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241 games like Riven

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01 Myst Cover

1993 · 3DO, Amiga, Mac

Myst

73%

Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle game developed by Cyan and released in 1993. Players explore a mysterious island filled with interactive environments, books, and clues that reveal its story. The gameplay focuses on solving logic-based puzzles and uncovering...

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Riven

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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02 I Am Dead Cover

2020 · Mac, Switch, PC

I Am Dead

73%

I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.

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Riven

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Riven: The Sequel to Myst Cover

1997 · Mac, PC, PS1

Riven: The Sequel to Myst

72%

Riven: The Sequel to Myst is a graphic adventure puzzle game developed by Cyan and released in 1997. It continues the story of Myst, following the player’s journey to rescue Atrus’s wife, Catherine, from a decaying world. The game features pre-rendered environ...

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Riven

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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04 Europa Cover

2024 · Switch, PC

Europa

69%

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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Riven

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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05 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

67%

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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Riven

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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06 The Guest Cover

2016 · Mac, PC

The Guest

67%

"The Guest" is a gloomy adventure full of enigmas where the exploration of your surroundings comes to prominence; puzzles, secrets and riddles will help you discover who has locked you in this somber hotel room and most importantly, why.

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Riven

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

07 The Witness Cover

2016 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Witness

66%

The Witness is a single-player game in an open world with dozens of locations to explore and over 500 puzzles. This game respects you as an intelligent player and it treats your time as precious. There's no filler; each of those puzzles brings its own new idea...

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Riven

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
Trade-offs

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08 Silt Cover

2022 · Android, Switch, PC

Silt

64%

An underwater exploration game: Explore the depths of a surreal, hand-drawn abyss. Possess sea creatures and make use of their unique abilities to solve environmental puzzles, traveling ever deeper into the void…

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Riven

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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09 Pode Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Pode

64%

"Pode is the story of a little rock helping a fallen star find its way home. As they travel through the insides of a mysterious and magical mountain, Bulder and Glo breathe life into an ancient sleeping world and explore the ruins of a long lost civilization...

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Riven

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

10 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

62%

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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Riven

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

11 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

62%

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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Riven

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

12 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

61%

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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Riven

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

13 Birth Cover

2023 · Mac, Switch, PC

Birth

61%

Birth is a pleasantly creepy point-and-click puzzle game about living alone in a large city and constructing a creature to keep you company out of spare bones and organs you find lying around. Explore libraries, post offices, museums, cafes, and apartments tha...

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Riven

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Abzu Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Abzu

59%

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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Riven

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

15 Planet Alpha Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Planet Alpha

58%

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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Riven

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ 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

16 Three Minutes to Eight Cover

2023 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Three Minutes to Eight

57%

Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive.

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Riven

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery 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

17 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

56%

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...

Your match for

Riven

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

18 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Cover

2010 · Mac, PC, PS3

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

53%

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is an action-adventure game set in Rome, where Master Assassin Ezio Auditore takes on the Templar Order. Players recruit and command a Brotherhood of Assassins to dismantle the corrupt powers entrenched in the city. The game combin...

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Riven

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

19 Silent Hill 3 Cover

2003 · PC, PS2

Silent Hill 3

53%

Silent Hill 3 is the third installment in the Silent Hill series. Like the previous entries, Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror combining action-based combat and puzzle-solving, but is somewhat more combat-oriented than the preceding installments. The main cha...

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Riven

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

20 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

52%

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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Riven

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Exploration Game feel ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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