Games Like Tarry: The In-Between

Uncover the secrets of an abandoned research laboratory by drawing patterns to cast powerful spells in order to escape a puzzle and monster-infested world.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 20.6%, Combat 15.2%, Puzzle 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Action 9.2%

Little Shell's Adventure is a difficult, beach-themed, Action-Adventure game with a retro art style, open-world elements, and an engaging combat system.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 17.5%, Minimalist 16%, Puzzle 11%, Exploration 10.4%, Combat 9.4%

David is trapped in his grandmother's basement, help him escape! Warning: flashing images and disturbing imagery

Why similar: Action 15.6%, Adventure 15.1%, Puzzle 14.8%, Exploration 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%

A short-and-sweet 1-bit adventure game with real-time combat. Engage in ranged or close combat to defeat supernatural monsters. Upgrade your tools to progress deeper into the woods and seek revenge, or seek greater power by conquering dungeons and the powerful bosses inside.

Why similar: Minimalist 19%, Adventure 14.2%, Supernatural 13.3%, Exploration 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%

Blackthorne's Manor is a first-person mystery thriller, where logic, puzzles, and the supernatural collide. Search for your missing friend, uncover the secrets of Blackthorne Manor, and escape before the house claims you too.

Why similar: Hidden Object 21.9%, Action-Adventure 18.6%, Adventure 13.2%, Puzzle 12.6%, Exploration 10.8%

Join Wolf on their mission to right the atrocity committed against their family. Together with the mysterious entity 'IV', Wolf will brave the monsters lurking in the shadows, explore long-forgotten ruins and solve mysterious puzzles in order to reach an ancient castle located between worlds.

Why similar: Hidden Object 17.1%, Action-Adventure 13%, Psychological 11.4%, Minimalist 10.4%, Story Rich 10.2%

Responding to a call to help an old man, a police officer discovers a hidden elevator leading to Resonance Laboratories. Trapped in a subterranean hell where sound experiments shattered reality, what lies within is unknown, but remember: please, (Don't) Hear.

Why similar: Hidden Object 21.1%, Action-Adventure 17.3%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 9.9%, Adventure 8.2%

MIRADOR is a 2D action game. You arrive at a temple... Kill several monsters to grow, get skills, and go through it!

Why similar: Action-Adventure 23.9%, Action 17.3%, Exploration 14%, Combat 13%, Adventure 11.8%

POPIRORAI is a bizarre puzzle adventure in which you must decipher texts written in a mysterious language and overcome obstacles as you set out to discover what has happened in this minimalist 1-bit world. Find the light, Roppi...

Why similar: Hidden Object 21.5%, Action-Adventure 16%, Minimalist 14.4%, Puzzle 10.7%, Exploration 9.5%

Time Thief is an action adventure game where leaving your village makes the clock tick. Manage your time to stay alive, stealing seconds from creatures around its overworld with your sword.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 22.9%, Exploration 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Combat 10.3%, Adventure 9.7%

Darkness. Nothing. There’s no memory of what has become. All you have is a flashlight to navigate the horrors ahead of you. Use your wits to solve the puzzles and escape the levels of the dreaded facility. You don’t seem to be alone though…

Why similar: Hidden Object 24.4%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, Puzzle 12.8%, Exploration 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Journey your way through environments both peaceful and harsh, seeking to save the lost ducklings as you fend off wild beasts angered by constant disturbances. Exploit local ecosystems to craft means of protection as you seek to stop the source of the fabled "Earth~Quacks"

Why similar: Action-Adventure 24.6%, Adventure 18.6%, Exploration 14.4%, Combat 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%

Face your fears in this chilling 2D survival horror action game about understanding and overcoming mental health struggles. Explore twisted nightmares, engage in challenging fast-paced combat and survive encounters with terrifying stalker enemies.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 15.9%, Combat 14.8%, Story Rich 11.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

One Fateful Night is a horror game where the player attempts to survive the night inside a scientific research base that has appeared mysteriously. The player must explore and use things they find to survive and escape.

Why similar: Hidden Object 20.6%, Action-Adventure 20%, Adventure 14.1%, Action 13.9%, Puzzle 12.9%

Project: ASCESIS is a 90s horror, where memory, mystery, and reality intertwine. You will no longer recognize what is real and what is not.

