Games Like Ethan: Meteor Hunter

Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 56.2%, Platformer 27.4%, Puzzle 11.6%, Action 4.2%, Adventure 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title is the definitive puzzle-platformer featuring intricate time-manipulation mechanics that directly inspired the gameplay loop of the seed game.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.7%, Platformer 24.5%, Puzzle 22.2%, Indie 8.2%, Side Scroller 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly atmospheric puzzle-platforming experience where players must manipulate the environment and their own clones to progress.

A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

Why similar: Platformer 40.2%, Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Puzzle 12.3%, Indie 7.2%, Side Scroller 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines precision platforming with magnetism-based physics puzzles that require clever manipulation of the environment.

Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world of great castles and strange machinery, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 53.3%, Platformer 27.6%, Puzzle 7.8%, Action 4.7%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features physics-based puzzle-solving and platforming where players must use unique character abilities to overcome environmental obstacles.

A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.2%, Platformer 21.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Indie 7.6%, Adventure 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game centers on time-manipulation mechanics that allow players to switch between timelines to solve environmental puzzles.

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Platformer 72.8%, Indie 17.6%, Action 4%, Puzzle 3.9%, Adventure 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging precision platformer that replaces traditional jumping with gravity-flipping mechanics, mirroring the difficult platforming feel of the seed.

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: Puzzle Platformer 46.5%, Platformer 29%, Indie 12.5%, Puzzle 12%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that centers on gravity manipulation to navigate complex, trap-filled environments.

Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.8%, Platformer 21.3%, Puzzle 8.6%, Side Scroller 7.7%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on time-manipulation and difficult platforming challenges that mirror the core mechanics of the seed game.

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: Platformer 47.1%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle 18.5%, Indie 11.8%, Adventure 2%

Why You'll Like It: It features a perspective-shifting mechanic that turns 2D platforming into a complex 3D puzzle-solving experience.

Shift Quantum is a brain-busting platformer using a unique mechanic called SHIFTING, a way to twist your environment and invert space around you. Bend your mind to reach the exit of each level and unveil the secrets of a strange program. Extend the experience, create and share your own levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 51.7%, Platformer 20.6%, Indie 11.7%, Puzzle 7%, Action 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a unique dimension-shifting mechanic that turns the world inside out to create new paths and solve puzzles.

N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57%, Platformer 27.6%, Indie 8.8%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for difficult, physics-based precision platforming that demands mastery of movement.

A puzzle game with challenging puzzles, but forgiving mechanics. Master the use of your color changing staff to solve mind bending puzzles, unlock new areas, and help out your friends. Undo any mistake with the press of a button.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 56.8%, Puzzle 15.3%, Side Scroller 12.3%, Platformer 7.9%, Adventure 4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that incorporates time-rewind mechanics and color-based logic to solve intricate level designs.

CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.

Why similar: Platformer 40.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24.1%, Puzzle 17.5%, Indie 12.2%, Adventure 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Players manipulate light sources to create shadows, which act as platforms and pathways, offering a unique take on world manipulation.

Carefully capture tracks of your actions, then play them back to solve puzzles with the aid of your recorded ghosts. Immerse yourself in a cerebral first-person puzzle platformer, where strategically thinking several steps ahead is the key to success.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 66.3%, Platformer 11%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 8.3%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features time-loop mechanics where players must coordinate with their past selves to solve platforming puzzles.

Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.9%, Platformer 23.4%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: A non-linear puzzle-platformer that relies on environmental interaction and creature behavior rather than traditional combat.

Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48.8%, Platformer 30.1%, Side Scroller 12.5%, Indie 6.4%, Adventure 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven puzzle-platformer where players must utilize the distinct physics and abilities of different shapes to navigate levels.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 60.6%, Platformer 20.1%, Puzzle 8.5%, Indie 6.2%, Side Scroller 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric puzzle-platformer that relies heavily on physics-based environmental interactions to solve lethal traps.

Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.3%, Platformer 33.1%, Side Scroller 11%, Indie 7.1%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging precision platformer that tests player skill and timing in a sprawling, interconnected world.

