- #1 Samsara Room
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,865 reviews2020
Dev: Rusty Lake
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.
Why similar: Puzzle 38.6%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 19.6%, Surreal 16.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply surreal and atmospheric point-and-click puzzle game that shares the dreamlike logic found in Puzzle Box Palace.
- #2 The Room
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 31,012 reviews2014
Dev: Fireproof Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 78.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive puzzle box game, featuring highly detailed mechanical objects that require careful manipulation to solve.
- #3 The Room Two
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 21,212 reviews2016
Dev: Fireproof Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 73.6%, Adventure 15.8%, Indie 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Building on the original, this sequel expands the scope of the puzzles into more complex, atmospheric environments.
- #4 The Room Three
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,034 reviews2018
Dev: Fireproof Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 72.4%, Adventure 17.9%, Indie 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more expansive, interconnected world while maintaining the high-quality tactile puzzle mechanics of the series.
- #5 Cube Escape: Paradox
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 11,572 reviews2018
Dev: Rusty Lake
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Why similar: Puzzle 68.9%, Adventure 11.5%, Surreal 10.5%, Indie 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This entry in the Rusty Lake series perfectly captures the bizarre, surreal, and puzzle-heavy nature of the seed game.
- #6 HER TREES : THE PUZZLE HOUSE
94% matchVery Positive95% of 559 reviews2024
Dev: Stone
Windows
HER TREES : THE PUZZLE HOUSE is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles.Uncover the mysteries of this peculiar room.
Why similar: Surreal 41.5%, Puzzle 34.4%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This short, hand-drawn game shares the surreal and intimate puzzle-solving feel of the seed game.
- #7 Doors: Paradox
93% matchVery Positive92% of 1,894 reviews2022
Dev: Big Loop StudiosPub: Snapbreak
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A relaxing puzzle escape game! Make your way through a variety of hand-crafted 3D dioramas, look for useful objects, find hidden clues and solve fun puzzles! Unravel this mysterious adventure about chaos, order and the surreal.
Why similar: Puzzle 41.5%, Adventure 23.8%, Exploration 21.6%, Indie 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game features beautiful, diorama-style levels that focus on solving self-contained, satisfying puzzles.
- #8 Rusty Lake Hotel
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,008 reviews2016
Dev: Rusty Lake
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Puzzle 41.1%, Surreal 28.9%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique, unsettling aesthetic and clever room-based puzzles that reward careful observation.
- #9 Escape From Mystwood Mansion
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,229 reviews2023
Dev: Lost Sock Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In this first-person puzzle escape room game, you are trapped in the mysterious Mystwood mansion. Explore the mansion and find hidden compartments while solving puzzles and deciphering codes to find a way out. Will you escape or linger to uncover the mansion's final secret?
Why similar: Puzzle 43.7%, Exploration 29.2%, Adventure 18.3%, Indie 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, atmospheric escape room game that balances exploration with logical, satisfying puzzle design.
- #10 Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery
91% matchVery Positive88% of 834 reviews2021
Dev: Kiary Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Everybody are missing in a town. Find the answers of town mystery in a point and click adventure game with escape the room mechanics
Why similar: Puzzle 45.8%, Adventure 26.2%, Exploration 24.8%, Indie 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an isometric escape room experience where you manipulate 3D environments to uncover secrets.
- #11 The House of Da Vinci
90% matchVery Positive87% of 6,938 reviews2017
Dev: Blue Brain Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Enter The House of Da Vinci, a new must-try 3D puzzle adventure game. Solve mechanical puzzles, discover hidden objects, escape from rooms and dive into the authentic atmosphere of the Renaissance. Use all your wits to find out what's behind your master's disappearance.
Why similar: Puzzle 42.1%, Exploration 24.9%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a sophisticated escape room experience focused on intricate, Renaissance-inspired mechanical puzzles.
- #12 Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,992 reviews2019
Dev: Yak & Co
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A suave secret agent adventure game. Your mission (should you choose to accept) is to infiltrate enemy spy Ruby La Rouge’s secret hideaway and put a stop to her evil plans!
