- #1 Machinika: Museum
96% matchVery Positive93% of 6,294 reviews2021
Dev: Littlefield StudioPub: Dear Villagers
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?
Why similar: Sci-fi 16.8%, Puzzle 15.2%, Hidden Object 15.1%, Physics 13.8%, First-Person 9.7%
- #2 ALONE IN SPACE
97% matchMixed53% of 158 reviews2016
Dev: Butterflyware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.1%, Puzzle 17.1%, First-Person 15.3%, Adventure 14.5%, Exploration 13.4%
- #3 Exographer
95% matchVery Positive95% of 143 reviews2024
Dev: SciFunGamesPub: Abylight Studios
Windows · Mac
Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.
Why similar: Puzzle 24.7%, Physics 21.3%, Sci-fi 20.4%, Exploration 17.8%, Adventure 11%
- #4 Earth Analog
96% matchMixed66% of 112 reviews2021
Dev: Funcraft Games
Windows
In this relaxing space flight adventure, you pilot the science vessel Eurisko XI on a quest through deep space. Explore fascinating, fractal-based exoplanets and uncover their mysteries. Analyze artifacts and upgrade your ship to unlock new pathways. Your mission: find humanity’s new home.
Why similar: Sci-fi 21.7%, Puzzle 16.5%, Exploration 14.1%, Simulation 13.1%, First-Person 10.9%
- #5 Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
94% matchVery Positive82% of 549 reviews2020
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You wake up in a spaceship with no memories. In this escape room with a sci-fi setting you will have to investigate your past solving different puzzles. Will you be able to discover what happened to you and how did you get there?
Why similar: Hidden Object 21.5%, Sci-fi 20.2%, Puzzle 16.2%, Cinematic 13%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #6 Exo One
94% matchVery Positive90% of 5,262 reviews2021
Dev: ExbleativePub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.
Why similar: Physics 33%, Sci-fi 20.7%, Exploration 15.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Adventure 9.6%
- #7 Cognition Method: Initiation
93% matchVery Positive83% of 464 reviews2021
Dev: Team Cognition
Windows
Free demo for Cognition Method - a story-driven, first-person puzzle game inspired by Space Odyssey 2001 and Solaris. Discover an innovative mechanics of altering gravity and dive into the surreal setting. Find your way within a mysterious artifact and unveal a non-ordinary story.
Why similar: Physics 20.9%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Cinematic 15.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, Action-Adventure 9.7%
- #8 YogLabs: Testing Initiative
91% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
A unique puzzle-adventure set in the secret YogLabs research facility. As a newly created clone, you’ll face a series of challenges while disaster threatens to consume the laboratory.
Why similar: FPS 20.7%, Puzzle 19.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Sci-fi 13.6%, First-Person 12.4%
- #9 Krystopia: A Puzzle Journey
92% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Antler Interactive
Windows
Follow Nova Dune, a space explorer in her quest to find out about the unfamiliar distress signal she received aboard her ship. Determined to investigate it, she finds herself on a desolated planet where all civilization has vanished.
Why similar: Sci-fi 38.3%, Puzzle 32.2%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 6.4%, Point & Click 5.3%
- #10 The Escaper
91% matchVery Positive94% of 776 reviews2020
Dev: Nocturnal works
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
3D escape room game with realtime graphics and physics-based puzzles.
Why similar: Adventure 22.2%, Puzzle 19.1%, Physics 17.9%, Hidden Object 12.6%, First-Person 9.5%
- #11 Neospace: Prologue
90% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: Sci-fi 28%, Puzzle 16%, Exploration 13.5%, Adventure 13%, Action-Adventure 12.9%
- #12 Exo One: Prologue
89% matchVery Positive94% of 744 reviews2020
Dev: Exbleative
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 10%
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. This is the prologue for Exo One.
Why similar: Sci-fi 33.3%, Physics 31.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Adventure 11.5%, 3D 7.9%
- #13 no signal
88% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
Why similar: Sci-fi 20.6%, Hidden Object 19.3%, Puzzle 16.4%, Exploration 11.7%, Point & Click 8.5%
- #14 Relicta
89% matchMixed67% of 472 reviews2020
Dev: Mighty PolygonPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
Why similar: Physics 21%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Puzzle 13.6%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, First-Person 11.5%
- #15 Machinika: Atlas
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 600 reviews2024
Dev: Littlefield StudioPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Machinika: Atlas is an indie puzzle game and is the direct sequel to Machinika: Museum, you play as a museum researcher who just land on Atlas. Will you unravel the mysteries of the alien vessel? Solve cryptic puzzles to find out what happened!
