- #1 The Artifact
97% matchMixed64% of 213 reviews2017
Dev: Colin WrenPub: Enigma Games LTD
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Woken from a hypersleep, you find yourself alone on a drifting star cruiser, light years from home. The crew has disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a few scattered records and a strange artifact that seems to hold the key to an alien civilisation.
Why similar: Indie 63.9%, Puzzle 24.9%, Adventure 11.2%
- #2 Memory
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Soft Paw Studio
Windows
The little country town of Woodland Park is your home for the summer. Explore the town. Meet its inhabitants. Things long forgotten resurface and history is questioned. A beautiful young girl may be the key to untangling the truth, but will you solve the mystery?
Why similar: Indie 73.5%, Puzzle 15.2%, Adventure 6.8%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #3 In The Shadow Of The Truth
96% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2016
Dev: 7TPGames
Windows
First person shooter,puzzle,psychological horror video game. by 7TPGAMES
Why similar: Indie 59%, Puzzle 22%, Adventure 18.9%
- #4 Code Tracer
95% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Woodpecker Games
Windows
Code Tracer is a simple puzzle game. You only have to cut codes, but be careful about time and electricity.
Why similar: Indie 71.1%, Puzzle 28.9%
- #5 Magnibox
94% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Joseph Gribbin
Windows · Mac
A puzzle game about magnets designed for human brains.
Why similar: Indie 71.2%, Puzzle 28.8%
- #6 Miegakure: Hide & Reveal
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mtb design works, inc.
Windows
Miegakure is a game where you navigate a four-dimensional world to perform miraculous feats and solve puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 75%, Puzzle 25%
- #7 Alien Jelly: Food For Thought!
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Collective Mass
Windows · Mac
Alien Jelly delivers on 50 levels of thoughtful puzzle design, mixed with weird and lovable characters packaged in a 50’s b-movie sci-fi environment.
Why similar: Indie 72.8%, Puzzle 27.2%
- #8 Caliper 2
92% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Tort
Windows · Linux
Caliper 2 is an absolute, turn-based puzzle. By manipulating objects with different properties, you need to put some object on the button and enter the portal.
Why similar: Indie 68.5%, Puzzle 31.5%
- #9 Pressured
94% matchMixed48% of 558 reviews2014
Dev: Paul MarrablePub: Funbox Media Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Pressured is a unique and intense number puzzler. Hit your targets to unlock pieces of the dark story, all told via the poetry of Nicholas Gordon. Created by Paul Marrable With music from Matt Mcfarland.
Why similar: Indie 71.5%, Puzzle 28.5%
- #10 Mu Cartographer
91% matchVery Positive88% of 231 reviews2016
Dev: Titouan Millet
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Colourful sandbox toy - Experimental treasure hunt. Manipulate an abstract machine to shape and explore colourful landscapes, and find the mysteries hidden in a shifting world.
Why similar: Indie 74%, Puzzle 26%
- #11 YANKAI'S PEAK.
91% matchVery Positive90% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pyramid-Pushing Puzzles.
Why similar: Indie 67.6%, Puzzle 32.4%
- #12 ZACH-LIKE
88% matchVery Positive97% of 155 reviews2019
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
ZACH-LIKE is a book of behind-the-scenes design documents from Zachtronics. The digital version of ZACH-LIKE contains the full contents of the book, a bunch of terrible games that Zach made before SpaceChem, and some prototypes and early builds of Zachtronics games, both released and... not.
Why similar: Indie 78.8%, Puzzle 21.2%
- #13 Picross.io
89% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: Alexander MirgorodPub: Alexander Kudryavy
Windows
Picross is a picture logic puzzles game also known as Nonograms.
Why similar: Indie 65.6%, Puzzle 28.1%, Singleplayer 6.3%
- #14 Aztec Number
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: CTU
Windows
Challenge puzzle masters from all over the world Accompanied by powerful sound effects, solve 108 puzzles and take possession of the secret treasure of the Aztecs.
Why similar: Indie 66.6%, Puzzle 33.4%
- #15 RYB
86% matchVery Positive90% of 597 reviews2016
Dev: FLEB
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
RYB is a logic puzzle game that plays like a combination of sudoku and minesweeper.
Why similar: Indie 63.1%, Puzzle 36.9%
- #16 Light Borrower
85% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: Jon Pulsipher
Windows · Mac
Join Rachel as she faces the Cleansing, a coming-of-age ritual that will determine whether she joins the last survivors of the end of the world or is banished above ground.