Why similar: Hidden Object 27.8%, Action-Adventure 22.1%, Adventure 16.5%, Exploration 13%, Combat 10.9%

Last Dose is a 1st-person psychological horror game. Explore a dark house and solve intricate puzzles to uncover terrifying secrets.

Why similar: Hidden Object 28%, Action-Adventure 20.5%, Adventure 14.9%, Action 14.9%, Story Rich 6.7%

The story of 1 robot and 1 cat

Why similar: Action-Adventure 26.4%, Story Rich 24.2%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Adventure 14.1%, Puzzle 12%

The game puts you in the role of a lost child who must survive 25 days in a dangerous, pixelated world full of hostile creatures. Every day is a fight for survival—you must find food by hunting, fishing, or gathering berries. However, even the simplest tasks can be risky.

Why similar: Hidden Object 22.5%, Action-Adventure 14.1%, Story Rich 10.2%, Exploration 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

Rewrite the rules of the world with a single shot! Armed with a property-stealing green bullet, solve brain-melting grid-based puzzles by transferring traits like Ice, Mud, Keys, and Win between objects. Think outside the grid, change object physics, and shape your own path to the exit.

Why similar: Hidden Object 29.5%, Action-Adventure 18.6%, Minimalist 14.6%, Adventure 12%, Puzzle 10.9%

Trapped in a High School, you must uncover the secrets of the Sacred Protein while evading threats like Big Marina and battling terrifying teachers. Solve puzzles, manage resources, and face Luli’s revenge in a chilling survival horror adventure with multiple endings. Will you escape?

Why similar: Hidden Object 25.3%, Action-Adventure 18.3%, Exploration 11.3%, Combat 11.1%, Adventure 9.6%

Journey through Elsana as a wizard, warrior, and archer in this fantasy 2D top down action-adventure game. Explore diverse environments, fight enemies, solve puzzles, and save the many regions of the world from hidden dangers. Can you discover the secrets of the Cave of the Skinwalker?

Why similar: Action-Adventure 23.4%, Puzzle 12.9%, Adventure 12.7%, Action 10.6%, Exploration 9.6%

Every run starts the same. Never ends that way. Arena, corrupted monsters, zero grind. The Last Call throws you in and lets you figure it out. Tactical combat, short sessions, honest difficulty. Only your skill matters.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 25.6%, Action 21.3%, Combat 17%, Exploration 14.7%, Adventure 13.9%

A PSX-inspired first-person survival horror game where you must solve physics-based puzzles, evade a relentless serial killer, and escape the horrors hidden beneath Hare House.

Why similar: Hidden Object 19.2%, Action-Adventure 18.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Action 11.9%, Puzzle 11.7%

Trapped in an endless cave without light. Only the dripping of water, your footsteps – and Zac's yellowed notes. Solve puzzles, find secret paths, and survive as reality and madness dangerously draw near.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 22%, Adventure 17.3%, Action 14.4%, Puzzle 14%, Exploration 11.8%

Malfunction II is a journey that'll feature vast exploration and difficult obstacles to overcome. You've awakened on an inescapable planet crawling with the Plague and your objective is to uncover the mysteries behind this dilemma and to finally put an end to the Plague- once and for all.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 17.7%, Puzzle 16.6%, Combat 14.7%, Exploration 13.5%, Atmospheric 9.9%

[Don't] Let Go is a quiet, emotional and atmospheric 3D Action-Adventure Puzzle game. Bound to a mysterious entity by a powerful connection you must work together to solve puzzles, defeat enemies and escape the ancient city. Do you have the strength to sever your only connection?

Why similar: Minimalist 20.5%, Emotional 12.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Story Rich 10.1%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Somnia is a first-person psychological horror game where you wander through endless hallways, encounter strange entities, and search for mysterious eyes while following the voice that guides you forward.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 17.3%, Hidden Object 15.9%, Adventure 12.8%, Action 12.2%, Puzzle 9.1%

Psychological horror game in VHS style. In which your goal is to record evidence of paranormal activity in your house. Find items, solve puzzles and record as mutch as you can.

Why similar: Hidden Object 23%, Action-Adventure 17%, Puzzle 11.4%, Exploration 9.5%, Action 8.3%

A boy and an android girl wake up without their memories in a world where deadly robots roam the streets. With the boy's powers, they can leave their bodies to walk through walls or possess enemies. The two follow the trail of the intentions left behind by those who once perished above the ground.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 25.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Exploration 12.5%, Action 10.5%, 2D 7.6%

You're waiting for your partner at home. But something isn't right. You feel a presence, something watching you... from every window, every shadow. In Silent Watcher, fear isn't what you see—it's what you feel. A psychological horror where the enemy is always there.

