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$14.99Braid
Apr 10 · Number None
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
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.
Puzzle PlatformerPuzzle2D PlatformerPlatformerIndieTime Manipulation2DSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackDifficult👍 6,941
$19.99Braid, Anniversary Edition
May 14 · Thekla, Inc.
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.
Puzzle Platformer2D PlatformerPuzzlePlatformerAction-Adventure2DTime ManipulationActionCasualCartoony👍 1,766
$4.99Chronology
May 12 · Bedtime Digital Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.
AdventurePuzzle PlatformerIndiePlatformerPuzzleTime ManipulationShortTime Travel2DSingleplayer👍 535
$4.99Gateways
Sep 13 · Smudged Cat Games Ltd
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Time Manipulation
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure.
IndiePuzzlePlatformerMetroidvaniaSci-fiTime ManipulationSingleplayerPuzzle Platformer2DPixel Graphics👍 186
$19.99Pid
Oct 31 · Might and Delight
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.
IndiePuzzle PlatformerAdventurePlatformerPuzzleLocal Co-OpDifficultSingleplayerCo-opGreat Soundtrack👍 296
$17.99Timelie
May 20 · Urnique Studio
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Time Manipulation
Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure, where you control time like a media player. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, sneak an enemy, and manipulate time through this companionship journey of a mysterious cat and a little girl with a precognitive power.
PuzzlePuzzle PlatformerFemale ProtagonistTime ManipulationIsometricCuteSingleplayerPoint & ClickIndieRelaxing👍 1,783
$9.99ElecHead
Oct 14 · NamaTakahashi, Tsuyomi
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
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Puzzle PlatformerPuzzlePlatformerLinearPixel GraphicsActionRetroAdventureSingleplayerIndie👍 1,412
$1.99I hate this game
Mar 7 · Pixel Error
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.
IndiePuzzlePixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackLogic2DMinimalistPlatformerPuzzle PlatformerFunny👍 2,465
$14.99The Swapper
May 30 · Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo Castellano
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
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.
PuzzleSci-fiAtmosphericIndieSpacePlatformerPuzzle PlatformerSingleplayerAdventurePhilosophical👍 5,064
-80%$3.99Arise: A Simple Story
Dec 3 · Piccolo Studio
Both: Time Manipulation · Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
3D PlatformerEmotionalTime ManipulationExplorationCuteRelaxingPuzzle PlatformerLocal Co-OpStory RichPlatformer👍 2,726
$4.99Laughing to Die
Apr 10 · 大吉利制作组
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
囡囡回乡参加奶奶一百岁的丧礼。家人们都说老人百岁去世是喜丧,因此家里正大摆宴席招待亲友。独自一人的囡囡看到一个酷似奶奶的身影之后随之而误入某个奇怪的房间,在寻找离开的道路同时,囡囡也逐渐从这些房间的故事中知道了奶奶的来历,更从中得知在喜丧背后所隐藏的秘密。
AdventureCasualPuzzlePlatformer2D PlatformerHand-drawnPsychological HorrorPuzzle PlatformerPhilosophical2D👍 3,121
$4.99Deja Vu
Feb 11 · Continental Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Time Manipulation
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.
Puzzle PlatformerPuzzleSci-fiAdventureExperimentalTime ManipulationPlatformer2.5DControllerLinear
$8.99Quantum Conundrum
Jun 21 · Airtight Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Comedy
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
Puzzle PlatformerPuzzle3D PlatformerFirst-PersonPhysicsComedyCasualPlatformerSingleplayerStrategy👍 1,758
$19.99Monochroma
May 28 · Nowhere Studios
Both: Platformer · Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.
IndieAdventurePlatformerPuzzleAtmosphericPuzzle PlatformerDystopian 2.5DSide ScrollerSingleplayer👍 467
$9.99And Yet It Moves
Apr 2 · Broken Rules
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
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.
