- #1 Papo & Yo
97% matchVery Positive93% of 2,869 reviews2013
Dev: Minority Media Inc.Pub: Minority Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Quico’s best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 34.6%, Puzzle Platformer 29.9%, Puzzle 13.8%, Adventure 12.1%, Indie 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully uses puzzle-platforming to represent a deeply personal and metaphorical journey through emotional trauma.
- #2 Psychonauts
96% matchVery Positive95% of 18,928 reviews2006
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 42.9%, Adventure 32.3%, Action 23.2%, Indie 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for exploring surreal, abstract mental worlds through creative 3D platforming mechanics.
- #3 Alice: Madness Returns
96% matchVery Positive91% of 29,247 reviews2011
Dev: Spicy Horse GamesPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Alice: Madness Returns is a third-person, single-player, action adventure platformer. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 48%, Adventure 17.5%, Action 17.3%, Horror 17.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title features a dark, surreal psychological journey where platforming and combat are used to navigate a fractured mind.
- #4 INSIDE
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 74,205 reviews2016
Dev: Playdead
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.3%, Puzzle 16.1%, Adventure 14%, Action 12.4%, Indie 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in environmental storytelling that uses dark, moody puzzle-platforming to convey a sense of isolation and oppression.
- #5 Little Nightmares
94% matchVery Positive95% of 115,868 reviews2017
Dev: Tarsier StudiosPub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.1%, Horror 17.8%, Adventure 17.5%, Puzzle 16.9%, Indie 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar sense of dread and vulnerability through atmospheric puzzle-platforming in a surreal, unsettling world.
- #6 GYLT
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,230 reviews2023
Dev: Haven MediaPub: Parallel Circles
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Shape your fears… Fear the shapes. Embark on a journey where you face your worst fears and are confronted with the emotional impact of your actions in this narrative adventure game with puzzles, stealth and action.
Why similar: Puzzle 29.1%, Adventure 26.5%, Action 25%, Horror 19.5%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven horror game that uses stealth and puzzle-platforming to explore themes of bullying and inner fear.
- #7 LIMBO
93% matchVery Positive92% of 60,918 reviews2011
Dev: Playdead
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.4%, Puzzle 16.8%, Indie 12.7%, Adventure 9.1%, Horror 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the dark, minimalist aesthetic and puzzle-platforming focus used to navigate a hostile and surreal environment.
- #8 Ugly
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 603 reviews2023
Dev: Team UglyPub: Graffiti Games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past. Use an innovative mirror mechanic to solve challenging puzzle rooms and defeat towering bosses as you strive to piece together the ugly truth.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37%, Puzzle 18.6%, Action 13%, Horror 11.1%, Indie 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological puzzle-platformer that uses a unique mirror mechanic to explore dark, repressed memories.
- #9 Through the Nightmares
91% matchVery Positive97% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Sandman Team
Windows
Through the Nightmares is a challenge-driven platformer for anyone who’s ever had a restless night. Run, jump, and change your size to overcome the nightmare’s traps. Face Morpheus. Rescue children from an endless dream.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 71.4%, Action 15.3%, Indie 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle-platformer that takes place in a surreal dreamscape filled with nightmarish obstacles.
- #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: Puzzle Platformer 31.5%, Indie 27.6%, Adventure 23.9%, Puzzle 17%
Why You'll Like It: It is a beautiful, emotional journey that uses platforming and puzzle elements to represent the stages of grief and healing.
- #11 Contrast
90% matchVery Positive91% of 5,654 reviews2013
Dev: Compulsion GamesPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Puzzle 28.3%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 20.3%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, 3D Platformer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique surreal aesthetic where you manipulate shadows and light to solve puzzles in a 3D platforming environment.
- #12 Unravel
88% matchVery Positive91% of 5,467 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwood InteractivePub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle 27.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Action 22.8%, Adventure 22.4%, Indie 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: It uses physics-based puzzle-platforming to tell a poignant, emotional story about memory and connection.
- #13 Escape from Naraka
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 155 reviews2021
Dev: XeloGamesPub: Headup
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Escape from Naraka is a hellish first-person action platformer. Journey to another realm to save your beloved from an evil demon named Rangda the Leyak Queen and platform your way through a nightmarish temple where each level will challenge you again and again!
Why similar: 3D Platformer 45.7%, Action 15.7%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 11.7%, Horror 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person 3D platformer that emphasizes precision and survival in a dark, hellish environment.
- #14 World of One
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 96 reviews2017
Dev: Grimwood Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
You are about to get on a journey around small planet-like worlds as if you were in the Little Prince's world. However, these ones are filled with monsters that are striving to kill you, deadly traps and riddles, which require you to be quick-witted and attentive.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36%, Puzzle 19.1%, Adventure 17.1%, Indie 14.2%, Horror 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: This dark, psychedelic puzzle-platformer mirrors the surreal and introspective nature of navigating one's own inner demons.
