Games Like The Shape of Time

Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.

Why similar: Philosophical 31.2%, Science 29.2%, Physics 20.1%, Education 14.1%, First-Person 4.6%

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 45.6% ★, Philosophical 34.7%, First-Person 6.9%, Realistic 5.8%, Exploration 5.3%

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: Interactive Fiction 43.9%, Cinematic 21.3%, Realistic 8%, First-Person 7.8%, Casual 7.6%

Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction.

Why similar: Casual 30.1%, First-Person 29.6%, Exploration 25%, Indie 15.4%

.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 84.3% ★, First-Person 6.9%, Indie 4.5%, Exploration 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%

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 91.7% ★, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 2%

Manipulate time to your will at any moment to solve challenges, avoid deadly traps and make it to the end of this strange journey.

Why similar: First-Person 35.6%, Indie 29.1%, Exploration 25.1%, Singleplayer 10.2%

Is the earth a globe? Why do you think that? Does your everyday life confirm that fact? Explore the alternative of the Flat Earth Simulator! An interactive simulation of the day and night cycle on a flat earth with information waypoints all over the terran plane.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 46.4% ★, Narration 31.6%, Education 12.6%, Exploration 8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

"ChronoRecorder" is a 3D puzzle game. Players can manipulate time and gravity. And you have to use that ability to solve problems. You might think this game is difficult if you don't use your brain.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 87.4% ★, Casual 8.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%, Indie 1.9%

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 66.8% ★, Physics 25.5%, Exploration 7.7%

Gravity Field is a spatial-logic puzzle game with time inverted objects, with no top or bottom.

Why similar: Science 35.8%, Time Manipulation 33.4% ★, Physics 19.9%, First-Person 6.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

The Virtual Exhibition makes it possible to visit a gallery from the comfort of your own home and behaves like a real curated gallery. New features and photographers will be added regularly.

Why similar: Philosophical 46.4%, Education 21.4%, Realistic 9.8%, First-Person 8.9%, Exploration 7.4%

Tell the 5 million year story of the mammoth in 5 minutes.

Why similar: Philosophical 44.1%, Narration 42.9%, Casual 7.6%, Indie 5.4%

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

Why similar: Time Manipulation 65.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, First-Person 5.6%, Exploration 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect.

Why similar: Indie 100%

You are a time traveller tasked with exploring the Jurassic era and the creatures that once ruled the prehistoric oceans. Use an array of advanced tech tools to track, examine, and discover the scientific secrets of mosasaurs, livyatans, and megalodons, among others!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.1% ★, Science 32.1%, Education 8.2%, First-Person 5.2%, Exploration 4.5%

Milling machine simulator will inspire novices and experts alike. Realistic physics and movements allow you to familiarize yourself with the machine in a 3D workshop setting. Enjoy playing around, learning and prototyping in Free milling mode. Or challenge yourself in Career mode.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 52.1% ★, Education 20.5%, Realistic 11.7%, First-Person 7.8%, Casual 3.8%

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 60% ★, Physics 14.5%, Science 14.4%, First-Person 5.4%, Casual 2.9%

Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 68.1% ★, Physics 16.2%, First-Person 8.8%, Exploration 4.8%, Singleplayer 2%

A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 66.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, First-Person 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%, Casual 0.9%

Overview is a mind-changing experience about our position in the Universe. With a narrative and an interactive mode, it features realistic imagery and accurate data to leave you in awe and wonder at the vastness of the Cosmos.

Why similar: Science 36.8%, Physics 18.9%, Education 16.3%, Cinematic 9.6%, Exploration 6.2%

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: Exploration 52.5%, Casual 25.6%, Singleplayer 11.9%, Indie 10.1%

A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.

Why similar: Philosophical 53.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Exploration 9.5%, First-Person 5.7%, Indie 1.7%

Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 41.2% ★, Philosophical 40.5%, Physics 15%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Transcender is a brief interactive experience that takes place in a surreal sci-fi setting. Figuring out how to play and what to do is the main attraction of the experience. It will hopefully leave you thinking "Hmm, that was interesting"

Why similar: Exploration 67%, Indie 21.2%, Singleplayer 11.8%

A VR puzzle game with sci-fi and escape room elements: control time, solve challenges, fight enemies, and explore worlds across different timelines.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 80.8% ★, Science 7.4%, Casual 5.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%, Indie 1.8%

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: Philosophical 68.2%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Singleplayer 2.4%, Indie 2.4%

Secrets of Soil is an interactive journey that explores the hidden world of soil and its role in combating climate change. Your journey will take you to a microscopic world, witnessing the essential life forms that live there.

Why similar: Narration 40%, Education 31.1%, First-Person 8.2%, Casual 8.2%, Exploration 6.9%

TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?

Why similar: First-Person 39.9%, Exploration 35.6%, Casual 15.3%, Indie 5.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%

You have exactly 60 minutes to save humanity from nuclear extinction. There are no second attempts. No manual saves. Explore a collapsing bunker, repair critical systems, and solve puzzles under pressure. Succeed or watch the world end.

Why similar: Science 40.3%, Interactive Fiction 35.3%, First-Person 10.8%, Casual 9.6%, Singleplayer 4%

Everyone knows the dial of a mechanical watch, but sometimes the position of the hands makes you wonder!?

