- #1 Archaica: The Path of Light
97% matchVery Positive93% of 266 reviews2017
Dev: Two Mammoths
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Archaica is an atmospheric puzzler with lasers and mirrors, that introduces a mystical and ancient world, full of challenging puzzles. In this game, we become the Light Bearer who is sent on a quest to walk the legendary Path of Light and save the world from impending disaster.
Why similar: Casual 33.2%, Indie 25.5%, Adventure 25.1%, Puzzle 16.2%
- #2 Laser Attraction
96% matchVery Positive90% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Vectmatica
Windows
Play with lasers and solve puzzles in Laser Attraction. Use reflection, refraction, dispersion and filtration to direct the laser beams, mix and separate colours, open doors, hit targets and complete puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 41.5%, Puzzle 32.9%, Casual 25.7%
- #3 LIT: Bend the Light
96% matchVery Positive94% of 315 reviews2020
Dev: Copperglass
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.
Why similar: Casual 56.4%, Indie 38.2%, Puzzle 5.4%
- #4 OCTOPTICOM
95% matchVery Positive95% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: UP DEVELOPMENT LTD.
Windows · Linux
OCTOPTICOM is an open-ended puzzle programming game about designing and optimizing optical computing devices. Use lasers, mirrors, filters and other components to read, transform and write sequences of colored squares.
Why similar: Indie 67%, Puzzle 33%
- #5 Blink
94% matchVery Positive92% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: nextReality Games
Windows
Blink into a world of after-images, where you can walk on light. Solve puzzles by manipulating lights and blinking between worlds. Explore hand drawn landscapes while uncovering the secrets behind this strange power.
Why similar: Adventure 53.8%, Indie 46.2%
- #6 Machinika: Atlas
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 557 reviews2024
Dev: Littlefield StudioPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Machinika: Atlas is an indie puzzle game and is the direct sequel to Machinika: Museum, you play as a museum researcher who just land on Atlas. Will you unravel the mysteries of the alien vessel? Solve cryptic puzzles to find out what happened!
Why similar: Casual 45.2%, Adventure 33.9%, Puzzle 20.9%
- #7 Evo Explores
94% matchVery Positive94% of 349 reviews2016
Dev: Kyrylo Kuzyk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore impossible geometry and optical illusions!
Why similar: Casual 50.5%, Indie 33%, Puzzle 16.4%
- #8 Machinika: Museum
91% matchVery Positive93% of 6,121 reviews2021
Dev: Littlefield StudioPub: Dear Villagers
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?
Why similar: Adventure 36.8%, Indie 33.9%, Puzzle 29.3%
- #9 Cranium Conundrum
93% matchMixed42% of 86 reviews2016
Dev: Falling Star GamesPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!
Why similar: Casual 42.8%, Adventure 30.8%, Indie 26.5%
- #10 Unmechanical
91% matchVery Positive92% of 473 reviews2012
Dev: Talawa GamesPub: Teotl Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!
Why similar: Casual 29.6%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 25.9%, Puzzle 16.9%
- #11 Colorgrid
90% matchVery Positive92% of 154 reviews2019
Dev: Minimol Games
Windows · Mac
Colorgrid is a puzzle game about mixing colors in a Lab. Find the correct positions for your lasers and mirrors to get the right mix of colors in each material.
Why similar: Casual 69.2%, Puzzle 30.8%
- #12 Electronics Puzzle Lab
88% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Sagitta Studios
Windows
Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!
Why similar: Casual 71.4%, Puzzle 28.6%
- #13 Odyssey - The Story of Science
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 305 reviews2017
Dev: The Young Socratics
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Odyssey is an enchanting and innovative science adventure game. Help Kai and her family escape their captors on the Wretched Islands - and learn the history of astronomy, mechanics, and scientific reasoning as you read Kai's journal and solve puzzles along the way!
Why similar: Adventure 47.5%, Indie 33.8%, Puzzle 18.7%
- #14 Chromatic Conundrum
84% matchVery Positive98% of 277 reviews2026
Dev: Digs
Windows
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: Adventure 41%, Puzzle 35.2%, Indie 23.8%
- #15 Chroma Zero
84% matchVery Positive96% of 313 reviews2024
Dev: ekorzPub: ZeroXP
Windows
Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
Why similar: Adventure 44.5%, Puzzle 28.8%, Indie 26.7%
- #16 Ludwig
89% matchMixed47% of 68 reviews2014
Dev: ovos
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Join Ludwig on an exciting journey through the world of physics. Find out how energy is created from fire, water, wind and sun and use them cleverly to protect the Robotronics on Unitron against the impending energy collapse! Ludwig is a new type of learning game, which not only conveys knowledge, but is also really fun to play!
