- #1 Superliminal
97% 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: Puzzle Platformer 33.7%, Puzzle 28.3%, Physics 17%, First-Person 16.3%, Singleplayer 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal puzzle game that uses perspective and forced-object manipulation to create mind-bending physics scenarios.
- #2 The Entropy Centre
96% matchVery Positive89% of 4,209 reviews2022
Dev: Stubby GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.2%, Time Manipulation 20.8% ★, Puzzle 18.1%, First-Person 12.4%, Physics 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features time-manipulation mechanics and a sarcastic AI companion that mirrors the tone and gameplay style of Quantum Conundrum.
- #3 Portal 2
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 456,665 reviews2011
Dev: Valve
Windows · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 29.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, 3D Platformer 16.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, First-Person 8.7%, Science 8.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for first-person physics puzzles, featuring a witty narrative and ingenious spatial mechanics.
- #4 Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut
95% matchVery Positive82% of 1,904 reviews2014
Dev: Toxic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.
Why similar: Puzzle 44.1%, First-Person 21%, Physics 12.3%, Science 8.5% ★, Platformer 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A clean, experimental first-person puzzle game focused on manipulating blocks and environmental physics.
- #5 Portal
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 192,498 reviews2007
Dev: Valve
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.9%, Puzzle 19.3%, 3D Platformer 16.8%, First-Person 8.5%, Comedy 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: The foundational experience for first-person puzzle-platformers that inspired the genre's focus on physics and humor.
- #6 Antichamber
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 17,576 reviews2013
Dev: Alexander BrucePub: Demruth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 65.8%, First-Person 29.4%, Singleplayer 2.5%, Adventure 1.1%, Platformer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: A non-Euclidean puzzle game that challenges your perception of space and logic in a first-person perspective.
- #7 The Talos Principle
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 32,657 reviews2014
Dev: CroteamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Why similar: Puzzle 63.2%, First-Person 23.9%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Science 3% ★, Singleplayer 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, complex physics-based puzzles within a thought-provoking and atmospheric first-person environment.
- #8 Viewfinder
91% 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: Puzzle Platformer 37.1%, 3D Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 15.1%, First-Person 10.9%, Physics 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Uses photography to manipulate reality and solve puzzles, capturing the same sense of creative wonder found in dimension-shifting games.
- #9 The Ball
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,140 reviews2010
Dev: Teotl StudiosPub: Tripwire Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
As a swashbuckling archaeologist, unlock the mystery of the ancient ruins that have been hidden for centuries and discover a mysterious artifact, a gold and metal shelled Ball.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.9%, 3D Platformer 23.7%, Puzzle 14.6%, First-Person 10.9%, Physics 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-platformer where you control a massive ball to interact with the environment and solve physics-based challenges.
- #10 ChromaGun
91% matchVery Positive83% of 635 reviews2016
Dev: Pixel Maniacs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.2%, 3D Platformer 17.9%, Puzzle 12.5%, Science 10.9% ★, First-Person 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A color-based physics puzzle game that shares the lighthearted, experimental aesthetic of the seed game.
- #11 Manifold Garden
89% 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: Puzzle Platformer 50.9%, Puzzle 28.9%, First-Person 17.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%, Adventure 1.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features gravity-shifting mechanics that force you to rethink your orientation and spatial navigation in a surreal world.
- #12 The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
90% matchVery Positive88% of 461 reviews2010
Dev: The Odd GentlemenPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, Puzzle 24.5%, Time Manipulation 20.9% ★, Platformer 14.3%, Comedy 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Uses time-manipulation mechanics to solve puzzles with a distinct, whimsical, and comedic art style.
- #13 Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
89% matchVery Positive92% of 4,135 reviews2012
Dev: Black Pants Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!
Why similar: 3D Platformer 28.4%, Physics 23.4%, Puzzle 22.2%, Platformer 15.2%, Comedy 8%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer with a unique, comedic art style and creative environmental destruction mechanics.
