Games like Kairos: In Step with Time
by Jiakang Lin
Kairos: In Step with Time is an experimental interactive experience about time, cosmic order, and human response. Align the time ring, answer six moments of change, and let your final hexagram emerge from the rhythm of the universe.
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$29.99The Talos Principle 2
Nov 2 · Croteam
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Exploration
The Talos Principle 2 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.
PuzzleStory RichPhilosophicalFirst-PersonSci-fiPuzzle PlatformerExplorationWalking Simulator3D PlatformerLore-Rich👍 12,481
$24.99COCOON
Sep 29 · Geometric Interactive
Both: Puzzle · Exploration · Puzzle Platformer
From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.
AdventurePuzzleExplorationIndiePuzzle PlatformerAtmosphericStylized3DSingleplayerFuturistic👍 7,963
$3.99Face It - A game to fight inner demons
Jun 9 · Tlön Studios, Ilex Games
Both: Puzzle · 3D Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
Carefuly crafted puzzles in a challenging 3D plaformer take the player on a surrealistic journey through a maze of feelings. In Face It, abstract concepts are shaped into gameplay: darker emotions are monsters and traps, while brighter concepts are the powers you need to beat the levels.
IndieAdventureActionPuzzle3D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerHorrorEarly Access👍 520
$14.99Braid
Apr 10 · Number None
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle
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
$5.99Converter
Apr 6 · Funkyzeit Games
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · 3D 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
$14.99TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Oct 9 · Rat King Entertainment
Both: Puzzle · Exploration · 3D Platformer
Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!
AdventureIndiePuzzleExplorationFirst-Person3D PlatformerSurrealPlatformerAtmosphericSingleplayer👍 365
$19.99Braid, Anniversary Edition
May 14 · Thekla, Inc.
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle
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
$16.99Etherborn
Jul 18 · Altered Matter
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · 3D Platformer
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
IndieAdventureGreat SoundtrackPuzzlePuzzle PlatformerAtmosphericPlatformer3D PlatformerMinimalistColorful👍 103
$16.99Space Accident VR
Jan 21 · VR-WRG
Both: Puzzle · Exploration · Stylized
Step into the future with our groundbreaking VR game set in the year 2119, where humanity embarks on a historic journey into space. Join the "CCM-1" (Callisto Colonization Mission) expedition, aimed at the enigmatic moon of Jupiter - Callisto.
AdventureActionPuzzleAction-AdventureExplorationPrecision PlatformerHidden ObjectCreature CollectorVRStylized👍 231
$5.99Pendelum
Aug 21 · thelaumix productions, Lukas A. Schopf
Both: Puzzle Platformer · 3D Platformer · Stylized
Pendelum is a physics-based puzzle platformer with a pendulum that requires patience, skill and creativity.Use only gravity and external influences to reach the goal, create your own puzzles, compare your performance with others and above all - DON'T RAGE!
StrategyCasualArcadePuzzle Platformer3D PlatformerPlatformerAbstractMinimalistStylizedVoxel
$4.99Kairo
Apr 24 · Locked Door Puzzle
Both: Puzzle · Exploration
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
PuzzleExplorationIndieAtmosphericFirst-PersonAbstractSurrealAdventureSingleplayerMystery👍 1,506
$7.99Mosa Lina
Oct 17 · Stuffed Wombat, Silkersoft, Lukke, Rollin'Barrel
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle
a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works
Co-opMultiplayerOnline Co-Op2D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerPuzzleLocal Co-OpAdventureImmersive SimSimulation👍 2,015
$9.99HopDodge
Aug 30 · BlankGamesOnline
Both: Exploration · 3D Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
Hop is a 3D Sokuban with platforming and puzzles. Dodge is a tough as nails precision 3D platformer. HopDodge is both. Design your own levels. Play with friends. Get to Heaven. opDo.
ExplorationSide ScrollerPrecision Platformer2D Platformer3D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerPuzzleSandboxUtilitiesCycling
$5.99TIMEframe
Jul 7 · Random Seed Games
Both: Exploration · Stylized
Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction.
