Games Like Hue

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: Platformer 28.1%, Puzzle 27.2%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Indie 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Hue, this game uses a core environmental mechanic—light and shadow—to reveal or hide paths in a surreal 2D world.

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 28.2%, Puzzle 23.3%, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Puzzle Platformer 10%, Indie 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a perspective-shifting mechanic that forces you to rethink 2D space, much like Hue's color-switching puzzles.

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.4%, Indie 18.2%, Adventure 18%, Puzzle 13%, Colorful 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a strong focus on color-based world interaction, allowing you to paint and manipulate your surroundings to solve puzzles.

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 23.1%, Great Soundtrack 17.7%, Platformer 14.2%, Puzzle 12.5%, Side Scroller 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a deformable world that you must manipulate to progress, mirroring the environmental puzzle-solving found in Hue.

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 29.9%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Platformer 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 12.7%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric puzzle-platformer introduces a cloning mechanic that requires similar spatial logic and environmental awareness.

Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.2%, Great Soundtrack 26.9%, Indie 17.9%, Adventure 13%, Casual 4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that focuses on pure logic and timing, capturing the satisfying flow of Hue's puzzle design.

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 31.7%, Puzzle 22.2%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Colorful 10.7%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a color-based logic puzzle game where you must switch between different states to interact with the world, closely resembling Hue's core loop.

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: Great Soundtrack 25.3%, Puzzle Platformer 24.7%, Platformer 14.8%, Puzzle 14.3%, Adventure 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes gravity-shifting mechanics on beautiful, abstract structures that demand the same kind of spatial reasoning as Hue.

A unique adventure game filled with beautiful puzzles all hand-drawn in an original 2D style . Out of Line follows the adventures of San in a quest to escape the Factory that was once home. Dive into a story set in a mysterious world that is revealed through multiple chapters.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.7%, Platformer 17.9%, Puzzle 16.9%, Colorful 7.2%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: This hand-drawn 2D puzzle-platformer features a unique spear-throwing mechanic that serves as the primary tool for environmental interaction.

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 32%, Puzzle 25.2%, Great Soundtrack 18.4%, Indie 11.5%, Adventure 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly clever room-based puzzle game where you manipulate the environment by entering and exiting nested rooms, testing your logic skills.

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34%, Puzzle 24.2%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 11%, Colorful 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game with a strong emphasis on musical puzzles and vibrant, hand-drawn environments.

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 24.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Platformer 17%, Adventure 10.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer where you use yarn to interact with the environment, offering a similar sense of discovery and charm.

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 23.5%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle 17.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.6%, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: You manipulate the world by painting different colors onto the ground, which grant unique physical properties to the environment.

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: Great Soundtrack 37.2%, Platformer 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%, Indie 8.4%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a visually stunning, atmospheric puzzle-platformer that uses color and light to convey emotion and guide the player through the world.

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: Platformer 23.4%, Great Soundtrack 22%, Puzzle 21.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%, Adventure 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: The game centers on shifting between 3D and 2D shadow-based environments, providing a similar 'world-altering' puzzle experience.

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 29.9%, Platformer 22.7%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Colorful 7.5%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven puzzle-platformer uses simple shapes and unique character abilities to solve environmental challenges.

In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.2%, Platformer 18.4%, Puzzle 16.5%, Colorful 9.9%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, atmospheric platformer that focuses on fluid movement and reactive, colorful environments.

Dive into the wondrous world of the Inops! The 2D puzzle based side scrolling adventure of dark and light. Battle the fire breathing demons and rescue the scattered Inops.

Why similar: Adventure 27.8%, Indie 24.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Side Scroller 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer with a great soundtrack and mechanics involving splitting and merging characters to navigate obstacles.

Amphora is a peculiar puzzle game that mixes story elements and physics. Amphora presents you with an unfamiliar world with a striking visual style inspired by all the shadow theatre traditions and colors of the world.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.1%, Great Soundtrack 27.9%, Indie 12.5%, Adventure 12.1%, Colorful 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-adventure that uses shadow-play and environmental manipulation to tell a mysterious story.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43%, Platformer 16.3%, Puzzle 16.2%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This classic puzzle-platformer uses time manipulation as its core mechanic, challenging players to solve puzzles through environmental experimentation.

