
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.
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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.

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

Stoppa!
Stop time and manipulate objects around you to reach the goal line!
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 38.8% ★, Platformer 19.5%, Puzzle Platformer 15.1%, Puzzle 14.9%, Indie 11.6%
Stop time and manipulate objects around you to reach the goal line!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 51.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Platformer 15%, Indie 13.2%
A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.4%, Time Manipulation 27.5% ★, Platformer 17.1%, Puzzle 11.6%, Indie 10.4%
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 33.6%, Time Manipulation 33.1% ★, Platformer 14.2%, Puzzle 11.6%, Indie 6.5%
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.4% ★, Platformer 24.7%, Puzzle 18.2%, Indie 15.5%, Puzzle Platformer 11.2%
You must 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 30 time-bending levels.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 49.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, Platformer 13.3%, Puzzle 10.4%, Indie 3.9%
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 46.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Platformer 14%, Puzzle 11.4%, Indie 3.1%
"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 51.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 30%, Puzzle 13.6%, Indie 4.8%
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 52.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22%, Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 9.8%, Indie 1.3%
"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 46.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, Platformer 15.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Indie 3.8%
The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, Platformer 14.9%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 13.1%
Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. Help him clear out over 100 rooms to make his new home liveable again!
Why similar: Platformer 33.1%, Time Manipulation 21.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Indie 14.2%, Puzzle 13.8%
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 49.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Platformer 10.3%, Puzzle 9.8%, Indie 3.7%
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 54% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Platformer 11.7%, Puzzle 10.9%, Indie 4.6%
A 2D Puzzle Platformer about navigating mazes of lasers. The objective of each level is to get to the goal block, and a variety of laser types and gadgets make each challenge unique. Includes a level editor!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.9%, Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle 20.7%, Indie 18.8%
Play as an anthropomorphic computer virus in prog.1, a thrilling 2D puzzle platformer set in a sci-fi world where scientists work feverishly to build the first fully artificial universe.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.1%, Platformer 29.9%, Indie 20.2%, Puzzle 18.8%
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 50.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 12%, Puzzle 11.9%, Story Rich 5.1%
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 50% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.3%, Platformer 13%, Puzzle 9.2%, Indie 4.5%
Time retrograde puzzle game
Why similar: Time Manipulation 70.8% ★, Puzzle 17.3%, Puzzle Platformer 8.6%, Indie 3.2%
Inspired by Stephen King’s book - “The Dark Tower”, Alter World is a 2D platformer with interesting gameplay mechanics. Player can pass on an alternative universe anytime and use an alternative realms to move to another level. Levels are unique, with puzzles. player will have to react quickly and assess when to move between the Worlds.
Why similar: Indie 32.8%, Puzzle Platformer 31.1%, Platformer 19.8%, Puzzle 16.3%
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 32.1%, Platformer 27.5%, Indie 20.7%, Puzzle 19.6%
A time-bending 2D platformer in the least amount of pixels possible.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 56.2% ★, Platformer 20.4%, Puzzle Platformer 19.6%, Indie 3.9%
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 52.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, Platformer 10.9%, Indie 3.2%
The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 46.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Platformer 9.4%, Puzzle 9.3%, Story Rich 7.1%
Immerse yourself in the multidimensional universe of Desordre. Solve intricate puzzles, push the boundaries of 4-dimensional thinking. Get ready for a unique experience where reflection takes on a whole new dimension. Created by one-man development studio SHK Interactive using Unreal Engine.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 50.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.3%, Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Indie 5.5%
Get ready for a mindbending cyberpunk experience! Figure out more than a dozen puzzles through your manipulation of time based clones and try to get the best time in each level! Dive into Déjà Vu, inspired by puzzlers like Braid and The Swapper.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 28.3%, Puzzle 12.7%, Platformer 11.4%, Indie 3.9%
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 52.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Puzzle 9.1%, Indie 7.5%, Platformer 5.6%
PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 49.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, Indie 18.7%, Puzzle 10.3%
Work with your past (and future) selves to solve puzzles. Shatter your obstacles, be your own platform, and more in this time-looping puzzler where YOU are your own solution!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.1%, Platformer 17%, Puzzle 12.9%, Indie 3.5%
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 62.1% ★, Puzzle 19.2%, Indie 18.8%
Manipulate time to your whim! Use your powers of time manipulation to advance in this 2D Puzzle Adventure!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 53.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, Platformer 12%, Puzzle 11.4%
"MOP'N SPARK" is a 2D puzzle platformer where a street cleaner and an electrician—an unlikely duo—team up to tackle challenging stages.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Platformer 17.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, Story Rich 4.7%
Raster is a casual puzzle game about space. Here, you can use a variety of spatial abilities to traverse across diverse terrains, all in search of carrots for the bunny.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 55% ★, Puzzle Platformer 25%, Puzzle 14.8%, Indie 5.3%
Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 46.4%, Platformer 27.3%, Indie 14%, Puzzle 12.3%
