
Birth - Life - Death - RepeatPrinciple of Karma is a unique 2D puzzle platformer where you solve challenging puzzles, manipulate time, and escape the loop to rescue your beloved. Find happiness and fulfillment by breaking free from the cycle.
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Birth - Life - Death - RepeatPrinciple of Karma is a unique 2D puzzle platformer where you solve challenging puzzles, manipulate time, and escape the loop to rescue your beloved. Find happiness and fulfillment by breaking free from the cycle.

The Inner Darkness
A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.

Underdark
You woke up after the accident, and now you're looking for help and a way out of this dark land. Surrounded by darkness, traps, and... those creatures... you come across him...
A lone man's journey through a strange world. Dimension switching mechanic - switch between the dimensions to traverse the world and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 29% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Dark 10.6%, Platformer 8.4%, Puzzle 8.3%
You woke up after the accident, and now you're looking for help and a way out of this dark land. Surrounded by darkness, traps, and... those creatures... you come across him...
Why similar: Psychological 17.8%, Demons 15.2%, Puzzle Platformer 15%, Platformer 14.9%, Dark 11.5%
In this epic quest you must reach the end by going through black holes. Try to avoid all the traps, solve all the mind-bending puzzles and escape form the powerful bosses. OH... And one more thing .... secrets are everywhere.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.3%, Difficult 18.6%, Platformer 14.6%, Retro 10.2%, Indie 8.9%
Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20%, Time Manipulation 17.2% ★, Difficult 14.5%, Platformer 11.9%, Minimalist 9.3%
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 35.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.1%, Platformer 15.9%, Puzzle 11.5%, Story Rich 9.5%
A 2D puzzle game with a spin! Make your way through obstacle courses of pipes, water streams and bats as fast as you can whilst spinning out of control.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.9%, Difficult 14%, Puzzle 11.4%, Platformer 10.9%, Action-Adventure 10.7%
A psychological 2D puzzle platformer. You must switch between two versions of the past: dark & light, positive & negative, hope & despair. Every action is innately tied to this dualistic battle. Traverse a surreal landscape of memory to try and mend a fragile mind.
Why similar: Psychological 21.5%, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 16.2%, Difficult 11.7%, Dark 10.3%
A time-bending 2D platformer in the least amount of pixels possible.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Platformer 17.3%, Minimalist 16.1%, Retro 4.7%
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.5%, Platformer 15.4%, Dark 12.9%, Puzzle 10.5%, Atmospheric 6.9%
Art House is a 2D puzzle platformer in which you play as a woman who gets trapped with her children inside the paintings of her recently deceased mother. Navigate through painting rips and use a magical paintbrush to escape and come to terms with your grief.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Platformer 15.9%, Psychological 11.5%, Puzzle 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
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 30.8% ★, Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Difficult 15%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 7.4%
A 2D puzzle platformer where you play as a lonely cube trapped in a cold, dark cave. With your unique ability to clone yourself, escape by any means necessary. Sacrifices will have to be made.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Minimalist 15%, Platformer 11.9%, Difficult 11.8%, Puzzle 8.4%
In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Difficult 13.6%, Platformer 12.7%, Dark 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
A challenging puzzle-platformer where each jump is a puzzle!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 13.8%, Minimalist 13.4%, Retro 7.8%
UNBOXING is a puzzle-platformer where death is your key. Die, revive, and solve tricky puzzles using your companion box to return back to life. Will you find the cause of this endless cycle? Will you break free?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.5%, Platformer 15.3%, Minimalist 14.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, Retro 10.7%
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 36.3%, Time Manipulation 23.8% ★, Platformer 14.3%, Puzzle 10.9%, Difficult 5.1%
False Calamity is a dark, 2d, narrative-driven platformer combining challenging puzzles and intense action. Experience the ominous story and immerse yourself in the unsettling atmosphere set after the supposed calamity of the world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.7%, Dark 14.6%, Platformer 13.8%, Difficult 11.5%, Puzzle 9.6%
Control multiple colored balls simultaneously in this brain-bending puzzle platformer. It's up to you to combine every ball and complete each perilous level. Can you solve them all? Can you save King Kombine from the Kave of Kaos?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Difficult 17%, Platformer 14.9%, Minimalist 14.4%, Puzzle 10.3%
"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 31.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.2%, Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 10.2%, Retro 6.4%
Stick Nightmare is a simple puzzle-platform game where you control yourself after having some drinks at a local bar.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Difficult 20.3%, Platformer 19.1%, Dark 17%, Indie 7.9%
You must 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 30 time-bending levels.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Platformer 13.2%, Puzzle 9.6%, Retro 5.9%
TRUFFLE is a minimalist maze puzzle game where touching the walls kills you instantly. Test your patience and dexterity in 10 handcrafted levels.
