60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, Puzzle, Adventure, Atmospheric.
Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes, traveling back and forth through time to make architecture whole again. Prevent a cataclysm which fractures reality, and save the city.
Epitasis
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
0°N 0°W
Ready for a wild trip of psychedelic sights and sounds? 0°N 0°W is a chill, first-person walking sim for everyone, where each run is a fresh adventure!
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
Why similar: Surreal 15.7%, Psychedelic 15.3%, Open World 12%, Puzzle 8.6%, Nonlinear 8.6%
Ready for a wild trip of psychedelic sights and sounds? 0°N 0°W is a chill, first-person walking sim for everyone, where each run is a fresh adventure!
Why similar: Surreal 20.3%, Psychedelic 18.8%, Open World 12.9%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Cinematic 8.5%
From Lee Petty and Double Fine Productions, Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding
Why similar: Psychedelic 21%, Cinematic 18.6%, Surreal 18.4%, Puzzle 9.9%, Exploration 7%
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: Surreal 17.5%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Open World 11.5%, Mystery 11.2%, Puzzle 10.5%
Navigate a mysterious world with painting as your guide. Unlock abilities, grow plants, meet characters, discover new worlds, and confront the mad mage to free yourself.
Why similar: Metroidvania 16.6%, Surreal 16%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Open World 9.7%, Puzzle 9.4%
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 21.2%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Surreal 12.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Open World 8.7%
Carve your own path through Fourmiworld - an "open-world-ant-farm-metroidvania". Play as an interdimensional urban explorer girl, collect Gamut to unlock new abilities, and discover the sights, plights, & soundbites of a surreal alien dimension.
Why similar: Surreal 25.3%, Psychedelic 19.1%, Metroidvania 18.3%, Exploration 9.6%, Atmospheric 6.2%
Kaori is a first-person puzzle and adventure game. Explore ancient ruins on a sun-drenched archipelago and uncover the many mysteries of a lost civilization.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Exploration 11.2%, Mystery 8.6%, Adventure 8.1%
Ilamentia is an experimental abstract puzzler where you must first discover the level mechanics before solving them. Delve into mysterious mind-bending levels that each have unique mechanics to explore that will test the limits of every facet of your cognitive faculties.
Why similar: Surreal 23.6%, Psychedelic 22.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Exploration 9.3%, First-Person 9.3%
Signiverux is a Metroidvania-inspired action adventure with fluid gameplay and detailed graphics. Explore the depths of a mysterious castle in search for a way back home, enjoy fast ability progressions, search for powerful magic upgrades and grow your character by expanding the skill tree.
Why similar: Gothic 27.3% ★, Metroidvania 19.1%, Nonlinear 12.2%, Open World 10.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%
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: Surreal 28%, Puzzle 23.9%, First-Person 11.1%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Exploration 10.3%
A liminal psychological experience powered by Steam audio. Navigate the levels. And don´t get scared.
Why similar: Cinematic 15%, Exploration 14.5%, Puzzle 13.9%, Physics 11.5%, Surreal 10.4%
Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
Why similar: Puzzle 12.9%, Surreal 12.1%, Open World 11.5%, Mystery 11.1%, First-Person 8.7%
An occult forest rave ⸸ Strange rituals ⸸ Enigmatic organisers ⸸ An ancient evil ⸸ Pure Psychedelic Horror
Why similar: Psychedelic 22%, Surreal 19.8%, Mystery 11%, Puzzle 8.7%, Exploration 8.3%
Scale into ever-smaller nested worlds. Shrink into your spaceship's mechanisms. Uncover the fractal worlds within and meet the zany goobers who call them home. Track down the root of the system errors, whether by replacing old gears or getting Grandma Beetle's bakery back in business.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Surreal 21.4%, Exploration 12.6%, Physics 8.6%, Open World 7.7%
Figure it out yourself! Observe, experiment and test your assumptions about an unorthodox magic system as you attempt to outmaneuver, swindle and topple your enemies in the discovery-oriented mystery puzzle adventure.
Why similar: Gothic 28.2% ★, Nonlinear 15%, Open World 10.9%, Mystery 9.2%, Puzzle 9.1%
Horror Night with TUNG TUNG TUNG SAHUR Your car broke down. Middle of the forest. No signal. You spot a creepy mansion up the hill. You knock. No answer. Just as you turn to leave—CREAK—the door opens by itself.
Why similar: Gothic 24.7% ★, Metroidvania 15.4%, Surreal 15.2%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Cinematic 12%
Evolve your body further to survive this vast, yet dense, system of caves. You must use your wits to outsmart predators lurking in the dark and to solve puzzling challenges in order to further advance in this strange world.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.5%, Surreal 16.6%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Open World 11.1%, Puzzle 9.9%
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Why similar: Surreal 18.9%, Puzzle 16.7%, Exploration 13.4%, Mystery 12.6%, Adventure 8.6%
Dive into the captivating world of puzzles with the new part of the Door game series. Your task is to find the correct door among many options to advance to the next level. But be careful: only by understanding the patterns and solving puzzles you can unlock the coveted passage.
