- #1 Burn Me Twice
97% matchVery Positive82% of 268 reviews2020
Dev: Null Reference Studio
Windows
A narrative adventure that combines the exploration and investigation of the enigmatic town of Düstenburg and its people, with trials that test your knowledge about the case.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Magic 14.4%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Puzzle 9.7%
- #2 Dragon Maiden: Blossoms of the Past
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: 不兼容性工作室Pub: 2P Games
Windows
Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.
Why similar: Puzzle 20.3%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Adventure 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #3 Pages of Time: Prologue
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,961 reviews2022
Dev: Starbeings Studio
Windows
Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.
Why similar: Puzzle 41.1%, Story Rich 24.4%, Adventure 17.3%, 2D 7.2%, Singleplayer 5.6%
- #4 Mesmalie
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 924 reviews2026
Dev: Rain (orbitaldot)
Windows · Linux
MESMALIE is an occult adventure game. A magickal incident in your personal life brings you to a small witches' coven in the middle of nowhere. Here, you'll learn to tame your ability... though, not without some bumps along the way.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Point & Click 16%, Nonlinear 15.3%, Narrative 13.7% ★, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #5 DragonLoop: Prologue
94% matchVery Positive93% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: 沙因小分队
Windows
The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 54.5% ★, Time Travel 29.5% ★, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Adventure 2.2%, 2D 1.6%
- #6 The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
94% matchVery Positive93% of 6,312 reviews2023
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Magic 20.7%, Narrative 17.3% ★, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #7 Fate of Kai
93% matchVery Positive93% of 227 reviews2021
Dev: TRYLIGHT GAME STUDIOPub: TheGamePublisher.com
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative point-and-click adventure to uncover Kai’s fate.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 18.9%, Puzzle 11%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #8 HipWitch
92% matchVery Positive92% of 148 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Hip Sword
Windows · Mac
HipWitch is a chill puzzle game that invites you to explore a beautiful nature reserve. Play as Prom, a young witch helping a cast of quirky characters. Use a variety of spells, and the power of 90s dial-up internet to solve the tasks ahead!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.8%, Nature 21.3%, Story Rich 16.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, Exploration 10.7%
- #9 Rue Valley
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,147 reviews2025
Dev: Emotion Spark StudioPub: Owlcat Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Narrative 25.7% ★, Time Travel 17.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #10 Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood
91% matchVery Positive85% of 276 reviews2021
Dev: Devespresso GamesPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Scarlet Hood must lead a hapless Munchkin troupe through the Wicked Wood. Too bad the Black Witch, LeFaba, doesn't take too kindly to strangers gallivanting in her domain. Our fledgling witch soon realizes she's reliving the same day. Can she overcome the disaster that awaits at every turn?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
- #11 Whisker Witchery
90% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Mystic Moon Studios
Windows
Take the role of a cursed witch as she tried to become human once more! Navigate the cottage of your rival to locate the ingredients needed for the potion, avoiding her guardians and falling to the floor far below!
Why similar: Magic 42.7%, Female Protagonist 30.9%, Medieval 10.6%, Exploration 9.1%, Atmospheric 3.1%
- #12 Eternal Threads
89% matchVery Positive86% of 894 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmonaut StudiosPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.8% ★, Narrative 17% ★, Time Travel 14.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #13 Timelie
88% matchVery Positive94% of 2,530 reviews2020
Dev: Urnique Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.1% ★, Point & Click 18.3%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Puzzle 11.3%, Adventure 3.8%
- #14 TEST TEST TEST
87% matchVery Positive92% of 1,015 reviews2024
Dev: MojikenPub: Toge Productions
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21%, Time Travel 19.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Puzzle 11.7%
- #15 Chronigma
86% matchNo user reviews100% of 613 reviews2025
Dev: C3BGames
Windows · Mac
Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.5% ★, Time Travel 32.9% ★, Puzzle 9.8%, Multiple Endings 4.7%, Story Rich 4.5%
- #16 The Secret Order 4: Beyond Time
89% matchMixed66% of 269 reviews2016
Dev: Sunward GamesPub: Artifex Mundi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Escape from a time trap!
