- #1 Manifold Garden
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Abstract 20.3%, Experimental 19.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.4%, Psychedelic 13%, Minimalist 9.2%
- #2 Antichamber
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 17,576 reviews2013
Dev: Alexander BrucePub: Demruth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Abstract 29.1%, Puzzle 28.8%, Exploration 11.8%, Psychedelic 8%, Minimalist 7.4%
- #3 Romino's Adventure
96% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: InterDan
Windows · Linux
A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32%, Side Scroller 24.3%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Puzzle 7%
- #4 Youropa
95% matchVery Positive87% of 694 reviews2018
Dev: frecle
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.
Why similar: Abstract 33.6%, Puzzle Platformer 33%, Platformer 11.6%, Exploration 11.2%, Puzzle 10.7%
- #5 Metro Gravity
93% matchVery Positive94% of 700 reviews2025
Dev: mrkogamedev
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Explore, fight, solve puzzles and bend gravity to escape the dream-like world of the Halls! Metro Gravity is a mind-boggling musical adventure with rhythmic combat and compelling lore.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.2%, Female Protagonist 17.3%, Exploration 14.1%, Puzzle 13.9%, Atmospheric 10.2%
- #6 Planet of the Eyes
94% matchVery Positive84% of 589 reviews2015
Dev: Cococucumber
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29%, Puzzle 18.2%, Platformer 17.1%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Exploration 7%
- #7 Etherborn
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 444 reviews2019
Dev: Altered MatterPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 24%, Minimalist 15.2%, Experimental 14.2% ★, Puzzle 10%, Platformer 8.9%
- #8 Hue
91% matchVery Positive92% of 11,146 reviews2016
Dev: Fiddlesticks GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.3%, Puzzle 18.4%, Platformer 13.8%, Side Scroller 11.9%, Adventure 7.8%
- #9 Dubio
91% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: AJ KolencPub: Richard Boeser
Windows · Mac
Dubio is a game of tiny puzzle parcours. It offers a challenging mix of puzzle-solving and momentum control. Jump and bounce through 100 levels that test your wits and sense of timing. Or are there more?
Why similar: Abstract 28.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Minimalist 17.3%, Puzzle 11.2%, Futuristic 6.4%
- #10 Colortone
92% matchMixed70% of 365 reviews2015
Dev: Greendev.Pub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Your way to freedom only involves your intelligence and the puzzles!
Why similar: Abstract 20.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Minimalist 15.9%, Psychedelic 9.8%, Puzzle 9.3%
- #11 Exographer
90% matchVery Positive95% of 130 reviews2024
Dev: SciFunGamesPub: Abylight Studios
Windows · Mac
Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Side Scroller 10.6%, Exploration 10.4%
- #12 Chroma Zero
89% matchVery Positive96% of 313 reviews2024
Dev: ekorzPub: ZeroXP
Windows
Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
Why similar: Minimalist 30.2%, Puzzle 24.5%, Exploration 15.3%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 10.1%
- #13 Iconoclasts
89% matchVery Positive86% of 4,919 reviews2018
Dev: Joakim SandbergPub: Bifrost Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, Female Protagonist 21.8%, Side Scroller 12.1%, Platformer 12.1%, Adventure 7.6%
- #14 Worldless
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,547 reviews2023
Dev: Noname StudiosPub: Coatsink
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Worldless is a stylised 2D platformer with a unique combat system and a mind-bending interpretative narrative. Players embark on a journey of self-growth and understanding, pushing the limits of their nature in a newly born and abstract universe.
Why similar: Minimalist 28.8%, Female Protagonist 20.7%, 2D Platformer 19.7%, Platformer 17.2%, Action 5%
- #15 FEZ
87% matchVery Positive93% of 16,036 reviews2013
Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
Why similar: Platformer 25.7%, Puzzle 24.6%, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Exploration 13.6%, Indie 8.8%
- #16 Chromatic Conundrum
84% matchVery Positive98% of 277 reviews2026
Dev: Digs
Windows
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 22.2%, Abstract 22%, Minimalist 12.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Platformer 10.8%
- #17 The Multi-Medium
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 534 reviews2023
Dev: Micah Boursier
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, Side Scroller 20.5%, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Platformer 10.1%, Puzzle 9.8%
- #18 Dreaming Sarah
85% matchVery Positive91% of 2,855 reviews2015
Dev: Asteristic Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Dreaming Sarah is an adventure platformer where you play as Sarah, a girl who is in a coma. Explore the world around her and help her wake up!
