
Yolings is a 2.5D puzzle platformer about sacrificing some to save the rest. Possess individual characters, use self-sacrificing abilities and turn their deaths into puzzle solutions to save as many as possible for the highest score.
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Yolings is a 2.5D puzzle platformer about sacrificing some to save the rest. Possess individual characters, use self-sacrificing abilities and turn their deaths into puzzle solutions to save as many as possible for the highest score.

This Side Up
Run and grab to deliver boxes in a mind-bending multi-gravitational warehouse inspired by the drawings of MC Escher!

Shatterbound
Work with your past (and future) selves to solve puzzles. Shatter your obstacles, be your own platform, and more in this time-looping puzzler where YOU are your own solution!
Run and grab to deliver boxes in a mind-bending multi-gravitational warehouse inspired by the drawings of MC Escher!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, 2.5D 16.7%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Difficult 11.4%, 2D Platformer 9.8%
Work with your past (and future) selves to solve puzzles. Shatter your obstacles, be your own platform, and more in this time-looping puzzler where YOU are your own solution!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, 2.5D 20.8%, Time Manipulation 15.2% ★, Puzzle 10.4%, Platformer 8.6%
Revert is a Puzzle-Platformer based on time-manipulation abilities. Dodge obstacles, unlock new abilities, and solve increasingly complicated puzzles to master Revert!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, 2.5D 21.1%, Puzzle 11.9%, Time Manipulation 10.4% ★, Platformer 9.7%
Overcome difficult platforming challenges, solve puzzles and escape dangerous enemies hiding in every corner of Dark Space!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, 2.5D 18.5%, Physics 12.6%, Difficult 11.8%, Side Scroller 10.1%
CUBIE is a minimalist puzzle platformer where you control gravity. Each side of the cube offers unique physics based on how you enter it. The world remains the same – only your perspective changes. Can you solve spatial puzzles in a labyrinth where "up" is just a relative term?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.6%, Difficult 16.2%, 2D Platformer 15.8%, Puzzle 12.9%, Platformer 9.7%
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: Puzzle Platformer 24%, Time Manipulation 21.9% ★, Difficult 13.7%, 2D Platformer 10.2%, Puzzle 8.7%
A relaxing, 2.5D side-scrolling short game set in a unique steampunk/fantasy environment. Find your way through vast fields, magical forests, and giant gears in a steaming factory to reach the twisted circus where your friend is locked up. Jump, find switches, push boxes around to get there.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.8%, 2.5D 19.7%, Puzzle 11.9%, Platformer 11.7%, 2D Platformer 11.4%
A first person game with 2D, realistically simulated, physics-based puzzles.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.2%, 2.5D 21.8%, Physics 16.4%, Puzzle 11.4%, 2D Platformer 10.9%
BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.2%, Dark Humor 17%, 2.5D 15.9%, Physics 11.1%, Difficult 10.6%
Video Editor is a puzzle platformer inspired by various video editing software. As a director, you must film 'movements' as clips, adjust them, and collaborate with chroma key tracks to reach the flag—all within a recording time limit! Film short, reach efficiently!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 18.8%, Time Manipulation 15.4% ★, 2.5D 11.9%, Puzzle 11%, Platformer 10.3%
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 40.2%, Time Manipulation 17% ★, Puzzle 12.8%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Platformer 9.8%
Imagine waking up on a deserted shore without a clue how you ended up there. Anatta is a puzzle-platformer that takes you deep into the mysteries of an enigmatic island. Discover its haunting past and carve your path to salvation.
Why similar: 2.5D 26.5%, Puzzle Platformer 25%, Puzzle 10.5%, Platformer 9.7%, Side Scroller 9.1%
Collect energy bars, expand your arsenal with new and different weapons, activate portals, and unlock your progression as you fight to survive. Easy to learn, hard to master. Find your flow and reach the top in this adventure built on pure arcade-style action!