- #14 Stacking
88% matchVery Positive89% of 1,827 reviews2012
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the 'Baron.'
Why similar: Puzzle 61%, Comedy 27.1%, Adventure 4.5%, Family Friendly 2.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-adventure game with a charming, quirky aesthetic and creative mechanics based on nesting dolls.
- #15 What Lies in the Multiverse
86% matchVery Positive92% of 705 reviews2022
Dev: Studio VoyagerPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.8%, Time Manipulation 26.1% ★, Puzzle 15.3%, Comedy 10.1%, Funny 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines dimension-shifting mechanics with a narrative-heavy, humorous experience that feels like a 2D cousin to the seed game.
- #16 Magrunner: Dark Pulse
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,123 reviews2013
Dev: Frogwares
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, penned by H.P. Lovecraft. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 65.8%, First-Person 23.1%, Sci-fi 5.3%, Adventure 3.7%, Singleplayer 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines physics-based puzzles with magnetism mechanics that feel very similar to the dimension-switching puzzles of the seed game.
- #17 Relicta
86% matchMixed67% of 452 reviews2020
Dev: Mighty PolygonPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game where you need to creatively combine magnetism and gravity to unravel the secrets of Chandra Base.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.8%, Puzzle 15.4%, Physics 11.9%, First-Person 11.4%, Science 11% ★
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that relies on gravity and magnetism manipulation to navigate complex environments.
- #18 FEZ
85% matchVery Positive93% of 16,036 reviews2013
Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
Why similar: Puzzle 42.4%, Platformer 27.7%, Puzzle Platformer 24.9%, Casual 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: Uses dimension-shifting mechanics to solve puzzles in a platforming context, emphasizing exploration and spatial awareness.
- #19 Time Master
84% matchVery Positive96% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: MorpheusZ
Windows · Linux
Zeno has accidentally banished his sister, so what now? Create paradoxes to help him complete trials and bring her back, obviously. Take on a wide variety of puzzles while collaborating with your past self and experiencing a fully-voiced cinematic story as you help Zeno bring her back.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.3%, 3D Platformer 21.2%, Time Manipulation 21.2% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Physics 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on time-manipulation puzzles that require creative problem-solving and environmental awareness.
- #20 The Stanley Parable
82% matchVery Positive92% of 45,432 reviews2013
Dev: Galactic Cafe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Comedy 48%, First-Person 31.1%, Puzzle 10.9%, Funny 4.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the dry, meta-humor and first-person exploration style that makes the mansion setting of the seed game so memorable.
- #21 Tobla - Divine Path
80% matchVery Positive92% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: Nementic GamesPub: rokaplay
Windows
In Tobla - Divine Path, creative puzzle gameplay, a story inspired by classics like Portal™, and impressive 3D graphics come together. Step into the role of Mort and tackle the challenging puzzles and cynical comments of the cunning goddess Tobla to find your way home.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 50.2%, Puzzle 19.3%, First-Person 12.5%, Comedy 7.3%, Physics 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-platformer that focuses on navigation and environmental manipulation in a 3D space.
- #22 Gravity Error
83% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.9%, Puzzle 27.2%, Platformer 16.9%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that focuses on gravity manipulation to solve environmental puzzles.
- #23 Parallax
82% matchVery Positive83% of 156 reviews2015
Dev: Toasty Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Parallax is a first-person puzzle game with two overlapping worlds. Weave back and forth between black and white as you try to be in the right place, in the right dimension, at the right time. Use switches, boosters and gravity to help you reach the exit. Can you conquer every mind-bending level?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.5%, Puzzle 33.6%, First-Person 21.8%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-platformer that relies heavily on dimension-switching mechanics to navigate obstacles.