Why similar: Abstract 22.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Platformer 7.7%
- #19 Starseed Pilgrim
86% matchMixed60% of 534 reviews2013
Dev: droqen
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 17%
Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour.You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.You are an explorer, discovering new places, new rules, and new fascinations.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, Minimalist 21.5%, Puzzle 15.7%, Indie 9.4%, Exploration 8.6%
- #20 Niko: Through The Dream
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 229 reviews2015
Dev: Studio Paint
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Niko is a spiritual journey through the dreams, where adventure, puzzles and mysteries come together in an oneiric and minimalist world. Dare to dream!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.5%, Minimalist 21.8%, Puzzle 17.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 9.8%
- #21 Oscuro Blossom's Glow
82% matchVery Positive95% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Hongoneon
Windows
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 Platformer 33.9%, Platformer 15.2%, Puzzle 14.4%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #22 Mekabolt
83% matchVery Positive88% of 179 reviews2019
Dev: SomepxPub: Ratalaika Games S.L.
Windows
Use your trusty Mekabolt device to manipulate robots, solve a variety of puzzling levels and obtain batteries to fix the robots!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.3%, 2D Platformer 14.8%, Female Protagonist 14%, Puzzle 12.7%, Platformer 12.3%
- #23 Automaton Lung
81% matchVery Positive93% of 136 reviews2022
Dev: Luke Vincent
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make use of your special abilities to skate, shoot, and fly through over 40 unique locations. In a strange land with almost no information you must be resourceful and clever. Question everything you see and trust nothing you hear.
Why similar: Psychedelic 25.4%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Platformer 18.9%, Exploration 18.8%, Adventure 9.9%
- #24 The Art of Reflection
78% matchVery Positive97% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Hydrozoa
Windows
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 29.2%, Abstract 23.2%, Minimalist 13%, Puzzle 11%, Exploration 8.9%
- #25 Recursed
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 637 reviews2016
Dev: PortponkyPub: Shambles Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 45.2%, Puzzle 25.6%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Indie 10.3%, Adventure 7.1%
- #26 Fumiko!
82% matchVery Positive82% of 114 reviews2017
Dev: Fumiko Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
This gravity-defying 3D Platformer takes you on a surreal trip through a twisted virtual network. Uncover the secrets this world tries to hide from you: an artificial intelligence named Fumiko!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, Abstract 22%, Psychedelic 21.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Futuristic 9.3%
- #27 The Pedestrian
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,862 reviews2020
Dev: Skookum Arts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 Platformer 20.7%, Side Scroller 16.2%, 2.5D 11.9%, Minimalist 10.2%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #28 Monospaced Lovers
78% matchVery Positive94% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Scarlet String Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Monospaced Lovers is an exploration-driven platformer about closeness and distance. Journey through a metafictional, fantasy-filled land and find the truth of your fragile world before it disintegrates.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37%, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Exploration 12.5%, Platformer 11.7%
- #29 Teslagrad
79% matchVery Positive84% of 2,460 reviews2013
Dev: Rain Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, Platformer 23%, Puzzle 17.2%, Side Scroller 12.8%, Exploration 6%
- #30 Saira
80% matchVery Positive81% of 324 reviews
Dev: Nicklas NygrenPub: Kreatoriet AB
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 24%
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: Platformer 23.8%, Female Protagonist 21.6%, Puzzle 19.5%, Indie 13.8%, Exploration 11.3%
- #31 Semblance
77% matchVery Positive85% of 398 reviews2018
Dev: NyamakopPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.7%, Side Scroller 19.5%, Minimalist 15.6%, Puzzle 10%, Platformer 9.8%
- #32 MO:Astray
75% matchVery Positive92% of 5,025 reviews2019
Dev: Archpray Inc.Pub: Rayark International Limited
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.8%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Platformer 12.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Adventure 8.6%
- #33 Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists
74% matchVery Positive89% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: NeckboltPub: Burning Planet Digital
Windows
Alruna is a compact and high-density Metroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.3%, Side Scroller 18.3%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #34 Ever Forward
76% matchVery Positive82% of 278 reviews2020
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.
