- #1 ElecHead
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,305 reviews2021
Dev: NamaTakahashi
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
⚡＋🤖＋🧩
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 86.5%, Indie 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A brilliant puzzle-platformer where you use your own body to power electrical circuits to progress.
- #2 1000 Amps
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 342 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 80.1%, Indie 19.9%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle-platformer that focuses on light and electricity mechanics within a maze-like structure.
- #3 Lightmatter
96% matchVery Positive91% of 2,853 reviews2020
Dev: Tunnel Vision GamesPub: Aspyr
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.
Why similar: Indie 59.1%, Puzzle Platformer 40.9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-platformer where light is both your tool and your primary obstacle.
- #4 SHENZHEN I/O
95% matchVery Positive95% of 4,421 reviews2016
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM.
Why similar: Education 80.8%, Indie 19.2%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging engineering game that tasks you with building circuits and writing code to solve complex problems.
- #5 The Swapper
94% matchVery Positive94% of 7,519 reviews2013
Dev: Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo CastellanoPub: Facepalm Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 70.6%, Indie 29.4%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric puzzle-platformer that emphasizes cloning and logic-based navigation in a derelict setting.
- #6 Prime Mover
94% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2018
Dev: 4Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Retrace the path of the Prime Mover to uncover the story of the Byte of Burden! Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards.
Why similar: Education 64.4%, Indie 35.6%
Why You'll Like It: A logic-based puzzle game focused on designing and optimizing circuits to perform specific tasks.
- #7 Portal
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 192,498 reviews2007
Dev: Valve
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 100%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential puzzle-platformer that masterfully integrates physics and logic into its level design.
- #8 Turing Complete
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,092 reviews2021
Dev: LevelHead
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Learn CPU architecture with puzzles
Why similar: Education 100%
Why You'll Like It: An educational game that guides you through building a computer from the ground up using logic gates.
- #9 Gravity Error
93% matchVery Positive86% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Faris Mohammed
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 64.8%, Indie 35.2%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D puzzle-platformer that requires clever navigation and logic to overcome environmental hazards.
- #10 The Talos Principle
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 32,657 reviews2014
Dev: CroteamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, philosophical puzzle-platformer that requires complex logic and light-manipulation to solve.
- #11 Human Resource Machine
90% matchVery Positive94% of 4,614 reviews2015
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.
Why similar: Education 78.2%, Indie 21.8%
Why You'll Like It: A logic-based puzzle game that teaches programming concepts through a charming, industrial aesthetic.
- #12 Monolight
89% matchVery Positive88% of 368 reviews2020
Dev: bit paradigm
Windows
MONOLIGHT is 2D plat-former puzzle adventure game. Using tiny lantern, go through the maze.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 60.9%, Indie 39.1%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that uses light and shadow mechanics to create engaging, logic-heavy levels.
- #13 Electrician Simulator
88% matchVery Positive80% of 3,976 reviews2022
Dev: Take IT Studio!Pub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take on the electrician role and learn the profession's basics! Install sockets, repair worn-out equipment, assemble broken appliances, replace light bulbs, and lay wires at your customers' homes. Be sure to check everything twice, with electricity there are no jokes!
Why similar: Education 85.6%, Indie 14.4%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that provides a realistic look at electrical work and circuit repair.
- #14 Entangled
89% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: P² Studios
Windows
Complete physics-based platformer puzzles as you venture deeper into an abandoned research facility responsible for developing ominously powerful quantum entanglement technology.
Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that requires careful movement and logic to navigate 2D environments.
- #15 Turn on the light - Jigsaw
87% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Thedox Games
Windows · Linux
A minimalist game about connecting circuits, solving jigsaw puzzles and mind-bending recursive circuits.
Why similar: Education 86.5%, Indie 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A simple, relaxing puzzle game centered on the theme of connecting circuits to restore power.
