- #1 Rooms: The Main Building
97% matchVery Positive82% of 173 reviews2014
Dev: HandMade GamePub: Zero Rock Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use object inside rooms and move the rooms to escape. 100 challenging sliding puzzles with a twist! The solution is only a doorstep away!
Why similar: Casual 46.2%, Indie 30.7%, Puzzle 23.2%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it shares the exact sliding-room mechanics and puzzle-solving logic found in the seed game.
- #2 Recursed
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 637 reviews2016
Dev: PortponkyPub: Shambles Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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.
Why similar: Indie 37.8%, Puzzle 34.2%, Adventure 28%
Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-platformer uses a unique room-within-a-room mechanic that requires deep spatial reasoning similar to the seed game.
- #3 Gorogoa
96% 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 41.2%, Casual 20.9%, Indie 20.3%, Adventure 17.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features a brilliant mechanic of rearranging and layering hand-drawn panels to solve spatial puzzles, echoing the sliding tile gameplay.
- #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 56%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 16.4%
Why You'll Like It: This entry expands the room-based puzzle experience into a larger, interconnected mansion setting with deep, satisfying mechanical puzzles.
- #5 Carto
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,158 reviews2020
Dev: Sunhead GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.
Why similar: Indie 35.2%, Adventure 34.6%, Puzzle 30.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to manipulate and rearrange map pieces to change the world layout, mirroring the room-sliding mechanics of the seed.
- #6 The Room
94% 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 57.6%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 13.4%, Casual 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same atmospheric, tactile feeling of interacting with intricate, contained puzzle boxes and rooms.
- #7 Escape Simulator
92% 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 40.4%, Adventure 27.1%, Casual 19.3%, Indie 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly interactive, room-based escape experience that captures the feeling of solving complex puzzles within a confined space.
- #8 Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery
93% 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: Adventure 49.8%, Puzzle 43.5%, Indie 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features an isometric, room-based exploration style where you must rotate and interact with environments to uncover secrets.
- #9 Monument Valley
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,203 reviews2022
Dev: ustwo games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
Why similar: Casual 33.5%, Adventure 32.8%, Puzzle 29%, Indie 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on manipulating impossible architecture and perspective to navigate paths, much like the spatial puzzles in the seed.
- #10 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: Casual 35%, Puzzle 28.6%, Adventure 23.9%, Indie 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: This cozy escape room game emphasizes exploration and logic puzzles within a contained, mysterious house environment.
- #11 Gordian Rooms 1: A curious heritage
90% matchVery Positive86% of 519 reviews2020
Dev: Crimsonite Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where you solve various puzzles in your late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining his legacy.
Why similar: Adventure 31.8%, Casual 24.3%, Puzzle 23.9%, Indie 20.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on atmospheric, room-based puzzle solving within a Victorian mansion setting, closely matching the theme of the seed.
- #12 Superliminal
87% 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 57.7%, Adventure 42.3%
Why You'll Like It: It challenges your perception of space and size, forcing you to manipulate objects and rooms to progress through the environment.
- #13 Abode
89% 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: Indie 52.4%, Puzzle 24.8%, Adventure 22.8%
Why You'll Like It: This VR escape room game focuses on finding clues and manipulating objects within a futuristic apartment setting.
- #14 Maquette
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 651 reviews2021
Dev: Graceful DecayPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Adventure 42.2%, Indie 32.3%, Puzzle 25.5%
Why You'll Like It: The game centers on a recursive world where manipulating objects in a small model changes the environment around you, emphasizing spatial logic.
- #15 Puzzle Box Palace
88% matchVery Positive86% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.
Why similar: Adventure 44.2%, Indie 30.4%, Puzzle 25.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game centers on exploring and solving puzzles within a series of intricate, box-like environments.
- #16 Patrick's Parabox
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,385 reviews2022
Dev: Patrick Traynor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 9.8 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 48.3%, Casual 27.3%, Indie 24.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a recursive, box-in-a-box mechanic that requires complex spatial thinking and room manipulation.
- #17 The Escaper
86% 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 58.6%, Puzzle 17.8%, Casual 14.6%, Indie 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic escape room experience with a focus on point-and-click puzzle solving in confined spaces.
