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239 games like Syn

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01 Rez Plz Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, XONE

Rez Plz

100%

Take control of two wizard brothers who possess the power of resurrection in a gorgeous pixel-art world. Solve puzzles, platforming challenges, and encounter dangerous monsters and traps that require you to KILL one of the brothers to advance!

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Syn

100% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

02 GigaSword Cover

2025 · Switch, PC, PS4

GigaSword

100%

An action-puzzle metroidvania in which you wield a huge, heavy sword

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Syn

100% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

92%

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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Syn

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

04 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

92%

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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Syn

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 Fez Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Fez

92%

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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Syn

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

06 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

92%

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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Syn

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

07 Europa Cover

2024 · Switch, PC

Europa

92%

On the moon Europa, a lush terraformed paradise in Jupiter’s shadow, an android named Zee sets out in search of answers. Run, glide and fly across the landscape, solve mysteries in the ruins of a fallen utopia, and discover the story of the last human alive.

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Syn

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

08 The Secret Blue Forest Cover
92%

A relaxing wordless low poly adventure. You play as an Ice Sorcerer whose magic has a connection to the Ice forest, you're the only one who doesn't seem to be warped by the Ice forests magic, this allows you to create slippery ice, shoot ice shards, double jum...

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Syn

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

09 Supraworld Cover

2025 · PC

Supraworld

92%

Supraworld is a first-person puzzle metroidvania. Be tiny in a handcrafted toy world. Explore, solve puzzles, ignore the main quest, get out of bounds, find secret areas, convict murderers. Hunt for powerful new abilities to unravel this vast, interconnected w...

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Syn

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

10 Braid Cover

2008 · Linux, Mac, PC

Braid

85%

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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Syn

85% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

11 Rogue Legacy Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rogue Legacy

85%

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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Syn

85% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

12 Flood of Light Cover

2017 · Android, Mac, Switch

Flood of Light

85%

A mysterious girl in the raincoat comes to the city submerged by rain. Subside the rain and save the city by illuminating the lamp and stone posts with her little light on hand. You’ll be the mysterious girl in the game. Reveal who she really is as the rain in...

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Syn

85% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

83%

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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Syn

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle 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

14 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

83%

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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Syn

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

15 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

83%

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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Syn

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

16 Jusant Cover

2023 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Jusant

83%

Enjoy meditative vibes in Jusant, an action-puzzle climbing game. Scale an immeasurably tall tower and ascend to new heights alongside your watery companion. Master your climbing tools, find your way up through diverse biomes, and piece together the tower's pa...

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Syn

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

17 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

78%

A small child falls into the Underground, where monsters have long been banished by humans and are hunting every human that they find. The player controls the child as they try to make it back to the Surface through hostile environments, all the while engaging...

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Syn

78% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

18 Machinarium Cover

2009 · Android, Linux, Mac

Machinarium

78%

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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Syn

78% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

76%

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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Syn

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

20 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

76%

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.

Your match for

Syn

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Platform Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Side view Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

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