Why similar: Adventure 24.9%, Indie 20.1%, Puzzle 19.6%, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Platformer 5.8%
- #35 Color Symphony 2
77% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2015
Dev: REMIMORY
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Color Symphony 2 is a puzzle action platformer that utilizes the ambiguity of color. Try to eliminate obstacles or find new paths by using color!
Why similar: Experimental 26.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Side Scroller 16.7%, Platformer 10%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #36 Another Perspective
76% matchVery Positive88% of 322 reviews2014
Dev: SaraJS
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Another Perspective is a puzzle platformer following the very confusing adventure of someone looking for something. Swap minds to see the world in different ways! Where one mind sees a bottomless pit, another might not. Where one sees a locked door, another sees a key. To change perspective is to change reality!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.4%, Platformer 23.9%, Puzzle 19%, Adventure 16.5%, Indie 16.2%
- #37 Hello World
72% matchVery Positive96% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Hello World StudioPub: OKJOY
Windows
You have strayed into the world of computer! ? During the exploration, you will have a series of interesting interactions with folders, garbage files, Word documents, PowerPoint documents, Excel documents, anti-virus software, blinking cursors while typing and even binary 0 and 1 in computer!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36%, 2D Platformer 17%, Puzzle 15.8%, Platformer 11.9%, Indie 4.9%
- #38 Munin
75% matchVery Positive82% of 993 reviews2014
Dev: GojiraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.6%, Puzzle 12.9%, Platformer 12.4%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Abstract 7.8%
- #39 Fourmiworld
70% matchVery Positive98% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: CZDOOM
Windows · Linux
Carve your own path through Fourmiworld - an "open-world-ant-farm-metroidvania". Play as an interdimensional urban explorer girl, collect Gamut to unlock new abilities, and discover the sights, plights, & soundbites of a surreal alien dimension.
Why similar: Abstract 27.9%, Psychedelic 26.9%, Exploration 11.2%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Adventure 7.2%
- #40 Biphase
71% matchVery Positive96% of 265 reviews2021
Dev: Seasun Seed
Windows
Biphase is a 2D platform jumping game with exploration and puzzles as its core. In the game, the player plays a role who has bipolar disorder, trying to discover and break through the self in the abstract red and black world.
Why similar: Abstract 18.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.6%, Minimalist 13%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Female Protagonist 8%
- #41 ANIMAL WELL
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,519 reviews2024
Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.2%, Puzzle 15.4%, Exploration 14.7%, Platformer 12.5%, Atmospheric 8.9%
- #42 Relicta
73% matchMixed67% of 452 reviews2020
Dev: Mighty PolygonPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.9%, Female Protagonist 19.5%, Puzzle 15.2%, Exploration 14%, Action 5.7%
- #43 Even the Ocean
72% matchVery Positive86% of 279 reviews2016
Dev: Melos Han-TaniPub: Analgesic Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A story-rich 2D platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures, while uncovering the truth of your world. Explore towns and cities, and help a world thrown out of balance!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 22.4%, Female Protagonist 17%, Side Scroller 15.1%, Atmospheric 14%, Platformer 11.8%
- #44 The Mensional
71% matchVery Positive92% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: Delil Timurtaş
Windows · Mac
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 18%, Platformer 16.9%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Minimalist 12.9%, Exploration 12.1%
- #45 PONCHO
74% matchMixed64% of 194 reviews2015
Dev: Delve InteractivePub: Rising Star Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A robot, a poncho and a journey of discovery! Make your way through this wonderful world of pixelated parallax platforming to solve the ultimate puzzle: who is Poncho?
Why similar: 2.5D 20.7%, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Side Scroller 15.1%, Platformer 13.6%, Adventure 10.5%
- #46 Rising Islands
73% matchMixed59% of 113 reviews2016
Dev: Lone Hero Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Rising Islands is an adventure game where you’ll have to combine fast-paced action with quick thinking. Jump, shift, grind, dash and wallrun through a fantastic world that is fraying at the edges. New challenges await around every corner.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 23.1%, Platformer 22.6%, Puzzle 21.4%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 12.8%
- #47 Platonic
70% matchVery Positive86% of 93 reviews2022
Dev: FidgetBear Games
Windows
Platonic is a first-person puzzle adventure game. Explore five unique worlds. Solve logical challenges. Gather clues and think outside the cube.