- #24 The God Unit
81% matchVery Positive96% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Cat Floor Studio
Windows · Linux
The GoD Unit is a first-person physics-based puzzle game set in a near pre-apocalyptic future, featuring the mass manipulation ability and other familiar and beloved puzzle mechanics.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, 3D Platformer 16.1%, Puzzle 13.4%, Time Manipulation 11.5% ★, Physics 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: First-person physics puzzles that rely on logic and environmental manipulation to progress through the world.
- #25 Blast Course
79% matchVery Positive90% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Amiguito Studios
Windows
Blast Course is a first-person puzzle-platformer centered around the classic game mechanic of Rocket Jumping. Control Kit in a day at work testing "Hyperboom", a revolutionary transport technology based on explosives.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.4%, 3D Platformer 17.7%, Puzzle 14.8%, Platformer 10.6%, First-Person 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: First-person platforming challenges that emphasize momentum and physics-based movement.
- #26 Chromatic Conundrum
77% matchVery Positive98% of 277 reviews2026
Dev: Digs
Windows
Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.6%, 3D Platformer 18.1%, Puzzle 16.5%, First-Person 10.7%, Physics 10.5%
- #27 Sumoman
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 633 reviews2017
Dev: Tequilabyte Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Sumoman is an adventure puzzle platformer with advanced physics, destructible objects and the ability to reverse time. Solve various physical puzzles, trying to keep the unstable Sumoman on his feet in challenging environments.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.2%, Time Manipulation 21.1% ★, Puzzle 14.9%, Comedy 10.8%, Platformer 6%
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based platformer that features a humorous, clumsy protagonist and challenging environmental puzzles.
- #28 Timeworks
77% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Starworks Studios
Windows
Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.2%, 3D Platformer 19.8%, Time Manipulation 13.7% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, First-Person 9.8%
- #29 Entangled
78% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: P² Studios
Windows
Complete physics-based platformer puzzles as you venture deeper into an abandoned research facility responsible for developing ominously powerful quantum entanglement technology.
Why similar: Puzzle 36.2%, Physics 31.2%, Platformer 14.4%, Sci-fi 6.6%, Casual 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Physics-based puzzles that require careful manipulation of objects in a 2D space, rewarding logical thinking.
- #30 Playback Loop
76% matchVery Positive95% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: MapPack
Windows
Carefully capture tracks of your actions, then play them back to solve puzzles with the aid of your recorded ghosts. Immerse yourself in a cerebral first-person puzzle platformer, where strategically thinking several steps ahead is the key to success.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.5%, Time Manipulation 19.2% ★, Puzzle 10.1%, Physics 8.7%, First-Person 8.1%
- #31 Lanternium
78% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You have to find out what happened in this fantastic world and help the Raccoon find his way home!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 65.8%, Puzzle 21.3%, Family Friendly 5.7%, Funny 2.5%, Casual 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer with a focus on color-based logic and environmental interaction in a cute, stylized world.
- #32 A Game of Changes
79% matchMixed68% of 226 reviews2016
Dev: Nuno DonatoPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 3d puzzle platformer that takes you along a journey of wisdom, through the 64 unique worlds that draw inspiration and teachings from the I Ching [Book of Changes], one of the oldest oracles in human history.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31%, 3D Platformer 22.7%, Puzzle 16.2%, Comedy 8.6%, Physics 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Logic-based puzzles that involve shifting the environment to progress, requiring careful observation of the surroundings.
- #33 Gravitas
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,038 reviews2019
Dev: Galaxy Shark Studios
Windows
Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42%, Puzzle 22.4%, 3D Platformer 12.4%, First-Person 11.2%, Comedy 5.4%
- #34 Chrono Recorder
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: ChronoGames
Windows
"ChronoRecorder" is a 3D puzzle game. Players can manipulate time and gravity. And you have to use that ability to solve problems. You might think this game is difficult if you don't use your brain.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 51%, Time Manipulation 22.9% ★, Puzzle 18.4%, Casual 4.6%, Sci-fi 2.1%
- #35 Bridge Constructor Portal
74% matchVery Positive92% of 7,257 reviews2017
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 41.9%, Physics 26.1%, Comedy 11%, Strategy 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #36 A Story About My Uncle
73% matchVery Positive92% of 29,113 reviews2014
Dev: Gone North GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...
