- #1 Chants of Sennaar
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 29,231 reviews2023
Dev: RundiscPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Word Game 28.6%, Puzzle 14.9%, Point & Click 12.5%, Detective 9.1%, Colorful 7.1%
- #2 Pikku Adventure
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pikku Studios
Windows · Mac
A challenging puzzle adventure about learning an alien language. Explore a strange world and meet its cute inhabitants. Decipher the language and earn their trust. With every word learned, you will uncover more secrets. Can you solve the mystery of this world and decide the fate of the Pikku?
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Point & Click 13.4%, Detective 12.6%, Puzzle Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #3 Lo-Fi Haiku: Coffee and Chill
96% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Pat-o-Logic Studio
Windows · Mac
Take a sip of coffee and wake up your inner poet. Let the words flow with the soft waves of Lo-Fi music. Chill, ease your mind and create. Lo-Fi Haiku: Coffee and Chill is a tool which will help you on your journey of becoming the greatest Haiku Master.
Why similar: Word Game 49.8%, Conversation 14.1%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Colorful 8.6%, Stylized 8.5%
- #4 Tomoshibi no Yoru
95% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: NISAKE
Windows · Mac
A cooperative puzzle adventure where a small flame and a girl journey together through the night. Guided by light, they brave wind and rain to reach the shrine.
Why similar: 2.5D 26.2%, Puzzle Platformer 25.8%, Puzzle 13.6%, Stylized 12.7%, Adventure 11.1%
- #5 Wordy Rain
94% match5 user reviews83% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Shadow Dog Games
Windows · Mac
A word-making puzzle game with an action mechanic, or a cozy chill experience. Make words from falling blocks, but don't let them get to the top! Use powerups and strategy to see how long you can go.
Why similar: Word Game 45.4%, 2.5D 20.7%, Puzzle 11.4%, Time Management 10.8%, Colorful 7%
- #6 うちのオウムは変わり者
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: HotaxeGames
Windows
A cryptic puzzle game with simple rules! Uncover their “obsessive algorithm” through word exchanges and aim for the title of Parrot Master!
Why similar: Word Game 48.7%, Collectathon 19%, Detective 12.8%, Adventure 9.4%, Colorful 6.6%
- #7 Lingo 2
93% matchVery Positive93% of 432 reviews2025
Dev: Brenton Wildes
Windows
Lingo 2 blends word puzzles and impossible geometry, with brand new puzzle mechanics and a large, colorful world to discover. Welcome back!
Why similar: Word Game 41.2%, Nonlinear 23.5%, Puzzle 11.9%, Exploration 7.2%, Adventure 5%
- #8 Harold Rabbit 2: The Case of the Pastry Pirate
92% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Fasold Publishing
Windows
A fully hand-drawn adventure game about the rabbit detective Harold and his sidekick, the bumblebee Maud. Join Harold and Maud on a new and exciting case, the case of the pastry pirate!
Why similar: Point & Click 20%, Collectathon 17.5%, Detective 13.7%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Puzzle 10.8%
- #9 The Granny Detective Society
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Team Empreintes
Windows
A cozy investigation game where you observe a street, pin down its residents’ secrets, and solve mysteries. Play as Madeleine, a retired granny recruited by the Granny Detective Society (basically the CIA… but with dentures), investigating a neighborhood that hides its secrets well.
Why similar: Word Game 27.4%, Detective 15.4%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Stylized 7.9%
- #10 Stories Adrift: Wake - Prologue
91% match7 user reviews14% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: HIATUS ProductionsPub: Jamk Games
Windows
As the new owner of a book boat, you are entrusted with returning a single page of a book and embarks on a journey through a world both mysterious and familiar. By solving intricate puzzles and piecing together scattered clues, you uncover the truth of the world - and of yourself.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.1%, Detective 17.6%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Puzzle 11.5%, Stylized 9.8%
- #11 Orava
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LoLoimu
Windows
Orava is a point and click style 2.5D adventure puzzle game controlled by keyboard about a squirrel who wants to find their nut. Explore the mysterious forest, pick up items, solve puzzles and ask strange characters whether or not they have seen your precious nut. A charming, hand-painted adventure.