Why similar: Puzzle 46.6%, Exploration 31.7%, Adventure 21.8%
Why You'll Like It: A stylish, retro-inspired escape room game that emphasizes clever gadgetry and environmental interaction.
- #13 Faraway: Puzzle Escape
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 130 reviews2021
Dev: Pine StudioPub: Snapbreak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Faraway is an adventure game, a modern tribute to Myst. In Faraway you're an adventurer exploring ruins of ancient temples full of challenges and mysterious riddles.
Why similar: Puzzle 47.4%, Adventure 37.8%, Exploration 14.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the exploration and puzzle-solving spirit of escape rooms within a series of mysterious, ancient ruins.
- #14 Superliminal
86% matchVery Positive95% of 32,646 reviews2020
Dev: Pillow Castle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Surreal 40.5%, Puzzle 34.2%, Exploration 12.8%, Adventure 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: It uses perspective-based mechanics to create a surreal, mind-bending puzzle experience that feels like stepping into a dream.
- #15 The Palace of Unrest
88% matchMixed58% of 177 reviews2023
Dev: Zach HarrisPub: Red Wolf Productions
Windows
Use poems to solve puzzles and escape the mansion with your life in this horror themed escape room game.
Why similar: Puzzle 44.1%, Exploration 32.1%, Adventure 23.7%
Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy puzzle game that leans into a mysterious and slightly eerie atmosphere.
- #16 Night Reverie: Prologue
87% matchVery Positive92% of 281 reviews2020
Dev: Somber Pixel
Windows
Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.
Why similar: Surreal 37.3%, Puzzle 28.8%, Exploration 20.5%, Adventure 8.9%, Indie 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a cute, surreal aesthetic and exploration-based puzzles that mirror the whimsical tone of the seed game.
- #17 Viewfinder
83% matchVery Positive94% of 11,827 reviews2023
Dev: Sad Owl StudiosPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Surreal 38.8%, Puzzle 28.6%, Exploration 16.5%, Adventure 16.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to manipulate reality through photographs, offering a surreal puzzle experience that rewards creative thinking.
- #18 Waterfall Prisoner
84% matchVery Positive97% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: APA estudi
Windows · Mac
Can you escape from Waterfall Tower? A puzzle-focused escape room game, made in the vein of the classic graphic adventures of old.
Why similar: Puzzle 43.4%, Adventure 30.5%, Exploration 22.9%, Indie 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric escape room game that emphasizes exploration and environmental storytelling.
- #19 Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Reversed Escape Room
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 163 reviews2021
Dev: VulpesoftPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the reversed escape room game. Solve many different types of puzzles and venture deeper and deeper into the mansion's heart. Investigate what lies behind the mysterious letter from your dearest friend.
Why similar: Puzzle 40.1%, Adventure 24.8%, Exploration 22.2%, Indie 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a narrative-driven escape room experience that requires careful observation and deduction.
- #20 Escape Simulator
82% matchVery Positive94% of 18,887 reviews2021
Dev: Pine Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
Why similar: Puzzle 61.6%, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 9.2%, Exploration 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly interactive, physics-based escape room experience that allows for deep environmental manipulation.
- #21 Gorogoa
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 19,841 reviews2017
Dev: Buried SignalPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.
Why similar: Puzzle 58.9%, Indie 13.3%, Adventure 12.6%, Surreal 8.4%, Exploration 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: An artistic, surreal puzzle game where you manipulate panels to reveal hidden connections and progress through a dreamlike narrative.
- #22 Dreamcage Escape
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 93 reviews2016
Dev: Big Loop Studios
Windows
Can you escape the Dreamcage? Are you ready to solve puzzles and crack codes in this new and innovative room escape game?
Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%
Why You'll Like It: A classic point-and-click escape room game with a whimsical, fantasy-themed setting.
- #23 Escape Lala - Retro Point and Click Adventure
84% matchVery Positive99% of 337 reviews2019
Dev: DuckbearLab
Windows · Mac
You wake up inside a magical cave, can you escape? A nostalgic adventure game <3
Why similar: Adventure 47.3%, Indie 28.6%, Puzzle 24.1%
Why You'll Like It: A charming, free-to-play adventure that focuses on classic inventory-based puzzle solving.