Why similar: Point & Click 27.3%, Puzzle 20.4%, Female Protagonist 17.5%, Adventure 16.8%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #17 Spellchanted 2D Hidden Object Puzzle Adveture Tile-Matching
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 191 reviews2024
Dev: Shaman Games Studio
Windows · Mac
Enter a magical world filled with legendary Fairy Tale characters. Become the greatest wizard. Help a young witch break an evil curse and save the Fairy Tale kingdoms!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Point & Click 22.9%, Magic 19.7%, Puzzle 12.2%, Medieval 8.9%
- #18 RewindGirl
84% matchVery Positive92% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: べすとまん
Windows
Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 50.6% ★, Time Travel 36.2% ★, Puzzle 10.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%, Adventure 1.3%
- #19 Mars Underground
85% matchVery Positive96% of 56 reviews2019
Dev: Matt Sanderson
Windows · Linux
Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked. Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Nonlinear 18%, Adventure 11.2%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #20 Whirlight - No Time To Trip
82% matchVery Positive94% of 153 reviews2026
Dev: imaginarylab
Windows
In the heart of Verice Bay, a brilliant idea takes shape in the hands of an eccentric inventor and an eclectic artist. Follow Margaret and Hector in a point-and-click graphic adventure that will take you to the edge of space and time to help them avert imminent danger.
Why similar: Time Travel 27.8% ★, Point & Click 23.6%, Puzzle 11.7%, Story Rich 10.1%, Female Protagonist 8.4%
- #21 Time Lock VR 2
84% matchVery Positive84% of 194 reviews2022
Dev: WR-VRGPub: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Mystical version of the Timelock VR Games series. The player has to free the soul of the ancestor imprisoned by the sorcerer in a magic stone. To solve riddles, you will need to move in time. Be careful, at the time of moving something may go wrong.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.4% ★, Magic 14.9%, Time Travel 13% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.1%, Puzzle 9.8%
- #22 Elsinore
83% matchVery Positive96% of 377 reviews2019
Dev: Golden Glitch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.
Why similar: Time Travel 23.3% ★, Point & Click 15.9%, Time Manipulation 14.7% ★, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #23 Inua - A Story in Ice and Time
82% matchVery Positive91% of 112 reviews2022
Dev: The Pixel HuntPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Inua is a narrative game in which three protagonists have their destinies intertwined decades apart in the same locations in the far north. Explore each era, collect ideas and manipulate their minds to change the course of history.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.2% ★, Point & Click 20%, Story Rich 9.6%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, Nature 7.8%
- #24 In Stars And Time
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,764 reviews2023
Dev: insertdisc5Pub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Why similar: Time Travel 46.4% ★, Story Rich 24.6%, Choices Matter 13.8%, 2D 7.3%, Atmospheric 4.6%
- #25 Escape from the Cursed Convent
81% matchVery Positive92% of 204 reviews2025
Dev: Ais Kacang StudioPub: 迷糊的安安
Windows
Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.5%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Puzzle 16%, Story Rich 12.5%, Medieval 12.2%
- #26 Chronoquartz
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 518 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Stairs
Windows
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
Why similar: Time Travel 42.2% ★, Puzzle 24%, Exploration 12.5%, 2D 8%, Adventure 5.9%
- #27 TSIOQUE
80% matchVery Positive95% of 1,911 reviews2018
Dev: OhNoo Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
TSIOQUE (pronounced: "chiock") is a dark but playful Point & Click adventure, hand-animated in meticulous, frame-by-frame 2D. Escape the clutches of an Evil Wizard and discover the secrets hidden within the spellbound castle of your ancestors.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.7%, Dark Fantasy 20.6%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #28 Future Proof
81% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2018
Dev: Silhouette Valley Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 42.2% ★, Time Manipulation 21.7% ★, Puzzle 13.5%, Adventure 7.2%, 2D 5.8%
- #29 The Day Before You Gone
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Aequalis Studio
Windows
An adventure shattering stereotypes, a psychological experiment forcing a struggle within oneself. The tale of a girl with magical abilities who loses her beloved. Will she have a chance to turn back time? It's up to you!
Why similar: Time Travel 32.5% ★, Magic 20.1%, Medieval 13.1%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #30 Down the Rabbit Hole Flattened
76% matchVery Positive91% of 324 reviews2025
Dev: Cortopia StudiosPub: Beyond Frames
Windows
Down the Rabbit Hole is an adventure set in Wonderland prior to Alice's arrival. You will guide a girl who is looking for her lost pet by solving puzzles, uncovering secrets and making choices about the story along the way.
