Games Like Nomori: Prologue

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: Surreal 19.1%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its non-Euclidean architecture and gravity-shifting mechanics provide a deeply surreal exploration experience.

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: Surreal 23.8%, Physics 18.2%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Puzzle 14.2%, Exploration 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully utilizes forced perspective to solve puzzles, mirroring the surreal spatial manipulation found in Nomori.

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 26.1%, Surreal 20.7%, Physics 16.7%, Puzzle 10.8%, Exploration 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to reshape reality by placing photographs into the environment, offering a similar perspective-bending experience.

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: Time Manipulation 34% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Physics 12.3%, Puzzle 11.2%, Exploration 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines time-manipulation mechanics with first-person puzzle-solving in a way that feels both rewarding and atmospheric.

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: Surreal 31.5%, Puzzle 26.1%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Exploration 12.5%, Minimalist 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pioneer in non-Euclidean geometry, it challenges your perception of space and logic in a way that feels very similar to Nomori.

Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Third Person 9.2%, Relaxing 9%, Puzzle 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to manipulate time like a media player to solve puzzles, perfectly capturing the time-control aspect of the seed game.

Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 25.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14.9%, Surreal 12.5%, Nature 8.3%, Relaxing 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This emotional adventure features unique time-manipulation mechanics that directly influence the environment and platforming.

Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.7%, Puzzle 24%, Exploration 10.6%, Colorful 7.2%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This recursive puzzle game features a world within a world, requiring players to manipulate scale and perspective to progress.

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: Time Manipulation 41.1% ★, Surreal 20.7%, Relaxing 11.2%, Puzzle 8.5%, Story Rich 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, emotional puzzle game where you control the flow of time to navigate through surreal islands.

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 18.9%, Surreal 14.8%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Puzzle 9.8%, Difficult 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A clever puzzle-platformer that forces you to think about logic and state-switching to navigate complex environments.

A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Third Person 12.9%, Relaxing 11.1%, Exploration 9.8%, Puzzle 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the relaxing, cute, and exploration-heavy vibe of Nomori while focusing on platforming and discovery.

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 33.1%, Puzzle 14.2%, Minimalist 13.9%, Surreal 11.8%, Exploration 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features gravity-defying platforming on surreal, abstract structures that shift as you walk across them.

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 35.4%, Physics 21.5%, Exploration 14%, Puzzle 13%, Story Rich 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that uses gravity and magnetism to challenge your spatial reasoning in a sci-fi setting.

Embark on a heartwarming journey with your little light friend to solve puzzles and bring light to the mystical realm of Illum.

Why similar: Nonlinear 24.9%, Third Person 13%, Exploration 12%, Relaxing 11.7%, Puzzle 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A nonlinear exploration game that focuses on light-based puzzles within a 3D environment.

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 54.5%, Adventure 18.8%, Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on manipulating the environment through spatial puzzles that require careful observation and logic.

In this logic based puzzle game, switch between Orbs to solve puzzles and light up your world. Play co-op with yourself, freeze time, fly drones, play with sound… and overcome the evil shadow interfering with your quest.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Physics 11.7%, Surreal 9.2%, Puzzle 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on abstract physics and time-manipulation, making it a direct thematic match for Nomori.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.3%, Physics 22.4%, Puzzle 18.2%, Story Rich 12.3%, Atmospheric 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for physics-based spatial puzzles, offering a perfect blend of mechanics and environmental storytelling.

Night Reverie is a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures living in the house as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Surreal 23.9%, Exploration 14.9%, Relaxing 13.8%, Puzzle 13.7%, Cute 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a surreal, puzzle-filled exploration experience that mirrors the dreamlike atmosphere of the seed game.

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: Puzzle 53.4%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Surreal 10.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A stunningly unique puzzle game that uses perspective and layering to tell a story through shifting, surreal illustrations.

Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.