Why similar: Puzzle 31.6%, Exploration 26.1%, Atmospheric 20.1%, Adventure 14.7%, Indie 5.3%
- #48 Luna Sky
73% matchMixed61% of 229 reviews2015
Dev: Vovoid Media Technologies ABPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Momentum-driven old school platformer with modern graphics & physics with a focus on exploration. Offers precision and on later levels a lot of speed. Each world brings new abilities & gameplay
Why similar: Female Protagonist 36.9%, Adventure 22.6%, Indie 19%, Action 14.6%, Singleplayer 6.8%
- #49 Mushroom 11
70% matchVery Positive84% of 683 reviews2015
Dev: Untame
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?
Why similar: Experimental 26.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Puzzle 13.6%, Platformer 12.4%, Adventure 6.9%
- #50 Amphora
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 212 reviews2014
Dev: Moondrop
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 30.2%, Female Protagonist 24%, Atmospheric 18%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 11.5%
- #51 Simulation world
69% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2021
Dev: 007berd
Windows
Simulation World - This is a puzzle, story and open world. Feel the vanilla atmosphere as you progress through the puzzles. Rescue the simulation from a virus that wants to destroy the computer world
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.7%, Side Scroller 22.7%, Puzzle 13.6%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Platformer 11.5%
- #52 Cubico
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 168 reviews2019
Dev: Simon HischierPub: Ideation Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A unique and experimental game mechanic. An open world awaits the player and offers challanges and pushing rythms.
Why similar: Indie 33.6%, Exploration 30.8%, Action 27.5%, Singleplayer 8.2%
- #53 1 Screen Platformer
68% matchVery Positive87% of 424 reviews2019
Dev: Return To Adventure Mountain, LLC
Windows · Mac
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
Why similar: Side Scroller 33%, 2D Platformer 20.5%, Platformer 15.3%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Minimalist 6.1%
- #54 Elephantasy: Flipside
67% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: B. Maksym (Linker)
Windows
Use and upgrade magic items, collect hidden treasures, and uncover the secrets between two worlds in this cute isometric puzzler! When a certain vacationing Elephant stumbles upon a way into the land of the dead, will she unwittingly let something far more sinister slip through?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.5%, Puzzle 15.9%, Platformer 15.7%, Exploration 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%
- #55 Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer
68% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2018
Dev: Fishing Cactus
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Shift Quantum is a brain-busting platformer using a unique mechanic called SHIFTING, a way to twist your environment and invert space around you. Bend your mind to reach the exit of each level and unveil the secrets of a strange program. Extend the experience, create and share your own levels.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.1%, 2.5D 11%, Platformer 9.8%, Minimalist 9.1%, Atmospheric 8.3%
- #56 CUBOTS The Origins
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Street Lamp Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Be a part of an adventurous journey in Cubots: The Origins. Explore and survive in beautiful, atmospheric environments!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.9%, Minimalist 14.4%, Puzzle 12.6%, 2.5D 11.6%, Exploration 10.6%
- #57 The Entropy Centre
64% matchVery Positive89% of 4,209 reviews2022
Dev: Stubby GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Puzzle 15.4%, Futuristic 13.9%, Exploration 8.5%
- #58 With My Past
64% matchVery Positive95% of 344 reviews2024
Dev: Imagine Wings StudioPub: Edigger
Windows
"How should I face my past in my ever-changing life? "Collaborating with the shadow of the past to unravel allegorical puzzles, confront inner struggles, and explore the path of self-growth.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Side Scroller 17.3%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Puzzle 11.2%, 2D Platformer 9.8%
- #59 Genopanic
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 364 reviews2024
Dev: Mobirate
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer. Explore corridors of the space station, teeming with secrets and dangers, and engage in boss fights. Solve puzzles and uncover hidden mysteries in the dark atmosphere of a sci-fi research complex. Discover the truth with each step
Why similar: Side Scroller 33%, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Platformer 14.6%, Exploration 12.6%, Atmospheric 12.5%
- #60 Viewfinder
62% matchVery Positive94% of 11,827 reviews2023
Dev: Sad Owl StudiosPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Abstract 31.9%, Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 8%, Atmospheric 7.4%