- #18 The House of Toys
84% matchVery Positive91% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Old School Bros
Windows
The House of Toys is a horror game in which the player ventures into an old mansion filled with seemingly harmless toys. His mission is to explore each room, searching for clues to discover which of the toys is cursed. To free the soul trapped in this toy, the player must solve intricate puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle 33.8%, Adventure 32.4%, Indie 22.2%, Casual 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: The toy-themed aesthetic and puzzle-heavy gameplay make it a thematic successor to the seed game's mansion setting.
- #19 Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Reversed Escape Room
86% 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: Adventure 42.1%, Puzzle 34%, Indie 23.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a narrative-driven experience centered on solving intricate puzzles within a detailed, atmospheric room.
- #20 The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets
84% matchVery Positive91% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Fast Travel Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Help your grandfather solve the mystery of the stolen pets by solving puzzles in wonderful miniature worlds crafted for VR. Use a hairdryer to melt snow in a wintery landscape! Search the wreck of a pirate ship hidden under the surface! Every world is unique, full of interactions and colorful life.
Why similar: Casual 35.2%, Adventure 34%, Indie 25.1%, Puzzle 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This VR experience features miniature, diorama-like worlds that you must interact with and manipulate to solve puzzles.
- #21 Rooms of Realities
82% matchVery Positive96% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: BluekeyPub: Gamedust
Windows
Rooms of Realities is an anthology of virtual Escape Rooms that you can enjoy in co-op or solo mode. Discover the secret that connects all the rooms.
Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Puzzle 30.8%, Indie 28.8%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the classic escape room experience to VR, focusing on environmental puzzles and room-based exploration.
- #22 A Monster's Expedition
81% matchVery Positive95% of 1,579 reviews2020
Dev: Draknek & Friends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!
Why similar: Adventure 37%, Casual 31.9%, Puzzle 31.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a sophisticated spatial puzzle experience where navigation is key to exploring a series of interconnected island environments.
- #23 The Room Two
81% 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 53.3%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 16.8%, Casual 7%
Why You'll Like It: It continues the series' focus on tactile, room-based puzzle boxes that require careful observation and manipulation.
- #24 Doors
83% matchMixed63% of 309 reviews2016
Dev: Calvin Weibel
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Doors is a short, atmospheric first person logic game created by a one-man-team. Taking inspiration from Limbo and The Stanley Parable, Doors attempts to bring something new to the puzzle genre.
Why similar: Indie 42%, Adventure 32.2%, Puzzle 25.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on navigating through a series of puzzle-filled rooms, emphasizing logic and observation.
- #25 3D Escape Room: Mystic Manor
76% 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: Adventure 29.2%, Casual 29%, Puzzle 23.8%, Indie 18%
- #26 Inside The Gear
82% matchMostly Negative40% of 140 reviews2014
Dev: Mykhail Konokh
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A physics puzzle game like no other! You are inside the big old machine. There are rusty gears and shafts all around you, along with interactive objects such as planks and cubes. Use each object and place the wheel on the platform – easy!
Why similar: Casual 47.2%, Indie 31.8%, Puzzle 21%
Why You'll Like It: It combines physics-based puzzles with atmospheric room exploration, requiring players to manipulate their surroundings to escape.
- #27 Felix The Toy
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: XYX GamesPub: Tero Lunkka
Windows
Inspired by classics from long ago, help a toy named felix find his owner when a mysterious event takes over the planet
Why similar: Casual 38.4%, Adventure 37.4%, Puzzle 24.3%
Why You'll Like It: The toy-based theme and platforming elements provide a lighter, more casual take on the mansion-exploration genre.
- #28 HER TREES : THE PUZZLE HOUSE
75% 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: Adventure 41.7%, Puzzle 41%, Indie 17.3%
- #29 The Experiment: Escape Room
80% matchMixed54% of 269 reviews2018
Dev: OnSkull Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
"The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?
Why similar: Adventure 31.1%, Casual 30.9%, Indie 23.9%, Puzzle 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a multiplayer-focused escape room experience that requires teamwork to solve spatial and logic puzzles.
- #30 Orpheus's Dream
79% 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 37.8%, Casual 36.3%, Indie 25.9%
Why You'll Like It: This casual adventure game features puzzle-solving elements set within a dreamlike, atmospheric environment.
