60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Singleplayer, Logic, Time Manipulation.
Try, rewind, and rebuild! MOP'N SPARK is a 2D puzzle platformer built around clever thinking, where you coordinate a cleaner and an electrician to piece together the solution.
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"Exp10sion" is a pixel-art puzzle platformer. You'll play as a bomb that explodes within 10 seconds. Each explosion respawns the bomb, starts a new round, and generates a "Time Shadow" of your last round. Use your shadow wisely to solve the puzzles!
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Record your movements and play them back to progress. Use your recorded echoes to weigh down pressure plates, body-block lasers, and trigger springs to launch you across gaps. Master the timeline and complete all 29 time-bending levels.
"Exp10sion" is a pixel-art puzzle platformer. You'll play as a bomb that explodes within 10 seconds. Each explosion respawns the bomb, starts a new round, and generates a "Time Shadow" of your last round. Use your shadow wisely to solve the puzzles!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Puzzle 9%, Platformer 6%
Record your movements and play them back to progress. Use your recorded echoes to weigh down pressure plates, body-block lasers, and trigger springs to launch you across gaps. Master the timeline and complete all 29 time-bending levels.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Puzzle 8.7%, Platformer 5.7%
Could time go backwards? Meet me at NooN is a time manipulation turn-based puzzle-platformer with Tenet inspired mechanics. Control two characters, create perfect time loops and solve brain melting time puzzles.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.7% ★, Grid-Based Movement 17.5%, Time Management 13.8%, Puzzle Platformer 12.6%, Logic 10.7%
Manipulate space and time in this planetary puzzle-platformer. Learn the rules to unravel more of the world and the secrets within. Do you remember? 183 15.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Puzzle 9.8%, Logic 9.2%, 2D Platformer 7.6%
The fear of artificial intelligence is nothing new, but will it always be for the bad? Solve puzzles and follow the creator's and creator's conversation during the testing phase, until the moment they are interrupted by external matters.
Why similar: Programming 40.2% ★, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Logic 13.3%, Puzzle 8.4%
Cal & Bomba is a programmatic puzzle game. Program short sequences to navigate the playfield, aim your cannon using potions, and take down your enemies with various explosives. Turn your enemies against each other, and create explosive chain reactions. 150+ puzzles sure to melt your brain!
Why similar: Programming 49.9% ★, Logic 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.5%, Grid-Based Movement 10.5%, Puzzle 10.1%
Brain busting puzzles to drive you loopy. Set up to 8 instructions that loop infinitely to reach the exit. Jump over obstacles and pitfalls, and use walls to your advantage. All Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles unlocked, so attempt them in any order.
Why similar: Programming 53.7% ★, Logic 18.8%, Puzzle 14.2%, Retro 5.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%
Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.6%, Programming 10.6% ★, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Puzzle 8.5%
Someone needs your help, but you don't have enough time to save her. Leap into the past to succeed, but don't trigger a time paradox. Time Riggers is a turn-based time-leap puzzle game that will challenge your spatio-temporal logic and memory.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36% ★, Grid-Based Movement 18.4%, Time Management 14.2%, Logic 11.3%, Puzzle 7.6%
Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, 2D Platformer 10.4%, Puzzle 7.4%, Platformer 5.2%
Chrono is a puzzle/platformer game where you control how time affects objects in the world. By freezing time, fast-forwarding, or rewinding objects, you can crack a wide variety of puzzles. The goal is to escape the facility where you are trapped, before time runs out.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 42.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 24.2%, Logic 17.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Platformer 4.4%
Hexahedra is a puzzle game about beautiful efficiency. Design, program, and optimize factories to build cubes, used galaxy-wide as crates, satellite housing, even chic coffins. Rewind the action to hunt for improvements. Compete with friends, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit.
Why similar: Programming 44.8% ★, Time Manipulation 31.4% ★, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Singleplayer 1%
TIMEWINDER is a 2D platformer with puzzle and precision elements. Run, jump, dash and travel in time to brave the obstacles and continue on your journey, but be careful not to break the timeline continuity!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 46.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 8.6%, Platformer 6.4%
Video Editor is a puzzle platformer inspired by various video editing software. As a director, you must film 'movements' as clips, adjust them, and collaborate with chroma key tracks to reach the flag—all within a recording time limit! Film short, reach efficiently!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.1%, Time Management 14.2%, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Logic 9.8%
Timeline Traveler II is a puzzle game that combined time control and platformer element together to provide a new game experience!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Puzzle 9.6%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Logic 6.8%
The story takes place in a future company called "RavenTek". R.O.O.T. - A grid, unit, and signal based computing system. Move the units to create signal links, transmit the signals, and activate other units to generate benefits. Are the benefits generated all for the company, or...?
Why similar: Programming 67.9% ★, Puzzle 13.2%, Puzzle Platformer 7.7%, Logic 6.6%, Retro 2.8%
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.3%, Time Manipulation 31.6% ★, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Platformer 6.7%
Using the power of time manipulation, guide Cuckoo through a deadly clock by speeding up and slowing down a system of cogs, gears, pistons and other surprises in this difficult puzzle platformer!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, 2D Platformer 11%, Logic 6.5%, Platformer 5.5%
Program a robot and save the hostages! Use guns, lasers, explosions, and even the environment in this tactical programming puzzle game. No prior programming knowledge required.
