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269 games like Lightmatter

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01 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

82%

Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood f...

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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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02 House of Caravan Cover

2015 · Mac, PC

House of Caravan

82%

Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.

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82% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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03 Planet Alpha Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Planet Alpha

74%

Planet Alpha is an adventure set in a living alien world where you have the ability to manipulate the daytime. To survive on this strange planet you will have to be observant of how the environment and the wildlife behaviour changes depending on the time of d...

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74% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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04 Don't Knock Twice Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Don't Knock Twice

74%

Don't Knock Twice is a single-player first-person survival horror game with support for virtual reality headsets. The player explores a large manor house in search of a missing daughter, interacting with almost every object and following hints delivered throug...

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74% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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05 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

73%

SOMA is a sci-fi horror game from Frictional Games, the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. It is an unsettling story about identity, consciousness, and what it means to be human. Enter the world of SOMA and face horrors buried deep beneath the ocean waves...

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73% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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06 Scorn Cover

2022 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Scorn

72%

Scorn is an atmospheric first person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of odd forms and somber tapestry. It is designed around an idea of "being thrown into the world". Isolated and lost inside this dream-like world you will explore different...

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72% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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07 A Fisherman's Tale Cover

2019 · Meta Quest 2, PC, PSVR

A Fisherman's Tale

69%

"Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words. Playing as Bob, a tiny fisherman puppet, you live alone in your tiny cabin, oblivious to t...

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69% Sehr nah dran
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08 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

66%

Life Is Strange is a five part episodic game that sets out to revolutionize story based choice and consequence games by allowing the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

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66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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09 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

66%

Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and tra...

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66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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10 Antichamber Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

Antichamber

66%

Antichamber is a single-player first-person puzzle-platform video game. Many of the puzzles are based on phenomena that occur within the Impossible Objects created by the game engine, such as passages that lead the player to different locations depending on wh...

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66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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11 Rusty Lake: Roots Cover

2016 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake: Roots

65%

James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.

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65% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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12 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

65%

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.

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65% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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13 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

60%

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of short stories about a cursed family in Washington State. Each story offers a chance to experience the life of a different family member with stories ranging from the early 1900s to the present day. The gameplay a...

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60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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14 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

60%

A first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Kati...

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60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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15 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

60%

In The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, you play as Paul Prospero, an occult detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter and realizes that the boy is in grave danger. When Paul arrives in Ethan's home of Red Creek Valley, he realizes things are even...

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60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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16 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

59%

Sequel to the acclaimed Portal (2007), Portal 2 pits the protagonist of the original game, Chell, and her new robot friend, Wheatley, against more puzzles conceived by GLaDOS, an A.I. with the sole purpose of testing the Portal Gun's mechanics and taking reven...

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59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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17 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

59%

Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by w...

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59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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18 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

59%

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretica...

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Lightmatter

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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19 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

59%

Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environmental puzzles, avoiding...

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Lightmatter

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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20 Mirror's Edge Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Mirror's Edge

59%

Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure game focused on parkour and free-running. Set in a heavily surveilled city, players control Faith, a courier who traverses rooftops using wall-runs, jumps, and slides to deliver sensitive information. The gamepl...

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Lightmatter

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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