Games Like Patrick's Parabox

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: Sokoban 33.2% ★, Puzzle 22.5%, Logic 17.8%, Difficult 14.3%, Minimalist 4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for rule-bending logic puzzles where you manipulate the fundamental laws of the game world.

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 45.6%, Difficult 33.5%, 2D 11.2%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core recursive mechanic of entering and manipulating rooms within rooms, making it the closest thematic relative to the seed game.

A simple 3d puzzle game.

Why similar: Sokoban 41.2% ★, Puzzle 30.1%, Difficult 21.9%, Indie 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the pinnacle of difficult, minimalist sokoban design, requiring intense logical planning.

Push, slice, ingest, flip, and squish worms in this puzzle game in which you play as a little sentient tin can.

Why similar: Sokoban 56.5% ★, Logic 20.8%, Puzzle 16.7%, Indie 3.4%, Casual 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: An excellent grid-based logic game that introduces unique spatial mechanics and clever level design.

Place your faith and embrace the Void.

Why similar: Sokoban 66.2% ★, Puzzle 18.4%, Difficult 5.8%, 2D 4.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply cryptic and rewarding puzzle game that features complex spatial logic and hidden layers of depth.

An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!

Why similar: Sokoban 61.4% ★, Puzzle 16.5%, Difficult 13.8%, Strategy 3.6%, Casual 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A masterful open-world sokoban game that uses simple movement constraints to create complex, emergent puzzles.

Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 37.7% ★, Abstract 16.2%, Logic 12.3%, Minimalist 11%, Puzzle 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique recursive-like movement and satisfying, interconnected puzzle design that feels very similar to the seed.

Tackle thorny problems in this plant pushing puzzle game. Learn to maneuver like a cactus as you grow your way back to the desert!

Why similar: Sokoban 50% ★, Puzzle 14.9%, Difficult 13.9%, Logic 9.4%, Strategy 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant twist on the sokoban genre where you manipulate the environment to expand and navigate tight spaces.

Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.

Why similar: Sokoban 38.7% ★, Abstract 18.1%, Logic 9.6%, Minimalist 8.7%, Difficult 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers elegant, minimalist puzzle design focused on chemical bonding mechanics that feel intuitive yet challenging.

Protecting nobles from mud may look simple on the surface, but the intricate cape arranging puzzle mechanics ensure steadily increasing difficulty. Join the Knights on their quest to preserve dignity, and mindmuck is practically guaranteed! Playtime 10-35h.

Why similar: Sokoban 45.4% ★, Logic 17.3%, Difficult 10.6%, Puzzle 10.6%, Minimalist 10%

Why You'll Like It: Clever logic puzzles that require careful spatial planning and understanding of movement constraints.

Dungeon and Puzzles is a dungeon adventure themed Sokoban game. The movement and direction are restricted, and the adventurer's ability can be changed by equipment at hand. Think through every step, destroy every monster and find a way to the end of the dungeon where the treasure awaits.

Why similar: Sokoban 51.1% ★, Logic 18.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Difficult 11.3%, 2D 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines traditional sokoban mechanics with combat-oriented puzzles in a tight, logical format.

The buns... you HAVE to capture them!! Think outside the bunburrow or get outsmarted by bunnies in this cute pathfinding-based puzzle game!

Why similar: Sokoban 42.1% ★, Logic 17.8%, Minimalist 12.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Difficult 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, multi-layered sokoban experience that rewards experimentation and logical deduction.

Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect.

Why similar: Abstract 56.3%, Puzzle 34.7%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: Explores time-manipulation logic in a minimalist, abstract setting that demands high-level spatial reasoning.

Minesweeper but the rules are changing.

Why similar: Logic 24.5%, Abstract 23.5%, Minimalist 17.3%, Puzzle 16.2%, Difficult 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a fresh, experimental take on classic logic puzzles with a variety of unique rule sets.

Tametsi is a difficult logic game played on a set of tiles, in which you must use the clues provided to discover and mark hidden mines.

Why similar: Logic 32.7%, Puzzle 28.7%, Difficult 22.4%, Minimalist 7.5%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, logic-based puzzle game that pushes the boundaries of grid-based deduction.

Hexcells Infinite is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.9%, Logic 27.5%, Minimalist 18.8%, Difficult 4.8%, Casual 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A polished, logic-heavy puzzle game that rewards careful deduction and pattern recognition.

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.

Why similar: Abstract 40.2%, Puzzle 21%, Minimalist 20.4%, Difficult 13.8%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features mind-bending, non-Euclidean geometry and spatial manipulation that challenges your perception of space.

Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.

Why similar: Abstract 34.3%, Logic 24.6%, Minimalist 20.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, 2D 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist logic game where you must deduce the rules of the puzzle yourself through experimentation.

Solve puzzles embedded in rocks and crystals as you explore a colorful, serene alien asteroid. Discover a few clever twists as you progress in this short and sweet puzzle experience.

Why similar: Sokoban 42.2% ★, Puzzle 14.9%, Abstract 13.9%, Logic 8.9%, Minimalist 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing yet thought-provoking puzzle game with abstract exploration and minimalist design.

"Thermodynamic" puzzle where Maxwell's demon does work of block-pushing. Deal those hot blocks with cold blocks so that the demon doesn't get burnt.

Why similar: Sokoban 41.4% ★, Abstract 17.5%, Logic 15.2%, Puzzle 10.6%, Difficult 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A clever sokoban variant with unique thermodynamic-inspired mechanics that add a layer of complexity.

Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours of interesting and fun experiences while uncovering the mysteries left behind.

Why similar: Abstract 63%, Puzzle 31.5%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses perspective and photography to manipulate the environment in a way that feels recursive and mind-bending.

Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.

Why similar: Sokoban 64.5% ★, Puzzle 16.2%, Difficult 14.8%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, minimalist sokoban game that focuses on the deliberate movement and burning of items.

Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

Why similar: Abstract 32.9%, Difficult 20.6%, Puzzle 19.5%, Minimalist 19%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging path-finding puzzle game with minimalist aesthetics and tight, logical constraints.

Sokobond Express is a beautifully minimalist puzzle game that combines chemical bonds and puzzling pathfinding in novel ways.

Why similar: Sokoban 28.6% ★, Abstract 21.1%, Logic 19.3%, Puzzle 11.9%, Minimalist 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original's logic with new movement mechanics that keep the puzzle-solving fresh.

Hexcells is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 40.3%, Logic 24%, Minimalist 15.5%, Casual 4%, Abstract 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: The original entry in a series that defines minimalist logic puzzle design with its clean, deduction-based gameplay.

Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.

Why similar: Puzzle 37.1%, Difficult 32%, Sokoban 22.8% ★, Indie 4.5%, 2D 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Extremely difficult spatial puzzles involving body length and movement that will test your logic skills.

A lovely logical puzzle game about the many-worlds interpretation and quantum mechanics.

Why similar: Sokoban 45.6% ★, Abstract 19%, Logic 18.1%, Puzzle 11.9%, Casual 1.5%

A word-less abstract puzzle game about language.

Why similar: Sokoban 38.6% ★, Logic 15.5%, Minimalist 11.3%, Puzzle 9.6%, Abstract 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, 2D sokoban game that focuses on clean, logical progression and satisfying puzzle loops.

Puzzle game about squishing blocks together.

Why similar: Sokoban 40.9% ★, Logic 18.7%, Puzzle 17.6%, Difficult 14.9%, Indie 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging puzzle game that requires precise spatial manipulation and logical thinking.

SOK is a sokoban classic puzzle game. The goal of the game is to move all the boxes to their positions. It's not as easy as it seems. The player can push one box at a time, but do not pull it off.

Why similar: Sokoban 38.4% ★, Abstract 12.4%, Minimalist 12.2%, Logic 11.5%, Puzzle 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, straightforward sokoban experience for those who enjoy the core mechanics of block pushing.

Moncage is a unique puzzle adventure game where you explore a fascinating world trapped inside a mysterious cube. With each face displaying a unique scene, you’ll have to leverage the illusions and discover the hidden links to solve the puzzle.

Why similar: Puzzle 40.8%, Abstract 39.1%, Casual 7%, Indie 6.8%, Singleplayer 6.3%

A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 27.1% ★, Logic 24.1%, Minimalist 14.7%, Puzzle 12.9%, Difficult 12%

Polimines is a challenging logic game that brings together mechanics from Nonograms and Minesweeper. Solve increasingly difficult hand-designed levels in this puzzle game where guessing is never required.

Why similar: Logic 23.5%, Abstract 19.8%, Minimalist 17.5%, Puzzle 14.4%, Difficult 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, minimalist logic game that evolves as you progress, offering constant new challenges.

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: Puzzle 68.2%, 2D 17.6%, Indie 8.2%, Singleplayer 6%

Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.