Why similar: 2.5D 24.7%, Conversation 14.7%, Puzzle 12.3%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Adventure 9.3%
- #12 怪谈调查局
89% match1 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: qdplqq19
Windows
"Kaidan Investigation Bureau" is a 2D text-based puzzle game. As a member of the investigation bureau, you conduct an investigation into a hospital where you will encounter various strange events. By solving puzzles, you drive the plot forward and ultimately uncover the truth about the hospital。
Why similar: Word Game 48.4%, Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, Conversation 15.5%, Adventure 5.2%, Singleplayer 2%
- #13 侠隐行录:困境疑云Wuxia archive: Crisis escape
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 205 reviews2018
Dev: Adventurer's TavernPub: Gamera Game
Windows
Wuxia archive: Crisis escape is a text adventure puzzle game. The player will play a knight who is trapped in an unknown dungeon, get clues with other trapped characters, use the props in the scene to solve the puzzle and get out of danger.
Why similar: Word Game 66.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Indie 8.8%
- #14 Logicality
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: SVGames
Windows
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: Nonlinear 17.5%, Puzzle 15.4%, Stylized 14.6%, Adventure 12.3%, Exploration 10.7%
- #15 Canvas of Thoughts
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bandaloop Games GmbH
Windows
Canvas of Thoughts is an emotional point-and-click puzzle adventure which invites you into Evi's vibrant but loud inner world. Experience everyday situations through shifting colours, sounds and emotions. Solve reflective puzzles and navigate the world not through words, but through feelings.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.1%, Conversation 16.2%, Puzzle 11.2%, Stylized 10.2%, Exploration 8.1%
- #16 Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn
86% matchVery Positive94% of 372 reviews2025
Dev: hannahontrek
Windows · Mac
A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters. What dark secrets wait to be found? The clock is ticking and you, as Alex Hill, must uncover the truth before it’s too late.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Conversation 17.7%, Point & Click 17.5%, 2.5D 16.5%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #17 Expedition Chronicles
86% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: GameOn Production KZ
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on an adventurous quest through jungles, deserts, and oceans to uncover the lost city of Atlantis. Solve puzzles and unlock ancient secrets!
Why similar: Time Management 24.4%, 2.5D 19.2%, Point & Click 12.3%, Puzzle Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #18 Logiart Grimoire
85% matchVery Positive95% of 362 reviews2024
Dev: Jupiter Corporation
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Logiart Grimoire is a puzzle game that combines the number puzzle "Logiart" and the word puzzle "Fusion" in which you deduce combinations from clues.
Why similar: Word Game 44.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Collectathon 15.1%, Puzzle 11.7%, Detective 7.5%
- #19 Night Patrol Rules
84% matchVery Positive100% of 202 reviews2025
Dev: Te.Sa
Windows
Virtual group - PLAVE doujin game, set against the backdrop of winter school ghost stories. Experience the Night Patrol Rules of the Seven Mysteries through the eyes of all five band members, uncovering the unsettling truth hidden behind the mystery through your investigation and choices.
Why similar: Word Game 58.3%, 2.5D 15.2%, Puzzle 11.9%, Exploration 7.2%, Adventure 5.9%
- #20 Delivery to Graveyard Manor
84% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Misketchy GamesPub: Storm Machine
Windows · Linux
Gather the disguises and collect all the deliveries!
Why similar: Time Management 18.6%, Point & Click 14.9%, Collectathon 13.4%, Detective 11.2%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
- #21 Missing Meows
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Petra Emmer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your beloved childhood cat has vanished. Return home and find her, but hurry up - the howling wind foretells an early, unforgiving winter. Explore your hometown, talk to other strays, and solve puzzles in their magical worlds to figure out where your friend has gone.
Why similar: Point & Click 17.1%, Detective 15.5%, Conversation 14.2%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Stylized 9.7%
- #22 Tales of the Mirror
83% matchMixed56% of 261 reviews2021
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Tales of the Mirror is a landscape-mode visual novel game created by Cotton Games. As a player, you solve a series of mysteries in the mid and late Ming Dynasty, in the south of Yangtze River.
Why similar: Word Game 46.9%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Detective 13.4%, Puzzle 10.7%, Stylized 9.4%
- #23 Text Twist Classic
82% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Tuga Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get ready for some word-finding fun game in Text Twist Classic! Around 1800 different words to learn! Look at the jumbled letters and find all the word combinations. Over 8000 levels. Two different modes to play: Untimed and Timed.
Why similar: Word Game 40.7%, Time Management 18.8%, Point & Click 15.2%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Exploration 6%
- #24 Alex Hill: The Body at Clearwater Bay
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: hannahontrek
Windows · Mac
When a body mysteriously washes up on the shores of Clearwater Bay, you, as Detective Alex Hill, are hired to investigate. Was it a tragic suicide or is something more sinister at work? Solve puzzles, look for evidence, and confront a web of lies as you work to uncover the truth.