Why similar: Indie 47.6%, Puzzle 31%, Adventure 21.4%
- #17 Bob Came in Pieces
87% matchMixed68% of 111 reviews2010
Dev: Ludosity
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand!
Why similar: Indie 49.9%, Puzzle 28%, Adventure 22.1%
- #18 Alan's Attitude
86% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Filip Lehocky
Windows
Alan's Attitude is 3D puzzle game, where you become a programmer. Your goal is to sit by the PC and finish the job. And what is your job? You'll find out.
Why similar: Indie 48.7%, Puzzle 29.3%, Adventure 22%
- #19 Find Pixel
84% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Denis Mikheikin
Windows
Remember the games where you had to find objects, now it's all in three-dimensional space, with nice graphics, and an unusual storyline. Help the ghost find the items that he needs, while interacting with the outside world!
Why similar: Indie 50.6%, Puzzle 26.6%, Adventure 22.8%
- #20 Abraxas Interactive's PUSH
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Abraxas Interactive
Windows
PUSH is a really hard top-down push block game that is a love letter to classic top-down push block puzzle games.
Why similar: Indie 61.7%, Puzzle 38.3%
- #21 The Flaws of Gravity
82% matchMixed62% of 237 reviews2017
Dev: Absorbed Studios
Windows
The Flaws of Gravity is a first-person puzzle game where you change the direction of gravity to solve puzzles and uncover secrets in a labyrinth.
Why similar: Indie 55.6%, Adventure 23.5%, Puzzle 20.9%
- #22 Small Radios Big Televisions
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 378 reviews2016
Dev: Fire Face Corporation
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Explore the inner workings of deserted factories in search of data cassettes that contain boundless virtual worlds. Collect more tapes and explore more worlds and you'll soon discover new methods of traversal and control that will take you farther than you'd ever expect.
Why similar: Indie 51.2%, Puzzle 25.3%, Adventure 23.5%
- #23 Isoland
79% matchVery Positive91% of 307 reviews2018
Dev: Cotton GamePub: Lilith Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets
Why similar: Indie 49.5%, Puzzle 27.1%, Adventure 23.4%
- #24 Squirgle
84% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Planar Gazer
Windows · Mac · Linux
A dazzling ballet of color, form and sound, Squirgle is a frenetic puzzle game.
Why similar: Indie 61.7%, Puzzle 38.3%
- #25 Chronon
81% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: HronosGame
Windows
Chronon is a puzzle game in the first person.
Why similar: Indie 48.2%, Puzzle 29%, Adventure 22.8%
- #26 Serpent Fusion
77% matchPositive91% of 44 reviews2019
Dev: Ramsey Boyce
Windows · Mac
Serpent Fusion is a difficult puzzle game based on Snake where you grow longer by attaching boxes to your back instead of eating food. From this, you also gain the ability to stand still and move backwards, allowing you to reverse into boxes and stick to them.
Why similar: Indie 58.8%, Puzzle 41.2%
- #27 Square's Route
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 54 reviews2016
Dev: Black Death Apps LimitedPub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows · Mac
Square’s Route is the addictive new game of path finding and weed whacking.
Why similar: Indie 60.3%, Puzzle 39.7%
- #28 Omnicube
78% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: Trykon Studios
Windows · Mac
Solve challenging block-sliding logic puzzles on the back of a talking cube in space!
Why similar: Indie 59.4%, Puzzle 40.6%
- #29 Express Thru
75% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: 5minlab Corp.
Windows · Mac
Addictive one line puzzle to wake up your brain Draw a line and solve it!
Why similar: Indie 79.8%, Puzzle 16.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #30 Cogito
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 17 reviews2016
Dev: Evan Downing
Windows
Cogito is a puzzle game for the HTC Vive that contains increasingly difficult puzzles in the realm of escape-room style puzzles, logic puzzles, spatial reasoning, and memory. You'll have to use your brain to its utmost potential to decipher puzzles, ciphers, and patterns!
Why similar: Indie 59.9%, Puzzle 40.1%
- #31 Golem
77% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2018
Dev: Longbow Games
Windows
A heart-warming adventure about a young girl and a shape-shifting golem who must navigate the ruins of an ancient tower to solve its challenging puzzles and re-activate its long-dormant machines.
