60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Adventure, Story Rich, Exploration.
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Mystery of the Malign
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
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Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Investigate. Interrogate. Descend into a world of intrigue to untangle the Mystery of the Malign.
Why similar: Mystery 24.1%, Conspiracy 15.2% ★, Puzzle 10.6%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Nonlinear 10%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Detective 28%, Nonlinear 25.5%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Mystery 12.3%, Puzzle 11%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Management 26.5%, Mystery 21.5%, Time Manipulation 18.8% ★, Detective 11.8%, Puzzle 9.3%
A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.
Why similar: Dark Humor 32.3%, Mystery 19.9%, Puzzle 15.9%, Exploration 13.1%, Story Rich 10%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.4% ★, Detective 18%, Mystery 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Puzzle 6.7%
Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.
Why similar: Mystery 22.9%, Detective 18.3%, Time Management 16.7%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Puzzle 9.6%
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.5% ★, Nonlinear 14.1%, Lore-Rich 14%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret. To survive, you must find four relics and solve reality-blurring puzzles. But beware—some creatures may escape the game and haunt you in the real world. A game within a game.
Why similar: Mystery 24.6%, Horror 20.1%, Exploration 14.8%, Puzzle 14.7%, Story Rich 10.4%
Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
Why similar: Detective 33.3%, Mystery 23.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Puzzle 11.8%, Story Rich 10%
Play as Cassiel, a foul-mouthed angel trapped in a time loop with a mission to save Heaven. Use the magical clock bestowed upon you from Death (yes, that Death, from Manual Samuel, stop asking) to jump between timelines across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim to stop Heaven from going boom. Again.
Why similar: Metroidvania 49.1%, Action-Adventure 25.5%, Adventure 18.6%, Story Rich 6.8%
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
Why similar: Mystery 40.2%, Puzzle 26.3%, Exploration 24.3%, Adventure 9.1%
Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.
Why similar: Mystery 24.4%, Detective 20.9%, 2.5D 16.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 10.9%
Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.7% ★, Detective 21.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Story Rich 8.1%, Puzzle 8.1%
Joyville 2 is a first-person horror puzzle-adventure game set in an abandoned children's camp. Explore two parallel worlds where the joy of the past meets present horrors. Uncover the camp's dark secrets, face magical yet dangerous creatures, and discover the truth behind events from decades ago.
Why similar: Mystery 21.8%, Horror 21.7%, Puzzle 13.5%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Story Rich 10.8%
Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.3% ★, Nonlinear 18.1%, Choices Matter 11%, Puzzle 9.2%, Story Rich 7.7%
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 48.4% ★, Dark Humor 23.8%, Story Rich 8.8%, Puzzle 7.5%, Exploration 6.4%
Create unique spells by combining magical runes to solve puzzles your way. Transform objects, manipulate time, and discover the mysteries of a world where everyone has vanished, leaving only 12 people behind. Every puzzle has multiple solutions - if you can imagine it, you can probably do it.
Why similar: Open World 25.9%, Mystery 25%, Story Rich 12.5%, Puzzle 11.5%, Exploration 11.1%
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 64.4% ★, Puzzle 19.2%, Adventure 16.3%
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the console, and - just maybe - save everyone. But be careful. The locks aren't just there for you.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 54.1% ★, Horror 13.1%, Puzzle 10.6%, Story Rich 9.2%, Exploration 8.2%
Help the cursed souls of Limbo escape their endless time loop in the afterlife. As Kulebra, a newly-deceased snake, witness their grief and guide them toward closure through point-and-click puzzles, light stealth, and empathy-driven boss encounters.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.7% ★, Detective 17.4%, 2.5D 14.8%, Mystery 12.9%, Story Rich 6.3%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Dystopian 36%, Mystery 28.7%, Adventure 21%, Story Rich 14.4%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Mystery 32.2%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Story Rich 17.5%, Exploration 16.5%, Adventure 10.1%
Toroban is an infinitely wrapping puzzle game.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.7% ★, Nonlinear 20.1%, 2.5D 18.4%, Open World 14.9%, Puzzle 7.7%
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Why similar: Exploration 58.4%, Adventure 41.6%
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 55.5% ★, Mystery 18.2%, Horror 10.8%, Puzzle 9.9%, Adventure 3%
A knowledge-based progression game. Explore and solve the strange misteries of the interconnected fantasy worlds trapped inside an esoteric book and discover the roots of a terrible evil. No stats, no log, no savefiles. Only pure knowledge is your progress.
Why similar: Mystery 23.4%, Nonlinear 18.7%, Exploration 11.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, Puzzle 9.4%
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: Mystery 23%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Exploration 18.3%, Puzzle 17%, Story Rich 14.9%
Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.9% ★, Detective 24.1%, Exploration 8.8%, Story Rich 8.2%, Puzzle 8.1%
Re:Turn - One Way Trip is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure horror game. Trapped in a ghostly train, Saki must search the past and present to find and save her friends. More importantly, Saki must use her wits if she is to survive against an unspeakable evil hellbent on avenging unrequited love.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.1% ★, Horror 15.1%, Action-Adventure 10.9%, Exploration 10.4%, Puzzle 9.9%
Two souls are drawn into a mysterious otherworld—and torn apart. In a realm filled with danger and restless spirits, each searches for the other while uncovering hidden truths. A suspenseful multi-ending adventure where every choice shapes their fate.
Why similar: Mystery 30.7%, Horror 22.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Story Rich 12.6%, Exploration 11.4%
You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.3% ★, Dystopian 29.4%, Horror 22.2%, Adventure 6.8%, Exploration 5.3%
Adventures of different characters with their unique atmosphere and puzzles.