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #17 League of Mermaids
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 63 reviews2015
Dev: Alder GamesPub: Legacy Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Join the League of Mermaids on an amazing Match-3 Physics puzzle adventure!
Why similar: Casual 47.6%, Adventure 22.2%, Indie 16.4%, Puzzle 13.8%
- #18 Gravity Quest
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 103 reviews2017
Dev: Light Road Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Gravity Quest. Plunge into the world of magic 3d mazes! Feel deeply this fairy world free of gravitation.
Why similar: Casual 40.6%, Adventure 31.9%, Indie 27.5%
- #19 Puzzle Dimension
86% matchVery Positive90% of 494 reviews2010
Dev: Doctor Entertainment AB
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Find solutions to 100 unique puzzles and experience the satisfaction of "Aha" moments!
Why similar: Casual 42.8%, Indie 30.3%, Puzzle 26.9%
- #20 Particulars
85% matchMixed68% of 104 reviews2014
Dev: SeeThrough Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Particulars is a game with a unique combination of arcade-action and puzzle gameplay, set in the mysterious world of subatomic particles.
Why similar: Indie 72.5%, Puzzle 27.5%
- #21 Hyperbolica
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,301 reviews2022
Dev: CodeParade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Hyperbolica is a whimsical Non-Euclidean adventure with mind-bending worlds full of games, puzzles, mazes, and secrets! Immerse yourself in reality-warping geometries where lines can never be parallel, horizons are curved, and space grows exponentially.
Why similar: Adventure 31.8%, Casual 29.8%, Indie 19.6%, Puzzle 18.7%
- #22 Gravitia
78% matchVery Positive92% of 168 reviews2024
Dev: VuzzlePub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Gravitia is an adventure game about manipulating gravity to escape a unique world full of mystery.
Why similar: Adventure 61.3%, Puzzle 29.3%, Indie 9.4%
- #23 ORIX!
82% matchMixed66% of 189 reviews2018
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 30%
ORIX!- a puzzle game - where you need to find the right path and get to the yellow cube.
Why similar: Casual 41%, Adventure 31.3%, Indie 27.7%
- #24 Chasing Light
81% matchVery Positive86% of 264 reviews2020
Dev: Vittgen Inc.
Windows · Mac
'Chasing Light' is the story of the seven days of exploring the physical properties of a game and uncovering an inner world of human beings and society. Have a weird trip!
Why similar: Adventure 53.2%, Indie 46.8%
- #25 Inside The Gear
83% matchMostly Negative40% of 140 reviews2014
Dev: Mykhail Konokh
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 51.9%, Indie 33.2%, Puzzle 15%
- #26 Algotica Iterations
82% matchMixed53% of 177 reviews2017
Dev: Alexander Goodwin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Algotica is an educational puzzle game about programming with cute lowpoly graphics. If you wanted to start learning programming but think that it too difficult to understand or just don't have enough time or not sure that you need it - this game is a good start point for you
Why similar: Adventure 44.3%, Indie 38.1%, Puzzle 17.7%
- #27 LASER LAB
77% matchVery Positive92% of 278 reviews2022
Dev: Ronald Wang
Windows
LASER LAB is a 3D puzzle game with the theme of exploration and interaction. The player is trapped in a locked laboratory surrounded by laser beams, and those who reroute the beams' path can escape from the chamber. It contains multiple puzzle levels, casual and challenging. Never miss it!
Why similar: Casual 65.2%, Puzzle 23.7%, Indie 11.2%
- #28 Cartesian
80% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Mark Radocy
Windows
Cartesian is a unique puzzle-platformer with lasers as its core mechanic. Use lasers to reflect, push, destroy, and more as you search for your lost crew-mates. Dozens of interesting mechanics are introduced through over 70 varied levels.
Why similar: Adventure 53.8%, Indie 46.2%
- #29 Dusty
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: El Palo GamesPub: U-tad
Windows
Dusty is a third-person puzzle game focused on explore beautiful environments. Join archaeologist Dusty on his search for a mysterious civilization. Explore equipped with your extensible cane and notebook to resolve the past, the ways of the civilization and his technology of light.