- #24 Machinarium
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 19,289 reviews2009
Dev: Amanita Design
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!
Why similar: Surreal 39.4%, Puzzle 34.9%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic surreal point-and-click adventure with charming character design and clever, logic-based puzzles.
- #25 With Shining Eyes
81% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Lucas Fisher
Windows
Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 39.5%, Puzzle 24.3%, Adventure 19.1%, Exploration 15.5%, Indie 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: A short, surreal, and free-to-play experience that focuses on atmosphere and light puzzle elements.
- #26 A Little to the Left
79% matchVery Positive92% of 17,479 reviews2022
Dev: Max InfernoPub: Secret Mode
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A Little to the Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into pleasing arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 100+ satisfying messes to tidy.
Why similar: Puzzle 100%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on organization, its tactile, satisfying puzzle mechanics will appeal to fans of object-based interaction.
- #27 The Escaper
80% matchVery Positive94% of 772 reviews2020
Dev: Nocturnal works
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
3D escape room game with realtime graphics and physics-based puzzles.
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Puzzle 34.7%, Indie 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward, touch-friendly escape room game that provides a solid, classic puzzle-solving experience.
- #28 Escape from Mutation Station
76% matchVery Positive97% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: Jay Marksman
Windows
A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.
Why similar: Surreal 50.9%, Puzzle 31.4%, Indie 11.5%, Adventure 6.2%
- #29 Escape from Castle Claymount
75% matchVery Positive99% of 351 reviews2024
Dev: STUDIO LOOKPub: Coolmath Games
Windows
A 3D point-and-click puzzle adventure featuring beautifully rendered claymation scenery and a colorful cast of characters. Search for clues and solve the hidden puzzles to Escape from Castle Claymount!
Why similar: Puzzle 35.4%, Exploration 27.3%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 10.3%
- #30 Magic Box
79% matchMixed67% of 131 reviews2017
Dev: Indie Games StudioPub: Enoops
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Magic Box - interesting puzzle game with a lot of interesting and challenging levels.
Why similar: Puzzle 41.1%, Adventure 34.2%, Indie 24.7%
Why You'll Like It: A casual, pixel-art puzzle game that directly channels the theme of unlocking mysterious, magical containers.
- #31 VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)
78% matchVery Positive84% of 252 reviews2016
Dev: hOSHI
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
VR: Vacate the Room is a short Escape the Room game.It is a VR Experience where you need to find clues to solve puzzles and find your way out.
Why similar: Puzzle 40.6%, Adventure 39.9%, Indie 19.5%
- #32 Escape Game
78% matchVery Positive82% of 145 reviews2018
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
In Escape Game you will have to solve the different puzzles hidden in the house to escape!
Why similar: Puzzle 39.2%, Adventure 23.4%, Exploration 19%, Indie 18.4%
- #33 Island Marauder
76% matchVery Positive81% of 182 reviews2019
Dev: MSOL
Windows
Indie Puzzle Game
Why similar: Adventure 56%, Indie 44%
- #34 Dungeon Escape VR
77% matchVery Positive81% of 193 reviews2017
Dev: Silver Machine Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Dungeon Escape VR is an immersive escape-room puzzle game. To escape you need to solve the challenges and puzzles found in the dungeon.
Why similar: Puzzle 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #35 The Flaws of Gravity
77% matchMixed62% of 237 reviews2017
Dev: Absorbed Studios
Windows
The Flaws of Gravity is a first-person puzzle game where you change the direction of gravity to solve puzzles and uncover secrets in a labyrinth.
Why similar: Adventure 42%, Indie 32.3%, Puzzle 25.7%
- #36 Pocket Kingdom
75% matchVery Positive90% of 251 reviews2016
Dev: 08 GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Islands sometimes appear out of the blue in the clouds. The mysterious Pocket Kingdom is one of them. Wander around its districts, solve puzzles and listen to the weird stories told by the locals. Unveiling the place's mysteries depends on it. So does getting out of it.
