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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Free to Play.

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The protagonist is trapped inside a prison, please help the protagonist to escape this place by making sentences and unravel the secrets of this prison.

Reviews: Very Positive — 90% — of 326 reviews
Released: 2019-03-13
Developer: Jia-Ho Jian
Genres: Adventure, Free To Play, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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    97% matchMostly Positive77% of 209 reviews2018
    Dev: Adventurer's TavernPub: Gamera Game
    Windows

    Wuxia archive: Crisis escape is a text adventure puzzle game. The player will play a knight who is trapped in an unknown dungeon, get clues with other trapped characters, use the props in the scene to solve the puzzle and get out of danger.

    Why similar: Adventure 54%, Indie 46%

  2. #2 Island Marauder
    96% matchVery Positive81% of 183 reviews2019
    Dev: MSOL
    Windows

    Indie Puzzle Game

    Why similar: Adventure 52.9%, Indie 47.1%

  3. #3 文字遊戯 第零章(日本語版)
    95% matchVery Positive97% of 78 reviews2023
    Dev: Team9Pub: Flyhigh Works
    Windows · Mac

    Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

    Why similar: Indie 50.1%, Adventure 49.9%

  4. #4 unWorded
    96% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2017
    Dev: Bento StudioPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows · Mac

    unWorded is an innovative Narrative Puzzle Game where everything is built from letters. Use your imagination to create objects by assembling letters together and discover the story of a writer hospitalized after a serious accident...

    Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%

  5. #5 Word Game: Episode 0
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 4,566 reviews2021
    Dev: Team9
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 36 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

    Why similar: Adventure 52.7%, Indie 47.3%

  6. #6 Women's Prison
    94% matchMostly Negative40% of 61 reviews2021
    Dev: QuarlelllePub: Quarlellle
    Windows

    Women's Prison is a first-person adventure. In this game you are put in a women's prison and you have to spend more than one year of your life here. You will need to solve puzzles and complete various tasks to undress your cellmate. Take off all her clothes!

    Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%

  7. #7 The Flaws of Gravity
    93% 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 53.4%, Indie 46.6%

  8. #8 Waterfall Prisoner
    91% matchVery Positive97% of 65 reviews2023
    Dev: APA estudi
    Windows · Mac

    Can you escape from Waterfall Tower? A puzzle-focused escape room game, made in the vein of the classic graphic adventures of old.

    Why similar: Adventure 89.3%, Indie 10.7%

  9. #9 阿津
    92% matchVery Positive89% of 129 reviews2019
    Dev: 阿津Pub: 歐津津教團
    Windows

    你身為一個肥宅在不知名的房子裡醒來,想要逃出去卻發現沒那麼簡單...

    Why similar: Adventure 100%

  10. #10 文字遊戯(日本語版)
    91% matchVery Positive91% of 75 reviews2025
    Dev: Team9Pub: Flyhigh Works
    Windows · Mac

    Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

    Why similar: Adventure 56%, Indie 44%

  11. #11 Prison of Lies
    88% matchVery Positive97% of 88 reviews2026
    Dev: LockedOn
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In this short visual novel, four prisoners on death row are cleared of all charges. But the prison has a quota to meet. The four are put in a room and asked to decide among themselves over the course of an hour... who will be the one to die?

    Why similar: Adventure 100%

  12. #12 绝望监牢 / 絶望プリズン
    90% matchMostly Positive74% of 527 reviews2020
    Dev: STUDIO WASABIPub: Pujia8 Studio
    Windows

    在某个和平的学园内突然发生了分身灵( Doppelganger)事件, 主人公所在的神秘学研究部的部员们开始调查背后的阴谋。

    Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%

  13. #13 Prison Princess
    89% matchVery Positive83% of 358 reviews2020
    Dev: qureate
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    Lead two captured princesses to solve puzzles and escape the Demon King's castle. Your actions alone as a hero will decide their fates, and your own! A ghostly sliver of your former self, can you rescue the princesses? A new escape game experience, with cute girls, puzzles, and 'special' events.

    Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%

  14. #14 Prison Notes
    87% matchVery Positive96% of 51 reviews2025
    Dev: 闻岚工坊(Vinland Studio)Pub: Starsea Games
    Windows

    Prison Notes is a RPG with text-based ADV and cultivation elements. You act as a young migrant worker, wrongly imprisoned in the prison known as "The Coral Reef".What challenges and adventures are awaiting? Will you finally find a way out? Your choices and actions will decide the end of your story.