Why similar: 2.5D 22.6%, Point & Click 19.7%, Detective 15.2%, Puzzle 10.7%, Conversation 10.3%
- #25 Puzzle Mix
81% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: GiBarPub: RoBot
Windows
We offer you a puzzle game. The meaning of the game is to make a mosaic pattern that needs to be folded from many fragments of different shapes. This game will arouse the greatest interest among art lovers, as it presents paintings.
Why similar: Point & Click 28%, Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, Puzzle 15.1%, Adventure 13.1%, Colorful 11.4%
- #26 Mens Rea
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mens Rea DeveloperPub: Mens Rea Publisher
Windows · Linux
A completely open-dialog murder mystery.
Why similar: Word Game 34.3%, Detective 18.3%, Conversation 16.2%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Puzzle 8.5%
- #27 Voodoo Detective
79% matchVery Positive96% of 365 reviews2022
Dev: Short Sleeve Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you like adventure, comedy, and dime store detective novels? Then boy have we got the game for you! Join Voodoo Detective in a hand-drawn, point-and-click noir where you’ll pit your wits and hoodoo know-how against a sinister evil that’s taken root on beautiful Zo Wanga Isle.
Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Conversation 16.8%, Point & Click 16.1%, 2.5D 15.5%, Hand-drawn 12.2%
- #28 Le Bureau des Rêves
79% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Habile BillPub: A Maze In - Live Escape Game
Windows · Mac
This puzzle game, designed by independents escape room creators, will put your brain to the test! Observation, deduction, logic and twists... all the ingredients of a good escape room are here, right from your cozy little nest :)
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.6%, Point & Click 22.8%, Puzzle 13.9%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Colorful 8%
- #29 Visual Novel: Call of Toilet
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Reanim GamesPub: STuNT
Windows
In this game, you don't survive; you live for your own pleasure. Drag your friend into this crazy road movie, where every mutant is trying not to devour you, but to draw you into their everyday drama. Will you reach the coveted golden toilet or become a local legend?
Why similar: Word Game 45.2%, Detective 12.2%, Stylized 10.1%, Adventure 10.1%, Colorful 7.3%
- #30 Coincidence
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Softcatstudio
Windows
《阴阳错》是一款发生在中国本土题材民俗恐怖悬疑解谜游戏。故事发生在香港,一位意外失去生命的民间道士与一位丢失配枪的女刑警成为搭档。破解红磡五人连环杀人案,并找到丢失的配枪和肉身,随着受害者数量增加,调查的深入,案件的真相却变得扑朔迷离……一个丢失配枪的女警、一个意外死亡的半仙,一个嫁为人妻的女子,一场有关成仙的阴谋,正慢慢浮出水面。
Why similar: Word Game 40.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, Detective 14.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Exploration 9.5%
- #31 AntVentor
78% matchVery Positive82% of 518 reviews2018
Dev: LoopyMood
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
AntVentor is a point & click adventure game. You find yourself in a photorealistic macroworld where you immediately manage to ruin the life of the main character, ant, and foil all his plans for making his dream come true. Can you help get everything back in order?
Why similar: 2.5D 23.7%, Point & Click 17%, Hand-drawn 11%, Colorful 9%, Puzzle 8.9%
- #32 Helix: Descent N Ascent
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Badass Mongoose
Windows
Journey into the forgotten world of Helix, where ancient powers awaken within you. Unlock and combine embodied abilities to unravel the mysteries of a lost civilization. Descend into a tale that will challenge your mind and soul, solving intricate puzzles as you ascend to the light of a new day.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Puzzle 17.4%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Atmospheric 12%, Stylized 10.8%
- #33 Puzzle Park 2
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SVGames
Windows
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 Platformer 18.9%, Puzzle 16.7%, Open World 12.1%, Colorful 11.9%, Exploration 11%
- #34 Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt
74% matchVery Positive100% of 185 reviews2025
Dev: BIG EYES TATA
Windows
"Little Adventurer Treasure Hunt" is a game focused on object-finding. The main storyline revolves around helping alien friends who have been forced to land on Earth due to an "accident", assisting them in searching for scattered items, parts, and their lost crew members across various locations.
Why similar: Word Game 32.1%, Point & Click 17.9%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Puzzle Platformer 11.1%, Puzzle 9.4%
- #35 江华号
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 177 reviews2023
Dev: 知音动漫Pub: IndieArk
Windows
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年,武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息,引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访,却误打误撞,被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里,一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
Why similar: Word Game 36.6%, Point & Click 15.9%, Detective 13.9%, Conversation 9.8%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #36 Peter's Adventures in English [Learn English]
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 126 reviews2021
Dev: Rocket Boy Games
Windows
Take control of Peter as he travels across the kingdom, solving puzzles, making friends and defeating monsters. This game is designed to be accessible to a very broad range of players, including young children and people learning English as a second language.
