- #1 Mind Over Magnet
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,428 reviews2024
Dev: Game Maker's Toolkit
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.
Why similar: Puzzle 59%, Indie 41%
- #2 Magnetized
97% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2016
Dev: Rocky Hong
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Magnetized is a minimal action game, let's active the power of magnets and escape from the the pixel maze!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #3 Magicube
95% matchVery Positive99% of 211 reviews2023
Dev: nebu soku
Windows
A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.
Why similar: Puzzle 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
- #4 Magic Box
96% matchMixed66% of 134 reviews2017
Dev: Indie Games StudioPub: Enoops
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Magic Box - interesting puzzle game with a lot of interesting and challenging levels.
Why similar: Indie 55%, Puzzle 45%
- #5 Box: The Game
94% matchMixed58% of 219 reviews2019
Dev: Heekdevelopment
Windows
Box: The Game is a fun puzzle game which will challenge your brain to think in different ways. All cubes attach to each other, your goal is to match the displayed shape to continue to the next level.
Why similar: Indie 64.1%, Puzzle 35.9%
- #6 Particulars
94% matchMixed69% of 108 reviews2014
Dev: SeeThrough Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Particulars is a game with a unique combination of arcade-action and puzzle gameplay, set in the mysterious world of subatomic particles.
Why similar: Indie 62.8%, Puzzle 37.2%
- #7 Super Magbot
92% matchVery Positive84% of 425 reviews2021
Dev: Astral PixelPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Why similar: Indie 76.3%, Puzzle 23.7%
- #8 Pixplode
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 209 reviews2017
Dev: Empyrean
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Pixplode is a 3d puzzle game with 2d physics mechanics. At first glance puzzle seem to be impossible to solve, but why not to change the view of the whole level? Over 40 detailed levels allow you to rack your brains for a long time!
Why similar: Indie 58.4%, Puzzle 41.6%
- #9 Stuffo the Puzzle Bot
91% matchVery Positive99% of 182 reviews2023
Dev: Hapatus Ltd
Windows
A laid-back but smart puzzle game. Stuffo is the last remaining puzzle bot stuck in a world filled with bite-sized brain-teasers. Help Stuffo to solve the mind-bending puzzles by using various blocks to climb, push and teleport your way to the exit.
Why similar: Puzzle 68.1%, Indie 31.9%
- #10 PictoQuest
91% matchVery Positive82% of 620 reviews2020
Dev: NanoPikoPub: PID Games
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Logic puzzles with a light RPG twist, here comes PictoQuest!
Why similar: Indie 75.1%, Puzzle 24.9%
- #11 SquishCraft
89% matchVery Positive95% of 144 reviews2022
Dev: bcat112a
Windows · Linux
Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.
Why similar: Indie 52.9%, Puzzle 47.1%
- #12 Sandtrix+
89% matchVery Positive93% of 157 reviews2023
Dev: msky
Windows · Mac · Linux
Retro Falling Sand Puzzle Game
Why similar: Puzzle 50.4%, Indie 49.6%
- #13 Netoo
87% matchVery Positive98% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Mindlabor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Netoo is a minimalist logic puzzle where you try to place small magnets into their correct spots by rotating transporter magnets with rotators. The difficulty of the game increases gradually, thanks to new mechanics introduced every 10 levels.
Why similar: Puzzle 61.8%, Indie 38.2%
- #14 PUZZLE: ULTIMATE
90% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
PUZZLE: ULTIMATE - a logic game, the task of which is to assemble puzzles of various sizes.
Why similar: Indie 65.5%, Puzzle 34.5%
- #15 Up Left Out
88% matchVery Positive93% of 458 reviews2018
Dev: Maciej TargoniPub: Maciej Targoni
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A puzzle game about unlocking stuff.
Why similar: Puzzle 60.4%, Indie 39.6%
- #16 Strange Jigsaws
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 4,785 reviews2025
Dev: FLEB
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A game of strange jigsaws.
Why similar: Puzzle 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #17 CatBox
85% matchVery Positive99% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Very Very LITTLE Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this 2D puzzle game you will have to arrange your feline friends in more than 150 levels. Gradually changing locations will add new challenges.
Why similar: Puzzle 51.5%, Indie 48.5%
- #18 Invisibox
86% matchVery Positive88% of 94 reviews2017
Dev: Retrific
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Invisibox is a tough puzzle game where you have to solve sliding puzzles by controlling invisible boxes while avoiding various obstacles.
