- #1 Felix The Reaper
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 464 reviews2019
Dev: Kong OrangePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Felix The Reaper is a challenging and strict 3D puzzle game about bringing humans into deadly situations. You are Felix, the ever-dancing bringer of death, who just so happens to be dangerously in love with Life.
Why similar: Puzzle 91.3%, Dark Humor 2.9%, Indie 1.6%, Adventure 1.6%, Funny 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the Grim Reaper theme and features grid-based puzzle mechanics with a dark, humorous tone.
- #2 Slayaway Camp
96% matchVery Positive95% of 915 reviews2016
Dev: Blue Wizard Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.
Why similar: Puzzle 89.7%, Dark Humor 3.4%, Cute 1.6%, Difficult 1.3%, Funny 1.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines a dark, slasher-movie aesthetic with clever, grid-based sliding puzzles similar to the movement in Divide By Sheep.
- #3 Baba Is You
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 24,218 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Why similar: Puzzle 97.3%, Difficult 0.9%, Cute 0.7%, Indie 0.5%, Great Soundtrack 0.1%
Why You'll Like It: Like Divide By Sheep, this game features deep, rule-bending logic puzzles that require creative thinking to solve.
- #4 A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,170 reviews2015
Dev: Alan HazeldenPub: Draknek & Friends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 60%
An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.
Why similar: Puzzle 93.5%, Cute 1.8%, Difficult 1.2%, Relaxing 1.1%, Casual 1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a cute, relaxing aesthetic paired with challenging, grid-based spatial puzzles.
- #5 Pony Island
94% matchVery Positive95% of 18,009 reviews2016
Dev: Daniel Mullins Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
Why similar: Puzzle 97.6%, Indie 0.7%, Funny 0.4%, Cute 0.4%, Great Soundtrack 0.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a deceptive, cute exterior that hides a dark, meta-puzzle experience.
- #6 Life Goes On: Done to Death
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,439 reviews2014
Dev: Infinite Monkeys Entertainment Ltd.Pub: k-Critical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.
Why similar: Puzzle 93%, Dark Humor 4.3%, Funny 1.4%, Casual 0.5%, Indie 0.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game uses dark humor and the sacrifice of characters to solve platforming puzzles, mirroring the 'slicing sheep' mechanic.
- #7 Peace, Death!
93% matchVery Positive93% of 2,437 reviews2017
Dev: AZAMATIKA
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.
Why similar: Dark Humor 34.8%, Funny 22.7%, Casual 20.9%, Indie 15.3%, Great Soundtrack 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: You play as a reaper sorting souls, capturing the same morbidly funny atmosphere found in the seed game.
- #8 7 Billion Humans
91% matchVery Positive94% of 2,112 reviews2018
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
Why similar: Puzzle 98.6%, Indie 0.7%, Funny 0.4%, Great Soundtrack 0.2%, Singleplayer 0.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game turns logic and math into a puzzle-solving experience that feels like a more complex version of the arithmetic challenges in the seed game.
- #9 Cute Things Dying Violently
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: ApathyWorks, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Flick hapless Critters around to get them safely out of each level! Dodge all sorts of lethal goodies like spikes, buzzsaws, and fire, and use a variety of wacky items to pull it off.
Why similar: Puzzle 91.9%, Dark Humor 3.3%, Cute 1.6%, Casual 1.5%, Indie 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: The title says it all; it perfectly matches the 'cute but dark' aesthetic and puzzle-platformer gameplay.
- #10 Human Resource Machine
91% matchVery Positive94% of 4,659 reviews2015
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Why similar: Puzzle 97.6%, Casual 0.9%, Indie 0.7%, Difficult 0.3%, Funny 0.3%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes programming-based logic to solve puzzles, appealing to the same analytical mindset required for math-heavy games.
- #11 Escape Goat 2
90% matchVery Positive95% of 457 reviews2014
Dev: MagicalTimeBeanPub: Double Fine Presents
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.
Why similar: Puzzle 97.9%, Indie 0.9%, Casual 0.8%, Great Soundtrack 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.1%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that requires quick thinking and clever use of mechanics to navigate dangerous environments.
- #12 Death and Taxes
89% matchVery Positive86% of 8,354 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Puzzle 96.4%, Casual 1.2%, Indie 0.7%, Strategy 0.7%, Adventure 0.6%
Why You'll Like It: You take on the role of a Grim Reaper in an office setting, blending dark humor with decision-based logic puzzles.
