Timed PlayStation exclusive
Viewfinder
2023Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
Viewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.
84 rating1 list4 h main storyOften paired


Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
340 games like Backfirewall · 2003 – 2026
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
Viewfinder is a puzzle game where you can reshape the world around you by taking photos with an instant camera.
84 rating1 list4 h main storyOften paired
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Road 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip. The discovery of exciting places, and unusual people on your own personal journey to freedom. An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, and Bong Joon-ho. Momen
78 rating8 lists7.5 h main storyOften paired
Timed Xbox exclusive
Zadbox Entertainment · Linux, Switch, PS5 +3
Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements provi
80 rating2 lists14 h main storyOften paired


Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Metamorphosis is a first-person puzzle platforming adventure. Wake up as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and use your newfound abilities and nimble legs to uncover the truth behind your mysterious transformation.
78 rating1 list3 h main storyOften paired


Eerie Guest Studios · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Hello Neighbor 2 is a stealth horror game where you're being stalked by a mysterious creature as you try to track down Mr. Peterson (The Neighbor) who has disappeared after the events of the first game. Play against an advanced, self-learni
33 rating4 lists4.5 h main storyOften paired


Hilltop Studios · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
Imagine you're a 12 year old, suddenly in charge of the guard shed at the castle gate, where you decide if elves, goblins and 100+ other characters should be admitted. It's a wonderful combination of deduction, narrative and puzzle games.
70 rating6 lists8.5 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Meta Quest, Switch, PS4 +4
Wonderful. Your dogs have been dognapped by a beaked lunatic who stuffed them into his eye holes and is using their life essence to destroy the universe. Does that make any sense? You've partnered with Trover, a little purple eye hole monst
78 rating3 listsOften paired


Edmund McMillen · Switch, PS5, Windows +2
The Legend of Bum-bo is a randomly generated turn based puzzle RPG. It's a spin-off of Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
66 rating2 lists9 h main storyOften paired


Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Think in reverse. Outsmart the impossible. A mind-bending first-person adventure where you solve ingenious and complex puzzles by rewinding objects through time.
82 rating3 lists9 h main story


Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
The famed Frog Detective returns in the most thrilling mystery yet! A town’s welcoming celebration for a mysterious Invisible Wizard has been ripped to shreds by an unknown culprit. The Detective must find out “whodunnit”! The Case of the I
78 rating1 list1 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Android, Switch, PS4 +3
The Forest Quartet is a 3D narrative puzzler about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and figh
68 rating1 list1.5 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Young Horses · Switch, PS4, PS5 +5
Bugsnax takes you on a journey to Snaktooth Island, home of the legendary half-bug half-snack creatures, Bugsnax. Invited by intrepid explorer Elizabert Megafig, you arrive to discover your host nowhere to be found, her camp in shambles, an
75 rating6 lists8 h main story


Mangledmaw Games · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +4
In the thrilling conclusion of the Amanda the Adventurer trilogy, follow Riley as they uncover the ultimate secrets behind Amanda, Hameln, and mysteries that have plagued Kensdale for decades.
2 lists3 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Kokoromi · PlayStation VR, SteamVR, Windows
SuperHyperCube is a VR "first person puzzler" with classic controls and intuitive shape-matching gameplay. You control a group of cubes and rotate it to fit through a hole in a wall that is constantly moving toward you. Each time you fit th
74 rating2 lists


Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
ChromaGun is a first person puzzler about colors. The basic principle is as easy as applying it is complex: exit the chambers via the exit doors. Use the ChromaGun to colorize walls and WorkerDroids to progress in the chambers. WorkerDroids
77 rating1 list1.5 h main story


Out of the Blue Games · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5 +2
Journey to the far corners of the Earth and unearth ancient horrors in this Lovecraftian narrative puzzle adventure and sequel to 2020’s critically acclaimed Call of the Sea.
69 rating2 lists6.5 h main story


Ocelot Society · Windows, macOS
"Event[0] is a game about building a personal relationship with a machine. You type messages into a computer, and Kaizen answers. As in any relationship, you experience gratitude, disappointment, and sometimes jealousy. It is by working th
72 rating2 lists2.5 h main story


Vladimír Kudělka · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person
60 rating1 list1.5 h main story


Mangledmaw Games · Xbox Series, PS4, Windows +3
In Amanda the Adventurer 2, the story continues as Riley encounters a mysterious masked figure after destroying the TV in the attic. Travel to the Kensdale Public Library and dig deeper into the mystery of Amanda the Adventurer.
79 rating2 lists3 h main story
Timed Xbox exclusive
Strange Scaffold · Switch, Windows, Xbox Series
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did thre
3 lists4 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Eko Software · Linux, Nintendo DS, PS3 +4
After a violent tropical cyclone, the fish, shrimp, octopuses and other sea creatures find themselves flung out of the water… There's not a minute to lose! Use original tools to guide them to freedom! You'll need to think hard and act fast
1 list


Switch, PS4, PS5 +5
Enter and explore memories from long ago. Relive moments frozen in time. Hindsight is a narrative exploration game spanning the entirety of a woman’s life, from birth to present day, as she tries to make sense of it all. Revisit her childh
75 rating2 lists2 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Team HalfBeard · Linux, Switch, Windows +1
"So, I made a game, right? I filled it with harmless funny puzzles, narrated it a little bit, and then players started making fun of it! They broke the game and ignored my rules! They... they... laughed at me! As if it was some kind of a jo
67 rating2 lists2.5 h main story