Why similar: 2.5D 20.6%, Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Puzzle 11.9%, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Side Scroller 10.7%
Inverted Journey is a mind-bending puzzle platformer where you can enter the negative space of levels. Use this unique ability to solve strange puzzles, collect hidden treasures, and journey on a quest to save your little brother from a terrible fate.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.8%, Physics 15.2%, Puzzle 11.8%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Side Scroller 10.4%
Record your movements and play them back to progress. Use your recorded echoes to weigh down pressure plates, body-block lasers, and trigger springs to launch you across gaps. Master the timeline and complete all 29 time-bending levels.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.5%, Time Manipulation 25.2% ★, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Puzzle 11.4%, Platformer 9.5%
Divemensions is a 2D Puzzle Platformer.... just that the levels are not actually 2D! In this game you'll need to move between the layers of the world to overcome various challenges! Get ready to solve puzzles by understanding the 3D layout of the levels or create your own with the level editor!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, 2.5D 20.4%, Side Scroller 13.1%, 2D Platformer 11.1%, Puzzle 10.5%
In a post-apocalyptic future where Earth's resources have been consumed, Kyle Seed tries to recover capsules containing special seeds and the energy needed to save humanity's future. Big Earth is a platform game with challenging puzzles.
Why similar: 2.5D 25.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.6%, Time Manipulation 15.1% ★, Side Scroller 10.1%, 2D Platformer 9.1%
2D Pixel platformer about a cute character named Gelu. He can create and destroy his copies made of ice, limited number of times. With the help of ice copies he can climb on platform, pass the obstacles and pass the levels. Help Gelu to pass hard levels.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.9%, Puzzle 13.6%, Side Scroller 12.5%, Platformer 12.5%, 2D Platformer 10.8%
Roll a triangle across a hand-drawn landscape. But sometimes, being a triangle isn't for the best which is why you can change your shape. This 2.5D puzzle platformer will take you through a variety of environments where you encounter other shapes, activate buttons, and flip levers.
Why similar: 2.5D 27.3%, Puzzle Platformer 17%, Side Scroller 14.7%, Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 11%
Put on your favourite hat and prepare yourself for an experience that will leave you with a keyboard with no keys left on it. Play through every level in this 2D platformer with over 150 Levels of not rage bait "fun".
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26%, Dark Humor 20.1%, Puzzle 14.9%, Platformer 14.2%, 2D Platformer 13.8%
Get ready for an exciting 2D platformer adventure, just like games such as Inside and Limbo. In Excelios, you become Lexi, a special character living inside a computer. Join Lexi on this thrilling adventure filled with puzzles, challenges. Can you defeat the bad guy and fix the computer's problems?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.3%, 2.5D 23.7%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Puzzle 11.9%, Platformer 9.8%
Climb It is a platformer and a puzzle game. Find all levels in a world which want to kill you and finish them. But be careful...be prepared to hit the "Restart" button more than once !
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.4%, Difficult 18.1%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Physics 10.6%, Side Scroller 10.3%
Get ready for a mindbending cyberpunk experience! Figure out more than a dozen puzzles through your manipulation of time based clones and try to get the best time in each level! Dive into Déjà Vu, inspired by puzzlers like Braid and The Swapper.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.8%, Time Manipulation 19.8% ★, 2.5D 17.4%, Puzzle 12.3%, Physics 7.3%
Rewoven Self is a 2.5D side-scrolling narrative puzzle game where fantasy and reality intertwine. Through folding, cutting, and stitching, you rebuild yourself in a cycle of brokenness and renewal — a gentle yet profound journey of emotional healing.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, 2.5D 20.8%, 2D Platformer 14.4%, Puzzle 12.2%, Platformer 10%
A challenging puzzle platformer in which you clone and teleport.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.1%, Difficult 17.3%, 2D Platformer 15.3%, Physics 12.9%, Platformer 11%
From the Shadows is a cooperative puzzle platformer game where players have to work their way through a mysterious mansion by resolving puzzles that revolve around the mechanics of light and shadow.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, 2.5D 17.8%, Dark Humor 15.3%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Puzzle 10%
Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.6%, Difficult 14.6%, Time Manipulation 13.7% ★, Puzzle 10.2%, Platformer 9.1%
Use the incredible power of the Gravity Whip to alter the direction of gravity and whip your way through the mysterious Maze of Dreams in this exciting 2.5D Puzzle Platformer. Jump over spike pits and collect coins and gems to upgrade your character and unlock secret levels. How far will you go?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.9%, 2.5D 17.1%, 2D Platformer 11.5%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Platformer 10.7%
TIMEWINDER is a 2D platformer with puzzle and precision elements. Run, jump, dash and travel in time to brave the obstacles and continue on your journey, but be careful not to break the timeline continuity!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 26.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 26.1%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Puzzle 10.8%, Platformer 10.2%
A physics-based puzzle platformer featuring hand-drawn tangram tessels, layered parallax worlds, and color that changes the rules of physics.
