
Join us for a walk down memory lane with never-before-released Lightmatter prototypes. Get a peak behind the game design curtains and learn how we made a first-person puzzle game about lights and shadows.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include 3D, Puzzle, Puzzle Platformer, Exploration.

Join us for a walk down memory lane with never-before-released Lightmatter prototypes. Get a peak behind the game design curtains and learn how we made a first-person puzzle game about lights and shadows.

Fluff labs
Help Fluff labs conquer the world (of the snack industry) by mixing chemicals. In this first person logic puzzle game you need to figure out what colours to mix, seperate and react to finish each level. In each level you race against time to satisfy corporate to advance to the next stage.

Oathbound
A first-person casual adventure/ puzzle game. You are immersed in a beautiful land with not much direction but one, find a way to climb the tower and meet the dying god. You will need to think outside the box, land puzzling jumps, and remember what you see to progress.
Help Fluff labs conquer the world (of the snack industry) by mixing chemicals. In this first person logic puzzle game you need to figure out what colours to mix, seperate and react to finish each level. In each level you race against time to satisfy corporate to advance to the next stage.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, 3D Platformer 16.6%, Puzzle 9.9%, Minimalist 8.3%
A first-person casual adventure/ puzzle game. You are immersed in a beautiful land with not much direction but one, find a way to climb the tower and meet the dying god. You will need to think outside the box, land puzzling jumps, and remember what you see to progress.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Puzzle Platformer 18%, 3D Platformer 17.9%, Puzzle 10%, Exploration 7.4%
In the Beginning was the Nothingness... Enter the Unknown, explore the Infinite, find your own SenS.
Why similar: Game Development 27.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.4%, Minimalist 7.7%, Action-Adventure 7.4%
Haut is an adventure puzzle climbing game where you journey to find your brother. Traverse ancient landmarks, uncover treasures, and experience breathtaking landscapes.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.5%, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, 3D Platformer 13.6%, Action-Adventure 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
Do Up is a minimalist, troll-like 3D parkour game. Your goal? Finish in the shortest time possible.
Why similar: Game Development 24.1% ★, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, 3D Platformer 12.9%, Minimalist 8.3%
Discovery Yard Investigation is an investigation game. You will be a detective and will have to solve the mysteries, puzzles and explore the scenarios to try to find the clues and solve the cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Investigation 12.2%, Action-Adventure 12%, Puzzle 9.8%
An experiential linear narrative walking sim
Why similar: Game Development 27.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Emotional 10.6%, Minimalist 10.3%
Work your way through the city by day and navigate strange dreamscapes by night, exploring your memories and recalling what was lost. Dwalm is an adventure platformer that takes you through both childish dreams and traumatic memories alike.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, 3D Platformer 21%, Investigation 11.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Action-Adventure 8.9%
Unwalkable is a silly physics based open-ended puzzle platformer where you control a wobbly character. Without just one way to solve puzzles, you must use your imagination and ingenuity to create solutions to unthinkable problems.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.3%, 3D Platformer 14%, Puzzle Platformer 12.5%, Investigation 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11%
An environmental puzzler with magical plants, mixing effects, and organic exploration
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.6%, 3D Platformer 15.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Investigation 9.5%
The Hobo Complex is a first-person psychological horror game delving into drug addiction, homelessness and the reasons that might have caused it. Traverse varied, eerie settings while uncovering the truth behind where your girlfriend went after leaving you.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Action-Adventure 12.6%, Emotional 8.8%, Stylized 8.2%
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: Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, 3D Platformer 17.4%, Minimalist 8%, Exploration 6.9%
Traverse a distant world and discover the parallel journeys of a young woman returning home and an astronaut stranded on a desolate planet. Breathe, explore, and uncover how their stories intertwine across landscapes of loss and hope, and what it means to finally let go.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, Walking Simulator 20.6%, 3D Platformer 20.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Puzzle 9.5%
A wave of disappearances. A rabbit blamed. As fear turns the apartment into a cage of paranoia, a venomous rumor takes hold. But dig deeper, and you'll find a truth far more sinister than any beast—a reality colder than murder.....