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Why similar: Platformer 77.5%, Indie 16.1%, Side Scroller 3.6%, Action 2.1%, Adventure 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the high-difficulty, twitch-reflex platforming challenge that fans of the seed game's difficulty will appreciate.

Antiflux is a challenging but fun puzzle platformer with upgrades, building complexity over time.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 56%, Puzzle 15.4%, Indie 14.4%, Action 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: An action-puzzle platformer that requires players to manage environmental hazards through precise movement.

Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 59.7%, Platformer 30%, Puzzle 4.7%, Indie 4.3%, Action 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses gravity-based mechanics to launch the player through space-themed puzzle-platforming levels.

Sumoman is an adventure puzzle platformer with advanced physics, destructible objects and the ability to reverse time. Solve various physical puzzles, trying to keep the unstable Sumoman on his feet in challenging environments.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 53.6%, Platformer 17.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, Indie 8%, Action 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer where the character's momentum and weight are central to solving environmental challenges.

Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!

Why similar: Platformer 56.1%, Side Scroller 29.7%, Action 8.8%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a retro-styled precision platforming experience with a focus on exploration and environmental mastery.

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.7%, Platformer 27.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward but difficult puzzle-platformer that emphasizes logic and precise movement.

Grapple is a parkour game built for speedrunning. You're tasked to reach the end of the level only with the aid of a grappling hook & glider.

Why similar: Action 100%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based movement and grappling mechanics to traverse challenging platforming environments.

It’s a challenging 2D arcade game where you are a master of time. Set it to past, present or future to control various mechanisms, and make sure that a mechanical bird will safely reach the end of the level. Prepare to die a lot – you will be sliced, squashed and crushed.

Why similar: Indie 65.4%, Action 34.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that forces players to manipulate time to bypass hazards and reach the end of levels.

Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.9%, Platformer 27.9%, Puzzle 11.3%, Action 4.5%, Adventure 3.4%

RePete is a pixel art puzzle platformer about time travel and self-cooperation. You play as Pete, a special guy that can loop back in time to help his past self solve problems, collect gems, and reach new heights.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that utilizes cloning and looping mechanics to solve environmental puzzles.

Melt your brain with this twisted take on the platform genre!

Why similar: Platformer 53.7%, Side Scroller 30.3%, Indie 8.1%, Action 8%

OneShift is a puzzle platformer where the player has the ability to freeze/unfreeze time and shift through worlds to collect blue cubes. But only one world can be active at a time. Later in the game, a world rotating mechanic is unveiled, which makes everything more complex!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 62.4%, Puzzle 15.9%, Indie 10.7%, Action 6.6%, Adventure 4.3%

Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48.3%, Platformer 22.6%, Puzzle 9.2%, Indie 7.7%, Side Scroller 7.5%

In this logic based puzzle game, switch between Orbs to solve puzzles and light up your world. Play co-op with yourself, freeze time, fly drones, play with sound… and overcome the evil shadow interfering with your quest.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 60.5%, Platformer 21.6%, Puzzle 15.2%, Adventure 2.8%

A mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can switch between 2D and 3D at will!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 67.8%, Indie 16.1%, Puzzle 16.1%

And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.9%, Platformer 26.9%, Puzzle 8%, Indie 6.3%, Side Scroller 4%

Somewhere between a platformer, a puzzle game and a great big dollop of pure fun, Fly’N will challenge your skills through more than forty levels set in a luxuriant world. Experiment with the four Buds to save the World-Trees from Dyer, the loony hair-dryer who intends to destroy their Helys!

Why similar: Platformer 66.9%, Indie 16.4%, Puzzle 8.8%, Action 4.1%, Adventure 3.8%

The title says it all. Take one part falling block puzzle game, combine one part old-school platformer, add a couple thousand pixels, blend and serve. Why match colored blocks when you can just shoot the hell out of them? Your goal is to survive as long as you can. From celebrated indie developer Andrew Morrish and Adult Swim Games.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.2%, Platformer 27.1%, Indie 13.7%, Puzzle 9.9%, Action 8.1%

A platform game so difficult and at the same time, so addictive that you will enjoy having to repeat a levels dozens of times until complete them.

