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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Difficult, Puzzle, Singleplayer.

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A difficult puzzle game about isolating yourself. Build a safe place, huddle up and get cozy.

Reviews: Very Positive — 97% — of 177 reviews
Released: 2018-10-16
Developer: Corey Martin
Genres: Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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    Why similar: Sokoban 44.4%, Difficult 24.1%, Puzzle 17.1%, Indie 14.4%

  3. #3 SOK
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 214 reviews2017
    Dev: Siberian Mouse
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    SOK is a sokoban classic puzzle game. The goal of the game is to move all the boxes to their positions. It's not as easy as it seems. The player can push one box at a time, but do not pull it off.

    Why similar: Sokoban 59.2%, Difficult 19%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 8.9%

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    Why similar: Sokoban 54.4%, Difficult 22.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Indie 8.6%

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    94% matchVery Positive99% of 375 reviews2024
    Dev: muratsubo Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Sokoban 60%, Difficult 20.9%, Puzzle 13.7%, Indie 5.4%

  6. #6 Pipe Push Paradise
    94% matchVery Positive96% of 200 reviews2018
    Dev: Corey Martin
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%

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    Why similar: Sokoban 51.7%, Difficult 18.5%, Indie 15.5%, Puzzle 14.4%

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    93% matchVery Positive99% of 294 reviews2021
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    Why similar: Sokoban 59.9%, Difficult 16.5%, Puzzle 13.6%, Indie 10%

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    92% matchVery Positive94% of 225 reviews2021
    Dev: NekolystPub: Digital Crafter
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    Median: 48 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%

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    Windows · Mac

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  10. #10 Lighton
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 60 reviews2020
    Dev: Waidy AndradePub: Cronostase
    Windows

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    Why similar: Sokoban 61.9%, Difficult 19.5%, Puzzle 12.1%, Indie 6.6%

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    89% matchVery Positive100% of 90 reviews2024
    Dev: Sunbird Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Play father hedgehog on a quest to bring his prickly children back home, in this wholesome grid-based puzzle.

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  12. #12 Stephen's Sausage Roll
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,964 reviews2016
    Dev: increpare games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    A simple 3d puzzle game.

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  13. #13 Invisibox
    90% matchVery Positive88% of 90 reviews2017
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    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Invisibox is a tough puzzle game where you have to solve sliding puzzles by controlling invisible boxes while avoiding various obstacles.

    Why similar: Indie 38.3%, Difficult 37.7%, Puzzle 23.9%

  14. #14 Alephant
    88% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2023
    Dev: Lucas Le Slo
    Windows

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  15. #15 Altered
    87% matchVery Positive100% of 124 reviews2021
    Dev: GlitchheartPub: Rooftop Panda
    Windows · Linux

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  16. #16 Sokobos
    86% matchVery Positive100% of 77 reviews2022
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  17. #17 Candle Prick
    86% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2022
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    Candle Prick is a crunchy pixel adventure about stabbing enemies and using them as extensions of yourself to solve increasingly complex puzzles

    Why similar: Sokoban 64.9%, Difficult 19%, Puzzle 12.1%, Indie 4%

  18. #18 Tametsi
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,437 reviews2017
    Dev: Grip Top Games
    Windows
    Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 61.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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  19. #19 Loophole
    83% matchVery Positive99% of 144 reviews2025
    Dev: Levi Pinkert
    Windows · Mac

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  20. #20 SOK MIN
    84% matchVery Positive93% of 115 reviews2018
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    Windows
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  22. #22 YANKAI'S PEAK.
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows

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    77% matchVery Positive94% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: Mat-RixPub: Pone Games
    Windows

    Run! The walls are shrinking! This is about solving puzzles by pushing boxes from collapsing secret room. Accurately plan your steps, avoid deep pits and traps, use polymer and portal wall in the room, and escape from the secret room to avoid being crushed into a puddle of flesh by the walls.

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    80% matchVery Positive98% of 53 reviews2017
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  31. #31 Wayout
    78% matchVery Positive88% of 1,175 reviews2016
    Dev: KonstructorsPub: Hook Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Relax, clear your mind and find the way out.

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  32. #32 Can of Wormholes
    75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 553 reviews2023
    Dev: munted finger
    Windows · Mac
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    Dev: Patrick Traynor
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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  34. #34 Cypher
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 934 reviews2018
    Dev: Matthew Brown
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%

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  35. #35 Cramped Room of Death
    76% matchVery Positive94% of 71 reviews2023
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    Windows

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  36. #36 Hade
    76% matchVery Positive90% of 332 reviews2016
    Dev: KirUn
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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  37. #37 Bean and Nothingness
    73% matchVery Positive99% of 212 reviews2021
    Dev: RBOR Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  38. #38 Baba Is You
    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 24,029 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  39. #39 SOKOBOT
    74% matchVery Positive92% of 50 reviews2022
    Dev: Alexander Taylor
    Windows

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    75% matchVery Positive91% of 277 reviews2015
    Dev: Nicolas Pierre-Loti-Viaud
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    At first sight, Cubot is a puzzle-game with a minimalist gameplay, just move color cubes towards tiles of the same color. It's really easy, but it will be a torture for your mind to complete all levels of the game because the apparent simplicity of the game is in contradiction with the complexity of the level-design.

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  41. #41 Ligo
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    Windows

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    73% matchVery Positive97% of 234 reviews2020
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    72% matchMostly Positive77% of 117 reviews2024
    Dev: Galactic Geckon
    Windows

    Backrooms Cats and Lava is an action-platformer with puzzle elements. Help a small cave dweller escape rising lava by moving boxes to create safe paths. Remember, the floor is lava—don't step on it!

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    73% matchVery Positive89% of 231 reviews2017
    Dev: Robert Alvarez
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.

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  45. #45 Sokobond
    72% matchVery Positive93% of 694 reviews2014
    Dev: Alan HazeldenPub: Draknek & Friends
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    70% matchVery Positive86% of 145 reviews2024
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    69% matchVery Positive93% of 109 reviews2022
    Dev: Solluco
    Windows

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    69% matchVery Positive94% of 51 reviews2023
    Dev: Mocha Moose Games
    Windows · Mac

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    70% matchVery Positive92% of 235 reviews2018
    Dev: Yunus Ayyildiz
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%

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  50. #50 Void Stranger
    65% matchVery Positive91% of 3,399 reviews2023
    Dev: System Erasure
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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    Why similar: Sokoban 66.4%, Puzzle 16.2%, Difficult 9.5%, Indie 7.9%

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    66% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2026
    Dev: WiseMonkeESPub: Wise Monke Entertainment Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Mate'Morphosis is a pixel art, chess-inspired puzzle game built around the concept of becoming the piece you capture. Outsmart each board, adapt to evolving mechanics, and hunt down the rival king across every stage.

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    71% matchMixed49% of 53 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 15%

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    63% matchVery Positive100% of 191 reviews2026
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    Why similar: Difficult 46.9%, Puzzle 35.1%, Indie 18%

  55. #55 Odd One Out
    68% matchVery Positive83% of 52 reviews2022
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    63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 775 reviews2024
    Dev: Hollow PondsPub: Finji
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    67% matchVery Positive93% of 451 reviews2018
    Dev: Maciej TargoniPub: Maciej Targoni
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    66% matchVery Positive90% of 87 reviews2022
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    70% matchMixed59% of 279 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 29%

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  60. #60 SOK MAX
    68% matchVery Positive86% of 85 reviews2018
    Dev: Siberian Mouse
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