- #1 The Bridge
97% matchVery Positive87% of 4,348 reviews2013
Dev: Ty TaylorPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, Platformer 8.5%, Surreal 6.9%, Physics 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Like Munin, this game centers on rotating the environment to solve complex spatial puzzles and navigate gravity-defying levels.
- #2 Nihilumbra
96% matchVery Positive88% of 2,989 reviews2013
Dev: BeautiFun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.2%, Platformer 21.5%, Puzzle 14.1%, Indie 8.3%, Adventure 7%
Why You'll Like It: Players use different colors to alter the physics of the ground, creating a strategic puzzle-platforming experience.
- #3 Aspire: Ina's Tale
96% matchVery Positive83% of 427 reviews2021
Dev: Wondernaut StudioPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Set out on a mystical adventure of self-discovery against the backdrop of fantastical landscapes of The Tower. Meet its dwellers and unravel their stories. Manipulate spirits to solve puzzles, and lead Ina on her path to freedom.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.5%, Platformer 15.4%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Puzzle 9%, Surreal 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that emphasizes exploration and environmental interaction within a surreal, dreamlike world.
- #4 Braid
95% matchVery Positive93% of 9,924 reviews2009
Dev: Number None
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 51.6%, Platformer 16%, Puzzle 12.4%, 2D Platformer 8.5%, Indie 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: This classic puzzle-platformer features intricate time-manipulation mechanics that require deep logical thinking similar to Munin's environmental puzzles.
- #5 Teslagrad
94% matchVery Positive84% of 2,464 reviews2013
Dev: Rain Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.1 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: Platformer 33.8%, Puzzle Platformer 26.1%, Puzzle 16.9%, Indie 6.8%, Difficult 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on electromagnetic physics puzzles and precise platforming, offering a similar mechanical depth to Munin.
- #6 Trine 2: Complete Story
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,968 reviews2013
Dev: Frozenbyte
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.8%, Platformer 19.6%, Beautiful 12% ★, Puzzle 9.6%, 2D Platformer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the Norse-inspired fantasy aesthetic and utilizes physics-based object manipulation to solve platforming challenges.
- #7 NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
93% matchVery Positive90% of 136 reviews2010
Dev: Over the Top Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Fly with Nyx across the ruins of the ancient Greece in her dangerous search for her dearest friend Icarus. Use the powers of Zeus and the Gods from Olympus and use them wisely in order to help Nyx to complete her epic adventure.
Why similar: Platformer 37.5%, Adventure 28.1%, Female Protagonist 20.9%, Mythology 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: Set in a world of Greek mythology, this platformer features divine powers that allow players to manipulate the environment to progress.
- #8 Hue
91% matchVery Positive92% of 11,223 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 38.4%, Platformer 19.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, Indie 8.8%, Adventure 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Players manipulate the color of the world to alter the environment, providing a similar sense of agency over the game's physics and layout.
- #9 Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,915 reviews2012
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds.
Why similar: Platformer 40%, Female Protagonist 20%, Difficult 14.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a core mechanic of shifting between two distinct worlds, mirroring the environmental transformation found in Munin.
- #10 Unravel
91% matchVery Positive91% of 5,467 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwood InteractivePub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28%, Puzzle 23%, Platformer 20.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Beautiful 7.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: This physics-based puzzle-platformer relies on the protagonist's yarn tether to interact with the environment in creative, logical ways.
- #11 A Juggler's Tale
90% matchVery Positive92% of 2,189 reviews2021
Dev: kaleidoscubePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.2%, Platformer 22.2%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Physics 6.7%, Adventure 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven puzzle-platformer that uses string-based physics to navigate obstacles in a beautifully crafted world.
- #12 Flipping Death
89% matchVery Positive90% of 286 reviews2018
Dev: Zoink Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Possess the living, aid the dead and flip between the worlds of Flipping Death - a puzzling adventure platformer where you find yourself filling in for Death. Maybe your new powers will help you solve the mystery of your own demise?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.9%, Adventure 24.5%, Indie 19.8%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, 2D 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: The game allows players to flip between the living and dead worlds, using environmental manipulation to solve puzzles.
