Games Like Pan-Pan

Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

Why similar: Adventure 36.4%, Indie 34%, Puzzle 29.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique puzzle mechanic where you rearrange the world map to explore, mirroring the clever environmental riddles of the seed game.

Arriving on a curious planet, Vix and her toolbox Tin explore space, fixing machines with unconventional tools and eating cozy meals with kind robot locals. On an epic adventure, the duo repairs an interstellar beacon, constructs giant mechs, and unravels a cosmic mystery that transcends existence.

Why similar: Puzzle 100%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down adventure features a cute protagonist and focuses on fixing machines through puzzles, echoing the core repair-and-explore loop of the seed game.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the relaxing, exploration-focused atmosphere and cute art style found in Pan-Pan.

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Why similar: Adventure 42.3%, Puzzle 32.5%, Indie 25.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly gentle, narrative-driven experience filled with environmental puzzles and a heartwarming, stylized aesthetic.

Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...

Why similar: Adventure 43.3%, Indie 28.7%, Puzzle 28.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title features beautiful hand-drawn art and a focus on environmental exploration and mystery that fans of Pan-Pan will appreciate.

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Adventure 49.6%, Indie 38.7%, Puzzle 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a charming, hand-drawn world with creative puzzle-solving and a deeply emotional, non-verbal narrative.

Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.

Why similar: Adventure 47.6%, Indie 29.5%, Puzzle 22.9%

Why You'll Like It: This short, atmospheric adventure relies on visual storytelling and gentle puzzle-solving in a hand-drawn world.

Find your way in a world of breezy, thoughtful puzzles, along a charming journey of self-discovery.

Why similar: Adventure 60.5%, Puzzle 39.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its grid-based movement and clever world-shifting puzzles offer a similar sense of satisfying, logic-based exploration.

Even the smallest person can make a big difference. Join Alba, as she sets out to save her beautiful island and its wildlife. And possibly start a revolution.

Why similar: Adventure 63.8%, Indie 36.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing, sun-drenched island exploration experience centered on helping others and interacting with the environment.

Future Unfolding is an action adventure that is all about exploration. Your goal is to unfold the mysteries and solve the puzzles hidden in the beautiful landscapes around you.

Why similar: Adventure 46.1%, Indie 36.7%, Puzzle 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the joy of discovery in a mysterious, top-down world where the environment is the primary storyteller.

Embark on an adorable adventure, discover new friends and uncover everything the island has to offer. Climb, Swim, Glide and slide your way into the hearts of the many different characters you meet on your travels!

Why similar: Adventure 55.1%, Indie 44.9%

Why You'll Like It: This low-stress, movement-focused adventure emphasizes exploration and cute character interactions without the pressure of combat.

An adventure about a robot saving her home from a dark crystalline force. Set upon a biopunk space station bursting with fantastic plants and aliens.

Why similar: Adventure 51.2%, Indie 34.2%, Puzzle 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful point-and-click adventure with a cute aesthetic and a focus on solving puzzles to restore a space station.

A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.

Why similar: Adventure 63.9%, Puzzle 36.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a quirky, retro-inspired adventure focused on exploration and simple, charming tasks.

Guide Aarik through wreck and ruin in this relaxing perspective puzzle adventure where the puzzle is your environment. Using your fathers crown repair, rework and rewind to mend your broken world.

Why similar: Adventure 48.5%, Puzzle 37.1%, Indie 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing isometric puzzle game that emphasizes exploration and environmental interaction in a fantasy setting.

Pavilion, a fourth-person puzzling adventure. Indirect guide the unknown main character through the puzzling narrative and levels by manipulation of the surrounding environment, lights and sounds.

Why similar: Adventure 47.8%, Indie 31.7%, Puzzle 20.5%

Why You'll Like It: A fourth-person isometric puzzle game that relies on environmental manipulation and atmosphere rather than direct character control.

The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets

Why similar: Adventure 48.6%, Indie 33.5%, Puzzle 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click puzzle adventure that rewards curiosity and observation in a mysterious, isolated setting.

