Games Like Payload

Flip. Reveal. Rotate. Rush. Activate the exit. Faraday Corridors is a brain-teasing, minimalist tactical puzzle played on a grid. Guide your pawns through electric corridors, flip switches, rotate cells, collect every energy cell, activate the exit. Then do it again, chasing the best medal.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 24.8%, Logic 18.6%, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Minimalist 14.3%, Puzzle 10.5%

Unread Messages is a retro-inspired cyberpunk puzzle game where you deliver texts by making connections between cell towers. Alongside your AI companion, FASMA, solve confounding levels and uncover the secrets hidden within Simullect Inc's computers.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.7%, Artificial Intelligence 18.9%, 1980s 17.1%, Minimalist 10.4%, Puzzle 8.8%

sleep_mode - is an analog horror game that we play as a guy who lives in the near future and orders AR glasses to overcome insomnia, but everything turns out to be not so simple...

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.9%, Alternate History 23.3%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Conspiracy 12.4% ★, Minimalist 8.4%

Hack your way through the Nex-Us in this turn-based puzzle indie game from a small team of three designers. Will you be clever enough to use the right programs you find along the way to locate the access point before the DoomWall catches up?

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 20%, Cyberpunk 19%, Grid-Based Movement 15.1%, Logic 12.8%, Puzzle 9%

The last metaverse RPG Roguelike game.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.8%, Conspiracy 18.2% ★, Alternate History 17.6%, Cyberpunk 17.6%, Artificial Intelligence 15.6%

OILST is a relaxing puzzle game about reducing numbers to zero by stamping tetrominoes. Levels are hand-crafted to surprise, delight, and engage but not break your brain. Settle back, take your time, and enjoy.

Why similar: Logic 27.5%, Grid-Based Movement 26.7%, Minimalist 21.1%, Puzzle 14.8%, Strategy 7.1%

A minimalist geometry puzzle game with a cyberpunk aesthetic. Master five transformation modes — symmetry, rotation, translation, and more — across 150 levels.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.5%, Minimalist 20.1%, Logic 18.3%, Grid-Based Movement 14.3%, Puzzle 12.2%

Terminus introduces a cast of AI-powered Non-Player Characters (NPCs) unlike any before. Each character possesses a fully integrated worldview, allowing for deeply meaningful interactions and conversations that branch into multiple paths, each influencing the game's progression and possible endings.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 28.2%, Cyberpunk 26.5%, Lore-Rich 21.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Story Rich 8.2%

The Suits Have Gone Mad! is a brand new episodic horror brought to you by Blank Dream Studios. Unravel the mysteries behind the monopoly of Blake & Whitley Innovations and bring color into a dull world.

Why similar: Capitalism 22.1%, Lore-Rich 19.9%, Conspiracy 17.5% ★, Minimalist 10.2%, Stylized 8.9%

A sheep, a crow, and puzzles like you’ve never solved before. In Millumi, you guide your sheep on a grid and use a freely moving crow to solve clever light and mirror puzzles.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 30.4%, Logic 25.5%, Minimalist 22.1%, Puzzle 14.2%, Stylized 5.5%

Linkominoes is a strategic puzzle game where overlapping squares form connected structures. Unwind with the satisfaction of placing pieces and building patterns, or take on unique challenges that put spatial planning and strategy to the test.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 25.1%, Logic 24%, Minimalist 17.2%, Puzzle 13.3%, Strategy 8.6%

Puzzle your way out of complex challenges as you hack through the servers of a major corporation. Discover the story of real-life inspired characters, unwillingly involved in a struggle against oppression and exploitation. Maybe it really is time to eat the rich!

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 21.2%, Capitalism 20%, Logic 19.7%, Puzzle 11.1%, Lore-Rich 8.5%

A narrative hacking adventure set in an alternate 1989 Japan. Boot your Bradsonic 69000, dial into underground bulletin boards, solve programming puzzles and crack games you can actually play. Tune into pirate radio and earn the trust of a crew whose secrets put more than your computer at risk.

Why similar: Alternate History 21.9%, Cyberpunk 17.5%, 1980s 17.4%, Conspiracy 16.1% ★, Lore-Rich 14.3%

Explore the open-world, futuristic city of Novantica in this sci-fi adventure game, traveling back in time, crafting devices, gathering clues, and solving puzzles to untangle the plot behind a mysterious event that has damaged critical systems across the city.

Why similar: Alternate History 23%, Conspiracy 20.2% ★, Capitalism 16.4%, Third Person 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%

Feel the thrill of clearing connected grains all at once!

