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 29.5%, Puzzle 24%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the meta-humor and fourth-wall-breaking puzzle mechanics found in the seed game.

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 33.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.3%, Great Soundtrack 17.4%, Indie 9.1%, Psychological Horror 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deceptive, meta-heavy puzzle game that constantly shifts its interface to trick and surprise the player.

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 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same spirit of subverting player expectations through multiple endings and a witty, reactive narrator.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 46.8%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Indie 17.7%, Casual 8.2%, Horror 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct evolution of the original, offering more of the same button-pushing, catastrophic puzzle-solving gameplay.

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 20.2%, Indie 14.6%, Point & Click 13.1%, Casual 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a simple, tactile interface where the primary joy comes from experimenting with items to see what chaotic results occur.

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

Why similar: Point & Click 33.8%, Multiple Endings 31.7%, Memes 8.2%, Funny 6.4%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A hilarious choose-your-own-adventure experience that relies heavily on trial-and-error and failing in creative ways.

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 17.2%, Puzzle 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Indie 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar minimalist, high-pressure bureaucratic aesthetic where small actions have significant, often grim outcomes.

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 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 19.9%, Indie 9.3%, Difficult 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game specifically designed to frustrate and surprise the player with unconventional logic and meta-tricks.

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 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Indie 15.8%, Puzzle 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This genre-bending mystery game features the same meta-commentary and experimental design found in other cult-classic indie puzzles.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 29.2%, Indie 19.2%, Point & Click 18%, Psychological Horror 7.6%, Funny 6.7%

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

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 45.2%, Multiple Endings 34.9%, Indie 9.7%, Singleplayer 5.4%, Choices Matter 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a complex control panel with dire consequences, mirroring the high-stakes button-pushing of the seed game.

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 40%, Pixel Graphics 35.3%, Indie 15.9%, Singleplayer 2.7%, Psychological Horror 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voyeuristic, point-and-click hacking game that forces you to dig through a phone to uncover secrets with multiple branching endings.

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 36.1%, Puzzle 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.6%, Indie 12.3%, Horror 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled experimental game that uses old-school technology to deliver a mysterious and unsettling narrative.

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 54.2%, Point & Click 30.1%, Hidden Object 6.4%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactile, intricate puzzle-solving where the player must manipulate objects to uncover hidden layers of mystery.

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 32.9%, Pixel Graphics 29.5%, Funny 8.1%, Indie 7.7%, Difficult 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, funny, and violent puzzle game where you must experiment with your environment to survive the school day.

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 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, meta-narrative pixel game that requires unconventional thinking and experimentation to uncover its secrets.

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 45.9%, Indie 30.9%, Singleplayer 11%, Puzzle 7.4%, Psychological Horror 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven experience that explores the relationship between the player and the game developer through meta-commentary.

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 47.1%, Point & Click 27.9%, Hidden Object 8.8%, Indie 4.4%, Horror 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the tactile puzzle mechanics of the original with more atmospheric environments and complex mechanisms.

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 40.5%, Point & Click 28.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, Horror 12.5%, 2D 3%

Why You'll Like It: While a card game at its core, it is deeply rooted in meta-puzzles, dark secrets, and an evolving, unpredictable environment.

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 44.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Difficult 14.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant logic puzzle game where you manipulate the rules of the game itself to solve increasingly complex scenarios.

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 72.7%, Indie 12.2%, Difficult 5.4%, Great Soundtrack 5.2%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, non-Euclidean puzzle game that forces you to abandon traditional logic to progress through its environment.

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 71.3%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Singleplayer 7.5%, Horror 6.8%, Funny 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A perspective-based puzzle game that plays with the player's perception of reality and space.

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 22.6%, Puzzle 14.2%, Difficult 11.3%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, point-and-click survival game where every choice leads to a high-stakes, often fatal outcome.

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 37.3%, Indie 17%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%, Funny 8.1%, Memes 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, simulation-style game with a dark sense of humor that requires quick decision-making under pressure.

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 40.5%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 16.3%, Indie 7.4%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that uses meta-narrative elements to subvert the player's expectations of the genre.

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 42.1%, Great Soundtrack 26%, Puzzle 19.2%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-internet simulator that rewards curiosity and exploration of a bizarre, fictional digital landscape.

