Games Like PARADOX

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 31.8% ★, Time Travel 26.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.6%, 2D Platformer 11%, Indie 4.8%

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 30.2%, Time Manipulation 26.8% ★, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Time Travel 8.4% ★, Puzzle 8%

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 37.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Difficult 14.5%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Puzzle 5.8%

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 39.2% ★, Time Travel 18.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.2%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Puzzle 8.7%

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 29 time-bending levels.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, 2D Platformer 17.3%, Puzzle 7.8%, Indie 4.6%

A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.8%, Time Manipulation 25.1% ★, Time Travel 18.1% ★, Indie 12.7%, Puzzle 8.9%

'틱톡 가디언즈'는 한 명의 플레이어가 세 명의 캐릭터를 “동시”에 조작하는 협동 플레이의 재미를 혼자서도 경험할 수 있는 게임입니다.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.7% ★, Time Travel 33.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Puzzle 4%, Indie 3.5%

Use four-dimensional space-time thinking and time travel ability to eat the fish within the specified time and return to the original position, while avoiding the guards' pursuit.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.3% ★, Time Travel 26.5% ★, Difficult 16.5%, Indie 7.9%, Puzzle 7.1%

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 46.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Puzzle 7.4%, 2D 3.7%

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.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 49.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Indie 18.5%, Puzzle 10.4%

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 38.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Time Travel 17.6% ★, Indie 7.4%, 2D Platformer 7.1%

Wonderway is a puzzle game where the direction of gravity can be changed. Get to the goal by moving and manipulating items which interact with gravity.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.2% ★, Difficult 20.7%, Indie 17%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle 10.6%

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 44% ★, Puzzle Platformer 25.8%, Time Travel 16.4% ★, Puzzle 7.3%, Indie 4.3%

Looppip is a magical seed that carries an ancient hourglass with the power to turn back time. Your mission is to save the bee hives, essential for the survival of life on Earth, and reverse the environmental collapse threatening nature.

Why similar: Time Travel 35.7% ★, Time Manipulation 25.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, 2D Platformer 10.3%, Puzzle 5.9%

Video Editor is a puzzle platformer inspired by various video editing software. As a director, you must film 'movements' as clips, adjust them, and collaborate with chroma key tracks to reach the flag—all within a recording time limit! Film short, reach efficiently!

Why similar: Time Travel 29.8% ★, Time Manipulation 29% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Puzzle 8.2%

"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 42.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Indie 4.6%

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 43.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.6%, Difficult 18.4%, Indie 8.2%, Puzzle 6.3%

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 46.9% ★, Indie 25.9%, Difficult 17.3%, Puzzle 9.9%

Master time in this story-rich time-bending puzzle game. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?

Why similar: Time Travel 40.8% ★, Time Manipulation 37.1% ★, Difficult 12.3%, Puzzle 6.3%, Indie 3%

time resistance machine is a real time physics based action packed puzzle platformer about manipulating time. each object contains it's own dynamic timescale: freeze boxes mid air to create barriers, heat yourself up to gain momentum and perform stuns within the world of advanced physics simulation

Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.9% ★, Time Travel 19.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19%, 2D Platformer 8.7%, Indie 3.7%

Surely one change shouldn't change everything, right?

Why similar: Time Manipulation 46.1% ★, Time Travel 40% ★, 2D Platformer 7.8%, Indie 3.6%, 2D 1.9%

Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Time Travel 19.7% ★, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 7.7%

Travel through time like never before! Use time-portals leading both to future and past to solve puzzles in this mind-bending platformer and finally find a way to escape the laboratory using time-rewind powers that let you switch between different timelines caused by your choices.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.1% ★, Time Travel 32.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Puzzle 5.8%

Manipulate time to your whim! Use your powers of time manipulation to advance in this 2D Puzzle Adventure!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Time Travel 8.9% ★, Puzzle 8%

"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 49.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 31.8%, Puzzle 11%, Indie 6.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%

A time loop metroidbrainia where time is your best resource and secrets are your only upgrades. You're the last of the Weavers, a remnant of a ruined society trapped in a glitching time loop. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.6% ★, Time Travel 30.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.8%, Indie 7.2%, Puzzle 7%

A unique take on 2D platformers. Use your momentum and warping abilities to escape the Rift!

Why similar: Time Travel 26.4% ★, Time Manipulation 21.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Puzzle 9.4%

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 34.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Time Travel 12.4% ★, Puzzle 7.4%

Stuck in a time loop, stop the possessed captain's plans in this cooperate-with-yourself puzzle game. Record each pirate’s actions to solve puzzles, interact with adorable animal companions and get to know the brave pirate crew and the bond they share with each other!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.6% ★, Time Travel 31.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.4%, Puzzle 5.8%, Indie 2.9%

Turn back the clock and fight to repair Time itself in this cinematic action platformer with fast sword combat and time-based powers. You are the Warden of Time, Ouro Kronii - be proud and fight hard!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.9% ★, Time Travel 29.4% ★, 2D Platformer 16.7%, Indie 5.1%, 2D 2.7%

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 45.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Puzzle 9.4%, Indie 4%

Time and Space Legacy is a top-view puzzle game where you design and build your own space stations. Manage scarce resources, lay out buildings accordingly, and use advanced time-traveling technologies to save the future of humankind !