Why similar: Open World 19.9%, Puzzle 18.2%, Exploration 14.6%, First-Person 11.4%, Nonlinear 6.5%
The game is a first-person puzzle adventure, with wacky and old-fashioned graphics, which will transport the player into a dreamlike, psychedelic world composed of an experimental game system that will challenge and test even the most experienced puzzle gamers in the industry.
Why similar: Psychedelic 23.6%, Surreal 19.9%, Puzzle 14.3%, Exploration 11.3%, Mystery 9.3%
Never let your light go out. Wield a powerful flame, overcome menacing creatures and explore the shadows of a ruined castle in this compelling 2.5D action adventure platformer which features a unique dynamic difficulty system.
Why similar: Gothic 28.7% ★, Metroidvania 22.8%, Surreal 12.8%, Puzzle 8.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%
Immerse yourself in an exciting journey on the island of dreams. Explore the open world and interesting places, while solving various puzzles that use environment.
Why similar: Puzzle 17.2%, Exploration 14.4%, Nonlinear 13.4%, First-Person 11.1%, Open World 11%
Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 27.7%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 10.3%, Nonlinear 6.5%
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Why similar: Puzzle 25.7%, Open World 17.2%, Exploration 13.6%, First-Person 10.2%, Nonlinear 6.5%
A short first-person horror game, exploring the mysterious DMT realm. Roam infinitely repeating worlds while escaping from malevolent entities. Can you find your way back home?
Why similar: Psychedelic 20.6%, Surreal 18.7%, Open World 12.9%, Exploration 8.9%, First-Person 6.9%
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 25.6%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 9.4%, Space 8.8%, Mystery 8.6%
Soar through an alien world as a flying android. Dominate the environment with thunderous shouts —or surrender to the strange rhythms of wildlife. This planet does not obey humans. And maybe, neither should you.
Why similar: Open World 15.1%, Mystery 14.7%, Puzzle 11.8%, Surreal 11.3%, Nonlinear 9.9%
Embark on a surreal journey through a world of living paintings in this first-person puzzle game. Draw symbols on canvases to uncover secrets and solve challenging puzzles. Use your wit and creativity to progress!
Why similar: Surreal 26.3%, Puzzle 14.6%, Open World 14.3%, Mystery 13.6%, First-Person 10.3%
The NONOLITH consumes you. Copy and paste the world around you to discover the secrets of this ancient, enigmatic structure. You are very powerful, you just don't know it yet.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.8%, Surreal 17.2%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Exploration 10.5%, Puzzle 9.9%
Seven: Reboot is a cryptic experimental puzzle game. It consists of a wide variety of puzzles of all difficulties. It’s a game about numbers and their meaning. Make notes, construct theories, communicate with other players and solve the mysteries of Seven!
Why similar: Metroidvania 17.2%, Psychedelic 16.1%, Surreal 14.8%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Mystery 10.3%
Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.
Why similar: Gothic 56.3% ★, Dark Fantasy 10.2%, Exploration 9.8%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Mystery 6.2%
The main character, who moves to another city, finds himself in unexpected mysterious events when her new friend disappears.
Why similar: Surreal 19.4%, Exploration 15.9%, Puzzle 15.4%, Open World 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%
An adventure game where you play musical instruments instead of swinging swords. Explore the Wilds to gather adorable Sound Sprites, cut through the looming Silence, and rebuild the soundtrack of this hand-illustrated world in whatever way you see fit. No musical ability required!
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.9%, Metroidvania 21.2%, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 12.5%, Surreal 10.9%
A Surreal Puzzle Shooter Adventure Fueled By Madness!
Why similar: Surreal 19.5%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Psychedelic 15.7%, Puzzle 9.8%, Open World 8.8%
The iconic supernatural mystery, The 7th Guest, has been brought back to life with cutting-edge VR technology, that delivers an atmospheric story like no other. Explore the foreboding mansion, solve challenging puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets.
Why similar: Gothic 39.5% ★, Mystery 12.5%, Cinematic 12%, Puzzle 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 10%
Document an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. Study the behaviour of the EMUUROM creatures and use the gained knowledge to create new paths forward. Slowly, the machinations of the mythic forest sprites begin to unfold.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.4%, Surreal 16.4%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Mystery 10.2%, Puzzle 9.9%
A very trippy escape room like game filled with puzzles, enemies, and many areas waiting to be explored!
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.5%, Puzzle 15.4%, Surreal 15.3%, Exploration 12.7%, Adventure 9.5%
Amongst the motliest of all crews, an enigmatic woman prepares the ship to enter an intense thunderstorm raging in the middle of the ocean. What otherworldly mysteries lie within?
Why similar: Surreal 22.5%, Metroidvania 22.2%, Psychedelic 17.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Exploration 5.9%
A VR puzzle adventure where dimensional fractures have torn reality apart. Explore environments destabilized by the rift, solve spatial puzzles hidden across 10 distinct scenes, and follow signals, symbols, and strange objects to uncover what caused the collapse.