- #13 Hexcells Plus
89% matchVery Positive95% of 2,805 reviews2014
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Why similar: Puzzle 98.3%, Casual 0.6%, Indie 0.4%, Difficult 0.2%, Relaxing 0.2%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, logic-based puzzle game that focuses on numerical deduction and pattern recognition.
- #14 Patrick's Parabox
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,580 reviews2022
Dev: Patrick Traynor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 97.9%, Difficult 0.7%, Casual 0.5%, Indie 0.4%, Strategy 0.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game features mind-bending recursive puzzles that challenge your perception of space and logic.
- #15 Snakebird
88% matchVery Positive93% of 1,246 reviews2015
Dev: Noumenon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Puzzle 97.2%, Difficult 1.2%, Cute 1%, Indie 0.5%, Singleplayer 0%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its cute appearance, it is a notoriously difficult, grid-based puzzle game that requires intense spatial reasoning.
- #16 Calculator: The Game
85% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: Kurtiswow
Windows
Calculator: The Game is an adorable puzzle game where you save the world with your calculator and Clicky, the chatty assistant. Solve the mystery of Clicky through 200 hand crafted puzzles by adding, subtracting, deleting, and reversing numbers. Oh, and portals, did I mention there are portals?
Why similar: Puzzle 94.8%, Cute 1.6%, Casual 1.4%, Funny 1.1%, Adventure 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: A direct math-based puzzle game that challenges your arithmetic skills in increasingly complex ways.
- #17 Donut County
86% matchVery Positive92% of 11,807 reviews2018
Dev: Ben EspositoPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
Why similar: Puzzle 92.4%, Cute 2%, Casual 1.7%, Funny 1.5%, Indie 0.9%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a funny, physics-based puzzle experience with a charming, lighthearted art style.
- #18 Cosmic Express
86% matchVery Positive90% of 620 reviews2017
Dev: Cosmic EngineersPub: Draknek & Friends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!
Why similar: Puzzle 94.3%, Cute 1.8%, Difficult 1.5%, Casual 1%, Relaxing 1%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging, grid-based logic puzzle game that focuses on pathfinding and optimization.
- #19 World of Goo
84% matchVery Positive94% of 6,534 reviews2008
Dev: 2D BOYPub: 2D BOY
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
Why similar: Puzzle 97.4%, Indie 0.6%, Casual 0.5%, Cute 0.5%, Great Soundtrack 0.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic physics-based puzzle game that uses quirky, cute creatures to solve structural challenges.
- #20 Dungeon Slime: Puzzle's Adventure
83% matchVery Positive96% of 108 reviews2020
Dev: Daniel Siqueira Abdelnur
Windows
Dungeon Slime it's a challenging game. Every time you hit the walls you change the shape of Billy the Slime. Dodge sharp spines, go through narrow gaps, solve complicated logic and skill based puzzles to find a way out of this dungeon.
Why similar: Puzzle 95.9%, Cute 1.3%, Casual 1.1%, Strategy 0.6%, Adventure 0.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines tactical movement with puzzle-solving in a dungeon-crawling setting.
- #21 Puzzle Puppers
84% matchVery Positive93% of 112 reviews2017
Dev: Cardboard Keep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Stretch out cute dogs to their food bowls! Easy to learn, difficult to master with deceptively simple puzzles and mechanics.
Why similar: Puzzle 93.5%, Casual 1.8%, Indie 1.1%, Cute 1%, Strategy 0.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, cute puzzle game that focuses on pathfinding and spatial management.
- #22 Catherine Classic
82% matchVery Positive87% of 11,012 reviews2019
Dev: ATLUSPub: SEGA
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Catherine: a tale of love, betrayal, and the terror of commitment. Experience the mature action-adventure-puzzle game unlike any other from the makers of the Persona series, now enhanced for PC in all its Classic glory. Is love over? Climb to the top or die trying.
Why similar: Puzzle 98%, Difficult 0.7%, Gore 0.6%, Adventure 0.3%, Great Soundtrack 0.2%
Why You'll Like It: A mature puzzle game that blends dark, psychological themes with intense block-pushing mechanics.
- #23 Untitled Goose Game
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,559 reviews2020
Dev: House HousePub: Panic
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
Why similar: Puzzle 94.9%, Funny 1.9%, Cute 1.8%, Indie 0.8%, Adventure 0.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same mischievous, funny spirit found in games that thrive on chaotic puzzle-solving.
