Games Like Maquette

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.8%, Puzzle 20%, First-Person 16.1%, Mystery 8.5%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a surreal, non-Euclidean world where gravity and perspective are constantly shifting, much like the recursive environments in Maquette.

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.8%, Puzzle 17.3%, First-Person 16.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features reality-bending mechanics where you manipulate perspective to change the environment, mirroring the recursive feel of Maquette.

From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Beautiful 15.6% ★, Adventure 13.4%, Stylized 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game centers on a brilliant world-within-a-world mechanic that perfectly captures the recursive puzzle design found in Maquette.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.7%, Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, First-Person 21.1%, Adventure 9.6%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Maquette's core focus on manipulating perspective and object scale to solve spatial puzzles.

Moncage is a unique puzzle adventure game where you explore a fascinating world trapped inside a mysterious cube. With each face displaying a unique scene, you’ll have to leverage the illusions and discover the hidden links to solve the puzzle.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.6%, Drama 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle game relies on finding connections between different sides of a cube, echoing the recursive perspective-based logic of Maquette.

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 35%, First-Person 17.6%, Exploration 8.7%, Adventure 6.3%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes environmental exploration and non-verbal puzzle solving within a beautiful, atmospheric world.

From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21%, Puzzle 15%, Beautiful 12.1% ★, Adventure 9.5%, First-Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar artistic, atmospheric quality and a focus on uncovering a mysterious world through exploration.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.7%, Puzzle 24.1%, First-Person 22.1%, Story Rich 7.5%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: As a gold standard for first-person puzzle games, it provides the same satisfying blend of environmental mechanics and narrative progression.

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Puzzle 13.6%, First-Person 12.3%, Great Soundtrack 9%, Mystery 8%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that uses light and shadow to manipulate the environment, similar to the atmospheric puzzle-solving in Maquette.

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Puzzle 41.3%, First-Person 24.5%, Indie 11.2%, Exploration 8.4%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game challenges your perception of space with non-Euclidean geometry and surreal, mind-bending puzzles.

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 36.4%, First-Person 18.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines atmospheric, first-person puzzle solving with deep philosophical themes, matching the emotional weight of Maquette.

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: Beautiful 35.3% ★, Puzzle 26.8%, Indie 6.4%, Great Soundtrack 5.7%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its intricate, hand-drawn puzzle design uses a layered, recursive structure that feels spiritually aligned with Maquette.

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, Puzzle 16.2%, First-Person 12.2%, Adventure 9.9%, Emotional 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title explicitly explores recursive environments and surreal puzzle-platforming, making it a direct thematic match.

Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Why similar: Beautiful 22.9% ★, Puzzle 13%, First-Person 12.4%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a surreal, first-person perspective shift that changes how you interact with the world, much like Maquette's scale mechanics.

Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Adventure 20.4%, First-Person 16.2%, Exploration 11.7%, Mystery 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The classic exploration-based puzzle game that defined the genre of atmospheric, first-person mystery.

I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.

Why similar: Adventure 17.4%, Beautiful 17.2% ★, Narrative 13.9% ★, Indie 13.2%, Puzzle 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, narrative-driven puzzle game that focuses on exploring objects and environments to uncover memories.

Spread decks of cards to solve challenging spatial puzzles and progress through dream-like landscapes in this award-winning title. Traverse beautifully crafted, isometric puzzles that give way to a wordless coming-of-age story, that invites you to reflect on the formative moments of your own life.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, Puzzle 26.1%, Adventure 14.3%, Stylized 13.8%, Colorful 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It uses spatial manipulation and perspective to tell an emotional, narrative-driven story about growth and memory.

Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.3%, First-Person 16.5%, Adventure 12.7%, Mystery 9.9%, Emotional 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a beautiful, atmospheric world filled with environmental puzzles and a deeply personal narrative.

Pneuma: Breath of Life forces you to think outside the box through a narrated story of self-discovery, whilst exploring the ontological mystery of the breath of life. Features award winning voice actor 'Jay Britton' as Pneuma.

Why similar: Puzzle 27.8%, First-Person 21.5%, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 15.3%, Great Soundtrack 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: The puzzles are entirely based on your observation and perspective, requiring you to look at the world differently to progress.

CRYNEGINE Indie Game of 2017. Featuring an incredibly detailed ancient world and a breathtaking soundtrack, Aporia: Beyond the Valley takes open world storytelling to new heights of adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 20.9%, Puzzle 16.2%, Indie 14.8%, Beautiful 13.8% ★, First-Person 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, first-person adventure that relies on environmental storytelling and puzzle-solving.

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Beautiful 23.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 12.1%, Adventure 11.7%, Drama 10.1%, Romance 10%

Why You'll Like It: It uses puzzle elements to explore themes of love and loss, mirroring the emotional core of Maquette's story.

Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.9%, First-Person 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.6%, Mystery 10.8%, Atmospheric 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar sense of loneliness and atmospheric beauty through first-person exploration and light-based puzzles.

Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.2%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 17.8%, First-Person 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A polished first-person puzzle game that focuses on environmental manipulation and clean, atmospheric design.

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: Beautiful 35.1% ★, Puzzle 14.8%, Mystery 9.4%, Emotional 8.1%, Adventure 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a diorama-like perspective to explore a mystery, which feels very similar to the miniature world mechanics of Maquette.

FRACT is a musical exploration game. You arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of a world built on sound. You rebuild its machinery by solving puzzles and bring the world back to life by shaping sound and creating music in the game.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.4%, First-Person 20.1%, Indie 14.4%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A music-based, first-person puzzle game that emphasizes exploration and environmental interaction.

