Games Like LIMBO

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 34.7%, Dark 13.7%, Platformer 12.9%, Puzzle 8.5%, Horror 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Playdead's follow-up most closely recreates LIMBO's bleak visual storytelling, tense traversal, brutal deaths, and carefully staged environmental puzzles.

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.1%, Dark 14.5%, Horror 12.6%, Puzzle 9.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its wordless escape through a grotesque, oversized world delivers the same vulnerable-child perspective and dark puzzle-platforming tension.

Little Nightmares II is the second game in a series that has thrilled and captivated millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive this critically acclaimed entry in the most charming horror series ever made.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, Dark 18.2%, Horror 16.3%, Puzzle 13.7%, Atmospheric 9%

Why You'll Like It: This expands the sinister-child-in-a-hostile-world formula with stealth, light puzzle-solving, and cinematic chase sequences.

In the wake of catastrophe find the means to make your family whole again.

Why similar: Dark 28.7%, Puzzle 21.1%, Atmospheric 19.5%, Cinematic 8.1%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: From a Playdead co-founder, this atmospheric side-scrolling sci-fi journey uses minimal dialogue, environmental obstacles, and unsettling imagery in a very LIMBO-adjacent style.

Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.5%, Platformer 23.3%, Puzzle 14.2%, Indie 7.9%, Atmospheric 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A near-perfect fit for players seeking silhouetted 2D traversal, a silent child protagonist, grim industrial environments, and physical puzzles.

Bramble The Mountain King is a grim adventure set in a world inspired by dark, Nordic fables. Explore the beautiful yet dangerous and twisted land of Bramble in your endeavour to rescue your sister. Traverse a wondrous landscape and survive deadly encounters with Bramble's many hideous creatures.

Why similar: Dark 33.9%, Horror 24.3%, Atmospheric 18.7%, Cinematic 10.4%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark Scandinavian fairy-tale world follows a child through disturbing monsters and environmental challenges, though in a more three-dimensional format.

A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.7%, Platformer 15.5%, Dark 11.6%, Puzzle 7%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This explicitly LIMBO-like silhouette platformer combines dangerous traps, strange creatures, and environmental puzzles in a dark handcrafted world.

After decades of toil, an old machinist plots his escape from Communism, through manipulation and scheming. Along the road, he befriends the most unlikely creature, an abandoned robot. Could they solve the puzzles and flee this bleak world together?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.2%, Platformer 14.1%, Dark 11.8%, Puzzle 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This bleak industrial puzzle-platformer shares LIMBO's monochrome presentation, oppressive world design, and emphasis on escaping deadly machinery.

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 37.1%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 7.2%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its melancholic 2D journey blends platforming with clever color-manipulation puzzles and a mysterious, hostile fantasy setting.

The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Platformer 15.7%, Dark 11.7%, Puzzle 11%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its black-and-white dystopian platforming, oppressive allegorical setting, and visual puzzle sequences closely echo LIMBO's mood and composition.

Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.9%, Platformer 19.6%, Puzzle 10.8%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric puzzle-platformer follows a boy searching for someone he loves through a dark afterlife-like world with LIMBO-inspired presentation.

Creepy quest with the atmosphere of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Go through a dangerous adventure filled with puzzles and challenges! Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.9%, Platformer 13.8%, Dark 12.9%, Puzzle 9.5%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This short, hand-drawn dark-fantasy adventure focuses on a child navigating traps, puzzles, and unsettling storybook horrors.

Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Traverse a haunting world set in 1939 Germany in search of a mysterious girl with rabbit ears. Utilize a little bunny in creative ways to solve puzzles. Levitate sheep, use them as torches or wolf bait and make your way through a dangerous land.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Indie 17.1%, Platformer 13.5%, Dark 12.5%, Puzzle 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark puzzle-platformer centered on a child and a magical rabbit, featuring ominous forests, traps, and environmental problem-solving.

Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.3%, Platformer 18.9%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Side Scroller 6.4%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark storybook platforming adventure about a captive child, mixing environmental puzzles with an ominous narrator and dangerous fairy-tale world.

In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.8%, Platformer 14.4%, Dark 11.8%, Puzzle 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A somber 2D puzzle-platformer built around gravity shifting, death, and introspective environmental storytelling.

OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Platformer 14.1%, Dark 12.7%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Puzzle 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its monochrome minimalist world and momentum-based black-and-white mechanic provide a more abstract but visually compatible puzzle-platforming experience.

In a world torn between nature’s grace and cold machine invasion, one girl and her companion must rely on their bond to survive and protect what they hold dear. Their story of hope, loss, and love will stay with you long after the journey ends.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.6%, Platformer 16.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Side Scroller 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its quiet cinematic journey, environmental puzzles, and vulnerable young protagonist create a gentler but similarly wordless companion to LIMBO.

DARQ tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and decipher the meaning of the dream.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.8%, Dark 17.5%, Puzzle 11.1%, Horror 9.9%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its silent protagonist, surreal nightmare spaces, and environmental puzzles offer a more overtly horror-focused take on LIMBO's oppressive tone.

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: Puzzle Platformer 29%, Platformer 24.3%, Puzzle 17.7%, Dark 7.8%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its shadow-based puzzle-platforming uses light and darkness as core mechanics, delivering the kind of stark, cerebral challenges LIMBO fans may enjoy.

An ex-minister ventures through the frozen depths of Hell in search of his kidnapped daughter.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.6%, Dark 16%, Platformer 12.8%, Puzzle 8.3%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A father’s journey through a bizarre frozen hell mixes dark storybook imagery, exploration, and light puzzle-platforming.

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: Puzzle Platformer 28.5%, Atmospheric 20.1%, Platformer 18.8%, Indie 8.3%, Puzzle 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is less threatening than LIMBO, but its near-wordless emotional storytelling, elegant 2D platforming, and evocative visual world make it an excellent atmospheric alternative.

The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.1%, Puzzle 11.5%, Surreal 9.1%, Platformer 8.3%, 2D 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its monochrome Escher-like spaces turn perspective and gravity into clever puzzle-platforming challenges with a suitably surreal mood.

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 Platformer 32.9%, Puzzle 20.4%, Platformer 19.6%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its small, vulnerable protagonist navigates hazards through tactile physics puzzles and a melancholy wordless world, albeit with a warmer tone.

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 Platformer 34.2%, Puzzle 23.7%, Platformer 16.6%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although set in space, its lonely atmosphere and ingenious environmental puzzles make it a strong match for LIMBO's isolated, thoughtful side.

Selma and the Wisp is an astonishing platform game with a particularly eerie feel to it. Densely packed with logical puzzles and unexpected obstacles, the game incorporates innovative gameplay, low-poly models and an spectacular animations.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.2%, Platformer 17.4%, Dark 11%, Indie 8.5%, Puzzle 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its silhouette art, lonely atmosphere, and indirect control of a fragile glowing companion give it a distinctly LIMBO-like feel.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.4%, Platformer 16.4%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Puzzle 12.7%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sparse post-apocalyptic journey substitutes vehicle puzzles for platforming while retaining LIMBO's quiet loneliness and environmental storytelling.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45%, Platformer 18.6%, Puzzle 16.1%, Indie 7.4%, Adventure 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its color-switching puzzle mechanic makes for a brighter take on the same deliberate 2D environmental puzzle-platforming structure.

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.2%, Puzzle 20.7%, Dark 12%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Indie 6.4%

A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.

Why similar: Platformer 41.2%, Indie 21.1%, Atmospheric 15.3%, 2D 6.9%, Difficult 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This hand-animated side-scroller captures the feeling of being small and vulnerable in a beautiful but hostile natural world full of predators and traps.

A lonely kid desperately tries to escape his dark world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.1%, Dark 19.2%, Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle 11.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%

A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.

Why similar: Platformer 50.5%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Adventure 13.6%, Atmospheric 9%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A bleak side-scrolling survival platformer where a lone protagonist crosses ruined cityscapes, avoids deadly threats, and solves traversal obstacles.

Cast into an ancient crypt, survive the horrors that dwell below, and ascend from despair with your unexpected companion in this short 2D puzzle platformer. Take risks to evade the petrifying gaze from beyond the dark.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.5%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle 13.1%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Horror 5.9%

Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Why similar: Atmospheric 29.1%, Puzzle 25.4%, Adventure 17.2%, Indie 11.9%, Platformer 11.8%

Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Why similar: Horror 34.6%, Dark 18.2%, Puzzle 16.4%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Surreal 4.8%

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: Puzzle Platformer 39.1%, Puzzle 21.9%, Surreal 12.7%, Horror 6.9%, Physics 5.5%

Explore terrifying liminal spaces. Horror walking simulator with reality-bending platforming and supernatural threats. Get lost between dimensions.