- #24 Bad Rats Show
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 957 reviews2016
Dev: Invent4 EntertainmentPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 92.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Bad Rats Show is a physics puzzle game where the rats exact their bloody revenge against their main enemies: the Cats. Solve puzzles in 2D and 3D maps using physics, objects and specially trained Rats. All new Rats and Cats, but with the same classic and questionable Bad Rats humor.
Why similar: Puzzle 91.1%, Gore 3.5%, Casual 1.5%, Difficult 1.3%, Great Soundtrack 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features physics-based puzzles with a dark, slapstick humor style that aligns with the seed game's tone.
- #25 Papers, Please
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 79,225 reviews2013
Dev: Lucas PopePub: 3909
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Why similar: Puzzle 94.7%, Indie 2.2%, Difficult 0.7%, Casual 0.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Why You'll Like It: It turns bureaucratic work into a high-stakes, dark-humored puzzle experience.
- #26 Sheep
77% matchVery Positive97% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Minds Eye ProductionsPub: Strategy First
Windows
In this Lemmings-inspired game, your goal is to herd sheep across 28 hazard-filled levels so they can be rescued by their educated alien cousins. You herd four breeds of sheep and have to protect them from the evil mr. Pear.
Why similar: Puzzle 99%, Strategy 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #27 Gorogoa
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,260 reviews2017
Dev: Buried SignalPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
Why similar: Puzzle 98.6%, Casual 0.5%, Indie 0.4%, Adventure 0.2%, Great Soundtrack 0.1%
Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, unique puzzle game that relies on visual logic and clever manipulation of panels.
- #28 ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard
74% matchVery Positive95% of 131 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel ManiacsPub: PM Studios, Inc.
Windows
Shoot paint, mix colors, and solve puzzles in this adventure about friendship and redemption. Just don't enter that portal to another universe, and ᴇᴠᴇʀʏTʜɪɴɢ will 𝐛𝐞 ᴘEʀ𝐅𝓔ᴄᴛʟʏ 𝒇 𝔦 𝓃 ҽ . • °
Why similar: Puzzle 95%, Dark Humor 2.6%, Funny 0.7%, Adventure 0.6%, Relaxing 0.6%
- #29 TIS-100
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,077 reviews2015
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Why similar: Puzzle 98.4%, Difficult 0.9%, Indie 0.5%, Singleplayer 0.1%
Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy the math and logic aspects of the seed game, this provides a deeper, more technical puzzle challenge.
- #30 The Pedestrian
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,970 reviews2020
Dev: Skookum Arts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Why similar: Puzzle 97.3%, Cute 1.3%, Relaxing 0.8%, Adventure 0.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features creative, sign-based puzzle-platforming that requires shifting perspectives to progress.
- #31 Two Digits
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 412 reviews2015
Dev: Cleverweek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Simple, minimalist and difficult. Two Digits is a perfect blend between insanity and happiness. You are given 9 numbers less than 100, and all you have to do is to choose two subsets with the same sum.
Why similar: Puzzle 95.8%, Casual 2.9%, Indie 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, math-focused game that is easy to pick up but requires quick mental arithmetic.
- #32 Linelight
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,102 reviews2017
Dev: My Dog Zorro
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.
Why similar: Puzzle 96.5%, Casual 1.5%, Indie 0.9%, Adventure 0.6%, Relaxing 0.3%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle game that focuses on timing and pathfinding in a clean, elegant environment.
- #33 Hexcells
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,891 reviews2014
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Why similar: Puzzle 98.3%, Casual 0.7%, Indie 0.3%, Relaxing 0.2%, Strategy 0.1%
- #34 Disc Room
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,129 reviews2020
Dev: TerriPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse.
Why similar: Puzzle 93.3%, Gore 2%, Difficult 1.5%, Casual 1.2%, Indie 0.9%
- #35 Hexcells Infinite
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,666 reviews2014
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Why similar: Puzzle 98.2%, Casual 0.7%, Relaxing 0.4%, Indie 0.3%, Difficult 0.2%
- #36 Peace, Death! 2
74% matchVery Positive95% of 898 reviews2021
Dev: AZAMATIKA
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!
Why similar: Puzzle 94.4%, Dark Humor 2.1%, Casual 1.8%, Funny 1.2%, Indie 0.2%
- #37 Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition
76% matchVery Positive94% of 1,525 reviews2014
Dev: Aardman AnimationsPub: Greenlight Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Join Shaun the Sheep and his friends Timmy and Shirley on this epic adventure journeying through caverns, the busy streets of London and through outer space all in search of the green grass of home. Now with new multiplayer modes, controller support, widescreen graphics and much, much more!