- #15 Mirror Forge
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 183 reviews2022
Dev: MystiveDevPub: DreadXP
Windows
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
Why similar: Horror 100%
Why You'll Like It: This psychological horror game uses surreal dimensions and puzzles to explore the protagonist's fractured reality.
- #16 Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
86% matchVery Positive81% of 8,647 reviews2014
Dev: Upper One GamesPub: E-Line Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.2%, Indie 24%, Adventure 21.4%, Puzzle 17.5%, Action 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric puzzle-platformer focuses on cultural storytelling and navigating a harsh, supernatural environment.
- #17 Visage
84% matchVery Positive84% of 10,723 reviews2020
Dev: SadSquare Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Why similar: Horror 61.1%, Adventure 19.2%, Indie 13%, Action 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep dive into psychological horror, focusing on the manifestation of trauma within a haunted, shifting home.
- #18 Stickit
85% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Symfonim
Windows
A game for those who can stick it, and stick to it.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 66.9%, Action 17.7%, Horror 15.4%
Why You'll Like It: A difficult 3D precision-platformer that incorporates psychological horror elements into its challenging level design.
- #19 The Unfinished Swan
84% matchVery Positive84% of 1,954 reviews2020
Dev: Giant SparrowPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.7%, Puzzle 23.8%, Adventure 20.5%, Indie 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a surreal, minimalist exploration experience that relies on discovery and puzzle-solving in a shifting, abstract world.
- #20 Grimind
86% matchMixed64% of 290 reviews2014
Dev: Paweł MogiłaPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Grimind is a 2D, physics based, adventure, platform game in horror/creepy theme. Grimind casts you into forgotten caves and ancient crypts, without memories. While being there you have to demonstrate great manual skills to pass obstacles and solve non trivial puzzles to get out of scary environment and additionally discover what are you...
Why similar: Indie 37.9%, Adventure 31%, Action 16.2%, Horror 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that features a dark, atmospheric world and challenging navigation.
- #21 Frame of Mind
82% matchVery Positive94% of 934 reviews2021
Dev: [SAMPLE TEXT] Studios ltd
Windows
In Frame of Mind, you are placed in a world where logic is escaping you. Each area of the game defies reason, requiring you to think outside the box in order to solve the illogical and escape madness.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.9%, 3D Platformer 40.7%, Puzzle 16.4%
Why You'll Like It: A 3D puzzle-platformer that focuses on exploration and surreal environments, much like the journey through feelings in Face It.
- #22 Philophobia: The Fear of Love
83% matchVery Positive94% of 71 reviews2020
Dev: Tim Ruswick
Windows
Love is Hell. In this precision platformer based on the 5 stages of grief, navigate the bowels of Hell and escape the torment of love.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 59.4%, Action 17.9%, Adventure 13.5%, Indie 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A precision-platformer that uses its difficult gameplay to mirror the psychological struggle implied by its title.
- #23 INHUMAN
81% matchMixed63% of 111 reviews2023
Dev: 秋太虚工作室Pub: QutosoGame
Windows
"INHUMAN" is an independent horror game. The story takes place in the conspiracy of an ancient clan, and the protagonist is in a psychedelic state and can't even distinguish herself. With further exploration and confrontation with all kinds of ghosts, the puzzle will be solved step by step...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, 3D Platformer 18.6%, Puzzle 16.1%, Adventure 14.9%, Horror 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends adventure and psychological horror with puzzle elements to create an immersive, dark experience.
- #24 A Demon's Game - Episode 1
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 112 reviews2017
Dev: RP StudiosPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
"A Demon's Game" is a very unique title, but keeps true to its horror roots, the game focuses on creating a terrifying atmosphere, rewarding exploration, and engrossing players in the rich lore of its world, moving away from the trend of incessant jump scares and low production quality is our main goal.
Why similar: Puzzle 25.6%, Adventure 24.9%, Action 24.8%, Horror 17.8%, Indie 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines psychological horror with puzzle-solving to create an unsettling atmosphere of inner turmoil.
- #25 Seeking Light
81% matchMixed66% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Lucky DodoPub: ESAT
Windows
Seeking Light is an action adventure game in isometric perspective with a focus on boss fights. Fight your fears as Sunny and overcome the demons of your past. Explore your inner world, facing the personification of your phobias, and discover the story behind them.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.9%, Puzzle 17.9%, Adventure 17.1%, Action 16%, Horror 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer emphasizes the struggle against darkness, aligning closely with the theme of using light to overcome emotional monsters.
- #26 Nolgorb's Ordeal
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Hard Meat
Windows · Linux
Now with barely functioning co-op features! A challenging 3D platformer with little room for error. Escape a dungeon, alone or with others jumping to the top, and sacrifice your collectables for items to aid in your ordeal.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 81.2%, Adventure 18.8%
Why You'll Like It: An unforgiving 3D precision-platformer that leans heavily into psychological horror themes and dark, surreal aesthetics.