- #16 ABI-DOS
86% matchVery Positive93% of 403 reviews2024
Dev: ABI.DOS.SOFTWARE
Windows
Build the most advanced operating system ever created! Can you master the fictional simulation language of this mind-bending machine? Design circuits, automate UBITS (coloured mobile data blocks), and optimize your system. The Admin is always watching, and he’s not what he seems.
Why similar: Education 89%, Indie 11%
Why You'll Like It: A deep automation and programming puzzle game that challenges your understanding of logic and efficiency.
- #17 Bomb Squad Academy
86% matchVery Positive87% of 451 reviews2017
Dev: Systemic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Save the world one wire at a time with Bomb Squad Academy, a puzzle game where you have to defuse bombs under a time constraint.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A logic and strategy-focused puzzle game about disarming complex electronic devices.
- #18 Electronics Puzzle Lab
85% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Sagitta Studios
Windows
Enter the most advanced challenge laboratory of today's games, where electronics and logic merge into challenges that will captivate your mind and awaken the engineer within you!
Why similar: Education 100%
Why You'll Like It: An educational simulation game that focuses on teaching the fundamentals of electronics through interactive puzzles.
- #19 Baba Is You
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 23,702 reviews2019
Dev: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A highly creative puzzle game where you manipulate the rules of the game world to solve logic puzzles.
- #20 Turn on all the lights
84% matchVery Positive93% of 94 reviews2021
Dev: Thedox Games
Windows · Linux
Turn on all the lights is a minimalist puzzle game that features a recursive mechanics in which the player has to explore micro pieces to connect a circuit and solve the main puzzle.
Why similar: Education 89.4%, Indie 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist puzzle game that focuses on the satisfying logic of completing electrical connections.
- #21 Short Circuit VR
84% matchVery Positive82% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: Stefan BauwensPub: N/A
Windows
Short Circuit VR is an electronics lab simulator in Virtual Reality. You can build your own electronic circuits with the components provided, learn basic electronics by completing challenges and just have fun while experimenting and making awesome projects!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation experience that tasks players with repairing electrical components in a virtual environment.
- #22 Opus Magnum
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,719 reviews2017
Dev: Zachtronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A complex engineering puzzle game that focuses on building machines to solve intricate chemical and mechanical problems.
- #23 Elec Dude
82% matchVery Positive97% of 116 reviews2022
Dev: MisteryJay89
Windows
Collect all Energy in each Level and face Dr. Dark Glass.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 70%, Indie 30%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art puzzle game that utilizes simple electrical mechanics in a sokoban-style format.
- #24 ElectricVLab
82% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2018
Dev: Q1TEK LLC
Windows
ElectricVLab employs the technology of video games to explore the fascinating world of electricity and electronics. It allows you to build a wide variety of analog and digital electronic circuits, and observe their behavior in a visually rich, informative, fun environment.
Why similar: Education 100%
Why You'll Like It: A virtual laboratory simulation that allows for the experimentation and construction of complex electronic circuits.
- #25 7 Billion Humans
80% matchVery Positive94% of 2,088 reviews2018
Dev: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!
Why similar: Education 74.9%, Indie 25.1%
Why You'll Like It: A programming-based puzzle game that expands on logic and automation concepts in a humorous setting.
- #26 Q.U.B.E. 2
79% matchVery Positive84% of 1,718 reviews2018
Dev: Toxic GamesPub: Trapped Nerve Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has awoken among the ruins of an ancient alien landscape. With the distant help of another survivor you must solve the puzzles of this mysterious world and find a way back home.
Why similar: Indie 74.1%, Puzzle Platformer 25.9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person puzzle-platformer that utilizes environmental manipulation and logic to navigate a mysterious facility.
- #27 Wires And Whiskers
75% matchVery Positive95% of 1,421 reviews2025
Dev: Yohann BlanchardPub: ISART DIGITAL MONTREAL
Windows
Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 100%
- #28 Puzzle Box Palace
78% matchVery Positive86% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: An adventure-puzzle game that features intricate mechanical puzzles within a mysterious setting.
