzle 9.5%, Arcade 6.3%
Solve the 3x3 cube from a 2D perspective and set a record time! Tutorial video available on YouTube via in-game link. Various backgrounds, music, and cube skins to customize the experience. The timer can be turned off for learning or casual play. Online leaderboards track best times.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.4%, Puzzle 21.2%, Strategy 20.5%, 2.5D 20.1%, Singleplayer 3.8%
Prepare to master the power of the cursor in this skill-based puzzle. Move the tiles in the smoothest way possible to put the tiles in position. Improve your record time and analyze your solve in Classic Mode. Discover and practice the drills to become a master in Campaign mode.
Why similar: Difficult 30.9%, 2.5D 22.5%, Puzzle 17.1%, Board Game 12.4%, Arcade 9.7%
Ball in the Box: Move platforms to get the ball into the box in a challenging minimalist physics puzzle
Why similar: Difficult 38.5%, Puzzle 22.3%, Strategy 19.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Indie 3.3%
"MiLu MiLan"is a casual game of architectural maze exploration and puzzle solving.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.7%, 2.5D 23.8%, Strategy 18.4%, Puzzle 17.7%, Cute 5%
Riddle Tower is all about solving a wide variety of riddles, including classic riddles, math brain teasers, and rebuses. The main story features riddles inspired by two classic games from my childhood, Notpron and GodTower, known for being some of the toughest riddle games of their time.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.7%, Puzzle 29.4%, Strategy 22.2%, Singleplayer 4.3%, Indie 2.3%
「Archipel Logic Infinite」 is a challenging puzzle game inspired by the popular Nurikabe. Explore legendary archipelagos by marking cells as land or sea to unchart maps. Enjoy challenging puzzles and endless procedurally generated content for limitless exploration.
Why similar: Difficult 39.4%, Puzzle 22.6%, Puzzle Platformer 20.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Indie 2.7%
The world is shattering and you are the only hope to restore the balance. A thrilling and challenging 3D puzzle platformer game, Almightree: The Last Dreamer has you racing through a crumbling world to find your way to awaken the life giving Almightree.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.8%, Strategy 26.1%, Puzzle 24.7%, Indie 6.5%
A puzzle game to connect all of power nodes with an electrical cable.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.1%, Strategy 24.5%, Board Game 20.1%, Puzzle 17.8%, Cute 5.9%
Place all the pieces into the grid, and as long as they don’t overlap, you can clear the level. Simple rules but a real challenge. Want to give it a try?
Why similar: Difficult 35.3%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Puzzle 17.7%, Board Game 14.3%, Strategy 8.1%
A 2D puzzle game with a spin! Make your way through obstacle courses of pipes, water streams and bats as fast as you can whilst spinning out of control.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.5%, Difficult 26.7%, Puzzle 20.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Indie 3.7%
Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 54.7%, Puzzle 40.9%, Indie 4.4%
A puzzle platform game, with both stealth and parkour elements. Use your wits, cunning and agility to escape this deadly prison. Take the stealthy approach, progressing slowly, hiding and staying out of sight. Or utilise your athleticism to wall jump, ledge grab and speed run your way to freedom.
Why similar: Difficult 34%, Puzzle Platformer 30.6%, Puzzle 15.6%, Arcade 10.2%, Singleplayer 3.3%
Adopt a new pet and embark on this journey to help him find a safe place.
Why similar: 2.5D 35.7%, Puzzle Platformer 30.2%, Puzzle 18%, Strategy 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.6%
BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you play as a girl with the ability to multiply herself, stranded on Eden, a beautiful but strange world, full of challenging puzzles with platforming elements and a refreshing gameplay.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.6%, Difficult 23.5%, Puzzle 15.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Arcade 8.1%
Control a cube and solve puzzles! Learn to master the power of equipping items on your six colorful faces.
