Games Like DEG

A puzzle game with one mechanic (sliding).

Why similar: Metroidvania 43%, Logic 26.4%, Puzzle 15.2%, 2D 4.5%, Casual 4.5%

Educe is a 2D pixel art "Metroidbrainia" puzzle game where the world is your blueprint. Physically rearrange the screens of a forgotten laboratory to navigate a sprawling, non-linear maze. With no combat and a focus on logic, you must shift the environment itself to educe the path forward.

Why similar: Metroidvania 72.3%, Puzzle 15.5%, Exploration 12.1%

SHOOT NOT TO KILL? use The Matter Gun to traverse this one of a kind 2d PUZZLE-platformer (metroidvania/brania). Drop into the lab, explore the caves, discover new types of matter, uncover secrets, and try not to cause the end of the world...or something.

Why similar: Metroidvania 53.7%, Logic 14.9%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 11.8%, 2D 4.1%

In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures.

Why similar: Metroidvania 75.1%, Exploration 8.1%, Puzzle 6.7%, 2D 5.1%, Indie 4.3%

Quadrant: A puzzle game fusing snake gameplay with math. Navigate the coordinate plane, dodge function curves, and use power-ups to rewrite them. Reach the origin to win. Unlock new functions and enjoy casual challenges.

Why similar: Logic 35.1%, Puzzle 25.8%, Exploration 15.9%, Casual 13%, 2D 8.6%

OTHERSIDE is a 2D, hand-drawn Metroidvania adventure featuring 'Mao' - a cat warrior awakened from slumber. Wield a sword and brush to explore a beast kingdom, encounter tribes, and uncover secrets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 58%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Exploration 9.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Indie 4.9%

Dark Cooking - A colorful 3D puzzle game for logic and thinking! The little witch asks you for help! You have to take on the role of the most dexterous and clever assistant and go to her pumpkin garden for pumpkins!

Why similar: Metroidvania 66.7%, Puzzle 16.4%, Casual 7.1%, Relaxing 5.2%, Indie 3.7%

Restore color to a vast, empty world. An abstract puzzle metroidvania game focused on exploration.

Why similar: Metroidvania 65.2%, Puzzle 15.4%, Exploration 10.3%, 2D 3.3%, Casual 2.9%

A compact, action-driven metroidvania. Explore a mysterious island and recover five fragments of a fallen meteor containing a rare and powerful mineral. Designed to be completed in under two hours, with all the exploration, progression, and challenge fans of the genre expect.

Why similar: Metroidvania 62.5%, Hand-drawn 23.4%, Exploration 10.7%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Do you want to test your reaction time, quick thinking, and ingenuity? Then this is the logic game for you.

Why similar: Logic 46%, Puzzle 25.9%, Casual 12.2%, Indie 7.8%, 2D 5.8%

Florarium is a Metroidvania game focused on exploration and battle. Explore the mysterious world full of unexpected secrets. Battle fierce enemies with your bow. Choose your own path to your goddess in the vast, interconnected world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 63.6%, Hand-drawn 19.9%, Exploration 10.9%, 2D 3.1%, Indie 1.7%

A new incident has struck Gensokyo — misfortune is spreading like a tide, and the residents’ movements are repeatedly “hindered,” making even a single step difficult. Only the misfortune deity Hina Kagiyama, who can bear and channel misfortune, can barely press on through this ill omen.

Why similar: Logic 41.6%, Puzzle 27.8%, Casual 15%, 2D 10.1%, Indie 3.5%

Priceless artifacts were stolen long ago from octopus tribe by their eternal rivals – disgusting parasites. These parasites infested the entire realm since then. To stop parasites from spreading and save the tribe, artifacts have to be returned, or everything is lost.

Why similar: Logic 42.7%, Puzzle 24.2%, Casual 17.7%, 2D 9.5%, Indie 3.7%

Block is a minimalist platform puzzle game where you explore various bizarre locations and interact with creative scene mechanisms!