Why similar: Logic 34.1%, Minimalist 29.7%, Puzzle 18.4%, Grid-Based Movement 17.8%

Grid-based logic game where your goal is to get to the end of each level. Manage all the obstacles on your way to make a path. Push cardboxes, rotate racks and fill holes with boxes.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 32.2%, Puzzle 15.4%, Minimalist 14.8%, Logic 13.9%, Third Person 9.6%

A fresh take on the the falling block puzzle genre. Embrace imperfection with glitches and broken pieces to overcome this new challenge. Chase high scores or learn new techniques in a puzzle mode with over 50 handcrafted puzzles.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 21.6%, Logic 21%, Minimalist 15.3%, 1980s 14.4%, Puzzle 9%

GRAVE SLIDE is a dark puzzle-action roguelike where every move sends you hurtling until something stops you. Carve your way through lethal chambers, stain the Tower with blood, and climb through the ruins of forgotten ages to discover what waits beyond the gate at its summit.

Why similar: 1980s 27.4%, Grid-Based Movement 20.9%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Puzzle 12.7%, Alternate History 10.3%

A puzzle game where a unique color-cycle mechanic requires you to think ahead. Every move affects the state of the puzzle, opening new paths while closing others. Conquer increasingly mind-bending levels as you find order in apparent chaos. Can you sort out the confusion?

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 32.5%, Logic 25.1%, Puzzle 13%, Stylized 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%

The fear of artificial intelligence is nothing new, but will it always be for the bad? Solve puzzles and follow the creator's and creator's conversation during the testing phase, until the moment they are interrupted by external matters.

Why similar: Logic 20.5%, Grid-Based Movement 18.6%, Artificial Intelligence 17.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, Puzzle 10.2%

A puzzle game about leaving the right trail. You coordinate two inkfish to collect every star. Collecting a star switches control to the other inkfish. Each fish leaves a trail that blocks it but enables the other.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 34.9%, Logic 30%, Minimalist 16.4%, Puzzle 15.9%, 2D 2.8%

Trade illicit cheese in a dystopian cyberpunk city filled with police killbots trying to hunt you down in this ASCII Art text-based early 80s retro trading game. Like a fine blue cheese, this isn't for everyone.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.9%, 1980s 19.4%, Capitalism 18.9%, Conspiracy 13.9% ★, Minimalist 11.7%

You are VatBorn™ -- an artificial consciousness uploaded into a disposable memetic plasmid body. Your purpose: to provide frontline customer service at mega-bank Multiverse Mutual. BANKWAVE is narrative document / customer service simulation with escape room elements.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 30.2%, Capitalism 19.2%, 1980s 16.3%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Sci-fi 6.9%

Work the night shift at a sealed sorting facility. Inspect unknown objects, compare instrument readings, and decide: ACCEPT, REJECT, or CONTAIN. Just don't assume the equipment — or the protocol — is telling you the truth

Why similar: Conspiracy 24.2% ★, Logic 18.6%, Minimalist 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Puzzle 9.7%

Maya's Dice is a 2D puzzle-based RPG using the bluffing dice game, Liar's Dice, as a unique and dynamic battle mechanic. Players experience a cyberpunk world and a narrative that questions morality and one's core values.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.3%, Artificial Intelligence 20.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.7%, Puzzle 11.2%, Third Person 10.7%

Ocean City Killer is an open-world corporate dungeon crawler. You play as Rick Atlanta, a private eye investigating the death of a former colleague. What starts out as a routine case pulls you into the dark labyrinth of a seedy megacorp. Hop in your muscle car to explore the city!

Why similar: Alternate History 21.3%, Capitalism 20.6%, Conspiracy 19.6% ★, Cyberpunk 18.9%, 1980s 17%

Late Stage is a stealth action game where you play as a mercenary, completing missions for megacorporations

Why similar: Capitalism 27.1%, Conspiracy 24.4% ★, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Minimalist 11.4%, Third Person 7.3%

Puzzle game where you rotate islands to find your way around different archipelagos.

Why similar: Logic 34.5%, Grid-Based Movement 25.3%, Puzzle 18.5%, Minimalist 18.1%, 3D 3.6%

Three siblings are given AI-Powered cybernetics by their dying CEO father to permanently bring out the worst in them. How much of your mind are you willing to lose to control your family's company, and the future of surveillance in this narrative driven AI corporate dystopia?

Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.8%, Capitalism 17.7%, Artificial Intelligence 15.5%, Conspiracy 13% ★, Stylized 8.1%

A near-future visual novel — No androids. No cyberware. Only an LLM girl, the world, and you.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 36.8%, Artificial Intelligence 35.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, Lore-Rich 8.6%, Sci-fi 5.7%

This fixed camera, survival horror adventure will make you the sole survivor of a mysterious disaster aboard a deep space research vessel. You must explore, hide, and survive as much of the station as you can in order to try and escape, all the while being hunted by a mysterious alien life form.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.5%, 1980s 17.8%, Minimalist 14.5%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Puzzle 9.9%

Jay's Walkin' is the quintessential jaywalking experience! Feel the extreme thrills of breaking the world's most sacred law as you swerve through traffic ridden streets and evade corrupt law-bringers.

Why similar: Alternate History 24.3%, Capitalism 22.5%, Conspiracy 17.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Puzzle 9.7%

ReWire is a grid based puzzle game set in the near future. Splice wire blocks together to solve increasingly complicated circuits before they overload. Join the Agrifront and do your part for the folks back home.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 30.9%, Lore-Rich 19.6%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Puzzle 12%, Story Rich 8.8%

Move Together! is a puzzle game with a clean, simple style. Every move affects all of the little friends at once. Observe how they influence one another, plan each step, solve evolving challenges, and help everyone reach the goal together.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 29.9%, Logic 27.3%, Minimalist 15.7%, Puzzle 14.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Become an expert hacker by using your raw brainpower! Learn how to get ahead in your new job at a cybersecurity company. Analyze servers for weaknesses, and hack them using their own subroutines to access the data they protect.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.6%, Logic 24.3%, Minimalist 13.5%, Puzzle 12.8%, Story Rich 11.4%

A game you can play BLIND from start to finish... Meet Serene™️'s newest digital therapy model: N.O.R.A.! Hollowtone is a first person audio-based navigation horror game. For possibly the first time ever, CHOOSE to play with graphics OR blindfold yourself for a unique audio experience.

Why similar: Capitalism 17%, Alternate History 15.4%, Conspiracy 14.7% ★, Stylized 12.9%, Sci-fi 11.4%

Plasmatic is a puzzle-solving game where every level is a race against the clock. Follow the clues provided by an AI named SPIRIT, who will guide you through a series of increasingly difficult puzzles. Discover new levels, unfold the story, and decide its ending for yourself.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.6%, Conspiracy 17.3% ★, Logic 16.2%, Minimalist 14.6%, Puzzle 11%

Is an adventure game. You play as a character who, waking up in a house on a remote island, realizes that she has lost her memory. Player will have to find out the reason for the loss of memory, explore the island, find ancient treasures, explore the ruins with secret locations and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Alternate History 27.1%, Minimalist 17.1%, Third Person 15.7%, Logic 15.3%, Stylized 9.3%

Roll the dice. Plan your path. Every move counts. A minimalist puzzle game where luck sets the rules and you find the way through.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 31.3%, Logic 29.1%, Minimalist 15.7%, Puzzle 15.5%, Strategy 6.1%

Squareg is a color-pattern matching puzzle game where you rotate rows and columns to match a target pattern.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 31.4%, Logic 20.9%, Minimalist 19.7%, Puzzle 13.1%, 1980s 10.5%

Become a bounty hunter in a cyberpunk city of the future. Explore neon streets, talk to people, hack into corporations. Use all your skills to survive and become a hero.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.4%, Artificial Intelligence 21%, Logic 14.5%, Third Person 10.9%, Stylized 8%

Move one piece. Everything else moves with you. AfterMove is a minimalist puzzle game where every piece on the board follows its own rule - find the sequence that wins. 190 hand-crafted levels. Quietly merciless, deeply satisfying.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 24.5%, Logic 21.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.2%, Minimalist 15.2%, Puzzle 11.9%

An unreflected shot cannot kill anything. Place a handful of mirrors, fire once, and let the enemy's own volley solve the board. 144 hand-built stages across a dozen worlds — rotating flip mirrors, portals, half-silvered panes and relay sentries — every par proven minimal by a solver.

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 21.3%, Grid-Based Movement 17.5%, Logic 15.5%, Minimalist 15.3%, Puzzle 12.4%

It’s 1807 and you are a lamplighter, responsible for keeping the street lights of London lit. Lamplighter is a story-driven puzzle game, set amidst the magical early 1800s when gas street lamps began to turn night into day and provoke people's imaginations, hopes, and fears.