Why similar: Adventure 31.5%, First-Person 21.3%, 3D Platformer 17.3%, Puzzle 11.5%, Platformer 11.2%
- #37 Super Perspective
75% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: The Dashing Crate
Windows · Mac
A mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can switch between 2D and 3D at will!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 49.6%, 3D Platformer 28.2%, Puzzle 22.2%
- #38 Super Puzzled Cat
70% matchVery Positive98% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Penguin Mug Games
Windows
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: Puzzle Platformer 46.8%, Time Manipulation 26.2% ★, Puzzle 14.6%, Platformer 9.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #39 The Art of Reflection
69% matchVery Positive97% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Hydrozoa
Windows
Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.5%, 3D Platformer 21%, Puzzle 17.1%, First-Person 12.7%, Platformer 2.9%
- #40 REVISITOR
72% matchVery Positive91% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: Lead Games
Windows
Revisitor is a first person puzzle-platformer game set in a futuristic virtual space. Use two different types of teleportation to both navigate and solve a series of increasingly challenging missions.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.2%, Puzzle 22.6%, 3D Platformer 18.8%, First-Person 13.6%, Platformer 12.3%
- #41 Wakey Wakey
69% matchVery Positive99% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Moon Jam Games LLC
Windows
Wakey Wakey is a Puzzle Platformer with a unique world-bending twist. Navigate your everchanging bedroom, take control of new household objects, and overcome surprising obstacles to help this sleepy guy get a good night's rest.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 40.1%, Puzzle 16.3%, Comedy 12%, Physics 11.1%, Platformer 10.1%
- #42 The Adventures of Mr. Bobley
74% matchMixed64% of 394 reviews2015
Dev: Jan Zizka
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The Adventures of Mr. Bobley is a 3d platformer adventure game featuring physics based puzzles and challenges that also require you to drive vehicles and operate heavy machinery. Set at a skyscraper construction site. The game is all about physics and interaction with the environment.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36.9%, 3D Platformer 21.7%, Puzzle 14.6%, Physics 10.2%, Platformer 8.7%
- #43 ITRP _ Volatile Vertex
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Unhexigon
Windows
If you see a ledge, it means that it is needed for something. A three-dimensional puzzle platformer about the change of gravity in three axes. Walk on the walls and hang from the ceiling. Do whatever you want. The main thing is to get out of here.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.6%, 3D Platformer 22.4%, Puzzle 16.1%, First-Person 10.5%, Physics 8.8%
- #44 Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
71% matchVery Positive95% of 1,619 reviews2014
Dev: Press PlayPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Join Max on his great adventure!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 64.3%, Puzzle 17.6%, Platformer 14.9%, Adventure 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #45 Switchball HD
70% matchVery Positive85% of 187 reviews2021
Dev: Atomic Elbow
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Transform the Marble ball with metal, electric and lighter-than-air properties to solve 3D puzzles based on real-world physics in the quickest time. More than 30 challenging levels!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.1%, 3D Platformer 22.2%, Puzzle 14.1%, Physics 13.6%, Platformer 6.7%
- #46 What The Hack!