Why similar: Metroidvania 58.5%, Logic 16.3%, Puzzle 11.3%, Casual 6%, Relaxing 2.9%

Dodo is a tricky puzzle game where you have to enter the correct word to get to the next level. The letters you enter will change the grid on the screen - and you must get that grid to match the symbols!

Why similar: Logic 49.1%, Puzzle 25.2%, Casual 9.4%, 2D 9%, Indie 5.1%

Identifier = ZERO. Localization = unknown system. Objectives = survive, decrypt, escape. Codes are key. Death is protocol. The sequence begins now.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.6%, Logic 22.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, Exploration 10.8%, Indie 2.3%

Mindbreak is an exploration driven tile-based puzzle adventure game about the escape from a corrupted insane asylum. Play as the supernaturally gifted asylum patients as you build and combine their unique abilities to explore and master the vast interconnected asylum.

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.4%, Logic 15.7%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Puzzle 12.8%, Exploration 8.7%

A Chinese traditional ink-style puzzle game.

Why similar: Logic 42.5%, Puzzle 24.1%, Casual 18.2%, 2D 9.4%, Indie 3.6%

Mazer is a puzzle game where you have to find a way through a maze while following rules of every element you encounter. With 150 handcrafted puzzles of varying difficulty, each level will test your logic to its limits!

Why similar: Logic 49.4%, Puzzle 20.2%, Casual 12.3%, Relaxing 7.7%, 2D 5.3%

Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.2%, Logic 16.8%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Puzzle 10.8%, Exploration 9.4%

A Relaxing 2D Puzzle Game with 100s of both easy and challenging levels to solve by doing things in the correct order.

Why similar: Logic 43.5%, Puzzle 23.7%, Relaxing 10.7%, 2D 8.3%, Casual 7.8%

Become the master of puzzles by mastering three types of puzzle Falling shapes, Swap Attack, slide portraits and facing challenges to become the best.

Why similar: Logic 37.3%, Hand-drawn 36.9%, Puzzle 19.7%, Casual 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

In Me With Me you control 2 cats at the same time going through levels with puzzles. A very cool 2D platform game to pass the time.

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.3%, Puzzle 18%, Casual 12.1%, Exploration 10.9%, 2D 4.9%

Bite Sized Puzzle is a point and click puzzle game about investigating your kitchen to see what secrets it holds!

Why similar: Logic 29.1%, Hand-drawn 27%, Puzzle 21.9%, Casual 8.4%, 2D 6.6%

Relaxing puzzle game where you need to find the correct place for the tea on the shelf. Travel from Yunnan province to Shanghai as a tea courier, explore charming locations and unlock unique tea flavors.

Why similar: Logic 31.3%, Puzzle 21%, Hand-drawn 20.4%, Casual 11.4%, Relaxing 8.5%

Sudoku puzzle game with 4 different variations including mixed boards

Why similar: Logic 44.7%, Puzzle 25.2%, Casual 18.2%, 2D 9.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Insert mysterious runes back into their sockets! Identify correct shape combinations and solve hundreds of puzzles in this world of pure relaxation!

Why similar: Hand-drawn 27.2%, Logic 21.2%, Puzzle 19.3%, Casual 12.3%, 2D 7.8%

Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.

Why similar: Metroidvania 89.1%, Exploration 3.6%, 2D 3.6%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 0.7%

In this new hand-drawn, story-rich metroidvania, explore the last haven of a dying world, and discover the purpose you play in saving it. Shape your own path, fight the all-consuming blight, and help bring hope back to the survivors. Take up the flames of dead gods, and stand firm in Dewborne Dawn!

Why similar: Metroidvania 67.7%, Hand-drawn 26.5%, 2D 2.6%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.2%

A puzzle-bazed metroidvania. Help the robot to repair the station. But there are gremlins who will try to break everything you've just fixed!

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.6%, Logic 22.9%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Puzzle 11%, Exploration 7.6%

Summon the enemies you kill to solve puzzles, including a horse, a tree, a miner and a dragon. Some areas are unreachable without the right summon so you must find out how to get one it to advance to the next area.

