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Games Like The Matter Gun

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Puzzle Platformer, Metroidvania, Platformer.

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SHOOT NOT TO KILL? use The Matter Gun to traverse this one of a kind 2d PUZZLE-platformer (metroidvania/brania). Drop into the lab, explore the caves, discover new types of matter, uncover secrets, and try not to cause the end of the world...or something.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: To be announced
Developer: Karumbe Games
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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    97% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MuggleGreen
    Windows

    A Metroidvania puzzle adventure. You arrive at a sentient building filled with intriguing interactive props. Learning to use these tools is how it communicates with you.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Puzzle Platformer 25%, Platformer 15.6%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 7.9%

  2. #2 TWINSTAR 双星
    96% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Yuhan HE
    Windows

    A sci-fi fantasy Metroidvania where you play as a vampire adrift in space. Awaken in a strange space lab, explore the station, solve puzzles, defeat enemies, find hidden rooms, collect odd items, awaken lost powers, and uncover a secret buried deep within.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.8%, Exploration 11.3%, Platformer 9.9%, Puzzle 8.7%

  3. #3 1000 Amps
    96% matchMostly Positive79% of 346 reviews2012
    Dev: Brandon Brizzi
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 24 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.6%, Metroidvania 31.1%, Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle 9.5%, Adventure 3.6%

  4. #4 The SOL Device 2
    95% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2021
    Dev: Straitlace Studios
    Windows

    After escaping the research ship, Samuel finds himself crash landed on a foreign planet overrun by a hostile organization. Now it's up to Samuel and his trusty SOL equipment to rescue the scientists who also escaped the ship, and find a way off of the planet.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 34.3%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Exploration 11%, Platformer 10.7%, Puzzle 7.9%

  5. #5 Polly's Puzzle Box
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Box Penguin Games
    Windows · Mac

    As a small flea, explore a mysterious puzzle box filled with shapes and secrets. Gather strange items with hidden abilities, and unravel a trail of clues as you attempt to escape.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 37.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19%, Exploration 10.7%, Platformer 10%, Puzzle 8.3%

  6. #6 ANIMAL WELL
    93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,075 reviews2024
    Dev: Billy BassoPub: Bigmode
    Windows
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 38.9%, Puzzle Platformer 19.8%, Exploration 11.4%, Platformer 9.6%, Puzzle 8.3%

  7. #7 Shell Soul:The Skull
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BlueWindGame
    Windows

    A nameless skeleton awakens in a graveyard. To recover lost memories and uncover the truth, it embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 39.9%, Puzzle Platformer 21.2%, Exploration 14.1%, Puzzle 7.9%, Multiple Endings 6.2%

  8. #8 Nonolith
    92% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Justcamh
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The NONOLITH consumes you. Copy and paste the world around you to discover the secrets of this ancient, enigmatic structure. You are very powerful, you just don't know it yet.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 31.5%, Puzzle Platformer 19.2%, Exploration 10.4%, Platformer 9.2%, Puzzle 7.2%

  9. #9 Spatial Dip
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Andrew GrantPub: Assorted Nonsense Games
    Windows · Mac

    Scale into ever-smaller nested worlds. Shrink into your spaceship's mechanisms. Uncover the fractal worlds within and meet the zany goobers who call them home. Track down the root of the system errors, whether by replacing old gears or getting Grandma Beetle's bakery back in business.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 23.5%, Exploration 13.3%, Platformer 7.6%, Puzzle 5.7%

  10. #10 Norman's Night In
    91% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2019
    Dev: Bactrian Games
    Windows

    Norman finds himself lost in a cave with nothing but his new bowling ball and a weird feeling that somehow he was meant to be there.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 35.8%, Puzzle Platformer 20.7%, Platformer 12.7%, Adventure 7.6%, Physics 6.9%

  11. #11 TOUKAN
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: .mar1000
    Windows

    Explore a mysterious world where every melody can reveal a forgotten passage. Use your beak, your song and your knowledge to progress and uncover the many secrets buried deep within the Metroidvania Puzzle-Platformer that is TOUKAN.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 36.8%, Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, Exploration 10.1%, Logic 7.3%, Platformer 6.4%

  12. #12 Switch Box
    89% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2025
    Dev: 鲁搬三试
    Windows

    "Switch Box" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle platformer. In an unfamiliar world, you must interact with the environment and utilize tools to solve challenges, overcome obstacles, and ultimately discover the path back home.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 31.1%, Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Exploration 7.3%