Why similar: Programming 68.2% ★, Logic 17.3%, Puzzle 11.3%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
A logic puzzle game where you write code to guide a bot through hex grid levels. Use a simple built-in programming language, think algorithmically, and find elegant solutions to increasingly complex challenges.
Why similar: Programming 49.5% ★, Grid-Based Movement 21.5%, Logic 15.1%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 2%
Move and rotate pieces to get the laser to hit the goal. Colored lasers, gates, and activators add additional challenge to this relatively simple concept. Can you complete all of the levels?
Why similar: Programming 41.7% ★, Grid-Based Movement 19%, Logic 18.8%, Puzzle 17.1%, Indie 2.2%
Fix the world. Learn to code. Uncover the truth. Explore diverse locations, solve programming puzzles, and transform a broken digital world. With an intuitive Scratch-like interface, master coding fundamentals while uncovering a mysterious story. Perfect for beginners and coding enthusiasts alike!
Why similar: Programming 39.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Puzzle 12.4%, Platformer 9.3%
It's a meta game that previously only existed in the imagination, allowing you to break window boundaries and interact in multiple game windows.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Puzzle 10.4%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Logic 5.3%
NOSTOI is a narrative 3D puzzle and platformer game with a gameplay mechanics based on the physics and time manipulation. The game is about a boy who tries to escape his psychological trauma.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 51.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Puzzle 12.7%, Platformer 8.1%, Indie 6.4%
Nested is a cute grid-based puzzle game made around the concept of russian nesting dolls. Come twist your brain as you stack, push and interact with the various objects you'll find in each levels. Let's see if you can reach the right combination of nesting dolls to solve every one of them!
Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 27.4%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Logic 18.1%, Time Manipulation 11.8% ★, Puzzle 11.6%
Prelogate is a logic puzzle game. Solve puzzles by redirecting laser beams, mixing them and controlling them with logic gates.
Why similar: Programming 55.8% ★, Logic 20.4%, Puzzle 16.1%, Indie 7.7%
If you are interested in programming, you will like the game. You will play an engineer, use the mouse to drag various instructions to write programs, and let them run normally to meet the requirements of the boss. Some levels test your logic ability very much. Please think carefully before you act.
Why similar: Programming 62.3% ★, Logic 15.9%, Puzzle 9%, 2D Platformer 7.3%, Pixel Graphics 2.6%
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
Why similar: Programming 77.2% ★, Puzzle 10.8%, Logic 8.5%, Indie 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Pixel Forge is a puzzle game where you create pixel art by connecting nodes. If you think you're smart enough, give this puzzle a try.
Why similar: Programming 46.7% ★, Logic 15.5%, Grid-Based Movement 11.9%, Puzzle 10%, Puzzle Platformer 8.6%
String Rush is a puzzle-platformer where you don't control your avatar in real time, but you have to enter the movement commands (input) inside a string and execute them all together.
Why similar: Programming 34.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Logic 14.9%, 2D Platformer 10.2%, Puzzle 9.2%
A clever grid-based puzzler about thinking ahead: queue movement commands for a hungry animal, watch them execute, and debug your route when things go wrong. Each level introduces new mechanics like keys, switches, hazards, and jumps, turning simple paths into satisfying logic challenges.
Why similar: Programming 59.5% ★, Logic 15.4%, Puzzle 12.9%, Grid-Based Movement 6.3%, Indie 2.1%
Cool Headed is a puzzle casual-programming game. Combine and give instructions to your bots to reach the objective! Piece by piece, make your mark on an extensive overworld, unlock bots and discover secrets. Will you have the heart to sacrifice your team?
Why similar: Programming 76.1% ★, Puzzle 15.9%, Indie 8%
TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!
Why similar: Programming 81.3% ★, Puzzle 9.1%, Logic 7.1%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Guide two froggy friends through a pixelated, time-warping adventure. This 2D platformer will require you to master the time loop and leap your way across 30+ levels of hazards and puzzles.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Puzzle 9%, Platformer 5.8%
Use the classic chess pieces to work your way through this complex puzzle platformer. Capture all enemy pieces before they get you to beat the 102 intricately designed levels.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, 2D Platformer 15.7%, Grid-Based Movement 11.6%, Puzzle 10.7%
It's a Wrap! is a challenging puzzle game about making movies in 1980s Hollywood. Figure out the perfect timing of props, actors, and special effects as the Director. Then jump into the scene as the movie's star in a traditional 2D platformer.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, Logic 13.7%, Puzzle 8.5%, 2D Platformer 8.4%
ChessWorlds: Grandmaker is a puzzle game in which you design chess pieces using code blocks, and solve puzzles with your newly created army. Run a piece making shop, battle unique opponents, solve puzzles in different worlds with changed rules, and uncover the mistery behind the Grandmaker.