Puzzle PlatformerPhysicsPlatformerIndiePuzzle2DSingleplayerExperimentalActionSurreal👍 349
$9.99Out There Somewhere
Mar 14 · MiniBoss
Both: Platformer · 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
$9.99Adventures of Pip
Jun 4 · Tic Toc Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle
Play as the ultimate digital underdog in the Adventures of Pip,an action-platformer with a fresh gameplay twist inside a retro 32-bit world. Alas, Pip is an unlikely 1-pixel hero yet has the unique ability to absorb the pixels of his defeated enemies to evolve into three different forms.
ActionPlatformerIndieAdventureRetroPixel GraphicsPuzzle PlatformerPuzzle2DGreat Soundtrack👍 167
$4.99Creepy Tale
Feb 21 · Creepy Brothers
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
Creepy quest with the atmosphere of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Go through a dangerous adventure filled with puzzles and challenges! Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?
Puzzle PlatformerShortAdventurePuzzle2D PlatformerPlatformerHand-drawnIndieDarkAction-Adventure👍 2,378
$14.99Vibrant Venture
Jul 24 · Semag Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!
PlatformerAdventureSide Scroller2D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerDifficultActionPixel GraphicsCartoony2D👍 575
$7.99Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe
May 24 · Andrew Morrish
Both: Platformer · Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
The title says it all. Take one part falling block puzzle game, combine one part old-school platformer, add a couple thousand pixels, blend and serve. Why match colored blocks when you can just shoot the hell out of them? Your goal is to survive as long as you can. From celebrated indie developer Andrew Morrish and Adult Swim Games.
IndieActionCasualPlatformerPuzzlePuzzle PlatformerDifficultGreat SoundtrackPixel GraphicsLocal Multiplayer👍 374
$10.99CATO: Buttered Cat
Sep 5 · Team Woll
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous "Buttered Cat Paradox". The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!
Puzzle PlatformerCatsCuteAdventurePuzzlePixel GraphicsIndieMultiplayerPlatformerSingleplayer👍 2,795
-85%$2.24What Lies in the Multiverse
Mar 4 · Studio Voyager, IguanaBee
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Time Manipulation · Puzzle
A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.
Puzzle PlatformerTime ManipulationStory RichAdventureDark HumorNarrativeTime TravelPixel Graphics2D PlatformerPuzzle👍 519
$19.99YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
Feb 22 · KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Active Gaming Media Inc.
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...
ExplorationPuzzle PlatformerPuzzleFemale ProtagonistPlatformerPsychological HorrorHorror2.5DCuteStory Rich👍 1,350
$7.99Stick it to The Man!
Dec 13 · Zoink Games
Both: Platformer · Comedy · Puzzle
Hard hat tester, Ray, has a bizarre accident and wakes up with a giant pink spaghetti arm sticking out of his brain! With his awesome new powers he can read minds and change the world with stickers but he’s on the run for a crime he didn’t commit. Can you help Ray out of this sticky situation?
AdventurePlatformerIndieComedyActionPuzzleFunnySingleplayer2DGreat Soundtrack👍 512
$14.99The Way
May 20 · Puzzling Dream
Both: Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
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.
AdventureIndieActionPixel GraphicsPlatformerPuzzle PlatformerSci-fi2DRetroSingleplayer👍 900
$5.99Converter
Apr 6 · Funkyzeit Games
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
Escape the hellish planet 50Y-80Y in a puzzle platformer about a stranded astronaut overcoming sly planet's shenanigans in the ultimate quest to survive and discover the mysterious planet's secret.
RPGPuzzlePlatformerAdventurePuzzle PlatformerAction-Adventure3D PlatformerExploration3DThird Person
$12.99ChromaGun
Feb 16 · Pixel Maniacs
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Comedy
Welcome to ChromaTec’s test lab! You’re here to test our state-of-the-art military-grade color-technology: The ChromaGun (patent pending)! Use it to solve our meticulously designed test chambers by painting the walls and droids. Remember how to mix colors from pre-school? Then you qualify!
