Games Like Ilamentia

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 25.4%, Puzzle 21.4%, First-Person 13.3%, Abstract 12.4%, Exploration 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy non-Euclidean geometry and discovering mechanics through experimentation.

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: Psychedelic 20.9%, Surreal 19.3%, Abstract 16%, Puzzle 10.3%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the abstract, surreal aesthetic and mind-bending spatial puzzles that define the Ilamentia experience.

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 25.7%, Psychedelic 24.7%, Puzzle 15.7%, First-Person 12.5%, Psychological 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully uses perspective-based mechanics to create surreal, dreamlike puzzles that challenge your perception of reality.

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: Surreal 24%, Abstract 20.8%, First-Person 12.8%, Puzzle 12.8%, Psychological 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to reshape the world by placing photographs into the environment, offering a highly creative approach to first-person puzzle solving.

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 31.3%, First-Person 16.5%, Exploration 13.6%, Colorful 7.7%, Surreal 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Ilamentia, it focuses on silent, environmental discovery where the player must decipher the rules of the world through observation.

NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Why similar: Abstract 22.1%, Surreal 21.1%, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 11.5%, Psychedelic 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same sense of vast, abstract, and atmospheric exploration within a mysterious, minimalist environment.

Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.

Why similar: Psychedelic 21.9%, Surreal 19.9%, Abstract 15.1%, First-Person 8%, Puzzle 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a surreal, dreamlike exploration game that focuses on abstract environments and mysterious, shifting mechanics.

Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.

Why similar: Surreal 22.3%, Abstract 19.3%, Puzzle 18.4%, Exploration 11.4%, First-Person 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist, abstract puzzle game relies on atmospheric exploration and environmental cues rather than explicit tutorials.

Lingo is a first person word puzzle game with a large, abstract world to explore. With its epiphany-driven gameplay and impossible geometry, Lingo provides a unique and nonlinear experience.

Why similar: Surreal 25.7%, Abstract 20.1%, Puzzle 16.6%, First-Person 14.4%, Exploration 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, first-person puzzle game that focuses on exploration and deciphering abstract rules within a mysterious world.

MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Abstract 23.6%, Surreal 15.5%, Puzzle 13.6%, Exploration 11.5%, First-Person 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the joy of discovery and abstract exploration in a mysterious, space-faring context.

MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

Why similar: Surreal 36.4%, Puzzle 21.7%, First-Person 14.3%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines surreal, atmospheric environments with first-person puzzle mechanics that manipulate the world around you.

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Puzzle 33.7%, First-Person 17.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, philosophical first-person puzzle experience that rewards curiosity and logical experimentation.

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: Surreal 24.2%, Puzzle 14.7%, First-Person 13.9%, Mystery 10%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a beautiful, atmospheric first-person puzzle experience that relies on shifting between parallel realities.

Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.1%, First-Person 22.2%, Indie 11.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%, Mystery 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This recursive puzzle game uses scale and perspective to create surreal, mind-bending scenarios that feel very similar to Ilamentia.

From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.

Why similar: Puzzle 43.5%, Exploration 21.1%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Indie 9.8%, Great Soundtrack 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features brilliant, world-within-a-world mechanics that reward the same kind of lateral thinking found in Ilamentia.

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 26.5%, Puzzle 15.4%, First-Person 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 10.3%, Exploration 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It encourages creative, first-person exploration and puzzle-solving using unique geometry-based mechanics.

Cylne is a first person surreal exploration game having a poetic and philosophical side. Explore and feel unreal worlds filled with environmental enigmas to try to achieve the chapter called "The Choice"...

Why similar: First-Person 16.8%, Puzzle 16.8%, Surreal 13.7%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Exploration 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a quiet, first-person exploration experience centered around solving abstract puzzles in a mysterious setting.

Fabric is a first person puzzle game in which you bend spacetime to solve challenging puzzles and complete glitchy-themed voxel based levels.

Why similar: First-Person 25.8%, Puzzle 24.9%, Great Soundtrack 22.6%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on first-person, spatial puzzle-solving within a minimalist environment that feels very much in line with Ilamentia's design.

After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.