67% matchVery Positive97% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Nigel HuensPub: Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Windows
What The Hack! Is a humoristic, story puzzle game, where you, a computer program, tries to avoid getting destroyed by escaping a facility. Doing so by hacking and hijacking devices in your surroundings.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 34.6%, Puzzle 24.6%, Platformer 16.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Casual 7%
- #47 Blocks That Matter
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 782 reviews2011
Dev: Swing Swing Submarine
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 52.4%, Puzzle 22.1%, Platformer 14%, Casual 3.7%, Funny 2.8%
- #48 The Watchmaker
73% matchMixed49% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: Micropsia Games SpA
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
The Watchmaker is an action adventure set in a strange steampunk world of giant clock mechanisms, where time has gone mad. Join Alexander, a clock tower keeper, on his quest to restore time to its natural rhythm!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.5%, 3D Platformer 21.9%, Puzzle 17.2%, Time Manipulation 15.3% ★, Platformer 8.5%
- #49 ReThink
71% matchVery Positive82% of 289 reviews2017
Dev: Yaeko
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As an inmate of a government-controlled Correctional Facility in the year 2275, you have the right to prove yourself worthy of being part of Society again. Show your skills in logical thinking by solving puzzles of varying size, type and difficulty in this first-Person puzzle game, and redeem your freedom!
Why similar: Puzzle 30.5%, Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, First-Person 21.2%, Platformer 7.6%, Sci-fi 4.7%
- #50 Defy Gravity Extended
68% matchVery Positive86% of 8,545 reviews2016
Dev: Paul FischPub: Fish Factory Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 67.6%, Platformer 16.4%, Puzzle 10.1%, Physics 2.8%, Casual 1.2%
- #51 Chronescher
68% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: PurpleSloth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 37.9%, Puzzle 26%, Time Manipulation 24% ★, Strategy 4.8%, Family Friendly 4.8%
- #52 Plastiland
70% matchMixed67% of 95 reviews2015
Dev: FreshGemPub: Zillion Whales
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Plastiland is a puzzle-platformer set in a unique hand-made plasticine world. Guide our lovely clay characters through 48 levels of three worlds. Save as many of plastiballs as you can, reach far corners of each level by transforming them into one of eight roles, like cruncher, crusher, builder, and others.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 35.2%, Puzzle 18.1%, 3D Platformer 12.1%, Platformer 9.1%, Comedy 7%
- #53 Hourglass
66% matchVery Positive90% of 390 reviews2021
Dev: Cyberwave
Windows
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.9%, 3D Platformer 18.2%, Puzzle 17.5%, Time Manipulation 11.8% ★, First-Person 11.6%
- #54 Cargo! The Quest for Gravity
69% matchVery Positive80% of 446 reviews2011
Dev: Ice-Pick Lodge
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Create crazy, yet functional, custom vehicles to solve missions with your own unique style!
Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Physics 29.1%, Comedy 25.9%, Family Friendly 10.7%, Adventure 2.5%
- #55 Backfirewall_
64% matchVery Positive92% of 475 reviews2023
Dev: Naraven GamesPub: All in! Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hello and welcome to Backfirewall_, a first-person tragicomic adventure set inside a smartphone. You are the update assistant. Solve wacky puzzles to counter the update and save the previous operating system from deletion. The fate of the System is in your hands!
Why similar: Comedy 26.8%, Puzzle 24.6%, First-Person 23.8%, Physics 10.3%, Casual 6.5%
- #56 ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard
62% matchVery Positive98% of 116 reviews2026
Dev: Pixel ManiacsPub: PM Studios, Inc.
Windows
Shoot paint, mix colors, and solve puzzles in this adventure about friendship and redemption. Just don't enter that portal to another universe, and ᴇᴠᴇʀʏTʜɪɴɢ will 𝐛𝐞 ᴘEʀ𝐅𝓔ᴄᴛʟʏ 𝒇 𝔦 𝓃 ҽ . • °
Why similar: Puzzle 37.7%, First-Person 24.9%, Platformer 16.4%, Family Friendly 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #57 Cats in Time
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,369 reviews2021
Dev: Pine Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!
Why similar: Puzzle 58.8%, Cartoony 13.7%, Family Friendly 13.1%, Casual 9.9%, Adventure 2.7%
- #58 Lightmatter
64% matchVery Positive91% of 2,853 reviews2020
Dev: Tunnel Vision GamesPub: Aspyr
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
Why similar: Puzzle 30.4%, Puzzle Platformer 27.1%, First-Person 18.3%, Science 16.8% ★, Adventure 3.8%