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218 games like Owlboy

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01 Planet Alpha Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Planet Alpha

81%

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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Owlboy

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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

70%

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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Owlboy

70% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

69%

Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. The gameplay is based on fully interactive physics – each character's different abilities and tactics can be...

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Owlboy

69% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

68%

Little Nightmares is a puzzle-platform horror adventure game developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Set in a mysterious world, Little Nightmares follows the journey of Six, a hungry little girl who must escape the Maw, an iro...

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Owlboy

68% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

68%

Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital. It is a visually striking game that follows the journey of a young woman named Gris as she navigates a world of grief and loss. The game features no dialogue, relying on its...

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Owlboy

68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

66%

Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

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Owlboy

66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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07 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Cover

2013 · Android, Switch, PC

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

66%

Brothers is presented from a third-person view overlooking the two brothers. The brothers are moved individually by two thumbsticks on the controller. The controller triggers also cause the respective brother to interact with the game world, such as talking to...

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Owlboy

66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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08 The Talos Principle Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Talos Principle

66%

The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

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Owlboy

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Fez Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Fez

66%

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 d...

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Owlboy

66% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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10 Rogue Legacy Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rogue Legacy

65%

You control a family of characters one at a time, and when your character dies, you choose who his or her successor is, whether it is a barbarian son of yours who has OCD, your daughter who became a ninja even though she can't see well, an assassin who is figh...

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Owlboy

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

62%

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destin...

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Owlboy

62% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

62%

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mount...

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Owlboy

62% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

60%

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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Owlboy

60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Braid Cover

2008 · Linux, Mac, PC

Braid

60%

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a...

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Owlboy

60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

15 The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Cover

2004 · GBA, 3DS, WiiU

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

59%

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is a top-down action adventure game that tells the origins of the evil Vaati from Four Swords. Like most other titles in the series, The Minish Cap features the fully explorable land of Hyrule, although it can be viewed from...

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Owlboy

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Machinarium Cover

2009 · Android, Linux, Mac

Machinarium

58%

Machinarium is award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost and Botanicula. A little robot who’s been thrown out to the scrap yard behind the city must return and confront the Black Cap Brotherhood and save his robot-girl friend...

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Owlboy

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

17 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

58%

Night In The Woods is an adventure game heavily focused on story, characters and exploration, with some platforming to get around town. Mae's a cat so the roofs and ledges and powerlines are all her playground, and she's not the only one up there by a long sho...

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Owlboy

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

57%

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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Owlboy

57% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

19 Little Nightmares II Cover

2021 · Stadia, Switch, PC

Little Nightmares II

57%

Little Nightmares II is a puzzle-platformer and survival horror game in which players control Mono, a young boy navigating a nightmarish world warped by the transmission of a distant Signal Tower. Gameplay combines environmental puzzle-solving with stealth and...

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Owlboy

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

56%

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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Owlboy

56% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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