PuzzlePuzzle Platformer3D PlatformerFirst-PersonSingleplayerColorfulSci-fiComedyScienceDark Humor👍 303
FreeColor Phase
Sep 3 · Heatwave Studios
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
Experience a colorful puzzle-platformer experience in Color Phase! Find and use different colors to interact with the world around you in a variety of different ways to reach your goal!
ActionPuzzlePlatformer3D PlatformerPuzzle Platformer3DColorfulCuteThird PersonAliens
$4.99iO
Dec 5 · Gamious
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
iO is an abstract physics platformer about size and speed. Grow bigger and smaller in order to solve some of the trickiest puzzles. Reach the exit as quickly as possible and grab a gold medal as your reward!
IndieActionRacingPhysicsPuzzlePuzzle Platformer2DPlatformer👍 102
$14.99Mago
Jun 21 · Dream Potion Games
Both: Platformer
Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
IndieAdventurePlatformerPixel Graphics2DRetroGreat SoundtrackFunnyDifficultSingleplayer👍 933
-75%$2.49VRosty
Jan 11 · TomyHorst
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
Pull-along VRosty, the little snowman, through a warming world in this VR-only puppet-puzzle-platformer. His life is hanging by a thread.
Third-Person Shooter3D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerVRPuzzleRhythmPlatformerShooterThird PersonFirst-Person
FreeSonder
Feb 15 · Finally Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
Experience an innovative co-op adventure where two players have to work together. Engage in collaborative puzzle solving and dynamic combat with each player having unique abilities. Delve into a psychological narrative that explores the essence of humanity.
CasualAdventurePlatformerPuzzlePuzzle PlatformerExplorationSide Scroller2.5DCinematicStylized
$3.99Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Dec 3 · Pixeljam
Both: Platformer · Comedy
Test both mind, body and spirit in this surreal bullet hell platformer. Plum the depths of your potato-consciousness to overcome impossible challenges in search of the elusive, tantalizing TROOF.
IndiePlatformerPixel GraphicsRetroActionAdventureDifficultComedySurrealShort👍 231
$11.995D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Jul 22 · Conor Petersen, Thunkspace, LLC
Both: Time Manipulation · Puzzle
It's the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions. It's 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel! Move pieces back in time to create branching timelines. Send a rook to a parallel dimension. Protect your kings in the present and in the past!
ChessTime TravelTime ManipulationBoard GameDifficultPuzzleMultiplayerTurn-Based StrategyStrategyPsychological👍 8,097
$6.99Eets Munchies
Mar 11 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
A beautiful puzzle game for the whole family!Eets Munchies is a reimagining of the award-winning puzzle game by Klei Entertainment. Featuring gorgeous animation and ridiculous creatures, players help an adorable hungry creature devour cake in increasingly devious puzzles.
IndiePuzzleCasualPlatformerStrategySimulationSingleplayerFamily FriendlyTouch-FriendlyCute👍 198
$1.99Lonely Trip
Feb 5 · Fish Chain Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
Lonely Trip is a 2D puzzle platformer. Unique puzzles, beautiful visuals and capturing music, experience all these by completing this lonely adventure.
Puzzle PlatformerPlatformerCasualIndiePuzzleRelaxingMinimalist2D Platformer2DCartoon
$4.99Akin
Jun 6 · ThinkOfGames
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
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
$12.99There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Aug 6 · Draw Me A Pixel
Both: Puzzle · Comedy
There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!
IndiePuzzlePoint & ClickAdventurePixel GraphicsFunnyComedyCasualStory RichSingleplayer👍 24,150
$14.99Wuppo: Definitive Edition
Sep 29 · snekflat
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.
MetroidvaniaExplorationPlatformer2D2D PlatformerCuteGreat SoundtrackPuzzleActionSingleplayer👍 4,950
$14.99A Guidebook of Babel
Aug 2 · StarryStarry
Both: Time Manipulation · Puzzle
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
AdventureStory RichTime ManipulationPuzzleInvestigationParody Fantasy2DPoint & ClickFunny👍 877
$2.99DLC Quest
Mar 18 · Going Loud Studios
Both: Platformer · Comedy
What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.
