Games like The Howler
by Antanas Marcelionis, Renė Petrulienė
Use gravity, tension, and wind currents to get your hot air balloon to its destination, dropping off cargo on your way, in this ultra-challenging physics-based game. All art used in the Howler was meticulously created by classically-trained experienced painters.
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$14.99Nauticrawl
Sep 16 · Spare Parts Oasis
Both: Puzzle · Difficult · Steampunk
A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.
SimulationIndieAtmosphericSci-fiPuzzleDifficultSingleplayerPoint & ClickAdventureSteampunk👍 441
$2.993D Hardcore Cube
Aug 22 · Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich
Both: Puzzle · Difficult
3D Hardcore Cube - this is not an easy platformer in which you want to get to the portal and not to fall into the trap. The game has boosters traffic boosters bounce, anti bounce, falling cubes, turrets and more!
ActionIndiePuzzleSingleplayerLogicDifficultRelaxingMusicFast-PacedSide Scroller👍 161
$4.99Mad Age & This Guy
Oct 24 · Atomic Wolf
Both: Puzzle · Steampunk
This is the age of steam. This is the time of unprecedented technology development never seen before. This is the era of science, research, and inventions. However, this world has also another side, the side not everyone aware of. But when evil and deception grow in strength, he will appear.
IndieCasualActionSingleplayerPixel GraphicsPuzzleSokobanSteampunk👍 113
$4.99Box: The Game
Jan 16 · Heekdevelopment
Both: Puzzle · Difficult
Box: The Game is a fun puzzle game which will challenge your brain to think in different ways. All cubes attach to each other, your goal is to match the displayed shape to continue to the next level.
IndieCasualPuzzleMinimalistSingleplayerDifficultFamily FriendlyGrid-Based MovementAbstractTop-Down
$3.99Draw a Stickman: EPIC
Dec 3 · Hitcents
Both: Puzzle
Draw a stickman, then guide him through a fantastic world of adventure! Using an assortment of pencils, draw elements, tools, and weapons to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles.
AdventureIndieCasualPuzzleComedyHand-drawn2DSingleplayerTouch-FriendlyFunny👍 913
Dark Echo
May 11 · RAC7 Games
Both: Puzzle
Trapped in darkness, you must use visualized sound to guide your way through threatening environments. The sounds you create will bounce off obstacles, revealing the shape of the surrounding world. It won't be long before your only way of sensing the world attracts a horrifying evil that devours both sound and souls.
AdventureIndiePuzzleHorrorAtmosphericSingleplayerPsychological HorrorMinimalist2DDark👍 835
$14.99Hidden Folks
Feb 15 · Hidden Folks
Both: Puzzle
Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!
Hidden ObjectCasualHand-drawnIndiePuzzlePoint & ClickRelaxing2DFunnySingleplayer👍 7,612
$9.99Out There Somewhere
Mar 14 · MiniBoss
Both: Puzzle
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
PlatformerPixel GraphicsIndiePuzzleAdventure2DGreat SoundtrackRetroActionSci-fi👍 6,161
$4.99Akin
Jun 6 · ThinkOfGames
Both: Puzzle
In this puzzle, you only have to draw one continuous line. There are 96 puzzles on "Normal"-mode and 96 puzzles in "Time"-mode. Each puzzles can have many different solutions. This is game is Steamworks integrated with achivements, badges, trading cards and more.
CasualIndiePuzzle2DRelaxingSingleplayerMinimalistIncrementalPuzzle PlatformerLogic👍 498
$0.99#monstercakes
May 5 · Paleno Games
Both: Puzzle
Pretty simple game combination between 2048 and match-3 settings with awesome monster cakes. Put your monster cake in the good hole and combine them together to get higher monster cake. Combine them as high as you can and be on the top of the leaderboard!
CasualIndiePuzzleMatch 3Singleplayer👍 707
$0.99SUMETRICK
Jan 26 · Paleno Games
Both: Puzzle
Sumetrick is a mind training minimalist design game that's chained to the symmetry. Simple gameplay - you need to fill gameboard in symmetry way by clicking on framed cells. Do that faster and be as good as Chack Knorris. But don't forget to eat sometimes...
IndieCasualPuzzle👍 421
$2.99The Impossible Game
May 8 · Grip Games
Both: Difficult
The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an EXCLUSIVE new Level Editor.
IndieDifficultGreat SoundtrackPlatformerLevel EditorMusicCasual2DAddictiveSingleplayer👍 1,253
$14.99Mushroom 11
Oct 15 · Untame
Both: Puzzle
An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?
IndieActionAdventurePuzzlePlatformerPuzzle PlatformerPhysicsExperimental2DAtmospheric👍 140
$9.99Crazy Machines
Dec 12 · Fakt Software
Both: Puzzle
Turn the crank, rotate the gears, push the levers, Use the catapult, explode it, or fly it...From grilling sausages with a pulley, gears, rubberbands and a candle to firing a cannon with a basketball, these wacky brain-teasers will light up your imagination with creative and addictive fun.
PuzzleCasualStrategyPhysicsSingleplayer👍 118
$4.99Frankenstein: Master of Death
Mar 9 · Jetdogs Studios, Fineway Studios
Both: Puzzle
Victor Frankenstein, an old friend and a brilliant scientist has managed to resurrect the dead! However the border between life and death is fragile and Victor has learned the hard way that this balance should not be tempered with...
Hidden ObjectPoint & ClickCasualPuzzleAdventureIndieSingleplayerHorrorMysteryFantasy👍 1,702
$1.99Linea, the Game
Jan 4 · KHB-Soft
Both: Difficult
The goal of the game is to survive for more than 60 seconds on each level, dodging platforms and objects, listening to bitpop soundtracks. Four levels, online-records, achievements and trading cards are waiting for you.
IndieCasualMinimalistDifficultActionFast-PacedArcadeMusicMusic-Based Procedural GenerationPsychedelic👍 883
$1.99Alien Attack
Jun 21 · Alien Jellyfish
Both: Difficult
You are a space trooper. Your crew finished the cleaning mission and left you alone by accident. Now you are surrounded by aliens. Persist them as long as you can.
ActionIndieCasualAdventureSimulationPixel GraphicsDifficultArcadeShoot 'Em Up2D👍 181


















