Games Like Timelie

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 36.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Difficult 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle game that relies heavily on rewinding time to solve complex environmental challenges.

The world has been swallowed into the grey void of time and space. The only key to the winding puzzle - a time-controling pocket-watch - lies in the hands of a clockmaker Father. The watch creates a mysterious barrier between the Father and his estranged Daughter.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 49.4% ★, Puzzle Platformer 25.2%, Puzzle 9.3%, Cute 5.4%, Adventure 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar time-manipulation mechanic where you control the flow of time to solve puzzles and navigate environments.

The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 53.9% ★, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Relaxing 11.4%, Puzzle 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful puzzle game that uses time-scrubbing mechanics to explore the memories and relationship of two best friends.

Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Why similar: Relaxing 15.8%, Puzzle Platformer 15.7%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Puzzle 15.2%, Point & Click 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Uses isometric perspective and relaxing, clever puzzle design that mirrors the visual style of Timelie.

In the depths of a labyrinthine ruin, a young girl named Mion rises from a deep sleep. Lost, alone, and with no memory of how she got here or where her parents are, she is greeted by two fireflies—one composed entirely of light, and another who lurks among the shadows.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Female Protagonist 18%, Anime 13.9%, Cute 13.7%, Difficult 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a cute but melancholic aesthetic with a unique companion-based puzzle system that requires careful navigation.

A girl awakens in a castle void of color and time, affixed with the Curse of Thorns upon her back. After meeting a sleeping giant, the two work together to escape. Help them unravel the mystery of the thorns and the history behind the somber castle.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.2%, Female Protagonist 22.5%, Anime 13.2%, Cute 12%, Puzzle 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer with a dark, cute aesthetic where you manipulate time and objects to guide a girl through a dangerous world.

Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.1%, Cute 19%, Relaxing 16.8%, Puzzle 16.8%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming puzzle game that allows you to manipulate the world map to explore and solve environmental challenges.

In a world torn between nature’s grace and cold machine invasion, one girl and her companion must rely on their bond to survive and protect what they hold dear. Their story of hope, loss, and love will stay with you long after the journey ends.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.4%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Anime 11.3%, Puzzle 10.7%, Cute 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that focuses on the bond between a young girl and her small companion creature.

This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 41.1%, Time Manipulation 35.7% ★, Puzzle 11.8%, Difficult 5.4%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-platformer that defined the genre of using time manipulation to solve intricate logic puzzles.

Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.1%, Female Protagonist 17.7%, Relaxing 13%, Anime 12.6%, Puzzle 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, story-rich puzzle game with a beautiful art style that emphasizes quiet, contemplative gameplay.

Evergate is a haunting 2D puzzle-platformer set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife with an original score recorded by a live orchestra. Navigate 85 challenging stages and unleash the extraordinary powers of the genre-defining 'Soulflame' to help a lost soul reincarnate on earth!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Puzzle 8.8%, Cute 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fluid puzzle-platformer featuring a female protagonist and a unique soul-flame mechanic that feels similar to Timelie's precision.

A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!

Why similar: Cats 32.6%, Point & Click 17.7%, Relaxing 14.9%, Puzzle 14.7%, Cute 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, cat-themed puzzle game that focuses on finding hidden objects in charming, isometric dioramas.

Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.8%, Female Protagonist 20.7%, Relaxing 13.9%, Cute 13.2%, Puzzle 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A whimsical point-and-click puzzle game with a cute art style and a focus on character-swapping mechanics.

From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30%, Puzzle 24.1%, Adventure 10%, Atmospheric 9.9%, 3D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in puzzle design that uses world-hopping mechanics to create complex, satisfying logic loops.

Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.9%, Atmospheric 19.1%, Puzzle Platformer 16.8%, Relaxing 12%, Puzzle 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that focuses on emotional storytelling and beautiful, hand-drawn visuals.

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, Puzzle 17.9%, Relaxing 14.6%, Cute 14.2%, Atmospheric 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A gentle, story-driven puzzle adventure that captures a similar sense of wonder and companionship.

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 36% ★, Isometric 17.1%, Difficult 13.7%, Tactical 10%, Puzzle 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A logic-based puzzle game that utilizes time-travel mechanics to solve sokoban-style challenges.

Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 34.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that features a female protagonist and a core mechanic centered on manipulating the age of objects.