Why similar: 2.5D 25.7%, Puzzle Platformer 19.3%, Physics 15.2%, 2D Platformer 11%, Platformer 10.7%
Hardhat Wombat is a cute puzzle-platformer construction game where deftly stacking blocks of poo can make you number one at number two.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.5%, Puzzle 14.6%, 2.5D 12.9%, Platformer 12.6%, 2D Platformer 9.6%
Liekki is a cozy but fast-paced puzzle platformer where you play as a little fire spirit and try to burn as much as possible. Solve levels using different fire related powers and change levels while burning them down.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 28.8%, Dark Humor 23.3%, 2D Platformer 15%, Puzzle 13.4%, Platformer 11.4%
A powerful spirit has been split into two beings, scattering its power across the land. Control both of these spirits simultaneously to overcome challenges and uncover the truth behind their shared destiny in this beautiful single-player puzzle platformer.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.3%, 2.5D 16.6%, Side Scroller 12.5%, 2D Platformer 10.7%, Puzzle 10.3%
Escape a mysterious laboratory in a 2.5D puzzle platformer. Solve challenges, navigate experimental rooms, and find your way out.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 25.1%, 2.5D 20.8%, Puzzle 14.2%, Side Scroller 12.6%, Platformer 11.6%
Time in Time is a side scroller puzzle-platformer game where you control everything with timers..
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24.5%, 2.5D 19.1%, Difficult 15.5%, Side Scroller 10.6%, Puzzle 10.2%
Level Denied is a fast-paced 2D platformer. Dodge traps, spikes, and sudden surprises as you race to the goal. Simple controls, unpredictable stages, pure chaos and fun in every level.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 29.9%, Dark Humor 27.1%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Puzzle 13.5%, Linear 6.8%
Black Zen White is a relaxing puzzle platformer where the world flips between two versions: black and white. Think, time your moves, bend time, and interact with strange creatures in this contemplative, hand-drawn journey inspired by East Asian ink paintings for 1 to 2 players.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.7%, Time Manipulation 18.9% ★, Physics 10.2%, Puzzle 10.1%, Side Scroller 9.8%
【 In this world, "only what you see" is true. 】This game is a 2.5D platformer puzzle action game in which objects seen by the character materialize, and when you meditate and open your eyes again, the object you saw disappears.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.8%, 2.5D 17.7%, Time Manipulation 11.2% ★, 2D Platformer 10.8%, Puzzle 10.6%
Help our Hero in this difficult mission, discover new powers, solve puzzles, climb, jump, swim and face the opponents.
Why similar: 2.5D 21.6%, Puzzle Platformer 17.9%, Physics 13.2%, Difficult 10.3%, Puzzle 10.3%
The scientist becomes the subject as the boundaries of quantum mechanics shatter and a cat with poor grammar skills dictates the rules. Where all classic methods fail, being in two places at the same time is Alexander Schrödinger’s only hope of staying alive.
Why similar: 2.5D 22.4%, Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, Dark Humor 19.3%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Puzzle 9.1%
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 27.1%, Time Manipulation 24.9% ★, Difficult 17.1%, Physics 12.5%, Puzzle 9.2%
An egomaniacal villain, factories that generate hate, tubes carrying hatred into homes, an alienated society and the weirdos in jail. It is a contemporary portrait of our crazy society told in a surreal creative way. A 3D puzle video game set in a city controlled by the Eye of the villain Kovalev.
Why similar: 2.5D 24%, Puzzle Platformer 19.4%, Dark Humor 16.3%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Side Scroller 8.8%
Science doesn't have to be boring! Use the powers of gravity and magnetic attraction to fling yourself across the laboratory and help Maggie solve dozens of puzzles to fulfill her mission as a researcher!
