Games Like Cypher

Epigraph is a short, challenging, language decipherment puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 90.3%, Indie 9.7%

A first-person puzzle game. Simply walk to the door.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.5%, Difficult 22.4%, Minimalist 20.4%, First-Person 9.9%, Indie 8.9%

Alchemia is a cryptic puzzle game which is solved through research outside of the game.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.2%, Difficult 43.3%, Indie 11.5%

Tametsi is a difficult logic game played on a set of tiles, in which you must use the clues provided to discover and mark hidden mines.

Why similar: Difficult 45.3%, Puzzle 40.6%, Indie 7.8%, Minimalist 6.3%

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.7%, Difficult 27.4%, First-Person 10.9%, Indie 5%

Lingo is a first person word puzzle game with a large, abstract world to explore. With its epiphany-driven gameplay and impossible geometry, Lingo provides a unique and nonlinear experience.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.7%, Difficult 25.8%, Minimalist 14.1%, First-Person 12.2%, Indie 9.3%

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: Puzzle 74.8%, Indie 25.2%

A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?

Why similar: Difficult 40.6%, Puzzle 33%, Minimalist 26.4%

Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.5%, Minimalist 42.9%, Education 8.2%, Indie 3.5%

As an inmate of a government-controlled Correctional Facility in the year 2275, you have the right to prove yourself worthy of being part of Society again. Show your skills in logical thinking by solving puzzles of varying size, type and difficulty in this first-Person puzzle game, and redeem your freedom!

Why similar: Puzzle 32.7%, Difficult 26.9%, Minimalist 21.9%, First-Person 11.5%, Indie 6.9%

A simple 3d puzzle game.

Why similar: Difficult 45.9%, Puzzle 44.6%, Indie 9.5%

Access Denied: Escape is a puzzle game where you have to hack data vaults and interact with various devices to escape.

Why similar: Puzzle 69.2%, First-Person 22.8%, Indie 8%

A puzzle game about unlocking stuff.

Why similar: Puzzle 51.1%, Minimalist 39.9%, Indie 9.1%

A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.5%, Education 37.3%, Minimalist 10%, Indie 6.2%

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Puzzle 59.2%, First-Person 13.4%, Difficult 11.8%, Indie 8.3%, Minimalist 7.3%

Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.

Why similar: Difficult 34.1%, Puzzle 31.1%, Education 22%, Indie 12.8%

Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.

Why similar: Puzzle 43.5%, Difficult 26.1%, Education 18.2%, Indie 12.2%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Education 43.8%, Puzzle 37.3%, Difficult 18.8%

Access Denied is a puzzle game in the world where for storage of personal data are used special device in the form of protected boxes. Imagine yourself in the role of the professional cracker of such devices and test your skills for 36 different levels.

Why similar: Puzzle 76.7%, Indie 23.3%

Dissembler is a subtle puzzle game about unraveling playful, abstract designs one color at a time.

Why similar: Puzzle 37%, Minimalist 27.9%, Difficult 25.2%, Indie 9.9%

Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!

Why similar: Difficult 32.9%, Puzzle 24.3%, Education 23.8%, Minimalist 15.6%, Indie 3.3%

Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

Why similar: Puzzle 82.8%, Indie 17.2%

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Puzzle 68.1%, Difficult 15.6%, First-Person 13%, Indie 3.3%

Sethian is a sci-fi puzzle game in which you master a fictitious language. The only surviving speaker is an ancient computer. Does it hold the answers behind the disappearance of the Sethianese people?

Why similar: Puzzle 68.9%, Indie 31.1%

a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares

Why similar: Puzzle 36.1%, Difficult 27.2%, Minimalist 26.5%, Indie 10.2%

Challenging block-pushing puzzles.

Why similar: Difficult 51.4%, Puzzle 31.6%, Indie 17.1%

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: Puzzle 33.7%, Difficult 31.2%, Minimalist 19.8%, First-Person 10.4%, Indie 5%

A difficult puzzle game about isolating yourself. Build a safe place, huddle up and get cozy.

Why similar: Difficult 43.9%, Puzzle 38.2%, Indie 17.9%

在这套交互视频课程《成为一名密码朋克》中，你会从玩乐里完成整个密码学的学习，从零开始，掌握密码学。​

Why similar: Education 51.9%, Puzzle 48.1%

A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.

Why similar: Difficult 49.4%, Puzzle 45.3%, Indie 5.3%

qop 4 is a minimalistic puzzle which goal is to get the cube to finish using 4 directions in space.

Why similar: Minimalist 35.2%, Puzzle 29.5%, Difficult 26.6%, Indie 8.7%

Fabric is a first person puzzle game in which you bend spacetime to solve challenging puzzles and complete glitchy-themed voxel based levels.