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Indie 36.3%, Adventure 34.4%, Puzzle 29.4%

Why You'll Like It: A short, physics-based puzzle game with a humorous, cute aesthetic that is easy to pick up and play.

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 38.8%, Indie 31%, Puzzle 30.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game uses a unique, atmospheric approach to puzzle-solving that feels both experimental and rewarding.

It's Mail Time! As a newly trained Mail Scout, put on your pack, grab those letters, and deliver them across Grumblewood Grove! The forest animals eagerly await the sight of your mushroom hat in this cozy, cottagecore light-platformer adventure!

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, exploration-heavy game where you deliver mail in a vibrant, cute forest setting.

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

Why similar: Puzzle 56%, Indie 44%

Why You'll Like It: While different in mechanics, it shares the same relaxing, environmental storytelling vibe that makes Pan-Pan so memorable.

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

Why similar: Adventure 40.6%, Puzzle 29.7%, Indie 29.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-heavy game that requires careful planning and exploration to navigate its atmospheric levels.

Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this cute game inspired by the best 3D platformers

Why similar: Adventure 63.7%, Puzzle 36.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, collectathon-style platformer that emphasizes exploration and gentle puzzle-solving.

A tiny adventure game set on a huge island. Talk to animals, solve puzzles and reach the big pear at the top 🍐

Why similar: Adventure 56%, Indie 38.6%, Puzzle 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, indie adventure that incorporates light RPG elements and puzzle-solving in a charming environment.

Islands sometimes appear out of the blue in the clouds. The mysterious Pocket Kingdom is one of them. Wander around its districts, solve puzzles and listen to the weird stories told by the locals. Unveiling the place's mysteries depends on it. So does getting out of it.

Why similar: Adventure 49.9%, Indie 35.3%, Puzzle 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D adventure that focuses on puzzle-solving and exploration within a compact, pixel-art world.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Adventure 45.6%, Puzzle 27.6%, Indie 26.8%

Why You'll Like It: A journey-focused game that emphasizes maintaining your vehicle and exploring a vast, atmospheric landscape.

Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!

Why similar: Adventure 67.9%, Indie 32.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends exploration and platforming with a unique pinball mechanic, all set in a colorful, charming world.

A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!

Why similar: Adventure 63%, Indie 37%

Why You'll Like It: A musical adventure that focuses on kindness, exploration, and solving problems through song.

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: Indie 47.4%, Adventure 34.4%, Puzzle 18.2%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that features charming, bite-sized levels focused on helping a character reach their destination.

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: Puzzle 42.6%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 21.2%

Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.

Why similar: Adventure 59.7%, Puzzle 35.5%, Indie 4.8%

You fell from your UFO... How do you get back? Explore a foreign and friendly world inhabited by geysers, tall trees and dinosaurs. Learn its rules and systems and craft your way back to your spaceship!

Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 39.5%, Puzzle 4.4%

Embark on a pixel adventure with Ponchee the bunny in "Bunny Space Odyssey: FlopHop". Solve puzzles, protect plants, and uncover deep mysteries with Usagi-01 on an uninhabited planet.

Why similar: Adventure 52.2%, Puzzle 26.6%, Indie 21.2%

Set sail for adventure with a paper hat on your head and a magical shrinking boat in your pocket, in search of legendary treasures! Solve tricky puzzles, battle formidable foes, piece together clues and dig up secrets to uncover your own shrouded history as you explore this sprawling open world.

Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%

A time-traveling adventure game on a tropical island. 🌴⛱️ Talk to animals, solve puzzles, and save the island from destruction . . .

Why similar: Adventure 51.1%, Indie 35.1%, Puzzle 13.8%

You have to find out what happened in this fantastic world and help the Raccoon find his way home!

Why similar: Adventure 39.7%, Puzzle 36.6%, Indie 23.7%

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Why similar: Puzzle 40.4%, Adventure 40.1%, Indie 19.5%

Pitfall Planet is a couch co-op puzzle-solving adventure game set on a distant planet, where you'll need to use teamwork to complete levels and explore the caverns below! Pitfall Planet will put your friendship to the test; will both of you make it out alive?