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.6%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Puzzle 13.8%, Platformer 11.4%, Physics 7.2%
It's a Wrap! is a challenging puzzle game about making movies in 1980s Hollywood. Figure out the perfect timing of props, actors, and special effects as the Director. Then jump into the scene as the movie's star in a traditional 2D platformer.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Time Manipulation 19.6% ★, Difficult 12.2%, Puzzle 10%, Side Scroller 9.2%
A simple 2D action puzzle game that conveys waves to lead you to the goal. Make full use of scaffolding blocks that can be shaken like waves to reach the goal.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.7%, 2D Platformer 16.5%, Puzzle 14.1%, Physics 11%, Platformer 9.4%
Re-Activated is a 2D puzzle platformer game where you manipulate the movement system of a robot to pass the levels. You control the little flying robot named “Minic” to help the robot. Explore the facility and solve the puzzles in a relaxing 1-bit style atmosphere.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.8%, Difficult 16.7%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Puzzle 12.7%, Platformer 10.6%
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 44.8%, Physics 17.3%, Puzzle 14.1%, Platformer 13.7%, Atmospheric 2.7%
Discover the classic tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in a whole new way. A gaming experience where you get to feel what it's like to dive inside a novel as a small dot. Roll left and right, rewind time, and venture deeper through the story as you try to find your way back home.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 22.9% ★, Puzzle Platformer 20.5%, Physics 11.7%, 2D Platformer 8.5%, Puzzle 8%
Grab, drop, and throw nearly every piece of the puzzle in Pinky's Paradigm, a pure but charming puzzle platformer that repurposes common tropes into interesting mechanics. Solve puzzles composed of individual pieces that you can move at will, defusing "bombs", hurdling chasms. and much more.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 27.3%, Physics 15.9%, Puzzle 13.6%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Platformer 8.4%
A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.
Why similar: Dark Humor 33.6%, Puzzle Platformer 19.1%, Puzzle 13.8%, Platformer 12.4%, 2.5D 6.2%
2.5D puzzle platformer where you use light to guide plants and creatures through intricate puzzles while exploring breathtaking environments.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, 2.5D 20.3%, 2D Platformer 13.3%, Puzzle 13%, Side Scroller 11.4%
Control a team of unique rolling characters in this delightful puzzle-platformer. Use each Rolando's special abilities and powerful gadgets such as bomb cannons, catapults, elevators, and magical bridges to solve puzzles, shepherd sleeping royalty and traverse action-packed environments.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.4%, 2.5D 19.5%, Physics 15.5%, 2D Platformer 13.8%, Puzzle 9.8%
A short experimental puzzle platformer exploring the idea of a glitched out main menu.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 26.5%, Side Scroller 16.7%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Puzzle 12.1%, Physics 10.3%
Tricky Castle is a 2d puzzle-platformer with mind-bending, out-of-the-box puzzles. Use creative thinking to solve unconventional challenges and escape a castle full of devious traps.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 38.9%, Puzzle 17.2%, 2D Platformer 16.8%, Platformer 13.8%, Linear 11.3%
And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer, set in a unique world, made of ripped paper. Within the paper-collage you can jump, run and last but certainly not least: rotate the world. Learn how to apply the physical consequences of rotation to master the many tricky situations you may encounter.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 34.5%, Physics 21.1%, Platformer 13.9%, Puzzle 11.4%, Difficult 7.6%
Hi, I’m Waterboy. Help me reach the exit through mind-boggling rotating puzzle-platform levels where floors become walls, timing matters, and every mistake teaches you something. It’s almost impossible, but I trust you.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.8%, Physics 18%, Difficult 15.2%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Puzzle 9.6%
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 22.7%, 2.5D 20.3%, Puzzle 11%, Side Scroller 11%, 2D Platformer 9.1%
In this puzzle platformer, your screen is split down the middle. Control Pitter and Patter simultaneously as you jump, dash, and climb through two parallel realities in this atmospheric adventure on your quest to reunite them.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 30.4%, Side Scroller 20.3%, 2D Platformer 15.8%, Puzzle 13.6%, Platformer 11%
Adopt a new pet and embark on this journey to help him find a safe place.
Why similar: 2.5D 33.1%, Puzzle Platformer 27.3%, Puzzle 13.6%, Physics 12.5%, Linear 9.2%
Climatic side scroller where history plot intermingles with Slavic legends, Second World War, and paranormal activity. Solve complex puzzles, do some platforming, interact with various characters, discover their unclear motives, and be a part of the dark and forgotten mystery.
Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.6%, 2.5D 22.8%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Puzzle 10.9%, 2D Platformer 9.9%