Games Like OneShift

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 23%, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Sci-fi 18%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%, Space 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a unique cloning and dimension-swapping mechanic that feels like a more atmospheric evolution of OneShift's world-shifting.

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.9%, Great Soundtrack 23.1%, Puzzle 21.5%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on changing the color of the world to alter the environment, providing a similar feeling of manipulating reality to progress.

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 24.4%, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Casual 10.7%, Family Friendly 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to deform the world itself to solve puzzles, matching the physics-based manipulation style of OneShift.

A game about the limits of your screen. Four Sided Fantasy is a seamless experience where you wrap the screen to solve mind-bending puzzles. Play as a man and woman who attempt to find each other throughout four seasons in a year, constantly separated by the boundaries of the screen.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.6%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Puzzle 11.3%, Physics 10.6%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on screen-wrapping and dimension-shifting mechanics that challenge your perception of space just like OneShift.

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 55%, Puzzle 18.1%, Great Soundtrack 11.8%, Indie 5.9%, Difficult 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A masterpiece of time-manipulation puzzle-platforming that requires similar logical thinking to solve environmental challenges.

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 29.7%, Puzzle 20.4%, Great Soundtrack 16.4%, Difficult 13.2%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a recursive room-shifting mechanic that offers deep, logic-based puzzle solving similar to the complexity found in OneShift.

A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!

Why similar: Puzzle 34.1%, Physics 19.2%, Casual 17.8%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle platformer that shares the atmospheric, sci-fi aesthetic and focus on environmental interaction.

Linelight is an elegant puzzle game set in a world of lines.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.6%, Great Soundtrack 20.6%, Casual 19.4%, Indie 11.4%, Action 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle game that emphasizes clever pathfinding and environmental interaction in a clean, stylized world.

CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27%, Puzzle 23.5%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Adventure 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a shadow-shifting mechanic that forces you to navigate between 2D and 3D worlds, echoing the world-switching nature of the seed game.

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 40.7%, Puzzle 26.9%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Physics 8.5%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for physics-based spatial puzzles that require creative use of environmental manipulation.

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: Puzzle 28.7%, Puzzle Platformer 28.1%, Physics 22.9%, Stylized 10.4%, Adventure 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Plays with perspective and physics to solve puzzles, offering a mind-bending experience similar to OneShift's world-rotating mechanics.

Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.2%, Puzzle 15%, Indie 14.3%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Action 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on physics-based movement and state-changing to navigate challenging platforming sections.

Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.2%, Physics 15.1%, Puzzle 14.4%, Casual 9.4%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle platformer with a minimalist aesthetic that emphasizes momentum and environmental interaction.

AtmaSphere is roll-a-ball game set in a medieval world which is full of dangerous traps and uncertain paths! Roll all you want, but don't fall off! Collect all diamonds to impress Ballerina, and get Ballard safely to her house!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Casual 13.4%, Physics 12.5%, Puzzle 9.7%, Difficult 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual puzzle-platformer that emphasizes physics and simple, effective mechanics for progression.

A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!

Why similar: Casual 22.1%, Puzzle 21.4%, Physics 17.5%, Indie 12.3%, Difficult 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-driven puzzle platformer that focuses on atmospheric exploration and mechanical problem-solving.

Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.4%, Puzzle 9%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Space 6.2%, Difficult 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on gravity-manipulation mechanics that force you to rethink how you traverse platforming levels.

Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.7%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Family Friendly 15%, Casual 10.1%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle platformer that incorporates time-travel elements and environmental manipulation to solve past-altering mysteries.

Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.2%, Puzzle 17.8%, Casual 10.4%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Relaxing 8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world puzzle game that offers a variety of spatial and logic-based challenges similar to the puzzle-platforming genre.

A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.6%, Difficult 13.1%, Physics 13.1%, Puzzle 13%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward but challenging puzzle platformer that focuses on tight mechanics and clever level design.

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 25.1%, Puzzle 22.2%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Physics 10.3%, Difficult 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features electromagnetic physics-based puzzles that require precise platforming and environmental awareness.

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 21.4%, Adventure 15.5%, Action 15.3%, Indie 11.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses spatial manipulation and physics-based blocks to create complex puzzles in a sci-fi setting.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Puzzle 43%, Difficult 23.4%, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Indie 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: While different in format, it shares the core appeal of manipulating the rules of the world to solve increasingly complex puzzles.

An epic open-world puzzle Metroidbrainia that respects your intelligence! Knowledge is your superpower. Use creatures as tools to determine your own path.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.3%, Puzzle 18.7%, Family Friendly 13.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Casual 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A non-linear puzzle platformer that relies on environmental interaction rather than traditional power-ups, similar to the logic of OneShift.

Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.3%, Puzzle 35.7%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle platformer where you shift between 2D and 3D perspectives to navigate the environment.

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 21.4%, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Family Friendly 15.3%, Action 10.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Uses physics-based yarn mechanics to solve environmental puzzles, sharing the thoughtful, atmospheric tone of OneShift.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle 13.5%, Isometric 12.2%, Family Friendly 11.2%, Physics 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that focuses on atmospheric exploration and logical movement within a contained environment.

