- #1 Mind Over Magnet
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,301 reviews2024
Dev: Game Maker's Toolkit
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #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 194 reviews2023
Dev: nebu soku
Windows
A magical puzzle platformer made with PICO-8. Be thinky to get the legendary treasure.
Why similar: Puzzle 68.5%, Indie 31.5%
- #4 Magic Box
96% matchMixed67% of 131 reviews2017
Dev: Indie Games StudioPub: Enoops
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Magic Box - interesting puzzle game with a lot of interesting and challenging levels.
Why similar: Indie 56.1%, Puzzle 43.9%
- #5 Particulars
94% matchMixed68% of 104 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 63.8%, Puzzle 36.2%
- #6 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 65.1%, Puzzle 34.9%
- #7 Netoo
91% matchVery Positive100% of 50 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 53.4%, Indie 46.6%
- #8 Super Magbot
92% matchVery Positive84% of 401 reviews2021
Dev: Astral PixelPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 77%, Puzzle 23%
- #9 Pixplode
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 203 reviews2017
Dev: Empyrean
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 59.3%, Puzzle 40.7%
- #10 PictoQuest
91% matchVery Positive83% of 597 reviews2020
Dev: NanoPikoPub: PID Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Logic puzzles with a light RPG twist, here comes PictoQuest!
Why similar: Indie 77%, Puzzle 23%
- #11 Stuffo the Puzzle Bot
90% matchVery Positive99% of 172 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 67.2%, Indie 32.8%
- #12 Sandtrix+
89% matchVery Positive93% of 152 reviews2023
Dev: msky
Windows · Mac · Linux
Retro Falling Sand Puzzle Game
Why similar: Indie 50.9%, Puzzle 49.1%
- #13 SquishCraft
89% matchVery Positive96% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: bcat112a
Windows · Linux
Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.
Why similar: Indie 53.9%, Puzzle 46.1%
- #14 Up Left Out
88% matchVery Positive93% of 448 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 59.1%, Indie 40.9%
- #15 CatBox
86% matchVery Positive99% of 82 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 50.5%, Indie 49.5%
- #16 Sand:box
85% matchVery Positive94% of 1,486 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Strange Jigsaws
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 3,662 reviews2025
Dev: FLEB
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A game of strange jigsaws.
Why similar: Puzzle 68.5%, Indie 31.5%
- #18 Invisibox
87% matchVery Positive88% of 89 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 69.1%, Puzzle 30.9%
- #19 Maxwell's puzzling demon
83% matchVery Positive99% of 357 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 64.5%, Indie 35.5%
- #20 Magic matchstick
86% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Anime squadPub: Anime squаd
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Minimal puzzle with matchsticks
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #21 Can of Wormholes
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 540 reviews2023
Dev: munted finger
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 14.6 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: Indie 51%, Puzzle 49%
- #22 Beglitched
84% matchVery Positive91% of 121 reviews2016
Dev: Hexecutable
Windows · Mac · Linux
Beglitched is a game about insecurity, in our computers and ourselves.
Why similar: Indie 66.5%, Puzzle 33.5%
- #23 Oik Memory 2
84% matchVery Positive89% of 223 reviews2018
Dev: Crew Lab
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Casual memory puzzle.
Why similar: Indie 80.1%, Puzzle 19.9%
- #24 Trolley Delayma
79% matchVery Positive98% of 184 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 70.5%, Indie 29.5%
- #25 Orakyubu
79% matchVery Positive99% of 293 reviews2021
Dev: Peter Lavigne
Windows · Mac · Linux
A game about 2D puzzles in 3D space.
Why similar: Indie 50.5%, Puzzle 49.5%
- #26 Brain Break
82% matchMixed68% of 168 reviews2020
Dev: Astralis Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 66.3%, Indie 33.7%
- #27 RYB
81% matchVery Positive90% of 597 reviews2016
Dev: FLEB
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
RYB is a logic puzzle game that plays like a combination of sudoku and minesweeper.
Why similar: Indie 63.3%, Puzzle 36.7%
- #28 Gravity Error
80% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 61.1%, Puzzle 38.9%
- #29 YANKAI'S PEAK.
78% matchVery Positive90% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 67.8%, Puzzle 32.2%
- #30 Induction
78% matchVery Positive90% of 187 reviews2017
Dev: Bryan Gale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 6.1 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 56.7%, Puzzle 43.3%
- #31 hocus 2
76% matchVery Positive86% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Yunus Ayyildiz
Windows · Mac
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Why similar: Puzzle 66.6%, Indie 33.4%
- #32 Active Neurons - Puzzle game
76% matchVery Positive94% of 69 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 75.2%, Indie 24.8%
- #33 Art Of Gravity
75% matchVery Positive91% of 682 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 59.5%, Puzzle 40.5%
- #34 Pictopix
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,461 reviews2017
Dev: Tomlab Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Pictopix is a puzzle game where you use logic to color squares on grids in order to reveal pictures.