Why similar: Hidden Object 24.9%, Action-Adventure 19.5%, Action 13.3%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 9.5%

A fantasy potion crafting game where you experience the life of an alchemist. Gather materials that you can craft into different types of potions. Potions can be used as bombs. Solve puzzles by utilizing the effects of your potions. Hire heroes as mercenaries to fight monsters and bosses.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 22.8%, Adventure 16.3%, Action 16.2%, Puzzle 14.6%, Combat 12.9%

Winter Wastelands is a sci-fi fantasy action-adventure game about fighting bosses, exploring unique locations, gathering items that come with different costumes and special abilities, and trying to make it back home.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 29.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Action 14.9%, Adventure 12.7%, Combat 12.4%

A VR puzzle adventure where dimensional fractures have torn reality apart. Explore environments destabilized by the rift, solve spatial puzzles hidden across 10 distinct scenes, and follow signals, symbols, and strange objects to uncover what caused the collapse.

Why similar: Hidden Object 23.4%, Action-Adventure 19.1%, Adventure 13.1%, Puzzle 12.4%, Exploration 10.7%

An adventure game focused on exploration where you do NOT save the world and the world does NOT need saving.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 19.4%, Puzzle 12.9%, Exploration 10.7%, Adventure 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%

Glowy is a minimal yet atmospheric puzzle experience where light is both your only guide, and your greatest fear. In this journey through a mind trapped between light and darkness, you’ll help a fragile being rediscover who they truly are.

Why similar: Hidden Object 25.5%, Adventure 15.6%, Minimalist 14.9%, Puzzle 13.9%, Exploration 11.9%

Psychological horror in first person. What kind of person are you and can you claw your way to another life if reality can change? Explore the home, memorize shifting details, survive other realities, and decide how many times you can pull the trigger for a shot at happiness.

Why similar: Hidden Object 27.6%, Adventure 15.2%, Puzzle 14.8%, Exploration 12.7%, Psychological 9.8%

Are you afraid of spiders?, then this game is not for you. You will feel like a resident of Australia. There are more spiders in this country than stars in the universe. The spiders here are huge and each of them wants to bite you in the ass.

Why similar: Hidden Object 21%, Action-Adventure 18.3%, Adventure 16.5%, Action 13.7%, Puzzle 13.7%

Edmund and Eliza is a medieval action adventure game about a knight named Edmund Dantes who ventures into a mysterious village in search of a merchant's missing daughter named Eliza Bonteri. Edmund and Eliza is a senior design capstone project for California State University of Northridge.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 20.5%, Adventure 15.9%, Action 15.8%, Puzzle 13.4%, Exploration 10.4%

A visionary tyrant shattered civilization with an engineered airborne pathogen, ruling the ruins with an infected horde and elite mercenaries. As one of the rare "Immune" you must fight through the chaos, shatter his empire, and unleash the cure to reclaim our future.

Why similar: Hidden Object 20%, Action-Adventure 15.5%, Adventure 12.9%, Action 12.3%, Puzzle 10%

Curious about horror but bad with scary things? This is a not-so-scary horror game made by a developer who feels the same way, created for players who want to enjoy horror without being truly frightened. A pixel-art side-scrolling action adventure with puzzles and light action elements.

Why similar: Hidden Object 29.5%, Action-Adventure 21.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Exploration 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

Indie horror game that will take your adrenaline to another level.

Why similar: Hidden Object 23.7%, Action-Adventure 21%, Action 14.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, Exploration 11.4%

Rope-swing your grappling hook as you explore your way out of this mysterious cave filled with strange characters and handcrafted levels

Why similar: Action-Adventure 18.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, Puzzle 10.6%, Adventure 10.5%, Action 9.3%

Everything fell apart. People started getting sick… not in a normal way. Now the city is desolate, and the only thing that matters is finding out if your best friend is still alive. You'll have to explore, run, hide, and face the contamination.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 21.5%, Adventure 16%, Action 15.7%, Puzzle 13.4%, Exploration 9.6%

The Bad Son is the anti-authority indie horror RPG that your parents don't want you to play.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 17.2%, Story Rich 13.8%, Hidden Object 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Exploration 9.3%

A short top-down narrative game about alcohol, denial, and the first honest moment of accountability.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 23.8%, Exploration 17.2%, Story Rich 11.5%, Adventure 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

You became an archaeologist to uncover the truths of ancient civilisations. You heard a story about a pyramid hidden deep in the sand, accessible only once every few centuries. You didn't put much stock in the story, but decided to investigate it anyway.