Why similar: Platformer 30.9%, Puzzle 21.4%, Dark 12.2%, Adventure 10.9%, Atmospheric 8%

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

Why similar: Platformer 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 25%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Puzzle 6.4%, Adventure 5.5%

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: Puzzle Platformer 33.8%, Puzzle 13.6%, Surreal 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Indie 8.6%

A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

Why similar: Puzzle 57.5%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Dark 7.5%, Horror 6.5%, Indie 5.4%

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Platformer 13%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Surreal 8.8%

Grimind is a 2D, physics based, adventure, platform game in horror/creepy theme. Grimind casts you into forgotten caves and ancient crypts, without memories. While being there you have to demonstrate great manual skills to pass obstacles and solve non trivial puzzles to get out of scary environment and additionally discover what are you...

Why similar: Platformer 42%, Indie 15.2%, Horror 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Adventure 7.7%

And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48.2%, Platformer 19%, Puzzle 9%, Indie 4.5%, Physics 4.5%

Rumbral is a dark, puzzle platformer set in a seemingly forgotten world. Find your way in this desolated place while trying to recover your memories and find out who you really are.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.7%, Platformer 18.9%, Dark 16.3%, Puzzle 11.6%, Horror 5.7%

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Join Max on his great adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.3%, Platformer 21.7%, Puzzle 10.4%, Adventure 6.6%, 2D 1.3%

A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you further into the darkness. Equal parts rage-game, claustrophobic nightmare, and descent into a forgotten folktale...

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.1%, Dark 14.3%, Horror 6.9%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Difficult 5.8%

When everything seems hopeless a child is awakened by the whispers of the last leaf, drawn into an imaginary world. Unleaving invites the player into a narrative-driven puzzle platformer where each challenge unfolds within a hand-painted landscape, exploring perception and meaning

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Dark 16.3%, Platformer 13.9%, Puzzle 9.2%, Surreal 8.3%

Anoxemia is a story-driven exploration game that puts you in control of the scientist Dr. Bailey and his operations drone, ATMA. Search the ocean floor as you discover and extract samples from the bowels of the underwater caves. Danger lurks in each passageway.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.4%, Dark 13%, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 8.6%, Atmospheric 6.4%

💀🧩🕹️ Beyond The Darkness is a horror adventure game with puzzles where you help little girl Milly battle nightmares in the darkness to find her missing family. You will find yourself in bizarre worlds of memories, distorted by fears, and your only weapon will be the light of a small lamp...

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.2%, Horror 16.7%, Dark 13.6%, Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 8.6%

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Why similar: Platformer 53.5%, Indie 10.6%, 2D 9%, Side Scroller 7.5%, Atmospheric 3.9%

Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.

Why similar: Horror 42%, Atmospheric 15.6%, Dark 14.2%, Indie 9.4%, Puzzle 8.6%

Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.

Why similar: Platformer 30.2%, Puzzle 20.6%, Indie 20.1%, Adventure 15.5%, Atmospheric 7%

A tough platformer following a girl diving over the heads of terrifying creatures and bouncing off walls to traverse a mysterious, unsettling world that's so much bigger than her: the "world between all worlds"

Why similar: Platformer 42.9%, Horror 15.5%, Atmospheric 15%, Surreal 12.2%, 2D 8.8%

2D puzzle platforming adventure with a heavy story about life and psychology told without words.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 72.9%, Indie 11.4%, Adventure 8.7%, 2D 6.9%

There’s no place like home - and yours is no home at all. Play as Rosa, a neglected child trying to escape her abusive family. Sneak out, but be ever so quiet. Mom is listening, dad is angry, and your big sister is always watching…

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.1%, Platformer 13.1%, Horror 12.2%, Puzzle 5.6%, Surreal 5.4%

A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.1%, Dark 15.6%, Platformer 11.3%, Puzzle 11%, Horror 6.8%

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.9%, Dark 14.7%, Platformer 13.6%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Puzzle 6.9%

A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Why similar: Adventure 68.2%, Platformer 12.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Puzzle 5.3%, Indie 3.9%

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 33.1%, Platformer 15.6%, Dark 10.1%, Puzzle 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.4%