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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Puzzle, Indie, Singleplayer, Difficult.

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A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive — 97% — of 665 reviews
Released: 2016-09-30
Developer: Portponky
Publisher: Shambles Software
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 3.2 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.7 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 80%

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    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: Difficult 35.1%, Puzzle 35%, Indie 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

  2. #2 Escape Goat 2
    96% matchVery Positive95% of 460 reviews2014
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    Why similar: Puzzle 39.2%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Indie 18.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, 2D 5.7%

  3. #3 Hue
    96% matchVery Positive93% of 11,340 reviews2016
    Dev: Fiddlesticks GamesPub: Curve Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%

    Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.9%, Puzzle 25%, Great Soundtrack 19%, Indie 11.3%, Adventure 7.2%

  4. #4 Patrick's Parabox
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,790 reviews2022
    Dev: Patrick Traynor
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.

    Why similar: Puzzle 45.3%, Difficult 34.9%, 2D 10.5%, Indie 9.2%

  5. #5 Antichamber
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 17,749 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 62%, Indie 14.2%, Difficult 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 5.5%, Adventure 4.5%

  6. #6 YAPP: Yet Another Puzzle Platformer
    94% matchVery Positive87% of 63 reviews2017
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.7%, Difficult 29.1%, Puzzle 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 9.9%, 2D 6.4%

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    93% matchVery Positive85% of 761 reviews2020
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    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).

    Why similar: Difficult 44%, Puzzle 28.8%, Great Soundtrack 12.6%, Indie 10.5%, 2D 2.1%

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    92% matchVery Positive95% of 55 reviews2021
    Dev: InterDan
    Windows · Linux

    A blocky puzzle platformer adventure.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 48%, Puzzle 15.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Adventure 6.6%

  9. #9 Celeste
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 146,121 reviews2018
    Dev: Maddy Makes Games Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

    Why similar: Difficult 31.5%, Great Soundtrack 26.1%, Puzzle Platformer 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Female Protagonist 8%

  10. #10 Prime Mover
    91% matchVery Positive89% of 215 reviews2018
    Dev: 4Bit Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    Why similar: Puzzle 36.9%, Difficult 24.6%, Indie 16.9%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%

  11. #11 Four Sided Fantasy
    91% matchVery Positive83% of 458 reviews2016
    Dev: Ludo LandPub: Serenity Forge
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%

    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 36.8%, Difficult 16.9%, Puzzle 13.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Indie 11.5%

  12. #12 BOOR
    89% matchVery Positive83% of 231 reviews2017
    Dev: DazlogStudioPub: BadLand Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    BOOR is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you play as a girl with the ability to multiply herself, stranded on Eden, a beautiful but strange world, full of challenging puzzles with platforming elements and a refreshing gameplay.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.5%, Difficult 20.1%, Puzzle 15.8%, Female Protagonist 8%, Indie 7.8%

  13. #13 Awareness Rooms
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 574 reviews2016
    Dev: GAME NA KIBUNPub: PLAYISM
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    You find yourself in a room you know nothing of. As you examine the objects around you, your awareness rises and the room slowly comes into focus. Can you find your way out?

    Why similar: Puzzle 25.7%, Great Soundtrack 17.1%, Indie 15.1%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Adventure 11%

  14. #14 Mekabolt
    88% matchVery Positive87% of 184 reviews2019
    Dev: SomepxPub: Ratalaika Games S.L.
    Windows

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    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.6%, Difficult 27%, Puzzle 17.4%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, 2D 6.1%

  15. #15 Altered
    86% matchVery Positive100% of 127 reviews2021
    Dev: GlitchheartPub: Rooftop Panda
    Windows · Linux

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    Why similar: Difficult 49.5%, Puzzle 31.8%, Family Friendly 11.4%, Indie 7.3%

  16. #16 Fabric
    87% matchVery Positive86% of 124 reviews2016
    Dev: Torreng Labs
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Fabric is a first person puzzle game in which you bend spacetime to solve challenging puzzles and complete glitchy-themed voxel based levels.

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    Dev: Thekla, Inc.
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%

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    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 55.7%, Puzzle 31.1%, 2D 11.3%, Adventure 1.9%

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    86% matchMixed59% of 1,254 reviews2015
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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    Windows
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    Dev: Games by Mason LLC
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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  23. #23 RETSNOM
    84% matchMostly Positive76% of 99 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac
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    Why similar: Puzzle 60.3%, Indie 39.7%

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    82% matchVery Positive93% of 16,228 reviews2013
    Dev: Polytron CorporationPub: Trapdoor
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 57%

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    79% matchVery Positive92% of 411 reviews2024
    Dev: Furniture & Mattress LLC
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%

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    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.

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    79% matchVery Positive92% of 18,401 reviews2018
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 42.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.1%, Puzzle 21.6%, Difficult 14.4%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 12%

  28. #28 OneShot
    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 64,754 reviews2016
    Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.9%, Puzzle 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Indie 11.6%, 2D 6.7%

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    81% matchMostly Positive79% of 216 reviews2014
    Dev: Moondrop
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    76% matchVery Positive89% of 4,440 reviews2022
    Dev: Stubby GamesPub: Playstack
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%

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    Windows

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  32. #32 OneShift
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,114 reviews2018
    Dev: Mazen GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 47%

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    76% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2017
    Dev: PixelGreeds
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%

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  34. #34 Manifold Garden
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,512 reviews2020
    Dev: William Chyr Studio
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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  35. #35 Semblance
    75% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2018
    Dev: NyamakopPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

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  36. #36 Ageless
    77% matchMixed56% of 406 reviews2020
    Dev: One More Dream StudiosPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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  37. #37 Defy Gravity Extended
    74% matchVery Positive86% of 8,545 reviews2016
    Dev: Paul FischPub: Fish Factory Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%

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    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 54.5%, Difficult 12.2%, Puzzle 11.6%, Great Soundtrack 7.9%, Indie 6.7%

  38. #38 I hate this game
    73% matchVery Positive93% of 2,637 reviews2019
    Dev: Pixel Error
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Great Soundtrack 22.5%, Puzzle Platformer 21%, Puzzle 18.6%, Difficult 15.1%, Indie 9%

  39. #39 Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer
    75% matchVery Positive84% of 81 reviews2018
    Dev: Fishing Cactus
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Shift Quantum is a brain-busting platformer using a unique mechanic called SHIFTING, a way to twist your environment and invert space around you. Bend your mind to reach the exit of each level and unveil the secrets of a strange program. Extend the experience, create and share your own levels.