Why similar: Word Game 26.7%, Conversation 19.4%, Point & Click 16.2%, Nonlinear 14%, Open World 9.8%
- #37 Ведьмы зов
73% matchMixed59% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: STuNT
Windows
And now he is forced to spend three nights at her coffin, fighting not only for his life, but also for the remnants of sanity. This visual novel in the best traditions of black humor and mystical horror
Why similar: Word Game 43.6%, Point & Click 19.7%, Nonlinear 8.8%, Colorful 7.5%, Exploration 7.2%
- #38 mojica
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Meguro Ryo
Windows
"Only the keyboard is used in this game!" Beat looming enemies with your typing skill! Switch lanes and defeat enemies by typing letters. This is an all-new typing game with strategy and a thrill.
Why similar: Word Game 66.5%, Stylized 14.7%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #39 Washed Upon A Murder
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skyline Studios Games
Windows
After washing onto a private island, you soon find yourself in the middle of a murder mystery puzzle. The worst part? Everyone thinks you've dunnit! Will you be able to prove Detective Sal's innocence? Find clues, spot contradictions and solve puzzles to discover the truth and find the real killer.
Why similar: Conversation 25.9%, 2.5D 21.5%, Detective 21%, Point & Click 9.7%, Exploration 5.8%
- #40 Gata Guressi
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elliot George Mann
Windows
Learn to communicate with the people of Hierre by speaking their languages and understanding their cultures in this sci-fi translation game. Use your translation skills to navigate Kallay Tirridor, uncovering its dark secrets while solving the sudden disappearance of your brother.
Why similar: Word Game 31.5%, Conversation 25%, Detective 12.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Exploration 6.1%
- #41 灵墟
72% matchVery Positive86% of 977 reviews2023
Dev: HappyTall Game
Windows
这是一款以仙侠为背景的开放世界单机游戏。在这个玄幻的仙侠世界里,有种类繁多的江湖任务,庞大复杂的世界结构,各具特色的英魂记忆,丰富多样的动态装备,耐人寻味的奇人奇事,实时变幻的日夜天气。在这里,你可以利用任何方式进行提升,成为什么样的人,做什么样的事,通通由你自己决定!
Why similar: Word Game 41.8%, Conversation 18.1%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 8.4%, Stylized 4.8%
- #42 幻视之夜 Night of invisible:Moant
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Looping Manuscript Works.
Windows
A short, choice-based narrative game about solving mysteries through time loops. Death is not the end, but another beginning. This time, can I survive?
Why similar: Word Game 43.7%, Detective 19%, 2.5D 15.9%, Conversation 7.3%, Stylized 6.2%
- #43 Nodes Escape
71% matchVery Positive85% of 533 reviews2023
Dev: 夜喵
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
The game presents realistic game graphics through sound effects, narration and imagination. The level design is subtle and challenging, allowing players to challenge their intelligence and logic skills in solving puzzles.
Why similar: Word Game 55.6%, Detective 18.6%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 3.7%
- #44 サシ飲み萃香ちゃん
70% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: ISY
Windows
萃香ちゃんに言葉を教えていろんな会話をし、メニューを作ったり奢ったりしながらまったりと飲んで過ごそう!
Why similar: Word Game 55.1%, Conversation 28.9%, 2.5D 12.1%, Atmospheric 3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #45 BeetleQuest: The Puzzle Game
71% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Fasold Publishing
Windows
You are invited by the beetlefriends to come to their treehouse and play games together and have great fun! BeetleQuest: The Puzzle Game is a small, hand-drawn puzzle game set in the world of BeetleQuest.
Why similar: Word Game 55.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, Hand-drawn 12%, Exploration 9%, Colorful 8.6%
- #46 Adventure Trip: New York Collector's Edition
72% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Point8 Games Inc.
Windows
Want to experience the adventure of the Big Apple? From the lush green Central Park to the city view from the Brooklyn Bridge and beautiful historical landmark such as the classic Rockefeller Center. The game will take you through 20 ethereal locations.
Why similar: Word Game 39.2%, Point & Click 18.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Puzzle 9.8%, Adventure 6.2%
- #47 Turlock Holmes
70% matchVery Positive80% of 917 reviews2024
Dev: Find the Lamp GamesPub: Neverland Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A detective narrative puzzler without pre-set options! Raise your questions at will, and an AI-host will answer only with 'yes' or 'no.' Drive the investigation with your curiosity; the path to solving the mystery lies in questions you ask. Can you dig out the truth through your questions?
