Games like Gish
by Cryptic Sea, Edmund McMillen
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.
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$4.99iO
Dec 5 · Gamious
Both: Physics · Puzzle · Puzzle 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
$8.99Quantum Conundrum
Jun 21 · Airtight Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Physics
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
$19.99Pid
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
$8.99Anoxemia
Jan 16 · BSK Games
Both: Physics · 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
$2.99NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
Sep 27 · Over the Top Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle · Physics
Fly with Nyx across the ruins of the ancient Greece in her dangerous search for her dearest friend Icarus. Use the powers of Zeus and the Gods from Olympus and use them wisely in order to help Nyx to complete her epic adventure.
AdventureActionFemale ProtagonistPlatformerMythologyPuzzle2DPhysics👍 120
$9.99ElecHead
Oct 14 · NamaTakahashi, Tsuyomi
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
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Puzzle PlatformerPuzzlePlatformerLinearPixel GraphicsActionRetroAdventureSingleplayerIndie👍 1,412
$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
$1.99Slime Research
Jan 2 · Schism
Both: Physics · Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
Slimy Puzzle Platforming
Physics2D PlatformerControllerLevel EditorCutePuzzle PlatformerPlatformerFemale Protagonist2.5D2D
$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
$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
$9.99Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube
May 15 · Liquid Flower
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
A serene first-person puzzle platformer set across strikingly beautiful worlds. Place and remove cubes to solve handcrafted puzzles, discover hidden secrets, and lose yourself in an atmosphere unlike anything else. Includes a full level editor and Steam Workshop support.
PuzzleFirst-PersonAtmosphericRelaxingPuzzle PlatformerPlatformerExplorationCozyWalking SimulatorLevel Editor👍 608
$9.99Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
Aug 15 · Drinkbox Studios
Both: Platformer · Physics
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
RetroIndieSingleplayerCollectathonActionPlatformerAdventureSide ScrollerPhysicsExploration👍 703
FreeGravulse Experimental
Dec 20 · illystray Creations, verkme
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer · Physics
Welcome to Gravulse, an innovative space curvature laboratory that is trying to "flip" the laws of physics, literally. Here you have to go through many test levels using various new technologies!
ActionFirst-PersonPuzzle Platformer3D PlatformerPlatformerSingleplayerFlightFuturisticIndiePhysics
-89%$0.54Robotex
Nov 19 · YFYX GAMES
Both: Platformer
Life on Earth is unsustainable. Humanity must seek a new home but the only planet found is very hostile. You were sent on a expedition to slay the monsters inhabiting the surface of this planet. In this adventure you end up being the villain. Game contains two basic controls, many puzzles and lots of guns and enemies.
IndieCasualActionAdventure2DPlatformerSide Scroller👍 745
$0.99Light
Aug 19 · individual
Both: Puzzle · Physics · Puzzle Platformer
The protagonist is to commemorate the Syrian boy on the beach, control the character to escape and solve mysteries in my fictional inner world, understand the worldview of the game and the cruelty of past wars during this period, and finally make their own real choices.
AdventureWarPuzzleStory Rich2DNoirPhysicsSingleplayerSide ScrollerPuzzle Platformer
FreeBroll
Nov 27 · Victor Game Studio
Both: Physics · Platformer · Local Multiplayer
Broll is a 3D ragdoll-based platformer, explore open levels, use the ragdoll to interact with the world, and solve awesome challenges!
3D PlatformerPhysicsPrecision PlatformerScore AttackOpen WorldStylizedPlatformerSplit ScreenLocal MultiplayerParkour
-50%$4.49Q REMASTERED
May 1 · liica, Inc.
Both: Puzzle · Physics
Over 13M downloads! The pinnacle of physics puzzles. A challenge to humanity: Can you get the ball out of the cup? What to do is simple: Just draw on screen. Yet, it is surprisingly hard. Infinite solutions—even devs can't solve every Q. Sound confusing? Try it out! How will you solve it?
PuzzleDifficultPhysicsCasualHand-drawnSingleplayerIndie2DAbstractEducation👍 423
$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
$0.99Volt
Apr 14 · Quantized Bit
Both: Puzzle · Platformer
You were on the way to a recycling process when fortunately for you - and unfortunately for the environment - you accidentally ran off. Now your goal is to escape from the facility, which is an extremely difficult task due to the fact that you are a battery without legs.
IndieActionPuzzlePlatformer2D👍 321
$7.99Gato Roboto
May 30 · doinksoft
Both: Platformer
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
IndieMetroidvaniaActionPixel GraphicsAdventure2DCatsPlatformerRetroSingleplayer👍 4,364
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
$1.994ife
Jul 9 · Fatih Karaatli, Kemalcan Ustabasi
Both: Puzzle · 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
-50%$0.99Underland
Feb 5 · Minicactus Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Physics
Use the elements at your disposal, such as excavators, pumps, plumbing, among others, to drill the soil to the indicated location. The dynamic scenario, fluid mechanics and the laws of physics must be manipulated correctly to achieve the goal. Find the city of Underland!
Dungeon CrawlerDestructionLemmingsExplorationPixel GraphicsPuzzle PlatformerPhysicsSimulationLevel EditorTactical👍 116
$9.99A Webbing Journey
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Both: Physics · Puzzle
Adorable spider chaos! Swing around the house, weave crazy structures, play with physics-based objects, and pull off chores with nothing but your webs and your wits in this madcap sandbox adventure.
Early AccessCozyExplorationPhysicsCuteSandboxWholesomePuzzleColorful3D Platformer👍 1,266
$3.99Alteric
Jul 13 · goonswarm
Both: Platformer · Puzzle
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IndieAdventurePlatformerMinimalist2DArcadePuzzleCasualAtmosphericSingleplayer
$16.99Gravity Circuit
Jul 13 · Domesticated Ant Games
Both: Platformer
Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.
ActionPlatformerPixel GraphicsIndie2DSingleplayer2D PlatformerRobotsFast-PacedController👍 3,028
$2.99DLC Quest
Mar 18 · Going Loud Studios
Both: Platformer
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