Why similar: Metroidvania 69.4%, Puzzle 20.5%, Indie 10.1%

Memory’s Reach is a first person puzzle-adventure metroidvania. Explore labyrinthian megastructures, solve mind-bending puzzles, and wield fantastic alien technology in a quest to reveal the legacy of a doomed civilization.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.7%, Logic 24.6%, Puzzle 13.2%, Exploration 8.8%, Indie 2.1%

Shards of Memories is a hand-drawn Metroidvania where defeated enemies leave behind memories that carry their abilities. Equip these memories strategically, shape your own combat style, and explore a fractured world marked by its past.

Why similar: Metroidvania 61.6%, Hand-drawn 24.5%, Exploration 6.7%, Indie 4.7%, 2D 2%

Museful is a colour-fuelled 2D Metroidvania. Paint your surroundings as a little lizard exploring a huge hand-crafted world, and restore emotion to a monochrome continent as you discover your true colours.

Why similar: Metroidvania 58.8%, Hand-drawn 19.7%, Exploration 8.1%, 2D 7.1%, Indie 3.9%

Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.

Why similar: Metroidvania 61.8%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Exploration 10.2%, Casual 5.3%, 2D 4.6%

8Doors is a story-driven Metroidvania-style action platformer heavily influenced by Korean folktales. Play as ‘Arum’, a brave girl that has entered the realm of the afterlife in search of her father’s soul and guide her through the '8 Doors of Purgatory' to solve the mysteries that lie deep within.

Why similar: Metroidvania 74.1%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Indie 5.7%, Exploration 4.2%, 2D 2.9%

Explore the depths of the ocean in this 2D-Puzzle-Metroidvania! Control the water levels and switch between various robots to solve the ancient puzzles of Atlantis.

Why similar: Metroidvania 44%, Logic 15.5%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Exploration 8.7%, Puzzle 8.5%

LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.

Why similar: Metroidvania 75.3%, Puzzle 10%, Exploration 7.9%, Indie 3.2%, 2D 3.1%

FlipSum is a bold new twist on classic number puzzles! Inspired by sudoku, this brain-teasing series challenges you to flip, cancel, and balance numbers on a grid to match the target totals. It’s a thrilling game of logic, deduction, and number.

Why similar: Logic 46.4%, Puzzle 20.2%, Casual 15.7%, Relaxing 9.1%, 2D 7.1%

Sudoku with an artsy twist. Full-colour hand-crafted Sudoku-Variant puzzles. Probably the prettiest puzzles in all of the world. Slow-Thermo is an easily understood Sudoku variant that pushes digits into the grid. This app includes a Sudoku conflict checker.

Why similar: Logic 42.1%, Puzzle 25.2%, Casual 14.2%, Relaxing 9%, 2D 5%

Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they try to stop the Nightmare Fiends from ruling over dreams forever.

Why similar: Metroidvania 61.6%, Hand-drawn 16.4%, Exploration 13.5%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 2.2%

Welcome to the little puzzle house. Solve puzzles, a Simon game, a pair matching game and more in a nice cozy atmosphere. Take your time, unlock the other rooms and progress through the house.

Why similar: Logic 49.3%, Puzzle 25.8%, Casual 12%, Relaxing 5.3%, Indie 5.1%

Phantom Rend is an intense Action-Adventure! Where you Find Your Ways through a Vast phantom Infested Island nation, wage Epic battles against formidable foes, Upgrade your skills and items, Uncover ancient secrets, Meet and befriend creatures of all walks of life.

Why similar: Metroidvania 63.5%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Exploration 10.6%, 2D 6.6%, Indie 4.1%

Start with the edge pieces? No way! Try this challenging, yet approachable, 63 piece jigsaw game that has no edge pieces! 50 jigsaws to complete or choose your own!