Why similar: 2.5D 34.7%, Puzzle Platformer 29.4%, Puzzle 25.5%, Cute 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Welcome to feudal Japan, a world of samurais and danger. In this world, you play as a frog samurai tasked with taking down the snake clan and bringing an end to the war.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.6%, Difficult 33.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, Cute 8.6%, Strategy 6.6%
Stele is a challenging and intellectually stimulating puzzle game where players need to utilize movable stone pillars and plan their routes to trigger a series of events, paving the way for a small square to reach its destination smoothly.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, 2.5D 24.7%, Strategy 23%, Puzzle 20.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
In this epic quest you must reach the end by going through black holes. Try to avoid all the traps, solve all the mind-bending puzzles and escape form the powerful bosses. OH... And one more thing .... secrets are everywhere.
Why similar: Difficult 36.9%, Puzzle Platformer 34.5%, Puzzle 16.6%, Indie 8.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%
Run and grab to deliver boxes in a mind-bending multi-gravitational warehouse inspired by the drawings of MC Escher!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, Difficult 28.1%, 2.5D 24.5%, Puzzle 15.7%, Singleplayer 2%
The latest title in the "TGM" series, "TETRIS® THE GRAND MASTER 4 -ABSOLUTE EYE-" offers the ultimate Tetris game that no one has ever experienced before. Challenge yourself in new modes such as ASUKA and SHIRANUI.
Why similar: Difficult 25.2%, Puzzle Platformer 22.2%, Puzzle 17.7%, 2.5D 13.4%, Arcade 11.9%
ParkTo is a simple puzzle game that stops the car at its destination. You don't drive a car yourself. The car just moves forward. Use the given triggers to move the car to its destination.
Why similar: Strategy 33.8%, Difficult 32.5%, Puzzle 26.7%, Singleplayer 4.5%, Indie 2.5%
CUBIE is a minimalist puzzle platformer where you control gravity. Each side of the cube offers unique physics based on how you enter it. The world remains the same – only your perspective changes. Can you solve spatial puzzles in a labyrinth where "up" is just a relative term?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37%, Difficult 34.3%, Puzzle 19.9%, Cute 5.9%, Indie 1.5%
A simple 3d puzzle game.
Why similar: Difficult 52.5%, Puzzle 39.3%, Indie 5.5%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Elemgate is a unique precision platformer where you'll need to control your speed, changing of the elements and jump timing and to earn more time that converts into score needed to pass 10 stages per level and ultimately across 15 levels in this 2.5D obstacle course challenge to escape an evil god.
AGENCY is a game of abstract challenges. You play as π (Pi) in a top-down perspective and you have to figure out the rules of very distinct levels to succeed. When you think you know what the game means, email me and we'll chat more.
Why similar: Difficult 49%, Puzzle 30.8%, Arcade 14.4%, Indie 5.8%
Hade is a minimalist logic game with severely difficult puzzles softened by relaxing ambient music.
Why similar: Difficult 32.8%, Puzzle 29.7%, Strategy 27.9%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 3.6%
Platformer-puzzlu game with interesting gimmick. You can't jump, so you need to bounce off your enemies or use tubes to your advantage. Both platformer skills AND logic are required to complete 40 challenging levels!
Why similar: Difficult 38.4%, Puzzle Platformer 37.5%, Indie 10.2%, Cute 9.2%, Singleplayer 4.6%
Drag objects (wooden boxes and triangles and other objects) to help the little dino throw the wooden ball into the water. And remember that dino can help you with tips (hints), skips and dino coins. 115 levels.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 54.3% ★, Puzzle 22%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Cute 4.3%, Indie 3.4%
Deadline plunges you into the heart of indie horror with a spine-chilling themes. Explore three haunting levels—a sterile Lab, The Creepy Carnival, and a haunting school—each dragging you deeper. Outlast and extend your DEADLINE. Struggle for a high score, but can you survive long enough to escape?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.9%, Strategy 31.7%, Puzzle 23.8%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%