- #1 Recursed
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 637 reviews2016
Dev: PortponkyPub: Shambles Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36%, Difficult 16.6%, Puzzle 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Indie 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a room-in-room mechanic that forces players to navigate space in a way that feels very similar to the boundary-breaking puzzles of the seed game.
- #2 FEZ
96% matchVery Positive93% of 16,036 reviews2013
Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 27.5%, Great Soundtrack 19.8%, Puzzle 17.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15%, Indie 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: The perspective-shifting mechanic provides a similar sense of discovery and spatial manipulation as the screen-wrapping in Four Sided Fantasy.
- #3 Patrick's Parabox
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,385 reviews2022
Dev: Patrick Traynor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
Why similar: Minimalist 33.3%, Puzzle 25%, Difficult 19.7%, Indie 10%, 2D 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game features recursive, mind-bending spatial puzzles that share the same sense of meta-logic found in screen-wrapping mechanics.
- #4 Closure
96% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2012
Dev: Eyebrow Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Platformer 21.1%, Puzzle 15.4%, Surreal 14.9%, Indie 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a surreal, atmospheric puzzle-platforming experience where light and shadow define the playable boundaries of the world.
- #5 The Floor is Jelly
94% matchVery Positive84% of 434 reviews2014
Dev: Auren Snyder
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
The Floor is Jelly is a game that answers the question: what if everything you touched was made of jello?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.4%, Platformer 15%, Indie 10.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%, Physics 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal and physics-heavy platformer that shares the minimalist, atmospheric, and experimental nature of the seed game.
- #6 The Pedestrian
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,862 reviews2020
Dev: Skookum Arts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.1%, Surreal 17%, Platformer 13.9%, Minimalist 12.8%, Puzzle 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully integrates 2D platforming within a 3D world, treating screen boundaries as physical objects to be manipulated.
- #7 Semblance
94% matchVery Positive85% of 398 reviews2018
Dev: NyamakopPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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 31.4%, Great Soundtrack 15%, Minimalist 13.3%, Platformer 12.5%, Indie 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to deform the world itself to solve puzzles, offering a similarly tactile approach to platforming challenges.
- #8 Antichamber
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 17,576 reviews2013
Dev: Alexander BrucePub: Demruth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
Why similar: Surreal 35.9%, Puzzle 27.1%, Indie 12%, Minimalist 7.1%, Difficult 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for non-Euclidean geometry and mind-bending spatial puzzles that defy traditional game rules.
- #9 Hue
91% matchVery Positive92% of 11,146 reviews2016
Dev: Fiddlesticks GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36%, Great Soundtrack 15.9%, Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle 12.8%, Indie 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It uses color-based world manipulation to change the environment, providing a similar puzzle-platforming feel to the seed game.
- #10 Manifold Garden
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 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 Platformer 28.2%, Surreal 22.6%, Minimalist 13.5%, Difficult 11.4%, Puzzle 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game features non-Euclidean architecture and gravity-shifting mechanics that create a profound sense of spatial disorientation.
- #11 VVVVVV
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,401 reviews2010
Dev: Terry Cavanagh
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.6%, Platformer 25.3%, Difficult 19.9%, Indie 11.8%, 2D 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This classic platformer features screen-wrapping and gravity-flipping mechanics that directly mirror the spatial challenges of the seed game.
- #12 Superliminal
88% matchVery Positive95% of 32,646 reviews2020
Dev: Pillow Castle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 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: Surreal 26.8%, Puzzle Platformer 25.9%, Physics 15.9%, Puzzle 14.6%, Minimalist 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on forced perspective and boundary manipulation, making it a perfect match for those who enjoy questioning the limits of their environment.
- #13 Etherborn
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 444 reviews2019
Dev: Altered MatterPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.1%, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Minimalist 12.4%, Platformer 10.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on gravity-shifting puzzles that require you to perceive surfaces and paths from entirely new perspectives.