Why similar: Psychological 19.4%, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Minimalist 16.5%, Dark 11.5%, Retro 9.7%
Discover the classic tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in a whole new way. A gaming experience where you get to feel what it's like to dive inside a novel as a small dot. Roll left and right, rewind time, and venture deeper through the story as you try to find your way back home.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 29.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Minimalist 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Platformer 8.8%
Prepare to test your wits, agility, and problem-solving skills as you navigate through a series of meticulously crafted one-screen puzzle stages.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.1%, Platformer 16.5%, Minimalist 11.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, Action-Adventure 9.4%
A 2D puzzle-platformer where every level challenges your mind and reflexes. Solve clever environmental puzzles, outmaneuver enemies, and survive fast-paced chase and shooting segments as you uncover the secrets of a strange, atmospheric world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.4%, Platformer 20.6%, Puzzle 15%, Action-Adventure 14.7%, 2D 6.2%
From the creators of Hero Siege, Squishy the Suicidal Pig is a puzzle platformer with a counterintuitive goal where you play as Squishy, a pig wearing a yellow sweater who's trying to reach his parents in animal heaven by completing his deal with the devil.You asked for a challenge, now you have it!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.1%, Platformer 26.4%, Puzzle 14.6%, Difficult 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
Logic Driven Puzzle Platformer set in an uncomfortable dream world, where failures let you pave the way through a deadly environment. Fail, reflect and uncover the way out, while finding quiet comfort in your dog along the way.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.8%, Platformer 16.4%, Minimalist 13.1%, Puzzle 11.8%, Difficult 9.6%
OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.9%, Difficult 16.7%, Minimalist 16.5%, Platformer 15.2%, Dark 12.6%
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 33.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.2%, Platformer 11.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, Minimalist 9.4%
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 32.2% ★, Platformer 22.6%, Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Puzzle 16.1%, Indie 6.3%
This is Ploc, brave, agile, fast, and with a super special power, controlling gravity! Walk on the floor, ceiling, or wall and help Ploc get through all the dangers in this frantic and challenging platform puzzle.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Minimalist 19.2%, Retro 14%, Platformer 9.6%, Action-Adventure 8.4%
Help Mike survive the delirious world of Divider, through three chapwooOOOOW WHAT WAS THAT?! WHAT JUST HAPPENED? WHERE AM I?!! THIS IS CRAZY!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.5%, Difficult 16%, Platformer 15.6%, Retro 9.5%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
A puzzle platform game, with both stealth and parkour elements. Use your wits, cunning and agility to escape this deadly prison. Take the stealthy approach, progressing slowly, hiding and staying out of sight. Or utilise your athleticism to wall jump, ledge grab and speed run your way to freedom.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, Difficult 19.4%, Retro 11.2%, Platformer 9.4%, Puzzle 9.4%
A game about the limits of your screen. Four Sided Fantasy is a seamless experience where you wrap the screen to solve mind-bending puzzles. Play as a man and woman who attempt to find each other throughout four seasons in a year, constantly separated by the boundaries of the screen.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Minimalist 14.6%, Platformer 13.8%, Difficult 12.5%, Puzzle 9.2%
Feartten noir Story - is a 2d platformer with a mysterious horror theme. Go through the cursed depths of hell and try to get out of the nightmare of a boy. Are you ready to go through all the circles of hell to overcome your fears?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.9%, Platformer 16.6%, Dark 14.2%, Puzzle 11.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Pixel is a minimalist platformer + puzzle game! Control a being that aims to reach somewhere... always jumping, dodging, avoiding and tricking obstacles that seem not to let you proceed. Died? Just try one more time =D
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.9%, Platformer 18.5%, Minimalist 18%, Puzzle 11.5%, Retro 7.6%
Try this year’s must-play indie smash-hit for free, with Evergate Ki’s Awakening. Take on seven unique levels in this haunting precision puzzle-platformer, set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife, with an original score recorded by a live orchestra.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Time Manipulation 11.7% ★, Platformer 11.3%, Puzzle 7.8%
TRUFFLE is a minimalist puzzle maze game where touching the walls kills you instantly. It is a high difficulty, patience testing, dexterity game.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Difficult 17%, Minimalist 12.2%, Psychological 10.2%, Puzzle 9.9%
A hard, mind bending platformer based on imagination and quick reflexes.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, Minimalist 16.1%, Difficult 15.8%, Platformer 15%, Puzzle 11.2%
ReverseRoom is a new type of action puzzle game in which players must skillfully use two modes, Play Mode to move characters and Puzzle Mode to rotate the stage and change the terrain.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.6%, Minimalist 18.9%, Platformer 17.4%, Puzzle 11.9%, Retro 7.9%
BirdGut is a hand-drawn 2d puzzle-platformer from the perspective of an outcast bee who gets eaten by a bird, and discovers that the bird's internal organs are not organs at all, but facilities in which the consumed insects are brainwashed and enslaved. Experience this bizarre one-man project for yourself.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34%, Hand-drawn 18.4%, Platformer 18.2%, Difficult 10.2%, Puzzle 6.3%
Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour.You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.You are an explorer, discovering new places, new rules, and new fascinations.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.4%, Minimalist 21.6%, Puzzle 16.6%, Difficult 10.4%, Platformer 10.2%
This is a short hardcore enthralling puzzle-platform game about a lonely robot, which tries to find his master. To go all the way you'll have to look for the master in two dimensions at the same time. Parallel world module will help to overcome any obstacles!