- #27 QuattroMan
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: natamigame
Windows
Escape from creepy and irrational enemies. Fight your fear!
Why similar: 3D Platformer 38.9%, Adventure 26.2%, Horror 18.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Indie 7.8%
- #28 Attempt[42]
80% matchMixed60% of 368 reviews2016
Dev: ThinkOfGamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Challenging first person puzzle platformer.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 38.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, Puzzle 19.2%, Indie 10%, Action 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 3D puzzle-platformer that focuses on navigating abstract, surreal spaces through careful movement and logic.
- #29 DEMON COMPASS
76% matchVery Positive88% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: xena-spectralePub: Provoker
Windows · Mac
This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.
Why similar: Action 33.4%, Adventure 33%, Horror 18.6%, Indie 15%
- #30 FLIGHTMARE
79% matchMostly Negative27% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Van Studios
Windows
Indie horror game that will take your adrenaline to another level.
Why similar: Action 34.9%, Puzzle 25%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 13%, Horror 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a mix of action and exploration in a surreal environment that requires puzzle-solving to progress.
- #31 Doorways: Prelude
79% matchMixed62% of 636 reviews2013
Dev: Saibot Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Doorways is an immersive horror adventure, featuring a complex story and deep atmosphere.
Why similar: Horror 23.4%, Adventure 20.4%, Action 17%, 3D Platformer 15.3%, Indie 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: This horror-adventure game focuses on exploration and puzzle-solving within a disturbing, surreal psychological setting.
- #32 Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 460 reviews2016
Dev: Saibot Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 23.5%, Adventure 17.5%, Action 16.3%, Puzzle 15.7%, Horror 13.9%
- #33 Face of Another
74% matchVery Positive96% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: MadBug Studio
Windows
Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.
Why similar: Puzzle 58.8%, Horror 41.2%
- #34 Andarin Weppes: Pre-Dementia
75% matchVery Positive93% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: MötivPub: Next in Game
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.1%, 3D Platformer 31.1%, Puzzle 17.5%, Adventure 15.3%
- #35 Shelley Manor
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Terrors StudioPub: ESAT
Windows
Find your way through a puzzle filled manor while barely dodging human-eating monsters. You wake up in a dark room with one objective: escape those sharpened teeth. However, you should not worry; you will meet friends along the way.
Why similar: Puzzle 44.4%, Adventure 37.3%, Action 18.4%
- #36 In Passing
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: CelleC Games
Windows
A first-person 3D platforming experience through a broken mind turned against you.
Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Action 33.6%, Indie 29.1%
- #37 Project Liminal 2
73% matchVery Positive90% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: AquaHeaven StudiosPub: TXC
Windows
Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.
Why similar: Adventure 33.7%, Action 29.6%, Puzzle 25.7%, Indie 6.8%, Horror 4.2%
- #38 Fortuito: Lost History
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 78 reviews2021
Dev: FabioPDJ
Windows
Fortuito: Lost History is an indie adventure first-person horror, face the unknown with classic fps mechanics, solve puzzles and immerse in this bad trip!
Why similar: Puzzle 42.1%, Adventure 40.3%, Horror 13.7%, Action 3.9%
- #39 Familiar Stranger
73% matchMixed64% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Duanyang WangPub: Horror engine games
Windows
The Familiar Stranger is a 3D psychological horror game where twisted memories and nightmares blur. Uncover dark secrets while evading a relentless entity that watches from the shadows. Can you escape the horrors of the past, or will they consume you?
Why similar: Indie 29.3%, Adventure 24.7%, Action 23.5%, Horror 22.6%
- #40 Insomnis
72% matchVery Positive91% of 274 reviews2022
Dev: Path Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Insomnis is a first-person horror game focused on story, exploration and solving puzzles to advance through a terrifying atmosphere. Players take control of Joe Castevet, who will have to deal with a mysterious inheritance he has just received. Discover all the secrets of the Castevet mansion!
Why similar: Puzzle 29.9%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 21.4%, Horror 20.8%
- #41 A Difficult Game About Climbing
69% matchVery Positive88% of 5,505 reviews2024
Dev: Pontypants
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
This is a difficult game about climbing.
Why similar: Adventure 41.9%, Action 33.3%, Horror 24.8%
- #42 HorrorToleranceTest
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 147 reviews2025
Dev: うさうさはっぴーげーむず
Windows
A horror game that challenges you to play three different games and diagnoses your tolerance for fear. “Surprise fear,” “hiding fear,” “escaping fear”—are you tolerant of all types of fear?