Why similar: Word Game 38.7%, Detective 21.4%, Point & Click 13.1%, Puzzle 11.2%, Conversation 11%
- #48 File Tricks
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Kid Games
Windows
"File Tricks" is a visual novel with puzzle solve. It is not only a test of logical thinking and observation, but also a reasoning feast full of suspense and reversal. You need to investigate the crime scene, collect evidence, confront the people involved and finally solve the case.
Why similar: Word Game 53.7%, Detective 20.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Exploration 5.2%
- #49 Lona: Realm Of Colors
71% matchMixed69% of 32 reviews2021
Dev: SpaceFox Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
“Lona: Realm of Colors” is a point and click adventure in nature focusing on art and narration instead of fetch puzzles and dialogue. Each level is an abstraction of Lona’s story and it is up to you to bring peace and balance to her painting and find out what has happened to her.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.8%, Puzzle Platformer 26.1%, Hand-drawn 14%, Adventure 12.2%, Colorful 11.2%
- #50 Paper Traces Whisper
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Siesta Studio
Windows · Mac
A hidden-object & scrapbook puzzle game. Play as a girl who lost her voice. Solve puzzles, collect items, turn them into stickers, and create a unique memory album. Search to find your lost voice.
Why similar: 2.5D 17.6%, Point & Click 15.4%, Collectathon 14.5%, Detective 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
- #51 Lingo
69% matchVery Positive94% of 754 reviews2021
Dev: Brenton Wildes
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Word Game 30.5%, Nonlinear 21.2%, Puzzle 14.3%, Exploration 8%, Open World 5.7%
- #52 Harold Rabbit - Finder of Lost Things
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Fasold Publishing
Windows
Harold Rabbit : Finder of Lost Things is a fully hand-drawn point & click game for all ages. Join Harold and his sidekick Maud on a quest to recover Harold's stolen trumpet!
Why similar: Point & Click 23.5%, Detective 17.1%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Adventure 10.8%
- #53 Mistmoon Falls
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: portmantoga
Windows · Mac
Mistmoon Falls is an open world murder mystery set in a farm-sim town that's now sans farmer. Question the locals, use tools to uncover clues, form hypotheses, and sift through some sinister goings-on to find the killer.
Why similar: Conversation 21.6%, Detective 18.4%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Point & Click 13.6%, Puzzle 8.1%
- #54 DREAM
68% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Dedware
Windows
A 2D exploration-collectathon game with dream-like qualities.
Why similar: Collectathon 22.4%, Point & Click 19.1%, Nonlinear 16.8%, Exploration 10.5%, Open World 8.4%
- #55 毛蟹穴
68% matchMixed63% of 41 reviews2021
Dev: 紀曲峰Pub: 僑光科技大學多媒體與遊戲設計系
Windows
毛蟹穴是僑光科技大學2021年畢業生的畢業專題,遊戲是改編自清朝嘉慶年間臺中沙鹿地區活人陪葬真實事件,結合臺灣傳統技藝皮影戲作為美術風格,遊戲為2D橫向捲軸解謎遊戲,中間加入煎藥及抓雞的小遊戲。遊戲共分為五個章節,作為學生專題,我們把第一章的故事完整開發完成,遊戲時間約為40分鐘。
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Point & Click 16.1%, Detective 15.1%, Hand-drawn 12%, Stylized 9.9%
- #56 MONOMOON
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gentle Giant
Windows
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: Nonlinear 19.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Point & Click 13.4%, Puzzle 9.6%, Open World 8.1%
- #57 Wax Heads
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Patattie GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Linux
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Why similar: Conversation 29.9%, Stylized 13.5%, Point & Click 13.5%, Detective 12.3%, Exploration 8%
- #58 8-Second Records
65% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: SUNGMIN JIN
Windows
In the horror puzzle game '8-SECOND RECORDS,' you become an observer investigating commissioned mysterious incidents by analyzing seven days of CCTV footage.
Why similar: Word Game 44.6%, 2.5D 17.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Puzzle 11.2%, Conversation 7.6%
- #59 Life is Paine
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Jonas Autenrieth
Windows
Life is Paine is a humorous Point and Click Adventure where you play a bard which has lost his voice due to an unfortunate accident and tries to regain it.
Why similar: Point & Click 24%, Collectathon 19.1%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Stylized 9.4%, Colorful 8.8%
- #60 Myths of Rules
65% matchVery Positive88% of 1,027 reviews2023
Dev: Sugarcane Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Word Game 47.8%, Nonlinear 23.5%, Puzzle 10.2%, Exploration 7.3%, Stylized 5.5%