Finish Line Games · PS4, Windows, Xbox One
Channeling elements of Monty Python and the funnier episodes of the X-Files, Maize is an absurdist, first-person adventure with a cornucopia of highbrow puzzles to solve, talking oddities to meet, and mysteries to be harvested.
66 rating1 list3.5 h main story


Pixel Maniacs · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
ChromaGun is a first person puzzler about colors. The basic principle is as easy as applying it is complex: exit the chambers via the exit doors. Use the ChromaGun to colorize walls and WorkerDroids to progress in the chambers. WorkerDroids
77 rating6 lists


FinalBoss Games · Xbox Series, Windows, Xbox One +1
Grab your axe and save the environment by chopping and recycling every man-made thing in your path and solving puzzles with your charming animal friends!
68 rating1 list1.5 h main story


Croteam · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
The Talos Principle II is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
89 rating3 lists23 h main story


DYNAMIC PIXELS · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
Hello Neighbor: Hide & Seek follows the tragic story of the Neighbor’s family in this dramatic prequel to Hello Neighbor. Experience playing a game of hide-and-seek with your brother as you both deal with a loss of a family member. The game
49 rating2 lists5.5 h main story


Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Save whimsical creatures with the power of kindness in order to recolor a black-and-white world in Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan, a wholesome 2.5D Adventure-RPG!
85 rating4 lists11 h main story


Team17 · Meta Quest, Switch, PS4 +4
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
78 rating2 lists5 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Schell Games · Meta Quest, PlayStation VR, SteamVR +1
From the team behind I Expect You To Die comes this visually stunning VR sword fighting game. Melee and magic fuse to deliver a satisfying combat experience in which you are the master of your own martial style.
80 rating1 list7.5 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Placeholder Gameworks · Android, Linux, Switch +4
In this 2D, narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarna
76 rating1 list3 h main story


Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Guide young Finley through his first weeks at a provincial hospital. He is on fire for his apprenticeship as an internist. But a lot of pressure makes Finley's life difficult and our gameplay challenging.
56 rating1 list8.5 h main story


OnLive, PS2, Windows +2
Ghost Master is a strategy game with a difference. Your aim is to build up and control a team of ghosts, and your goal is to scare the humans.Set in the town of Gravenville, there are number of different scenarios to play, set over a variet
67 rating4 lists13 h main story


CrazyBunch · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice invites players to slip back into the leather pants of self-titled heartthrob and try-hard ladies man Larry Laffer as he sets out to find his true love, the divinely delightful Faith.
89 rating5 lists14 h main story
Timed Xbox exclusive
Switch, PS4, PS5 +5
Manifold Garden is a game that reimagines physics and space. Explore a world of beautiful Escher-esque architecture where the laws of physics are different. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction and falling down leads you back to
83 rating6 lists5 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Blue Brain Games · Xbox Series, PS4, Android +6
The long awaited sequel to The House of Da Vinci is finally here. Join more than 1.000.000 players from around the world and dive into the 3D puzzle adventure.
79 rating1 list7 h main story


Blue Isle Studios · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoskeleton that grants exceptional speed and agility along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate the life and death of all living things.
69 rating4 lists4 h main story


Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
An unreliable narrative-driven adventure game. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal?
4 lists4 h main story


Pine Studio · Android, Linux, Windows +2
Faraway: Puzzle Escape is an adventure game, a modern tribute to Myst designed for phones and tablets. In Faraway you're an adventurer exploring ruins of ancient temples full of challenges and mysterious riddles.
1 list3.5 h main story


Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +1
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in
88 rating7 lists16 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Graceful Decay · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
MAQUETTE is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.
73 rating5 lists2.5 h main story


Exordium Games · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots is an all new prequel chapter featuring Amber’s brother Flint and the callous detective Ted E. Bear. Take to the gritty and bustling undergrounds of Paper City, discovering new characters and rich lore leading
70 rating1 list2 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +3
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a classic puzzle adventure game where you play Ruth, a young woman living alone on a remote farm in a faraway fjord in 1920's Norway. Life is hard, work is tough, and Ruth wonders; Is this the life I want? The
72 rating2 lists2 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Blue Brain Games · Xbox Series, PS4, Android +5
Walk in the shoes of an apprentice and friend of Leonardo da Vinci. Find hidden mysteries, solve handcrafted mechanical puzzles and travel through time and space to lead the story to its grand finale.
64 rating1 list8 h main story


Exordium Games · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots is an all new prequel chapter featuring Amber’s brother Flint and the callous detective Ted E. Bear. Take to the gritty and bustling undergrounds of Paper City, discovering new characters and rich lore leading
70 rating1 list


Out of the Blue · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific
72 rating6 lists5.5 h main story


Android, Linux, Switch +6
Do Not Feed the Monkeys is a digital voyeur simulator: a narrative-driven game where you invade the privacy of dozens of strangers and witness their most intimate moments, while you struggle to keep up to date with paying the rent and putti
73 rating3 lists2 h main story