Games like Candleman: The Complete Journey
by Candleman Games
Despite only being able to burn for 10 seconds, a little candle journeys into the darkness, with the purpose of seeking light.
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$4.99Candle
Nov 11 · Teku Studios
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
Candle is an adventure with challenging puzzles. Play as Teku, a young novice on a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe's shaman from the evil tribe of the Wakcha. But the way is littered with sinister traps and difficult obstacles.
IndieAdventureHand-drawnPuzzlePuzzle PlatformerGreat SoundtrackFantasy2DPlatformerPoint & Click👍 905
$6.99EDGE
Aug 11 · Two Tribes
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · 3D Platformer
EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!
Puzzle PlatformerPuzzleIndieActionPlatformerGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerIsometricCasual3D Platformer👍 1,826
$16.99Etherborn
Jul 18 · Altered Matter
Both: 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
$11.99Eternal Hope
Aug 20 · Doublehit Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.
PlatformerIndieStory RichPuzzle PlatformerPuzzle2D PlatformerAdventureSingleplayer2DFantasy👍 359
$19.99Hob
Sep 26 · Runic Games
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
Transform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind Torchlight I and II. It's your chance. Make it home.
AdventureActionSingleplayerIndiePuzzlePlatformerExplorationOpen WorldMetroidvaniaPuzzle Platformer👍 4,667
$3.99Face It - A game to fight inner demons
Jun 9 · Tlön Studios, Ilex Games
Both: Puzzle · 3D 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
$19.99Pid
Oct 31 · Might and Delight
Both: 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
$9.99FEZ
May 1 · Polytron Corporation
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
PlatformerPuzzleIndiePixel GraphicsExplorationGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerAdventureCasualMystery👍 11,664
The Pacifist's Great and Final Nightmare
Oct 29 · 0
Both: 3D Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
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HorrorAction3D PlatformerAdventurePlatformer3DFirst-PersonIndiePuzzleArtificial Intelligence
$4.99Creepy Tale
Feb 21 · Creepy Brothers
Both: 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
-85%$2.99White Shadows
Dec 7 · Monokel
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.
PuzzleAdventureAtmosphericPlatformerStory RichIndieDark FantasyExplorationSingleplayerHorror👍 1,881
$19.99Monochroma
May 28 · Nowhere Studios
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
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
$9.99Teslagrad
Dec 13 · Rain Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
PlatformerPuzzleIndieMetroidvania2DSteampunkSingleplayerPuzzle PlatformerActionAdventure👍 1,710
$1.99Darkness Ritual: Impasse
Mar 6 · AProX
Both: Platformer · Puzzle · 3D Platformer
You witnessed a dark ritual taking place and nothing will go wrong from now on. You are stuck in an unknown place, can getting out of here and solving the secrets save you from this impasse?
AdventurePsychological HorrorSupernaturalDemonsPlatformerPuzzleHorror3D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerFPS
$24.99ANIMAL WELL
May 9 · Billy Basso
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
MetroidvaniaExplorationPuzzlePixel GraphicsPuzzle PlatformerPlatformerHorror2DAtmosphericAdventure👍 22,819
FreeColor Phase
Sep 3 · Heatwave Studios
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · 3D 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
$7.99Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe
May 24 · Andrew Morrish
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
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
$19.99YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-
Feb 22 · KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Active Gaming Media Inc.
Both: 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
-80%$3.99Arise: A Simple Story
Dec 3 · Piccolo Studio
Both: 3D 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
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
$4.99Albert and Otto
Oct 28 · K Bros Games
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Traverse a haunting world set in 1939 Germany in search of a mysterious girl with rabbit ears. Utilize a little bunny in creative ways to solve puzzles. Levitate sheep, use them as torches or wolf bait and make your way through a dangerous land.
IndiePuzzlePlatformerDarkSingleplayerDifficultSurrealAtmospheric2DPuzzle Platformer👍 463
$9.99Closure
Sep 7 · Eyebrow Interactive
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
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 three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...
PuzzlePlatformerIndiePuzzle PlatformerSurreal2DSingleplayerDarkHorrorGreat Soundtrack👍 449
$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
$19.99Fe
Jun 4 · Zoink
Both: Puzzle · 3D Platformer
Run, climb and glide your way through a dark Nordic forest and explore its living, breathing ecosystem filled with secrets and mystical creatures. Become Fe and discover a world that you will never want to leave.