Colored Effects is a puzzle platformer game where you use different abilities to advance through levels. Each color grants a unique ability. Switch between the colors and their effects to collect gems, defeat bosses, and solve fun puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.7%, Puzzle 19.6%, Platformer 17.5%, Side Scroller 7%, Colorful 7%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy puzzle-platformer that requires players to manage colors to interact with specific objects in the environment.

DYE is a challenging precision platformer where you help Hue rescue Pigments and defeat the nefarious Necrolights in order to restore color to the world! Jump, wall jump and float your way through 4 unique worlds with hundreds of challenges ranging from beginner to advanced level.

Why similar: Platformer 24.7%, Great Soundtrack 21%, Indie 14%, Adventure 14%, Colorful 12%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, fast-paced action-platformer that rewards players for mastering movement and environmental interaction.

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 36.1%, Platformer 31.8%, Indie 10.3%, 2D Platformer 6.4%, 2D 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A gravity-flipping platformer that requires precise timing and spatial awareness, appealing to fans of Hue's more challenging sections.

Color Symphony 2 is a puzzle action platformer that utilizes the ambiguity of color. Try to eliminate obstacles or find new paths by using color!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.5%, Platformer 22.7%, Puzzle 16.3%, Indie 11.5%, Side Scroller 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This platformer uses color as a primary mechanic, where changing colors alters the properties of platforms and hazards.

Blink into a world of after-images, where you can walk on light. Solve puzzles by manipulating lights and blinking between worlds. Explore hand drawn landscapes while uncovering the secrets behind this strange power.

Why similar: Adventure 53%, Indie 47%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that emphasizes quick thinking and environmental interaction to navigate through increasingly complex levels.

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.2%, Platformer 24.7%, Puzzle 23.1%, Colorful 7.7%, Adventure 7.4%

SLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full of cranky idiots and a vibe so thick you can taste it.

Why similar: Adventure 51.1%, Indie 48.9%

Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Platformer 18.6%, Puzzle 17.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Metroidvania 8.5%

Neon Warp is a simple yet very unique puzzle game.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.9%, Puzzle 21.4%, Indie 20.5%, 2D 10.4%, Colorful 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, color-based puzzle game that requires quick reflexes and pattern recognition.

Shift Happens is a cooperative platformer for two. You and a friend shift your mass, throw each other and puzzle your way through four stages of stylized imaginary worlds. Including the occasional backstabbing and taunting. Play with a friend on a couch, online or even special singleplayer levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.3%, Puzzle 18.1%, Platformer 15%, Side Scroller 7.4%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a character-swapping mechanic that changes your physical properties, requiring logic and coordination to solve puzzles.

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 35.5%, Platformer 21.8%, Puzzle 10.2%, Indie 9.7%, Adventure 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses gravity-defying beams to navigate, offering a similar blend of platforming and logic.

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 28.9%, Puzzle 19.8%, Great Soundtrack 19.2%, Indie 16.1%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that focuses on gravity manipulation and precise movement in a clean, 2D space.

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.7%, Puzzle 22.2%, Indie 10.8%, Adventure 8.6%, Story Rich 5.4%

Create your own paths combining the different elements available in this uniquely crafted world. Immerse yourself in a relaxing experience where your actions shape not only your surroundings but also your fate.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23.5%, Puzzle Platformer 22.9%, Adventure 14.7%, Indie 12.8%, Puzzle 12.5%

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 34.9%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle 18%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 7.8%

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: Great Soundtrack 21.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Platformer 20.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Puzzle 8.2%

"TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.8%, Great Soundtrack 18.3%, Platformer 16.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 9.7%

Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Why similar: Puzzle 54.4%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 17.7%, Story Rich 5.1%, Singleplayer 4.3%

A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.2%, Platformer 20.5%, Puzzle 17.5%, Colorful 9.3%, Adventure 9.1%

A nonviolent musical 3D Platformer The land of Groovy Hue was once bursting with music and color until the Great Slumber. Take control of Newt, a new tone in this musical land. Awakening this sleeping, silent world is Newt's rite of passage. Restore music, life, and color to the your world!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Platformer 18.8%, Adventure 17%, Indie 16%, Puzzle 13.9%

Smash skeletons, defeat dragons, and battle giant golems in Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure. Experience the acclaimed 2013 quest that started it all in this standalone campaign jam-packed with fantasy, fun, and mountains of magical loot!