Why similar: Hidden Object 20.6%, Action-Adventure 16.6%, Puzzle 11.1%, Supernatural 11%, Exploration 9.5%

Lost memories unleash new ways to fight. Become Zhai, a warrior who has lost both his name and memories. Journey through the divided world of Il’Navir in this third–person open-world action-adventure. Unlock elemental powers through specific tribal trials to forge your own combat style.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 24%, Combat 16.9%, Adventure 16.7%, Action 16.7%, Exploration 14.1%

Play as an old man who wakes up in a mysterious castle full of magic and danger. Explore every corner of the castle and discover what is hidden between the walls of this misterious and ancient place while you keep fighting with monsters and improving your abilities.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 19.5%, Puzzle 13%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 10.1%, Action 9.5%

Scout The Bunker Is a Horror Shooter Game That Takes Place In Russia in an Abandoned Soviet-Era Bunker.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 25%, Adventure 18.7%, Combat 16%, Exploration 14.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Forge your path through a shattered kingdom in this handcrafted action-adventure. Explore worlds bathed in vibrant stained-glass light, master color-based combat, and uncover the mysteries of Lumina’s fallen realm.

Why similar: Hidden Object 20.5%, Action-Adventure 19.3%, Adventure 13.6%, Minimalist 12%, Action 11.4%

Journey through Edo period Japan as you fight demons and explore dungeons to save Japan from demon lord Oden in Blade of the Yokai.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 25.3%, Adventure 18.4%, Action 18.3%, Combat 15%, Exploration 14.8%

Control a flying drone, possess other robots, and solve environmental puzzles in a mysterious world full of hidden challenges.

Why similar: Hidden Object 34%, Action-Adventure 20.2%, Exploration 17.2%, Puzzle 15.1%, Adventure 10.5%

Happy Summer Quest - Vacation is a great time for adventure! Therefore, you decide to go on a journey to find precious stones in distant lands, despite the unpredictable dangers that may meet you on your way.

Why similar: Hidden Object 42.1%, Puzzle 20.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.8%, 2D 10.2%, Indie 5.4%

Wield your magical instrument and defy the mecha-goddesses of fate in this Song-Casting Story Driven Action-RPG. Explore a forbidden forest as Traveler. Help him reunite with his long lost love as you fight through abominations and solve mysterious puzzles, all while an ancient conflict unfolds.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 17.1%, Combat 16.4%, Story Rich 14%, Puzzle 10.9%, Adventure 8.8%

When the king's tyranny is replaced by an alien invasion, the blacksmith becomes a warrior.

Why similar: Hidden Object 21.3%, Action-Adventure 20%, Adventure 14%, Action 13.9%, Exploration 11.8%

A short, quirky 3D action adventure where Oogie sets out to find his legendary chicken, Cluck Cluck, who lays diamond eggs. Explore small open worlds , solve puzzles, battle odd enemies, and uncover hidden secrets in vibrant levels!

Why similar: Action-Adventure 29.6%, Combat 21.9%, Exploration 17.4%, Action 10.9%, Adventure 9.3%

"Cursed Silence" is a relentless plunge into the abyss of psychological horror. Can you confront unfathomable terrors and uncover the mystery shrouding Emily, or will you succumb to the chilling embrace of the void where reality and dreams collide?

Why similar: Hidden Object 22.2%, Action-Adventure 21.2%, Adventure 15.2%, Action 15.1%, Exploration 11.5%

Step into the role of Zephon, the last Guardian, in this third-person action-adventure. Explore the ruins of a once-thriving realm and harness its raw power, channeling it into the elemental forces of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air to defeat the intruders threatening the world’s final collapse.

Why similar: Action-Adventure 18.8%, Minimalist 17.8%, Combat 16.7%, Story Rich 11%, Puzzle 9.5%

"Paradise Beyond the Nightmare" is a 2D exploration horror game where you explore and solve puzzles in a 2D space with depth. You can experience moving both sideways and forwards through eerie paintings.

Why similar: Hidden Object 28.4%, Action-Adventure 22.3%, Action 14.9%, Exploration 11.2%, Psychological 9.3%