- #13 Recursed
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 645 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 42.6%, Puzzle 21.4%, Indie 10.4%, Difficult 8.2%, Female Protagonist 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A highly logical puzzle-platformer where entering rooms within rooms creates complex, recursive spatial challenges.
- #14 Minute of Islands
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 958 reviews2021
Dev: Studio FizbinPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41%, Platformer 18.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Female Protagonist 7.8%, Hand-drawn 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game features intricate environmental puzzles and a strong sense of place, focusing on exploration and mechanical interaction.
- #15 Way of Rhea
86% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Games by Mason LLC
Windows · Linux
A puzzle game with challenging puzzles, but forgiving mechanics. Master the use of your color changing staff to solve mind bending puzzles, unlock new areas, and help out your friends. Undo any mistake with the press of a button.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.4%, Puzzle 16.6%, Difficult 8.1%, Logic 7.5%, Adventure 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle-platformer that focuses on color-based logic and environmental manipulation to overcome obstacles.
- #16 Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
87% matchVery Positive81% of 8,647 reviews2014
Dev: Upper One GamesPub: E-Line Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Experience the epic journey of Nuna and Fox as they search for the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens the survival of everything they have ever known.
Why similar: Platformer 27.6%, Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Indie 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends folklore and mythology with cooperative puzzle-platforming mechanics that require environmental awareness.
- #17 Monument Valley
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,397 reviews2022
Dev: ustwo games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 Platformer 31.2%, Puzzle 25.2%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Casual 11.6%, Adventure 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: While isometric, it is the gold standard for perspective-shifting puzzles that change the geometry of the world.
- #18 Mekabolt
86% matchVery Positive87% of 182 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%, Platformer 16.1%, Puzzle 11.1%, 2D Platformer 8.6%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that tasks players with manipulating robotic enemies to create paths and solve environmental hazards.
- #19 In My Shadow
85% matchVery Positive81% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: PlaybaePub: Alcon Interactive Group
Windows
Play with shadows using your imagination to solve brain twisting platforming puzzles as you unfold a journey of loss, nostalgia and acceptance.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.4%, Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle 13.1%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, 2D Platformer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game uses shadow manipulation to change the environment, requiring players to think about perspective and spatial relationships.
- #20 Escape Goat 2
84% matchVery Positive95% of 455 reviews2014
Dev: MagicalTimeBeanPub: Double Fine Presents
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.
Why similar: Platformer 37%, Puzzle 24.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16%, Indie 12.2%, Casual 8%
Why You'll Like It: A tight, well-designed puzzle-platformer that emphasizes using environmental elements and physics to reach the exit.
- #21 Raven's Hike
82% matchVery Positive93% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Wired Dreams Studio
Windows
No jumping, no walking. Raven's Hike is an unique 2d platformer in which all movement is based on her Grappling Hook
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.4%, Platformer 20.5%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Difficult 7.6%, Mythology 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A precision-focused puzzle-platformer that requires careful planning and execution of movement to solve each screen.
- #22 BOOR
83% matchVery Positive83% of 231 reviews2017
Dev: DazlogStudioPub: BadLand Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you play as a girl with the ability to multiply herself, stranded on Eden, a beautiful but strange world, full of challenging puzzles with platforming elements and a refreshing gameplay.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.5%, Platformer 17.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Casual 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A atmospheric puzzle-platformer that features unique mechanics involving controlling drones to manipulate the environment.
- #23 GRIS
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 94,608 reviews2018
Dev: Nomada StudioPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
Why similar: Beautiful 27.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 13.1%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Indie 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more atmospheric, it uses color and environmental changes to unlock new platforming paths in a beautiful 2D space.
- #24 Dreaming Sarah
80% matchVery Positive91% of 2,860 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: Puzzle Platformer 32.4%, Platformer 17.2%, Puzzle 11.1%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Casual 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal exploration-platformer that uses inventory-based puzzles to alter the environment and progress.
