
A retro-sci-fi themed mystery investigation puzzle game. Search for clues across the solar system, gather intelligence using your cutting-edge investigation tools, and figure out what happened. When you find all 15 ships, you win!
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A retro-sci-fi themed mystery investigation puzzle game. Search for clues across the solar system, gather intelligence using your cutting-edge investigation tools, and figure out what happened. When you find all 15 ships, you win!

GET OUT!
A 2D noir, point and click game where you uncover clues and solve puzzles in a world of espionage and international intrigue.

Hold Me Still
"Hold Me Still" is a point-and-click puzzle mystery game where you investigate your friend's disappearance by exploring their house, collecting clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering the truth.
A 2D noir, point and click game where you uncover clues and solve puzzles in a world of espionage and international intrigue.
Why similar: Puzzle 47.9%, Casual 35.3%, 2D 15.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
"Hold Me Still" is a point-and-click puzzle mystery game where you investigate your friend's disappearance by exploring their house, collecting clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering the truth.
Why similar: Casual 40.9%, Puzzle 28.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, 2D 10%, Indie 3.3%
Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.
Why similar: Puzzle 39.4%, Retro 30.1%, Space 24.6%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Why similar: Puzzle 29.5%, Casual 28.9%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, 2D 12.1%, Space 10%
Machinika: Atlas is an indie puzzle game and is the direct sequel to Machinika: Museum, you play as a museum researcher who just land on Atlas. Will you unravel the mysteries of the alien vessel? Solve cryptic puzzles to find out what happened!
Error: Human Not Found is a visual-novel/puzzle game with portions of point-and-click adventure. Play as Grace and work to uncover the cause of death for the first AI to inhabit a physical body. Solve 4 types of computer-science based puzzles that increase in difficulty as the story progresses.
EXOTERRA: A Space Journey is a first-person science fiction puzzle game set aboard a stranded ship in the vast, dark expanse of outer space. Explore the HOPE-03 and uncover the mysteries it holds as you solve fully interactive escape-room-style chambers powered by a physics-based system.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 50.4%, Puzzle 30.3%, Casual 11.2%, Singleplayer 4.3%, Indie 3.8%
《REWIND》 is a hardcore text-based detective puzzle game containing nearly a hundred clues. Players need to carefully examine and deduce the clues to find the answer to the case.
Why similar: Puzzle 56.4%, Casual 34.1%, Singleplayer 5.1%, Indie 4.5%
Solve cozy, crafty whodunits. Puzzle your way through nine unique investigations – and use your noggin to make intelligent deductions. Explore the evidence, scrutinize statements, and connect the dots.
Why similar: Puzzle 54.6%, Casual 34.7%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 3%
10 CDs, 10 passwords. Find hidden messages, text, numbers to unlock next CD to continue your steganography puzzle journey.
Why similar: Puzzle 31.7%, Retro 28%, Pixel Graphics 22.5%, 2D 11.9%, Indie 4%
Find clues and solve puzzles to escape
Why similar: Puzzle 47%, Casual 45%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%
Tasked with finding humanity a new home, a lonely astronaut braves a desolate planet while making a fluffy friend along the way. homebound is a short 2D puzzle platformer that explores the feeling of home.
Why similar: Casual 32.3%, Puzzle 22.3%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Retro 11.7%, 2D 8.2%
Interstellar Logistics Inc. is an action puzzle game. The player shoots an object from Point A to Point B using the gravity of planets, stars, and black holes while hitting certain points along the way. There's a lot more to the game, but that is the basic idea.
Why similar: Casual 34.7%, Puzzle 27.5%, Space 26.3%, 2D 9.6%, Singleplayer 2%
Space Expedition is a 2D sci-fi platformer where you play as an astronaut who is sent to a space station to collect samples of mysterious dark matter. Space Expedition combines puzzle platforming, pixel art, and atmospheric adventures set in the style of 1980s sci-fi horror films.
Why similar: Space 35.4%, Pixel Graphics 34%, 2D 18.3%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 3%
As a private detective, you’ll crack word clues left by a mysterious informant, gather evidence, and uncover the truth hidden in the shadows.