Why similar: Surreal 33.8%, Physics 32.5%, Puzzle 18.7%, Relaxing 6.6%, Story Rich 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on a recursive, scale-based puzzle mechanic that feels incredibly similar to the mind-bending nature of Nomori.

Carefully capture tracks of your actions, then play them back to solve puzzles with the aid of your recorded ghosts. Immerse yourself in a cerebral first-person puzzle platformer, where strategically thinking several steps ahead is the key to success.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.7%, Physics 14.7%, Difficult 10.5%, Puzzle 8%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a time-loop mechanic to solve platforming puzzles, requiring careful planning and execution.

Set sail for a world-changing adventure as you guide Noor in their quest through a series of mind-bending illusions and atmospheric puzzles. Can you unlock the secrets of the mysterious world – and the meaning behind the Sacred Light?

Why similar: Surreal 20.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, Relaxing 12.4%, Puzzle 10.3%, Third Person 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, visually stunning puzzle game that relies entirely on perspective-shifting to navigate impossible geometry.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 17.4%, Surreal 16.8%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Minimalist 13.8%, Exploration 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy puzzle game that uses color and perspective to challenge the player's spatial awareness.

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 47.9%, Story Rich 16%, Atmospheric 13%, Exploration 13%, Difficult 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A philosophical puzzle game that uses light, lasers, and spatial manipulation to create deep, rewarding challenges.

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: Exploration 37.5%, Puzzle 23%, Story Rich 20.1%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Adventure 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: While larger in scope, its core loop of time-based exploration and discovery provides a similar sense of unraveling a mystery.

Floodcore is a puzzle adventure game in which you explore an ancient civilization in a flooded world, and discover a mysterious power to overcome the temple's challenges.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28%, Relaxing 16.3%, Puzzle 15.7%, Exploration 14.5%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric exploration game that emphasizes puzzle-solving in a relaxing, surreal environment.

A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Puzzle 9.2%, Exploration 8%, Story Rich 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features clever time-travel and dimension-shifting mechanics that change the environment in real-time.

Be a part of an adventurous journey in Cubots: The Origins. Explore and survive in beautiful, atmospheric environments!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Physics 11.7%, Puzzle 11.1%, Exploration 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, indie puzzle game that focuses on atmospheric exploration and logical progression.

Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.6%, Puzzle 28%, Physics 14.1%, Story Rich 4.4%, Atmospheric 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: The original physics-based spatial puzzle game that remains essential for anyone who enjoys manipulating space to move forward.

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 25.5%, Surreal 19.6%, Nonlinear 18.9%, Puzzle 10%, Exploration 9.5%

Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.2%, Puzzle 23.1%, Cute 17.4%, Story Rich 11.5%, Relaxing 6.4%

Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Surreal 26.5%, Exploration 14.9%, Puzzle 14.5%, Relaxing 12.2%, Cute 11.7%

A standalone mini-adventure introducing you to the world of Omno, an upcoming single player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, where the power of a lost civilisation will carry you through forests, deserts and tundras - even to the clouds

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Puzzle 16.5%, Exploration 16.2%, Third Person 15%, Relaxing 10.5%

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 40.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 27%, Difficult 9.6%, Puzzle 8.6%, Cute 7.2%

In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28%, Time Manipulation 23% ★, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 8.5%, Difficult 7.8%

Manipulate time to your will at any moment to solve challenges, avoid deadly traps and make it to the end of this strange journey.

Why similar: Exploration 33.6%, Family Friendly 23.8%, Atmospheric 23.7%, Adventure 18.9%

Experience the first hour What Lies in The Multiverse. A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly & hilarious story.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 40% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.6%, Puzzle 9.6%, Exploration 9%, Story Rich 7%

Sumoman is an adventure puzzle platformer with advanced physics, destructible objects and the ability to reverse time. Solve various physical puzzles, trying to keep the unstable Sumoman on his feet in challenging environments.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Puzzle 9.7%, Difficult 8.8%, Story Rich 6.1%

Adorable spider chaos! Swing around the house, weave crazy structures, play with physics-based objects, and pull off chores with nothing but your webs and your wits in this madcap sandbox adventure.