Why similar: Adventure 42.6%, Indie 30%, Puzzle 27.4%
- #37 3D Escape Room: Mystic Manor
72% matchVery Positive82% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Shenzhen Zhonglian Interactive Technology Co.,Ltd
Windows
Every corner of this manor holds secrets. You inherit not just the estate, but scattered letters and an intricately designed puzzle. Eyepieces transcending spacetime plunge you into others' memories. Traverse 16 themed chambers, unravel nested mechanisms, until you unveil the buried past...
Why similar: Puzzle 45.7%, Adventure 28%, Indie 15.8%, Exploration 10.5%
- #38 Abode
74% matchVery Positive92% of 375 reviews2016
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Abode is an escape room puzzle game. You will have to find, combine and utilize tools and furniture in the room to unveil all its secrets.
Why similar: Puzzle 41.2%, Indie 39.9%, Adventure 18.9%
- #39 Floodcore
71% matchVery Positive96% of 215 reviews2024
Dev: Floodcore Team
Windows
Floodcore is a puzzle adventure game in which you explore an ancient civilization in a flooded world, and discover a mysterious power to overcome the temple's challenges.
Why similar: Puzzle 39.9%, Exploration 25.5%, Adventure 24.6%, Indie 10%
- #40 Dinner with an Owl
71% matchVery Positive95% of 853 reviews2021
Dev: BoringSuburbanDad
Windows
Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.
Why similar: Surreal 47.3%, Puzzle 37%, Adventure 15.7%
- #41 Escape: The Brother's Saloon
73% matchVery Positive80% of 112 reviews2020
Dev: Woodcrest Games, LLC
Windows
Trapped by your brother Joseph in a mysterious room, filled with the faint ticking of a clock and the crackles of a fire...it's up to you to explore, find clues, and solve the puzzles. Will you escape The Brother's Saloon?
Why similar: Adventure 52.4%, Indie 36%, Puzzle 11.6%
- #42 ROOMS: The Toymaker's Mansion
73% matchVery Positive89% of 127 reviews2015
Dev: HandMade Game
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
«ROOMS: The Toymaker's Mansion» is a unique puzzle game inspired by sliding puzzles and platformer games. In a twisted mansion made of rooms that slide like sliding puzzle, player should find a way to the exit by moving rooms and using what's inside them.
Why similar: Adventure 44.2%, Indie 30.4%, Puzzle 25.4%
- #43 Locked In Mind
69% matchVery Positive84% of 468 reviews2024
Dev: Bendegúz AnisicsPub: Bendixer Studio
Windows
In Locked in Mind, you are trapped in a virtual escape room full of puzzles. Use your wits to solve them at your own pace without the pressure of a time limit. Perfect for players of all skill levels. Start your adventure today!
Why similar: Puzzle 44.4%, Exploration 28%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 10.1%
- #44 Liminal
74% matchMixed60% of 70 reviews2018
Dev: Suspicious Box
Windows
Liminal is a mind-bending puzzle game where every door is a change in perspective and destination.
Why similar: Puzzle 58.4%, Adventure 25.5%, Indie 16.1%
- #45 Blankspace
71% matchVery Positive94% of 83 reviews2020
Dev: NoBreadStudio
Windows · Linux
Blankspace is an escape room visual novel with point-and-click elements. Investigate your surroundings, solve puzzles, make meaningful choices, and figure out the the mystery behind Chris and Beryl's predicament.
Why similar: Adventure 50.3%, Indie 35.4%, Puzzle 14.2%
- #46 Shelley Manor
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Terrors StudioPub: ESAT
Windows
Find your way through a puzzle filled manor while barely dodging human-eating monsters. You wake up in a dark room with one objective: escape those sharpened teeth. However, you should not worry; you will meet friends along the way.
Why similar: Puzzle 45.9%, Adventure 30.1%, Exploration 24%
- #47 The Puzzle Room VR ( Escape The Room )
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Bellcat Game
Windows
It is a VR Experience where you need to find clues to solve puzzles and find your way out of the Room. There are some items that can be grabbed and carried around. With some items you can interact (such as switches,piano and numpads).