- #14 The Swapper
89% matchVery Positive94% of 7,519 reviews2013
Dev: Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo CastellanoPub: Facepalm Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 28.3%, Puzzle 20.1%, Platformer 14%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that uses cloning and spatial logic to create a deep, thought-provoking experience.
- #15 Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer
87% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2018
Dev: Fishing Cactus
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 33.8%, Great Soundtrack 16.4%, Indie 11.9%, Platformer 10.8%, Difficult 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a core 'shift' mechanic that changes the negative space of the level, echoing the screen-wrapping concept.
- #16 In Between
86% matchVery Positive85% of 473 reviews2015
Dev: GentlymadPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.4%, Platformer 13.8%, Difficult 13.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, Indie 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A gravity-based puzzle-platformer that matches the atmospheric and introspective tone of the seed game.
- #17 Nihilumbra
86% matchVery Positive88% of 2,981 reviews2013
Dev: BeautiFun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.1%, Platformer 17.1%, Indie 11.5%, Great Soundtrack 10.9%, Puzzle 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines atmospheric storytelling with unique environmental puzzle mechanics that change how you interact with the world.
- #18 Seasons after Fall
84% matchVery Positive81% of 3,134 reviews2016
Dev: Swing Swing SubmarinePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.3%, Great Soundtrack 19.7%, Platformer 18.7%, Indie 9.5%, Atmospheric 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features environmental puzzle-solving tied to changing seasons, offering a similarly atmospheric and artistic journey.
- #19 Element4l
85% matchVery Positive83% of 652 reviews2013
Dev: I-Illusions
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.5%, Platformer 23.9%, Indie 19.4%, Difficult 10.9%, Puzzle 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that emphasizes momentum and atmospheric flow over traditional combat or platforming.
- #20 ETHEREAL
84% matchVery Positive89% of 169 reviews2019
Dev: Nicolás RecabarrenPub: Nonsense Arts
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
A profound experience that carries players into an unknown and mysterious world surrounded by carefully designed puzzles...
Why similar: Indie 32.2%, Great Soundtrack 29.3%, Puzzle 25.6%, 2D 9.9%, Singleplayer 3%
Why You'll Like It: An abstract, minimalist puzzle game that focuses on spatial logic and environmental manipulation.
- #21 Thomas Was Alone
82% matchVery Positive94% of 9,347 reviews2012
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 35.7%, Platformer 17.7%, Minimalist 13.8%, Physics 11%, Indie 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist platformer that uses simple shapes and clever level design to tell a compelling story.
- #22 NightSky
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,019 reviews2011
Dev: Nicalis, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.5%, Platformer 14.6%, Physics 12.3%, Indie 9.5%, Puzzle 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing yet challenging physics-based puzzle experience with a distinct, minimalist aesthetic.
- #23 Baba Is You
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,702 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Why similar: Difficult 27.9%, Puzzle 27%, Indie 14.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.1%, Minimalist 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to rewrite the rules of the world, providing the ultimate meta-puzzle experience for fans of experimental mechanics.
- #24 The Forest Quartet
79% matchVery Positive93% of 444 reviews2022
Dev: Mads & FriendsPub: Bedtime Digital Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.
Why similar: Minimalist 32.2%, Puzzle 27.9%, Indie 22.3%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Singleplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric puzzle game that focuses on emotional resonance and unique environmental interactions.
- #25 Starseed Pilgrim
83% matchMixed60% of 534 reviews2013
Dev: droqen
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 17%
Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour.You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.You are an explorer, discovering new places, new rules, and new fascinations.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.4%, Minimalist 17.5%, Indie 16.2%, Puzzle 12.5%, Platformer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, abstract exploration game that rewards players for understanding its unique, non-traditional rules.
- #26 Hand In Hand
78% matchVery Positive93% of 95 reviews2023
Dev: MaxMediaPub: Games Harbor
Windows
An atmospheric platformer with puzzle elements and split screen, where the player takes control of two characters at once. Immerse yourself in the ethnic world of two heroes, solve puzzles and overcome obstacles together, explore the fairy forest and other locations, help each other.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 57.1%, Platformer 22.2%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Indie 6%, Adventure 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op focused puzzle-platformer that requires coordinated spatial movement to solve environmental challenges.
