- #1 The Path Home
96% matchVery Positive99% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: kakuhitoPub: michikusa
Windows
"The Path Home" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle game where you explore a strange world with a girl. Use panels to "flip" black and white tiles and reshape the puzzle world. The girl always searches for the "shortest path to the goal," but avoiding fake goals and reuniting her with the crow is up to you.
Why similar: Adventure 57.6%, Indie 42.4%
- #2 Blink
97% matchVery Positive92% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: nextReality Games
Windows
Blink into a world of after-images, where you can walk on light. Solve puzzles by manipulating lights and blinking between worlds. Explore hand drawn landscapes while uncovering the secrets behind this strange power.
Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #3 Unleaving
96% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: orangutan matter
Windows · Mac
When everything seems hopeless a child is awakened by the whispers of the last leaf, drawn into an imaginary world. Unleaving invites the player into a narrative-driven puzzle platformer where each challenge unfolds within a hand-painted landscape, exploring perception and meaning
Why similar: Adventure 52.4%, Indie 47.6%
- #4 Forgotton Anne
95% matchVery Positive90% of 2,007 reviews2018
Dev: Throughline Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Step into a hand-animated realm of wonder in which everyday objects take on a life of their own. Uncover the Forgotlings’ mysteries & harness magical forces as you embark upon a quest to return home.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #5 Out of Line
94% matchVery Positive90% of 238 reviews2021
Dev: Nerd MonkeysPub: Hatinh Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
A unique adventure game filled with beautiful puzzles all hand-drawn in an original 2D style . Out of Line follows the adventures of San in a quest to escape the Factory that was once home. Dive into a story set in a mysterious world that is revealed through multiple chapters.
Why similar: Adventure 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #6 Slice of Sea
94% matchVery Positive90% of 599 reviews2021
Dev: Mateusz Skutnik
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.
Why similar: Adventure 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #7 Paper Trail
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 889 reviews2024
Dev: Newfangled Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.
Why similar: Adventure 54.2%, Indie 45.8%
- #8 The Multi-Medium
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 550 reviews2023
Dev: Micah Boursier
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #9 Oscuro Blossom's Glow
91% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Hongoneon
Windows
Join Selene in a charming platforming and puzzle adventure, where her ability to absorb and emit light from various flowers is key to activating mechanisms, overcoming obstacles, and navigating through environments that adjust depending on how you wield the light.
Why similar: Adventure 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #10 GRIS
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 94,608 reviews2018
Dev: Nomada StudioPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Why similar: Indie 53.7%, Adventure 46.3%
- #11 Down the Rabbit Hole Flattened
90% matchVery Positive91% of 283 reviews2025
Dev: Cortopia StudiosPub: Beyond Frames
Windows
Down the Rabbit Hole is an adventure set in Wonderland prior to Alice's arrival. You will guide a girl who is looking for her lost pet by solving puzzles, uncovering secrets and making choices about the story along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 91.6%, Indie 8.4%
- #12 The Last Campfire
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 19,361 reviews2021
Dev: Hello Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
Why similar: Adventure 59.9%, Indie 40.1%
- #13 Little Gods of the Abyss
89% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: PLAY MephistowaltzPub: GRAVITY
Windows
To heal a corrupted and crumbling world, Nia's journey begins. Beyond the twisted space, restore the gates and reclaim the forgotten flow.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #14 The Master's Pupil
88% matchVery Positive91% of 149 reviews2023
Dev: Pat NaoumPub: Pat Naoum Games Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac
The Master’s Pupil is a hand painted puzzle adventure game set inside Claude Monet's eyeball
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #15 Bring You Home
86% matchVery Positive97% of 180 reviews2025
Dev: Alike Studio
Windows · Mac
You don't control the hero, but the level ITSELF! In this puzzle adventure, change and rearrange pieces of every level to find the right path. All to guide Polo through crazy worlds and rescue his kidnapped alien pet...
Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #16 The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
84% matchVery Positive95% of 445 reviews2026
Dev: Nippon Ichi Software, Inc.Pub: NIS America, Inc.
Windows
Embark on a journey to save the prince’s eyesight in this 2D puzzle-adventure game featuring beautiful hand-drawn art and a bittersweet tale of wishes and what we’re willing to do to make them come true. Utilize your wolf and princess forms to lead the way!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #17 Labyrinthine Dreams
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 377 reviews2015
Dev: Solest GamesPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Labyrinthine Dreams is a short puzzle game about overcoming the scars of the past and following the right path, even in the face of overwhelming challenges.