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, 3D Platformer 14.7%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Adventure 8.6%
CAWEZ's Puzzlebox: HIRAETH is a game about mind-bending puzzles and unique platforming challenges, all with a dreamy atmosphere and physics-defying mechanics.
Why similar: Game Development 28.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, 3D Platformer 15%, Minimalist 9.9%, Futuristic 9.3%
Step into the subconscious of Clemens in this short, narrative-driven 3D platformer. Solve puzzles, uncover buried memories, and decide how his story ends.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.6%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, Adventure 11%, Exploration 8.7%
You are young man, whose grandfather has shrunk down to use a ‘lab rat’ in his size changing experiments. With the crazy genius grandpa constantly watching, you must complete all of the puzzles in front of him if he is to ever to return to full size – and normal life!
Why similar: Game Development 22.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, 3D Platformer 15.6%, Investigation 8.5%, Puzzle 8.4%
"Collapse Of The Midnight Sun" is a cozy indie game with metroidvania and time loop mechanics that is less than one hour long.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, 3D Platformer 13.3%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
You find yourself in a pitch-dark world. Avoid dangerous events, restore memory, and escape from the “Mystery Zone”.
Why similar: Programming 26.5% ★, Walking Simulator 17.1%, 3D Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle 11.4%, Adventure 8.1%
A first-person thriller exploration game, based on a true story. Centered around the memory-driven nightmares of a young woman who has been imprisoned by her childhood trauma. Release all the memories locked in and beware of the creatures of the night.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.6%, 3D Platformer 13.5%, Investigation 10.1%, Minimalist 9%
Explore a mysterious, ever-expanding basement in this first-person platformer with puzzle elements. What starts as a simple search turns into a thrilling descent. Can you find your way back out?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.8%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, 3D Platformer 15.6%, Action-Adventure 11%, Puzzle 8.5%
After centuries of slumber, Rek awakens to find his beloved Nilo missing. Travel through ancient pyramids, oasis paths, and forgotten ruins, mastering three unique forms to overcome challenges and defeat the guardians standing in your way.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, 3D Platformer 20.4%, Puzzle 14.1%, Logic 13.9%, Adventure 8.2%
Slip into the silence of the suburbs - break into houses, outsmart wary residents, and find unconventional paths to your objectives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Walking Simulator 23.7%, Investigation 11.4%, Puzzle 11.1%, Adventure 10.7%
The setting is a hotel lobby—an “Exit 8”-like game. There are multiple correct patterns, and you must memorize them each time. A guaranteed brain overload.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35%, 3D Platformer 26.4%, Investigation 20.9%, Adventure 9.3%, 3D 7.5%
Talk is cheap. Trust is earned. You are stuck on The Destin, a forsaken starship on the brink of oblivion that is controlled by Novah, a sentient AI who holds the key to your survival. Befriend, manipulate, deceive, and persuade your way to freedom in this sci-fi narrative adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Investigation 13.7%, Emotional 10.5%, Puzzle 9.3%
Alone in the Grey is a first person adventure puzzle game where the player must escape from a UFO they have mysteriously awoke in. Uncover clues and solve puzzles to escape and find out the reason for your capture. Hack terminals and find batteries to obtain freedom.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24%, Puzzle 11%, Exploration 9.8%, Minimalist 9.6%
Welcome to the Unfinished Game™ Testing facility! As our new tester, you will have to make your way through a series of unexpected experiments in this first-person adventure. Small puzzles, platforming, meta gameplay and a group of silly NPC awaits you in this unpredictable factory.
Why similar: Game Development 35.3% ★, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, 3D Platformer 14.1%, First-Person 6.6%
"IMPOSSIBLE ROOMS: No Way Out" is a cooperative first-person puzzle game for 2–4 players. Face deadly traps, tricky logic puzzles, and unique mechanics as a team. Only those who think and act together will find the way out of eight completely different rooms...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, 3D Platformer 19.2%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Futuristic 9%
Sometimes you encounter anomalies. Find them or none and react correctly to go back to normal days.
Why similar: Investigation 24.1%, Puzzle 15.2%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, 3D Platformer 11%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%
A unique video game, with many entertaining levels with realistic physics, realistic liquids and very relaxing sounds!