Why similar: Adventure 35.4%, Casual 30.2%, Indie 21.3%, Puzzle 13%
- #30 Skala
76% matchVery Positive89% of 310 reviews2022
Dev: Gustav Almström
Windows · Linux
Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.
Why similar: Adventure 50.2%, Puzzle 28.1%, Indie 21.6%
- #31 Magic Box
79% matchMixed67% of 131 reviews2017
Dev: Indie Games StudioPub: Enoops
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Magic Box - interesting puzzle game with a lot of interesting and challenging levels.
Why similar: Casual 48.9%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 19.4%, Puzzle 10.2%
- #32 Way of Rhea
73% 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: Adventure 49.2%, Puzzle 33.1%, Indie 17.7%
- #33 Pure Logic
74% matchVery Positive93% of 91 reviews2023
Dev: Sigmund Hoien
Windows
Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!
Why similar: Casual 45.4%, Puzzle 30.4%, Indie 24.3%
- #34 Relicta
77% matchMixed67% of 452 reviews2020
Dev: Mighty PolygonPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Casual 69.7%, Puzzle 30.3%
- #35 Islands of Insight
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2024
Dev: Lunarch StudiosPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across this sublime puzzle game.
Why similar: Casual 42.9%, Adventure 35.3%, Puzzle 21.8%
- #36 Light Repair Team #4
78% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2016
Dev: Eerie Bear Games
Windows
Light Repair Team #4 is a light-reflection puzzle game where you play as a light-pipe repair person. Figure out how to properly bounce, combine and split light so that you can return power to nearby buildings.
Why similar: Casual 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #37 Truffle Saga
79% matchMixed43% of 122 reviews2014
Dev: Colossal GamesPub: KISS ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Truffle Saga, can you clear levels in one shot? Addictive physics puzzle game.
Why similar: Casual 41.8%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 25.3%, Puzzle 7%
- #38 物理世界
73% matchVery Positive88% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: NeutronStar.studio
Windows
"Physics World" is a fast-paced horizontal version of the decryption game. There are various colorful physical formulas in the scene, which represent some physical rules. Players can create favorable situations by changing the common physical rules.
Why similar: Casual 51.1%, Indie 21.8%, Puzzle 20.7%, Adventure 6.4%
- #39 Orbyss
67% matchVery Positive99% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: Misty Whale
Windows
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: Adventure 50.7%, Puzzle 49.3%
- #40 PERFECT ANGLE: The puzzle game based on optical illusions
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 338 reviews2015
Dev: Ivanovich Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Challenge your mind with puzzles based on optical illusions. Find the perfect angle by rotating the camera to clean up the chaos and find a shocking story fraught with twists.
Why similar: Casual 39.3%, Adventure 26.8%, Indie 26.6%, Puzzle 7.3%
- #41 OR
76% matchMostly Negative40% of 191 reviews2017
Dev: Camagames
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Do not underestimate the apparent simplicity of OR because it will amaze you. In the game there will be pitfalls of every kind! The 3D graphics allows you to see the light from above. This opens up a world of possible combinations. With gameplay based around light, OR is a simplified Puzzle/Arcade game.
Why similar: Casual 75.6%, Indie 24.4%
- #42 Newton's Fourth Law
67% matchVery Positive94% of 214 reviews2025
Dev: Newtonian Studios
Windows
Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.
Why similar: Adventure 51.7%, Puzzle 48.3%
- #43 Qbik
73% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2017
Dev: Norbert PalaczPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Go on an adventure as a small, one-eyed square, and traverse caves full of puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers! Discover 63 levels and the Level Editor on Steam Workshop!
Why similar: Casual 36.8%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 25.7%, Puzzle 8.7%
- #44 Monument Valley 3
64% matchVery Positive93% of 1,911 reviews2025
Dev: ustwo games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Casual 69%, Puzzle 31%
- #45 Amphora
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 212 reviews2014
Dev: Moondrop
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Amphora is a peculiar puzzle game that mixes story elements and physics. Amphora presents you with an unfamiliar world with a striking visual style inspired by all the shadow theatre traditions and colors of the world.
Why similar: Adventure 37.7%, Indie 37.6%, Puzzle 24.7%
- #46 Tandis
69% matchVery Positive95% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: Mahdi Bahrami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tandis is a puzzle game where you discover mind-bending geometric shapes.
