Games Like The Entropy Centre

The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.

Why similar: Puzzle 17.5%, Sci-fi 17%, Space 15.9%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, First-Person 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi puzzle game that balances mechanical challenges with a deep, thought-provoking narrative about artificial intelligence.

The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Puzzle 15.7%, First-Person 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sophisticated, philosophical puzzle game that offers complex, rewarding challenges within a stunning sci-fi setting.

The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Funny 9.9%, Puzzle 9.7%, FPS 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for first-person puzzle games, featuring brilliant humor, a strong narrative, and innovative mechanics.

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 20.9%, First-Person 14.6%, Puzzle 14.5%, Physics 13.3%, Story Rich 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features mind-bending perspective-based puzzle mechanics that feel as innovative and satisfying as time-rewinding.

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 20%, First-Person 15.7%, Physics 15.3%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Funny 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal first-person puzzle game that plays with scale and perspective in ways that constantly surprise the player.

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 16.5%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, First-Person 10.4%, Puzzle 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game set in a beautiful sci-fi environment that requires clever manipulation of gravity and magnetism.

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.

Why similar: Puzzle 24.2%, Adventure 15.1%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, First-Person 13.7%, Sci-fi 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers polished first-person puzzle-solving with a distinct sci-fi aesthetic and a focused narrative journey.

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.9%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Space 17.2%, Puzzle Platformer 12.1%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sci-fi puzzle game featuring unique cloning mechanics that force the player to think about space and identity.

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 41.7%, First-Person 25.9%, Exploration 12.1%, Difficult 7.1%, Adventure 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal first-person puzzle game that subverts traditional expectations of space and logic.

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 21%, Puzzle 20.5%, First-Person 17.3%, Difficult 16%, Exploration 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A visually stunning game that challenges players with non-Euclidean geometry and physics-defying puzzle mechanics.

Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.

Why similar: Space 24.1%, Story Rich 13.4%, Sci-fi 13%, Puzzle 12.7%, Exploration 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A masterpiece of exploration and time-loop mechanics that rewards curiosity and logical deduction in a vast sci-fi universe.

Check-in to The Spectrum Retreat for a stay you won’t forget. Manipulate your way to the truth in this captivating narrative-driven puzzler.

Why similar: Puzzle 44.3%, First-Person 40.7%, Adventure 15%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game set in a mysterious hotel that relies on color-based mechanics and a gripping sci-fi story.

A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

Why similar: Puzzle 17.7%, First-Person 14.8%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Futuristic 14.1%, Adventure 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features clever light-based puzzle mechanics that demand careful observation and spatial awareness.

Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.7%, Time Manipulation 20.8% ★, Puzzle 18.2%, First-Person 12.2%, Physics 9%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that allows players to manipulate dimensions, offering a humorous and quirky tone.

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 20.3%, Puzzle 19.2%, Sci-fi 12.3%, First-Person 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational first-person puzzle experience that established the genre's focus on portal-based logic and dark humor.

Immerse yourself in the multidimensional universe of Desordre. Solve intricate puzzles, push the boundaries of 4-dimensional thinking. Get ready for a unique experience where reflection takes on a whole new dimension. Created by one-man development studio SHK Interactive using Unreal Engine.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Physics 9%, Puzzle 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features time-manipulation and portal-like mechanics that directly mirror the gameplay loop of the seed game.

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: Time Manipulation 22.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.9%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Puzzle 12.3%, First-Person 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that centers on time-based mechanics and atmospheric exploration.

Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Female Protagonist 12%, Puzzle 9.7%, Difficult 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique time-manipulation puzzle game that features a female protagonist and requires precise planning to navigate levels.

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 49% ★, Puzzle 12.4%, Story Rich 11%, First-Person 10.2%, Atmospheric 6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven game focused on time-manipulation and changing past events to alter the future.

Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?

Why similar: Time Manipulation 22.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 11.8%, Futuristic 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Puzzle 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that centers on time-based mechanics and logical progression through complex environments.

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 23.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.1%, First-Person 20.7%, Adventure 11.7%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A recursive puzzle game that uses scale manipulation to create unique, mind-bending spatial challenges.

Experience the mind bending power of single player cooperation. Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our propriety engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 63.4% ★, Puzzle 22.5%, Adventure 12%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct exploration of time-manipulation mechanics that allows players to create multiple timelines to solve puzzles.

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

Why similar: Sci-fi 18.2%, Space 16.1%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Futuristic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy sci-fi exploration game that uses time-based playback mechanics to uncover a story.

Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. In an effort to solve the energy crisis, global powers created the World Space Agency and secured a promising new source of energy on the moon.

Why similar: Space 28.9%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Adventure 12.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Puzzle 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sci-fi adventure that combines exploration, narrative, and puzzle-solving in a lunar setting.

The Fall of Lazarus is first person exploration and puzzle game. A deeply narrative scifi mystery game based on the exploration of an abandoned cargo spaceship about redemption and second chances.

Why similar: Sci-fi 17.2%, Space 16%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, First-Person 10.2%, Puzzle 9%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sci-fi puzzle-adventure that emphasizes narrative discovery and environmental storytelling.

Step back into a world of thought-provoking puzzles, philosophical intrigue, and breathtaking visuals with The Talos Principle: Reawakened - a first-person puzzle masterpiece for both new players and long-time fans alike.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Puzzle 13.3%, Futuristic 12.4%, First-Person 12%, FPS 9.7%

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 28.2%, First-Person 18.6%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Physics 10.1%, Space 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The original first-person puzzle experience that focuses on clean, minimalist design and logical progression.