The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.7%, First-Person 25.4%, Adventure 11.5%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Atmospheric 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person puzzle mechanics with a strong narrative focus, similar to the pacing and tone of Maquette.

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Puzzle 32.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 8.6%, Indie 8.4%, Great Soundtrack 8%

Syke is a first-person exploratory puzzle game set in a mysterious and beautifully warped reality. You play as an individual making their way through areas of strange geometry; solving puzzles to piece together the story of their love.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18%, Puzzle 15.3%, First-Person 12.7%, Adventure 7.7%, Mystery 7.4%

Solo is an introspective puzzler set on a gorgeous and surreal archipelago. Reflect on your loving relationships by exploring contemplative, dream-like islands.

Why similar: Narrative 24.8% ★, Puzzle 15.4%, Romance 11.5%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional, narrative-driven puzzle game that focuses on introspection and exploration.

Create your own paths combining the different elements available in this uniquely crafted world. Immerse yourself in a relaxing experience where your actions shape not only your surroundings but also your fate.

Why similar: Beautiful 25.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 12.9%, Adventure 12.1%, Emotional 10.8%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a colorful, emotional journey through exploration and puzzle-solving that feels tonally similar to Maquette.

Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.

Why similar: Beautiful 47.9% ★, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Narrative 6.4% ★, Atmospheric 6.3%

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.

Why similar: Puzzle 19.7%, First-Person 14.5%, Adventure 10.8%, Mystery 9.9%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a mix of exploration and puzzle-solving in a beautifully stylized, mysterious world.

Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.6%, First-Person 15.4%, Mystery 13.6%, Adventure 13.2%, Drama 11.3%

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Beautiful 24.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Puzzle 11.5%, Mystery 10.6%, First-Person 7.9%

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Why similar: Narrative 32.7% ★, Emotional 19%, First-Person 11.7%, Indie 6.5%, Drama 6.1%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.3%, First-Person 17.5%, Adventure 11.7%, Mystery 11.4%, Stylized 7.7%

A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.1%, Great Soundtrack 20.6%, Adventure 17.2%, Exploration 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%

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: Puzzle Platformer 33%, Puzzle 28.2%, Indie 15.1%, Great Soundtrack 12.8%, Adventure 10.9%

Cylne is a first person surreal exploration game having a poetic and philosophical side. Explore and feel unreal worlds filled with environmental enigmas to try to achieve the chapter called "The Choice"...

Why similar: Puzzle 17.5%, Adventure 16.9%, First-Person 16.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Indie 12.7%

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Adventure 23.1%, Indie 20.1%, Great Soundtrack 18.1%, Emotional 14.2%, Puzzle 12.3%

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.1%, Puzzle 22.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Adventure 13.5%, Indie 12.5%

Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.1%, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Emotional 13.7%, Adventure 13.5%, Beautiful 8.4% ★

Sizeable is a relaxing and peacefull puzzle/exploration game! Shrink and grow your way through small dioramas in search of hidden objects!

Why similar: Puzzle 33.1%, Indie 14.1%, Exploration 12.2%, Colorful 8.8%, Beautiful 8.7% ★

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 27.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Adventure 15.4%, Indie 13.7%, Stylized 9.4%

NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Why similar: First-Person 16.4%, Beautiful 13.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 11.3%

The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.

Why similar: Narrative 27.3% ★, Emotional 18.9%, Puzzle 16.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Stylized 7.8%

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle 20.4%, First-Person 17.6%, Adventure 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.2%

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: Beautiful 31.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Puzzle 11%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Adventure 9.5%

Sensorium is a small open-world puzzle game about the 5 senses: touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing.

Why similar: Adventure 25.6%, Puzzle 24.5%, First-Person 21.4%, Indie 21.3%, Exploration 5.7%

Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.9%, First-Person 17.3%, Adventure 12.6%, Emotional 11.6%, Mystery 11.5%

Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.

Why similar: Adventure 25.3%, Great Soundtrack 21%, Indie 12.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, First-Person 9.8%

Hazel Sky is a heartfelt adventure about a young engineer facing his destiny and his desires. Fix ramshackle flying machines and jump, climb, swing, and slide through a beautiful, mysterious world.

Why similar: Adventure 14.9%, Romance 14.7%, Emotional 14%, Puzzle 13.9%, Mystery 11.7%

Röki is a stunning adventure set in the snowcapped wilderness. As Tove, you must explore an uncharted world of hidden legends and forgotten monsters. Solve puzzles, collect curiosities, and uncover a tale of tragic loss, as you chart your path to redemption.

Why similar: Puzzle 20%, Emotional 17.2%, Adventure 12.6%, Beautiful 12.2% ★, Atmospheric 8.3%

Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Beautiful 19.8% ★, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Puzzle 13.5%, Adventure 8.7%

Firmament is a new puzzle-adventure game by the legendary game studio behind the best-selling games Myst and Riven. Featuring deep storytelling and world-building, discover the story of this seemingly abandoned world as you explore and unlock the mysteries of 3 unique Realms… and beyond!

Why similar: Puzzle 28.1%, Mystery 18.6%, Adventure 17%, Exploration 11.3%, Story Rich 8.1%

Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.1%, Puzzle 18.2%, First-Person 18%, Exploration 7.3%, Adventure 5.8%

A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.

Why similar: Beautiful 35% ★, Emotional 11.3%, First-Person 9.7%, Adventure 8.5%, Mystery 7.9%

Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.1%, First-Person 14.6%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 12.8%, Atmospheric 12.5%