Why similar: Point & Click 29.7%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Puzzle 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Adventure 8%
- #31 The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
76% matchVery Positive98% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Haunted Dude
Windows · Mac
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.4% ★, Nonlinear 17.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #32 Intruder In Antiquonia
78% matchVery Positive91% of 117 reviews2022
Dev: Aruma Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Intruder In Antiquonia is a narrative mystery adventure that will immerse you in the Internet-hostile town of Antiquonia. Sarah does not remember who she is and how she got there. Help her solve the mysteries of her past while exploring beautiful hand-drawn environments.
Why similar: Narrative 24.5% ★, Point & Click 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Puzzle 9.2%
- #33 Nomori: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive94% of 156 reviews2022
Dev: Enchanted Works
Windows
Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a shattered spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to move forward, whichever way that is.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.5% ★, Nonlinear 19.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Nature 9.1%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #34 Between Time: Escape Room
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 353 reviews2021
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?
Why similar: Time Travel 29.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Point & Click 21.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, Adventure 5.3%
- #35 Orten Was The Case
73% matchVery Positive95% of 165 reviews2023
Dev: Woodhill Interactive
Windows · Mac
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.7% ★, Nonlinear 18%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Puzzle 9.3%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #36 Alice Through the Fey Realm
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Mirrored CookiesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Alice Through the Fey Realm is an enchanting isometric narrative adventure that puts you into the shoes of Alice. A compelling adventure unfolds as you awaken in the mysterious Fey Realm and embark on a quest to discover the key to your journey home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Point & Click 24.1%, Magic 15.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Adventure 6.7%
- #37 Wytchwood
72% matchVery Positive93% of 4,798 reviews2021
Dev: Alientrap
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game set in a land of gothic fables and fairytales. As the old witch of the woods, explore a strange countryside, collect magic ingredients, brew sorcerous spells, and pass judgement upon a capricious cast of characters.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 25.2%, Magic 23.2%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Story Rich 11.5%, Exploration 7.5%
- #38 Time Lock VR 1
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 808 reviews2017
Dev: WR-VRGPub: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A VR puzzle game with sci-fi and escape room elements: control time, solve challenges, fight enemies, and explore worlds across different timelines.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 46.4% ★, Time Travel 25.7% ★, Puzzle 18.7%, Adventure 4.8%, Female Protagonist 2.3%
- #39 Reviver
71% matchVery Positive92% of 242 reviews2025
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 32%, Puzzle 24.1%, Story Rich 16.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Adventure 7.7%
- #40 Veneficium: A witch's tale
75% matchMixed63% of 73 reviews2021
Dev: Frostpetal Studio
Windows
Veneficium is a cute and magical 3D platformer in which you help Alice uncover the faith of her coven. Alice has to use her magic to interact with different objects within a vast and magical world to overcome puzzles and obstacles.
Why similar: Puzzle 31.7%, Magic 27.4%, Exploration 15.1%, Adventure 14.9%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #41 Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma
74% matchVery Positive84% of 445 reviews2014
Dev: Artifex Mundi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
In the face of the looming magical cataclysm, Ester Ambrose has to fight to save her future once again!
Why similar: Time Travel 29.4% ★, Point & Click 25%, Female Protagonist 20.4%, Puzzle 10.9%, Adventure 6.9%
- #42 Super Puzzled Cat
70% matchVery Positive99% of 210 reviews2025
Dev: Penguin Mug Games
Windows
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 68.7% ★, Puzzle 13%, 2D 6.8%, Adventure 4.7%, Multiple Endings 4.3%
- #43 The Button Witch
73% matchVery Positive100% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: DDreams Games
Windows
Adventure game full of magic, puzzles and cute characters, featuring a young witch-in-training and a talking ghost-squirrel!
Why similar: Magic 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Point & Click 19.3%, Puzzle 14%, Adventure 6.4%
- #44 URLate
69% matchVery Positive94% of 120 reviews2025
Dev: NoSepoGames
Windows
URLate is a short and free point & click adventure that immerses you in a hand-drawn world filled with puzzles and mysteries to solve.
