Games Like Please, Don’t Touch Anything

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Why similar: Point & Click 29.6%, Puzzle 24%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Great Soundtrack 9%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title constantly breaks the fourth wall and subverts the player's expectations with clever, meta-humorous puzzles.

Now with Vive Support! A cryptic, brain-racking, button-pushing non-linear puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.6%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Indie 17.8%, Casual 8.2%, Horror 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct evolution of the original game, expanding the core concept into a fully realized 3D environment with even more chaotic endings.

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 37.3%, Indie 21.2%, Puzzle 17.8%, Funny 9.4%, Singleplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the same spirit of testing the boundaries of the player's agency and punishing or rewarding curiosity in unexpected ways.

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Puzzle 33.7%, Great Soundtrack 19.9%, Indie 14.7%, Point & Click 13%, Casual 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same experimental, casual, and slightly satirical vibe of playing with things you probably shouldn't.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Puzzle 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Indie 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the minimalist, repetitive, and high-stakes point-and-click interface that forces players to make difficult moral choices.

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

Why similar: Puzzle 33.1%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.1%, Indie 9.2%, Psychological Horror 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-horror puzzle game that forces you to hack the game itself to progress, echoing the subversive nature of the seed game.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Puzzle 40.3%, Point & Click 28.2%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Horror 12.4%, 2D 3%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully blends card-based mechanics with meta-narrative elements and environmental puzzles that feel deeply unsettling and mysterious.

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Why similar: Point & Click 36.5%, Puzzle 14.5%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Indie 12.3%, Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled psychological puzzle game that uses the interface itself as a narrative tool, much like the control panel in the seed game.

Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!

Why similar: Puzzle 66.7%, Difficult 15.8%, Indie 8.8%, Funny 4.4%, Casual 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It replicates the high-stress, puzzle-solving tension of dealing with a dangerous device that requires careful observation and communication.

A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.

Why similar: Point & Click 33.7%, Multiple Endings 31.8%, Memes 8.1%, Funny 6.4%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A hilarious series of branching paths where choosing the wrong option is half the fun, mirroring the multiple-ending structure of the seed game.

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 45.5%, Indie 31.3%, Singleplayer 11.2%, Puzzle 7.4%, Psychological Horror 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply meta-narrative experience that explores the relationship between the player, the creator, and the game itself.

60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Point & Click 56.9%, Difficult 24.3%, Funny 7.3%, 2D 6.5%, Choices Matter 5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the frantic, choice-based survival gameplay where every decision leads to a different, often disastrous, outcome.

I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Why similar: Puzzle 26.2%, Great Soundtrack 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, Indie 9.4%, Difficult 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-puzzle game that actively tries to frustrate the player with its design, perfectly capturing the mischievous spirit of the seed game.

A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

Why similar: Puzzle 54.1%, Point & Click 30.1%, Hidden Object 6.5%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the tactile satisfaction of manipulating complex, mysterious objects, which is a core appeal of the seed game's interface.

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: Puzzle 44.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Difficult 14.8%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game forces you to manipulate the rules of the game world itself, providing a deep, logic-based puzzle experience that rewards lateral thinking.

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: Point & Click 45.1%, Multiple Endings 34.9%, Indie 9.7%, Singleplayer 5.4%, Choices Matter 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, interactive simulation where you manage a live news feed, requiring quick thinking and constant interaction with a complex control board.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Point & Click 34.1%, Puzzle 26.1%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Horror 7.4%, Psychological Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This unique psychological thriller features a facial expression system that acts as a core puzzle mechanic, offering a similarly surreal and experimental experience.

Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.

Why similar: Puzzle 39.8%, Pixel Graphics 35.4%, Indie 16%, Singleplayer 2.8%, Psychological Horror 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique puzzle game that takes place entirely on a smartphone screen, requiring you to investigate and hack into a device to uncover secrets.

Are you ready to serve the guests in the Rusty Lake Hotel? Solve all mysteries in this dark and eerie puzzle game. Rusty Lake Hotel is a point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Why similar: Point & Click 38.4%, Puzzle 35.8%, Indie 7.5%, Horror 5.5%, Hidden Object 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, point-and-click puzzle game that features the same dark, unsettling atmosphere and cryptic logic found in the seed game.