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 35.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 15.4%, Isometric 13.7%, Difficult 9.6%, Relaxing 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D platformer that incorporates time-manipulation as a primary tool for overcoming obstacles.

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.5%, Puzzle 28.9%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Adventure 11.5%, Cute 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer where you control a small creature using yarn mechanics to navigate and solve environmental puzzles.

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Why similar: Isometric 34%, Difficult 21.2%, Puzzle 17.2%, Cute 13.1%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric adventure game that hides deep, satisfying puzzles within its exploration-heavy world.

Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.

Why similar: Atmospheric 29.7%, Puzzle 25.6%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 9.5%, Third Person 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A poignant adventure game that uses a unique control scheme to manage two characters simultaneously.

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: Puzzle 26.8%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Atmospheric 21%, Adventure 12%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant exploration game centered entirely around a time-loop mechanic and uncovering the secrets of a dying solar system.

Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 39.2%, Difficult 23.2%, Puzzle 15.3%, Relaxing 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that requires coordinating two characters with opposing elemental powers to progress.

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 51.3%, Puzzle 21.7%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Adventure 7.7%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A mind-bending puzzle game that uses perspective and time manipulation to reshape the world around you.

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 Platformer 44.7%, Puzzle 39.4%, Adventure 8.9%, Singleplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal puzzle game that plays with perspective and scale to create unique, logic-defying challenges.

Meet Lumote, the squishiest bioluminescent creature, in this beautiful 3D puzzle platformer. Take control of the world’s inhabitants on a quest into the Great Depths to seize control from the Mastermote.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25%, Third Person 9.6%, Relaxing 9.5%, Cute 9.4%, Puzzle 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An indie puzzle-platformer with a distinct visual style and a focus on manipulating the environment to progress.

Inua is a narrative game in which three protagonists have their destinies intertwined decades apart in the same locations in the far north. Explore each era, collect ideas and manipulate their minds to change the course of history.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.6% ★, Isometric 19.2%, Point & Click 16.8%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, Puzzle 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven adventure that uses time-manipulation to reveal historical events and solve puzzles.

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

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 36%, Female Protagonist 23.4%, Puzzle 16.7%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for puzzle games that require spatial reasoning and clever use of mechanics to navigate environments.

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Why similar: Difficult 38%, Puzzle 35.4%, Cute 13.3%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly creative puzzle game where you manipulate the rules of the game itself to solve levels.

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 42.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.5%, Difficult 14.5%, Puzzle 7.3%, Cute 7%

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 32.6% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Third Person 9.2%, Relaxing 8.9%, Puzzle 8.8%

A lovely logical puzzle game about the many-worlds interpretation and quantum mechanics.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 61.3% ★, Puzzle 15.4%, Cute 12.1%, 3D 5.7%, Indie 3%

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 23.3% ★, Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, Female Protagonist 13%, Difficult 11.5%, Puzzle 10.7%

Roll your way through a cozy, kawaii world full of charming characters and challenging puzzles to save your siblings from Strawberry the Witch!

Why similar: Cats 21.6%, Isometric 19.4%, Puzzle 16.2%, Relaxing 12.2%, Cute 12.1%

A girl in a white dress wakes up in a ruined city. She uses her light to light up mysterious cocoons, reverse time, and restore the city to its former splendor. You take on the role of this mysterious girl. As you restore Amber City, more and more of its history will unfurl before you.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.6%, Female Protagonist 19%, Puzzle 14.3%, Cute 12.9%, Time Manipulation 11.9% ★

"Light" is a 3D adventure puzzle game, in which you play as a cat. You will help a little girl who has lost her memory escape by leading her through four-level mazes with different style.

Why similar: Cats 24.4%, Stealth 17.9%, Puzzle Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle 9.1%, Cute 8.2%

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

Why similar: Cats 41.2%, Cute 9.3%, Stealth 8.8%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Third Person 8.1%

"Packit List" is a short, 3D organizing puzzle game that takes about an hour to complete. You will follow the wonderful adventures of Hana, a high school girl who travels across multiple worlds to organize various themed objects in a limited space

Why similar: Isometric 27.2%, Female Protagonist 14%, Point & Click 14%, Relaxing 13%, Cute 10.9%

Help the lonely mage to spawn lots of cute Paw-friends! Furriend is a 2.5D isometric puzzle games that combines connect the dot + merge mechanics.