Why similar: Puzzle 44%, Logic 20.4%, Minimalist 15.3%, Difficult 6.4%, Indie 4.4%

A minimalist roll playing puzzle game. About 10 unique puzzle mechanics, around 200 puzzles, and satisfying smooth procedural animations.

Why similar: Sokoban 47.2% ★, Abstract 14.4%, Logic 11%, Puzzle 10.5%, Minimalist 10%

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Puzzle 44.7%, Abstract 31.9%, Minimalist 9.1%, Difficult 6.3%, Indie 4.8%

A game of strange jigsaws.

Why similar: Abstract 31.6%, Puzzle 20.3%, Logic 19%, Minimalist 14.9%, 2D 5.7%

Sokoban meets Greek tragedy! Sokobos is a minimalistic & challenging puzzle game that expands on the classic block-pushing formula.

Why similar: Sokoban 48.5% ★, Logic 14.4%, Minimalist 13.8%, Difficult 10.4%, Puzzle 10.3%

Minesweeper but the rules are changing, again.

Why similar: Abstract 29.5%, Logic 21.3%, Minimalist 17.8%, Puzzle 15.3%, Difficult 9.3%

CrossCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 35.7%, Minimalist 21.8%, Logic 20.6%, Strategy 8%, Casual 7.1%

Immerse yourself in the beautiful world of Hexologic. Solve challenging, yet rewarding puzzles, listen to relaxing music, dive deep into the game’s atmosphere and fall in love in with Sudoku again!

Why similar: Sokoban 38.1% ★, Logic 20.2%, Abstract 15.8%, Puzzle 11.6%, Minimalist 9.8%

Learn CPU architecture with puzzles

Why similar: Logic 57.4%, Puzzle 27.2%, Difficult 9.2%, 2D 4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

A game about 2D puzzles in 3D space.

Why similar: Sokoban 46.2% ★, Logic 14.1%, Minimalist 12.4%, Puzzle 11.8%, Difficult 8.5%

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: Sokoban 43.2% ★, Logic 17.7%, Minimalist 14.1%, Puzzle 10.6%, Difficult 9.2%

Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once.

Why similar: Abstract 32.8%, Minimalist 20.3%, Puzzle 17.4%, Logic 14%, 2D 5.3%

A crabby twist on the sokoban (box-pushing) genre, where you use deaths to create shells and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Sokoban 50.1% ★, Logic 18.4%, Puzzle 12.6%, Difficult 7.6%, 2D 3%

Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).

Why similar: Puzzle 30.8%, Difficult 29.9%, Minimalist 12.4%, Logic 9.7%, Strategy 7.6%

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Puzzle 77.7%, Singleplayer 9.3%, Indie 8.1%, Difficult 4.9%

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 56.6%, Minimalist 36.4%, Singleplayer 7%

Solve difficult puzzles in a soothing atmosphere by altering your characters in multiple ways, forcing you to think outside the box.

Why similar: Sokoban 54.4% ★, Minimalist 14.3%, Puzzle 12.5%, Difficult 12.4%, Strategy 3.6%

Welcome to a realm of pure logic, where rules are rules and the next step can always be deduced.

Why similar: Logic 45.3%, Puzzle 23.1%, Difficult 18.8%, 2D 6%, Indie 2.5%

SOK MAX is the sequel of the SOK puzzle. Now there are more boxes on each level.

Why similar: Sokoban 43.7% ★, Abstract 13.3%, Minimalist 12.8%, Puzzle 9.9%, Logic 9.3%

A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that expand on classic sokoban gameplay with new and creative mechanics. Build your own devious creations with the included level editor!

Why similar: Sokoban 50.6% ★, Logic 13.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Difficult 12%, 2D 3.2%

I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?

Why similar: Logic 45.3%, Puzzle 28.2%, Minimalist 26.5%

BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.

Why similar: Logic 45%, Puzzle 28.9%, Difficult 19.7%, Indie 3.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.

Why similar: Logic 26.5%, Puzzle 24.8%, Difficult 21.7%, Minimalist 20.6%, 2D 3.9%

SquareCells is an ambient logic puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 43%, Minimalist 25.9%, Logic 19.1%, Indie 6.6%, Casual 5.5%

A difficult open world puzzle game about plumbing.

Why similar: Sokoban 59.6% ★, Puzzle 18.6%, Difficult 14.3%, Indie 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Explore logic symbols. Discover the rules. Solve complex puzzles. Feel the power of your logical side!

Why similar: Logic 34%, Minimalist 19.4%, Puzzle 18.4%, Difficult 17.5%, 2D 3.7%