- #31 Gravity Quest
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 103 reviews2017
Dev: Light Road Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Gravity Quest. Plunge into the world of magic 3d mazes! Feel deeply this fairy world free of gravitation.
Why similar: Casual 37.5%, Adventure 35.7%, Indie 26.8%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes spatial and gravity-based puzzles that require the player to rethink their orientation within a room.
- #32 The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
73% matchVery Positive88% of 880 reviews2022
Dev: MediaCity Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Explore a beautiful and Enigmatic Victorian Manor with a dark secret, In this gothic horror story first person exploration puzzle game filled with fine art, secret passages and mysterious mechanical puzzles playing as the executor of the last will from the enigmatic Railroad Magnate Hadley Strange.
Why similar: Puzzle 65.6%, Adventure 34.4%
- #33 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: Indie 59%, Puzzle 41%
- #34 Cranium Conundrum
78% matchMixed42% of 86 reviews2016
Dev: Falling Star GamesPub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Cranium Conundrum is a physics-based puzzle platformer taking place in the dream worlds that you create!
Why similar: Casual 39.6%, Adventure 34.5%, Indie 25.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a variety of casual, logic-based puzzles that test the player's ability to navigate and solve problems in a contained space.
- #35 The Puzzle Room VR ( Escape The Room )
77% 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: Indie 32.1%, Adventure 29.9%, Casual 19.1%, Puzzle 18.9%
- #36 VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)
76% 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: Adventure 49%, Indie 26.1%, Puzzle 24.9%
- #37 FORM
75% matchVery Positive91% of 979 reviews2017
Dev: Charm Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Enter a surreal adventure where puzzles are built from dreams and memories. Solve the mystery behind an ancient artifact. Advance through a world that transforms around you. Transcend this existence.
Why similar: Adventure 34.2%, Casual 33.9%, Indie 24.2%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #38 Abode 2
73% 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 78.6%, Puzzle 21.4%
- #39 EscapeVR: The Basement
74% 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 44.5%, Indie 32.5%, Puzzle 11.6%, Casual 11.4%
- #40 The Atlas Mystery: A VR Puzzle Game
71% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: Top Right CornerPub: TRC DMI
Windows
Explore the haunted halls of the infamous Atlas Theater, a 1940’s era movie palace that played host to a shocking Hollywood tragedy. Solve intricate puzzles, discover startling artifacts, and evade sinister forces to uncover the twisted truth behind the theater’s dark history.
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Puzzle 43.3%
- #41 ORIX!
74% matchMixed66% of 189 reviews2018
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 30%
ORIX!- a puzzle game - where you need to find the right path and get to the yellow cube.
Why similar: Casual 37.9%, Adventure 35%, Indie 27.1%
- #42 Doors: Paradox
68% 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: Adventure 29.6%, Casual 26.7%, Puzzle 25.8%, Indie 17.9%
- #43 Egression
70% matchVery Positive95% of 132 reviews2022
Dev: Hyperquad Studio
Windows
You’re here for puzzles, and that’s what you’ll get. Step into a deluxe virtual escape room establishment. Challenge your mind with handcrafted puzzles designed exclusively for VR. Explore immersive environments and piece together the clues to escape!
Why similar: Adventure 41.5%, Puzzle 33.1%, Casual 16.4%, Indie 9%
- #44 The Shape of Things
69% matchVery Positive88% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: Hyper Three StudioPub: Maple Whispering Limited
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Experience a relaxing atmosphere from the comfort of your cozy room by solving small 3D puzzles inside collectible gachapons, and find the original shape of things inspired by Rubik’s style.
Why similar: Casual 61.1%, Puzzle 38.9%
- #45 Marble Land
73% matchVery Positive87% of 95 reviews2017
Dev: Devious Technologies
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Marble Land is a physics-based VR puzzle game in which the objective is to guide a marble into a designated target area by using various contraptions scattered across the level.
Why similar: Indie 51.4%, Puzzle 26.2%, Casual 22.5%
- #46 Tricky Doors
68% matchVery Positive84% of 526 reviews2023
Dev: FIVE-BN GAMES
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Tricky doors is a captivating game that offers a variety of puzzles. Find a creative way to get out of each room. Tricky doors is a point-and-click game in the "escape the room" genre with plenty of mini-games and complicated quests.