In a creaky old tavern, in a forgotten corner of the video-game universe, a storm is raging. An anonymous caller suggests that there is a murder plot. Six video game protagonists are the only plausible suspects...

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Indie 15.9%, Puzzle 13%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative mystery that shifts between different game genres, constantly surprising the player with its clever structural subversions.

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 71.2%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Singleplayer 7.6%, Horror 6.7%, Funny 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A perspective-based puzzle game that plays with reality and scale, offering a surreal experience that challenges your perception of the game world.

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Point & Click 30.7%, Pixel Graphics 22.7%, Puzzle 14.1%, Difficult 11.2%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A punishingly difficult point-and-click game where resource management and moral dilemmas lead to many different, often fatal, endings.

Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.

Why similar: Puzzle 32.7%, Pixel Graphics 29.6%, Funny 8%, Indie 7.8%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, humorous puzzle game where you must navigate a series of bizarre events to survive the school day, featuring multiple endings.

Run, hit, switch, fall, love, plug, pull. And push.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.1%, Indie 19.3%, Point & Click 18%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Funny 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal, and highly experimental experience that focuses on bizarre interactions rather than traditional gameplay.

Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!

Why similar: Point & Click 41.6%, Great Soundtrack 26.2%, Puzzle 19.4%, Indie 6.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled investigation game that rewards curiosity and exploration of a bizarre, simulated internet from the 90s.

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.

Why similar: Puzzle 60.8%, Indie 17.6%, Funny 14%, Singleplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the joy of being a nuisance and manipulating the environment to cause chaos, which aligns with the seed game's playful tone.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Indie 29.9%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Singleplayer 12.2%, Difficult 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simple, card-based interface that hides a complex web of choices and consequences, similar to the binary decision-making in the seed game.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 40%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 16.3%, Indie 7.5%, Singleplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses the medium of a visual novel to hide a much deeper, meta-narrative experience.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 58.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Singleplayer 7.9%, Funny 7.1%, Choices Matter 7%

Accounting+ is a NIGHTMARE ADVENTURE COMEDY. Experience classic virtual reality gameplay: clean up your office, take the battery out of the cooling machine, play the skeleton xylophone, and summon thousands upon thousands of demons.

Why similar: Indie 59.7%, Casual 23.6%, Horror 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, chaotic, and hilarious VR-ready experience that thrives on being as weird and meta as possible.

HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 58.7%, Great Soundtrack 14%, Indie 9.4%, Casual 8.4%, Singleplayer 5.3%

Unique events transport you to the halls of a long-forgotten crypt. The only means of escape lies locked within a stone pedestal, along with a note from your mysterious ally. His words promise assistance, but only serve to entice you into a compelling world of mystery and exploration.

Why similar: Puzzle 46.9%, Point & Click 28%, Hidden Object 8.8%, Indie 4.4%, Horror 4.1%

A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

Why similar: Point & Click 29.3%, Pixel Graphics 20.8%, Indie 17%, Puzzle 16.9%, Casual 7.6%

Wealthy, handsome, and... dead? Samuel strikes a deal with Death for one last shot at life, but only if he can survive a day doing everything manually. Blink, breathe, walk, and work - Guide Sam in this darkly humorous and brutally difficult adventure!

Why similar: Difficult 31.6%, Indie 29.2%, Singleplayer 18%, Funny 16.6%, 2D 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A funny, experimental game where you must manually control every action of a character, leading to hilarious and frustrating failures.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 42.6%, Great Soundtrack 28.9%, Indie 10%, Difficult 8%, Singleplayer 3.5%

UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.7%, Multiple Endings 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 20.3%, Indie 6.1%, Funny 3.8%

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 37.4%, Indie 17.1%, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Funny 8.1%, Casual 6.9%

In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.

