Games Like Lume

The BAFTA award winning handmade puzzle adventure game made entirely by hand. Explore the city and use your ingenuity to piece together puzzling mechanisms and bring back power to this unique world. Three years in the making, it's handmade entirely out of paper, card, miniature lights and motors.

Why similar: Point & Click 55.7%, Puzzle 18.7%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 4.3%, Casual 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel to Lume, it expands upon the beautiful, hand-crafted paper and cardboard world with even more intricate puzzles.

Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.

Why similar: Point & Click 56.7%, Puzzle 20.1%, Adventure 12.3%, Casual 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game is entirely crafted from paper and light, mirroring the unique physical aesthetic that makes Lume so special.

Tengami is an atmospheric adventure game set inside a Japanese pop-up book. Fold and slide the beautifully crafted paper world to solve puzzles and discover secrets.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.2%, Puzzle 19.5%, Adventure 16.2%, Indie 9.9%, Casual 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Featuring a stunning pop-up book aesthetic, this game captures the same sense of wonder and tactile interaction found in Lume.

A short, surprising, toy-like puzzle game.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.8%, Puzzle 16.4%, Casual 12.3%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal and highly tactile puzzle game that shares Lume's focus on experimental, short-form exploration.

LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.8%, Adventure 21.3%, Casual 13.7%, Puzzle 13.1%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A wordless, hand-drawn adventure that relies on environmental storytelling and puzzle-solving, much like the original Lume.

Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.

Why similar: Point & Click 55.2%, Puzzle 19.1%, Adventure 12.6%, Casual 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: This whimsical, nature-themed point-and-click adventure features a charming art style and gentle, rewarding puzzle mechanics.

Iris.Fall is a puzzle adventure game featuring striking visuals and a spellbinding theme of "light and shadow".

Why similar: Puzzle 32.2%, Adventure 27.2%, Casual 16.3%, Indie 14.6%, Female Protagonist 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game centers on light and shadow mechanics, offering a unique visual experience that complements Lume's focus on artistic presentation.

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Why similar: Point & Click 60.2%, Puzzle 17.3%, Adventure 9.2%, Casual 8.1%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, puzzle-heavy adventure that excels in creating a unique, hand-crafted world for the player to explore.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Point & Click 52.7%, Puzzle 20.7%, Adventure 11.9%, Casual 8.1%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click adventure that features a distinct, hand-drawn art style and clever, environment-based puzzles.

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.2%, Point & Click 34%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 9.5%, Casual 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers an innovative visual puzzle mechanic that feels as artistic and thoughtful as the craft-based world of Lume.

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 49%, Adventure 27.2%, Indie 12.8%, Casual 7.9%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: With its hand-painted, atmospheric aesthetic and puzzle-platforming elements, it provides a similarly immersive and artistic experience.

Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.

Why similar: Point & Click 46.4%, Puzzle 15.8%, Female Protagonist 14%, Casual 9.5%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: A whimsical point-and-click adventure with a vibrant, hand-drawn art style that feels both playful and polished.

Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.1%, Puzzle 22%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Casual 9%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a beautiful, hand-drawn art style to tell a short, emotional story that resonates with the artistic spirit of Lume.

Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

Why similar: Puzzle 33.6%, Adventure 22.2%, Female Protagonist 22.1%, Indie 19.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique map-manipulation mechanic that encourages the same kind of creative, puzzle-oriented thinking found in Lume.

Little Briar Rose is a very special, stained glass-styled adventure game inspired by the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.1%, Adventure 20.1%, Puzzle 14.4%, Casual 11.1%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The stained-glass art style provides a unique visual identity that matches the creative, craft-focused appeal of Lume.

An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.7%, Adventure 17.9%, Indie 12.4%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Casual 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, indie point-and-click game that explores dream-like environments with a unique, artistic presentation.

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.2%, Puzzle 23.5%, Casual 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Indie 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactile and satisfying puzzle-like experience that focuses on environmental storytelling through objects, similar to the physical nature of Lume.

A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.

Why similar: Point & Click 64.5%, Adventure 22.3%, Puzzle 5.7%, Indie 4.8%, Female Protagonist 2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click adventure that offers a more traditional narrative experience while maintaining the puzzle-focused gameplay.

CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.

Why similar: Puzzle 30.3%, Female Protagonist 26.4%, Adventure 23.6%, Indie 16.3%, Casual 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a shadow-based puzzle mechanic that feels artistically distinct and fits well with the puzzle-adventure genre.

Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Adventure 20.2%, Female Protagonist 20%, Indie 14.2%, Casual 14%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a paper-folding mechanic that directly mirrors the physical, craft-based theme of Lume.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Indie 25.1%, Casual 17.3%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A brief, atmospheric, and relaxing exploration game that captures the intimate, low-pressure charm of Lume.

Vignettes is a unique exploration game without text or characters, where objects shapeshift as you spin them around to wander through a kaleidoscope of different moods and settings.

Why similar: Adventure 28.8%, Puzzle 27.3%, Casual 21.6%, Indie 20.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, object-based puzzle game that rewards curiosity and exploration in a way that feels very similar to Lume.

Amphora is a peculiar puzzle game that mixes story elements and physics. Amphora presents you with an unfamiliar world with a striking visual style inspired by all the shadow theatre traditions and colors of the world.

Why similar: Puzzle 35.9%, Adventure 24.8%, Indie 18.7%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, puzzle-focused adventure that encourages creative solutions within its stylized, artistic world.

She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.

Why similar: Point & Click 42.3%, Adventure 25.5%, Casual 16.6%, Indie 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: A poetic, hand-drawn point-and-click adventure that feels like a storybook come to life.

Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.6%, Casual 22.1%, Indie 20.8%, Adventure 20.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, puzzle-focused adventure that strips away the complexity to focus on pure, satisfying logic and flow.

Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

Why similar: Point & Click 69.9%, Puzzle 27.8%, Adventure 1%, Casual 0.7%, Indie 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hand-painted, whimsical point-and-click game that emphasizes exploration and puzzle-solving in a charming world.

Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.

Why similar: Point & Click 44.6%, Puzzle 18.5%, Adventure 16%, Casual 10.3%, Indie 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, hand-drawn adventure that focuses on emotional storytelling and gentle, landscape-manipulation puzzles.

Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Why similar: Point & Click 48%, Puzzle 20.9%, Casual 13.2%, Indie 10.9%, Adventure 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This hand-drawn, interactive world is full of charm and detail, offering a similarly lighthearted and engaging experience.

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

Why similar: Puzzle 34.7%, Adventure 32.5%, Indie 19.2%, Casual 11.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A musical, surreal adventure that features a highly stylized world and engaging, puzzle-rich gameplay.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Puzzle 30.8%, Casual 22%, Adventure 19.3%, Indie 19.3%, Female Protagonist 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based, casual puzzle game that is short, humorous, and visually distinct.

A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art

Why similar: Point & Click 49.5%, Puzzle 19.8%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 5.6%

Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.

Why similar: Point & Click 49%, Adventure 19.2%, Indie 11.1%, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Puzzle 7.8%

Join Selene in a charming platforming and puzzle adventure, where her ability to absorb and emit light from various flowers is key to activating mechanisms, overcoming obstacles, and navigating through environments that adjust depending on how you wield the light.

Why similar: Puzzle 33.4%, Adventure 27.9%, Casual 16.7%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Indie 9.7%

A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle 37.1%, Adventure 27.5%, Indie 19.4%, Casual 16%

The Next Big Thing is a great adventure game in high definition, loaded with laughs, tributes, mysteries and wacky puzzles!

Why similar: Point & Click 69.5%, Adventure 23.3%, Puzzle 7.2%

Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

Why similar: Point & Click 44.8%, Adventure 14.3%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 8.9%

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 53.5%, Indie 32.7%, Casual 10.7%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Lowglow - an audiovisual puzzle journey. Glowingly beautiful graphics combined with a dynamic audio environment make sure that Lowglow is an unforgettable, mind-bending experience for you!

Why similar: Puzzle 30.3%, Adventure 26.4%, Indie 21.8%, Casual 19.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Meet Lumote, the squishiest bioluminescent creature, in this beautiful 3D puzzle platformer. Take control of the world’s inhabitants on a quest into the Great Depths to seize control from the Mastermote.

