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220 games like Limbo

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01 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

83%

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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Limbo

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Horror Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

02 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

75%

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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Limbo

75% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Horror Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective
Trade-offs

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

03 Thomas Was Alone Cover

2012 · Android, Linux, Mac

Thomas Was Alone

64%

Thomas Was Alone is an indie minimalist 2D platformer about friendship and jumping and floating and anti-gravity. Guide a group of rectangles through a series of obstacles, using their different skills together to get to the end of each environment.

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Limbo

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie 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

04 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

63%

Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enou...

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Limbo

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Action Theme Horror Theme Single player Mode Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

05 Trine Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Trine

63%

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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Limbo

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie 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

06 Braid Cover

2008 · Linux, Mac, PC

Braid

59%

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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Limbo

59% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

07 Little Nightmares II Cover

2021 · Stadia, Switch, PC

Little Nightmares II

58%

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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Limbo

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

08 VVVVVV Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

VVVVVV

58%

There's something terribly wrong in an alternate dimension! Help Captain Viridian flip to find five crew members, 20 hard-to-reach Trinkets and save a dimension on the brink of destruction. It's a space opera in the most unique scale with a style that only VVV...

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Limbo

58% 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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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

57%

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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Limbo

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

10 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

55%

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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Limbo

55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Choices Game feel Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

11 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

55%

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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Limbo

55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Choices Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Machinarium Cover

2009 · Android, Linux, Mac

Machinarium

55%

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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Limbo

55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

13 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

54%

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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Limbo

54% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Choices Game feel Horror Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Silent Hill 2 Cover

2001 · PS2

Silent Hill 2

54%

The second entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 2 is a narrative-focused third-person psychological survival horror game with emphasis on combat, exploration and puzzle-solving elements which follows James Sunderland, a man who receives a letter, se...

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Limbo

54% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Horror Theme Single player Mode Choices Game feel Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

15 Dead Space Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Dead Space

53%

Dead Space is a 2008 science fiction survival horror video game developed by EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released on all platforms through October 2008. The game puts the player in cont...

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Limbo

53% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Horror Theme Single player Mode Choices Game feel Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

16 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

53%

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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Limbo

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action 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

17 Fez Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Fez

51%

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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Limbo

51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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18 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

49%

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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Limbo

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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No description available from IGDB

19 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Cover

2017 · Stadia, Mac, Switch 2

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

49%

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the first game of the Resident Evil series to switch from 3rd-person to fully 1st-person perspective. A complete refresh of gameplay systems simultaneously propels the survival horror experience to another level. It is as much hor...

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Limbo

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Horror Theme Single player Mode Choices Game feel Horror Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Valiant Hearts: The Great War Cover

2014 · Android, Switch, PC

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

49%

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. In Valiant Hearts, the lives of all these characters are inextricab...

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49% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel Linear World design
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