Why similar: Puzzle 96.7%, Casual 1.2%, Indie 0.8%, Cute 0.6%, Adventure 0.6%
- #38 MO:Astray
73% matchVery Positive92% of 5,043 reviews2019
Dev: Archpray Inc.Pub: Rayark International Limited
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
Why similar: Puzzle 67.5%, Gore 8%, Cute 7.1%, Indie 5.8%, Adventure 5.1%
- #39 Do Animals Dream?
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 89 reviews2021
Dev: Black Vein Productions
Windows · Mac
You’re shipwrecked on a mysterious island of talking animals! You’ll need to make friends with the local critters if you hope to return home. This adventure includes branching conversations, memorable endings, and dark secrets...
Why similar: Casual 31.1%, Cute 23.8%, Funny 14.4%, Gore 13.8%, Adventure 9.6%
- #40 A Monster's Expedition
72% matchVery Positive95% of 1,647 reviews2020
Dev: Draknek & Friends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!
Why similar: Puzzle 93.4%, Cute 1.4%, Difficult 1.1%, Funny 1.1%, Casual 0.9%
- #41 Isle of Ewe
73% matchVery Positive86% of 691 reviews2020
Dev: Miles Peter HatcliffPub: No Ewe Productions
Windows
Embark on an adventure and command your flock to bring your fluffy friends back home. The mysterious disappearance of Ramsey sparks your journey as you must collect, throw and bounce from sheep to sheep to bring him back home safely.
Why similar: Puzzle 96.3%, Indie 2%, Adventure 1.7%
- #42 Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine
71% matchMixed61% of 350 reviews2023
Dev: Headup
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Help Dr. Fetus create the perfect Meat Boy clone in a unique new twist on the tile-matching puzzle genre. In classic Meat Boy fashion, an endless cavalcade of devious and deadly traps stand between you and victory in this hardcore puzzle game that will push your skills to the limit.
Why similar: Puzzle 95.5%, Casual 1.9%, Difficult 1.4%, Funny 0.5%, Indie 0.4%
- #43 Lightmatter
70% matchVery Positive91% of 2,893 reviews2020
Dev: Tunnel Vision GamesPub: Aspyr
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
Why similar: Puzzle 96.8%, Indie 1.5%, Adventure 1.4%, Difficult 0.3%
- #44 Overloop
68% matchVery Positive94% of 248 reviews2022
Dev: Charge GamesPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.
Why similar: Puzzle 94.6%, Dark Humor 3.1%, Gore 0.8%, Adventure 0.7%, Indie 0.4%
- #45 Zombie Ballz
73% matchMixed68% of 154 reviews2017
Dev: Almighty GamesPub: My Way Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Arcade-style physics puzzle game where you kill undead & keep villagers alive. Level challenges offer a variety of weapons with their own physical properties. Choose the right weapon and solve puzzles by exploding crates, magnetizing metal, burning, slicing, dicing and bouncing your balls to victory
Why similar: Puzzle 96.6%, Casual 1%, Difficult 0.9%, Indie 0.6%, Funny 0.5%
- #46 Math Fun
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 164 reviews2018
Dev: Yash Future Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Windows
Math Fun is amazing fun loving app for everyone. This app will let you learn math in an fun and easy manner while playing.
Why similar: Difficult 38.3%, Casual 21.9%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Indie 13.5%, Strategy 12%
- #47 Airscape - The Fall of Gravity
70% matchVery Positive82% of 2,660 reviews2015
Dev: Cross-ProductPub: Senpai Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Airscape is a fast-paced, ultra-challenging 60 level action platformer. You play a deep-sea octopus, kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. Jump, dodge, and swim through a skybound environment full of floating islands, water formations, and robotic terrors.
Why similar: Puzzle 93%, Cute 1.9%, Difficult 1.7%, Casual 1.5%, Adventure 0.6%
- #48 Press Ctrl
67% matchVery Positive90% of 603 reviews2021
Dev: Idan Rooze
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
A mind-bending puzzler where your avatar controls another avatar via an in-game keyboard.
Why similar: Puzzle 94.8%, Cute 1.6%, Difficult 1.3%, Funny 1.1%, Casual 0.8%
- #49 Ghostory
70% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: RigidCore Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Puns, and puzzles. Horrible puns and devious puzzles actually, along with several incorporeal entities are what makes Ghostory a pixel art puzzle adventure brimming with humour and intrigue. Take on the role of a cursed traveler, master your ghostly form, find a cure, and escape a perilous cave system.
