Games Like Loophole

Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect.

Why similar: Time Travel 71.1% ★, Puzzle 19.5%, Indie 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive experience for time-travel puzzles involving paradoxes and interacting with past versions of yourself.

Could time go backwards? Meet me at NooN is a time manipulation turn-based puzzle-platformer with Tenet inspired mechanics. Control two characters, create perfect time loops and solve brain melting time puzzles.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.8% ★, Sokoban 24.9% ★, Grid-Based Movement 21%, Logic 14.8%, Puzzle 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a core mechanic of cooperating with your past self to solve grid-based puzzles, mirroring the primary loop of the seed game.

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

Why similar: Sokoban 43.2% ★, Logic 17.7%, Minimalist 14.1%, Puzzle 10.6%, Difficult 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its recursive box-in-box mechanics offer a deep, minimalist logic puzzle experience that fans of grid-based brain teasers will appreciate.

Push, slice, ingest, flip, and squish worms in this puzzle game in which you play as a little sentient tin can.

Why similar: Sokoban 42.9% ★, Grid-Based Movement 19.6%, Logic 17%, Puzzle 11%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly clever grid-based puzzle game that focuses on spatial manipulation and logical movement.

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: Difficult 48.5%, Puzzle 36.8%, Indie 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game utilizes recursive logic and spatial manipulation that provides a similar level of brain-bending complexity as Loophole.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Sokoban 30% ★, Difficult 20.1%, Puzzle 17.6%, Logic 17.2%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same spirit of rule-bending logic and difficult, non-linear puzzle solving that makes Loophole so rewarding.

Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.

Why similar: Time Travel 24.4% ★, Time Manipulation 17.5% ★, Grid-Based Movement 13.9%, Logic 11.1%, Isometric 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends surreal isometric perspective with time and space manipulation to create a unique puzzle experience.

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: Time Manipulation 39.7% ★, Time Travel 30% ★, Logic 14%, Puzzle 11.5%, Colorful 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a classic of the time-manipulation genre, it perfectly captures the feeling of rewinding time to solve complex environmental puzzles.

Protecting nobles from mud may look simple on the surface, but the intricate cape arranging puzzle mechanics ensure steadily increasing difficulty. Join the Knights on their quest to preserve dignity, and mindmuck is practically guaranteed! Playtime 10-35h.

Why similar: Sokoban 31.6% ★, Logic 12.9%, Difficult 11.5%, Isometric 10.9%, Grid-Based Movement 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game features complex sokoban mechanics where you must manipulate the environment to help characters cross obstacles.

Dungeon and Puzzles is a dungeon adventure themed Sokoban game. The movement and direction are restricted, and the adventurer's ability can be changed by equipment at hand. Think through every step, destroy every monster and find a way to the end of the dungeon where the treasure awaits.

Why similar: Sokoban 47.9% ★, Logic 18.9%, Difficult 16.6%, Puzzle 10.1%, Cute 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, grid-based sokoban game that requires precise movement and logical planning to clear each room.

A simple 3d puzzle game.

Why similar: Sokoban 36.8% ★, Difficult 30.5%, Puzzle 23.4%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the gold standard for difficult, grid-based sokoban puzzles, it offers the same level of challenge as Loophole.

Place your faith and embrace the Void.

Why similar: Sokoban 65.6% ★, Puzzle 15.8%, Difficult 9%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep, grid-based logic puzzles that reward careful observation and experimentation.

"Thermodynamic" puzzle where Maxwell's demon does work of block-pushing. Deal those hot blocks with cold blocks so that the demon doesn't get burnt.

Why similar: Sokoban 39.4% ★, Grid-Based Movement 17.2%, Logic 15.5%, Difficult 14.4%, Puzzle 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult sokoban-style game that focuses on strict logic and grid-based constraints.

A difficult open world puzzle game about plumbing.

Why similar: Sokoban 45.2% ★, Difficult 17%, Grid-Based Movement 16.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging grid-based puzzle game that focuses on moving objects into specific configurations to solve logic puzzles.

Toroban is an infinitely wrapping puzzle game.

Why similar: Sokoban 33.4% ★, Time Manipulation 22.1% ★, Grid-Based Movement 12.2%, Logic 10.6%, 2.5D 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A modern sokoban title that offers non-linear exploration and complex grid-based challenges.

SOKOBOT is an open-ended puzzle game where you place down cute robots, give them commands, and create infinitely-looping assembly lines that combine shapes together!

Why similar: Logic 20.5%, Difficult 16.5%, Isometric 13.6%, Sokoban 11.5% ★, Minimalist 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines grid-based movement with automation logic, appealing to players who enjoy the technical side of Loophole.

Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.

Why similar: Sokoban 38.3% ★, Grid-Based Movement 15.6%, Difficult 13.6%, Minimalist 11.4%, Puzzle 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a 3D take on sokoban mechanics that requires significant strategic thinking.