PlatformerIndieSatireComedyShortParody Pixel Graphics2DSingleplayerFunny👍 4,994
$7.99JellyCar Worlds
Dec 8 · Walaber Entertainment LLC
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
It's a Car, made of Jelly! Squishy Physics, Tactile, Silly & Imaginative Driving/Platforming
2D PlatformerRacingPrecision PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerPhysicsDrivingSimulationActionPlatformerCharacter Customization👍 1,008
-40%$5.99OneShot
Dec 8 · Future Cat LLC
Both: Puzzle
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Story RichPixel GraphicsIndieGreat SoundtrackCuteAtmosphericPuzzleSingleplayerChoices MatterAdventure👍 59,257
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$7.99Where is my Heart?
May 29 · Schulenburg Software
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
In Where is my Heart? you play the story of a family of forest spirits. The family lives comfortably in a tree in the woods until one day they lose their home and thus embark on a great adventure. Their journey will take them through the mushroom caves and even deeper down to the lifeless crystal pools and back up into the mountains.
IndieCasualAdventurePuzzlePixel GraphicsPlatformerPuzzle PlatformerCute
$14.99Little Inferno
Nov 19 · Tomorrow Corporation
Both: Puzzle · Comedy
Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.
CasualIndiePuzzleSingleplayerSatireFunnyShortComedyGreat SoundtrackDark Humor👍 9,135
$8.99Anoxemia
Jan 16 · BSK Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
Anoxemia is a story-driven exploration game that puts you in control of the scientist Dr. Bailey and his operations drone, ATMA. Search the ocean floor as you discover and extract samples from the bowels of the underwater caves. Danger lurks in each passageway.
PhysicsPuzzle PlatformerDarkPuzzleAtmosphericSide ScrollerPlatformerSingleplayerDark FantasyAdventure
FreeYnglet: Prologue
Feb 18 · Nifflas
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
Ynglet: Prologue presents the first levels of my new game Ynglet! You’ll jump between bubbles that float in the sky like you’re a space dolphin, as you melt into a highly reactive and dynamic soundtrack created by Ynglet’s custom (and needlessly complicated) music software!
ActionPuzzle PlatformerPlatformer2DColorfulHand-drawnSpacePsychedelicPhysicsIndie
$2.99Spooky Cats
Jun 4 · russpuppy
Both: Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
Oh no! This cute little kitty cat is alone and lost in a haunted house! Only by collecting pennies and defeating monsters can she find the way out! Use your fast fingers to defeat this adorably dark and funny platform game.
CasualActionIndieCatsPlatformerDarkCutePuzzle PlatformerDark ComedyDark Humor👍 370
$19.99The Messenger
Aug 30 · Sabotage
Both: Platformer
As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.
RetroPlatformerPixel GraphicsMetroidvaniaNinja2DGreat SoundtrackIndieAction2D Platformer👍 10,714
$14.99Orten Was The Case
Nov 29 · Woodhill Interactive
Both: Time Manipulation · Puzzle
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
MysteryAdventureTime ManipulationOpen WorldHorrorExplorationTime ManagementPuzzleConspiracyStory Rich👍 126
$29.99The Talos Principle
Dec 11 · Croteam
Both: Puzzle
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).
PuzzlePhilosophicalFirst-PersonSci-fiStory RichAtmosphericSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackRobotsExploration👍 29,240
-90%$1.99TOEM: A Photo Adventure
Sep 17 · Something We Made
Both: Puzzle
Set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magical TOEM in this hand-drawn adventure game. Chat with quirky characters, solve their problems by snapping neat photos, and make your way through a relaxing landscape!
CozyWholesomePuzzleAdventureExplorationCuteRelaxingCasualHand-drawnPhoto Editing👍 9,701



















