Games Like MacGuffin's Curse

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

Why similar: Puzzle 46.6%, Adventure 31.2%, Casual 22.2%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world puzzle game shares the same satisfying, grid-based logic and exploration-focused design found in MacGuffin's Curse.

Embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the 'Baron.'

Why similar: Puzzle 46.4%, Adventure 36.7%, Indie 13.1%, Casual 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like MacGuffin's Curse, this game features a unique transformation mechanic and a whimsical, comedic tone that drives its puzzle-solving gameplay.

Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Why similar: Puzzle 47.3%, Adventure 27.4%, Indie 25.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines clever puzzle-platforming with a distinct, humorous visual style and a unique central mechanic.

A mind-bendingly challenging puzzle game that mixes homage to retro classics with funny dialogue and innovative puzzle mechanics. Over a hundred ultra-challenging pixelated puzzles will have you avoiding killer robots as you engage with memorable characters.

Why similar: Puzzle 64.7%, Adventure 35.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similar blend of grid-based sokoban puzzles and a quirky, character-driven narrative.

Take control of masked maniac Skullface in the goretastic sequel to the most violentest award winning Overwhelmingly Positive puzzle game ever made! This darkly hilarious puzzle game tribute to classic horror movies that puts the laughter in slaughter.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.3%, Casual 27.3%, Indie 16.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game delivers challenging sliding-block puzzles wrapped in a humorous, stylized aesthetic that fans of MacGuffin's Curse will appreciate.

A comedic 2D point and click adventure, featuring a crazy cast of poxy pirate pooches.

Why similar: Adventure 54.9%, Casual 23.3%, Indie 21.8%

Why You'll Like It: This pirate-themed adventure game shares the lighthearted humor and puzzle-centric gameplay of MacGuffin's Curse.

About Love, Hate and the other ones is a puzzle game, in which you influence your surroundings by the force of Hate and the power of Love. Find a way through caves and ice, castles and factories, all by the might of your puzzling!

Why similar: Puzzle 48.9%, Casual 32.2%, Indie 18.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming sokoban-style puzzle game that focuses on character interaction and environmental manipulation.

Kyle is a Janitor. He's also a Werewolf. And now he's got the night shift. Try not to kill anyone while working to get your paycheck - in a stealth-comedy game with surprises around every corner.

Why similar: Werewolves 69.9% ★, Casual 24.2%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a similar werewolf-themed premise, focusing on stealth and comedic situations.

Sneak into the pharaoh's pyramid and meet up with Assil and his crew of crazy friends. Just as the party starts to get hot, a silly accident turns life upside down! Help Assil reverse the curse!

Why similar: Adventure 64.8%, Puzzle 35.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic comedic adventure game that relies on clever puzzle-solving and witty dialogue to move the story forward.

Kelvin and the Infamous Machine is a hilarious point-and-click adventure in which you stumble irresponsibly through history to help legendary geniuses complete their masterworks!

Why similar: Puzzle 36.3%, Adventure 32.1%, Indie 18.3%, Casual 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the same comedic, point-and-click adventure spirit with a focus on solving puzzles to progress through time.

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: Adventure 59%, Puzzle 41%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that balances action and environmental manipulation with a lighthearted, family-friendly tone.

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: Puzzle 73.7%, Indie 22.1%, Casual 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more abstract, it offers the same deep, rule-bending puzzle satisfaction that makes grid-based games so rewarding.

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 32.9%, Casual 28.6%, Adventure 20.1%, Indie 18.4%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based puzzle game is driven by a hilarious narrative and a unique, satisfying core mechanic.

Go on an adventure as a small, one-eyed square, and traverse caves full of puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers! Discover 63 levels and the Level Editor on Steam Workshop!

Why similar: Adventure 31.6%, Casual 27.3%, Puzzle 21.5%, Indie 19.6%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward, casual puzzle game that focuses on environmental interaction and logic.

The game is a first person Gothic action adventure game set in the medieval kingdom of Uhorsko. You play Dominik, a young alchemist summoned to protect the kingdom from a ravenous beast. Dominik's goals soon change as he discovers he has been bitten, and cursed to become the very thing he has set out to stop.

Why similar: Werewolves 67.2% ★, Indie 14.1%, Adventure 10.3%, Puzzle 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the werewolf transformation theme, offering a more action-oriented take on the concept.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 65.9%, Casual 34.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, grid-based puzzle game that rewards careful planning and spatial reasoning.

Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle 34.3%, Adventure 26%, Casual 22.8%, Indie 16.8%

Why You'll Like It: A vibrant, funny adventure game filled with simple yet engaging puzzles and a charming, minimalist aesthetic.

Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.

Why similar: Puzzle 65.9%, Casual 34.1%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure-puzzle game that emphasizes exploration and clever use of environmental mechanics rather than traditional combat.

Warning: This game is crammed full of monsters, cake, amazing powers, puzzly bits, epic adventure, witty repartee, secret paths, unlockable characters, silly hats and a wiener dog. Use caution if you are allergic to fun or overly sensitive to cake-related pathos.