An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

Why similar: Sokoban 52.7% ★, Difficult 18.5%, Puzzle 12.3%, Strategy 4%, Cute 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: An excellent open-world sokoban game that emphasizes spatial logic and clever movement.

Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.

Why similar: Sokoban 42.5% ★, Puzzle 13.1%, Grid-Based Movement 11.2%, Minimalist 9.8%, Logic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle game that focuses on exploration and logical progression through a mysterious world.

Parcel is a brain-twisting puzzle game where unique character abilities are used in unison to solve interlocking laser conundrums. Switch between members of your colorful team of postpeople and make your way through over 120 futuristic mind-benders!

Why similar: Sokoban 37.8% ★, Grid-Based Movement 12.2%, Difficult 11.2%, Isometric 8.6%, Logic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, minimalist sokoban game that emphasizes precise movement and puzzle-solving.

Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

Why similar: Difficult 32.9%, Minimalist 21.9%, Puzzle 17.3%, Cute 6.9%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, grid-based puzzle game that requires careful planning to connect paths efficiently.

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?

Why similar: Time Travel 46.4% ★, Minimalist 18.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Top-Down 10.7%, Colorful 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art puzzle game that utilizes time and exploration to create engaging, logic-based scenarios.

Zeno has accidentally banished his sister, so what now? Create paradoxes to help him complete trials and bring her back, obviously. Take on a wide variety of puzzles while collaborating with your past self and experiencing a fully-voiced cinematic story as you help Zeno bring her back.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.5% ★, Sokoban 26.4% ★, Logic 13%, Difficult 9.7%, Isometric 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It incorporates time manipulation mechanics into a puzzle-platformer framework for those who enjoy the time-bending theme.

Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.3%, Difficult 31.3%, Cute 14.5%, Indie 10.8%, Singleplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A stylish, grid-based puzzle game that focuses on efficient movement and pathfinding.

A word-less abstract puzzle game about language.

Why similar: Sokoban 33.8% ★, Logic 14.6%, Grid-Based Movement 14.3%, Minimalist 11.1%, Difficult 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet logic-driven sokoban game that features clean, 2D grid-based movement.

Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.

Why similar: Logic 40.6%, Minimalist 36.1%, Puzzle 18%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Indie 2%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy puzzle game where you must deduce the rules of the world, much like the paradox-solving in Loophole.

Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.

Why similar: Difficult 39.9%, Puzzle 25.7%, Sokoban 18.2% ★, Indie 5.9%, Cute 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A notoriously difficult grid-based puzzle game that requires extreme spatial awareness and planning.

Master time in this story-rich time-bending puzzle game. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?

Why similar: Time Travel 31.7% ★, Time Manipulation 21.5% ★, Sokoban 18.1% ★, Logic 10.9%, Difficult 8%

Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

Why similar: Time Travel 47.4% ★, Logic 19.5%, Puzzle 14.7%, Top-Down 12.9%, Cute 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle game that features clever, logic-driven mechanics in a minimalist setting.

A lovely logical puzzle game about the many-worlds interpretation and quantum mechanics.

Why similar: Sokoban 36.5% ★, Time Manipulation 27.9% ★, Logic 15.5%, Puzzle 8.2%, Top-Down 2.7%

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 62.1%, Difficult 17.8%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Singleplayer 7.5%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features advanced time-recording mechanics that allow you to solve puzzles by interacting with past versions of yourself.

Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 24%, Isometric 17.7%, Logic 16.5%, Minimalist 14.7%, Difficult 12%

Why You'll Like It: Its isometric grid-based movement provides a similar spatial challenge to Loophole.

A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 21.2% ★, Logic 20.2%, Difficult 14.7%, Minimalist 12.9%, Grid-Based Movement 9.4%

Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.

Why similar: Time Travel 49.2% ★, Time Manipulation 25.5% ★, Logic 8.6%, Puzzle 8.4%, 3D 2.8%

A crabby twist on the sokoban (box-pushing) genre, where you use deaths to create shells and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 34.1% ★, Time Manipulation 21.6% ★, Logic 13.5%, Difficult 8.1%, Puzzle 7.5%

Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.

Why similar: Sokoban 36.4% ★, Difficult 20.8%, Logic 17.9%, Puzzle 13.7%, Indie 5.9%

Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 36% ★, Isometric 17.1%, Difficult 13.6%, Tactical 10.1%, Puzzle 9.3%

Break the Loop is a turn-based Rogue-like RPG. Compose your team and create a timeline by selecting the events you'll go through. Each decision will bring you one step closer to the ultimate threat, but will you have accumulated enough power to stop the apocalypse?

Why similar: Time Travel 37.5% ★, Difficult 27.6%, Minimalist 14.4%, Strategy 7.9%, Indie 5.7%

Yugo Puzzle is a minimalist, relaxing, and satisfying puzzle game. Move jelly blocks left and right to merge them with the same color. It may sound simple, but it’s deceptively challenging. Enjoy the satisfaction of solving each puzzle.