- #27 Pid
81% matchVery Positive83% of 2,430 reviews2012
Dev: Might and Delight
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 32%
You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.9%, Platformer 17.5%, Indie 11.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%, Difficult 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features unique gravity-manipulation mechanics that make for a creative and challenging puzzle-platformer.
- #28 Degrees of Separation
80% matchVery Positive81% of 1,275 reviews2019
Dev: MoondropPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.7%, Difficult 16.6%, Platformer 15.8%, Puzzle 11.3%, Atmospheric 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dual-character puzzle-platformer where environmental manipulation is key to navigating the world.
- #29 Airhead
78% matchVery Positive88% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: OctatoPub: HandyGames
Windows
Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Surreal 14.7%, Indie 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.1%, Difficult 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A metroidvania-style puzzle-platformer that emphasizes exploration and unique environmental mechanics.
- #30 Gravity Error
81% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.3%, Platformer 20.7%, Indie 17.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, 2D 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a challenging physics-based platforming experience that relies on spatial awareness.
- #31 The Last Campfire
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 18,750 reviews2021
Dev: Hello Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.6%, Puzzle 21.8%, Indie 13.4%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Adventure 6%
- #32 Monument Valley
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,203 reviews2022
Dev: ustwo games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.8%, Puzzle 29.7%, Adventure 7.7%, Singleplayer 5.7%, Atmospheric 5.4%
- #33 TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
77% matchVery Positive85% of 506 reviews2014
Dev: Rat King Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!
Why similar: Surreal 17.2%, Great Soundtrack 12.1%, Minimalist 10.9%, Platformer 10.8%, Puzzle 9%
- #34 The Mensional
75% matchVery Positive92% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: Delil Timurtaş
Windows · Mac
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
Why similar: Surreal 17.5%, Platformer 17.3%, Puzzle 11.9%, Indie 10.5%, Minimalist 8.8%
- #35 A Juggler's Tale
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,126 reviews2021
Dev: kaleidoscubePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.9%, Platformer 18%, Physics 16.5%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Indie 8.2%
- #36 Eternal Hope
75% matchVery Positive83% of 427 reviews2020
Dev: Doublehit GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36%, Platformer 17.3%, Puzzle 9.6%, Physics 8.8%, Indie 8.2%
- #37 Way of Rhea
73% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Games by Mason LLC
Windows · Linux
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 30.4%, Surreal 17.2%, Difficult 15.9%, Puzzle 10.4%, Physics 6.9%
- #38 YAPP: Yet Another Puzzle Platformer
76% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2017
Dev: Artless Games
Windows
A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31%, Difficult 13%, Platformer 11.7%, Minimalist 11.7%, Physics 9.2%
- #39 Aspire: Ina's Tale
74% matchVery Positive83% of 419 reviews2021
Dev: Wondernaut StudioPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Set out on a mystical adventure of self-discovery against the backdrop of fantastical landscapes of The Tower. Meet its dwellers and unravel their stories. Manipulate spirits to solve puzzles, and lead Ina on her path to freedom.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35%, Surreal 23.8%, Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.8%
- #40 Tulpa
77% matchMixed55% of 259 reviews2015
Dev: Encryptique
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A surreal puzzle platformer that's as beautiful as it is challenging – discover two beings entwined by fate, a girl and her soulmate, left to travel through a hauntingly elegant world...