- #29 Electrician Simulator - First Shock
76% matchVery Positive80% of 1,884 reviews2022
Dev: Take IT Studio!Pub: Gaming Factory
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Learn the ropes from your Dad to become an electrician. Repair and assemble sockets, panels, strips, plugs, chandeliers and even change light bulbs. Oh... and don't mix up the wires! Results might be shocking.
Why similar: Education 84.8%, Indie 15.2%
- #30 MindLoop
74% matchVery Positive97% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: JoonGames
Windows
Collect clues, deduce the code, and defuse the bomb in 40 seconds.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 Kirchhoff's Revenge
77% matchVery Positive82% of 124 reviews2019
Dev: Gerd Kortemeyer et al.Pub: Michigan State University
Windows · Mac
Kirchhoff is annoyed because nobody appreciates his circuit laws! You get transported to his secret lair and won't be able to get out until you show mastery!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #32 Visibility
79% matchMixed61% of 93 reviews2015
Dev: Zeritum
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Visibility is a platformer that is completely dark until you place your lights. Each level has a limited set of lights which you must strategically place around the level in order to illuminate your path to the exit.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist platformer that uses light and visibility as core mechanics for navigation.
- #33 Earthlingo
76% matchVery Positive90% of 223 reviews2019
Dev: Earthlingo
Windows · Linux
Explore a planet, learn a language
Why similar: Education 100%
- #34 Instruction
72% matchVery Positive94% of 661 reviews2024
Dev: JuxtaposePub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Generate voltage while uncovering the mysteries of a power plant in this story-based clicker game.
- #35 Cuit
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 181 reviews2017
Dev: Class-X Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 29%
In CUIT, it is only you and your mind. A challenging and relaxing puzzle game, ready to test you from top to bottom. Navigate a current through a circuit. Power a target, avoid the explosives. Sounds easy? Try it - and guess again. A logical challenge - for everyone.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Summon The DUDES!
73% matchVery Positive97% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Inanity Catchers Team
Windows
A quirky 2D puzzle platformer where your most powerful tool is… the DUDES!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #37 Brazed
78% matchMixed53% of 62 reviews2016
Dev: Vladimir Maslov
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Brazed is a game about escaping the unknown planet.
Why similar: Education 62.7%, Indie 37.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused puzzle game that involves crafting and managing resources in a space-themed environment.
- #38 Blade Walker
75% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: JW Eel Slug
Windows
Find clues and solve puzzles to escape
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #39 while True: learn()
72% matchVery Positive91% of 8,061 reviews2019
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!
Why similar: Education 90.5%, Indie 9.5%
- #40 ITRP _ Volatile Vertex
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Unhexigon
Windows
If you see a ledge, it means that it is needed for something. A three-dimensional puzzle platformer about the change of gravity in three axes. Walk on the walls and hang from the ceiling. Do whatever you want. The main thing is to get out of here.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 86.9%, Indie 13.1%
- #41 Silicon Zeroes
73% matchVery Positive88% of 281 reviews2017
Dev: PleasingFungus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup.
Why similar: Education 67.6%, Indie 32.4%
- #42 Frame of Mind
71% matchVery Positive94% of 932 reviews2021
Dev: [SAMPLE TEXT] Studios ltd
Windows
In Frame of Mind, you are placed in a world where logic is escaping you. Each area of the game defies reason, requiring you to think outside the box in order to solve the illogical and escape madness.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 100%
- #43 Teslagrad
73% matchVery Positive84% of 2,460 reviews2013
Dev: Rain Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 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.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 68.1%, Indie 31.9%
- #44 Andarin Weppes: Pre-Dementia
70% matchVery Positive92% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: MötivPub: Next in Game
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Andarin Weppes is a first person puzzle experience of a man with ever advancing dementia...