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  40. #40 Escape Goat
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 703 reviews2013
    Dev: MagicalTimeBean
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 47.4%, Puzzle 23.3%, Great Soundtrack 10%, Indie 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

  41. #41 Piece by Piece
    67% matchVery Positive100% of 232 reviews2026
    Dev: Neon Polygons
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Difficult 26%, Puzzle 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, 2D 6.5%

  42. #42 Macrotis: A Mother's Journey
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 181 reviews2019
    Dev: Proud DinosaursPub: Orsam Information Technologies
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Help Mother Bilby, as she struggles underground to find her children, in this magical indie, 2.5D puzzle-platformer game. Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey is an unforgettable adventure for those who love being challenged.

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    71% matchVery Positive91% of 118 reviews2018
    Dev: Ian MacLartyPub: Shape Shop
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    Median: 48 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 46%

    Dissembler is a subtle puzzle game about unraveling playful, abstract designs one color at a time.

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  44. #44 Recursion Deluxe
    72% matchVery Positive86% of 86 reviews2016
    Dev: 2D Heroes
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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    65% matchVery Positive100% of 447 reviews2025
    Dev: HANDSUMPub: PLAYISM
    Windows

    MotionRec is a recording puzzle action game where you progress through stages by recording and playing back your own movements.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 45.7%, Puzzle 26.6%, 2D 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Adventure 7.3%

  46. #46 Q.U.B.E. 2
    70% matchVery Positive84% of 1,745 reviews2018
    Dev: Toxic GamesPub: Trapped Nerve Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.

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  47. #47 Death Fungeon
    71% matchMostly Positive74% of 703 reviews2018
    Dev: Ritual GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 33%

    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.

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  48. #48 Iconoclasts
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 5,010 reviews2018
    Dev: Joakim SandbergPub: Bifrost Entertainment
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    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.4%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Indie 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%

  49. #49 Dispersio
    71% matchVery Positive89% of 91 reviews2016
    Dev: Achpile
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%

    Dispersio is a retro-style action platformer. As you progress through the game, you will have to use and combine special abilities, such as dashing, wall-jumping and more. There's even a hard mode for hardcore players.

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  50. #50 Taiji
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 1,455 reviews2022
    Dev: Matthew VanDevander
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.

    Why similar: Difficult 40%, Puzzle 29.2%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Adventure 7%

  51. #51 Dungeons of Dreadrock
    67% matchVery Positive94% of 545 reviews2022
    Dev: Prof. Dr. Christoph Minnameier
    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    An immersive puzzle dungeon adventure in the spirit of 1980's home computer games. Dig your way through 100 levels into the ancient depths of Dreadrock Mountain. Winner of Google Indie Games Festival / Indie Clash 1st prize / PocketGamer People's Choice Finalist / GDWC best indie game nominee.

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    70% matchVery Positive80% of 948 reviews2017
    Dev: Elden Pixels
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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  53. #53 Vision Soft Reset
    69% matchVery Positive90% of 163 reviews2019
    Dev: Seafloor Games LLC
    Windows

    Perceive the future in this time-loop metroidvania.

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    67% matchVery Positive85% of 59 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.

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    69% matchVery Positive85% of 54 reviews2017
    Dev: Gamera Interactive
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    Median: 36 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    Fearful Symmetry is a fun puzzle game with a unique brain-teasing twist. Control two characters at the same time; both in different dimensions. It’s up to you to move the characters simultaneously in opposite directions to guide them through treacherous puzzles filled with traps.

    Why similar: Difficult 29.2%, Puzzle 20%, Indie 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Family Friendly 8.6%

  56. #56 Loophole
    62% matchVery Positive99% of 166 reviews2025
    Dev: Levi Pinkert
    Windows · Mac

    A time-bending puzzle game about working with - and against - your past selves. Subvert the rules of time travel, dodge paradoxes, and find a way to escape the loop.

    Why similar: Difficult 49.7%, Puzzle 36.3%, Indie 14%

  57. #57 Maquette
    68% matchMostly Positive70% of 669 reviews2021
    Dev: Graceful DecayPub: Annapurna Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33.2%, Puzzle 28.1%, Indie 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 13.2%, Adventure 11%

  58. #58 Bring You Home
    62% matchVery Positive97% of 221 reviews2025
    Dev: Alike Studio
    Windows · Mac

    You don't control the hero, but the level ITSELF! In this puzzle adventure, change and rearrange pieces of every level to find the right path. All to guide Polo through crazy worlds and rescue his kidnapped alien pet...

    Why similar: Indie 47.5%, Adventure 36.7%, 2D 8.7%, Family Friendly 7.2%

  59. #59 Redactem
    70% matchMixed67% of 441 reviews2016
    Dev: Elliott JonesPub: Conglomerate 5
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 33%, Difficult 28.5%, Puzzle 16.9%, Indie 8.9%, 2D 6.5%

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