Why similar: Casual 53.2%, Puzzle 40.7%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 2%
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 79.5%, Indie 13.1%, Singleplayer 7.4%
A detective game that combines written, audio, visual and meta-game puzzles to create an enthralling experience. It plays for roughly 2-3 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 56.1%, Puzzle 28.4%, 2D 10.4%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%
A relaxing, space-themed puzzle game where you fill a board using symmetrical figures, while uncovering a mysterious sci-fi story. All boards are hand-crafted for maximum enjoyment.
Why similar: Puzzle 33.3%, Space 29.5%, Casual 22%, 2D 15.2%
Uncover the lies. Free your mind. Veritas is a compact narrative puzzle game that asks: what is truth, and does it even matter?
Why similar: Puzzle 42%, Retro 17.2%, Casual 16%, 2D 15.2%, Singleplayer 4.9%
When the interstellar mission to colonize a new world goes terribly awry, the fate of the Letarri people falls into the hands of a lone adventurer. Now it's up to you to unravel the mystery of what happened. Can you save them and their mission, or is it already too late?
Why similar: Casual 36%, Space 28.2%, Puzzle 23.6%, Indie 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%
Seek out and collect bunny helmets scattered across the laboratory. But wait, bunny helmets with ears? Perhaps the veil of mystery will be lifted, revealing why we're collecting these ear-topped helmets?
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 33%, Space 21.3%, Puzzle 14.8%, Casual 12.6%, Indie 9.8%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47.7%, Puzzle 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, 2D 9.1%, Retro 7%
Planet RIX-13 is а 2D adventure, in which you play as a space explorer engaged in searching for planets potentially suitable for life.
Why similar: Puzzle 45.8%, Pixel Graphics 39.1%, Indie 15.1%
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 60%, Puzzle 27%, 2D 13%
An escape game set inside a camper trailer. Search for items, gather clues, solve puzzles, and find your way out in this short, casual experience.
Why similar: Puzzle 41.6%, Casual 41.4%, 2D 8.7%, Singleplayer 4.4%, Indie 3.8%
Collect clues, deduce the code, and defuse the bomb in 40 seconds.
Why similar: Casual 45.2%, Puzzle 33.8%, 2D 14.2%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%
Chapter 1 is now free! Relive 1980s nostalgia in this text parser driven graphic adventure game. You and your molluscan crew embark on an epic journey to find a new home world. In Chapter 1 - Intershellar, wake up from your long trip only to discover a saboteur has been at work.
Why similar: Space 25.5%, Retro 23.1%, Puzzle 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, 2D 9.4%
Your next job awaits in Karisvale, detective. Will you fulfill your duty? Or become lost in the mystery... Explore a retro top-down world, question its citizens, and collect hidden items to uncover Karisvale's dark secret.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 57.7%, Pixel Graphics 24.5%, 2D 13%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Bite Sized Puzzle is a point and click puzzle game about investigating your kitchen to see what secrets it holds!
Why similar: Puzzle 45.6%, Casual 35%, 2D 16.7%, Singleplayer 2.7%
An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.
Why similar: Space 41.2%, Puzzle 30.5%, Casual 21.1%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Grocket is a minimalist, precision-based adventure and puzzle game. To survive in space, you not only have to escape numerous dangers, but also prove your skills at playing with and against other players.
Why similar: Puzzle 21.3%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Retro 17%, Space 16.1%, Casual 13.5%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 71%, Pixel Graphics 19.1%, 2D 9.8%
Delve into a gripping world of puzzles, true ciphers on an old PalmPilot system. Will you uncover the Crypt Killer’s confession and bring him to justice, or will he escape the law?
Why similar: Puzzle 41.9%, Retro 24%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, 2D 13.7%, Indie 3.9%
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 53.5%, Puzzle 22.4%, Casual 14.3%, 2D 9.7%
Is a free hidden object game in which you have to find all the flying saucers in a large area. The flying saucers will be located in a variety of places, from the most visible to the barely noticeable places
Why similar: Puzzle 33.3%, Space 27.4%, Casual 23.8%, 2D 15.4%
Agent-00 is a Game of puzzles and secrecy in isometric view in which the player will have to infiltrate and uncover a secret project during the Cold War.