Why similar: Adventure 25.2%, Puzzle 24%, Indie 21%, Casual 18.5%, Female Protagonist 9.1%

Solaria Moon is a space adventure in 3D with an outstanding script full of challenging puzzles to solve and mysteries to uncover.

Why similar: Adventure 64.7%, Indie 35.3%

A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.

Why similar: Point & Click 64.2%, Adventure 18%, Puzzle 5.6%, Indie 5.3%, Female Protagonist 3.6%

halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.

Why similar: Point & Click 76.5%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 8.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%

The third game in the Blackwell series

Why similar: Point & Click 71.7%, Adventure 17%, Female Protagonist 6.6%, Indie 4.7%

Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.

Why similar: Casual 42.5%, Indie 40.1%, Puzzle 16.4%, Singleplayer 1%

"Starman: Tale of Light" is a slow paced puzzle adventure, with beautifully crafted sceneries and soothing music.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.7%, Indie 24.4%, Adventure 23.6%, Casual 16.3%

Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.

Why similar: Point & Click 47.8%, Puzzle 21.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Indie 7.6%

Saira is a puzzle platformer with non-linear gameplay and a whole universe for you to explore. The game is heavily influenced by classic puzzle adventure games and uses a new unique graphical style combining high resolution photography into a lush and mysterious world.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.3%, Indie 28.4%, Female Protagonist 21%, Adventure 20%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Whimsy is a hand-drawn point & click game about a girl who lives in the forest stumbling upon little red footprints. Following these footsteps leads her on a whimsical journey through the forest to solve puzzles, assist woodland creatures and discover rituals.

Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Indie 26%, Casual 23.1%, Puzzle 14.2%

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: Adventure 34.1%, Indie 23.5%, Casual 21.5%, Puzzle 19.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%

KAMI is deceptively simple: fold out coloured paper to fill the screen in as few moves as possible. Relaxing and easy to pick up, you'll soon find yourself deep in contemplation to perfect each puzzle. Created by State of Play, famous for their handcrafted aesthetic, KAMI has been created with real paper in an elegant Japanese theme.

Why similar: Puzzle 61.4%, Casual 21.1%, Indie 16.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

HER TREES : THE PUZZLE HOUSE is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles.Uncover the mysteries of this peculiar room.

Why similar: Point & Click 55.5%, Puzzle 24.8%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Street psychics. Their blinking neon signs are everywhere, promising love and wealth and happiness. They make a fortune preying on the gullible and milking them dry. So when these victims begin dying and leaving confused spirits behind, it can only take a genuine psychic (and her wayward spirit guide) to clean up the mess.

Why similar: Point & Click 64.1%, Adventure 17%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Card City Nights is not a traditional card-trading game. It's an adventure game with zany characters to meet and weird locations to explore. In the center is our new card battle system that breaks away from the fantasy TCG mold with connecting cards to form combos.

Why similar: Indie 33.2%, Adventure 22.7%, Casual 19.6%, Puzzle 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

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

Why similar: Puzzle 41.1%, Adventure 29.7%, Indie 23.3%, Casual 4.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Mina’s rescue from the end of the first game is cut dramatically short and she and primate pal Jep are left again on the mysterious island to fend for themselves! Mina needs to dress her wounds and keep safe against the local wildlife, but now she has the assistance of the player controlled Jep who can fit in smaller spaces, move deftly...

Why similar: Point & Click 47.9%, Adventure 22.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, Casual 9.1%, Female Protagonist 9.1%

Lili is a quirky adventure RPG hybrid with stunning visuals, silky-smooth graphics, a cinematic story-line, and a fresh new way to deal with enemies.

Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Female Protagonist 33%, Indie 17.8%, Casual 8.7%, Singleplayer 1.9%

The last game in the Blackwell series.

Why similar: Point & Click 60%, Adventure 19.3%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Lucid Cycle offers a set of short but unique experiences.

Why similar: Adventure 53.7%, Indie 17.6%, Puzzle 17.5%, Casual 9.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of deduction, narrative and puzzle games.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.8%, Puzzle 15.3%, Adventure 12.9%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Casual 8.6%

The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.

Why similar: Puzzle 43%, Adventure 32.2%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Indie 10.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%