Why similar: Adventure 49.2%, Indie 32.9%, Puzzle 17.9%

An unnatural storm leaves an adventurous aviator stranded for decades within the infamous Bermuda. Overcome creatures of the deep and unravel the islands secrets in search of a way back home.

Why similar: Adventure 47.4%, Puzzle 37.1%, Indie 15.5%

Broken Lens is a cozy game where you will discover the story of a little robot with a sight problem. Explore manifold cute environments at your own pace and investigate to understand what happened to them.Will you be able to uncover all the secrets? 🔍

Why similar: Adventure 62.1%, Puzzle 37.9%

Flibbius McDoogle and the Mysterious Flying Machine is a short adventure puzzle game. Use your wits, creativity and puzzle solving ability to help Flibbius take to the skies!

Why similar: Adventure 51.6%, Puzzle 33.5%, Indie 14.9%

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.

Why similar: Adventure 39.8%, Puzzle 31.9%, Indie 28.2%

Fur the Game is a small first-person puzzle game where you explore an exciting world inhabited by adorable creatures called Furs! Rescue these creatures and throw them around to solve puzzles!

Why similar: Adventure 44.4%, Indie 35.2%, Puzzle 20.4%

Take your perceptivity to a new dimension in a relaxing low-poly isometric puzzle game. Find the differences in the beautiful, fully rotatable, and zoomable 3D environments. Can you find them all?

Why similar: Puzzle 39%, Adventure 32.7%, Indie 28.3%

An adorable bite-sized adventure from the creators of A Monster’s Expedition - explore the facility, avoid the live electricity, and repair the malfunctioning reactor.

Why similar: Puzzle 100%

Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.

Why similar: Adventure 42.5%, Puzzle 32.6%, Indie 24.8%

Explore a woollen world where stuffed animals once lived in peace. Search for hidden secrets and customize your character with different animal shapes to solve puzzles. An epic adventure with two very unlikely heroes and a story narrated in rhyme.

Why similar: Adventure 57.3%, Indie 34.1%, Puzzle 8.6%

Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.

Why similar: Adventure 53.7%, Puzzle 46.3%

A Tiny Sticker Tale is a cozy miniature adventure about changing the world, using the power of stickers!

Why similar: Adventure 45.2%, Puzzle 30%, Indie 24.8%

Traverse a vast world as a young lynx cub. Paws – A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure game with loss and friendship as its central themes. Venture out in the world and make your way home.

Why similar: Adventure 64%, Indie 36%

An open-world adventure with puzzle elements and a minimalist aesthetic. Bokida takes place on a dormant, seemingly monochromatic world of light that gradually reveals its beauty. Experience freedom while exploring a peaceful, intriguing environment.

Why similar: Adventure 49.8%, Indie 35.1%, Puzzle 15.1%

"A cozy exploration adventure where you journey across vibrant, hand-drawn planets, collecting discoveries to turn into stickers with your magical, upgradable Holobook. All woven into a heartfelt, engaging story about confronting a spreading darkness. "

Why similar: Adventure 65.9%, Indie 34.1%

Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!

Why similar: Adventure 46.7%, Indie 34.4%, Puzzle 18.9%

Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.

Why similar: Adventure 48.5%, Puzzle 33.4%, Indie 18%

AntVentor is a point & click adventure game. You find yourself in a photorealistic macroworld where you immediately manage to ruin the life of the main character, ant, and foil all his plans for making his dream come true. Can you help get everything back in order?

Why similar: Adventure 43.9%, Indie 28.4%, Puzzle 27.7%

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: Puzzle 41%, Adventure 39.3%, Indie 19.6%

Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!

Why similar: Adventure 75.2%, Indie 24.8%

Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

Why similar: Puzzle 90.9%, Adventure 6%, Indie 3.1%

Teacup is a short and wholesome narrative adventure game with a focus on exploration and non-linear progression. Help a small and shy frog on her journey to find the ingredients she needs for her tea party!

Why similar: Adventure 68.5%, Indie 31.5%

Explore this amazing steampunk world finding cute cats and paint black - white locations with colored paints.

Why similar: Adventure 56.5%, Indie 25.2%, Puzzle 18.3%