  13. #13 Öoo
    87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 6,170 reviews2025
    Dev: NamaTakahashi
    Windows
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 34.9%, Puzzle Platformer 24.2%, Platformer 10.8%, Exploration 10.7%, Puzzle 8.5%

  14. #14 Refactor
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NextGen Pants, Inc
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Refactor is a physics-based platformer taking elements from classic Metroidvanias. Placed in a world that is a puzzle itself, you can literally turn the world upside down by rearranging the map and building your own pathways through the game.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 49.7%, Puzzle Platformer 29.6%, Platformer 11.9%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 3.4%

  15. #15 PITH
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ItllBeFunTheySaid
    Windows

    Traverse a wonderful and strange world of cubes shrouded in fog in PITH, a 3D metroidvania adventure. Find tools to help delve deeper and uncover secrets that were hiding in plain sight.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 42.9%, Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, Platformer 8.4%, Exploration 8.3%, Puzzle 7.8%

  16. #16 KnightLight
    86% matchVery Positive95% of 120 reviews2024
    Dev: LuminosityPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
    Windows

    A 2D puzzle-platformer where you light your way through the darkness. Play as the Light, exploring an abandoned civilization where you find a suit of armor that seems to have magical properties. Suit up using the powers of the suit to channel your light magic to see what this strange place hides.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 39%, Puzzle Platformer 20.9%, Exploration 14.2%, Platformer 9.3%, Puzzle 6.8%

  17. #17 故障与漏洞世界
    86% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: Stellar Reverie
    Windows

    《故障与漏洞世界》是一款平台解密游戏。你将探索这个未知且充满危险的世界,获取各种奇妙能力并发掘出意想不到的用法,最终解开这个世界的秘密。

    Why similar: Metroidvania 47.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25.6%, Puzzle 9.6%, Adventure 4.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%

  18. #18 FeatherCall
    85% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: DreamVeil Studios
    Windows

    FeatherCall is a fast pace, puzzle platformer where you help Luna, a mother blue bird, rescue her lost children. Brave numerous challenges and puzzles by Dashing to new heights, Throwing a guiding feather, and Gliding back to safety!

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    84% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
    Dev: travisisgood
    Windows

    Core Descent is a puzzle-platformer set in a vivid world filled with puzzles to solve, items to collect, and secrets to find.

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  20. #20 Beneath the Ghost Kingdom
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: From Highberg
    Windows

    Venture beneath the Ghost Kingdom where you will encounter strange creatures, solve puzzles and uncover hidden secrets!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Puzzle Platformer 17.3%, Platformer 16.1%, Puzzle 10.5%, Exploration 10%

  21. #21 Somnium Shore
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Rodrigo Pelegrini R.
    Windows

    A challenging, 2D Platform Adventure game where all level mechanics can change if you don't stay balanced. Help Ethan to grow up and leave his roots in order to pursue his dreams, find clues about his past and fight against your nightmares in your journey to the Somnium Shore!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 45.3%, Platformer 17%, Exploration 14.3%, Puzzle Platformer 8.6%, Adventure 5.9%

  22. #22 Kami: The Great Guardian
    82% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
    Dev: Endemic Artifacts
    Windows

    In this short, compact 2D Metroidvania, join Kami on their quest to save their homeland from a calamity wrought from the stars. Use the abilities you discover to explore deeper into the source of this corruption and restore nature.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 53.2%, Platformer 15.8%, Exploration 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%, 2D 4.6%

  23. #23 Sisyphus Is a Bug
    81% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2025
    Dev: moraguma
    Windows · Linux

    As punishment for dirtying Olympus's marble halls, Sisyphus, the dung beetle, must push his ball of dung up and down Mount Olympus every day, for the rest of his life. That is, unless he can complete the seemingly impossible task of reaching Olympus before the sun sets

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  24. #24 Dark Labyrinth
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Xiaote
    Windows

    You have stumbled into a world shrouded in darkness, where your body has transformed into that of a strange creature. Using your ability to dispel the darkness, you must explore and learn within this mysterious realm, uncovering the truth of this world while seeking a way to return to your own.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 36.9%, Puzzle Platformer 21.9%, Exploration 11.8%, Platformer 11.6%, Puzzle 8.6%

  25. #25 After Hue
    81% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Afterthought
    Windows

    After Hue is a charming puzzle platformer starring an adorable chameleon on a grand adventure! Shift colors, phase through obstacles, and unravel the mysteries hidden within every hue!