Why similar: Logic 25.8%, Lore-Rich 19.8%, Alternate History 18.3%, Puzzle 13%, Stylized 11.8%

Grimgig Railway is a horror game with train simulation elements where you’ll need to keep calm and face your fears. You’ll drive the train across an old railway in Sakura valley, deep in the Japanese countryside. Drive the train and find soon enough why not everyone can keep this job.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.8%, Lore-Rich 21.3%, Alternate History 18.7%, Artificial Intelligence 11.7%, Puzzle 9.5%

A relaxing construction game about mining an industrial quantity of crystal gems

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 22.2%, Capitalism 21.5%, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Minimalist 14.7%, Puzzle 10.2%

Dive into the enigmatic world of "The Mystery Man," an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that blurs the lines between reality and fiction. In this immersive experience, you become the investigator, unraveling the secrets of the SCP Universe through a series of intricate puzzles and cryptic clues.

Why similar: Alternate History 29.4%, Artificial Intelligence 25.4%, Lore-Rich 13%, Logic 12.1%, Puzzle 11.1%

Rotate the cube to match shapes as the speed keeps climbing. A fast, reflex-driven 3D action game with a neon vaporwave aesthetic. Features rogue-lite progression with a variety of powerups and enhancements.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 36.1%, 1980s 34.6%, Puzzle 15.5%, Stylized 7.3%, 3D 6.5%

PlanckMan is a grid based puzzle game that tests your skill at maintaining your tail, one step at a time. Eat red pellets to regain your tail, and yellow pellets to grow. Do not hit or lose your tail, or else you will lose the game! How high can you get? Includes extra benefits for purchasing.

Why similar: Alternate History 22.7%, 1980s 22.3%, Cyberpunk 19.5%, Minimalist 15.1%, Puzzle 8.9%

Firewall Maze is a tactical cyber-puzzle where logic is your sharpest weapon. Navigate deadly firewall grids, outsmart Entropy viruses, and reach the exit node. Design your own subnets with the built-in level editor and breach the Steam Workshop!

Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.8%, Grid-Based Movement 18.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.2%, Logic 13.8%, Puzzle 10.4%

A two-player abstract strategy game on a 9×9 board. Fold your pieces to advance diagonally. Unfold them into flags — moving like rooks across rank and file. Plant three flags on your opponent's back row, or cut their forces to three.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.7%, Logic 20.1%, Minimalist 15.8%, Grid-Based Movement 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%

Enter an ancient alien mind spiraling toward collapse. Explore shifting inner worlds, unlock new abilities, and battle hostile anomalies in a 3D third-person action adventure. Stabilize the mind to forge a new world or let it awaken as something far more terrifying.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 23.3%, Cyberpunk 20.8%, Third Person 13.8%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Story Rich 11.2%

Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.

Why similar: Alternate History 24.3%, Cyberpunk 23.9%, Artificial Intelligence 21.8%, 1980s 19.8%, Dark 6.2%

Decypher hidden codes, with tons of exciting variants and levels

Why similar: Logic 39.5%, Minimalist 31.2%, Puzzle 20.3%, Strategy 9%

A little lost witch, a magical cat, and a world full of secrets. Kitty Witchy is a 3D narrative puzzle adventure game. Join the witch and solve puzzles with the help of her cat, uncover the secrets of this universe, and find the way back home.

Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 28.5%, Logic 25.8%, Puzzle 14.2%, Third Person 9.6%, Stylized 8.3%

Positron is a fast paced arcade style game inspired by the classic arcade games of the 80's, namely Tron, Battlezone, Tempest, and Star Wars. Battle against opponents in the Arena, navigate your way out of the Maze, and collect power-ups while avoiding your own trail in Snake.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.7%, 1980s 23.7%, Grid-Based Movement 15.7%, Sci-fi 10%, Third Person 9.8%

Gather all your grey matter and enter the dungeon. Sharing Lights is a 3D isometric puzzler in which you control multiple Ghosts at the same time. Manage their lights and use their abilities cleverly to reach the Architect and find the exit.

Why similar: Logic 38.3%, Puzzle 20.8%, Minimalist 19%, Strategy 9.7%, Dark 8.4%

Listen up, comrade! Tired of feeling like a terrible chess player? Ditch the flashy modern tools. My routine is simple: I teach you a sharp concept, you apply it in a puzzle, then I unveil the secret twist. Survive my training, and become a true Chess Master!

Why similar: Alternate History 22.2%, Artificial Intelligence 20.4%, Logic 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Puzzle 7.8%

Follow R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, on a cinematic adventure through an alternate 1980s America. Explore an atmospheric cyberpunk world full of high-stakes action wrapped in a unique 2.5D pixel art style.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 26%, Alternate History 25%, Artificial Intelligence 16.3%, 1980s 12.7%, Story Rich 7.2%