Why similar: Physics 21%, Third Person 15.6%, Relaxing 13.1%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 11.2%

Adapta Solva is a short puzzle platformer adventure. Play as an Adaptarian to absorb elements from magical shrines to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles. Uncover the truth behind your creation in a world laid to ruin by an unknown cause.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.7%, Puzzle 15.3%, Third Person 13.3%, Exploration 12.8%, Cute 8.8%

Liminal is a mind-bending puzzle game where every door is a change in perspective and destination.

Why similar: Puzzle 87.4%, Adventure 12.6%

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: Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Third Person 15.1%, Relaxing 11.8%, Puzzle 11%, Cute 9.7%

A VR puzzle game with sci-fi and escape room elements: control time, solve challenges, fight enemies, and explore worlds across different timelines.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 59.6% ★, Puzzle 26.9%, Family Friendly 9.7%, Adventure 3.7%

Sans Logique is a first-person game that blends puzzle and adventure gameplay. You'll explore different dreamlike worlds, discover the story of your character, and solve some original puzzles.

Why similar: Surreal 25.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.3%, Puzzle 14.9%, Exploration 13%, Nature 11.1%

Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.

Why similar: Surreal 36.7%, Puzzle 16.1%, Exploration 14.8%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Colorful 8.1%

Zeno has accidentally banished his sister, so what now? Create paradoxes to help him complete trials and bring her back, obviously. Take on a wide variety of puzzles while collaborating with your past self and experiencing a fully-voiced cinematic story as you help Zeno bring her back.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Physics 11.7%, Relaxing 8.5%, Cute 6.7%

OneShift is a puzzle platformer where the player has the ability to freeze/unfreeze time and shift through worlds to collect blue cubes. But only one world can be active at a time. Later in the game, a world rotating mechanic is unveiled, which makes everything more complex!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.4%, Physics 19%, Puzzle 16.4%, Family Friendly 7.9%, Relaxing 7.3%

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: Relaxing 23%, Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, Puzzle 20.9%, Exploration 15.3%, Third Person 11.7%

As the Guardian of the Four Winds, use your unique wind powers to complete the trials of the Wind Temples and free the Souls of the Wind from corruption. This is a tale of a world full of wind magic, through a beautiful 3rd person puzzle-adventure game crafted by Wandering Spirit Games.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.7%, Third Person 13%, Puzzle 12%, Nature 11.3%, Exploration 10.2%

Immerse yourself in a relaxing, minimalist and colorful adventure. Flow with Naiad across a mysterious river and interact with its fauna and flora to discover little secrets. Enjoy a wholesome experience with an original and dreamy visual style.

Why similar: Nature 13.9%, Exploration 13.2%, Puzzle 12.8%, Minimalist 12.4%, Cute 10.7%

A game in which you explore surreal and beautiful forests.

Why similar: Nature 25.2%, Relaxing 17.6%, Exploration 16.3%, Surreal 15.7%, Atmospheric 11.3%

Experience the mind bending power of single player cooperation. Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our propriety engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 59.5% ★, Puzzle 21.2%, Third Person 13.2%, Adventure 6.2%

Ingression: The Portal Trial offers a sneak peek into the immersive world of precision platforming with portals. Experience the prologue of the full game for free, tackling not only the initial levels but also venturing into more challenging stages.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.6%, Difficult 28.1%, Story Rich 19.5%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Adventure 4.6%

Enter the hauntingly beautiful shadow world of In His Time, a 2D puzzle-solving adventure game. There you will meet Olly and join him to solve puzzles throughout each step of his emotional journey of growth and self-discovery.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.6%, Exploration 13%, Story Rich 11.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Atmospheric 8.7%

"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 47% ★, Puzzle Platformer 38.7%, Puzzle 14.2%

What could you accomplish if you had the ability to stop time? Become a master of time and space as you take on temporal puzzles in this first person puzzle platformer.