Huecube is a puzzle platformer with fluid movement about shifting colours and manipulating time to reach the goal. Features an in-built level editor with Steam workshop support.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.9% ★, Platformer 20.7%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Puzzle 13%, Indie 3.6%
Use relative teleportation and the ability to change the direction of gravity to progress through the temple, where everything revolves around the core experience of puzzle solving. Do you have what it takes?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.4%, Indie 34.5%, Platformer 25.1%
Mission Evilguy is a puzzle game where you make things happen at the right time at the right place. Using your quantum wristwatch that allows you to control time, you'll have to make each level work like clockwork to reach the exit.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 60.1% ★, Indie 24.9%, Puzzle 15%
Play as a robot with time-manipulating abilities. You can go to places you've never been before by going back in time in the X and Y axes independently. Just beware pockets of time corruption, and tracking your positions in time consumes a lot of memory. At max capacity, you can no longer function.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 50.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, Platformer 10.1%, Puzzle 7.7%, Indie 5.7%
In this platform game you will have to overcome challenging puzzles using a weapon capable of rewinding the time of an object.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 59.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Puzzle 15.5%, Indie 4.5%
Cublast HD is the platformer that will challenge your agility and puzzle solving skills, use physics, gravity and precisely timed movements to overcome obstacles and collect Blastpoints!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.6%, Platformer 27%, Indie 21.6%, Puzzle 20.8%
From the creators of Hero Siege, Squishy the Suicidal Pig is a puzzle platformer with a counterintuitive goal where you play as Squishy, a pig wearing a yellow sweater who's trying to reach his parents in animal heaven by completing his deal with the devil.You asked for a challenge, now you have it!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.1%, Platformer 32.2%, Puzzle 19.1%, Indie 15.7%
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 44.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Platformer 14.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Indie 4.8%
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 64.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, Platformer 14.5%
Portal meets Superhot - A revolutionary FPS puzzle with time manipulation Wield two time-control guns, red and blue, to rewrite the laws of physics. Master deceleration and acceleration to solve seemingly impossible puzzles.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 57.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, Puzzle 15.9%
Match adorable pixel-art bears in this relaxing memory puzzle game. Flip the cards, find the pairs, and beat the clock!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 49% ★, Puzzle Platformer 32.5%, Puzzle 18.5%
Step into the chaotic world of Shattered Time, a 2.5D platformer set within the mysterious confines of a high-tech laboratory. As a lone experiment gone awry, you gain the ability to manipulate time itself, allowing you to reverse moments in the environment and use the past to reshape the present.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 48.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Platformer 20.1%
Take control of Rectangle in this puzzle platformer, where he aims to escape the cavern...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.7%, Platformer 28.2%, Puzzle 18.5%, Indie 7.7%
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 44.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle 10.6%, Story Rich 8.8%
Playing a cute robot, you travel from room to room solving tough puzzles and overcoming tricky platforming that will test your skills. Collecting health is necessary, because when you die, all the health you’ve collected comes back. The catch is that you have to start over at the very beginning.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.5%, Platformer 26.3%, Indie 23.5%, Puzzle 19.7%
Truffle Trouble is a unique game featuring Pax, the hero of Mushroom Men, that combines classic platforming action with imaginative puzzle-solving as you must move, stack, and use objects to create new paths to jump and clamber on, all while the besotted Truffle Princess draws ever closer.
Why similar: Platformer 34.4%, Puzzle Platformer 28.5%, Indie 24.8%, Puzzle 12.3%
The Traykonians don't believe there's intelligent life on Earth, and it's up to you to prove them wrong. Manipulate gravity to solve their mind-bending puzzles... just try not to accidentally fling yourself into any lasers.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.4%, Indie 38.4%, Puzzle 21.2%
The third part of the puzzle-platformer Butterfly - Funny Twins! 40 steps to victory with these funny twins! Bounce off enemies, climb into pipes, measure distance, use obstacles to complete levels without misfire.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.6%, Platformer 26%, Indie 20.5%, Puzzle 19.9%
Discover the classic tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in a whole new way. A gaming experience where you get to feel what it's like to dive inside a novel as a small dot. Roll left and right, rewind time, and venture deeper through the story as you try to find your way back home.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 52.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 8.7%, Story Rich 7.1%
An Anti-Coin Collection Platformer inspired by Japanese folktales. Befriend an assortment of ghosts and ghouls as you explore the world hidden in the dusk.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.9%, Platformer 35.1%, Indie 29%
Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 43.8%, Platformer 25%, Puzzle 18.9%, Indie 12.3%
The Floor is Jelly is a game that answers the question: what if everything you touched was made of jello?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.2%, Platformer 25.6%, Indie 16.6%, Puzzle 7.6%
.T.E.S.T: Expected Behavior is a first-person brain twister with a sci-fi plot. On top of logic, you'll need a fast reaction speed, "outside the box" reasoning, and the skill to adapt to unfamiliar situations.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 61.8% ★, Puzzle 23.8%, Indie 14.5%
A 2D puzzle-platformer where every level challenges your mind and reflexes. Solve clever environmental puzzles, outmaneuver enemies, and survive fast-paced chase and shooting segments as you uncover the secrets of a strange, atmospheric world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.7%, Platformer 26.4%, Puzzle 20.5%, Indie 7.3%
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: Platformer 33.4%, Indie 28.8%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Puzzle 18.9%