Why similar: Sokoban 34.2% ★, Logic 14.2%, Difficult 13.3%, Grid-Based Movement 12.1%, Minimalist 11.1%

A game about 2D puzzles in 3D space.

Why similar: Sokoban 42.1% ★, Logic 13.8%, Minimalist 12.7%, Difficult 12.1%, Puzzle 9.3%

SOK is a sokoban classic puzzle game. The goal of the game is to move all the boxes to their positions. It's not as easy as it seems. The player can push one box at a time, but do not pull it off.

Why similar: Sokoban 38.9% ★, Minimalist 14%, Difficult 13.1%, Logic 12.5%, Puzzle 8.3%

Tackle thorny problems in this plant pushing puzzle game. Learn to maneuver like a cactus as you grow your way back to the desert!

Why similar: Sokoban 46% ★, Difficult 20%, Puzzle 12%, Logic 9.3%, Indie 3.6%

Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!

Why similar: Time Travel 53% ★, Time Manipulation 34.8% ★, Puzzle 7.6%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Candle Prick is a crunchy pixel adventure about stabbing enemies and using them as extensions of yourself to solve increasingly complex puzzles

Why similar: Sokoban 48.2% ★, Difficult 14.8%, Grid-Based Movement 10.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Logic 8.7%

Carefully capture tracks of your actions, then play them back to solve puzzles with the aid of your recorded ghosts. Immerse yourself in a cerebral first-person puzzle platformer, where strategically thinking several steps ahead is the key to success.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 55.2% ★, Difficult 26.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Indie 4.7%, 3D 1.7%

Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 32.5% ★, Grid-Based Movement 14.2%, Difficult 12.1%, Logic 11.4%, Minimalist 10.7%

A minimalist roll playing puzzle game. About 10 unique puzzle mechanics, around 200 puzzles, and satisfying smooth procedural animations.

Why similar: Sokoban 44.7% ★, Isometric 14.7%, Logic 11.2%, Minimalist 10.7%, Puzzle 8.6%

Run! The walls are shrinking! This is about solving puzzles by pushing boxes from collapsing secret room. Accurately plan your steps, avoid deep pits and traps, use polymer and portal wall in the room, and escape from the secret room to avoid being crushed into a puddle of flesh by the walls.

Why similar: Sokoban 36% ★, Grid-Based Movement 16.2%, Logic 14.9%, Difficult 12.9%, Puzzle 7.8%

Puzzle game where you rotate islands to find your way around different archipelagos.

Why similar: Logic 31.1%, Grid-Based Movement 24.6%, Minimalist 16.8%, Puzzle 16.6%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Puzzle game about portals and snakes.

Why similar: Sokoban 47.7% ★, Difficult 17.1%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 9.6%, Minimalist 6%

A relaxing puzzle escape game! Make your way through a variety of hand-crafted 3D dioramas, look for useful objects, find hidden clues and solve fun puzzles! Unravel this mysterious adventure about chaos, order and the surreal.

Why similar: Time Travel 62.9% ★, Puzzle 19.1%, 3D 5.3%, Indie 4.7%, Atmospheric 4.7%

It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!

Why similar: Time Travel 49.5% ★, Time Manipulation 31% ★, Difficult 10.5%, Puzzle 5.2%, Strategy 1.9%

An adorable bite-sized adventure from the creators of A Monster’s Expedition - explore the facility, avoid the live electricity, and repair the malfunctioning reactor.

Why similar: Sokoban 50.6% ★, Isometric 13.9%, Minimalist 12.3%, Puzzle 10.7%, Strategy 4.5%

The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

Why similar: Sokoban 36.8% ★, Logic 16.7%, Difficult 13.3%, Minimalist 12.1%, Puzzle 7.5%

A puzzle game in which you guide quirky animals through portals in the woods. But watch your step, they all move at once!

Why similar: Sokoban 40.1% ★, Grid-Based Movement 13.4%, Difficult 12.7%, Logic 12.2%, Puzzle 7.7%

Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..

Why similar: Difficult 24.1%, 2.5D 16.7%, Minimalist 16.1%, Logic 14.8%, Puzzle 11.8%

Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 56.7% ★, Difficult 18.7%, Puzzle 17.9%, Atmospheric 3.5%, Singleplayer 3.3%

A difficult puzzle game about isolating yourself. Build a safe place, huddle up and get cozy.

Why similar: Sokoban 59.5% ★, Difficult 18.8%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 8.7%

Time Rift is a fast-paced puzzle-shooter. You’re a hacker-turned-security tester, but your skills will only get you so far - to take down global megacorp VaultCo, you’ll have to manipulate the flow of time!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 57.6% ★, Difficult 21.5%, Puzzle 15.2%, Indie 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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: Logic 35.7%, Difficult 29.4%, Puzzle 17.4%, Colorful 6.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%