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466 games like The Swapper · 2004 – 2025

  • Timed Xbox exclusiveWhy 78Form.15World.38Curated.72Lists.79Adventure · Indie · Often paired · Also in Puzzle games

    Limbo

    2010

    Playdead · Android, Linux, Switch +8

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleGravity

    Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

    82 rating17 lists2.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 77Form.20World.34Curated.72Lists1.00Adventure · Platformer · Often paired · Also in Puzzle games

    Airtight Games · PS3, Windows, Xbox 360

    AdventurePlatformerPuzzleScienceStrategy

    In Quantum Conundrum, players take on the role of a young kid dropped off on his uncle's doorstep for the weekend; his uncle just so happens to be the brilliant, eccentric inventor, Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. Upon entering the Professor's

    72 rating5 lists6.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 75Form.23World.51Curated.63Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Sparpweed · Linux, Switch, PS3 +1

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleGravity

    The green creature, ibb, and the pink creature, obb, travel through a world divided by a thin horizon line; on either side of the barrier, everything is inverted and gravity works in opposite directions. The game is focused on cooperative p

    75 rating1 list6.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Timed Nintendo exclusiveWhy 73Form.08World.56Curated.65Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Over The Moon · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleScience

    The Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown

    78 rating1 list3.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 73Form.15World.34Curated.70Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Agat Films & Cie – Ex Nihilo · Android, Linux, Switch +5

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleTeleportation

    Type:Rider is an adventure puzzle game that brings gaming experience to a whole new daring level.

    74 rating1 list2.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 71Form.16World.31Curated.59Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Linux, Switch, PS4 +4

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerPuzzle

    Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a huge, open world filled with intricate puzzles, oddball characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure telling a personal story about faith,

    80 rating5 lists11 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.18World.69Curated.50Lists.72Adventure · Indie · Often paired · Also in Puzzle games

    Linux, Windows, macOS

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleExploration

    Antichamber is a single-player first-person puzzle-platform video game. Many of the puzzles are based on phenomena that occur within the Impossible Objects created by the game engine, such as passages that lead the player to different locat

    82 rating6 lists3 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 66Form.15World.28Curated.56Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Switch, PS4, Windows +1

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerPuzzle

    A mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifact

    83 rating4 lists13 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 65Form.17World.17Curated.60Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Red Barrels · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3

    AdventureIndieWhite noiseColor separationCorpse

    Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try

    77 rating10 lists5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 65Form.17World.36Curated.57Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Stray

    2022

    BlueTwelve Studio · Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS4 +5

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleScience

    Stray is a third-person cat adventure game set amidst the detailed neon-lit alleys of a decaying cybercity and the murky environments of its seedy underbelly. Roam surroundings high and low, defend against unforeseen threats and solve the m

    83 rating13 lists6.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 65Form.07World.00Curated.70Lists.00Adventure · Platformer · Often paired

    Android, Switch, PS3 +5

    AdventurePlatformerPuzzleExplorationCollectibles

    Valiant Hearts: The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. In Valiant Hearts, the lives of all these chara

    79 rating2 lists6.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 64Form.07World.09Curated.57Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Tarsier Studios · Android, Switch, PS4 +5

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleAtmospheric

    Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must es

    79 rating1 list3.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 62Form.07World.00Curated.72Lists.00Adventure · Platformer · Often paired

    Ubisoft Montpellier · Android, Switch, PS3 +5

    AdventurePlatformerPuzzleExplorationCollectibles

    Valiant Hearts: The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. In Valiant Hearts, the lives of all these chara

    79 rating11 listsOften paired

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  • Why 60Form.12World.13Curated.54Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Bombservice · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerExploration

    Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a sidescrolling platformer, and is the fourth installment of the Momodora series. Focusing on gameplay, melee combos, dodge mechanics, travel forwards in the search to save everyone. With your trusty

    84 rating5 lists4.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 59Form.17World.10Curated.50Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Often paired

    Harvester Games · Linux, Windows

    AdventureIndiePuzzleMultiple endingsAtmospheric

    The Cat Lady is a single-player horror graphic adventure and the second entry in the Devil Came Through Here trilogy, following Downfall and preceding Lorelai. It is a puzzle-based adventure played entirely with the four arrow keys, so char

    90 rating2 lists7 h main storyOften paired

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  • Why 58Form.13World.43Curated.41Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Inside

    2016

    Playdead · Switch, PS4, Windows +3

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleMultiple endings

    Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environment

    89 rating9 lists3.5 h main story

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  • Why 57Form.18World.08Curated.50Lists.00Adventure · Platformer · Often paired

    DICE · PS4, Windows, Xbox One +2

    AdventurePlatformerExplorationSlow-motionCollectibles

    Mirror's Edge Catalyst is an action-adventure game and the reboot to Mirror's Edge. The story in the game explores the past of the protagonist Faith. Like in the previous game, the main gameplay in Mirror's Edge Catalyst involves traversing