Why similar: Indie 36%, Horror 21.2%, Funny 20.8%, Singleplayer 12.8%, Casual 9.2%

Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Why similar: Puzzle 56.3%, Indie 14.8%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%, Difficult 6.7%, Casual 5.5%

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Puzzle 53.1%, Indie 12.7%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Difficult 7%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Lost in a weird city in the middle of the desert and surrounded by strange creatures that keep staring at you. This is a game about exploring the unknown and solving puzzles... lots of them! Don't be fooled by the looks, this isn't a point & click adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.5%, Pixel Graphics 26.9%, Point & Click 15.3%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Indie 8.6%

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 72.6%, Indie 12.3%, Difficult 5.4%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Lured to a remote island, you find yourself confined within the rooms of an ominous mansion. You must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials devised by a mysterious figure known only as “The Craftsman”. Do you have what it takes to escape?

Why similar: Puzzle 53.8%, Point & Click 24.6%, Multiple Endings 5.9%, Hidden Object 5.3%, Indie 4.7%

Jazzpunk is a comedy adventure set in an alternate reality Cold War World, plagued with corporate espionage, CyberCrime, and sentient martinis. Gameplay is inspired by spoof comedy films and cartoons of yesteryear, with a focus on weird gadgets, exotic locales, and open-world style exploration.

Why similar: Indie 44.2%, Funny 22.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.2%, Singleplayer 7.1%, Memes 4.6%

Peace, Death! 2 is a midcore turn-based logic game where you send clients to Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory and help members of the Reapers Union as they work towards their great cause!

Why similar: Point & Click 28.1%, Puzzle 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, Casual 5.4%, 2D 4.7%

The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.2%, Pixel Graphics 32.7%, Indie 13.9%, Difficult 5.9%, 2D 5.5%

Minimalist hardcore one click\press direction changer game.

Why similar: Illuminati 71.7% ★, Difficult 11%, Indie 9.4%, Casual 4.5%, Psychological Horror 3.4%

A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 48.4%, Point & Click 17.1%, Indie 13.2%, Great Soundtrack 9%, Multiple Endings 5.6%

Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.

Why similar: Indie 46.5%, Funny 27%, Singleplayer 12.2%, 2D 9.7%, Casual 4.6%

Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns.

Why similar: Indie 49.5%, Casual 16.9%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Funny 11.7%, Singleplayer 6.7%

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.3%, Pixel Graphics 21.3%, Great Soundtrack 18.3%, Indie 11.5%, 2D 3.9%

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: Puzzle 38.9%, Great Soundtrack 28.1%, Indie 14.4%, Casual 7.4%, Funny 7.3%

You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!

Why similar: Difficult 43.4%, Indie 19.1%, Funny 16.1%, Singleplayer 12.2%, Casual 9.2%

Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 51.9%, Indie 16.1%, Singleplayer 12.4%, Horror 9.3%, Funny 5.1%

"I need a Heart in order to open it"

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29%, Puzzle 22.5%, Indie 11%, Horror 10.8%, Difficult 9.5%

You Must Build A Boat is the sequel to the award winning "10000000". Travel the world, run procedurally generated dungeons finding artifacts, capturing monsters and recruiting crew for your boat

Why similar: Puzzle 33.4%, Pixel Graphics 24.1%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Indie 10.4%, Casual 6.4%

Tragedy! Santa; the toy giving folk-hero, and purveyor of fine Christmas goods, has had enough. Endless requests from greedy children wanting more and more every year, tax increases, pressure from elf unions, bills, reindeer!

Why similar: Indie 39.5%, Funny 20.2%, Horror 17.7%, Singleplayer 12.3%, Casual 7.3%

Full tilt surveillance horror. Keep your eyes locked on security cameras for an outrageous collection of horrific anomalies, suspicious movement, and the occasional T-Rex. Observe, detect, survive!

Why similar: Puzzle 31.6%, Point & Click 22.2%, Hidden Object 15.3%, Horror 7.5%, Psychological Horror 7.2%

Can you think twice in under a second?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.6%, Difficult 18.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Indie 11%, Singleplayer 4.8%

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Point & Click 54%, Difficult 22.4%, Horror 9.9%, 2D 7.1%, Funny 6.6%