Why similar: Psychedelic 27.1%, Surreal 21%, Puzzle 11.4%, First-Person 8.3%, Exploration 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends exploration of alien landscapes with unique, discovery-based puzzle mechanics.

A first-person puzzle game. Simply walk to the door.

Why similar: Surreal 23.8%, Puzzle 22.1%, Abstract 21.8%, First-Person 15.6%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, abstract first-person puzzle game that prioritizes environmental discovery over explicit instructions.

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

Why similar: Abstract 37.2%, Puzzle 29.2%, Indie 17%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract, minimalist puzzle game that relies on visual and auditory cues to guide the player through its surreal levels.

A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.

Why similar: Psychedelic 27.5%, Surreal 24.2%, First-Person 9.9%, Psychological 9.1%, Puzzle 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, psychedelic first-person adventure that focuses on exploration and abstract puzzle elements.

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.2%, First-Person 15.5%, Exploration 12.6%, Mystery 11.8%, Colorful 9%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on exploring ancient, mysterious environments to solve puzzles that require careful observation.

The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Why similar: Puzzle 35.9%, First-Person 26%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a solid first-person puzzle experience that challenges the player to understand the mechanics of each new area.

From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.

Why similar: Surreal 33.1%, Puzzle 19.4%, Exploration 14.2%, First-Person 10.8%, Mystery 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a unique painting mechanic to reveal a surreal, hidden world, emphasizing discovery and exploration.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Puzzle 34.5%, First-Person 33.2%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for first-person puzzle games, offering a perfect blend of mechanics, humor, and environmental storytelling.

A Surreal Puzzle Shooter Adventure Fueled By Madness!

Why similar: Psychedelic 18.7%, Surreal 17.5%, Abstract 17.1%, Puzzle 8.7%, First-Person 8.6%

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

Why similar: Puzzle 33.1%, First-Person 19.1%, Indie 17.6%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features clever, first-person, environmental puzzle-solving that rewards players for experimenting with new tools.

Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Why similar: Exploration 23.4%, First-Person 19.1%, Atmospheric 15.5%, Abstract 15.4%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a unique point-cloud visualization mechanic to explore dark, abstract environments, creating a very distinct atmosphere.

Pneuma: Breath of Life forces you to think outside the box through a narrated story of self-discovery, whilst exploring the ontological mystery of the breath of life. Features award winning voice actor 'Jay Britton' as Pneuma.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.1%, First-Person 29.3%, Great Soundtrack 19.7%, Indie 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a philosophical, first-person puzzle game that uses the player's perspective to alter the environment.

Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...

Why similar: Psychedelic 24.8%, Surreal 18.3%, Abstract 16.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, First-Person 7.9%

Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.

Why similar: Puzzle 80.4%, Indie 19.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game forces you to manipulate your camera angle to change the 2D world into a 3D traversable space, mirroring the perspective-based puzzles of Ilamentia.

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: Surreal 28.3%, Abstract 17.8%, First-Person 15.2%, Puzzle 14.7%, Exploration 10.3%

Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...

Why similar: Psychedelic 25.1%, Surreal 18.8%, Abstract 16.4%, Puzzle 9.8%, First-Person 8.4%

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: Abstract 23.9%, Puzzle 22.2%, First-Person 20%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Atmospheric 10.3%

In Frame of Mind, you are placed in a world where logic is escaping you. Each area of the game defies reason, requiring you to think outside the box in order to solve the illogical and escape madness.

Why similar: Psychedelic 24.4%, Surreal 23.8%, First-Person 12%, Puzzle 10.6%, Exploration 9.7%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Puzzle 18.2%, Surreal 17.2%, First-Person 16.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Exploration 9.8%

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 29.3%, Puzzle 21.7%, Indie 19.9%, Atmospheric 15%, Difficult 8.8%

FPP puzzle game where the TIME is the COLOR. The colors you see are not just the art style, they represent the time in specific point on the level. Time and space are connected and moving through a level changes the time. Learn more about the unique mechanics from the second video.

Why similar: Psychedelic 33.4%, Surreal 22.8%, Abstract 10.8%, Indie 8.2%, Puzzle 6.5%

EQI is a trippy first-person arcade game with spatial puzzles, and a synthwave soul. You find yourself in a digital world that twists and changes around you, challenging your senses, focus, and reflexes. Interface with the great mystery and transcend.