Why similar: Puzzle 50%, Indie 26.2%, Casual 17.4%, Singleplayer 6.4%
👨🚀🌌Join the cutest space adventure with Cats in Space! 🪐🚀 Explore charming hand-drawn space locations and adorable cosmo-cats on a quest to find 100 hidden kitties. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Why similar: Space 40%, Puzzle 27.7%, Casual 27.6%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
Why similar: Puzzle 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Retro 10.7%, Casual 7.2%, 2D 4.4%
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: Puzzle 55.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.8%, 2D 14.1%, Indie 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%
A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.
Why similar: Puzzle 50.9%, Space 28.5%, 2D 12.1%, Indie 5.5%, Singleplayer 3%
Merge planets together in this puzzle game with soft physics. Can you make it to the sun? Can you merge two suns? Find out for science!
Why similar: Puzzle 26.5%, Casual 21.4%, Pixel Graphics 19.2%, Retro 14.5%, 2D 6.9%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Puzzle 57.2%, Casual 38.5%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Dive into a hidden object adventure with unique tasks, puzzles, and a riveting story. Join elite detectives in a secret organization, uncover hidden treasures, and solve crimes across the globe.
Why similar: Casual 47.4%, Puzzle 38.1%, 2D 12.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%
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: Puzzle 31.2%, Pixel Graphics 26.8%, Retro 21.9%, 2D 13.6%, Indie 6.5%
Aliens are among us! Can you find traces of them on Earth, the moon, and the edges of the galaxy? Find all the clues to prove the existence of alien civilizations and discover how making fried eggs can end up in a monster attack!
Why similar: Puzzle 29.2%, Space 26.2%, Casual 25.1%, 2D 13.9%, Indie 3.1%
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.3%, Puzzle 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Casual 10.8%, 2D 7.3%
A Cosmic twist on a Suika-style game with space gravity. Help our little friend Sputnik on his journey to become the Sun.
Why similar: Casual 37.5%, Puzzle 27.1%, Space 17.7%, 2D 12.2%, Indie 4%
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 100%
Complete physics-based platformer puzzles as you venture deeper into an abandoned research facility responsible for developing ominously powerful quantum entanglement technology.
Why similar: Puzzle 36.4%, Casual 27.7%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, 2D 13.1%, Singleplayer 5.4%
In Shutter you play as Keith, a new employee that has arrived at the mysterious research center L.I.E. (Learn, Investigate and Exploit). Explore and solve puzzles with a camera that modifies objects using perspective. All in a space-age inspired setting.
Why similar: Puzzle 60.9%, Retro 21.5%, Indie 9.3%, Singleplayer 8.3%
🔍 Solve the mystery behind a shocking murder at Hotel Noir! 🕵️♂️ Search for hidden objects, uncover clues, and piece together the truth. But remember... trust no one!
Why similar: Casual 52.2%, Puzzle 36.4%, Retro 8.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%, Indie 1.4%
Restore ancient artifacts in the company of a cat!
Why similar: Puzzle 29.6%, Casual 27%, Retro 25.6%, 2D 14.2%, Singleplayer 3.5%
In an ancient riad once used as the base of a spy network, retrace the events and people tied to a forgotten tragedy. Your weapon? Names. Find them, write them, become them.
Why similar: Puzzle 82.2%, Indie 15.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%
A puzzle game with an eye in it. And it's free. The game, not the eye.
Why similar: Puzzle 41%, Casual 30.2%, 2D 19.9%, Singleplayer 4.4%, Indie 4.3%
Embark on a journey through tunnels, caves and ancient temples, solving puzzles and fighting all kinds of hostile creatures. Be smart - avoid traps and think carefully. They say it doesn't hurt ;)
Why similar: Puzzle 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 23.4%, Retro 22.2%, Casual 18.9%, 2D 7.1%
13: Origin is a web of clues that you must follow and not miss, as in most room escape/puzzle games. As you untie each knotted loop, you will realize how long and endless the thread you hold on to the end is.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 68.5%, Puzzle 30.3%, Indie 0.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as they solve intricate puzzles and begin unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
A hidden object mystery set in a haunting post-apocalyptic town. Search detailed scenes, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind a journalist’s disappearance. Every shadow hides a clue.
Why similar: Casual 55.5%, Puzzle 28.2%, Indie 12.3%, Singleplayer 4%
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.2%, Puzzle 24.7%, Retro 23.2%, Singleplayer 3.9%
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.3%, Puzzle 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, 2D 8.4%, Retro 7.8%