Why similar: Time Manipulation 39% ★, Time Travel 34% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Puzzle 8.3%, Indie 2.9%

Stop time and manipulate objects around you to reach the goal line!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 56% ★, Puzzle Platformer 24.8%, Indie 19.2%

Use your ability to go back in time to overcome obstacles and reach your goal. Are you ready to help your future self?

Why similar: Time Travel 45.6% ★, Time Manipulation 27.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.1%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%

LAPSUS is a thrilling 2D Puzzle-Platformer that will make you think in multiple timelines simultaneously. Squeeze your brain to solve challenges in a way never seen before. Manipulate the laws of physics to overcome 80+ levels across unique worlds and push your mind and fingers to the limit!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.2% ★, Time Travel 20.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.1%, Difficult 13.3%, 2D Platformer 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: Time Travel 42.6% ★, Time Manipulation 29.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, Puzzle 7.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%

A game about nurturing friendships and celebrating the changing of seasons, where you play as Sunny, a cute little tanuki with the ability to control the flow of time just by walking around.

Why similar: Time Travel 46% ★, Time Manipulation 42.9% ★, Indie 5.4%, Singleplayer 3%, 2D 2.6%

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 51.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Puzzle 8.8%, Indie 5.9%

This is a chess puzzle game where you can rewind time to any previous move, but the fate of death is unchangeable. Some pieces are unaffected by time and influence all past moves simultaneously. Use these mechanics, including reality overlap, to checkmate the king in the present or the past!

Why similar: Time Travel 49.3% ★, Time Manipulation 37.3% ★, Puzzle 7.8%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Use time travel and other tools to solve mind bending puzzles in VR. When you travel back you will find that you and every action you took is happening again. If you use the right tools you can control any paradoxes you create with smart planning.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.5% ★, Time Travel 29.8% ★, Indie 16.9%, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 6.4%

The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 46.1% ★, Time Travel 39.5% ★, 2D Platformer 8.2%, Indie 3.9%, 2D 1.5%

Run, glide, and grapple across an open world filled with floating islands. Armed with an Eye that gives you the power to rewind and accelerate time, use it to solve puzzles, fight enemies, and rescue your dragon friends.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.9% ★, Time Travel 35.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%

TimeK is an action puzzle game specialized in time manipulation. Players can move even while rewinding time, allowing for interesting phenomena to occur. Other time manipulation abilities: Stop, Slow, Accelerate, Fast Rewind

Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.4% ★, Time Travel 29.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, 2D Platformer 10.1%, Puzzle 6.4%

Lily, a little girl who lost her parents in a car accident, lives in a big empty house. She really wants to have a friend with whom she could pass the tough time. One day, she finally get a friend, from mirror...

Why similar: Time Travel 47.5% ★, Indie 26.9%, Puzzle Platformer 25.6%

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 44.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Indie 17.9%, Puzzle 14.5%, 2D 3.4%

The little girl comes to the City of Time, this place has the magic of making time back, you can use the magic of time backward to make time interlaced to help the little girl through difficulties.

Why similar: Time Travel 29.6% ★, Time Manipulation 28.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, 2D Platformer 7.7%, Puzzle 6.8%

In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 24.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.7%, Time Travel 19.3% ★, Difficult 13.7%, Puzzle 10.2%

Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.

Why similar: Time Travel 29.7% ★, Time Manipulation 28.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.1%, Difficult 11.9%, Puzzle 8.6%

Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, Difficult 17.4%, Indie 10.4%, 2D Platformer 10.1%

In Sliptime Sleuth, play as a P.I. with a twist. In this time-traveling puzzle game, utilize your handy gadget to take on a variety of contract work, slipping through time in order to earn an honest buck.

Why similar: Time Travel 46.8% ★, Indie 44.7%, Puzzle 8.5%

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Why similar: Time Manipulation 44.6% ★, Time Travel 35% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%

A gravity-based puzzle game that will push your mind to always think and evolve. Hard but fair, constantly introduces new concepts for the player to overcome. For those who want to challenge themselves, and love to think.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.2%, Indie 29.8%, Difficult 25.4%, Puzzle 14.6%

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 38.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Difficult 14.6%, 2D Platformer 10.5%, Puzzle 7.7%

Use time travel to cooperate with your past self and conquer seemingly impossible puzzles. Can you craft the perfect timeline without altering history? Design your own escape.

Why similar: Time Travel 41.2% ★, Time Manipulation 29.7% ★, Difficult 14.9%, Puzzle 7.6%, Indie 4.9%

Do you think you have nothing to learn from a child? And what about the world's greatest chess prodigies of all time? Let BOT.vinnik - the Soviet digital trainer - show you how.

Why similar: Time Travel 39.2% ★, Time Manipulation 38.7% ★, Difficult 10.3%, Puzzle 6.2%, Indie 5.7%

Platformer-puzzlu game with interesting gimmick. You can't jump, so you need to bounce off your enemies or use tubes to your advantage. Both platformer skills AND logic are required to complete 40 challenging levels!

Why similar: Indie 36.4%, Puzzle Platformer 29.9%, Difficult 24%, 2D 6.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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 34.3% ★, Time Travel 32% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17%, 2D Platformer 10%, Puzzle 5.6%

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 48.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 9.8%, 2D 3.4%

A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.

Why similar: Time Travel 38.3% ★, Time Manipulation 31.8% ★, Difficult 13.4%, Puzzle 7.4%, Indie 7.2%