Why similar: Hidden Object 19.5%, Sci-fi 18.8%, Puzzle 16.8%, First-Person 11.8%, Point & Click 9.1%
- #16 Space Expedition
86% matchVery Positive93% of 191 reviews2023
Dev: Mobirate
Windows · Mac
Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.
Why similar: Physics 34.5%, Exploration 28.1%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 10.2%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #17 Red Matter 2
84% matchVery Positive92% of 702 reviews2022
Dev: Vertical Robot
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Enter an extraordinarily convincing sci-fi world in this story-driven VR puzzle adventure. Explore off-world facilities, operate tactile tools, solve environmental puzzles, and unravel a reality-bending Cold War mystery.
Why similar: Physics 26.9%, Sci-fi 16.4%, Puzzle 16.4%, Action-Adventure 14%, Adventure 8.4%
- #18 Voyage: Journey to the Moon
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 185 reviews2014
Dev: Microids
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Make fantastic discoveries and dare to go into the deepest depths of the moon to solve puzzles that will allow you to go back to Earth.
Why similar: Adventure 33.7%, Puzzle 31%, Point & Click 25.1%, Casual 10.2%
- #19 Low Oxygen
83% matchVery Positive89% of 313 reviews2023
Dev: Alex-Stefan Neagu
Windows · Linux
Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Why similar: Puzzle 43.3%, Adventure 23.8%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Casual 10%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #20 Quantum Void
82% matchVery Positive97% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: TacNours
Windows
Lost in an unexplored star system after a dimensional anomaly dispersed your fleet, you start to pick up signals scattered throughout the system. Explore the wrecks of the corporate fleet, discover the secrets of the anomaly, and try to get the good ending.
Why similar: Sci-fi 21.5%, FPS 15.5%, Puzzle 14.1%, Exploration 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11%
- #21 The Fall of Lazarus
85% matchMixed64% of 123 reviews2017
Dev: No Wand Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The Fall of Lazarus is first person exploration and puzzle game. A deeply narrative scifi mystery game based on the exploration of an abandoned cargo spaceship about redemption and second chances.
Why similar: Sci-fi 29.6%, Puzzle 15.7%, First-Person 14.7%, Exploration 14.2%, Adventure 10.9%
- #22 The Message from Deep Space
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,211 reviews2026
Dev: Applesinmypants
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.
Why similar: Sci-fi 34.7%, Puzzle 33.4%, First-Person 14.1%, 3D 6.6%, Adventure 5%
- #23 SECTOR ZERO
81% matchVery Positive95% of 157 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Angelovic
Windows
SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.
Why similar: Physics 19.1%, Cinematic 17.1%, Sci-fi 13.3%, First-Person 9.9%, FPS 9.7%
- #24 MirrorMoon EP
84% matchMixed58% of 603 reviews2013
Dev: Santa Ragione
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.
Why similar: Puzzle 22.3%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Exploration 17.8%, First-Person 14.1%, Adventure 9.3%
- #25 Space Sprouts
81% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Schleuder Games
Windows · Mac
Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?
Why similar: Physics 28.2%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Puzzle 17%, Exploration 12.3%, Simulation 11.4%
- #26 De-Void
82% matchMixed63% of 144 reviews2016
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
De-Void is a first-person adventure game, where the player unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a remote space colony crew.
Why similar: Sci-fi 28.4%, Adventure 14.7%, First-Person 12.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Exploration 11.1%
- #27 Digger: Galactic Treasures
78% matchVery Positive88% of 718 reviews2025
Dev: RainStyle games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Digger: Galactic Treasures is a space adventure where you drill into asteroids to uncover rare resources and hidden treasures. Explore the galaxy, upgrade your gear, and discover the secrets of the universe!
Why similar: Hidden Object 32.5%, Simulation 15.2%, First-Person 14.4%, Adventure 12.6%, 3D 9%
- #28 Moon Mystery
78% matchMixed65% of 715 reviews2024
Dev: CosmoscoutsPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.
Why similar: Sci-fi 21.3%, FPS 19%, Puzzle 15%, First-Person 11.8%, Adventure 10.7%
- #29 Bunny Space Odyssey: FlopHop
77% matchVery Positive98% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows · Linux
Embark on a pixel adventure with Ponchee the bunny in "Bunny Space Odyssey: FlopHop". Solve puzzles, protect plants, and uncover deep mysteries with Usagi-01 on an uninhabited planet.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 22.4%, Puzzle 22%, Adventure 14%, Point & Click 12.9%, Simulation 10.9%
- #30 The Station
79% matchVery Positive86% of 1,122 reviews2018
Dev: The Station Game ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
Why similar: Sci-fi 31.9%, Adventure 15.5%, First-Person 14.4%, Puzzle 13.6%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #31 Memorrha
79% matchMixed65% of 153 reviews2019
Dev: StickyStoneStudio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.