Why similar: Adventure 42.3%, Puzzle 36.9%, Indie 20.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful adventure-puzzle game that uses distinct character abilities to solve grid-based challenges.

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.7%, Indie 23.5%, Adventure 22.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a humorous, puzzle-oriented approach to exploration where you manipulate the environment to cause mischief.

Puns, and puzzles. Horrible puns and devious puzzles actually, along with several incorporeal entities are what makes Ghostory a pixel art puzzle adventure brimming with humour and intrigue. Take on the role of a cursed traveler, master your ghostly form, find a cure, and escape a perilous cave system.

Why similar: Puzzle 35.3%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 18.3%, Casual 18.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that uses a transformation mechanic to help the player navigate tricky environments.

A spooky trick-or-treat adventure about a mischievous puppy on a mission to score the evening's best candy. Create your costume, explore the neighborhood, and help your friends track down a menacing monster to save Halloween.

Why similar: Puzzle 43.9%, Adventure 34.8%, Casual 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: A wholesome and funny adventure game that features a dog protagonist and light puzzle elements.

The Furries Princess has been kidnapped! Help these hilariously cute creatures execute a rescue mission. You will need to explore the Evil Wizard's castle and solve his puzzles to succeed. Hours of mildly brain-teasing gameplay awaits!

Why similar: Casual 66.7%, Indie 33.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, indie puzzle game that focuses on simple mechanics and cute character designs.

I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?

Why similar: Puzzle 63.7%, Adventure 36.3%

Why You'll Like It: A creative puzzle-platformer that uses environmental signs to create clever, interconnected puzzles.

The best-selling Trine series returns to the magic of 2.5D! Join three iconic heroes as they set off on a quest through fantastical fairytale landscapes to save the world from the Nightmare Prince’s shadows.

Why similar: Puzzle 48.8%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at character-switching puzzles, requiring players to use different abilities to overcome environmental obstacles.

It's MIDNIGHT, you're DEAD, and got a bad case of THE MUNCHIES. Chew your way through 120 levels of addictive puzzle gameplay, where your only goal is to devour everything but your own wormy self. It's quick, tasty, and hard to resist. Just like a late-night snack.

Why similar: Puzzle 48.5%, Casual 21.9%, Indie 17.9%, Adventure 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A funny, cartoon-style puzzle game that utilizes classic snake-like mechanics to create engaging levels.

Sneak through over 100 levels in this fun-filled take on the stealth puzzle genre!

Why similar: Casual 59%, Indie 41%

Why You'll Like It: A stealth-based puzzle game that uses humor and top-down navigation to create fun, bite-sized challenges.

Patch me if you can is a puzzle adventure where you dive into a game world and manipulate objects however you want. Equip blocks to shrink boulders, move the sun, and thwart Lord's conspiracy. This broken world needs your 'patch'!

Why similar: Puzzle 44.6%, Casual 25.6%, Adventure 19.7%, Indie 10.1%

Push apples, move the rafts, and outsmart silly enemies in this adorable puzzle adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle 46.7%, Casual 23.1%, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 10%

Slip 'n slide around this casual puzzle adventure! Be a cute slime and explore a magical world. Only stop sliding when you run into something -- SPLAT! Perfect to pick up 'n play for a minute or binge in a weekend.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.6%, Casual 35.2%, Adventure 9.4%, Indie 1.9%

A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.

Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Casual 30.4%, Indie 22.9%, Puzzle 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A clever hybrid of point-and-click adventure and platforming that is packed with meta-humor.

A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle 71.7%, Indie 15.7%, Adventure 12.6%

2D Puzzle Game with Full Level Editor and Local Coop

Why similar: Puzzle 67.3%, Casual 32.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D sokoban-style puzzle game that focuses on exploration and character-based movement.

This abnormal game remains the previous nonsensical style, and it would be the best choice for teasing your friends, live broadcast, or even entertain yourself...

Why similar: Puzzle 39.7%, Adventure 33.5%, Casual 26.8%

In Tobla - Divine Path, creative puzzle gameplay, a story inspired by classics like Portal™, and impressive 3D graphics come together. Step into the role of Mort and tackle the challenging puzzles and cynical comments of the cunning goddess Tobla to find your way home.

Why similar: Puzzle 44.5%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 15%, Casual 12.6%

Play as the legendary explorer Hamster Jones and explore a mysterious pyramid in a puzzle-based adventure, solving a wide variety of puzzles and uncovering the many secrets hidden within its walls.

Why similar: Puzzle 83.1%, Adventure 16.9%

Assemble your team of three from seven unlikely adventurers, then descend into the mysterious depths to explore The Cave!

Why similar: Adventure 46.9%, Puzzle 41.6%, Indie 6.6%, Casual 4.9%

Comedic puzzle-adventure with strong RPG influences. Take away costumes from the foxes, create the most mad combinations of clothes, explore the world, find secrets and save the princess from the clutches of the cunning king!