Why similar: Programming 53.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.3%, Grid-Based Movement 9.1%, Puzzle 8.4%, Logic 7.2%
"ChronoRecorder" is a 3D puzzle game. Players can manipulate time and gravity. And you have to use that ability to solve problems. You might think this game is difficult if you don't use your brain.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 51.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 31.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Repeat After Me, the multiplayer game for single players! Clone, act, repeat! Whatever you do, your copies will forever repeat your every step - or misstep. Can you work with yourself to escape?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Logic 14.1%, Time Management 10.8%, Puzzle 9.2%
Inspect the wrecked room, work out what's blocking what, and restore everything in the right order. Activate Rewind, piece broken things back together, and send every object home — preferably without another incident.
Why similar: Cleaning 46.3% ★, Time Manipulation 33.5% ★, Puzzle 9.7%, Logic 8.9%, Indie 1.6%
A logic puzzle game where you redirect and split laser beams to create digital circuits. Through the campaign, you will explore basic logic gates, oscillators, latches, counters, adders, memory, and more.
Why similar: Programming 63.5% ★, Logic 13.9%, Puzzle 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%, Indie 2%
Manipulate time and cooperate with yourself to solve challenging puzzles! Delve into a colorful world filled with a variety of dangers and unique mind-bending puzzle mechanics.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.5% ★, Time Management 20.6%, Logic 14.5%, Puzzle 9.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%
Solve intricate puzzles to help Tricula the vampire find his way to his coffin in this grid-based pixel-art puzzle platforming game.
Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 27%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, Puzzle 13.4%, Logic 10.8%, 2D Platformer 9.6%
This game challenge you to play many mini games in one screen at the same time.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 51.1% ★, Time Management 27.9%, Retro 5.4%, Platformer 4.3%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%
KEEK is a pixel 2D platformer that you could use a special force to change the dimension of objects. Overcome obstacles, disable traps, collect items and face the final challenge.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.6% ★, Logic 18.2%, 2D Platformer 16.7%, Platformer 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Why similar: Programming 79% ★, Puzzle 11.7%, Logic 5.3%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 1%
Reprogram is a side scrolling tactical game where timing is as important as positioning. You control the characters by assigning commands that will be performed simultaneously during a turn. That way, you'll have to learn the enemy's behaviour and think ahead when creating a strategy.
Why similar: Programming 35.7% ★, Grid-Based Movement 18.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Retro 3.6%
Pick up the tokens, write the source code, and repair the data that your doctor has deleted! Write source code that achieves the input and expected output pairs set for each stage. The code is written in tolerance, a dedicated language.
Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 10.5%, Retro 5.8%
Manipulate time to your whim! Use your powers of time manipulation to advance in this 2D Puzzle Adventure!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 47.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 10%, Platformer 5.2%
Slumhack is a PUZZLE-PLATFORMER game set in a near-future slum, featuring "INDIRECT CHARACTER CONTROL". Instead of controlling the character directly, use buttons and mechanisms within each stage to guide her and help her complete hacking missions
Why similar: Programming 34.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Logic 12.4%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 9%
excellent is a puzzle game based on data analysis, where data is stored into blocks. Arrange the data, create new blocks and ranges, and discover how the function blocks work and interact with the data in order to solve the puzzles.
Why similar: Programming 48.9% ★, Logic 16.8%, Puzzle 12.1%, Grid-Based Movement 10.8%, Indie 3.4%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Programming 77.1% ★, Logic 12.4%, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, Puzzle 10.6%, Retro 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 5%
Timelake is a stylish roguelite strategy game where time is your greatest weapon. Foresee enemy moves, plan your turn, then fight alongside your past selves with a unique timeline mechanic. Master your resources, overcome the odds, and watch your plans unfold like clockwork.
Why similar: Programming 35.5% ★, Time Manipulation 25% ★, Grid-Based Movement 16.5%, Time Management 13.4%, Puzzle 8.3%
Place the blocks, press Play, and watch as one collision triggers the next. You build the solution, and physics reveals whether it works.
Why similar: Programming 38.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Logic 16%, Puzzle 11%, 2D Platformer 8.3%
Gravity Escape is a pixel platform puzzle game where the protagonist, K, accidentally acquires a gravity gun that grants him the ability to manipulate gravity. He must find a way to overcome various dangerous traps and enemies to discover how to escape the planet.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Logic 20.7%, 2D Platformer 16.3%, Puzzle 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 7%
Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Puzzle 17.4%, Platformer 11.3%, Indie 6.1%
A difficult programming puzzle game about building parallel computing machines by placing blocks to solve surprisingly hard problems.
Why similar: Programming 57.5% ★, Logic 17.1%, Puzzle 12.5%, Grid-Based Movement 9.8%, Indie 1.5%
Tiles will copy your moves. Use pencils to draw bridges and get to the next page!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.1%, 2D Platformer 21.1%, Logic 14.6%, Puzzle 14.1%, Platformer 9%
The Count is Down for Blood is a gothic grid-based puzzle game where every move brings sunrise closer. Plan each step, drink blood, use vampire powers, and reach your coffin before the night runs out.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.3% ★, Grid-Based Movement 19.9%, Logic 16.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%