Why similar: Indie 51.6%, Adventure 24.4%, Puzzle 23.9%
- #32 Flightless Classic
75% matchVery Positive90% of 375 reviews2017
Dev: Bristol Street Studios
Windows
Flightless is a tile-based puzzle adventure game. Navigate your way through a series of floating islands, each presenting a curious puzzle. A minimalist art style and calming piano soundtrack complement senses of wonder and discovery.
Why similar: Indie 50.7%, Adventure 25.1%, Puzzle 24.2%
- #33 Night Shift
79% matchMixed63% of 120 reviews2015
Dev: Brandon Brizzi
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The sun has disappeared from the sky! Darkness chokes the land, depriving it of all things good. Now it’s time for you to figure out how to bring the sun back! Get behind the wheel and find the sun in Night Shift!
Why similar: Indie 54.4%, Adventure 24%, Puzzle 21.7%
- #34 Unknown Ways
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Amigo
Windows
Buckle up and take a ride on this wholesome adventure to places you couldn't even imagine. Help this golem boy to find a way out of these forests and mountains.
Why similar: Indie 79.3%, Puzzle 16.4%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #35 Isoland 2 - Ashes of Time
74% matchVery Positive95% of 303 reviews2018
Dev: Cotton GamePub: Lilith Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Isoland 2: Ashes of Time is a puzzle game with a fascinating non-linear story, charming 2D hand-drawn art, numerous challenging puzzles, and unique twists. Besides numerous sci-fi references and easter-eggs hidden throughout the game, you’ll find things aren’t quite the same second time you play through the story.
Why similar: Indie 50.9%, Adventure 26.2%, Puzzle 23%
- #36 Virtual Escape: The Play Room
76% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2016
Dev: Default Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Find a way to escape the room, and unravel a strange story.
Why similar: Indie 52.2%, Adventure 24.7%, Puzzle 23%
- #37 Escape again
74% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2019
Dev: Martin Flothmann
Windows
Escape again is a puzzle game which is inspired by Live Escape Games as well as "Escape Room" video games. In this game you solve different types of puzzles and riddles in order to move forward and find your way out.
Why similar: Indie 54.2%, Adventure 25.6%, Puzzle 20.2%
- #38 LRRL or RLLR
73% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: talalilulalilula
Windows
LRRL or RLLR is a puzzle game in which you enjoy increasing your score by choosing left or right according to one recursive rule. You can enjoy it as long as you don't make the wrong choice. All choices are divided to the left or right when you start, and either contains all of your later choices.
Why similar: Indie 78.1%, Puzzle 17.6%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #39 Leona's Tricky Adventures
76% matchPositive88% of 34 reviews2014
Dev: KTX SoftwarePub: Signo & Arte
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Accompany Leona in a clever puzzle adventure to save the inhabitants of a strange but lovely world. Featuring fresh puzzle mechanics, wonderful retro graphics, lots of exploration and an excellent soundtrack by legendary game composer Chris Huelsbeck.
Why similar: Indie 48.9%, Puzzle 26.9%, Adventure 24.2%
- #40 Pan-Pan
73% matchVery Positive87% of 248 reviews2016
Dev: SpelkraftPub: Might and Delight
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Fix your downed spaceship and find your way home. Explore a lush and colourful world littered with riddles and sprinkled with memorable characters. Pan-Pan is an adventure game with environmental narrative storytelling, exploration elements and puzzle solving.
Why similar: Indie 52.3%, Adventure 26.9%, Puzzle 20.8%
- #41 Pocket Kingdom
72% matchVery Positive90% of 251 reviews2016
Dev: 08 GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Islands sometimes appear out of the blue in the clouds. The mysterious Pocket Kingdom is one of them. Wander around its districts, solve puzzles and listen to the weird stories told by the locals. Unveiling the place's mysteries depends on it. So does getting out of it.
Why similar: Indie 52.8%, Adventure 24.4%, Puzzle 22.8%
- #42 The ScreaMaze
71% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2019
Dev: White Puppet Studio
Windows
What score can you reach in this simple horror maze? Can you beat your best score and discover the scariest end?
Why similar: Indie 69.9%, Puzzle 23.7%, Singleplayer 6.3%
- #43 Land of an Endless Journey
71% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2018
Dev: Operation Codename
Windows
You find yourself in a mysterious land filled with puzzles that will challenge you, embark on a journey into the unknown and uncover the secrets of the land.