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.8%, Metroidvania 19.9%, Exploration 12%, Platformer 11.4%, Puzzle 10.4%

  26. #26 Surface Tension: Eclipse
    79% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Redo Games
    Windows

    Move lights. Walk on shadows. Surface Tension: Eclipse is a surreal 2D puzzlevania where cast shadows become solid platforms, every room is a spatial riddle, and the darkness hides more than it reveals.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 40.6%, Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, Puzzle 9.7%, Platformer 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%

  27. #27 Ascent DX
    78% matchVery Positive99% of 284 reviews2025
    Dev: Johan PeitzPub: Apskeppet
    Windows · Mac

    Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 51.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Platformer 13.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Adventure 5.8%

  28. #28 Full Bore
    80% matchVery Positive85% of 245 reviews2014
    Dev: Whole Hog GamesPub: Nkidu Games Inc.
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Deep underground lies a reminder of Boarkind’s darkest hours. All it takes is one little boar to dig it back up. A block puzzler with an exploratory twist, Full Bore throws the player into an open world of crumbling mines, arcane ruins, and technological wonders with only curiosity to lead the way.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 28.1%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Platformer 14.7%, Puzzle 14%, Exploration 8.2%

  29. #29 Amalu, Wells between worlds
    79% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: IndieTech Studio
    Windows

    Amalu: Wells Between Worlds is a pixel-art 2D platformer, and Metroidvania blending Atmospheric exploration, Spell-casting puzzle mechanics, Amazigh/North African mythology and an emotional storytelling

    Why similar: Metroidvania 41.3%, Puzzle Platformer 22.1%, Exploration 14.5%, Platformer 11.8%, Adventure 3.2%

  30. #30 Tool Land
    78% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: bjsjsk
    Windows

    Tool Land is an adventure exploration platformer puzzle game. Collect tools with unique functions, uncover the secrets behind various mechanisms, and explore every corner of this hand-drawn doodle art world!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 33.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Platformer 12.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Puzzle 9.1%

  31. #31 Teslagrad
    77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,467 reviews2013
    Dev: Rain Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.

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  32. #32 方块 Block
    75% matchPositive94% of 32 reviews2026
    Dev: GlanielStudio
    Windows

    Block is a minimalist platform puzzle game where you explore various bizarre locations and interact with creative scene mechanisms!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 44.9%, Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, Platformer 12.3%, Puzzle 8%, Logic 6.8%

  33. #33 Lyden Lys
    76% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Løftet
    Windows

    Lyden Lys is a knowledge-based metroidvania about an existential journey through a lost homeland. Control the surroundings through music, explore a smoldering world, discover what happened to your people, decide the fate of your successors, and find yourself.

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  34. #34 If you win...you lose !
    77% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2022
    Dev: Mohamed Trigui.
    Windows

    A quite difficult and quite original platform adventure game, die and retry.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.5%, Metroidvania 23.5%, Platformer 19.6%, Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

  35. #35 La-Mulana
    76% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,607 reviews2013
    Dev: NIGOROPub: PLAYISM
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.

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  36. #36 Leap Year
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,092 reviews2024
    Dev: Daniel Linssen
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Puzzle Platformer 21%, Exploration 11.5%, Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 7.6%

  37. #37 Outpost Delta
    75% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2020
    Dev: Hidden Achievement LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.

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  38. #38 Inversion Day
    74% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Ján & Josh
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Invert the world around you in this atmospheric pixel-art puzzle platformer. Escape an alien spaceship with your dog using mysterious artifacts that reshape reality, uncover hidden secrets, and solve increasingly difficult handcrafted puzzles.

    Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.3%, Metroidvania 24%, Platformer 10%, Puzzle 8.4%, Exploration 8.3%

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    74% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Drunk Robot Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A character collecting puzzle Metroidvania about potato cats on the Isle of Moar.

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  40. #40 Rift Walker
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: ahando
    Windows

    Rift Walker is an open world 2D puzzle platformer where... there aren't any platforms?

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  41. #41 Hob
    73% matchVery Positive88% of 5,549 reviews2017
    Dev: Runic GamesPub: Arc Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 31.7%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Platformer 14.3%, Exploration 12.2%, Puzzle 10.7%

  42. #42 Frank and Stein
    72% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Emberstaff Studio
    Windows · Linux

    Trapped in one stitched body, Frank & Stein must swap heads to survive this gloomy Metroidvania. Wield light and psychic powers to explore a castle shrouded in darkness, solve puzzles and reveal the unseen. Discover abilities and secrets, but beware of threats lurking in these twisted corridors...