Why similar: Puzzle 58.3%, Indie 41.7%
- #35 Magnetic: Cage Closed
77% matchMixed67% of 342 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 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #36 Mega Mosaic
70% matchVery Positive93% of 342 reviews2024
Dev: Mark FfrenchPub: Divide The Plunder
Windows · Mac
Median: 26.5 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Mega Mosaic is a meditative game about completing a single enormous puzzle
Why similar: Puzzle 100%
- #37 Skala
72% matchVery Positive89% of 310 reviews2022
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle 66.2%, Indie 33.8%
- #38 Square n Fair
75% matchVery Positive83% of 198 reviews2017
Dev: ThinkOfGamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Relaxing puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Indie 51.9%, Puzzle 48.1%
- #39 ElecHead
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,305 reviews2021
Dev: NamaTakahashi
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
⚡+🤖+🧩
Why similar: Puzzle 62.5%, Indie 37.5%
- #40 Sandy's Great Escape
71% 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 50.7%, Indie 49.3%
- #41 Qvabllock
74% matchVery Positive81% of 118 reviews2018
Dev: NedoStudio
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 245.6 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 65.7%, Puzzle 34.3%
- #42 Unbox the Room
68% matchVery Positive84% of 222 reviews2025
Dev: Weird Penguin Games
Windows · Mac
Unbox the Room is a relaxing simulator where you play as an interior designer helping clients move into their new homes. Unbox and arrange their belongings to create a cozy space, placing everything just right — from the smallest cup to the largest sofa.
Why similar: Puzzle 63.4%, Indie 36.6%
- #43 Multimirror
77% matchMostly Negative40% 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%
- #44 Prime Mover
73% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 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 52.2%, Puzzle 47.8%
- #45 Oberty
69% matchVery Positive95% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Dmytro Denys
Windows · Mac
Oberty is mind-bending puzzle about combining shapes.
Why similar: Puzzle 52.4%, Indie 47.6%
- #46 Puzzlement
72% matchVery Positive92% of 235 reviews2018
Dev: Yunus Ayyildiz
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
Why similar: Indie 52.2%, Puzzle 47.8%
- #47 Enigmoon
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 757 reviews2015
Dev: Tupã Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Metroidvania with challenging puzzles and free exploration as long as you have oxygen.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Cubotrox
73% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: The Barberians Game StudioPub: Talking About Media
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
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 57.7%, Puzzle 42.3%
- #49 Block in the Lock
71% matchVery Positive94% of 69 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 73.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #50 Dungeon and Puzzles
70% matchVery Positive94% of 222 reviews2021
Dev: NekolystPub: Digital Crafter
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 65.8%, Indie 34.2%
- #51 Puzzle Box Palace
70% matchVery Positive86% of 122 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 53.9%, Puzzle 46.1%
- #52 The Path Home
64% matchVery Positive99% of 69 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 63.1%, Indie 36.9%
- #53 20 Small Mazes
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,665 reviews2024
Dev: FLEB
Windows · Mac
This is a puzzle game with twenty small mazes. They're good mazes, though.
Why similar: Puzzle 66.6%, Indie 33.4%
- #54 SquareCells
69% matchVery Positive90% of 1,236 reviews2015
Dev: Matthew Brown
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.
Why similar: Puzzle 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #55 Baba Is You
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,702 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 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 60.7%, Indie 39.3%
- #56 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 54.3%, Indie 45.7%
- #57 OXXO
67% matchVery Positive95% of 286 reviews2019
Dev: Hamster On Coke Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ever evolving puzzle game.
Why similar: Indie 66.8%, Puzzle 33.2%
- #58 Nonozle
65% matchVery Positive97% of 60 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 70.1%, Indie 29.9%
- #59 An Alien with a Magnet
68% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Rejected Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Welcome to the galaxy of An Alien with a Magnet, an amazing new platform-adventure-puzzler with a literal twist! Pick up diamonds, find secret orbs and unlock new levels to get the alien home safely in this new crazy game.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #60 Summon The DUDES!
62% matchVery Positive97% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Inanity Catchers Team
Windows
A quirky 2D puzzle platformer where your most powerful tool is… the DUDES!
Why similar: Puzzle 65.4%, Indie 34.6%