Why similar: Indie 52.7%, Adventure 24.1%, Puzzle 23.2%
- #44 IVAN POE
62% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: REACTOR PROJECTS LTD
Windows · Mac
Ivan Poe is a third person find-your-way puzzle adventure following this cuboid character as they keep truckin' on through the Cosmic Soup.
Why similar: Indie 54.2%, Adventure 25.6%, Puzzle 20.2%
- #45 A Quiet Mind
70% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Eitan Prince
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you get out of this world?
Why similar: Indie 47.7%, Puzzle 28.7%, Adventure 23.6%
- #46 Blueberry Garden
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 161 reviews2009
Dev: Erik SvedängPub: Erik Svedäng AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Congratulations Blueberry Garden! Winner of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for 'Best Independent Game' at the 2009 Independent Games Festival. Also a winner for 'Best Innovation' at the 2008 Swedish Game Awards. Blueberry Garden is a short and experimental game about exploring a strange world.
Why similar: Indie 55.1%, Adventure 26.1%, Puzzle 18.8%
- #47 NeverEnd
71% matchMixed50% of 129 reviews2017
Dev: DuckPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
NeverEnd is a Rogue-Like Dungeon crawler, where you, a simple adventurer suddenly wakes up in another dimension. Inside of this dimension there is no sun and the whole world is caved in. Enemies swarm you from left and right and you need to learn how to defend yourself.
Why similar: Indie 85.9%, Adventure 14.1%
- #48 Miner Mike
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RedRoket Games
Windows
Miner Mike is a 2D mining game, where Mike has to gather enough resources to buy a rocket. With that rocket, Mike can finally figure out what is really going on up on the Moon.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Escape: The Brother's Saloon
66% matchVery Positive80% of 112 reviews2020
Dev: Woodcrest Games, LLC
Windows
Trapped by your brother Joseph in a mysterious room, filled with the faint ticking of a clock and the crackles of a fire...it's up to you to explore, find clues, and solve the puzzles. Will you escape The Brother's Saloon?
Why similar: Indie 60%, Adventure 28.4%, Puzzle 9.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #50 Invisible Mind
69% matchMixed78% of 456 reviews2016
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Go on a trip around the worlds created by your own mind and learn yourself.
Why similar: Indie 80%, Adventure 20%
- #51 xMoon
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: buffalo buffalo buffalo
Windows
xMoon is a laser-based puzzle game on The Moon.
Why similar: Indie 54.6%, Adventure 25%, Puzzle 20.4%
- #52 Volume Up
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 9 Game
Windows
VR shoot'em up where the enemies come to you on the rhythm of the music.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Secret in Story
69% matchMixed69% of 114 reviews2017
Dev: Naivus Luo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Accompanied by beautiful piano music, you begin to experience a wonderful love journey. There is no dialogue in the story, only pictures intertwined with montage techniques. Players need to unlock each puzzle to open every door of memory, to find the youth that we have been missing.
Why similar: Indie 79.3%, Adventure 20.7%
- #54 NORTH
70% matchMixed64% of 450 reviews2016
Dev: OutlandsPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dealing with the issue of the contemporary refugee crisis while at the same time being deeply rooted in a classical cyberpunk atmosphere à la Blade Runner, NORTH features a dark synthpop soundtrack, a sprawling mega-city and weird monster-like inhabitants.
Why similar: Indie 80.6%, Adventure 19.4%
- #55 Escape Station
70% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2016
Dev: Paul ThorntonPub: Escape Reality UKVR
Windows
A puzzle room set in a sci-fi space station, Escape Station is "chapter one" of what will become an ongoing series of puzzle rooms. Current game play includes one single player mode room with puzzles you must solve to be able to escape There is no time restriction at present.
Why similar: Indie 81.6%, Adventure 18.4%
- #56 Oika
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Omniscopic
Windows
Oika tells the story of the living cosmos as a personal story through a series of first-person scientific experiences.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #57 Kubble
66% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2018
Dev: Daniel Jeanneau
Windows
Destroy all the cubes! Use the laser to launch your cubes and match your colors by 3 or more, to remove all cubes from the level to move to the next level.
Why similar: Indie 62.6%, Puzzle 30.9%, Singleplayer 6.6%
- #58 山贼
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tushuo
Windows
某朝末年,烽烟四起。楚郡内生灵涂炭,青壮被逼无奈大多数只能进入深山落草为寇。在这几乎死境的楚郡内,想活下去,只有比别人更残忍。
Why similar: Indie 100%