Why similar: Puzzle 38.9%, Adventure 30.8%, Indie 30.4%
- #48 Kaisuo
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: Team Lantern LLC
Windows
Kaisuo is a single-player puzzle game about opening Chinese puzzle boxes that unlock surreal worlds. Journey through a strange landscape and discover new uses to familiar objects. Slide open panels, discover secret compartments and change the way you see the world.
Why similar: Surreal 34.3%, Puzzle 23.5%, Exploration 17%, Adventure 16.5%, Indie 8.7%
- #49 Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room
67% matchVery Positive82% of 202 reviews2025
Dev: Biri Biri
Windows
Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths. In this mysterious Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to find the hidden vault with the treasure. But you will find much more...
Why similar: Puzzle 40.2%, Adventure 26.6%, Exploration 23.7%, Indie 9.5%
- #50 Strange Jigsaws
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 3,662 reviews2025
Dev: FLEB
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A game of strange jigsaws.
Why similar: Puzzle 48%, Adventure 41.7%, Indie 10.4%
- #51 Abode 2
70% matchVery Positive81% of 154 reviews2019
Dev: Overflow
Windows
Explore and investigate every corner and detail of this highly interactive apartment to unveil all its secrets and restore power to the city. An "escape the room" puzzle game.
Why similar: Adventure 64.7%, Puzzle 35.3%
- #52 Orpheus's Dream
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 238 reviews2019
Dev: Orpheus's Dream Team
Windows
Orpheus’s Dream is a 3D isometric-inspired puzzle game with storytelling elements. Explore an amnesiac’s family house and recover lost memories of him and his cat.
Why similar: Adventure 61.4%, Indie 38.6%
- #53 The Guest
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 945 reviews2016
Dev: Team GothamPub: 505 Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
'The Guest' is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.
Why similar: Puzzle 49.5%, Adventure 28.7%, Indie 21.8%
- #54 Manifold Garden
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Surreal 38.3%, Puzzle 28.2%, Exploration 15.5%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 7.6%
- #55 Back to Bed
68% matchVery Positive81% of 2,905 reviews2014
Dev: Bedtime Digital Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Guide Bob the sleepwalker to the safety of his bed by taking control of his subconscious guardian, Subob. Explore a surreal and hand-painted dream world, avoid dangers and get Bob safely back to bed.
Why similar: Puzzle 70.1%, Surreal 21.4%, Indie 8.5%
- #56 What Never Was
65% matchVery Positive95% of 5,058 reviews2019
Dev: Acke Hallgren
Windows · Mac · Linux
What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.
Why similar: Puzzle 40.2%, Adventure 26.5%, Exploration 17.3%, Indie 16%
- #57 Escapeworld Dilemma
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 100 reviews2021
Dev: Sonoma Games
Windows
FREE TO PLAY: Kidnapped from your everyday life, you find yourself in a large theme park that feels more like an escape room. Solve puzzles, explore 12 themed islands, find resources, use your wits to escape.
Why similar: Puzzle 36.1%, Adventure 25.6%, Exploration 24.1%, Indie 14.2%
- #58 EscapeVR: The Basement
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 93 reviews2016
Dev: Five Mind Creations
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
You find yourself locked in the cell of an unknown basement with nothing else than a bed and a toilet. Can you escape? Explore the environment, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and find your way through a total of 7 rooms to -hopefully- escape the basement of this VR escape room game.
Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Indie 27.1%, Puzzle 21.1%, Exploration 11.5%
- #59 HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 650 reviews2026
Dev: Stone
Windows
HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles. Unravel the strange puzzles hidden in your dreams.
Why similar: Surreal 44.8%, Puzzle 37.3%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 6.1%
- #60 PRICE
66% matchVery Positive94% of 5,134 reviews2016
Dev: YETU GAME
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The hero Ivry wakes up from a nightmare and finds himself in a weird room. To escape from fear and darkness, he has to search and explore on his own until he discovers the truth and finds his sister Iva.A puzzle game 《PRICE》
Why similar: Puzzle 63%, Adventure 18.7%, Indie 18.3%