Why similar: Indie 68.2%, Puzzle 31.8%
- #19 Magic matchstick
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 57 reviews2017
Dev: Anime squadPub: Anime squаd
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Minimal puzzle with matchsticks
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 Can of Wormholes
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 597 reviews2023
Dev: munted finger
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Push, slice, ingest, flip, and squish worms in this puzzle game in which you play as a little sentient tin can.
Why similar: Puzzle 50.1%, Indie 49.9%
- #21 Oik Memory 2
84% matchVery Positive89% of 237 reviews2018
Dev: Crew Lab
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Casual memory puzzle.
Why similar: Indie 77.8%, Puzzle 22.2%
- #22 Beglitched
84% matchVery Positive91% of 125 reviews2016
Dev: Hexecutable
Windows · Mac · Linux
Beglitched is a game about insecurity, in our computers and ourselves.
Why similar: Indie 65.5%, Puzzle 34.5%
- #23 Trolley Delayma
80% matchVery Positive98% of 192 reviews2023
Dev: albertnez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Top down puzzle game about manipulating the tracks to redirect the trolley to save the victims. Solve the trolley problem in various forms of tiny puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 71.3%, Indie 28.7%
- #24 Brain Break
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 187 reviews2020
Dev: Astralis Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Brain Break is a minimalistic but not simple puzzle game. The object of the game is to move all the cubes to their positions of their color. It's not as easy as it sounds! The player can push one cube at a time, but not pull it.
Why similar: Puzzle 67.2%, Indie 32.8%
- #25 RYB
81% matchVery Positive90% of 712 reviews2016
Dev: FLEB
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 58%
RYB is a logic puzzle game that plays like a combination of sudoku and minesweeper.
Why similar: Indie 62.3%, Puzzle 37.7%
- #26 Orakyubu
79% matchVery Positive99% of 300 reviews2021
Dev: Peter Lavigne
Windows · Mac · Linux
A game about 2D puzzles in 3D space.
Why similar: Puzzle 50.5%, Indie 49.5%
- #27 Gravity Error
81% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.
Why similar: Indie 60.1%, Puzzle 39.9%
- #28 Mega Mosaic
75% matchVery Positive91% of 471 reviews2024
Dev: Mark FfrenchPub: Divide The Plunder
Windows · Mac
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 48.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mega Mosaic is a meditative game about completing a single enormous puzzle
Why similar: Puzzle 100%
- #29 Induction
79% matchVery Positive90% of 191 reviews2017
Dev: Bryan Gale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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: Indie 55.7%, Puzzle 44.3%
- #30 Sand:box
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,758 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 78.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 YANKAI'S PEAK.
78% matchVery Positive90% of 98 reviews2017
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 66.9%, Puzzle 33.1%
- #32 hocus 2
77% matchVery Positive86% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: Yunus Ayyildiz
Windows · Mac
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Why similar: Puzzle 67.5%, Indie 32.5%
- #33 ElecHead
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,460 reviews2021
Dev: NamaTakahashi
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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Why similar: Puzzle 63%, Indie 37%
- #34 Maxwell's puzzling demon
71% matchVery Positive98% of 428 reviews2024
Dev: muratsubo Games
Windows
"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: Puzzle 65.5%, Indie 34.5%
- #35 Active Neurons - Puzzle game
76% matchVery Positive94% of 70 reviews2019
Dev: Nikolai UsachevPub: USANIK STD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Active Neurons is a puzzle game in which you have to charge brain neurons.
Why similar: Puzzle 75.9%, Indie 24.1%
- #36 Art Of Gravity
75% matchVery Positive91% of 687 reviews2017
Dev: Hamster On Coke Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Art Of Gravity is a voxel/physics based puzzle game, revolving around the theme of destroying abstract figures, which results in mesmerizing displays of dance of gravity.
Why similar: Indie 57.6%, Puzzle 42.4%
- #37 Magnetic: Cage Closed
78% matchMixed68% of 345 reviews2015
Dev: Guru GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.
Why similar: Puzzle 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #38 Square n Fair
76% matchVery Positive83% of 208 reviews2017
Dev: ThinkOfGamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Relaxing puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Indie 50.9%, Puzzle 49.1%
- #39 Qvabllock
74% matchVery Positive81% of 121 reviews2018
Dev: NedoStudio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 241.9 hrs≥1hr: 14%
«Qvabllock» — pixemalism game with elements of puzzle, with minimalistic gameplay. Collect all the colored squares to take the main green and go through all 30 levels.