Why similar: Puzzle 91.6%, Dark Humor 3.5%, Difficult 1.1%, Casual 1%, Funny 1%
- #50 Airhead
65% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: OctatoPub: HandyGames
Windows
Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.
Why similar: Puzzle 93.4%, Indie 2%, Adventure 1.9%, Cute 1.1%, Difficult 1%
- #51 The Devil's Calculator
68% matchVery Positive96% of 121 reviews2019
Dev: Christopher Cinq-Mars JarvisPub: Cinq-Mars Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Devil's Calculator is a new, non-profit math game by the creator of Synonymy that proves a sophisticated, challenging and educational indie puzzler for numberphiles and lovers of logic and brain teasers
Why similar: Puzzle 97.8%, Casual 0.9%, Indie 0.7%, Strategy 0.4%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #52 Gravity Badgers
72% matchMixed61% of 450 reviews2013
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Step into the space suit of valiant gravity badger Captain T Bayback as he ventures into the deadly depths of deep space to save his friends, family and the universe itself from the threat of the deadly Evil Honey Badgers, aka the Hellsett.
Why similar: Puzzle 94.4%, Gore 1.7%, Casual 1.4%, Shooter 1%, Indie 0.8%
- #53 Tiny Bridge: Ratventure
71% matchMixed68% of 1,094 reviews2015
Dev: EstelionPub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This mind-bending game will challenge you to create complex structures to get your woodland creatures over vast chasms. In a bridge-builder first, you'll guide your creatures and construct your bridges in real time. Use the weight of various creatures to balance your structures as you build them.
Why similar: Puzzle 96.9%, Indie 0.9%, Casual 0.9%, Adventure 0.5%, Strategy 0.4%
- #54 Inops
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: ZRZStudio
Windows
Dive into the wondrous world of the Inops! The 2D puzzle based side scrolling adventure of dark and light. Battle the fire breathing demons and rescue the scattered Inops.
Why similar: Indie 37.8%, Adventure 35.4%, Cute 11.8%, Casual 8.3%, Great Soundtrack 4%
- #55 Star Stuff
63% matchVery Positive99% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: Ánimo Games Studio
Windows · Mac
Star Stuff is a deceptively cute programming puzzle game. Program and work alongside bots to tackle the most important (and undoubtedly safest) task in the galaxy: fixing a star factory. Ready for your first day on the job?
Why similar: Puzzle 94.2%, Cute 1.2%, Casual 1.2%, Difficult 1.1%, Relaxing 0.8%
- #56 S.U.M. - Slay Uncool Monsters
67% matchVery Positive93% of 147 reviews2021
Dev: Doomster Entertainment
Windows
In S.U.M. you'll put your Quick-Math skills to test! Fight very Uncool Monsters using Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division. Level up and progress in the Campaign(s), or show your prowess in Endless Mode with Leaderboards.
Why similar: Puzzle 97.4%, Casual 1%, Funny 0.8%, Indie 0.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #57 Diefrosty
66% matchVery Positive82% of 61 reviews2021
Dev: UlonPub: Gagonfe
Windows
Diefrosty is an unsurvival puzzle game, where your one and only goal is to kill your ice-cuby character no matter how. Intereract with many obstacles, use really dumb ways to die while melting your brain to beat each level.
Why similar: Puzzle 94.4%, Casual 1.3%, Cute 1.3%, Relaxing 0.9%, Funny 0.8%
- #58 Rules & Rodents
62% matchVery Positive100% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Gravy Crew Games
Windows
A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! 📜🐀 Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!
Why similar: Puzzle 97.1%, Cute 1.5%, Adventure 0.7%, Indie 0.5%, 2D 0.1%
- #59 See No Evil
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 458 reviews2014
Dev: Gabriel PriskePub: Noetic
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
See No Evil is a dark, isometric puzzle game about sound manipulation. A harsh fantasy where the willingly blind are hostile to the nonconformist. Sometimes, the world seems darker with your eyes open.
Why similar: Puzzle 96.9%, Indie 1.3%, Adventure 0.8%, Strategy 0.4%, Isometric 0.3%
- #60 Girls Like Robots
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 288 reviews2014
Dev: Popcannibal
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Their faces are the playing pieces. The rules are their emotions!Ridiculously charming puzzles, wrapped around an epic tale of love and danger, topped off with an authentic old-time stringband soundtrack!The goal is to put every one next to their friends.But you can't please everybody all the time.
Why similar: Puzzle 94.3%, Cute 1.7%, Funny 1.2%, Casual 1%, Difficult 0.7%