IndieCasualWalking SimulatorAtmosphericGreat SoundtrackExplorationFirst-PersonAdventureStylizedShort👍 269
$0.99Spacetime Dimension
Aug 31 · GraphPhysical
Both: Space Sim · Exploration
A physics simulation software that simulates planetary motion and objects that obey Newton's laws,build slopes and connect geometries with sticks or springs and observe their trails.Observe the interaction and gravitational energy of planets.
CasualSimulationSoftwareGod GameSpace SimUtilitiesEducationSandboxExplorationSouls-like
FreeColor Phase
Sep 3 · Heatwave Studios
Both: Puzzle · 3D 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
$1.994ife
Jul 9 · Fatih Karaatli, Kemalcan Ustabasi
Both: Puzzle · 3D Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
You have to overcome the challenging tasks you have to do in order to return from the parallel universe you are sent to to your own universe. But remember this: Returning home will not be as easy as you think. Find the portals and collect ancient coins.
ActionAdventurePuzzlePrecision PlatformerFPSPlatformerAction-AdventureHidden Object3D PlatformerPuzzle Platformer
$14.99Astrox Imperium
Mar 22 · Jace Masula
Both: Space Sim
Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.
SpaceSimulationEarly AccessIndieSpace SimSandboxOpen WorldSingleplayerMiningAtmospheric👍 1,236
$14.99Genesis Noir
Mar 26 · Feral Cat Den
Both: Exploration · Puzzle · Stylized
A noir adventure spanning time and space. When a love triangle between cosmic beings becomes a bitter confrontation, you'll witness a gunshot fired by a jealous god—otherwise known as The Big Bang. Jump into the expanding universe and search for a way to destroy creation and save your love.
NoirPoint & ClickStory RichExplorationPuzzleSurrealAtmosphericStylizedHand-drawnSpace👍 1,696
$1.99To Infinity
Nov 13 · Twisted Universe
Both: Space Sim · 3D Platformer
To Infinity tells the adventures of a schizophrenic astronaut. The astronaut escapes from the world and goes to search for other planets where he can live with his spaceship, and in the meantime, he constantly makes parkour, witnessing the epic view of the universe.
CasualAdventurePlatformerSpace SimWalking Simulator3D PlatformerRunner3DRealisticColorful
FreeEQI
Jan 15 · Chopin et al.
Both: Exploration · Puzzle · 3D Platformer
EQI is a trippy first-person arcade game with spatial puzzles, and a synthwave soul. You find yourself in a digital world that twists and changes around you, challenging your senses, focus, and reflexes. Interface with the great mystery and transcend.
ActionFirst-PersonExplorationPuzzleSurrealParkourPlatformer3D PlatformerPvELinear
$24.99The Forgotten Concluder
Apr 26 · Kunpo Games
Both: Puzzle · 3D Platformer
“The Forgotten Concluder” is a third person perspective 3D Role-playing game base on the ancient Chinese fantasy wu-xia world. Being a young teenager Shen Zi-Jun that grew in a isolated valley, taking on a adventure to discover a great secret and his true dentity.
RPGAction RPGTurn-Based StrategyPuzzle3D PlatformerDungeon Crawler3DRealisticCinematicHistorical👍 894
$4.99Gateways
Sep 13 · Smudged Cat Games Ltd
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
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
$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
$5.99Only High
Jul 22 · DDemon LLC
Both: 3D Platformer · Exploration · Stylized
A 3D platformer where you explore the dark cyberpunk world. You have to get way up from the underground facility to the spaceship. Discover secrets, play with friends, drive cars, and many more in Only High.
Early Access3D PlatformerPlatformerActionAdventureCo-opWalking SimulatorExploration3DStylized
$19.99Event[0]
Sep 14 · Ocelot Society
Both: Exploration · Puzzle
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Interactive FictionStory RichExplorationSingleplayerSci-fiMultiple EndingsPuzzleArtificial IntelligenceFirst-PersonWalking Simulator👍 1,450
$0.99Deep Blue 3D Maze in Space
May 17 · Ice Code Games
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · 3D Platformer
A multi-dimensional gaming experience beyond anything you’ve ever played before. Try to control the constantly rolling ball which moves in a three-dimensional maze, collect gravitons, open the portal and escape before the platform explodes. And most important beware of everything that is purple!