Why similar: Adventure 41.6%, Casual 33.4%, Indie 25%

Big Brain Wolf is a hilarious point and click adventure game for puzzle lovers. The player takes upon the role of an asthmatic vegetarian wolf studying to become a genie. In the course of his adventures the player will encounter a large cast of famous funny characters and solve sixty different puzzles.

Why similar: Adventure 44.3%, Casual 34%, Puzzle 21.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-adventure game that uses classic logic puzzles to drive its comedic, fairytale-inspired story.

A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that expand on classic sokoban gameplay with new and creative mechanics. Build your own devious creations with the included level editor!

Why similar: Puzzle 52.7%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 21.7%

McPixel 3 is a mind-blowing save-the-day adventure that sees the titular wanna-be hero avert one disaster after another at every turn using unconventional yet entertaining methods of mayhem.

Why similar: Adventure 35.1%, Puzzle 30.1%, Casual 24.4%, Indie 10.4%

Fur the Game is a small first-person puzzle game where you explore an exciting world inhabited by adorable creatures called Furs! Rescue these creatures and throw them around to solve puzzles!

Why similar: Adventure 28.7%, Casual 26.1%, Puzzle 25.4%, Indie 19.8%

An abnormal adventure game in nonsensical style. It contains a variety of game elements (even fighting battles, tank battles, puzzles,sokobans, flying shooting, etc.). It is very suitable to recommend it to friends who you want to prank them, live broadcast, or entertain yourself.

Why similar: Puzzle 51.4%, Adventure 42.2%, Casual 6.4%

When an occult German WW2 division releases an ancient curse upon the world, a supernatural problem is going to require a supernatural solution. Take control of two playable heroes as they embark on a comedic, alternate-history adventure with a truly original story (99.9999% guaranteed).

Why similar: Adventure 38.4%, Casual 26%, Indie 21.3%, Puzzle 14.3%

Draw a stickman, then guide him through a fantastic world of adventure! Using an assortment of pencils, draw elements, tools, and weapons to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles.

Why similar: Adventure 37%, Casual 27.6%, Indie 20.2%, Puzzle 15.1%

A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! 📜🐀 Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!

Why similar: Puzzle 51.5%, Adventure 33.4%, Indie 15.2%

Hello and welcome to Backfirewall_, a first-person tragicomic adventure set inside a smartphone. You are the update assistant. Solve wacky puzzles to counter the update and save the previous operating system from deletion. The fate of the System is in your hands!

Why similar: Adventure 43%, Puzzle 26.2%, Casual 22.7%, Indie 8.1%

Evil Pumpkin is a Casual Adventure game, with options for player to choose between point-and-click and hidden-object game. Challenging puzzles, RPG elements, ludicrous comments and many more to come in 10+ hours of gameplay.

Why similar: Adventure 51.3%, Casual 48.7%

Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank is a charming point-and-click adventure about tabletop gaming, mischievous friends, and spectral poultry.

Why similar: Adventure 49.3%, Indie 27.3%, Casual 23.4%

Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges. Get to meet the charismatic Whateverlanders, steal and deceive or be a good boy to discover all the different endings of Vincent's story.

Why similar: Puzzle 39.7%, Adventure 33.7%, Casual 26.6%

FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!

Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Casual 24.9%, Puzzle 24.1%, Indie 14.2%

A snaky tile-based puzzle dungeon adventure. Defend the temple, monch the infidels, and grow and grow ...and grow?

Why similar: Puzzle 61%, Adventure 39%

Join Dangeresque, the world's greatest private eye/crooked cop, as he puzzles his way through 3 bite-sized roomisodes in this classic-style point n' click adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 81.6%, Indie 18.4%

Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.

Why similar: Indie 69.3%, Casual 21.1%, Adventure 9.7%

Sneak through the shadows, dash to cover, pick your moment and strike! Unleash your inner thief in this strategic stealth adventure.

Why similar: Casual 32.6%, Adventure 28%, Puzzle 20.9%, Indie 18.5%

A killer puzzle game where you control Skullface, a psycho slasher bent on slaughtering camp counselors at the title campground. Slide an adorable voxel murderer around hundreds of isometric puzzle levels to squash, flay, and decapitate hapless victims in this darkly comic homage to 80s horror.

Why similar: Puzzle 67.2%, Casual 32.8%

Explore the mysterious operating system Crossʀoad OS. Adventure through its decaying programs, solve puzzles, collect items and meet strange creatures.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.6%, Adventure 33.7%, Indie 19.7%

Demystify the zombie island and break the ancient curse!

Why similar: Adventure 38.5%, Puzzle 31%, Casual 30.5%

First-person escape adventure game. Solve riddles of a reclusive alchemist that trapped you in his workshop. Brew potions and overcome challenges as he laughs at your failures and makes light of your successes...But what if things are not what they seem?

Why similar: Puzzle 42%, Adventure 33.1%, Casual 22.5%, Indie 2.4%

Manage your strange romance with a demonic girlfriend and experience total chaos! Laugh, be surprised, and unravel absurd situations in this crazy comedic adventure game.

Why similar: Puzzle 40.2%, Adventure 27%, Casual 22.7%, Indie 10.1%