Why similar: 3D Platformer 25.7%, Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Puzzle 10.3%, Emotional 5.4%
A journalist driven by family legacy set to explore the Belgharh station. While the whole world ages, the station remains trapped in 1940s, following a tragic derailment. Explore a perfectly preserved snapshot of the past, face the heavy atmosphere of a terminal stuck in time, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Exploration 10.7%, Puzzle 9.4%
You play as an explorer in Hash Company’s high-tech world: master diverse energy blocks to escape, use lasers for transmission or teleportation, traverse terrain with teleport blocks, and build energy networks with receivers and refractors for creative puzzle-solving.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, 3D Platformer 19.6%, Walking Simulator 16.7%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle 8.7%
Rayborne is a puzzle game built around lasers, physics, and real-time light simulation. Solve handcrafted challenges by shaping light itself while uncovering the mystery behind a questionable AI research facility.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.6%, 3D Platformer 15%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Puzzle 9.9%
"Intuitive Level Design" is an interactive course designed for aspiring game developers. Find and activate commentary nodes scattered throughout the game to learn about the core principles of intuitive level design, illustrated with dozens of practical examples. Learn while having fun!
Why similar: Game Development 49.2% ★, Walking Simulator 21.8%, 3D Platformer 7.8%, Stylized 6.7%, Minimalist 6.2%
"MAZEMAZE" is an adventure game where you explore maps, find objects, and progress through the story. One day, the protagonist jumps off a building and finds themselves in a mysterious space. They are guided through corridors in a maze where various things exist.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, 3D Platformer 18.3%, Puzzle 9.4%, First-Person 9.3%
Earn your humanity
Why similar: Game Development 32.3% ★, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Investigation 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Emotional 10.3%
In this 3D puzzle you will need to turn your perception of the world. After all, the actions of the game take place in the laboratory on the study of gravity changes. Forget about the attraction to the ground.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.2%, 3D Platformer 21.5%, Puzzle 13%, Minimalist 11%, Adventure 10.8%
Trapped on the tracks with an earthquake threatening your life, you must escape from the subway tunnel and station about to collapse. Must solve the puzzles, avoid, collect things and use the enviroment at your favor. Play alone this First Person Horror puzzle game and try to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Investigation 11.5%, First-Person 9.6%
Wield your Balearic sling in a first-person puzzle narrative adventure through ancient ruins. Uncover a lost civilization and reactivate forgotten machines to reveal the secrets buried beneath Ciudadela.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.4%, Puzzle 15.4%, Exploration 10.7%, First-Person 10.6%, Adventure 10.1%
《述梦》is a first-person 3D game that combines word puzzle solving with survival. You will search for supplies to survive on a cursed island and explore the memories of the dead and free their souls.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Puzzle Platformer 14%, 3D Platformer 13.3%, Investigation 11.6%
Blinghead is a dark, surreal first-person psychological puzzle game. Trapped in a shifting, dreamlike world, you must rely on logic and keen observation to solve each mystery and move forward.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Puzzle Platformer 23.2%, Puzzle 12.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Exploration 9.9%
Seoyul falls into a deep, melancholic sleep and awakens in the mysterious “Shadow Sea.” There, she meets Shady, a gentle shadow spirit. She explores ethereal landscapes, overcoming platforming challenges and puzzles, using the power of light to fend off lurking shadow monsters.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, 3D Platformer 14.6%, Exploration 11.6%, Adventure 11.3%
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: Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Investigation 13.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, Exploration 7.8%
You're just an ordinary guy, coming home after a long day. Beer in hand, TV on... but suddenly it runs out. Time to leave your cozy apartment, go down the stairs, cross the street, and get to the supermarket to find the best beer in the world. But isn’t this a strange dream? When will it end?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, 3D Platformer 18.9%, Puzzle 11.1%, Exploration 7.9%
The objective of the game is to find what you are looking for, which appears randomly on the map. Please get a hint and proceed through the map relying on that information, or else you may get a hint, which you can use to recommend the game to your advantage.