Why similar: Difficult 18%, Puzzle Platformer 15.1%, Platformer 14.9%, Minimalist 11.5%, Retro 10.2%
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 30.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.6%, Hand-drawn 12%, Platformer 8.6%, Puzzle 8%
Square off against evil rhombi in this level-based microvania bullet-filled platformer. Find secrets passageways, unlock new weapons, dodge waves of enemies all in search of your beloved pet bot. Jump, barf, die, repeat.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22%, Difficult 16%, Minimalist 15%, Platformer 9.2%, Retro 8.6%
blocate is a 2d puzzle platformer about moving blocks around and solving puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.4%, Minimalist 22.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Platformer 10.3%, Puzzle 7.6%
An indie precision platformer that offers an atmospheric and captivating experience. Take control of the young boy as he navigates through a series of meticulously crafted levels. The game's visuals blend terrifying traps with dark environments, immersing players in an exciting adventure.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, Difficult 17.7%, Platformer 14.9%, Action-Adventure 11%, Dark 7.3%
Take flight as Juno, a small bird guided by the sound of her guitar through a hand-drawn world of music and memory. Play melodies to solve puzzles, fly through unique platforming challenges and piece together a story of grief and love.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33%, Platformer 19.7%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Puzzle 12.2%, 2D 6.2%
NEGATIVE_SPACE, a challenging black and white 2D platformer where you have to invert between two versions of the same room in order to reach the exit.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Difficult 19.8%, Platformer 15.1%, Minimalist 11.9%, Puzzle 8.8%
In Hyper Box you try to beat a bunch of platform levels in less than 30 seconds each by using the box rotation to your advantage, this is meant to be a very challenging yet rewarding experience as you improve at the game.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Difficult 18.1%, Platformer 16.1%, Minimalist 14.1%, Puzzle 9.6%
Embark on a pixel adventure with Ponchee the bunny in "Bunny Space Odyssey: FlopHop". Solve puzzles, protect plants, and uncover deep mysteries with Usagi-01 on an uninhabited planet.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Platformer 10.5%, Story Rich 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
Walk on walls and solve physics puzzles as you explore a massive underground facility. Uncover its dark secrets and try to escape with your life.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.2%, Difficult 16.4%, Psychological 16.1%, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 7.9%
Raster is a casual puzzle game about space. Here, you can use a variety of spatial abilities to traverse across diverse terrains, all in search of carrots for the bunny.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, Minimalist 13.7%, Puzzle 12.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%
Quandary is a 2D puzzle platformer where you navigate puzzles with two separate characters, each embodying a side of your conscience and moving in opposite directions, Can you find harmony within this inner chaos and solve puzzles that seem impossible?
Why similar: Platformer 17.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Minimalist 14.6%, Puzzle 12.6%, Dark 10.9%
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Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 32.7%, Platformer 18.3%, Puzzle 13.1%, Retro 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 9%
Lovecraft Tales is an atmospheric, dark puzzle-adventure game set in Lovecraft's universe.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.1%, Platformer 14%, Dark 12.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, Difficult 9%
Immerse yourself in the multidimensional universe of Desordre. Solve intricate puzzles, push the boundaries of 4-dimensional thinking. Get ready for a unique experience where reflection takes on a whole new dimension. Created by one-man development studio SHK Interactive using Unreal Engine.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 12.1%, Puzzle 10.7%, Minimalist 9.2%
It’s judgement day on the world of the Molemen and the Wall of Fire is coming! Help Mulletman kick the Molemen to safety by staying just ahead of the Wall of Fire in this intense side scrolling puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, Platformer 19.3%, Difficult 18.7%, Puzzle 11.8%, Indie 11.1%
The Fabric of the Mind is a fast, atmospheric platformer focused on fluid wall-walking movement, environmental puzzles, and an interconnected world where you uncover a dark, optional story through exploration and environment-driven gameplay.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Difficult 15%, Psychological 12.1%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Dark 10.6%
Stuff your cheeks with onigiri and make friends with even more friends! In "Me and (My) Cat's Castle X", you control a character who transforms by stuffing their cheeks with onigiri. Take on the challenge of the "Cat's Castle" in this platformer!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.7%, Puzzle 17.4%, Difficult 13.1%, Platformer 9.5%, Retro 6.1%