Why similar: Puzzle 23%, Sci-fi 18.7%, First-Person 14.7%, Exploration 13.6%, Adventure 9.3%
- #32 Effugium
76% matchMixed60% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Souporno GhoshPub: Team Glasses
Windows
Explore a cold, abandoned, and dreary facility to piece together its mysteries and find a means for escape from the horror that lurks within.
Why similar: First-Person 37.1%, Exploration 34.4%, Adventure 14.3%, Singleplayer 7.3%, Indie 6.8%
- #33 Red Matter
75% matchVery Positive90% of 1,183 reviews2018
Dev: Vertical Robot
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Enter an abandoned Cold War base on a moon of Saturn in this atmospheric VR puzzle adventure. Scan evidence, translate Volgravian messages, manipulate strange machinery, and uncover a sci-fi mystery that grows more surreal with every discovery.
Why similar: Sci-fi 21.8%, Puzzle 17.1%, Cinematic 16.4%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 7.7%
- #34 Veritas
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: Glitch Games
Windows · Mac
Uncover the lies. Free your mind. Veritas is a compact narrative puzzle game that asks: what is truth, and does it even matter?
Why similar: Hidden Object 23.4%, Puzzle 17.6%, Sci-fi 16.6%, First-Person 13.5%, Point & Click 9.8%
- #35 Alchemy
74% matchVery Positive82% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Default Company
Windows
Discover what lies beyond our reality with Alchemy. A portal-like experience that will challenge you to think with potions while trying to solve the mysteries of this strange new place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Cinematic 15.2%, FPS 12.7%, Puzzle 11%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #36 Myha: Return to the Lost Island
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Denis MartinPub: Simon Says: Play!
Windows
MYHA is a First Person Adventure game (Myst-like), part of a sci-fi series named The Black Cube (ASA: A Space Adventure...). Visit Myha, a moon in a far away solar system, and try to understand why you were teleported there.
Why similar: Hidden Object 20%, Puzzle 16.8%, Sci-fi 16.5%, First-Person 13.9%, Exploration 11.6%
- #37 IFO
73% matchVery Positive85% of 111 reviews2022
Dev: Lucas Le Slo
Windows · Mac
A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.
Why similar: Puzzle 34.4%, Sci-fi 24.5%, Exploration 14.3%, Point & Click 12.3%, Simulation 7.4%
- #38 The Flaws of Gravity
75% matchMixed62% of 237 reviews2017
Dev: Absorbed Studios
Windows
The Flaws of Gravity is a first-person puzzle game where you change the direction of gravity to solve puzzles and uncover secrets in a labyrinth.
Why similar: Adventure 41.6%, Puzzle 36.2%, Indie 22.1%
- #39 Dofamine
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 274 reviews2021
Dev: Whale Rock Games
Windows
You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.
Why similar: Physics 22.5%, Sci-fi 19%, Puzzle 11.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Adventure 9%
- #40 Another Tomorrow
72% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Glitch Games
Windows · Mac
Another Tomorrow is a first-person point and click game. Trapped without your memories you’ll explore abandoned apartments, airfields, temples, and underground facilities to search for clues, solve puzzles, and unlock secrets to answer the question; who are you?
Why similar: First-Person 21%, Puzzle 20%, Adventure 16%, Point & Click 12.9%, Exploration 11.8%
- #41 The Artifact
74% matchMixed64% of 214 reviews2017
Dev: Colin WrenPub: Enigma Games LTD
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Woken from a hypersleep, you find yourself alone on a drifting star cruiser, light years from home. The crew has disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a few scattered records and a strange artifact that seems to hold the key to an alien civilisation.
Why similar: Puzzle 48.8%, Indie 28.8%, Adventure 22.4%
- #42 Toran
71% matchVery Positive94% of 250 reviews2019
Dev: Really Interactive
Windows
In this sci-fi puzzle adventure "short game" you are a scientist, stranded on a distant moon during an expedition to investigate alien remains. After finding a strange platform, what seemed to be a one way trip might turn into an intergalactic odyssey.