ActionPuzzleFantasySingleplayerAtmosphericSci-fiAdventureDark3D PlatformerBeautiful👍 491
$15.99F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Oct 2 · TiGames
Both: Platformer
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
MetroidvaniaPlatformerActionSteampunkAdventure2D PlatformerSingleplayerStory RichExplorationAction-Adventure👍 6,666
$19.99Teslagrad 2
Apr 19 · Rain Games
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
AdventurePuzzleActionPlatformerAction-AdventureMetroidvaniaSteampunkPuzzle Platformer2D2D Platformer👍 419
$12.99UnEpic
Jul 25 · @unepic_fran
Both: Platformer
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
RPGIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerActionComedy2DExplorationFantasyAdventure👍 5,385
$19.99LUNA The Shadow Dust
Feb 13 · Lantern Studio
Both: Puzzle
LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack.
AdventureCasualIndiePoint & ClickHand-drawnPuzzleGreat SoundtrackAtmosphericBeautifulCartoon👍 1,349
-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
$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
FreeShadow Puppeteer
Sep 29 · Sarepta studio
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
Invite a friend to explore the strange, yet beautiful world of darkness and light in Shadow Puppeteer, an award-winning, local co-op adventure.
IndieAdventurePlatformerCo-opLocal Co-OpPuzzlePuzzle PlatformerAtmosphericControllerShort
$6.99A Walk in the Dark
Nov 7
Both: Platformer
In this action platformer you play as a cat, Bast, running through a dark fantasy world. You’ll be running, jumping and sliding with smooth and precise controls designed to make you feel like a cat. But it wont be easy. In the dark you never know what lies in the shadows.
IndiePlatformerActionDifficult2DGreat SoundtrackCats👍 324
$14.99Chariot
Nov 12 · Frima Studio
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
Embark on a journey to give his majesty the ride of his afterlife. Guide a chariot containing the King's remains through underground caves using physics-based mechanics such as pushing, pulling, riding and swinging.
AdventureIndieLocal Co-OpPlatformerLocal MultiplayerCo-opPhysicsPuzzle PlatformerControllerPuzzle👍 309
$4.99Alter World
May 29 · Giorgi Abelashvili
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
Enter the Alter World, a mysterious parallel reality where the rules are different and every step brings new challenges. Inspired by Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Alter World is a 2D platformer built around a unique mechanic that allows you to switch between two realities at any time to overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, and progress...
IndiePuzzlePuzzle PlatformerPlatformerDifficult2D👍 133
$3.99Alteric
Jul 13 · goonswarm
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
Jump through boiling lava; run from perilous traps and saw blades; glide and climb through catacombs; fall into the abyss and overcome gravity. And don't forget to switch to a parallel dimension in time, because it’s Alteric!
IndieAdventurePlatformerMinimalist2DArcadePuzzleCasualAtmosphericSingleplayer
$7.99Where is my Heart?
May 29 · Schulenburg Software
Both: 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
$14.99The Way
May 20 · Puzzling Dream
Both: 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
$19.99Owlboy
Nov 1 · D-Pad Studio
Both: Platformer
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Pixel GraphicsAdventureIndiePlatformerMetroidvania2DStory RichAtmosphericFantasyAction👍 3,680
$4.99Jaded
Jan 24 · ShellSnore Games
Both: Platformer · Linear
A fast-paced platformer where you can slash, dash, and control time. Slow down the frenzy of combat and find the right moment to strike! Then, aim the 360-degree dash and zoom away at lightning speed! Master your abilities to maneuver around obstacles and vaporize foes before they can touch you.
Precision Platformer2D PlatformerPlatformer2DCombatIndieLinearActionSide ScrollerHack and Slash
FreeShiki
Nov 4 · hata
Both: 3D Platformer · Linear
2.5D fantasy adventure homage to "The Little Prince ". 2.5D world consisting of 3D sphere model and pixel art. A Fantastic world view with subtle original graphics.
2D Platformer3D PlatformerVisual NovelWalking SimulatorCuteThird PersonPsychological HorrorStory RichLinear2.5D
FreeSonder
Feb 15 · Finally Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
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
$9.99Castle In The Darkness
Feb 5 · Matt Kap, Nicalis, Inc.
Both: Platformer
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
MetroidvaniaIndiePlatformerActionDifficultPixel GraphicsAdventureRPGRetro2D👍 1,185
-70%$1.49Night Lights
Jun 7
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
Night Lights is a relaxing puzzle platformer where you manipulate light and shadow to guide a small robot through a calm, atmospheric world.
MetroidvaniaPrecision PlatformerSide ScrollerSokobanExploration2D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerPuzzlePlatformerRoguelike
$14.99Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Oct 30 · Endlessfluff Games
Both: Platformer
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
MetroidvaniaActionPlatformerRPGIndie2DDifficultGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerExploration👍 2,275