Why similar: Casual 64.4%, Puzzle 35.6%
- #47 Floor Plan: Hands-On Edition
72% matchVery Positive88% of 119 reviews2017
Dev: Turbo Button
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Floor Plan is a short form puzzle adventure game that takes place entirely inside an elevator, re-imagining classic point-and-click gameplay for fully immersive VR.
Why similar: Adventure 35.3%, Casual 35.2%, Puzzle 29.5%
- #48 From the Shadows
69% matchVery Positive85% of 260 reviews2020
Dev: Gamagora ICOM
Windows
From the Shadows is a cooperative puzzle platformer game where players have to work their way through a mysterious mansion by resolving puzzles that revolve around the mechanics of light and shadow.
Why similar: Casual 37%, Adventure 36.2%, Puzzle 26.8%
- #49 Kumoon : Ballistic Physics Puzzle
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 80 reviews2015
Dev: Lucky You Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A unique puzzle game : a nonviolent trickshooting challenge with gamepad VR option.
Why similar: Casual 49.9%, Indie 34.6%, Puzzle 15.6%
- #50 PUZZLE: ANIMALS
71% matchVery Positive85% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: AFBIK Studio
Windows
PUZZLE: ANIMALS - a logical game in which your task is to collect puzzles and get a picture of different animals.
Why similar: Casual 38.7%, Adventure 34.5%, Indie 26.8%
- #51 The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana
70% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: Monolith Graphics
Windows · Mac
The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana is a dark adventure game set inside the haunted mansion of a mysterious magician who vanished several years ago. Resolve a maze of riddles and perplexing puzzles to unlock doors and secret passages, or be doomed to spend eternity trapped inside the inescapable mansion.
Why similar: Adventure 30%, Casual 30%, Indie 20.7%, Puzzle 19.4%
- #52 Room of Pandora
70% matchMixed60% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: SHEN JIAWEI
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Room of Pandora is a third-person interactive puzzle game. The little man is trapped in a strange room, you need to escape the room. Discover multiple endings, secret rooms, and Easter eggs. There are seven endings, corresponding to seven achievements. Some puzzles may totally blow your mind.
Why similar: Puzzle 30.1%, Adventure 26.4%, Casual 26%, Indie 17.4%
- #53 Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist
66% matchVery Positive86% of 520 reviews2022
Dev: 0 Deer Soft
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
"Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.
Why similar: Adventure 37.5%, Casual 31.8%, Puzzle 30.7%
- #54 VR Escape The Space Station
71% matchMixed60% of 60 reviews2016
Dev: weyha.com
Windows
You are trapped in the space station all by yourself. Need to find a way to get the hell out of there. Experience with HTC Vive, consists of 4 rooms full of puzzles. Every scene are elaborately designed including spaceship with zero gravity, outer space landscape corridor and all.
Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%
- #55 Shrink Rooms
63% matchVery Positive95% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Mat-RixPub: Pone Games
Windows
Run! The walls are shrinking! This is about solving puzzles by pushing boxes from collapsing secret room. Accurately plan your steps, avoid deep pits and traps, use polymer and portal wall in the room, and escape from the secret room to avoid being crushed into a puddle of flesh by the walls.
Why similar: Puzzle 38.8%, Indie 32.5%, Casual 28.7%
- #56 Strange Jigsaws
59% 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: Adventure 35.3%, Casual 34.9%, Puzzle 20.3%, Indie 9.6%
- #57 Unmechanical
69% matchVery Positive92% of 473 reviews2012
Dev: Talawa GamesPub: Teotl Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A carefully created world with unique environments and an engrossing atmosphere, Unmechanical offers over 30 unique puzzles of exploration and adventure!
Why similar: Adventure 28.7%, Casual 25.4%, Indie 23.4%, Puzzle 22.4%
- #58 Samsara Room
64% 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: Adventure 38.2%, Indie 32.5%, Puzzle 29.3%
- #59 The House of Da Vinci
66% 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: Adventure 33.5%, Puzzle 32.8%, Indie 19.7%, Casual 13.9%
- #60 The Eyes of Ara
67% matchVery Positive83% of 826 reviews2016
Dev: 100 Stones Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast, mysterious castle riddled with secret rooms and challenging puzzles in this award-winning puzzle adventure.
Why similar: Adventure 38.7%, Puzzle 28.7%, Casual 19.9%, Indie 12.8%