Why similar: Adventure 55.5%, Indie 44.5%
- #18 homebound
86% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Justin Yip
Windows · Mac
Tasked with finding humanity a new home, a lonely astronaut braves a desolate planet while making a fluffy friend along the way. homebound is a short 2D puzzle platformer that explores the feeling of home.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #19 Lost Twins 2
82% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Playdew
Windows · Mac
A cute yet challenging puzzle-platformer with a unique mechanic of moving the world itself to create new paths. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op mode to help Ben & Abi navigate this mysterious world. Test your logic skills by solving clever puzzles to help them find their way back home
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #20 Gravity Error
85% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #21 Art House
80% matchVery Positive94% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Turtle Fish StudiosPub: USC Games
Windows · Mac
Art House is a 2D puzzle platformer in which you play as a woman who gets trapped with her children inside the paintings of her recently deceased mother. Navigate through painting rips and use a magical paintbrush to escape and come to terms with your grief.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #22 Oscura: Lost Light
84% matchMixed63% of 123 reviews2015
Dev: Chocolate Liberation FrontPub: Surprise Attack
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Oscura, the apprentice lighthouse keeper, has destroyed the Aurora Stone, sending shards across the Driftlands and plunging them into darkness and danger. It’s up to Oscura to find the shards of the stone and restore light to the Driftlands before creatures of the dark can destroy it.
Why similar: Indie 52.1%, Adventure 47.9%
- #23 Romino's Adventure
82% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: InterDan
Windows · Linux
A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #24 Once Upon A Puppet
79% matchVery Positive92% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Flatter Than EarthPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Control the strings of fate and embark on a grand adventure with Drev and Nieve. A magical, story-driven 2.5D puzzle-platformer where puppeteering mechanics and a whimsical, theater-inspired world intertwine.
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #25 Chromatic Conundrum
77% matchVery Positive98% of 302 reviews2026
Dev: Digs
Windows
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: Adventure 65.4%, Indie 34.6%
- #26 Lanternium
81% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You have to find out what happened in this fantastic world and help the Raccoon find his way home!
Why similar: Adventure 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #27 Carto
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,210 reviews2020
Dev: Sunhead GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.
Why similar: Indie 51.5%, Adventure 48.5%
- #28 A Tale of Paper: Refolded
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 204 reviews2022
Dev: Open House GamesPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A Tale of Paper: Refolded is a puzzle-platformer that tells the story of Line, a magical character made of paper who can use origami to change its shape. Transform into a frog, a rocket, a bird and more as Line embarks on an emotional journey to fulfill the dream of its creator.
Why similar: Adventure 80.7%, Indie 19.3%
- #29 Curyeux
76% matchVery Positive96% of 115 reviews2025
Dev: Campus ADN 2024-2025Pub: Campus ADN
Windows
Dive into the mind of Lucienne, a tormented painter. Leap through emotional memories, solve puzzles where shapes deceive and emotion leads the way. A dreamlike platformer where each painting brings you one step closer to yourself.
Why similar: Adventure 93.2%, Indie 6.8%
- #30 Lunnye Devitsy
81% matchMixed64% of 163 reviews2009
Dev: Boss Baddie
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An alien lost on a strange planet needs help returning home
- #31 In My Shadow
78% matchVery Positive81% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: PlaybaePub: Alcon Interactive Group
Windows
Play with shadows using your imagination to solve brain twisting platforming puzzles as you unfold a journey of loss, nostalgia and acceptance.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #32 Draw
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 795 reviews2023
Dev: Draw Games Developers
Windows · Mac
Welcome to the world of Draw, a 2D sidescroller and visual novel! Armed with nothing but a pencil, play as “Stickman” as you explore a brand-new world. Solve puzzles by drawing into the game, meet new friends while dodging scribble monsters, and make memories that’ll never be erased!
- #33 With My Past
73% matchVery Positive95% of 348 reviews2024
Dev: Imagine Wings StudioPub: Edigger
Windows
"How should I face my past in my ever-changing life? "Collaborating with the shadow of the past to unravel allegorical puzzles, confront inner struggles, and explore the path of self-growth.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Another Perspective
77% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2014
Dev: SaraJS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something. Swap minds to see the world in different ways! Where one mind sees a bottomless pit, another might not. Where one sees a locked door, another sees a key. To change perspective is to change reality!
Why similar: Adventure 51.3%, Indie 48.7%
- #35 Isle of Ewe
74% matchVery Positive86% of 690 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: Adventure 54.1%, Indie 45.9%
- #36 Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,238 reviews2021
Dev: Darjeeling
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Adapted from the bestselling children’s book series Pierre The Maze Detective, play as Pierre in this adventure/puzzle game and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Journey through breathtakingly hand-drawn illustrations, meet eccentric characters, and solve puzzles to save Opera City!
Why similar: Adventure 67.4%, Indie 32.6%
- #37 Recursed
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 645 reviews2016
Dev: PortponkyPub: Shambles Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Why similar: Indie 58.4%, Adventure 41.6%
- #38 Chicken Labyrinth Puzzles
75% matchMixed68% of 231 reviews2018
Dev: ZemunBREPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Guide the lost chicken through mazes and solve puzzles to get home.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 ANIMAL WELL
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,932 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Adventure 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #40 Aspire: Ina's Tale
71% matchVery Positive83% of 427 reviews2021
Dev: Wondernaut StudioPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Set out on a mystical adventure of self-discovery against the backdrop of fantastical landscapes of The Tower. Meet its dwellers and unravel their stories. Manipulate spirits to solve puzzles, and lead Ina on her path to freedom.