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 100%
- #45 Find You
71% matchVery Positive93% of 419 reviews2017
Dev: Byting Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Play every character simultaneously and reunite them in mind boggling 100 levels
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 88.9%, Indie 11.1%
- #46 Perspective
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,387 reviews2019
Dev: WiddershinsPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Perspective is an experimental platformer. The player avatar moves in a 2D space that transforms when the player changes perspective in 3D space. The player needs to use this mechanic navigate the 2D avatar to a goal in order to progress from level to level.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 80%, Indie 20%
- #47 Can't Live Without Electricity
68% matchVery Positive94% of 241 reviews2023
Dev: MELOVITY
Windows · Mac
Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 LogicBots
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 184 reviews2017
Dev: Incandescent Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Design, build and wire up your own unique robot to complete challenging logic puzzles. LogicBots is a puzzle game where robots are used to complete the various levels.
Why similar: Education 70.1%, Indie 29.9%
- #49 Playback Loop
67% matchVery Positive95% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: MapPack
Windows
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: Puzzle Platformer 79.8%, Indie 20.2%
- #50 Retro Gadgets
67% matchVery Positive90% of 505 reviews2022
Dev: Licorice ehf
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 60.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Retro Gadgets is a sandbox where you build, code, and customize gadgets inspired by old-school electronics.
Why similar: Education 96.6%, Indie 3.4%
- #51 Virtual Circuit Board
67% matchVery Positive93% of 302 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie Foundry
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Virtual Circuit Board is the sandbox drawing-based logic simulator where you can build, program, decorate, and simulate anything from simple monochrome circuits to complex and colorful computers. Play with digital logic in this sandbox-only experience.
Why similar: Education 94.6%, Indie 5.4%
- #52 Mr. Mat Hematic
69% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Shahmuradov Games
Windows · Mac
Mr. Mat Hematic is a short, fun, 2D platformer puzzle game where you must use given mathematical operations to alter the environment so you can move around. To complete a level, you need to reach the black door.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 58.6%, Education 41.4%
- #53 Puzzlement
69% matchVery Positive92% of 235 reviews2018
Dev: Yunus Ayyildiz
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
a game about walking/jumping between plane surfaces to collect all red squares
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 68.8%, Indie 31.2%
- #54 Super Markup Man
70% matchVery Positive82% of 125 reviews2016
Dev: Roppy Chop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Learn HTML and CSS through a 2D puzzle platformer! Carry and place real web tags, solve logic-based levels, and build your own web page templates. No coding needed!
Why similar: Education 60.5%, Puzzle Platformer 39.5%
- #55 SirKwitz
66% matchVery Positive94% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: Predict Edumedia
Windows
Dive into SirKwitz: a beginner-friendly edutainment game that makes learning programming easy & fun! Explore 28 puzzles across four topics to master the very core concepts behind programming and develop your problem-solving skills. Ideal for those that think coding & programming are scary words!
Why similar: Education 92.9%, Indie 7.1%
- #56 MHRD
68% matchVery Positive89% of 433 reviews2017
Dev: Funghisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
MHRD is a hardware design game, in which you design various hardware circuits in a hardware description language. The hardware circuits you design get more complex as you go until you create a fully functional CPU design.
Why similar: Education 72.2%, Indie 27.8%
- #57 Super Perspective
69% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: The Dashing Crate
Windows · Mac
A mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can switch between 2D and 3D at will!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 67.6%, Indie 32.4%
- #58 One Dreamer: Prologue
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 797 reviews2020
Dev: One Dreamer CompanyPub: F2House
Windows · Mac · Linux
Modify the world around you with pseudocode as you journey through blended realities and discover why Frank became a game developer in the first place.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 76%, Indie 24%
- #59 Light Maze
66% matchVery Positive99% of 159 reviews2022
Dev: catgrease
Windows
A simple casual game where you light up floor tiles in a level in order to go to the next level.
Why similar: Indie 100%