Why similar: Sci-fi 28.9%, Adventure 26.7%, Puzzle 22.2%, Indie 16.4%, Singleplayer 5.9%
- #43 Epitasis
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 160 reviews2019
Dev: Epitasis Games
Windows · Mac
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
Why similar: Sci-fi 28.1%, Puzzle 25.6%, Exploration 17.4%, First-Person 15.4%, Indie 5.9%
- #44 Entangled
71% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: P² Studios
Windows
Complete physics-based platformer puzzles as you venture deeper into an abandoned research facility responsible for developing ominously powerful quantum entanglement technology.
Why similar: Physics 34.3%, Sci-fi 24.6%, Puzzle 19.9%, Adventure 7.6%, Story Rich 5.6%
- #45 In Other Waters
70% matchVery Positive87% of 2,561 reviews2020
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.3%, Puzzle 17.3%, Exploration 13.9%, Point & Click 10.6%, Simulation 10.3%
- #46 Prominence
72% matchVery Positive84% of 157 reviews2015
Dev: Digital Media Workshop
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.2%, Puzzle 14.8%, Adventure 13.3%, First-Person 12.3%, Point & Click 9.1%
- #47 Space Haven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Sci-fi 42.2%, Simulation 23.4%, Exploration 21.2%, Singleplayer 7.2%, Indie 6%
- #48 Gravitia
68% matchVery Positive91% of 178 reviews2024
Dev: VuzzlePub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Gravitia is an adventure game about manipulating gravity to escape a unique world full of mystery.
Why similar: Physics 29.5%, Puzzle 22.1%, Adventure 12.7%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Exploration 11.2%
- #49 En Route: A Co-Op Space Escape
71% matchMixed63% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
En Route: Space is a 2 player co-op puzzle game where you need each other to figure your way out through the mysteries of space. Work together, open your mind and trust one another to persevere this adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle 27.4%, Exploration 15.5%, FPS 14.7%, Adventure 13.6%, First-Person 11.8%
- #50 Within the Cosmos
70% matchMixed45% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: debdev
Windows
Within the Cosmos is a sci-fi RPG. After awakening in a secluded star system, you soon discover a fractured human society grappling with an emerging android threat. Explore planets, uncover mysteries, and navigate differing philosophies. Your choices will shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Sci-fi 25.3%, FPS 22%, Action-Adventure 14%, Exploration 13.4%, First-Person 13.2%
- #51 Manifold Garden
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,512 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Why similar: Puzzle 35.9%, First-Person 25.1%, Exploration 19.8%, Adventure 9.3%, Singleplayer 5.2%
- #52 Terraformental
66% matchVery Positive97% of 361 reviews2026
Dev: Shady Games
Windows · Mac
Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Puzzle 17.6%, Exploration 16.5%, Adventure 8.9%
- #53 NeuraGun
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 259 reviews2022
Dev: Whale Rock Games
Windows
NeuraGun is a third-person science fiction puzzle game. The player will have to go through a maze of mysteries that will lead him out of the tangled scientific complex.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Hidden Object 18.3%, Puzzle 15.4%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Simulation 12.4%
- #54 The Lab - Escape Room
69% matchVery Positive81% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Flat Cat Games
Windows
Walk through a futuristic complex while solving puzzles and discover how you got there. What are these mysterious creatures? Why everything looks abandoned? Could you escape from The Lab?
Why similar: Puzzle 17.5%, Hidden Object 15.4%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Exploration 9.7%
- #55 Jitter
66% matchVery Positive85% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: Berko Games
Windows
A sci-fi exploration & survival game where you take on the role of a spaceship’s AI. Explore, fight, and survive across a mining colony in the Main Asteroid Belt. Rebuild your ship. Rescue your crew. Reveal the truth behind your mission.
Why similar: Physics 29.6%, Sci-fi 23.4%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Exploration 13%, Adventure 8.6%
- #56 Event[0]
68% matchVery Positive80% of 2,287 reviews2016
Dev: Ocelot Society
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.9%, First-Person 23.1%, Exploration 15.7%, Adventure 11%, 3D 9.9%
- #57 Chromatic Conundrum
64% matchVery Positive99% of 361 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: Physics 26.5%, Sci-fi 21.9%, Puzzle 20.7%, First-Person 15.5%, Adventure 6.7%
- #58 Faraday Protocol
67% matchVery Positive86% of 118 reviews2021
Dev: Red Koi BoxPub: Deck13
Windows · Linux
Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.3%, Puzzle 22.2%, First-Person 18%, Exploration 16.2%, 3D 7.7%
- #59 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
68% matchVery Positive80% of 589 reviews2018
Dev: Pavel KostinPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%
What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.
Why similar: Indie 85.1%, Sci-fi 5.8%, Puzzle 3.2%, Point & Click 2.5%, Adventure 1.7%