Why similar: Education 68.1%, Casual 24.9%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Go on a trip through time! Experience the freedom of traveling into any date, hour and minute in time between the years 1 and 3033 AD! Help your best friend Edward in his scientific affairs! Watch out for the Time Agents & avoid yourself!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 71.8% ★, Physics 18.8%, First-Person 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%, Indie 1.2%

“Thing-in-Itself” is a short interactive story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant’s concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter.

Why similar: Philosophical 54.8%, Interactive Fiction 29.8%, First-Person 6.6%, Casual 3.9%, Indie 2.8%

An interactive exploration into the aesthetics of food.

Why similar: Physics 69.3%, Casual 21.8%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Clock Simulator is a mindful game of rhythm and focus in which YOU are the clock. Click once a second, every second. Don't be late. Don't hurry. There's nothing else to be concerned with. Clear your mind and discover new depths of relaxation while becoming time itself!

Why similar: Indie 48.7%, Realistic 38.8%, Singleplayer 12.4%

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 Manipulation 93% ★, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 54.8%, Casual 27.8%, Indie 12.7%, Singleplayer 4.7%

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 32.2% ★, Narration 24.7%, Science 18.4%, Physics 16.4%, First-Person 5.7%

In Aery – A Journey Beyond Time you are in the role of a flying god-like creature which observes the world and their inhabitants while they grow and evolve through time. Are you ready to explore time itself?

Why similar: Casual 52.5%, Indie 25.6%, Singleplayer 21.9%

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 70.4% ★, First-Person 14.9%, Exploration 8.7%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.9%

The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.

Why similar: Philosophical 61.6%, First-Person 22.9%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 6.3%

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: Realistic 30.8%, First-Person 29.5%, Casual 19.7%, Singleplayer 11.2%, Indie 8.8%

Become an apprentice of the famous Leonardo da Vinci. Solve handcrafted mechanical 3D puzzles and discover hidden secrets. Navigate through mesmerizing environments of the Italian Renaissance. Travel through time to influence your surroundings.

Why similar: Exploration 55.5%, Indie 19.1%, First-Person 13.3%, Casual 6.7%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Interact with elements and molecules in a way that you have never before! Observe them and make them react with each other in the sandbox mode. Synthesize every molecule in the quest mode. Discover countless macromolecules and the elegancy of chemistry.

Why similar: Science 57.7%, Education 21.6%, Realistic 10.2%, First-Person 8.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%

EXPERIENCE this Story-Driven Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that blends Your Real Life with Science Fiction as it explores the Dark Limits of Conspiracy, Alternate History, The Supernatural and Fringe Science.

Why similar: Indie 100%

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 72.9% ★, Physics 20.6%, Exploration 4.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Take control of a test subject tasked with testing out a new device capable of shrinking and enlarging the user. Take on a few tests by changing your size and weight in this short single-player experience.

Why similar: Narration 49.8%, First-Person 23.2%, Casual 15.8%, Singleplayer 6.4%, Indie 4.7%

The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell is an educational virtual reality experience that takes the user inside the human body.

Why similar: Education 65.3%, Casual 34.7%

Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Why similar: Science 50.4%, Physics 24.2%, First-Person 12.1%, Exploration 6.6%, Indie 3.9%

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 91.2%, Singleplayer 5%, Indie 3.8%

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 65% ★, Physics 17.9%, First-Person 6.9%, Casual 5.9%, Indie 2.2%

Discover what lies beyond our reality with Alchemy. A portal-like experience that will challenge you to think with potions while trying to solve the mysteries of this strange new place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Science 35%, Cinematic 20.6%, First-Person 7.3%

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: First-Person 47.3%, Exploration 35.2%, Singleplayer 10.6%, Indie 6.9%

In Aery – A Journey Beyond Time you are in the role of a flying god-like creature which observes the world and their inhabitants while they grow and evolve through time. Are you ready to explore time itself?

Why similar: Exploration 56.5%, Casual 37.1%, Singleplayer 3.6%, Indie 2.9%

Relax, make time for yourself and collect unique and beautiful gifts from the sea. Examine seashells while learning all about them in this short, experimental game about our favourite place to unwind.

Why similar: Science 62.6%, Education 16.9%, Casual 8.6%, Realistic 6.3%, Singleplayer 3%

Monuments Renovator is a game in which you play the role of a professional monument renovator. You choose from among the world's greatest monuments, restore them to their former glory and learn about history and architecture.

Why similar: Education 39.6%, Realistic 25.3%, First-Person 21.8%, Casual 8.5%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.

Why similar: Cinematic 44.3%, First-Person 19.5%, Exploration 16.7%, Realistic 13.5%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Explore higher dimensions... with golf! Conquer mind-bending challenges, design your own 4D courses, and unlock new worlds and accessories as you golf your way through the 4th dimension and beyond!

Why similar: Physics 24.6%, Education 21.6%, First-Person 19.9%, Casual 16.2%, Exploration 8.6%

For the first time ever, step inside Nefertari's tomb and immerse yourself in the story of its art, history, construction, and mythology through interactive elements.