Why similar: Surreal 29.8%, Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Indie 13.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Minimalist 7.7%
- #41 gravilon
76% matchMixed59% of 1,254 reviews2015
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 20.4%, Minimalist 19.3%, Indie 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Difficult 10.6%
- #42 The Art of Reflection
67% matchVery Positive97% of 139 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%, Surreal 21.9%, Minimalist 12.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Atmospheric 4.6%
- #43 OneShift
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 989 reviews2018
Dev: Mazen GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 35.4%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, Physics 11.3%, Indie 9.4%
- #44 LIMBO
69% matchVery Positive92% of 60,454 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 46.4%, Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle 8.2%, Indie 7.3%, Surreal 5.9%
- #45 Metrico+
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 218 reviews2016
Dev: Digital Dreams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Explore this unique world of infographics: All the bar charts, line diagrams and pie charts react to what you are doing. Metrico+ is a combination of exploration, skill, experimentation, but most of all: thinking outside of the box. Are you smart enough to solve all the mysteries?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.9%, Minimalist 18.1%, Puzzle 10.8%, Platformer 10.7%, Indie 8.2%
- #46 Puzzlement
70% matchVery Positive92% of 235 reviews2018
Dev: Yunus Ayyildiz
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27%, Minimalist 16.6%, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 9.4%
- #47 The Way
71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,295 reviews2016
Dev: Puzzling DreamPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.7%, Platformer 18.3%, Indie 12.8%, Adventure 6.3%, Puzzle 5.3%
- #48 The Bridge
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,339 reviews2013
Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32%, Surreal 20.5%, Physics 12.9%, Puzzle 8.2%, Difficult 6.3%
- #49 Midnight
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 79 reviews2016
Dev: Petite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Precision puzzle platformer. Launch a square fairy through 56 deadly levels using only your mouse.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Physics 13.8%, Difficult 13%, Platformer 9.4%, Atmospheric 5.7%
- #50 MO:Astray
67% matchVery Positive92% of 5,025 reviews2019
Dev: Archpray Inc.Pub: Rayark International Limited
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.1%, Platformer 13.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Indie 11.3%, Difficult 6.5%
- #51 Seeders
72% matchMixed56% of 64 reviews2015
Dev: Bigosaur
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A puzzle platformer with funky physics and mind boggling puzzles requiring out-of-the-box thinking and persistence. Only a few players were able to complete the game. Can you handle it?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.1%, Indie 14%, Difficult 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%, Platformer 9.7%
- #52 Through the Mirror
70% matchVery Positive82% of 115 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 34.4%, Minimalist 14%, Platformer 12.3%, Difficult 12%, Indie 9.9%
- #53 Orbyss
62% matchVery Positive99% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Misty Whale
Windows
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 33.4%, Surreal 13.9%, Physics 13.7%, Puzzle 10.6%, Platformer 9.5%
- #54 Lost Words: Beyond the Page
66% matchVery Positive95% of 823 reviews2021
Dev: Sketchbook DevelopmentsPub: Sketchbook Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.8%, Platformer 17.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%, 2D 6.5%
- #55 Teslagrad
69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,460 reviews2013
Dev: Rain Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 23.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23.3%, Puzzle 11.6%, Difficult 8.8%, Indie 8.4%
- #56 A Fold Apart
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 120 reviews2020
Dev: Lightning Rod Games
Windows
A puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper! Flip, fold, unfold and rotate paper puzzles to help a couple navigate the complexities of living apart.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.1%, Platformer 24.2%, Puzzle 17.6%
- #57 Unleaving
64% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: orangutan matter
Windows · Mac
When everything seems hopeless a child is awakened by the whispers of the last leaf, drawn into an imaginary world. Unleaving invites the player into a narrative-driven puzzle platformer where each challenge unfolds within a hand-painted landscape, exploring perception and meaning
Why similar: Surreal 23.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Physics 13.3%, Platformer 12.6%, Puzzle 8.4%
- #58 Another Perspective
68% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2014
Dev: SaraJS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something. Swap minds to see the world in different ways! Where one mind sees a bottomless pit, another might not. Where one sees a locked door, another sees a key. To change perspective is to change reality!
Why similar: Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, Indie 24.4%, Puzzle 13.3%, Adventure 7.7%
- #59 Islands of Insight
63% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2024
Dev: Lunarch StudiosPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 63%, Puzzle 16.9%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Adventure 4.9%, Singleplayer 3.7%