Why similar: Puzzle 45.8%, Difficult 26.3%, First-Person 17.4%, Indie 10.5%

OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.

Why similar: Difficult 27.1%, Puzzle 26.1%, Education 20%, Minimalist 17.7%, Indie 9.1%

A difficult open world puzzle game about plumbing.

Why similar: Difficult 44.1%, Puzzle 40.3%, Indie 15.6%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Puzzle 37.6%, Difficult 36.3%, Education 20.3%, Indie 5.8%

A unique abstract puzzle game with an emphasis on lateral thinking. Use catalysts to build compounds and manipulate cell structures. 100 puzzle levels and a level editor to create your own custom puzzle designs.

Why similar: Puzzle 36%, Difficult 34.4%, Minimalist 18.8%, Indie 10.8%

Ever evolving puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 66%, Indie 34%

Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.

Why similar: Difficult 48%, Puzzle 40%, Indie 12%

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

Why similar: Puzzle 51.4%, Minimalist 25.8%, First-Person 16.9%, Indie 6%

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Why similar: Puzzle 40.8%, Difficult 28.8%, Minimalist 25.3%, Indie 5.1%

Roll and match colors in this mind bending puzzle.

Why similar: Difficult 31.7%, Puzzle 31.3%, Minimalist 22.1%, Indie 14.9%

Hard Chip is a 3D simulation/puzzle game about building processors focusing on realism. Explore the world of semiconductor chip design and delve into the intricacies of CPU logic, floor planning, and propagation delay.

Why similar: Difficult 35%, Education 24.9%, Puzzle 24.8%, Minimalist 12.7%, Indie 2.5%

A punishing puzzler with elegantly designed levels around one brutal rule - one move equals one life lost.

Why similar: Puzzle 40%, Difficult 38.3%, Indie 21.7%

Can you push through?! Security Hole is a challenging spatial puzzle with a cyberpunk story. You become a hacker who passes 3D virus blocks through security holes to save humanity. The game mechanics look like a workout tool for spatial thinking.

Why similar: Difficult 44.3%, Puzzle 38.6%, Indie 17.1%

SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 64.4%, Minimalist 23%, Indie 12.5%

Take Notes is a puzzle game set in the near future within a bunker filled with 40 unique puzzles. Prepare yourself for a mind-bending adventure where every puzzle solved brings you one step closer to stopping the unthinkable

Why similar: Puzzle 68.6%, First-Person 22.4%, Indie 9%

Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 64.4%, Difficult 13.8%, Minimalist 13.5%, Indie 8.3%

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Difficult 45.4%, Puzzle 27%, Minimalist 22%, Indie 5.5%

Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 64.9%, Indie 35.1%

Cipheur is a free cryptogram game, allowing you to test your logic and language skills against 100 quotes by famous people. Do your best to discover intriguing patterns, unfold the coded messages step by step, and enjoy the incomparable satisfaction of deciphering another sentence.

Why similar: Education 41.2%, Puzzle 37.8%, Minimalist 21%

Revisitor is a first person puzzle-platformer game set in a futuristic virtual space. Use two different types of teleportation to both navigate and solve a series of increasingly challenging missions.

Why similar: Puzzle 70.5%, First-Person 21.6%, Indie 7.9%

Room 40 is a puzzle game about learning to decipher and decode secret messages. Learn to break various methods of encryption used throughout history. Starting with basic methods used in ancient Greece and the advancement of these methods all the way through to complex ciphers used in WWII.

Why similar: Puzzle 69.4%, Indie 30.6%

This is a puzzle game like a mathematical book, based on logic and deduction. In this game, you don't need to beat the level, but need to prove it is beatable. Your goal is not to win, but to prove you can win.

Why similar: Puzzle 57.6%, Minimalist 35.3%, Indie 7.1%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Difficult 52%, Education 39.4%, Indie 8.6%

Odd||Even is a math and logic based, integer placement puzzle game.

Why similar: Difficult 33.3%, Education 24%, Puzzle 22.1%, Minimalist 17.6%, Indie 3%

It is the end of 1920. The Polish-Bolshevik war has been going on for almost two years. The battle for Korosteń – a key railway junction and technical supply base – is underway. Break Bolshevik cyphers, ensure radio communication, and neutralise the fearsome armoured trains.

Why similar: Education 37.9%, Puzzle 34.8%, Minimalist 17.7%, First-Person 9.7%

Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.

Why similar: Puzzle 67.3%, First-Person 24%, Indie 8.7%

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.

Why similar: Puzzle 71.2%, First-Person 17.1%, Indie 11.7%

Can you push all the buttons?

Why similar: Puzzle 55.1%, Minimalist 30.9%, Indie 14.1%

Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.

Why similar: Difficult 37%, Education 29.2%, Puzzle 27%, First-Person 6.8%