  15. #15 Kamikaze Cube
    89% matchMostly Negative34% of 94 reviews2017
    Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
    Windows
    Median: 0 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 24%

    Once a cube named Kamikaze decided to discover a dungeon but when he entered the den he realised that it wasn't a dungeon at all - it was the HOUSE OF DETENTION. Our hero, Kamikaze is a seasoned one but even for him these hell-like traps turned out to be a great challenge. Find the exit from this dungeon.

    Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%

  16. #16 Prison Loop
    86% 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: Adventure 100%

  17. #17 HANGMAN
    84% matchVery Positive83% of 77 reviews2024
    Dev: Pixel Poxet
    Windows

    A strange game of hangman with a strange man. Traverse through the darkness, letters, & watchful eyes to save your friend. Decode notes left behind to uncover the message that you never got, but should have had.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  18. #18 奇天烈相談ダイヤル
    83% matchVery Positive83% of 347 reviews2024
    Dev: 法螺会
    Windows · Mac

    矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー

    Why similar: Adventure 80.1%, Indie 19.9%

  19. #19 Dungeon Escape VR
    85% matchVery Positive82% of 195 reviews2017
    Dev: Silver Machine Studios
    Windows
    Median: 42 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    Dungeon Escape VR is an immersive escape-room puzzle game. To escape you need to solve the challenges and puzzles found in the dungeon.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  20. #20 The Glitch Prison
    84% matchMostly Negative34% of 61 reviews2024
    Dev: rentaka
    Windows

    Use the glitch you have discovered to break out of jail!

    Why similar: Adventure 78.8%, Indie 21.2%

  21. #21 Word Game
    80% matchVery Positive93% of 6,426 reviews2022
    Dev: Team9
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

    Why similar: Adventure 100%

  22. #22 Puzzle Box Palace
    82% matchVery Positive86% of 125 reviews2021
    Dev: SMU Guildhall
    Windows

    Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.

    Why similar: Adventure 58.4%, Indie 41.6%

  23. #23 A Random Maze 某个迷宫
    81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 539 reviews2021
    Dev: 幻想博物馆(Utopia Museum)
    Windows

    一个忘记自己姓名与过去的人,在突然出现的神秘人物的帮助下,从一个空无一人的医院开始探索自己的过去。只有取回真实,才能从这里离开,即使……真相不像你所期待的那样,他也依然盼望着他的未来。

    Why similar: Adventure 86.3%, Indie 13.7%

  24. #24 BUTTON PRISON
    79% matchVery Positive80% of 70 reviews2025
    Dev: daimaGAME
    Windows

    You find yourself trapped in a mysterious room upon awakening. Surrounding you are sparse pieces of furniture, mannequins, and countless buttons. Can you safely escape this room?

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  25. #25 The Raintime
    82% matchMixed69% of 55 reviews2020
    Dev: socah developmentPub: socah
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .

    Why similar: Adventure 55.4%, Indie 44.6%

  26. #26 Spacescape
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 72 reviews2018
    Dev: Silver Machine Studios
    Windows

    You are trapped on a space station far above the earth. Will you ever get home to earth again?

    Why similar: Indie 60.9%, Adventure 39.1%

  27. #27 Hargrave
    79% matchVery Positive93% of 267 reviews2020
    Dev: Disafter Games
    Windows

    Hargrave finds himself inside the walls of a mysterious labyrinth filled with strange robots. Find the way out, or find what's hidden deep inside.

    Why similar: Adventure 65.2%, Indie 34.8%

  28. #28 Unbound
    76% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: Primal Crowd
    Windows

    Help Mox break out from his unjust inprisonment. Navigate through a hazardous, futuristic city and outrun your pursuer to reach an off-world colony in this 2D precision-platformer!

    Why similar: Adventure 75.4%, Indie 24.6%

  29. #29 冷血症骰子
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 309 reviews2020
    Dev: CHARONPub: Pujia8 Studio
    Windows

    主人公目太郎,是一位因为犯下重罪而入狱的少年。 在狱中,一位神秘的男子提出了一个主意,二人一起逃狱,用骰子选出一个人来当帮对方逃跑的诱饵。 一次又一次败给男子的目太郎,进入了平稳但又扭曲的新世界。 在这些世界中,他将成为「私立高识学园」高中二年级的学生,与七七和雪丸成为发小。 接着,将被逐一出现的患有冷血症的少女们玩弄与迫害…… 他的命运,将由你决定——

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  30. #30 A Night in Prison
    77% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2023
    Dev: STuNTPub: STuNT
    Windows

    You come to your senses in a cell that looks like you are in some kind of prison. It's almost silent, but sometimes there are some sounds.