- #25 Aaru's Awakening
82% matchMixed69% of 135 reviews2015
Dev: Lumenox ehf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Aaru's Awakening is a hand drawn 2D action platformer set in the mythical world of Lumenox. Travel through the mysterious world while the story of the four gods unravels.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37%, Platformer 26.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 14.3%, Difficult 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A visually striking platformer that utilizes teleportation and physics-based movement to navigate dangerous environments.
- #26 Peregrin
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 351 reviews2017
Dev: Peregrin Developers
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Peregrin is a story puzzle game. A solitary traveller undertakes a perilous voyage through the haunted ruins of a lost civilisation. Seeking to fulfil an ancient prophecy, she will have to use her arcane powers to solve puzzles and survive battles - if she is to find a way to restore the fallen world of Peregrin.
Why similar: Casual 28.4%, Adventure 20.4%, Puzzle 18.4%, Indie 17.5%, Female Protagonist 15.2%
Why You'll Like It: An adventure-puzzle game that involves possessing creatures to solve environmental challenges in a fantasy world.
- #27 LogiGun
81% matchVery Positive81% of 63 reviews2014
Dev: Alfred Lam
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
LogiGun is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Take control of June as she climbs a tower filled with perplexing puzzles. Mix and match a variety of neat guns to solve your way through increasingly complex challenges.
Why similar: Puzzle 35.2%, Indie 32.5%, Casual 32.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on using different tools to interact with the environment, creating a classic puzzle-platforming loop.
- #28 Thomas Was Alone
79% matchVery Positive94% of 9,361 reviews2012
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Guide a group of rectangles through 120 levels, using their different skills together to overcome a series of obstacles in each environment. Discover the human-made story of the first sentient artificial intelligences with Danny Wallace’s BAFTA-winning narration.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.7%, Platformer 23.5%, 2D Platformer 10.4%, Casual 5.9%, Indie 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game uses the unique physical properties of different characters to solve puzzles, emphasizing logic and narrative.
- #29 Shift Happens
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,337 reviews2017
Dev: Klonk GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Shift Happens is a cooperative platformer for two. You and a friend shift your mass, throw each other and puzzle your way through four stages of stylized imaginary worlds. Including the occasional backstabbing and taunting. Play with a friend on a couch, online or even special singleplayer levels.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 51.6%, Platformer 16.1%, Puzzle 15.1%, 2D Platformer 8.6%, Indie 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a core mechanic of changing size and weight to manipulate the environment and solve cooperative-style puzzles.
- #30 Valkyrie Saga
74% matchVery Positive94% of 236 reviews2026
Dev: Public Void
Windows
Join Roll the Valkyrie as she subverts fate in a retro indie platformer taking after PSX classics. Climb, dash, jump, and glide your way up a falling sky island, to stop it from destroying the world below.
Why similar: Platformer 44.4%, Female Protagonist 25.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Indie 9.5%, Atmospheric 4.4%
- #31 Lotte
77% matchVery Positive91% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: mathismeilby
Windows
A minimalistic five-minute puzzle platformer, where you become a fly when you die. Immerse yourself in a soothing forest and use your ability to become a fly to solve puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33%, Platformer 17.1%, Puzzle 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, 2D Platformer 9.1%
- #32 Anna's Quest
77% matchVery Positive88% of 2,519 reviews2015
Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
With her telekinesis, unorthodox use of torture instruments, a knack for improvisation and the help of a shady fox she makes her way from the peaks of Glass Mountain to the deepest dungeon.
Why similar: Adventure 29.2%, Female Protagonist 29%, Indie 18.2%, Puzzle 14%, Dark 4.7%
- #33 Toki Tori 2+
78% matchVery Positive85% of 1,089 reviews2013
Dev: Two Tribes
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43%, Platformer 21.2%, Puzzle 13.9%, Adventure 6.9%, Casual 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: An environmental puzzle game that teaches players how to interact with the world's creatures and physics to progress.