Why similar: Surreal 20.5%, Psychedelic 19.9%, Abstract 13.7%, First-Person 12.1%, Puzzle 10%

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: Abstract 25.1%, Surreal 18.3%, Puzzle 15.6%, Mystery 8%, Exploration 7.4%

.T.E.S.T: Expected Behavior is a first-person brain twister with a sci-fi plot. On top of logic, you'll need a fast reaction speed, "outside the box" reasoning, and the skill to adapt to unfamiliar situations.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Surreal 27.6%, First-Person 13.1%, Sci-fi 12%, Indie 10%

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: Great Soundtrack 25.2%, Puzzle 17.9%, Indie 16.9%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Sci-fi 11.9%

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: Surreal 31.5%, Puzzle 21.4%, Exploration 12.7%, Difficult 11.8%, Colorful 11.8%

Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.

Why similar: Surreal 26%, Psychedelic 21.1%, Abstract 16.2%, Puzzle 11.6%, First-Person 7.9%

Explore a mystical, ever-changing dungeon in this isometric puzzle-adventure game. Master self-transmutation abilities and solve increasingly complex challenges as you uncover the secrets of your past.

Why similar: Surreal 39.3%, Puzzle 20.8%, Exploration 16.3%, Mystery 15.3%, Atmospheric 5.4%

Your way to freedom only involves your intelligence and the puzzles!

Why similar: Abstract 20%, Psychedelic 19.3%, Puzzle 15.7%, First-Person 15.3%, Exploration 9.6%

The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!

Why similar: Puzzle 30.7%, Great Soundtrack 23.5%, Indie 22.6%, Atmospheric 16%, Action 7.1%

Explore a world like no other, where your keyboard becomes a level, and each key represents a room on that level. You’ll face various logic puzzles, challenging arcade levels, cunning enemies, and unexpected surprises.

Why similar: Abstract 24.2%, Puzzle 23.5%, Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Indie 15.9%, Difficult 13.3%

Will you be able to break the vicious circle? Can you regain control? Experience the surreal adventure filled with many puzzles and psychedelic visions.

Why similar: Psychedelic 31.1%, Surreal 27.5%, Puzzle 13.6%, First-Person 7.9%, Exploration 7.2%

I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.7%, Great Soundtrack 36.2%, Indie 15.9%, Difficult 11.2%

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: Puzzle 54.1%, Indie 45.9%

Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 13.6%, Puzzle 13.1%, Indie 12.9%, Exploration 10.9%, Mystery 10.7%

POP: Methodology Experiment One is an experimental game by Rob Lach which was designed music first, with the gameplay and aesthetic derived from the creative flow of the music production process. What emerged is an emotional psychedelic roller-coaster of interactive vignettes.

Why similar: Psychedelic 56.6%, Great Soundtrack 20.8%, Indie 17.2%, Action 5.4%

CUCCCHI is a game where you explore beautiful dioramas and go through dangerous and trippy labyrinths, in a journey inside the paintings of Enzo Cucchi.

Why similar: Psychedelic 28.1%, Surreal 24.2%, Abstract 20.6%, Exploration 9.1%, First-Person 5.6%

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

Why similar: Surreal 23.7%, Abstract 18.9%, Puzzle 14.8%, First-Person 11.6%, Exploration 11%

„First person platforming gameplay at its very best!“ Construct: Escape the System is a sci-fi themed first person platformer that sees you trapped in a computer system, trying to escape. Explore the system and discover the 8 empowering 'ability orbs'.

Why similar: Abstract 20.6%, Surreal 19.3%, First-Person 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Puzzle 7.9%

Discover what lies beyond our reality with Alchemy. A portal-like experience that will challenge you to think with potions while trying to solve the mysteries of this strange new place.

Why similar: Abstract 38.8%, Puzzle 25.8%, First-Person 19.1%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Action 5%

Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.

Why similar: Surreal 24.4%, Psychedelic 17.5%, First-Person 11.9%, Great Soundtrack 11.3%, Exploration 8.7%

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 46%, Puzzle 18.8%, Mystery 15%, Indie 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.8%