Why similar: Game Development 22.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, 3D Platformer 16.8%, Action-Adventure 11.6%, Puzzle 9.2%
In this game, players will play the role of Afdal, a person whose fate is the opposite of Rahmad's, so one night Rahmad asks Afdal to help look after the house, but unfortunately, everything is not fine, because of the terror that Afdal is experiencing.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Investigation 11.3%, Action-Adventure 11%, Puzzle 8.6%
This is a first-person adventure game where you simply make your way through a white room. How did I end up lost in a place like this?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, 3D Platformer 21.9%, Action-Adventure 16.2%, Adventure 11.4%, Exploration 8.8%
Escape room, puzzle box, first person adventure game where you explore a mysterious island and summon its Gods.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20%, 3D Platformer 19.5%, Action-Adventure 12.9%, Puzzle 10.5%, Logic 9.3%
Jasper's Dream is a first person puzzle game set in a techno mystic Egyptian world. Help Jasper, a robot programmed to create games, by solving his mind-bending puzzles. You will also explore an abandonned futuristic pyramid and unravel its many mysteries.
Why similar: Game Development 31.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20%, Futuristic 12.4%, First-Person 8.1%, Exploration 7.5%
SoS is a puzzle and first-person platform game, where you play as L-064N, who wakes up in The ION laboratory, place where you will have to go through different logical trials created by the artificial intelligence of the place, in order to recover memories and understand this enigmatic world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.8%, 3D Platformer 22.9%, Puzzle 16%, First-Person 11.4%, Action-Adventure 7.8%
The Books Tale: A Hop Adventure is a game where you help Verbum save a library from creatures that threaten the interdimensional knowledge books. Overcome levels in a world made of blocks and explore unimaginable worlds to gather the energy necessary to purify them.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.7%, 3D Platformer 17.7%, Action-Adventure 14.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Exploration 8.2%
A first-person psychological walking simulator where you awaken in a distorted game world without memory, uncover fragments of your past, and stop your evil counterpart before she escapes into the real world.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.8%, Puzzle 12.8%, Minimalist 11.5%, Adventure 11.5%, Exploration 9.9%
Modify the world around you with pseudocode as you journey through blended realities and discover why Frank became a game developer in the first place.
Why similar: Game Development 29.1% ★, Programming 21.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Logic 9.3%
Memory has weight. The departed are not gone. Step into a village drowned by flood and memory, and search for the final answer about guardianship and farewell among the shattered past.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Investigation 10.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Exploration 8.8%
A vibrant platformer with unique graphics and catchy chiptune soundtrack! Dodge treacherous traps and obstacles, overcome only by your agility and quick reflexes. Don’t miss the chance to test your abilities and become a true master of jumping! 🏃♀️
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, 3D Platformer 21.8%, Puzzle 10.4%, Exploration 9.6%, Minimalist 9.2%
An immersive storytelling experience that gives you the freedom to roam and explore a large and mysterious building at your own pace while an interwoven narrative plays out around you. Rewind time and watch each story from every angle.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Stylized 11.5%, Emotional 9.2%, First-Person 7.3%
Use WSAD keys to move and mouse to look. It's simple. Our fearless hero-androir get stucked into the labyrinth.You are to help him to find the way. You'll come across incessant mazes and you are to overcome it. You'll need a planty of patience to find the way out and don't die on your way. Good Luck on Your journey!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26%, Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, 3D Platformer 17.7%, Puzzle 11.8%, Logic 8.5%
You wake up on an unknown island, surrounded by mysterious puzzles. Each solution reveals new secrets, bringing you closer to your escape... or your fate.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.6%, Action-Adventure 14.5%, Exploration 13.2%, Puzzle 13%, Logic 8.8%
A parallel narrative exploring the life of an Otter leading animals to a healing tree, and Aaron a man trying to love himself again.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, 3D Platformer 17.9%, Action-Adventure 12.2%, Emotional 8.2%
Explore a dark reality, discover a forgotten ritual, interact with the world around you, solve ancient puzzles, platform treacherous underground chambers, and feel the terror. Survive the night in this interactive haunted house narrative adventure from a first-person perspective.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.4%, Investigation 18.3%, Exploration 8.7%