Why similar: Logic 35.6%, Puzzle 25.2%, Casual 12.6%, Relaxing 10%, 2D 9.3%

This is a classic minesweeper game that supports multiple ways of burying mines such as guessing without guessing. It also supports generating up to 200x200 situations, caching situations, and allows players to leave or continue at any time.

Why similar: Logic 40.4%, Puzzle 21.8%, Casual 10.8%, Exploration 8.2%, 2D 7.6%

Find all the mines quicker than your friends in the classic puzzle game.

Why similar: Logic 48.8%, Puzzle 26.9%, Casual 14.4%, 2D 8.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Meet a charming cast of little creatures and save the world from a mischievous god in this character-driven metroidvania! Explore a world full of lost secrets, make new friends, and use strange creatures to your advantage to reach new heights!

Why similar: Metroidvania 61%, Hand-drawn 18.3%, Exploration 11.3%, 2D 6.4%, Indie 2.4%

In this Action-Puzzle Metroidvania, you will explore the lair of a long-gone mythical creature and unravel its mysteries. Consume enemies to gain their abilities, use your frog-like tongue to grapple and fight, explore the land, solve puzzles, find secrets, and complete challenges.

Why similar: Metroidvania 61.6%, Puzzle 17.2%, Exploration 11.4%, 2D 5.4%, Indie 2.9%

Yeomna is a Metrovania 2D action platform game. Take on the role of the Half-Demon exorcist Dongbaek, and complete the cases requested by Yeomna though combat and adventure in this dream-like, mysterious Underworld.

Why similar: Metroidvania 87.3%, 2D 7.7%, Indie 2.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

A luminescent puzzle game about manipulating elements. By the light of fireflies, link and dissolve elemental forces to construct bridges, break through obstacles, and traverse a glowing, interconnected world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.9%, Logic 26.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Exploration 11.2%, Relaxing 4.6%

Symbols have never had such an impact on a person’s fate. Meet a new part of a fascinating mystical doors puzzle. This time you will have to face the ruins of the past, hiding the secret of a vanished civilization.

Why similar: Metroidvania 42.3%, Logic 27.6%, Puzzle 15.3%, Exploration 8.7%, Relaxing 5.3%

Puzzle: Nature 2 - Meet the continuation of the first part of the game! The game is a cute and colorful puzzle game.

Why similar: Logic 43.2%, Puzzle 27%, Casual 13.3%, 2D 10.6%, Indie 4%

Logic puzzle game where you destroy paths of symbols while gravity creates new paths. Use logic, and deal with quantum Qubits, to complete levels with optimal solutions.

Why similar: Logic 48.6%, Puzzle 21.2%, 2D 8.6%, Relaxing 8.3%, Casual 6.1%

Nonogram Nights is a spooky puzzler where you use logic to uncover a mysterious picture.

Why similar: Logic 48.2%, Puzzle 27%, Casual 13.2%, 2D 5.6%, Indie 3.4%

A puzzle game about fix factory tracks and assembling a pocket game

Why similar: Logic 37.4%, Hand-drawn 20.1%, Puzzle 20%, Casual 10.3%, 2D 6.5%

Potata: Foxy Tale is a fairy tale themed platformer adventure game in a beautiful world of dark forests. Your goal is to restore the balance and assemble the fragments of the Woodland Spirit.

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.4%, Hand-drawn 20.9%, Puzzle 5.8%, 2D 5.5%, Indie 4.3%

Laser Maze is a puzzle game that takes place in an abandoned space station where you solve puzzles by redirecting lasers, moving boxes, and navigating through computer terminals.

Why similar: Metroidvania 41.7%, Logic 27.6%, Puzzle 13.7%, Exploration 9%, 2D 5.1%

An artistic metroidvania with a classic NES era gameplay, taking the player through the life of an average man escaping his depression in a partly imaginary world he created around him. Fight more than 60 enemy types and 5 bosses, uncover more than 160 areas and unlock all powers and items.

Why similar: Metroidvania 83.8%, Indie 16.2%