    Why similar: Adventure 100%

  31. #31 汉字大冒险
    76% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2022
    Dev: InsVolcStudio
    Windows · Mac

    汉字大冒险是一款以汉字组合为玩法的解密游戏。汉字与汉字间的合成,迸发出无限可能!

    Why similar: Indie 70%, Adventure 30%

  32. #32 困兽TrappedBeast
    75% matchMostly Positive75% of 60 reviews2024
    Dev: LIN ZHILONG
    Windows

    Detective Iver investigates the case of a missing girl. As the investigation deepens, Iver is unable to escape and the secrets behind it are slowly being revealed. Can they escape from that crazy world

    Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%

  33. #33 Shipwreck
    78% matchVery Positive83% of 261 reviews2015
    Dev: Brushfire Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Shipwreck is a top down adventure game in which you must travel the land, explore dungeons, and defeat monsters to earn safe passage off the island on which you are stranded.

    Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%

  34. #34 Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out
    72% matchVery Positive85% of 3,513 reviews2025
    Dev: Digital MelodyPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?

    Why similar: Adventure 53.5%, Indie 46.5%

  35. #35 Prison Girl
    78% matchMostly Negative25% of 85 reviews2021
    Dev: MA Game
    Windows

    The girl Mei is framed to kill, become the inmate of X prison. The player plays a girl in the prison to survive and eventually try to escape the prison.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  36. #36 Prison Life
    73% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,952 reviews2022
    Dev: AO Games
    Windows

    An online game that you'll play with 3-11 players as a Prisoner or a Guard and will try to escape or prevent escapes. Loot, Craft, and make your way to the exit, or investigate and arrest wanted players as a guard!

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  37. #37 Loop-Loop DX
    74% matchVery Positive98% of 447 reviews2020
    Dev: Alex Carpenter
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Far into the future, a galactic super prison known as "The Prisom" keeps the Galaxy's most dangerous criminals within it's colorfully crystalline walls. Escape this superstructure by blasting down prison staff, other criminals, and even... yourself.

    Why similar: Adventure 54.6%, Indie 45.4%

  38. #38 Escape from Kyoto House
    74% matchVery Positive93% of 163 reviews2020
    Dev: Taichi Games
    Windows

    Your party finds themselves trapped in a Japanese-themed room. Solve puzzles, crack riddles and discover hidden secrets in your adventure to Escape from Kyoto House!

    Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%

  39. #39 白昼梦 · 心象病院
    72% matchVery Positive84% of 251 reviews2024
    Dev: 林檎树Pub: Eternal Dream
    Windows

    This is a pixel style puzzle game, including a certain micro-horror elements. Truth is blind love. Retrieve your memory and escape from this horrible hospital.

    Why similar: Adventure 84.3%, Indie 15.7%

  40. #40 Homicipher
    68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,289 reviews2024
    Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamirror Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.

    Why similar: Adventure 100%

  41. #41 Homicipher: Demo
    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,631 reviews2023
    Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamera Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 36 minMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    Homicipher is a female-targeted language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.

    Why similar: Adventure 100%

  42. #42 KOEWOTAYORINI / 声之寄托
    73% matchVery Positive85% of 984 reviews2018
    Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 256.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    “喂喂,求求你啦!救救我!” ——你接到这样一个电话 发出这样的求救,给你打电话的人,是一名被监禁的少女

    Why similar: Adventure 63.9%, Indie 36.1%

  43. #43 VR Escape The Space Station
    75% matchMixed60% of 60 reviews2016
    Dev: weyha.com
    Windows

    You are trapped in the space station all by yourself. Need to find a way to get the hell out of there. Experience with HTC Vive, consists of 4 rooms full of puzzles. Every scene are elaborately designed including spaceship with zero gravity, outer space landscape corridor and all.

    Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%

  44. #44 Neglected
    71% matchVery Positive89% of 399 reviews2020
    Dev: Animalclaw Of DreamsPub: Refrigerator game lovers
    Windows

    Would you like to escape the crisis with your furry partner and escape from this "mysterious dungeon", or explore and understand the secret behind this mysterious underground facility?

    Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%

  45. #45 Alice and the Devil's Prison
    67% matchVery Positive88% of 112 reviews2026
    Dev: Tsukki's Tea PartyPub: OTAKU Plan
    Windows

    Escape adventure game. During a tea party, Alice and her friends become trapped in a world created by demons. Will they be able to escape this twisted realm safely?