- #34 Romino's Adventure
76% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: InterDan
Windows · Linux
A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.9%, Platformer 12.4%, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Puzzle 9%
- #35 Bat to the Heavens
72% matchVery Positive96% of 396 reviews2024
Dev: ceroro
Windows · Linux
Can't run or jump? But with a bat, you can surpass any obstacle! Climb to the heavens, learn techniques, and discover secrets across the valley in this challenging puzzle - execution - momentum game!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.6%, Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 11.6%, Difficult 7%, Female Protagonist 6.4%
- #36 Path of Ra
74% matchVery Positive97% of 69 reviews2022
Dev: Oneiric Tales
Windows
Accompany the spirit of a Pharaoh reincarnated as a hieroglyph on his final journey. Help him understand the circumstances of his death and overcome the obstacles of his tomb. Will you uncover the identity of his murderer?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Casual 6.8%, Adventure 6.4%, Logic 6.2%
- #37 And Yet It Moves
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,329 reviews2009
Dev: Broken Rules
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 26%
And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42%, Platformer 21.5%, Puzzle 10.5%, Physics 7.1%, Indie 5.6%
- #38 Gravity Error
75% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.4 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: Puzzle Platformer 40.6%, Platformer 25.5%, Puzzle 17.2%, Indie 12.2%, 2D 4.4%
- #39 The Mooseman
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,201 reviews2017
Dev: Morteshka
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
You are the Mooseman and you have the ability to see all that is hidden to the mortal eye. You are about to visit three layers of this universe - the first one is the Lower World where dead reside…
Why similar: Mythology 32.1%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 19.2%, Puzzle 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.7%
- #40 Oscuro Blossom's Glow
71% matchVery Positive95% of 64 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 34.5%, Platformer 20.4%, Puzzle 13%, Adventure 6.9%, Casual 6.8%
- #41 The Dark Eye: Memoria
73% matchVery Positive89% of 2,511 reviews2013
Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.
Why similar: Adventure 37%, Puzzle 36.6%, 2D 6.7%, Indie 6.3%, Female Protagonist 5.5%
- #42 Toren
75% matchMixed63% of 1,352 reviews2015
Dev: SwordtalesPub: Versus Evil
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Experience the mysterious, timeless world of Toren, the first adventure game from Brazilian indie developer Swordtales. You are Moonchild, destined to climb the tower (known as Toren) on a hauntingly solitary journey to find your purpose.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.4%, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 11.8%, Puzzle 8.9%
- #43 Jotun: Valhalla Edition
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 8,541 reviews2015
Dev: Thunder Lotus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla. Impress the Gods!
Why similar: Mythology 23.9%, Adventure 20.1%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Difficult 9.6%
- #44 Creaks
70% matchVery Positive95% of 5,830 reviews2020
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.8%, Puzzle 14.7%, Platformer 13.8%, Surreal 6.9%, Hand-drawn 6.1%
- #45 Helheim Hassle
71% matchVery Positive91% of 429 reviews2020
Dev: Perfectly ParanormalPub: Yogscast Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will to solve challenging puzzles and get out of uncomfortable situations involving desperate Norse Gods, Goblins, Dragons, and angry skeletons.