Why similar: Mystery 37.5%, Puzzle 27.7%, Exploration 21.4%, Adventure 13.4%
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Detective 33.2%, Mystery 27.3%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 9.3%, Adventure 7.9%
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 51.3%, Story Rich 30.2%, Choices Matter 18.5%
You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 27.7%, Mystery 20.7%, Horror 16.4%, Puzzle 10.8%, Exploration 8.8%
A non-linear first-person action adventure in a pirate setting. A single player time travel simulation game. Unusual gaming experience.Moving in space and time, the player must understand what is happening on the island and how the main character can move away from there.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 39.4% ★, Open World 15.1%, Mystery 12.8%, Action-Adventure 8.9%, Story Rich 7%
MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.7% ★, Dystopian 19.1%, Metroidvania 17.2%, Action-Adventure 8.2%, Puzzle 7.1%
A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.4% ★, Conspiracy 21.4% ★, Mystery 18.2%, Horror 11.2%, Story Rich 9%
The Apocalypse shattered a world in disarray. Facing his impending death, a young boy named Sid crossed paths with Torii, a girl who feeds on the energy of time. In the harbour town of Astella, a mysterious adventure is about to unfold along with the investigation of an unusual crime...
Why similar: Lore-Rich 28.6%, Mystery 18.1%, Choices Matter 14%, Action-Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 11.2%
An eternally snowbound town. An inescapable time loop. A group of travelers trapped between memory and truth…You will embody Mo Shi, the amnesiac protagonist, stepping into this enigmatic town known as the "Singularity" , partner with the protagonist to solve murder cases and expose the killer.
Why similar: Detective 35%, Mystery 26.4%, Puzzle 12%, Story Rich 11.5%, Exploration 10%
Simulation World - This is a puzzle, story and open world. Feel the vanilla atmosphere as you progress through the puzzles. Rescue the simulation from a virus that wants to destroy the computer world
Why similar: Open World 24.7%, Puzzle 24.3%, Story Rich 22.4%, Adventure 14.6%, Nonlinear 14.1%
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: Detective 34.3%, Mystery 21.5%, Story Rich 14.9%, Puzzle 13.7%, Exploration 9.4%
You woke up and found yourself in an anomalous endless place from which it is not so easy to get out. Carefully observe your surroundings to find a way out of this place.
Why similar: Puzzle 34%, Adventure 31.6%, Choices Matter 19.4%, 3D 15%
Causality is a survival horror game. You must rescue 3 students trapped in a school full of mysterious psychic phenomena, and uncover the secrets behind therein. The real story behind the school, and the causal relationship of the events, is all in your hands.
Why similar: Horror 32.7%, Mystery 17.5%, Puzzle 17.2%, Adventure 16.8%, Story Rich 15.8%
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 72.3% ★, Puzzle 11.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, Adventure 6.3%
A Single-Player Survival Horror Adventure: play as a cast of characters exploring an isolated village haunted by an ancient ritual—but beware, its labyrinthine roads will change each time you lose all your characters.
Why similar: Conspiracy 31% ★, Detective 18.3%, Mystery 12.1%, Horror 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9%
Travel through time and help Mai and her Grandfather uncover the mysteries of the world after the Last Great War. Explore the connections between ancient eras and dystopian futures in an adventure that blends thrilling combat with precision platforming.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.4% ★, Metroidvania 22.9%, Dystopian 18.6%, Mystery 9.1%, Story Rich 4.6%
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: Mystery 27.2%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Horror 11.3%, Exploration 11%
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: Story Rich 30.8%, Choices Matter 28.6%, Puzzle 20.2%, Exploration 10.6%, Adventure 9.8%
Become Mia, a paranormal detective searching for her missing father inside the Perimeter - a place that doesn't exist. Investigate clues like a real detective and unravel the mysteries behind the Enigma of Fear, defeating the terrible monsters who'll try to stop you.
Why similar: Detective 30.1%, Mystery 26.1%, Open World 16.9%, Puzzle 10.1%, Story Rich 8.5%
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Why similar: Metroidvania 37.4%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Mystery 12.9%, Horror 11.3%, Exploration 10.5%
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 56.5% ★, Mystery 14.3%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 7.1%, Action-Adventure 6.8%
A very off-kilter adventure game about university life with light shooting and platforming.
Why similar: Open World 43.2%, Mystery 21.2%, Adventure 14.5%, 3D 10.9%, Time Management 10.3%
Explore unearthly ruins, solve arcane riddles and pick up your sword against the indescribable horrors that lurk amidst the forgotten depths of our world. Beware the creeping grip of madness as you uncover secrets not meant for the eyes of men!
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.9%, Lore-Rich 18.9%, Mystery 12.9%, Exploration 8.2%, Action-Adventure 7.5%
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.7%, Mystery 21.2%, Horror 14.6%, Exploration 11.4%, Puzzle 11.2%
Ouroboros presents a bright, cheerful world in which something is horrifyingly wrong. The hero has a princess to save and a quest set before him, but there are unsettling signs that all this has happened before.
Why similar: Story Rich 32.5%, Puzzle 28.4%, Action-Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 17.3%
You've made a mistake trying to summon a beast from the depths. Explore a huge manor to solve your mess. Can you find the sacred grimoires before being consumed by the darkness?
Why similar: Exploration 22.6%, Time Management 20.8%, Action-Adventure 20.2%, Mystery 11.3%, Horror 8.9%
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: Adventure 60.2%, Exploration 39.8%
Collect, run and be a pain in the porcelain
Why similar: Mystery 33.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Exploration 11.6%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Puzzle 8.8%