    Why similar: Metroidvania 45.8%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Exploration 12.7%, Puzzle 9.6%, Platformer 6.1%

  43. #43 Nerdtastic Norman & The Soul Fragments
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Section 8 Studios
    Windows

    Nerdtastic Norman is a 2d scrolling puzzle platformer set in purgatory based on Dante's Inferno. Over 70 unique levels, dangerously hard boss battles, and 1 unique story. Help Norman gather the missing pieces of his shattered soul, and help him return to the land of the living.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 41.1%, Puzzle Platformer 23.4%, Exploration 7.2%, Platformer 7.1%, 2D 5.3%

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    70% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
    Dev: Art&Fact
    Windows

    Portal Walk is incredible pixel platformer about an adventure between worlds with action events and challenging bosses.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 33.3%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Platformer 12.8%, Exploration 10.1%, Logic 8.2%

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    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Cosmogonia Games
    Windows

    BitUp is a side scrolling, exploration metroidvania game set in a Cubist-Impressionist universe. A game kept hidden by its legendary creator, while its protagonist looks for answers. Players must aid Bit in its quest to find out what lies beyond.

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    71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,634 reviews2015
    Dev: Arvi TeikariPub: Hempuli Oy
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

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  47. #47 Ascender
    72% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2017
    Dev: GameChanger Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Ascender is a 2D explorative puzzle metroidvania. The game is set in the open world of GOA's districts, and the player will face many unique puzzles to solve. Warning!! This game will truly challenge your puzzle and platforming skill :D

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    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Clever Cat GamesPub: 8 Bit Legit
    Windows · Linux

    Wake up in a world where stories come to life. In this enchanted 8-bit musical adventure, use the power of song to explore whimsical book-inspired realms, solve puzzles, and help Rhapsody find her way home from a library that doesn't want to let her go.

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  49. #49 Null Path
    69% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: NordlePub: Moist Men Studios
    Windows

    Your skill, patience, and ingenuity will be tested in this homage to precision platformers! Traverse various biomes, from caves to volcanic wastelands and mysterious towers. Each environment with it's own deadly traps, puzzles, and challenges designed to push you to your limits.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 39.6%, Puzzle Platformer 26.3%, Platformer 11.9%, Puzzle 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%

  50. #50 Get the Ball Rolling
    69% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2022
    Dev: GET THE BALL ROLLING LLC
    Windows

    A single player ball rolling adventure/platformer with puzzles, powerups, physics, portals and gravity flips. Get the Ball Rolling!

    Why similar: Metroidvania 42.4%, Puzzle Platformer 24.2%, Exploration 14.1%, Platformer 6.2%, Physics 4.3%

  51. #51 Gateways
    70% matchVery Positive90% of 251 reviews2012
    Dev: Smudged Cat Games Ltd
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 36 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.

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  52. #52 Iconoclasts
    68% matchVery Positive86% of 4,968 reviews2018
    Dev: Joakim SandbergPub: Bifrost Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    68% matchVery Positive89% of 316 reviews2022
    Dev: Gustav Almström
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    Skala is a puzzle game about changing the scale of the world.

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  54. #54 Ember Fall
    67% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: ASH GAMES
    Windows

    Step into the shoes of a lone wanderer in a ruined world, guarding the last ember of hope. Solve creative light-based puzzles, battle predators lurking in the shadows, and uncover the forgotten secrets of a broken land in this emotional platformer adventure.

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    67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2026
    Dev: Restart Studio
    Windows

    Dive into the conscious and use your brushes to solve puzzles, reclaim forgotten memories.

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    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: TDGame Studio
    Windows

    Relic Light is a pixel-style puzzle-action dungeon game. You will play as an explorer who arrives at the remaining ruins, explores to acquire various skills, solves the complex and diverse puzzles within, and discovers the ultimate secret of the ruins.

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  57. #57 Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
    69% matchVery Positive87% of 903 reviews2012
    Dev: Shadow Planet ProductionsPub: Xbox Game Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 46%

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  58. #58 Undying Elf
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 百里
    Windows · Linux

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  59. #59 Supraland
    66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 14,994 reviews2019
    Dev: Supra Games
    Windows
    Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Try the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places. Playtime 12-25h.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 37.8%, Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Exploration 12.1%, Puzzle 8.3%, Platformer 6.4%

  60. #60 Dirtlight
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Applava
    Windows

    Dig through an odd world full of dangerous creatures. Uncover hidden paths and long-buried secrets. Dirtlight is a metroidvania where the journey runs deep, and offers unexpected ways to explore.

    Why similar: Metroidvania 52.5%, Platformer 15.4%, Exploration 14.4%, Puzzle 9.3%, Adventure 5.3%

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