Why similar: Gothic 24.7% ★, Cinematic 15.6%, Puzzle 13.1%, Exploration 11.2%, Surreal 8.4%
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: Surreal 22%, Psychedelic 17.5%, Open World 13.1%, Puzzle 9.6%, Exploration 9.4%
Geodyssey is a mind-bending first-person adventure game that challenges your perception. Explore spaces that defy logic, Solve perplexing puzzles, and Experience a reality that cannot exist. Immerse in a surreal Non-Euclidean world.
Why similar: Surreal 22.9%, Cinematic 16.1%, Puzzle 12.3%, Psychedelic 10%, Exploration 9.1%
∆ is an atmospheric exploration experience that takes you on a journey through the dream world into the Beyond.
Why similar: Surreal 21.3%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Puzzle 12.2%, Exploration 11.8%
Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?
Why similar: Metroidvania 27.1%, Surreal 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Open World 10.4%
Navigate and explore the twisted organic world with the ability to walk on anything! Climb large creatures, solve puzzles, unlock different forms and abilities, and uncover secrets in this atmospheric Puzzle-Metroidvania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.4%, Open World 13.5%, Puzzle 12.5%, Exploration 10.5%, Mystery 9.4%
Paradoxical is a first-person puzzle game featuring innovative portal mechanics that let you manipulate space at will. Solve mind-bending puzzles that require you to think with portals. Explore surreal dimensions of impossible architecture and uncover the remnants of a dying desert world.
Why similar: Surreal 21.6%, Psychedelic 15.7%, Cinematic 12.2%, Puzzle 10.7%, Physics 8.9%
Change your surroundings in the blink of an eye. Wield powerful glasses that let you see and interact with the world in new ways. Spectacle is a surreal first-person puzzle game about observation, spatial reasoning, and lizards.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.4%, Puzzle 15%, Surreal 14.6%, Exploration 11%, First-Person 10.2%
A music-driven puzzle adventure where sound shapes the world. Solve mysteries, escape the Human Wheel, and experience the album by GRIGS in PALINGENESIS.
Why similar: Surreal 22%, Cinematic 21.8%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Puzzle 11.1%, Sci-fi 9%
This story is about a single person who was unsure of the nature of things and the physical integrity of things around him. Everyday this man went to his job and dreamed of a time in which, it seems, he didn't exist. But then one day after our protagonist took the bus to work, he got off on...a ship.
Why similar: Surreal 30.6%, Open World 16%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 8.5%
A new adventure awaits you in a beautiful park filled with puzzles related to finding patterns in the amazing world of the game. Engage your logic and carefully examine your surroundings to find clues to solve the riddles and mysteries of this place.
Why similar: Puzzle 19%, Open World 15.8%, Exploration 15.2%, First-Person 11.8%, Nonlinear 8.2%
Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.2%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Mystery 13.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Exploration 11.6%
Explore a small open world in first-person, solving environmental puzzles across five distinct biomes. Observe, experiment, and uncover secrets at your own pace in this calm, discovery-focused indie experience.
Why similar: Mystery 16.5%, Open World 14.9%, Exploration 14.5%, Puzzle 11.1%, Nonlinear 8.2%
Outsmart your past self in a battle of cause and effect. Explore an interconnected clay world, discover its hidden rules, and uncover the secrets it would rather keep buried.
Why similar: Metroidvania 26.3%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Psychedelic 11.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Exploration 10.3%
What Has Come Before is a perspective-driven puzzle game set in an eerie and stylish black and white Lynchian world. Stuck in limbo with only hearing and vision to guide, players must utilize clever changes in perspective to move forward.
Why similar: Surreal 31.4%, Puzzle 18.8%, Nonlinear 13.3%, First-Person 12.2%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31.5%, Surreal 14.8%, Exploration 12.4%, Puzzle 12.3%, Nonlinear 10.6%
Lapso is a single player first-person exploration game, with particular attention paid to the environmental narrative and sound. It develops through the figure of a scientific illustrator camping near a lake, documenting a special assignment.
Why similar: Mystery 19.2%, Exploration 19.2%, Puzzle 18.3%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Open World 13%
Atmospheric FPS action, with puzzles, with spheres. Shoot, rotate, survive: unlock your path through a tight maze filled with spherical dangers. The Blank space is leaking out... Find a Mindgun.
Why similar: Metroidvania 23.3%, Surreal 21.4%, Open World 11.9%, Puzzle 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.5%
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Why similar: Nonlinear 22%, Open World 20.8%, Cinematic 20.1%, Exploration 10.2%, Atmospheric 8.7%
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 21.8%, Open World 16%, Puzzle 12.1%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Exploration 10%
The goal of the game is to find your favourite room in the catacombs.
Why similar: Psychedelic 31.9%, Surreal 26.6%, Exploration 11.8%, Nonlinear 9%, Atmospheric 5.4%