Why similar: Adventure 68.6%, Indie 31.4%
- #41 FEZ
71% matchVery Positive93% of 16,126 reviews2013
Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
Why similar: Indie 68.7%, Adventure 31.3%
- #42 -KLAUS-
73% matchVery Positive86% of 117 reviews2019
Dev: La Cosa
Windows
Klaus is lost and alone. Who? Where? Why? He doesn't know anything. Only you can help him find the truth. Join Klaus and K1 - a friendly brute - as you explore this puzzle platform game, through a geometric kaleidoscopic world with high contrast and pop art.
Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #43 Etherborn
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 445 reviews2019
Dev: Altered MatterPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
Why similar: Adventure 55.4%, Indie 44.6%
- #44 Backworlds
72% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2020
Dev: Logic Ember Limited
Windows
Backworlds is a multi-dimensional puzzle platform game in which you explore by painting. Solve environmental conundrums by using each world’s physical properties to your advantage, and use your own creativity to craft original solutions to the game’s puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Puzzles For Clef
70% matchVery Positive82% of 146 reviews2024
Dev: Weasel TokenPub: indie.io
Windows
Join Clef on an adventure set on a magical sky island where her family once lived. Solve puzzles, discover secrets, and experience a story of sisterly love – and something more, if you are willing to dig deeper…
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #46 Dad's Monster House
70% matchVery Positive94% of 274 reviews2021
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Dad's Monster House is a hand-drawn puzzle game featuring horror and fantasy. It tells the story of Carlos' journey after he receives a distress call from his father, pleading for him to return to his old home and rescue his dad.
Why similar: Adventure 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
- #47 Ratyrinth
70% matchVery Positive98% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Solluco
Windows
You are drastically separated from your family in a scary forest with dangerous creatures, and you have to find them again! Ratyrinth is a cute and challenging precision platformer.
Why similar: Adventure 80.6%, Indie 19.4%
- #48 Pages of Time: Prologue
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,907 reviews2022
Dev: Starbeings Studio
Windows
Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #49 Ghostland Yard
69% matchVery Positive99% of 96 reviews2023
Dev: Obelisk Studio
Windows
Uncover the truth about the Ghostland Yard investigators disappearance in this challenging 2D platformer. Travel across the world in more than 250 handcrafted levels to find your friends!
Why similar: Indie 66.3%, Adventure 33.7%
- #50 Lost in Play
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,496 reviews2022
Dev: Happy Juice GamesPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.
Why similar: Adventure 70%, Indie 30%
- #51 Evergate
69% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2020
Dev: Stone Lantern GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Evergate is a haunting 2D puzzle-platformer set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife with an original score recorded by a live orchestra. Navigate 85 challenging stages and unleash the extraordinary powers of the genre-defining 'Soulflame' to help a lost soul reincarnate on earth!
Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%
- #52 PoPuP
68% matchVery Positive93% of 90 reviews2023
Dev: 번둥천개Pub: 청강문화산업대학교
Windows
Puzzle Flatformer Game Adventures Over Obstacles at a Paper Amusement Park
Why similar: Adventure 79.9%, Indie 20.1%
- #53 DOMINO The Little One
68% matchVery Positive82% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: LÖRNPub: Beko
Windows
DOMINO: The Little One, a hand-drawn 2D adventure game, invites you to traverse a realm where the perils of global warming and ecological catastrophe manifest as monstrous entities, and the only weapon at your disposal is your wit and will to make a change.
Why similar: Adventure 91.1%, Indie 8.9%
- #54 PETS
67% matchVery Positive91% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Save& Studio
Windows
PETS is a platformer puzzle game. You will cross different dimensions and go through the maze, find your dogge.
Why similar: Adventure 63%, Indie 37%
- #55 Rewoven Self
66% matchPositive92% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Tang Yuanyuan
Windows · Mac
Rewoven Self is a 2.5D side-scrolling narrative puzzle game where fantasy and reality intertwine. Through folding, cutting, and stitching, you rebuild yourself in a cycle of brokenness and renewal — a gentle yet profound journey of emotional healing.
Why similar: Adventure 73.7%, Indie 26.3%
- #56 Desvelado
64% matchVery Positive99% of 378 reviews2024
Dev: Valentín ZacaríasPub: Vampi Team
Windows
Turn off the lights, dodge the ghosts and go to sleep as soon as you can in this hand-crafted 2d platform experience! In this vampiric precision platformer you will overcome challenging puzzles and deadly enemies before going to sleep in your cosy coffin.
Why similar: Indie 53.4%, Adventure 46.6%
- #57 Umiro
69% matchVery Positive80% of 175 reviews2018
Dev: Diceroll StudiosPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Huey and Satura find themselves lost in the colorless world of Umiro with no memory of their past or how they arrived in this mysterious place. Draw your way through beautiful puzzles and guide Huey and Satura as they restore color to Umiro.
Why similar: Adventure 57.3%, Indie 42.7%
- #58 Andarin Weppes
65% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: MötivPub: Next in Game
Windows
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Adventure 62.1%, Indie 37.9%