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: Puzzle Platformer 28.9%, Puzzle 16.4%, Physics 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Difficult 7.6%

Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Action 9.4%, Physics 9.2%, Adventure 9%

Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.5%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Action 8.3%

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 26.3%, Great Soundtrack 19.6%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Action 8.3%, Puzzle 8%

An inventive, thought-provoking puzzle platformer. Use powerups in each environment, and your own inherent gravity-bending powers, to complete each level. The more you play, the more story details you'll uncover.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26%, Puzzle 24.3%, Indie 18.1%, Difficult 12.8%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist 2D platformer that focuses on gravity-based movement and precise puzzle-solving.

Relaxing puzzle platformer.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.2%, Puzzle 16.7%, Casual 13.2%, Family Friendly 9.7%, Physics 9.4%

Antiflux is a challenging but fun puzzle platformer with upgrades, building complexity over time.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31%, Action 20.7%, Puzzle 19.3%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Indie 10.5%

Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding a wave of light through 100+ levels in this innovative action-puzzle game!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.5%, Puzzle 17.6%, Indie 15.2%, Casual 8.1%, Space 7.9%

a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle 17.9%, Casual 13.4%, Physics 11.5%, Simulation 8.8%

Starshifter is a game about shapeshifting, desert animals, and finding your place.

Why similar: Casual 33.8%, Adventure 32.1%, Relaxing 12.3%, Fantasy 10.8%, Indie 9.3%

Bitcoin Сollector: spinners attack is a colorful game in which you must avoid traps, evade spinners and collect bitcoin's, changing gravity and teleporting at your own discretion.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Puzzle 12.2%, Difficult 10.4%, Stylized 8.7%, Family Friendly 8.3%

Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle 25.5%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Indie 10.8%, Adventure 9.9%, Relaxing 9.8%

Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.7%, Puzzle 22.8%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Casual 9.7%, Action 7.6%

Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Why similar: Puzzle 20.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.9%, Casual 15.1%, Physics 13.1%, Indie 9.5%

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 39.3%, Physics 21.2%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 6.2%, Difficult 5.7%

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.2%, Puzzle 20%, Atmospheric 12%, Indie 8.9%, Adventure 7.7%

A completely self-contained portable version of one of the highest user-rated games. Built on an entirely new engine with new UI, support for Steam Deck, & more. Features world-bending puzzles, intriguing denizens, surreal environments, and a captivating story about the truth of the game's reality.

Why similar: Puzzle 30.2%, Great Soundtrack 28.3%, Indie 10.5%, Casual 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.4%

A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.8%, Casual 15.6%, Puzzle 15.4%, Action 11.1%, Difficult 10.7%

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 24.7%, Great Soundtrack 16.4%, Puzzle 10.5%, Casual 9.8%, Family Friendly 8.2%

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: Puzzle 35.6%, Family Friendly 15.6%, Casual 12.9%, Action 12.8%, Adventure 10.5%

Colored Effects is a puzzle platformer game where you use different abilities to advance through levels. Each color grants a unique ability. Switch between the colors and their effects to collect gems, defeat bosses, and solve fun puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.7%, Puzzle 17.1%, Physics 16%, Family Friendly 12%, Action 6.8%

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: Puzzle Platformer 34.1%, Difficult 14.2%, Physics 13.9%, Puzzle 11.9%, Casual 7%

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.

Why similar: Puzzle 34.1%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Physics 12.8%, Indie 8.4%, Adventure 8.3%

A unique puzzle game : a nonviolent trickshooting challenge with gamepad VR option.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14%, Casual 12.9%, Action 9.9%, Simulation 9.2%

Bitcoin collector - a colorful game in which you have to dodge the traps and collect bitcoins, changing gravity at your discretion

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Difficult 13%, Physics 13%, Puzzle 11.7%, Family Friendly 8.4%

Fabric is a first person puzzle game in which you bend spacetime to solve challenging puzzles and complete glitchy-themed voxel based levels.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.4%, Great Soundtrack 26.4%, Puzzle 16.7%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Indie 5.8%

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 26.7%, Puzzle 17.2%, Physics 14.8%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Stylized 8.5%

Fractured Horizon is a fast-paced parkour game, where you use Gravity Fields to traverse through a shattered world. Manipulate gravity, leap between the platforms and overcome obstacles in this speedrunning 3D platformer.

Why similar: Casual 19.6%, Stylized 18.1%, Family Friendly 16.3%, Adventure 14.7%, Atmospheric 11.1%

Bounce the box in outer space. Blow bombs, break the ice, collect orbs, activate sensors and more! The game starts easy and slowly grows in difficulty to the real challenge. When you want a clever brain teaser for 5-20 min session - this is the best choice.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.2%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Casual 14.5%, Space 14.2%, Adventure 9.8%

Tales of the Tiny Planet tells the story of a separated group of planet friends who want to reunite. You have to assist them against the dangers of time and space.

Why similar: Physics 17.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Indie 9.8%