Why similar: Cats 28.8%, Isometric 19.6%, Puzzle 12.6%, Relaxing 11.5%, Cute 9.4%

Paper Trail is a top-down puzzle adventure about leaving home, set in a foldable, paper world.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.5%, Puzzle 21.1%, Relaxing 20.5%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Adventure 7.8%

Set sail for a world-changing adventure as you guide Noor in their quest through a series of mind-bending illusions and atmospheric puzzles. Can you unlock the secrets of the mysterious world – and the meaning behind the Sacred Light?

Why similar: Isometric 23.5%, Puzzle Platformer 16.7%, Point & Click 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Relaxing 10.1%

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: Time Manipulation 46.9% ★, Point & Click 18.5%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Puzzle 11.3%, Adventure 3.8%

Pages of Time: Prologue is a 2D platformer puzzle game. Play as the witch who controls the magic of time, in a beautiful and magnificent magic academy, utilize the skills of recording and rewinding time, solve all kinds of puzzles, and look forward to the adventure of the future.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.6%, Puzzle 19.5%, Cute 16.9%, Anime 8.6%, Adventure 8.3%

Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.5% ★, Isometric 20.7%, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Difficult 11.8%, Puzzle 10.6%

Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.2% ★, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Difficult 13.8%, Anime 10.2%, Cute 7.9%

Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.

Why similar: Point & Click 20%, Isometric 17.8%, Relaxing 11%, Cute 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%

Move the sliding tiles to unblock a path for the kitten to walk to the exit.

Why similar: Cats 23.3%, Isometric 23%, Point & Click 14.1%, Relaxing 10.6%, Puzzle 9.3%

Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 43.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, Relaxing 9.9%, Cute 8.8%, Third Person 6.3%

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 56.6% ★, Puzzle 16.5%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 8.1%, Third Person 7.8%

Manipulate mirrors and guide Ail through reflected paths to save her twin sister Lia trapped within the Immortal Realm. In this surreal puzzle game, experience a touching story about the bond between two sisters and explore a mysterious, imaginative world where reflections intersect reality.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 26.2%, Puzzle 19.8%, Cute 15.9%, Atmospheric 11.6%, 3D 10%

Draw spells on your screen as the Nekomancer! Swap between the realms of life and death, revive ghosts, and uncover Tombstone Tower's haunting truth!

Why similar: Isometric 33.2%, Cats 30.2%, Puzzle 12.1%, Cute 7.2%, 3D 7.2%

Lead Abby the string puppet through a bruised, but beautiful fairy tale world in this cinematic adventure. Solve riddles, evade traps and shake off pursuers on the way to find freedom. Can Abby take control of her fate with all the strings attached?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 42.4%, Female Protagonist 26.7%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Adventure 6.8%, Indie 5.3%

Down the Rabbit Hole is an adventure set in Wonderland prior to Alice's arrival. You will guide a girl who is looking for her lost pet by solving puzzles, uncovering secrets and making choices about the story along the way.

Why similar: Point & Click 21.3%, Puzzle Platformer 18.5%, Female Protagonist 17.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Cute 10.3%

Cat Burglar is a short, light-hearted, stealth, puzzle platformer with a pet charity awareness campaign. Help Kat find her way into the Dogo Corps base to discover Major Bulls' master plan.

Why similar: Stealth 96.7%, Cats 1.9%, Adventure 0.5%, Indie 0.4%, Female Protagonist 0.3%

Catie in MeowmeowLand is a classical humorous point-and-click adventure game. Help little Catie get back home from the bizarre cat world of MeowmeowLand!

Why similar: Cats 31.2%, Point & Click 22.4%, Puzzle 12.4%, Cute 10.3%, Atmospheric 7.6%

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 38.2% ★, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Puzzle 8.9%, Difficult 8.1%, Sci-fi 6.6%

Take control of the seasons and use them to solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and discover the beautiful world of Valdi in this award-winning indie adventure.

Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.1% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.1%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Puzzle 10.4%, Third Person 9.2%

Embark on a journey to save the prince’s eyesight in this 2D puzzle-adventure game featuring beautiful hand-drawn art and a bittersweet tale of wishes and what we’re willing to do to make them come true. Utilize your wolf and princess forms to lead the way!

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.4%, Cute 16.5%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Puzzle 11.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%