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 26.8%, Sci-fi 17.7%, First-Person 14%, Story Rich 11%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original philosophical puzzle masterpiece that set the bar for deep, narrative-driven first-person puzzle games.

Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a shattered spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to move forward, whichever way that is.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.2%, Physics 12%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle-platformer that focuses on spatial manipulation and environmental navigation.

Join Norah, a woman plagued by a mysterious illness, in her search for her missing husband in this adventure puzzle game set on a lush island paradise. Immerse yourself in stunning visuals and unlock forbidden secrets in a moving tale of mystery and love.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.3%, Puzzle 20.2%, First-Person 17.2%, Story Rich 15.2%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich puzzle adventure featuring a strong female protagonist and an engaging, mysterious narrative.

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: Time Manipulation 35.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14%, Difficult 11.7%, FPS 8.3%, Physics 7.8%

Experience the surreal story of Elea. In this first-person Sci-Fi adventure you play as a space scientist recovering your lost husband. Venture out on a curious interstellar journey, full of devastating memories and startling secrets.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 15.1%, Artificial Intelligence 14.9%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Space 11.4%, First-Person 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi adventure that prioritizes a strong female protagonist and a rich, cinematic narrative experience.

In this logic based puzzle game, switch between Orbs to solve puzzles and light up your world. Play co-op with yourself, freeze time, fly drones, play with sound… and overcome the evil shadow interfering with your quest.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.3% ★, Futuristic 11.5%, Puzzle Platformer 10.9%, Puzzle 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.6%

A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art

Why similar: Female Protagonist 15.5%, Futuristic 14.9%, Puzzle 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Space 11.6%

Help Artificial Intelligence named HAWKING activate an incredible mechanism that can reload the Universe!

Why similar: Futuristic 21.9%, Artificial Intelligence 15.2%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Puzzle 13.7%, First-Person 12.6%

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: Time Manipulation 25.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Physics 12%, Artificial Intelligence 11.9%, Puzzle 11.2%

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 14.6%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Puzzle 13.4%, Futuristic 12.7%, First-Person 12.1%

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: Time Manipulation 43.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 16.6%, Story Rich 10%, Puzzle 9.7%, Funny 8.7%

.T.E.S.T: Expected Behavior is a first-person brain twister with a sci-fi plot. On top of logic, you'll need a fast reaction speed, "outside the box" reasoning, and the skill to adapt to unfamiliar situations.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.2% ★, Puzzle 20%, Sci-fi 17.1%, First-Person 8.9%, Adventure 4.8%

Play as Sally, the granddaughter of a brilliant and eccentric inventor, who invited you to explore her 70s lab, filled with unique inventions. Solve puzzles by crossing TV screens that alter your gravity, size, or both. Observation, manipulation, and thinking are key to progressing!

Why similar: Puzzle 21.9%, First-Person 20.3%, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Physics 13.4%, Sci-fi 12.5%

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: Time Manipulation 43.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Difficult 13%, Puzzle 9.2%, Platformer 7.5%

Deliver Us Mars is an atmospheric sci-fi adventure taking you on a suspense-fuelled, high-stakes mission to recover the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Space 13%, Female Protagonist 12.3%

In the future, giant city-states have emerged, separated from each other by indestructible barriers. Most professions have been taken over by machines. People work mainly as mechanics, programmers or operators.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.8%, FPS 8.6%, Platformer 8%

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: Time Manipulation 37.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 12.3%, Funny 10.1%, Difficult 8.9%, Physics 8.4%

Faraday Protocol is a first person puzzle game that will test your wits and intelligence. Use the Bia-Tool, an ancient pistol-like relic of an alien civilization, to solve puzzles by bending energy and manipulating enigmatic machinery.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 16.5%, Futuristic 15.9%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Puzzle 13.1%, First-Person 12.8%

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: First-Person 20.6%, Story Rich 16%, Puzzle 15.4%, Funny 14.6%, Adventure 13.6%

Dive into a surreal 1970s gameworld and save San Francisco from a sinister threat. Play as Barb, and use the Oscillator to capture and reapply the physical traits of objects to solve mind-bending environmental platforming puzzles.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 17%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Physics 12.8%, First-Person 12.3%, Puzzle 11.9%

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 28.1%, First-Person 19%, Puzzle 18.4%, Exploration 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.

Why similar: Futuristic 25.2%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Space 14.5%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, First-Person 8.9%

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: Time Manipulation 34.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.1%, First-Person 12.7%, Puzzle 11.7%, Platformer 8.5%

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: Futuristic 19.5%, Puzzle 18.7%, Sci-fi 16.4%, First-Person 15.6%, Puzzle Platformer 13.7%

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: Time Manipulation 34.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Funny 11%, Difficult 10.6%, Puzzle 9.2%

STARDROP is an interactive sci-fi cinematic experience.

Why similar: Space 17.3%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Sci-fi 14%, Story Rich 10.3%, First-Person 9.2%

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 24.3%, Sci-fi 24.2%, Puzzle 20.8%, Story Rich 16%, Space 10.5%

Dr. Herman, your sci-fi journey begins. Armed only with your mind and the Manipulator that operates with different types of energy, you'll have to pass through portals, visit parallel worlds, and solve physics-based puzzles.

Why similar: Sci-fi 18.5%, Physics 15.5%, Puzzle 14.8%, First-Person 13.9%, Story Rich 12.7%

Run, jump, rewind, and avoid a time paradox? A time-traveling gal changes the past where she drank tapioca to prevent the extinction of humanity in this time-loop action puzzle game!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 77.2% ★, Puzzle 17.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%, Adventure 2.2%

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: Sci-fi 20%, Puzzle 19%, First-Person 18.3%, Difficult 13.3%, Futuristic 9.9%