Why similar: Platformer 47%, Indie 31.6%, Action 13.6%, Adventure 7.9%

Grapple is a 3D puzzle platformer. You can fling, swing and climb across everything in Grapple. Different surfaces react uniquely to your gooball. Grapple is as fast paced as you want to play it. With multiple checkpoints and unlimited lives your skill is the only thing slowing you down.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57%, Platformer 26.4%, Indie 16.5%

Every level introduces a unique solution method, breaking the fourth wall between the game and the player in unprecedented ways. From using a pause button to halt threats to turning off the sound to put an enemy NPC to sleep, the game continually surprises and engages players.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 71.1%, Puzzle 14.6%, Indie 8.2%, Side Scroller 6.2%

Innoquous 5 is a huge puzzle-platformer... with a twist! Hit a gravity arrow or jump into a flipper and you can rotate gravity, opening new paths through each of the huge collection of levels!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.1%, Platformer 25.2%, Indie 12.1%, Puzzle 11.2%, Action 8.3%

MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 73.8%, Puzzle 15.9%, Action 6.2%, Adventure 4.2%

Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.2%, Platformer 22%, Side Scroller 9.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Indie 8.8%

It's a Wrap! is a challenging puzzle game about making movies in 1980s Hollywood. Figure out the perfect timing of props, actors, and special effects as the Director. Then jump into the scene as the movie's star in a traditional 2D platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48.9%, Platformer 22.2%, Puzzle 11%, Side Scroller 10%, Indie 4.4%

Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.

Why similar: Platformer 58.6%, Indie 41.4%

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: Platformer 44.8%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Puzzle 17.8%, Indie 13.3%, Action 4.5%

Experience the mind bending power of single player cooperation. Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our propriety engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three.

Why similar: Puzzle 34.8%, Indie 33.7%, Action 17.6%, Adventure 13.9%

An inventive, thought-provoking puzzle platformer. Use powerups in each environment, and your own inherent gravity-bending powers, to complete each level. The more you play, the more story details you'll uncover.

Why similar: Platformer 54.6%, Indie 22.7%, Puzzle 17.8%, Adventure 4.8%

Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics rogue-lite platformer. Explore multiple dangerous worlds where you utilize creative abilities & wield the environment to your advantage. Blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths & outwit powerful guardians!

Why similar: Platformer 56.5%, Side Scroller 23.4%, Indie 8.9%, Action 6.7%, Adventure 4.5%

Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging, handcrafted levels to keep you dying for hours and hours.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 54.7%, Platformer 28.9%, Puzzle 12%, Action 4.4%

Super Rude Bear Resurrection is an ultra-tight, masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Use your corpses to get ahead, or take on the ultimate challenge and try to defeat the entire game without dying!

Why similar: Platformer 43.3%, Indie 24.8%, Side Scroller 17.5%, Action 14.4%

A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.8%, Platformer 22.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Indie 9.5%, Action 6.5%

Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!

Why similar: Platformer 33.1%, Puzzle 28.5%, Indie 26.8%, Action 11.6%

Escape from a laboratory house in this unique puzzling platformer with a twist! All important objects are randomly placed in the world before the start of the game. Each playthrough will take a different path through the house, but can always be completed. A perfect introduction to Randomizers.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.8%, Platformer 29.6%, Puzzle 12.6%

The great arcade challenge in physics based platform world. Join the hardcore journey of 200 levels with puzzle elements and claim the title of Ultimate Solid!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.3%, Indie 19.7%, Puzzle 13.6%, Action 12.5%, Adventure 8.9%

A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.6%, Platformer 21.2%, Indie 14.7%, Puzzle 6.6%, Action 6%

Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.

Why similar: Platformer 34.9%, Puzzle 33.9%, Indie 25.8%, Action 5.4%

An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.9%, Platformer 27.1%, Puzzle 12.2%, Indie 10%, Action 5.7%