Games Like Total Reload

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 12.9%, Logic 12.6%, Futuristic 11.2%, Puzzle 9.1%, First-Person 8.6%

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: Philosophical 17.5%, Logic 13.2%, Futuristic 12.1%, Mystery 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%

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: Philosophical 27.9%, Puzzle 19.4%, Robots 14.5%, Sci-fi 10.9%, First-Person 9.9%

Discover a world overrun with robots, and play as a defective bot who tries to find a way to flee the facility. Find others who are the same kind, free them, and escape the laboratory!

Why similar: Robots 20.8%, Futuristic 18.3%, Puzzle 14.8%, Exploration 12.7%, First-Person 12.2%

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 17.1%, Mystery 14.4%, Exploration 12.4%, First-Person 11.6%, Puzzle 10.5%

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 37%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Exploration 17.3%, First-Person 9%, Adventure 7.2%

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: Philosophical 22.4%, Robots 10.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Futuristic 9.8%, First-Person 9.1%

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 22.9%, Sci-fi 19%, First-Person 16.3%, Artificial Intelligence 11.3%, Philosophical 10.2%

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: 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: Logic 25.2%, Artificial Intelligence 16.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, First-Person 12.9%, Sci-fi 11.4%

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: Logic 15.7%, Futuristic 15.6%, Mystery 12.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Sci-fi 12%

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 24.4%, Logic 19.6%, Puzzle 12.3%, Sci-fi 10%, First-Person 8.2%

A 3D-styled puzzle-solving burning brain indie game, using the Pocket Cube to restore objects. A story about AI's journey to recreate the history of human science

Why similar: Robots 24.4%, Artificial Intelligence 19.4%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Puzzle 12.3%, Futuristic 12%

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 25.3%, Puzzle 23.7%, First-Person 19.4%, Sci-fi 17.7%, 3D 7.1%

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.

Why similar: Logic 19.8%, Puzzle 15%, Exploration 11.6%, Mystery 11.5%, First-Person 11.3%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Logic 23.6%, Puzzle 15.1%, First-Person 13.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Exploration 10%

Solve puzzles to uncover the mysteries of a space cruise ship. Fight or work together with robots which are remotely controlled by humans on Earth. Collect the technology coming from the future which might cause an apocalypse. Save the future and the past before it’s too late.

Why similar: Adventure 52.4%, Sci-fi 43.5%, Indie 4.1%

Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.

Why similar: Puzzle 31.3%, Sci-fi 28.1%, First-Person 15.6%, 3D 11.1%, Linear 7.7%

Why did the humans disappear? How was the AI created? Who created the AI and what is the purpose of the AI? An open-world sci-fi forklift adventure in which you must uncover the truth behind the mystery.

Why similar: Puzzle 28.1%, Sci-fi 21.9%, Story Rich 17.8%, 3D 14.8%, Adventure 9.4%

Nuclear Reactor Simulator: Take Control. Prevent Disaster. Power the World.

Why similar: Robots 22.8%, Artificial Intelligence 22.8%, Logic 19.1%, First-Person 13.1%, Sci-fi 13%

Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!

Why similar: Sci-fi 49.5%, Story Rich 24.1%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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: Logic 19.8%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Puzzle 13.2%, Mystery 12.8%, First-Person 12.1%

You are an intelligent robot created by scientists for the best annual tournament "Project: R.E.B.O.O.T".

Why similar: Adventure 60.8%, Linear 28.3%, Indie 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

You volunteered to participate in an AI research as part of an human control group. Solve over 50 different puzzles and use new gameplay mechanics and more player freedom to find creative ways to progress through the game's beautiful world.

Why similar: Logic 30.8%, Puzzle 19%, First-Person 17.2%, Sci-fi 13.9%, 3D 10.2%

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: Logic 27.4%, Puzzle 16.4%, First-Person 15.4%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Futuristic 8.7%

You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

Why similar: Robots 28.6%, Futuristic 24.8%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Philosophical 10.9%, Adventure 7.7%

Enter an extraordinarily convincing sci-fi world in this story-driven VR puzzle adventure. Explore off-world facilities, operate tactile tools, solve environmental puzzles, and unravel a reality-bending Cold War mystery.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.6%, Mystery 19.8%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 10.1%

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

Why similar: Philosophical 21.7%, Puzzle 13.8%, Exploration 12.6%, First-Person 10.6%, Sci-fi 8.8%

Take Notes is a puzzle game set in the near future within a bunker filled with 40 unique puzzles. Prepare yourself for a mind-bending adventure where every puzzle solved brings you one step closer to stopping the unthinkable

Why similar: Logic 21.3%, Futuristic 14.3%, Puzzle 12.4%, Mystery 10.8%, First-Person 10.8%

Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.

Why similar: Robots 23.2%, Logic 20.6%, Futuristic 17%, Puzzle 13.2%, Sci-fi 12.5%

Machine Learning: Episode is a first person arcade puzzle game built for HTC Vive. You play as an A.I. robot created in DARPA laboratory in the near future. One of the scientists is here to test your physical, perception and cognitive skills. By using the power of room-scale VR and Vive controllers

Why similar: Adventure 92.5%, Indie 7.5%

Escape Machines is an addictive Science Fiction single/multi-player/co-op adventure shooter in the near future! Artificial intellect and robots fight against their creators. You must take control of the robots and save people.

Why similar: Robots 52.8%, Sci-fi 24.1%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 2%

The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.

Why similar: Robots 20%, Philosophical 17.9%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Mystery 10.2%, Puzzle 8.7%

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 30.9%, Mystery 14.9%, First-Person 13.4%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Exploration 10.1%

Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.