Why similar: Point & Click 33.8%, Dark Fantasy 29.9%, Story Rich 9%, Puzzle 8.5%, Adventure 8.2%
- #45 DragonLoop
68% matchVery Positive92% of 641 reviews2025
Dev: 沙因
Windows
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 44% ★, Time Travel 30.9% ★, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Adventure 3.3%, Multiple Endings 3.1%
- #46 The Witches' Tea Party
72% matchVery Positive96% of 118 reviews2017
Dev: Rabbiton
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Witches Tea Party is a story-driven adventure game with a magical world and colourful characters. There will be small quests, collectables, mysteries, disturbing rooms and multiple endings. Having tea with witches is probably not an easy task...
Why similar: Story Rich 37%, Female Protagonist 36.1%, Adventure 26.9%
- #47 Sonata Theory
71% matchVery Positive93% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: Mayj Studios
Windows
2D/3D story-adventure game
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Female Protagonist 17.6%, Puzzle 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #48 Twelve Minutes
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 8,073 reviews2021
Dev: Luis AntonioPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
An interactive thriller about a man trapped in a time loop. Featuring James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Dafoe.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.7% ★, Time Travel 20.2% ★, Narrative 15.8% ★, Point & Click 11.9%, Puzzle 9%
- #49 Memory of Memorie : A Chill Story
67% matchVery Positive97% of 233 reviews2026
Dev: BeXide Inc.
Windows · Mac
A story-driven productivity adventure where you work alongside Memorie, an apprentice witch from another world. As you focus using the Pomodoro timer, the story progresses and her world gradually transforms. Turn solitary work into time shared with someone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Point & Click 25.7%, Magic 19.4%, Female Protagonist 18.2%, Adventure 3.8%
- #50 Inversed
68% matchVery Positive92% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: Tymedust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Point & Click 35.9%, Story Rich 12.1%, Atmospheric 7%, 2D 4.3%
- #51 Lord Ambermaze: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive96% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Potata CompanyPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Lord Amber maze: Prologue is a free entry to a turn-based dungeon-crawler set in a labyrinth of frozen time. Plan each move carefully, battle quirky monsters, and solve intricate puzzles, one dungeon at a time.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 37.6%, Choices Matter 34%, 2D 12.6%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Singleplayer 5.8%
- #52 You Can Save Everyone
69% matchVery Positive86% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Caleb Draper
Windows
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the console, and - just maybe - save everyone. But be careful. The locks aren't just there for you.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Point & Click 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Puzzle 9.1%
- #53 Time Master
69% matchVery Positive96% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: MorpheusZ
Windows · Linux
Zeno has accidentally banished his sister, so what now? Create paradoxes to help him complete trials and bring her back, obviously. Take on a wide variety of puzzles while collaborating with your past self and experiencing a fully-voiced cinematic story as you help Zeno bring her back.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 53% ★, Magic 19.2%, Story Rich 9.5%, Puzzle 8.5%, Exploration 4.8%
- #54 Loophole
66% matchVery Positive99% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Levi Pinkert
Windows · Mac
A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.2% ★, Time Travel 35.8% ★, Puzzle 13.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%, Atmospheric 1.4%
- #55 Ashina: The Red Witch
67% matchVery Positive92% of 228 reviews2022
Dev: Stranga GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Join Ash on the journey of an afterlife-time! Travel through a mysterious spirit world filled with strange creatures, interesting characters, and memorable moments! Ash must find her way back home and save her sister from the powers that be.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choices Matter 16%, Puzzle 14.3%, Story Rich 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #56 The Witch's Cauldron
66% matchVery Positive91% of 633 reviews2024
Dev: Harvey games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.
Why similar: Choices Matter 29.6%, Medieval 20.4%, Story Rich 19.3%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, 2D 8%
- #57 Cats in Time
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,415 reviews2021
Dev: Pine Studio
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!
Why similar: Time Travel 39.6% ★, Point & Click 29.3%, Puzzle 23.4%, Adventure 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #58 Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks
70% matchMixed64% of 239 reviews2015
Dev: 8Floor
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 99%
To free her beloved, the lawyer Kathleen Wilson has to hold her own investigation. She’ll have to solve a plethora of puzzles before she can learn what really happened.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.4%, Female Protagonist 23.4%, Puzzle 20.6%, Adventure 13.3%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #59 The Curse We Made
65% matchVery Positive89% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Potion Pixel
Windows · Mac
A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.2%, Puzzle 23.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.8%, 2D 6.5%