Games Like Cypher

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

Why similar: Puzzle 89.9%, Indie 10.1%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 38.1%, Difficult 21.9%, Minimalist 20.8%, First-Person 10.1%, Indie 9.1%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 45.1%, Difficult 42.9%, Indie 12%

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 44.5%, Puzzle 40.5%, Indie 8.3%, Minimalist 6.6%

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 38.1%, Difficult 25.4%, Minimalist 14.4%, First-Person 12.4%, Indie 9.6%

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%, Indie 26%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 56.5%, Difficult 27%, First-Person 11.2%, Indie 5.2%

A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?

Why similar: Difficult 40.1%, Puzzle 32.8%, Minimalist 27.1%

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 44.8%, Minimalist 43.5%, Education 8.2%, Indie 3.6%

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 32.4%, Difficult 26.4%, Minimalist 22.4%, First-Person 11.7%, Indie 7.1%

A simple 3d puzzle game.

Why similar: Difficult 45.5%, Puzzle 44.4%, Indie 10.1%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 45.8%, Education 37.6%, Minimalist 10.2%, Indie 6.3%

A puzzle game about unlocking stuff.

Why similar: Puzzle 50.3%, Minimalist 40.4%, Indie 9.3%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 68.6%, First-Person 23.2%, Indie 8.2%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Education 44.4%, Puzzle 37.7%, Difficult 17.9%

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 33.6%, Puzzle 30.9%, Education 22.4%, Indie 13.2%

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 43.2%, Difficult 25.7%, Education 18.5%, Indie 12.6%

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 58.7%, First-Person 13.7%, Difficult 11.6%, Indie 8.6%, Minimalist 7.5%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 36.6%, Minimalist 28.4%, Difficult 24.7%, Indie 10.2%

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

Why similar: Difficult 32.4%, Puzzle 24.1%, Education 24.1%, Minimalist 16%, Indie 3.4%

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 33.3%, Difficult 30.7%, Minimalist 20.2%, First-Person 10.6%, Indie 5.1%

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%, Indie 24%

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 82.2%, Indie 17.8%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 35.8%, Minimalist 27.1%, Difficult 26.7%, Indie 10.5%

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 67.5%, Indie 32.5%

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 67.9%, Difficult 15.3%, First-Person 13.4%, Indie 3.5%

Challenging block-pushing puzzles.

Why similar: Difficult 50.8%, Puzzle 31.5%, Indie 17.7%

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 52.4%, Puzzle 47.6%

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 51.1%, Education 40%, Indie 9%

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

Why similar: Difficult 43.4%, Puzzle 38.1%, Indie 18.5%

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

Why similar: Difficult 49.1%, Puzzle 45.3%, Indie 5.6%

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

Why similar: Minimalist 35.8%, Puzzle 29.2%, Difficult 26.1%, Indie 8.9%

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 26.6%, Puzzle 25.8%, Education 20.2%, Minimalist 18.1%, Indie 9.3%

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 45.5%, Difficult 25.9%, First-Person 17.8%, Indie 10.9%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Puzzle 37.4%, Difficult 35.9%, Education 20.7%, Indie 6%

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 35.7%, Difficult 33.9%, Minimalist 19.3%, Indie 11.2%

Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.

Why similar: Difficult 47.6%, Puzzle 39.9%, Indie 12.5%

A difficult open world puzzle game about plumbing.

Why similar: Difficult 43.6%, Puzzle 40.2%, Indie 16.2%

Ever evolving puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 65%, Indie 35%

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 50.6%, Minimalist 26.1%, First-Person 17.1%, Indie 6.1%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 39.8%, Difficult 37.8%, Indie 22.4%

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 34.5%, Education 25.3%, Puzzle 24.7%, Minimalist 13%, Indie 2.5%

A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

Why similar: Puzzle 47.2%, Indie 22.8%, Difficult 15.1%, First-Person 14.8%

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 43.8%, Puzzle 38.4%, Indie 17.7%

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 67.9%, First-Person 22.9%, Indie 9.3%

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Difficult 44.8%, Puzzle 26.9%, Minimalist 22.6%, Indie 5.7%

Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 64%, Indie 36%

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 40.7%, Difficult 27.7%, Minimalist 26.2%, Indie 5.4%

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 41.5%, Puzzle 37.2%, Minimalist 21.3%

SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 63.2%, Minimalist 23.7%, Indie 13.1%

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Puzzle 81.4%, Indie 11.4%, Difficult 7.2%

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 68.6%, Indie 31.4%

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 38.1%, Puzzle 34.2%, Minimalist 17.9%, First-Person 9.8%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 64.2%, Minimalist 14%, Difficult 13.2%, Indie 8.7%

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 69.8%, First-Person 22%, Indie 8.2%

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 56.9%, Minimalist 35.9%, Indie 7.3%

Can you push all the buttons?

Why similar: Puzzle 54.3%, Minimalist 31.3%, Indie 14.4%

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

Why similar: Difficult 32.7%, Education 24.3%, Puzzle 21.9%, Minimalist 18%, Indie 3.1%

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 70.5%, First-Person 17.5%, Indie 12%

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 36.5%, Education 29.7%, Puzzle 26.8%, First-Person 6.9%