Why similar: Indie 64.7%, Puzzle 35.3%
- #40 Multimirror
77% matchMixed40% of 143 reviews2016
Dev: Cleverweek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Multimirror is a minimal grid-based puzzle game.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Skala
71% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2022
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle 67.1%, Indie 32.9%
- #42 Puzzlement
72% matchVery Positive92% of 235 reviews2018
Dev: Yunus Ayyildiz
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
Why similar: Indie 51.2%, Puzzle 48.8%
- #43 Cubotrox
73% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: The Barberians Game StudioPub: Talking About Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Cubotrox is an addictive puzzle game that challenges you to complete pixel art images by managing falling neon-colored cubes. Catch, drop and rotate your way to victory in a game with retro-futuristic neon visuals and synth-retro-wave music that excels at being “easy to play, hard to master”.
Why similar: Indie 56.7%, Puzzle 43.3%
- #44 Sandy's Great Escape
70% matchVery Positive94% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: Mocha Moose Games
Windows · Mac
A crabby twist on the sokoban (box-pushing) genre, where you use deaths to create shells and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 51.7%, Indie 48.3%
- #45 Prime Mover
72% matchVery Positive88% of 217 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
Why similar: Indie 51.1%, Puzzle 48.9%
- #46 Oberty
69% matchVery Positive95% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Dmytro Denys
Windows · Mac
Oberty is mind-bending puzzle about combining shapes.
Why similar: Puzzle 53.5%, Indie 46.5%
- #47 OXXO
70% matchVery Positive95% of 293 reviews2019
Dev: Hamster On Coke Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Ever evolving puzzle game.
Why similar: Indie 63.7%, Puzzle 36.3%
- #48 Dungeon and Puzzles
69% matchVery Positive93% of 237 reviews2021
Dev: NekolystPub: Digital Crafter
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: Puzzle 66.9%, Indie 33.1%
- #49 Block in the Lock
70% matchVery Positive95% of 75 reviews2019
Dev: PetorioPub: Peter Hofbauer
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 2D Puzzle Game where you move different blocks simultaneously like a hive mind. Form blocks into shapes and match the lock patterns in over 200 crafty levels, in order to free the world from mysterious chains
Why similar: Puzzle 74.1%, Indie 25.9%
- #50 Puzzle Box Palace
69% matchVery Positive86% of 125 reviews2021
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.
Why similar: Indie 52.9%, Puzzle 47.1%
- #51 Enigmoon
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 758 reviews2015
Dev: Tupã Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Baba Is You
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 24,648 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 61.9%, Indie 38.1%
- #53 The Path Home
64% matchVery Positive99% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: kakuhitoPub: michikusa
Windows
"The Path Home" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle game where you explore a strange world with a girl. Use panels to "flip" black and white tiles and reshape the puzzle world. The girl always searches for the "shortest path to the goal," but avoiding fake goals and reuniting her with the crow is up to you.
Why similar: Puzzle 64.1%, Indie 35.9%
- #54 20 Small Mazes
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 9,476 reviews2024
Dev: FLEB
Windows · Mac
This is a puzzle game with twenty small mazes. They're good mazes, though.
Why similar: Puzzle 67.6%, Indie 32.4%
- #55 SquareCells
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,270 reviews2015
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.
Why similar: Puzzle 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #56 Sokogram
62% matchVery Positive95% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: PressGtoGeorge
Windows
Sokogram merges Nonogram logic grids with Sokoban box-pushing puzzles. Each level blends both systems into one unified challenge with handcrafted designs that reward deduction over guessing.
Why similar: Puzzle 68.8%, Indie 31.2%
- #57 Merri Puzzle
73% matchMostly Negative26% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Merriman GamesPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Merri Puzzle is a physics based puzzle solving game, with a unique look and feel to it. The goal is simple, getting an object, often a ball to the end of a maze.
Why similar: Indie 63.1%, Puzzle 36.9%
- #58 Snaliens
68% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2020
Dev: JFerreira
Windows · Linux
A group of Snaliens just collapsed on an unexplored planet and now they need your help! Help them to reunite and escape by solving intricate puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 67.7%, Indie 32.3%
- #59 Laser Attraction
67% matchVery Positive90% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Vectmatica
Windows
Play with lasers and solve puzzles in Laser Attraction. Use reflection, refraction, dispersion and filtration to direct the laser beams, mix and separate colours, open doors, hit targets and complete puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 55.3%, Indie 44.7%
- #60 Nonozle
65% matchVery Positive97% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: HopefulToad
Windows · Linux
A number logic puzzle game. Solve nonograms to form pixel-art images. Features 300 hand-made puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 70.9%, Indie 29.1%