Why similar: Action 42.4%, Horror 39.4%, Indie 18.2%
- #43 Lift It
74% matchMixed58% of 159 reviews2017
Dev: 89AM Studio
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Lift It is a fresh and dynamic game where you have to train your character in order to gain stats. Every Gym exercise helps gaining a specific stat. Increasing your stats will help you to beat your enemies when travelling from the main island (Gym Island) to the other islands.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Action 34.8%, Indie 28.5%
- #44 Prison Loop
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Leakage Games
Windows
Embark on a journey of anomalies and repetition in "Prison Loop," a captivating indie puzzle game. Trapped in a mysterious temporal loop within a high-security prison, your objective is to observe anomalies throughout the environment.
Why similar: Puzzle 32.2%, Adventure 24.2%, Action 23.4%, Horror 20.3%
- #45 The Art of Reflection
68% matchVery Positive97% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Hydrozoa
Windows
Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.6%, 3D Platformer 28%, Puzzle 18.5%, Adventure 8%, Indie 5.9%
- #46 Through the Mirror
73% matchVery Positive82% of 121 reviews2017
Dev: Cleiton OliveiraPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.3%, Action 22.7%, Puzzle 19.2%, Indie 17.8%
- #47 DE-EXIT - Eternal Matters
70% matchVery Positive83% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: SandBloom StudioPub: HandyGames
Windows
Embark on a surrealistic afterlife journey to discover the secrets of the broken and mysterious Plane of Memory in this cinematic adventure with a hint of stealth. Dive into a wonderful voxel world with an intense atmosphere and save the day!
Why similar: Puzzle 40.3%, Action 29.9%, Adventure 29.8%
- #48 The Initiate
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 204 reviews2017
Dev: Deceptive Games Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!
Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Indie 23.7%, Action 19%, Puzzle 17.6%, Horror 10%
- #49 Decarnation
68% matchVery Positive88% of 1,071 reviews2023
Dev: Atelier QDBPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…
Why similar: Puzzle 33.6%, Adventure 19.3%, Action 17.6%, Horror 15.3%, Indie 14.3%
- #50 Crazy Ball Adventures
71% matchVery Positive84% of 203 reviews2017
Dev: FreezeNova
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Balancing the ball might sound easy but the reality is that Crazy Ball Adventures offers you multiple challenges so you will always have to face new and exciting levels.
Why similar: Adventure 36.5%, 3D Platformer 33.4%, Indie 30.1%
- #51 Peepo Island
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 276 reviews2022
Dev: Anboni
Windows
A difficult obstacle course 3D platformer where the goal is to survive and escape the Island!
Why similar: 3D Platformer 37%, Puzzle Platformer 31.7%, Adventure 14.4%, Action 11.4%, Indie 5.5%
- #52 Superliminal
66% matchVery Positive95% of 33,072 reviews2020
Dev: Pillow Castle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Why similar: Puzzle 37.3%, Puzzle Platformer 36.3%, Adventure 17.3%, Horror 9.1%
- #53 Recursive Ruin
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 315 reviews2022
Dev: Bit RotPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.8%, Puzzle 21.8%, Adventure 18%, Action 16.3%
- #54 Andarin Weppes
67% 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: Puzzle Platformer 33%, 3D Platformer 29.2%, Puzzle 16.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 8.1%
- #55 In Nightmare
68% matchVery Positive82% of 94 reviews2022
Dev: Magic Fish Games
Windows
In Nightmare is a narrative-driven horror adventure game combining sneak action with diverse puzzles. It follows a young boy in search for the last hope of love who is working out his own salvation by navigating through his fear.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 56.5%, Adventure 28.5%, Puzzle 9.8%, Horror 2.9%, Indie 2.4%
- #56 In Sound Mind
66% matchVery Positive95% of 6,771 reviews2021
Dev: We Create StuffPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
In Sound Mind is an imaginative first-person psychological horror with frenetic puzzles, unique boss fights, and original music by The Living Tombstone. Journey within the inner workings of the one place you can’t seem to escape—your own mind.
Why similar: Puzzle 20.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, 3D Platformer 19.1%, Horror 16.7%, Action 14.9%
- #57 Beyond The Evil
67% matchVery Positive82% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: BlackHawk GamesPub: QUByte Interactive
Windows
Beyond the Evil is an psychological horror game that places the player to a hard experience to find who created one supposed plague that might doom the world.
Why similar: Puzzle 32.2%, Indie 19.8%, Horror 18.6%, Action 15.1%, Adventure 14.3%
- #58 Eraser
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,493 reviews2021
Dev: Ringating
Windows
Punch, platform, and parry your way up a perilous tower that's doing everything it can to erase your progress.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 50%, Adventure 18.5%, Action 17.7%, Indie 13.9%
- #59 Curyeux
65% 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: 3D Platformer 40.2%, Puzzle Platformer 30.9%, Puzzle 14%, Adventure 10%, Action 4.2%