Why similar: Adventure 39.6%, Indie 33.8%, Puzzle 16.3%, 2D Platformer 10.3%
- #46 LAPIN
69% matchVery Positive94% of 340 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Doodal
Windows
LAPIN is a 2D precision platformer game featuring a group of brave rabbit explorers. Break through life-threatening obstacles with precise controls, and embark on an adventure filled with new encounters and stunning landscapes!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.7%, Platformer 18.3%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Hand-drawn 6.5%
- #47 Teslagrad 2
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 565 reviews2023
Dev: Rain GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.8%, Platformer 20%, Puzzle 13.7%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, 2D Platformer 8.5%
- #48 Unleaving
70% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: orangutan matter
Windows · Mac
When everything seems hopeless a child is awakened by the whispers of the last leaf, drawn into an imaginary world. Unleaving invites the player into a narrative-driven puzzle platformer where each challenge unfolds within a hand-painted landscape, exploring perception and meaning
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.4%, Platformer 17.1%, Puzzle 11.7%, 2D Platformer 8.9%, Surreal 7.5%
- #49 Through the Mirror
72% matchVery Positive82% of 121 reviews2017
Dev: Cleiton OliveiraPub: Volens Nolens Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39%, Platformer 17.6%, Puzzle 13.3%, Casual 11.8%, Indie 8.1%
- #50 Midnight
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 80 reviews2016
Dev: Petite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Precision puzzle platformer. Launch a square fairy through 56 deadly levels using only your mouse.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.5%, Platformer 13.4%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 7.3%, Physics 6.4%
- #51 Röki
68% matchVery Positive89% of 3,154 reviews2020
Dev: Polygon TreehousePub: United Label
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 23.7%, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Mythology 14.7%, Casual 11.9%, Adventure 11.6%
- #52 Evergate
68% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2020
Dev: Stone Lantern GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Evergate is a haunting 2D puzzle-platformer set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife with an original score recorded by a live orchestra. Navigate 85 challenging stages and unleash the extraordinary powers of the genre-defining 'Soulflame' to help a lost soul reincarnate on earth!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.1%, Platformer 18.1%, Puzzle 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, 2D Platformer 9%
- #53 Defy Gravity Extended
67% matchVery Positive86% of 8,545 reviews2016
Dev: Paul FischPub: Fish Factory Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.3%, Platformer 26.5%, Puzzle 6.8%, Indie 4.2%, Female Protagonist 2.5%
- #54 Etherborn
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 445 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 36.2%, Platformer 17.6%, Puzzle 13.3%, Beautiful 7.3% ★, Adventure 6.6%
- #55 Hack And Climb
64% matchVery Positive98% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: Kodachi Games
Windows
Be the weapon! Swing like an axe, thrust like a spear, and soar like an arrow in this physics-based platformer. Flip, throw, and carve your path to the peak! Rage burns, revenge awaits... Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Platformer 24.3%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Difficult 14.4%, Physics 13.9%, Adventure 11.1%
- #56 Chicken Journey
64% matchVery Positive96% of 458 reviews2023
Dev: loonyware
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Play as an adorable chicken in this relaxing platformer. Jump, climb and solve puzzles to find the answer to the ULTIMATE question a chicken can ask...
Why similar: Platformer 26.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Adventure 9.3%
- #57 Equinoxe
67% matchVery Positive85% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Lowkey InteractivePub: IIM Digital School
Windows
Equinoxe is a contemplative & narrative game with puzzle phases taking place in two mirrored worlds. Discover a quest for self-acceptance and restore the fragile balance of your world by using its main source of energy: water.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34%, Puzzle 21.2%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Surreal 8.6%, Indie 7.2%
- #58 Fowl Damage
63% matchVery Positive93% of 153 reviews2024
Dev: May GardensPub: Red Nexus Games Inc.
Windows
Fowl Damage is an atmospheric puzzle platformer where your default jump provides enough fall damage to destroy you! Carefully manage your jumps and falls as you adventure through this chilling, beautiful, and occasionally cute world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.1%, Platformer 19.3%, Puzzle 13.4%, 2D Platformer 10.9%, Physics 4.2%
- #59 ROTA: Bend Gravity
65% matchVery Positive92% of 89 reviews2022
Dev: Harmony Monroe
Windows · Linux
In ROTA gravity bends beneath your feet! Move blocks and twist gravity to solve puzzles. Collect all 50 gems and explore 8 vibrant worlds!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38%, Puzzle 14.3%, Platformer 13.4%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, 2D Platformer 6.8%
- #60 Mount Serenity: Guardian of the Spirits
66% matchVery Positive84% of 58 reviews2021
Dev: CEON ArtsPub: Ahlman Games
Windows
Enter an ancient spirit world as a lost spirit and meet a dragon who needs your help. Explore three different, peaceful areas and collect runestones while moving forward with your rope. Look for the way towards the top of the mountain. Only you can save the forest and the soul of the dragon’s owner.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.2%, Platformer 24.2%, Casual 9.4%, Adventure 8.9%, Mythology 7.1%