ActionAdventureIndieCasualVRSpacePuzzlePuzzle Platformer3D Platformer
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May 24 · Indiesolodev
Both: 3D Platformer
You are a young teenage Jackie from the ghetto who wants to get out of poverty and embark on a journey of learning about the world and yourself. The world has definitely gone crazy, though it has never been normal, but maybe now is the chance for you. Crisis is a time for action and decisive steps...
Parkour3D PlatformerDifficultPsychological HorrorAdventureCasualThird PersonBullet TimePhysicsOpen World👍 13,348
$4.99Hexologic
May 29 · MythicOwl
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
Immerse yourself in the beautiful world of Hexologic. Solve challenging, yet rewarding puzzles, listen to relaxing music, dive deep into the game’s atmosphere and fall in love in with Sudoku again!
LogicPuzzleColorfulRelaxingSokobanPuzzle Platformer2DCutePoint & ClickAbstract👍 683
$11.995D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Jul 22 · Conor Petersen, Thunkspace, LLC
Both: 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
$19.99SPORE™
Dec 19 · Maxis™
Both: Exploration
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
God GameOpen WorldSandboxColony SimSimulationExplorationSpaceCasualCuteScience👍 66,890
$5.99Lost & Round
May 12 · Open Sky Studios
Both: 3D Platformer · Stylized · Puzzle
Lost & Round is a story-driven, 3D isometric platformer game that requires strategic manipulation of player perspective over lush landscapes in order to complete complex levels filled with obstacles and illusions.
3D PlatformerIsometricPlatformerAction-Adventure3DStory RichStylizedExperimentalColorfulPuzzle
$9.99Vectronom
May 28 · Ludopium, ARTE France
Both: Puzzle Platformer
Welcome to the psychedelic world of Vectronom: experience waves of color and a pulsing geometric path that changes with the beat! All set to a hypnotic electronic soundtrack. There’s only one thing to do: turn up the volume and go with the flow.
RhythmPuzzle PlatformerFamily FriendlyCasualPrecision PlatformerDifficultPvPPlatformerArcadeIsometric👍 263
$4.99Adventures of Shuggy
Jun 13 · Smudged Cat Games Ltd
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. Help him clear out over 100 rooms to make his new home liveable again!
PlatformerIndiePuzzlePuzzle PlatformerLocal Co-Op2DCo-opSingleplayerLocal MultiplayerTime Manipulation👍 286
$49.99Stellaris
May 9 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Exploration
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
SpaceStrategyGrand StrategySci-fi4XExplorationSandboxSimulationMultiplayerReal-Time with Pause👍 142,911
$8.99Anoxemia
Jan 16 · BSK Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle
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
$14.99The Way
May 20 · Puzzling Dream
Both: 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
-50%$7.49MO:Astray
Oct 24 · Archpray Inc.
Both: Puzzle Platformer
MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.
IndieActionAdventurePixel GraphicsPuzzle PlatformerPlatformerSci-fiSingleplayerGoreAtmospheric👍 4,059
$19.99Isles of Sea and Sky
May 22 · Cicada Games
Both: Puzzle · Exploration
A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. Solve innovative block puzzles while unearthing a mystifying story, gaining new friends that change the puzzle landscape, and unlocking powers that provide more options for how you choose to progress through the enigmatic Isles of Sea and Sky.
AdventurePuzzleCollectathonMetroidvaniaOpen WorldSokobanPixel GraphicsAtmosphericExplorationRetro👍 1,541
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$2.99Hiiro
Jul 12 · Jon Tiburzi, Bevibel Harvey, Philip Gibbons, Marc Cuva
Both: Puzzle · Exploration · Puzzle Platformer
Hiiro is a 2D platform game focused on ambient exploration and puzzle solving. Discover a grand world filled with mysterious artifacts and forgotten ruins. Become immersed in relaxing gameplay and meditative music. Remain observant as you unravel an explanation for your solitude.
AdventureCasualIndiePlatformer2DPuzzleExplorationSingleplayerPixel GraphicsPuzzle Platformer
$4.99Construct: Escape the System
Dec 2 · Oliver Boyce
Both: 3D Platformer · Stylized
„First person platforming gameplay at its very best!“ Construct: Escape the System is a sci-fi themed first person platformer that sees you trapped in a computer system, trying to escape. Explore the system and discover the 8 empowering 'ability orbs'.
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