    69 rating4 lists8.5 h main storyOften paired

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  • PlayStation console exclusiveWhy 56Form.05World.66Curated.35Lists1.00Indie · Platformer · Also in Puzzle games

    Eyebrow Interactive · Linux, PS3, PlayStation Portable +2

    IndiePlatformerPuzzleStrategyCollectibles

    In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of thre

    78 rating5 lists6.5 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 52Form.10World.25Curated.34Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Nicalis · Android, Linux, Nintendo 3DS +4

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleJumping puzzle

    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 usi

    83 rating1 list2.5 h main story

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  • Why 50Form.19World.25Curated.24Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Tiger Style · Android, Linux, Windows +2

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerAtmospheric

    Waking Mars is a one-of-a-kind adventure in which you jetpack through subterranean Mars encountering a host of extraordinary alien lifeforms that operate as a living, breathing ecosystem. Learn and master the behaviors of these creatures to

    79 rating2 lists6.5 h main story

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  • Why 48Form.21World.35Curated.20Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Stasis

    2015

    The Brotherhood · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4

    AdventureIndiePuzzleScienceWhite noise

    Stasis is a point-and-click, sci-fi, horror adventure game played from a unique isometric perspective. Stasis intertwines a gruesome narrative with retro adventure gameplay. Combine items, interact with computers and solve puzzles while exp

    67 rating6 lists7 h main story

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 48Form.17World.38Curated.14Lists.83Adventure · Indie · Also in Puzzle games

    Croteam · Android, Linux, Switch +5

    AdventureIndiePuzzleScienceMultiple endings

    The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

    87 rating10 lists16 h main storyAlso in Puzzle games

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  • Why 47Form.13World.13Curated.39Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Michael Todd Games · Android, Linux, Switch +5

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleGravity

    Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles

    76 rating1 list3 h main story

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  • Why 46Form.14World.45Curated.16Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    BeautiFun Games · Android, Linux, Switch +6

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleAction

    Nihilumbra is played as a standard platform game, by controlling Born as he walks and jumps across the game's levels. There are multiple enemies that the player needs to avoid since, at first, there is no way to defeat them. The game is div

    75 rating5 lists5 h main story

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  • Why 46Form.08World.22Curated.25Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Pid

    2012

    Might and Delight · PS3, PlayStation Portable, Windows +2

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleGravity

    Pid was developed by Might and Delight for PC, Mac, X-Box, and PlayStation and released in 2012. It is a story-driven platformer that includes a variety of puzzles. It was praised for the artwork, presentation, and soundtrack; and received

    61 rating3 lists9.5 h main story

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  • Timed Xbox exclusiveWhy 46Form.07World.38Curated.27Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Android, Linux, Switch +9

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleStrategy

    A black-and-white puzzle game inspired by the art of M. C. Escher. Players guide a character through hand-drawn levels by rotating the world, which shifts the direction of gravity so that ceilings can become floors. Each level is a self-con

    70 rating8 lists3.5 h main story

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 46Form.13World.88Curated.10Lists.00Adventure · Indie · Described alike

    Thekla · Android, PS4, Windows +3

    AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationMultiple endings

    The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles bri

    85 rating1 list17 h main storyDescribed alike

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  • Xbox console exclusiveWhy 46Form.11World.22Curated.27Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    The Odd Gentlemen · Windows, Xbox 360

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleGravity

    Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!

    76 rating3 lists3.5 h main story

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  • Xbox console exclusiveWhy 45Form.09World.30Curated.27Lists.00Indie · Metroidvania

    Alientrap · Linux, Windows, Xbox 360 +1

    IndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerPuzzleScience

    Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-

    67 rating4 lists4 h main story

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  • Why 45Form.04World.42Curated.24Lists.00Adventure · Platformer

    Game Freak · Switch, PS4, Windows +1

    AdventurePlatformerPuzzleActionScience fiction

    "Giga Wrecker is a 2D puzzle-platform action game developed and published by Game Freak. You play as a cyborg girl, who has the power of reconstructing debris and scraps into various weapons, and explore a world invaded by an army of myster

    80 rating3 lists11 h main story

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  • Why 45Form.08World.17Curated.36Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Gish

    2004

    Linux, Windows, macOS

    ActionAdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzle

    Gish isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not your average anything...you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground. Fo

    76 rating1 list4.5 h main story

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  • Timed Nintendo exclusiveWhy 45Form.10World.55Curated.19Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Renegade Kid · Nintendo 3DS, Switch, PS4 +3

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerAction

    Xeodrifter is an action-packed exploration game with a retro graphical style. Blast your way through alien landscapes, seek out valuable secrets, and defeat ancient guardians to unlock powers from a legendary supreme culture in this excitin

    74 rating6 lists1 h main story

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  • Why 44Form.16World.13Curated.29Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Feist

    2015

    Bits & Beasts · Android, Linux, PS4 +4

    ActionAdventureIndiePlatformerExploration

    Feist is a beautiful, poetic and action packed game, with an enchanting and spooky atmosphere. It tells the story of a small creature surviving in a mysterious, hostile world. Once players escape the crude crate the strange, lumbering beast

    61 rating2 lists2.5 h main story

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  • Timed Xbox exclusiveWhy 44Form.06World.08Curated.26Lists.00Adventure · Metroidvania

    Moon Studios · Switch, Windows, Xbox One

    AdventureMetroidvaniaPlatformerPuzzleAction

    The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a

    87 rating7 lists8 h main story

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  • Why 43Form.15World.04Curated.18Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Windows, macOS

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerPuzzle

    Light up the world! As Plug, you are charged with restoring the expansive Amp-Tree-System, and thwarting an enigmatic intruder. Solve puzzles and explore in 1000 Amps!