Why similar: Adventure 70.1%, Story Rich 22.3%, Singleplayer 7.6%

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.4%, Puzzle 22.4%, Platformer 15.3%, Adventure 8.9%, Colorful 7.9%

An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.8%, Platformer 17%, Puzzle 17%, Adventure 7.3%, Side Scroller 5.7%

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

Why similar: Indie 36%, Great Soundtrack 31.2%, 2D 24.2%, Singleplayer 8.6%

Spectrum is a platformer set in an abstract world of stylized shapes and bright colors. Escape from 80 levels spread in 8 mysterious environments.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.4%, Platformer 26.7%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 15.7%, Side Scroller 6.4%

Catch a wave in this smooth sound-surfing platformer: Let ethereal tunes carry you fluidly through serene abstract landscapes, tune into soothing sound spheres and revel in a meditative journey of life.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24.7%, Platformer 19.7%, Colorful 8.7%, Adventure 8.6%

Lowglow - an audiovisual puzzle journey. Glowingly beautiful graphics combined with a dynamic audio environment make sure that Lowglow is an unforgettable, mind-bending experience for you!

Why similar: Puzzle 43.1%, Indie 25.5%, Adventure 22.6%, Casual 4.8%, Singleplayer 4%

Wield the awesome powers of Enril the wind spirit to guide and protect young Toku through this unique platform adventure.

Why similar: Platformer 27.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Adventure 17.4%, Great Soundtrack 12.6%, Puzzle 9.5%

A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 36.7%, Platformer 15%, Adventure 13.4%, Colorful 11%, Indie 10.1%

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 33.1%, Great Soundtrack 22.3%, Puzzle 21.9%, Indie 9.3%, Adventure 9.2%

A profound experience that carries players into an unknown and mysterious world surrounded by carefully designed puzzles...

Why similar: Puzzle 35.3%, Great Soundtrack 31.8%, Indie 23.2%, 2D 7.3%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Hoa is a beautiful puzzle-platforming game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.

Why similar: Platformer 31.9%, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, Adventure 14.3%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Indie 11.7%

MEANDERS is a sparkling adventure through a series of funny and relaxing challenges in a colourful setting.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, Great Soundtrack 21%, Puzzle 19%, Platformer 11.7%, Adventure 7.8%

All of the color has been wiped from Huey's world! Run, jump, dash, swipe, and pogo your way through this hand-drawn platformer to restore color to the land.

Why similar: Platformer 42.2%, Adventure 19.9%, Side Scroller 11.8%, Colorful 11.3%, Indie 6.9%

INK is a fast-paced platformer about using colorful paint to uncover your surroundings. Defeat all enemies in the room and reach the goal! However, the terrain is invisible, so you need to discover the terrain by physically bumping into it, by performing a double jump or by, well, dying.

Why similar: Platformer 48.7%, Colorful 17.1%, Indie 16.4%, Adventure 10.3%, 2D 5.6%

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 31%, Great Soundtrack 17.5%, Platformer 17%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 9.7%

Backworlds is a multi-dimensional puzzle platform game in which you explore by painting. Solve environmental conundrums by using each world’s physical properties to your advantage, and use your own creativity to craft original solutions to the game’s puzzles.

Why similar: Indie 30.7%, Puzzle Platformer 29.2%, Platformer 16.7%, Puzzle 16.7%, 2D 4.5%

Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.8%, Platformer 22.2%, Puzzle 19.6%, Colorful 7.6%, 2D 5.5%

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.3%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Puzzle 21%, Colorful 9.7%, Adventure 8.8%