Why similar: Philosophical 15.5%, Logic 15.3%, Puzzle 14.2%, Exploration 12%, First-Person 12%

The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.

Why similar: Robots 42.4%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Exploration 12%, Futuristic 11.8%, First-Person 10.8%

This atmospheric, Metroidvania hacking adventure lets you take control of a semi-sapient program struggling against deletion. In the sprawling 3D world of a Mainframe, Recompile features intense combat, tight 3D platforming, super-powered abilities and an environmental logic-based hacking mechanic.

Why similar: Sci-fi 31.6%, Exploration 28.4%, Mystery 22.9%, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 1.2%

Access Denied: Escape is a puzzle game where you have to hack data vaults and interact with various devices to escape.

Why similar: Futuristic 25.4%, Mystery 18.5%, Puzzle 15.5%, First-Person 13.7%, Exploration 10.7%

Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as they solve intricate puzzles and begin unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.

Why similar: Robots 30.3%, Futuristic 18.9%, Logic 15.7%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Mystery 13.6%

Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure that follows the path into sentience of a robot vacuum cleaner.

Why similar: Robots 24.2%, Artificial Intelligence 23%, Mystery 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Futuristic 8.7%

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: Narration 22.8%, First-Person 17.9%, Adventure 15.5%, Puzzle 13.7%, Exploration 12.6%

Retro Machina is a single-player action and exploration game set in a retro-futuristic universe. Experience the journey of a little robot as it solves intricate puzzles and begins unraveling the mysteries of a world long forgotten.

Why similar: Robots 42.5%, Puzzle 18.7%, Exploration 17.1%, Story Rich 10.1%, Adventure 9.4%

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: Robots 28.7%, Futuristic 23%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Mystery 10.1%, First-Person 7.8%

A Surreal Puzzle Shooter Adventure Fueled By Madness!

Why similar: Philosophical 33.1%, Puzzle 20.2%, First-Person 19.3%, Exploration 17.3%, Adventure 8.5%

Within the Cosmos is a sci-fi RPG. After awakening in a secluded star system, you soon discover a fractured human society grappling with an emerging android threat. Explore planets, uncover mysteries, and navigate differing philosophies. Your choices will shape how the story unfolds.

Why similar: Robots 20.1%, Artificial Intelligence 17.1%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Futuristic 13.9%, Exploration 12.5%

⚡＋🤖＋🧩

Why similar: Puzzle 35.7%, Robots 29.2%, Linear 20.2%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 0.9%

A laid-back but smart puzzle game. Stuffo is the last remaining puzzle bot stuck in a world filled with bite-sized brain-teasers. Help Stuffo to solve the mind-bending puzzles by using various blocks to climb, push and teleport your way to the exit.

Why similar: Robots 30.3%, Logic 30.3%, Puzzle 17.2%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Adventure 6.3%

You are a customer of a virtual world company Dartom Inc. You are one of the many people who wants to test themselves in one of the many worlds created by the company. On your test, a ghost in the system will change your experience.

Why similar: Robots 23.5%, Adventure 16.9%, Puzzle 14.2%, First-Person 13.9%, Mystery 12.5%

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: Futuristic 26.2%, First-Person 17.1%, Puzzle 16.7%, Sci-fi 14.6%, 3D 9.7%

Welcome to Gravulse, an innovative space curvature laboratory that is trying to "flip" the laws of physics, literally. Here you have to go through many test levels using various new technologies!

Why similar: Futuristic 33.1%, First-Person 23.9%, Robots 19.3%, Sci-fi 10.6%, 3D 7.9%

.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: Puzzle 36.7%, Sci-fi 26.6%, First-Person 16%, Adventure 11.4%, Exploration 7.5%

RoboBlitz™ is a humorous, physics-based action game full of inventive gizmos, weapons, characters, and environments. Players take on the role of Blitz, a multi-talented robot who must activate an aging Space Cannon to save his world from a band of maladjusted space pirates.

Why similar: Robots 63.6%, Puzzle 33%, Indie 3.4%

Join Ludovik in a 2D Stealth Platformer and Graphic Adventure, as he explores the jungles of a futuristic Babylon to discover the secret behind the Library of Babel’s sudden lockdown and the mysteries behind their mythical creators.

Why similar: Robots 43.6%, Sci-fi 30.7%, Puzzle 16%, Adventure 9.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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: Mystery 20.3%, Puzzle 20.1%, First-Person 15.3%, Exploration 15.1%, Adventure 10.5%

The new enhanced edition of Soul Axiom - a first-person story-driven adventure puzzle game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world of Elysia. Collect unique hand powers, discover multiple endings and choose your own destiny as you unravel the mystery of your digital afterlife.

Why similar: Adventure 46%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Mystery 14.5%, Puzzle 14.2%, Story Rich 7.1%

Gravitia is an adventure game about manipulating gravity to escape a unique world full of mystery.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.5%, Mystery 20.3%, Exploration 14.2%, Adventure 13.6%, 3D 13%

NeuraGun is a third-person science fiction puzzle game. The player will have to go through a maze of mysteries that will lead him out of the tangled scientific complex.

Why similar: Futuristic 27.3%, Puzzle 20.9%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Adventure 12.7%, 3D 12%

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: Artificial Intelligence 22.2%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Adventure 16%, First-Person 12.6%, Mystery 12.1%

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: Artificial Intelligence 17.6%, Puzzle 16%, Mystery 15.7%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Logic 13.3%