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 59.6%, Casual 23.7%, Horror 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, surreal, and hilarious VR-ready experience that thrives on chaotic, unexpected interactions.

A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

Why similar: Difficult 43.4%, Psychological Horror 19%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%, Singleplayer 7.7%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: A game built entirely around the frustration of trial-and-error and the psychological impact of failure.

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 29.2%, Pixel Graphics 20.8%, Puzzle 17.2%, Indie 16.9%, Casual 7.5%

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 21.1%, Puzzle 17.9%, Funny 9.4%, Singleplayer 6.4%

HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.

Why similar: Puzzle 58.8%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Indie 9.3%, Casual 8.3%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.

Why similar: Point & Click 44.7%, Puzzle 35.6%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 5.1%, Choices Matter 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: An investigation game that requires you to piece together a narrative by searching through video clips, rewarding careful observation.

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 53.7%, Point & Click 24.8%, Multiple Endings 5.8%, Hidden Object 5.4%, Indie 4.7%

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 29.8%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Great Soundtrack 16.5%, Singleplayer 12.1%, Difficult 8.8%

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 53.2%, Indie 12.5%, Great Soundtrack 12.2%, Difficult 7.1%, Singleplayer 6%

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 42.3%, Great Soundtrack 29.5%, Indie 9.8%, Difficult 8%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.2%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, Indie 6%, Funny 3.8%

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 56.4%, Indie 14.7%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Difficult 6.7%, Casual 5.5%

Can you think twice in under a second?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 47%, Difficult 18.7%, Puzzle 13.3%, Indie 10.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%

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 29.6%, Pixel Graphics 26.7%, Point & Click 15.3%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Indie 8.5%

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 38.8%, Great Soundtrack 28.4%, Indie 14.3%, 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 43.7%, Indie 19%, Funny 16.1%, Singleplayer 12.1%, Casual 9.1%

"I need a Heart in order to open it"

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29%, Puzzle 22.5%, Indie 10.9%, Horror 10.8%, Difficult 9.5%

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 21.3%, Funny 20.8%, Singleplayer 12.7%, Casual 9.2%

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 66.9%, Difficult 15.9%, Indie 8.6%, Funny 4.4%, Casual 4.2%

Minimalist hardcore one click\press direction changer game.

Why similar: Illuminati 72.1% ★, Difficult 10.9%, Indie 9.3%, Casual 4.4%, Psychological Horror 3.3%

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 37.7%, Pixel Graphics 32.4%, Indie 13.8%, Difficult 5.9%, 2D 5.4%

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 38.5%, Puzzle 36%, Indie 7.4%, Horror 5.4%, Hidden Object 4.2%

Trapped in a public restroom. You’re not alone. You make bad decisions. Horror-comedy with multiple endings.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 34.2%, Puzzle 29.6%, Memes 7.9%, Psychological Horror 6.3%, Funny 6.1%

Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal™ and Bridge Constructor™ games.

Why similar: Puzzle 66.9%, Difficult 11.9%, Singleplayer 7.1%, 2D 5.4%, Indie 3.9%

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 46.4%, Funny 27.2%, Singleplayer 12.2%, 2D 9.6%, Casual 4.6%

Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.

Why similar: Puzzle 39.4%, Point & Click 34.1%, Indie 6.6%, Hidden Object 6.5%, Psychological Horror 4.6%

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 24.4%, Funny 7.3%, 2D 6.5%, Choices Matter 4.9%

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 23.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Indie 10.3%, Casual 6.4%

A relaxing puzzle about connecting lines. No ads, no timers, no pressure.

Why similar: Puzzle 53.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Indie 11.5%, Singleplayer 7%, Casual 6.5%

Enter The White Door and discover Rusty Lake’s universe in a new game with a unique style! Explore Robert Hill’s dreams and help him to find his lost memories. Can you survive the strict daily routine and bring back color to Robert's life?

Why similar: Puzzle 39%, Point & Click 36.8%, Indie 16.8%, Psychological Horror 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 48.3%, Point & Click 17.2%, Indie 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Multiple Endings 5.6%

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 69.1%, Difficult 12.3%, Indie 7.3%, Great Soundtrack 5.3%, Singleplayer 5%

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 22.5%, Horror 9.9%, 2D 7%, Funny 6.5%

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 38.4%, Pixel Graphics 21.2%, Great Soundtrack 18.6%, Indie 11.4%, 2D 3.9%