    Why similar: Adventure 85.8%, Indie 14.2%

  46. #46 Escape Lala - Retro Point and Click Adventure
    71% matchVery Positive99% of 341 reviews2019
    Dev: DuckbearLab
    Windows · Mac

    You wake up inside a magical cave, can you escape? A nostalgic adventure game <3

    Why similar: Adventure 59.4%, Indie 40.6%

  47. #47 Prison Test
    73% matchMixed52% of 61 reviews2018
    Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
    Windows
    Median: 0 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 8%

    This is a test game in which you can learn life in the russian prison, prison customs, prison riddles and answers to them, find out who are the prisoners and what they are in prison for, learn the articles and so on.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  48. #48 I Got Trapped in the Succubus's Dream!
    70% matchMixed66% of 97 reviews2024
    Dev: karaage catapultPub: OTAKU Plan
    Windows

    The protagonist, trapped in the succubus's dream, cannot wake up. The only way to escape is to navigate through the traps set within the dream and find the exit. If you fall into a trap, you must start over to escape. Escape from the dream and make your getaway.

    Why similar: Adventure 79.9%, Indie 20.1%

  49. #49 그레텔과 윈슬로의 별장
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 391 reviews2022
    Dev: Team E.T
    Windows

    It's a story-based escape puzzle game. Gretel headed to Madame Winslow's Mansion on an errand by her parents. Following her parents' note, Gretel will stay at Madame Winslow's Mansion for three days to help her with her work. Help Gretel solve the mystery of the villa and escape safely.

    Why similar: Adventure 80.2%, Indie 19.8%

  50. #50 Penimorta
    71% matchMostly Positive77% of 268 reviews2021
    Dev: 0Dark&Nerdy
    Windows · Mac

    You are a Wizard. Being imprisoned in Penimorta, a maximum security prison, has little appeal. Naturally, you've decided to bust out. The problem is... between every floor of Penimorta is a Corporeal Beast. Can you escape?

  51. #51 Muffles' Life Sentence
    67% matchVery Positive97% of 184 reviews2025
    Dev: BossyPinoPub: Black Lantern Collective
    Windows

    Take back your identity in Muffles’ Life Sentence, a darkly comedic narrative adventure set in a prison where inmates are remade to match their crimes.

    Why similar: Indie 54.3%, Adventure 45.7%

  52. #52 words from pluto...
    66% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2026
    Dev: ThatMegalosaurus
    Windows

    An experimental platformer where words are tied to movement. Guide Pluto up the strange mountain and figure out what secrets are held within.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  53. #53 Trapped
    70% matchVery Positive82% of 168 reviews2019
    Dev: N4bA
    Windows

    You come to your senses in this place, you do not understand what is happening, but you know that it is better to get out of here as soon as possible

    Why similar: Adventure 55.5%, Indie 44.5%

  54. #54 海鳥野ガクの精神鑑定録
    67% matchVery Positive83% of 325 reviews2024
    Dev: いもチャイ屋
    Windows

    「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか?それとも……」 精神科医である道島(主人公)は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…!?

    Why similar: Adventure 77.1%, Indie 22.9%

  55. #55 Eternal Cave Escape
    69% matchVery Positive83% of 148 reviews2021
    Dev: HarderGaming
    Windows

    You find yourself stuck in a cave with nothing but your wit... and a pickaxe! As you climb your way out you'll find this is no ordinary cave.

    Why similar: Adventure 57.3%, Indie 42.7%

  56. #56 异化之恶〇Abnormal Treatment
    65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,609 reviews2019
    Dev: Eternal Dream
    Windows

    Strange events occur at a sanatorium for those with unusual abilities. Follow clues, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth. What will be released when all secrets are revealed? Goodness? Or… pure ”EVIL”?

    Why similar: Adventure 74.1%, Indie 25.9%

  57. #57 For the Fish in the Bottle
    62% matchVery Positive99% of 126 reviews2026
    Dev: makina game
    Windows

    In the vast desert, you discover a tiny fish sealed inside a small bottle. It seems to want something. Solve the puzzles to collect the items the fish desires.

    Why similar: Adventure 67.5%, Indie 32.5%

  58. #58 Back to the Dawn
    60% matchVery Positive94% of 10,367 reviews2025
    Dev: Metal Head GamesPub: Spiral Up Games
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.

    Why similar: Adventure 59.2%, Indie 40.8%

  59. #59 Escapeworld Dilemma
    68% matchMostly Positive74% of 103 reviews2021
    Dev: Sonoma Games
    Windows

    FREE TO PLAY: Kidnapped from your everyday life, you find yourself in a large theme park that feels more like an escape room. Solve puzzles, explore 12 themed islands, find resources, use your wits to escape.

    Why similar: Adventure 61.5%, Indie 38.5%

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