Why similar: Casual 48.6%, Indie 30.3%, Puzzle 21.1%
- #47 Oscuro Blossom's Glow
66% matchVery Positive95% of 62 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: Casual 35.4%, Adventure 32.2%, Puzzle 17.5%, Indie 14.8%
- #48 Turn on all the lights
69% matchVery Positive93% of 94 reviews2021
Dev: Thedox Games
Windows · Linux
Turn on all the lights is a minimalist puzzle game that features a recursive mechanics in which the player has to explore micro pieces to connect a circuit and solve the main puzzle.
Why similar: Casual 46.9%, Puzzle 29.6%, Indie 23.5%
- #49 ReThink | Evolved 2
71% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Yaeko
Windows
ReThink | Evolved 2 is a Puzzle Game in a futuristic setting. Solve a variety of Puzzles that utilize Lasers and the behavior of light in two and three-dimensional space. Created with the Feedback from its predecessor in mind, ReThink | Evolved 2 features: 40 new Puzzles, enhanced Gameplay...
Why similar: Casual 35.2%, Indie 35%, Puzzle 29.8%
- #50 Ultimate Solid
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 67 reviews2016
Dev: What The Fantastic Games GroupPub: Night Steed Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The great arcade challenge in physics based platform world. Join the hardcore journey of 200 levels with puzzle elements and claim the title of Ultimate Solid!
Why similar: Adventure 46.3%, Indie 41%, Puzzle 12.6%
- #51 Logicality
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: SVGames
Windows
Immerse yourself in an exciting journey on the island of dreams. Explore the open world and interesting places, while solving various puzzles that use environment.
Why similar: Adventure 61.1%, Puzzle 22.6%, Indie 16.2%
- #52 CUBOTS The Origins
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Street Lamp Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Be a part of an adventurous journey in Cubots: The Origins. Explore and survive in beautiful, atmospheric environments!
Why similar: Casual 32.7%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 24.2%, Puzzle 16.5%
- #53 illum
66% matchVery Positive94% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: Elsa LiuPub: USC Games
Windows · Mac
Embark on a heartwarming journey with your little light friend to solve puzzles and bring light to the mystical realm of Illum.
Why similar: Casual 46.2%, Puzzle 26%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 9.6%
- #54 Carpe Lucem - Seize The Light VR
71% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Hammer LabsPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows
Carpe Lucem challenges and entertains players by transferring classical 2D puzzles into the virtual space. It creates a whole new way of interacting and playing mind teasing puzzle games and it made nobody sick in hundreds of demos at trade shows. VR equipment such as HTC Vive or Oculus required.
Why similar: Casual 52.3%, Indie 34.5%, Puzzle 13.2%
- #55 The House of Tesla: Definitive Edition
63% matchMixed68% of 694 reviews2025
Dev: Blue Brain Games
Windows · Linux
Solve intricate puzzles to activate Nikola Tesla's creations, restore Wardenclyffe Tower, and unlock hidden devices in his New York lab. Explore the Chicago World's Fair in this mind-bending puzzle adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 61.6%, Puzzle 38.4%
- #56 Patch me if you can
62% matchVery Positive99% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: Ah Shot ChuPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Patch me if you can is a puzzle adventure where you dive into a game world and manipulate objects however you want. Equip blocks to shrink boulders, move the sun, and thwart Lord's conspiracy. This broken world needs your 'patch'!
Why similar: Casual 41.1%, Adventure 21.6%, Puzzle 21.5%, Indie 15.8%
- #57 Oik 2
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,374 reviews2017
Dev: Crew Lab
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Casual physics puzzle
Why similar: Casual 49.2%, Indie 26.8%, Puzzle 12.9%, Adventure 11%
- #58 Adapta Solva Legacy
64% matchVery Positive97% of 90 reviews2024
Dev: Ares BrazeltonPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
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: Casual 69.3%, Puzzle 30.7%
- #59 LYSER
68% matchVery Positive90% of 84 reviews2019
Dev: Growfall Games
Windows
Casual puzzle with laser reflections.
Why similar: Casual 54.2%, Indie 36.7%, Puzzle 9.1%
- #60 1000 Amps
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 342 reviews2012
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.
Why similar: Indie 42.6%, Adventure 34.4%, Puzzle 23%