    76 rating1 list4 h main story

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  • PlayStation console exclusiveWhy 43Form.15World.45Curated.14Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    PS5, Windows

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleAtmospheric

    An ordinary man in an extraordinary world. Bionic Bay is a new kind of a 2D platformer. It introduces a unique Swap mechanic, allowing players to interact with the physics-based world in new ways. The immersive gameplay is completed by spec

    85 rating1 list7 h main story

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  • Why 43Form.22World.25Curated.13Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Double Fine · PS4, Windows, Xbox One +1

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerScience

    Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their

    77 rating3 lists5.5 h main story

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  • Timed Xbox exclusiveWhy 43Form.20World.25Curated.07Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Stage 2 Studios · Linux, PS4, Windows +2

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleScience

    Lifeless Planet was inspired by Cold War era science fiction stories, posing questions about humankind's desire for space travel. What if you journeyed across the galaxy to another planet, only to find humans had already been there? What ki

    61 rating2 lists4.5 h main story

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  • Why 43Form.18World.17Curated.24Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Frogwares · PS3, PlayStation Portable, Windows +1

    ActionAdventureIndiePuzzleCorpse

    When technology meets Cthulhu! Magrunner: Dark Pulse is an action-puzzle game in which technology confronts the Cthulhu Mythos, as imagined by author, H. P. Lovecraft. You are Dax, one of seven Magrunners selected among the elite to parti

    58 rating3 lists8.5 h main story

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  • Why 43Form.12World.25Curated.17Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Linux, Switch, Windows +2

    ActionAdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzle

    Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

    67 rating1 list6.5 h main story

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  • Nintendo console exclusiveWhy 43Form.09World.00Curated.25Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Two Tribes · Linux, Wii U, Windows +1

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerPuzzle

    Toki Tori 2 is a puzzle adventure game in which you explore a lush forest island inhabited by strange creatures. Whistle and stomp to influence their behavior, and solve the puzzles. But what's up with that black goo? It's threatening your

    69 rating3 lists9 h main story

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  • PlayStation console exclusiveWhy 42Form.16World.22Curated.25Lists.00Indie · Puzzle

    Ivy Games · Linux, PS4, Windows +1

    IndiePuzzleGravityAtmosphericAction

    Gravity Ghost is a peaceful gravity hopper: Run, jump, and orbit your way through a handpainted galaxy. Join Iona the ghost as she searches for her lost best friend, the ghost fox. Explore a shattered galaxy and rescue its survivors, armed

    72 rating1 list3 h main story

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 42Form.23World.51Curated.19Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Sparpweed Games · Linux, Switch, PS3 +1

    PlatformerPuzzleAdventureIndieGravity

    The green creature, ibb, and the pink creature, obb, travel through a world divided by a thin horizon line; on either side of the barrier, everything is inverted and gravity works in opposite directions. The game is focused on cooperative p

    75 rating6 lists

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 42Form.12World.25Curated.22Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Linux, PS3, PlayStation Vita +3

    AdventureIndiePlatformerMetroidvaniaCross buy

    The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago.

    80 rating5 lists10 h main story

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  • Timed PlayStation exclusiveWhy 42Form.09World.00Curated.29Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Lumo

    2016

    Linux, Switch, PS4 +4

    AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzleSecret area

    Witness the rebirth of a genre in Lumo – a classic isometric adventure with a modern twist for gamers young and old alike!

    68 rating6 lists5 h main story

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  • Why 42Form.04World.67Curated.18Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Santa Ragione · Linux, Ouya, Windows +1

    AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationScience fiction

    MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration wit

    70 rating3 lists4 h main story

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  • Why 42Form.08World.17Curated.23Lists.00Adventure · Platformer

    Valve Corporation · Android, Linux, Switch +4

    AdventurePlatformerPuzzleScienceGravity

    Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as

    83 rating1 list2 h main story

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  • Why 42Form.09World.46Curated.14Lists.00Adventure · Indie

    Rain Games · Android, Linux, Switch +8

    AdventureIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerPuzzle

    Teslagrad is a 2D puzzle platformer developed by Rain Games. Released in 2013, it is set in a steampunk-inspired world and revolves around the use of magnetism and electricity to solve puzzles. Players control a young boy who must navigate

    76 rating1 list5 h main story

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