
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Story Rich, Puzzle, 2D.

Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.

Kill The Clock
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.

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Play as 25yo writer Jian Xun in a 5-min deadline loop. Your script is alive! In this thriller puzzle, use "keyframe sorting" to piece stories. Fight AI, break the 4th wall & escape the nightmare!
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Time Travel 18.4% ★, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Investigation 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Play as 25yo writer Jian Xun in a 5-min deadline loop. Your script is alive! In this thriller puzzle, use "keyframe sorting" to piece stories. Fight AI, break the 4th wall & escape the nightmare!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Puzzle 13.8%, Cartoony 13.1%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 40.3% ★, Detective 13.7%, Puzzle 10.7%, Mystery 10.2%, Investigation 7.5%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Detective 27%, Psychological Horror 12%, Anime 10.2%, Logic 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.
Why similar: Time Travel 21.9% ★, Detective 16.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Escape from the looping office. Observe the office carefully and look for any anomaly to reach the main entrance.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 49%, Cute 27.4%, Investigation 16.4%, Story Rich 7.2%
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: Time Travel 47.4% ★, Logic 19.5%, Puzzle 14.7%, Top-Down 12.9%, Cute 5.5%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Anime 14%, Story Rich 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Anime 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Why similar: Detective 28%, Nonlinear 25.5%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Mystery 12.3%, Puzzle 11%
A bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller featuring multiple casualties and a suspicious cat, from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.4%, Top-Down 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Story Rich 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
Why similar: Time Travel 29.3% ★, Top-Down 16.5%, Puzzle 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Mystery 8.6%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Travel 20.8% ★, Detective 19.6%, Investigation 11%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Otome × Death Game × Mild Horror Multiple Endings Puzzle RPG
Why similar: Multiple Endings 25.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Choices Matter 14%, Story Rich 13%, Puzzle 9.7%
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: Choices Matter 16%, Story Rich 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Cute 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Time Travel 21% ★, Detective 16.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Investigation 8.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
A deceptively difficult deduction game about one very unfortunate family. Revisit their worst moments, form your own conclusions, and solve this silly yet challenging mystery.
Why similar: Detective 26.3%, Investigation 14.9%, Logic 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Puzzle 8.7%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Anime 13.9%, Cute 10.8%
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Why similar: Time Travel 52.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Anime 18.1%, 2D 9.1%
Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.1%, Time Travel 18.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Puzzle 11.5%
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Investigation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Logic 8.8%, Puzzle 8.8%
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Anime 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
timeloop depression station ✦ In Stars and Time's prototype-thingy-thing
Why similar: Time Travel 32% ★, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Top-Down 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: Cartoony 16.1%, Anime 15.4%, Puzzle 15.1%, Cute 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9%
A completely self-contained portable version of one of the highest user-rated games. Built on an entirely new engine with new UI, support for Steam Deck, & more. Features world-bending puzzles, intriguing denizens, surreal environments, and a captivating story about the truth of the game's reality.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Puzzle 15.2%, Story Rich 11.5%, Cute 11.4%
Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.
Why similar: Detective 27.9%, Puzzle 14.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Puzzle 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Top-Down 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Your girlfriend seems to be hiding something. Will you respect her privacy or pry into her secrets? Don't worry, though. This is a horror dating sim with a time loop, so you can try again...and again...and again...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Mystery 15.9%, Anime 12.6%, Story Rich 10.8%
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.5%, Investigation 19.6%, Nonlinear 15.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Mystery 12.5%
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Why similar: Nonlinear 38.7%, Choices Matter 28.2%, Multiple Endings 21.5%, Story Rich 11.7%
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Why similar: Time Travel 39.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choices Matter 18%, Story Rich 11.9%, Mystery 10.8%
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Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.8%, Multiple Endings 22.1%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Cute 13.6%, Story Rich 10%
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Why similar: Detective 27.2%, Logic 13%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Investigation 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
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Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Top-Down 20.1%, Puzzle 16.9%, Cute 14.6%, Logic 10.1%
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Why similar: Time Travel 48.6% ★, Puzzle 13.6%, Cartoony 10.7%, Cute 9.6%, Logic 8.9%
Just as you begin to settle in for a fun day at your best friend's house, something changes in her and she kills you. And not just once—she ends your life time and time and time again.Your goal is to escape from this endless loop of despair.
Why similar: Top-Down 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Anime 19.1%, Cute 17.2%, 2D 10.6%
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Why similar: Detective 24.7%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Mystery 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Story Rich 10.2%
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Why similar: Investigation 36.4%, Puzzle 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Story Rich 12.3%
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Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Investigation 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%
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Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Puzzle 10.6%, Story Rich 9.9%
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Why similar: Investigation 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Puzzle 15.6%, Story Rich 10%
"I drink Sorrel Coffee to reboot reality, but I'm being hunted by Monster Girls and armed agents" is a branching visual novel where your choices truly matter...
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Nonlinear 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Cute 8.9%
You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?
Why similar: Time Travel 29% ★, Detective 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Investigation 13.2%, Logic 12.1%
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Why similar: Nonlinear 18.9%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Investigation 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
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Why similar: Detective 45.1%, Puzzle 16%, Mystery 13.7%, Story Rich 13.5%, Cute 11.8%
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the console, and - just maybe - save everyone. But be careful. The locks aren't just there for you.
Why similar: Investigation 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Puzzle 18.9%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Story Rich 13.4%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Logic 8.9%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.2%, Detective 25.4%, Mystery 15.5%, Story Rich 12.5%, Anime 8.1%
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Why similar: Detective 29.3%, Investigation 18.9%, Cartoony 13.7%, Anime 11.5%, Story Rich 9.4%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Story Rich 13.9%, Mystery 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.1% ★, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Story Rich 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Memories are malleable and changing them will modify the present. Tackle mind-bending puzzles that rely on altering your own recollections to shape the future.
Why similar: Detective 39.6%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Logic 16.9%, Investigation 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
Embark on a journey of anomalies and repetition in "Prison Loop," a captivating indie puzzle game. Trapped in a mysterious temporal loop within a high-security prison, your objective is to observe anomalies throughout the environment.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 50.6%, Puzzle 29.6%, Mystery 19.9%
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.7%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Anime 11.6%, Story Rich 11.4%
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: Detective 37.6%, Anime 16.2%, Puzzle 15.1%, Story Rich 13.5%, Mystery 9.6%
You woke up and found yourself in an anomalous endless place from which it is not so easy to get out. Carefully observe your surroundings to find a way out of this place.
Why similar: Puzzle 43.4%, Psychological Horror 34%, Choices Matter 22.6%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Detective 26%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Investigation 11.1%, Anime 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Time Travel 25.1% ★, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Investigation 10.5%, Anime 10.4%