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198 games like PaperKlay

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01 I am a Caterpillar Cover

Year unknown · PC

I am a Caterpillar

83%

Crawl up trees, leap between lily pads, and wriggle through underground caverns as you journey towards your destiny as a caterpillar. Today is the day of your transformation - and you will do anything to stop it.

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PaperKlay

83% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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02 Promenade Cover

2024 · Switch, PC, PS4

Promenade

81%

Go on an adventure in a world packed with secrets helped by your friend, a poulp with many abilities. Explore, solve puzzles, wander across dungeons, blast through races and much more in this game inspired by the best 3D platformers

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PaperKlay

81% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 The Spirit and the Mouse Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Spirit and the Mouse

74%

Bring kindness and light to the people of Sainte-et-Claire as Lila - a tiny mouse with a big heart! Explore a quaint French village, make electrifying new friends, and do good deeds for those in need in this lush narrative adventure game.

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PaperKlay

74% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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04 Stray Cover

2022 · Mac, Switch, Switch 2

Stray

71%

Stray is a third-person cat adventure game set amidst the detailed neon-lit alleys of a decaying cybercity and the murky environments of its seedy underbelly. Roam surroundings high and low, defend against unforeseen threats and solve the mysteries of this unw...

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PaperKlay

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Journey Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, PS4

Journey

70%

A third-person adventure game in which the player, controlling a robed figure, makes a pilgrimage through a desert landscape to a rugged mountain with a beacon of light in the distance while uncovering the history of their people, rescuing and cooperating with...

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PaperKlay

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Fishy Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Fishy

66%

A game about a hungry fish. Eat plants and critters to grow bigger, but watch out for fishes bigger than you! Open up new areas as you explore and grow, and maybe even discover how to escape the pond...

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PaperKlay

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

63%

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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PaperKlay

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

63%

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the epic action-adventure of bugs and heroes. As the lethal hunter Hornet, journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover ancient secrets tied to you...

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PaperKlay

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Night in the Woods Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Night in the Woods

63%

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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PaperKlay

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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

10 Eastshade Cover

2019 · PC, PS4, XONE

Eastshade

63%

Eastshade is a first-person, open world exploration game. You are a traveling painter, exploring the island of Eastshade. Capture the world on canvas using your artist’s easel. Talk to the inhabitants to learn about their lives. Make friends and help those in...

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PaperKlay

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode Exploration Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

11 Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective Cover

2021 · Android, Switch, PC

Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective

63%

Adapted from the bestselling children’s book series Pierre The Maze Detective, play as Pierre in this adventure/puzzle game and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Journey through breathtakingly hand-drawn illustrations, meet eccentric characters, and solve puzzles...

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PaperKlay

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo

63%

An adventure where you’ll meet the many good and not-so-good folks of Limbo. Use your wits and keen eye to gather clues from the residents and find items that will help uncover the mystery of Limbo and its curse that traps souls into repeating the same day on...

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PaperKlay

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 The Last Tinker: City of Colors Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Last Tinker: City of Colors

58%

The Last Tinker is a joyous action adventure and definitely no platformer, as there is no jump button. Koru, a boy from the slums of Colortown, must rise and stand against the Bleakness, a dark force intent on wiping out joy. Koru must use color and emotion to...

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PaperKlay

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Cover
55%

A 400-year-old clue in the coffin of Sir Francis Drake sets a modern-day fortune hunter on an exploration for the fabled treasure of El Dorado, leading to the discovery of a forgotten island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The search turns deadly when Nat...

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PaperKlay

55% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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15 Valheim Cover

2026 · Linux, Mac, Switch 2

Valheim

55%

Valheim is an open-world survival and exploration game set in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Playing alone or with up to nine other players, you explore dangerous biomes, gather resources, craft weapons and armour, build Viking set...

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PaperKlay

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

16 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

54%

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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PaperKlay

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

17 Abzu Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Abzu

54%

Abzu is an exploration game where you are a lone diver in a lush ocean world. The diver descends deeper and deeper into the depths, where she will encounter majestic creatures, discover ancient secrets, and search for her true purpose. Abzu roughly translates...

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PaperKlay

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

18 Psychonauts Cover

2005 · Linux, Mac, PC

Psychonauts

54%

Psychonauts is a platform-adventure game developed by Double Fine Productions and released in 2005. It follows Razputin “Raz” Aquato, a young psychic who runs away from the circus to attend a summer camp for aspiring psychonauts. Players explore imaginative le...

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PaperKlay

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Cover

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is a 2001 platform video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the Sony PlayStation 2 on December 4, 2001, as the first game of the Jak and Daxter series. The game follows the protag...

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PaperKlay

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

20 Ratchet & Clank Cover

2002 · PS2

Ratchet & Clank

54%

Ratchet & Clank is a 3D platform-adventure game featuring the protagonists Ratchet, a furry alien creature, and Clank, a small robot. The two travel across the galaxy in search of Captain Qwark and ultimately become involved in an effort to prevent a threat to...

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PaperKlay

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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

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