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239 games like Riven

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01 Memorrha Cover

2019 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Memorrha

77%

Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.

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Riven

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Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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02 Myst Cover

1993 · 3DO, Amiga, Atari2600

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
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03 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

71%

Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood f...

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Riven

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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04 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

69%

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

69% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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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
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06 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
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel
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07 Rusty Lake Hotel Cover

2015 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Hotel

63%

Welcome our guests to the Rusty Lake Hotel and make sure they will have a pleasant stay. There will be 5 dinners this week. Make sure every dinner is worth dying for. Rusty Lake Hotel is a mysterious point and click game developed by the creators of the intri...

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Riven

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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08 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
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09 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
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10 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
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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11 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

59%

Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.

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Riven

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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12 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
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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13 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...

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Riven

56% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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14 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
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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15 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
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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16 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
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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17 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

51%

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of short stories about a cursed family in Washington State. Each story offers a chance to experience the life of a different family member with stories ranging from the early 1900s to the present day. The gameplay a...

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Riven

51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode First person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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18 Blacksad: Under the Skin Cover

2019 · Mac, Switch, PC

Blacksad: Under the Skin

51%

BLACKSAD: Under the Skin - A dark corruption scandal in the heart of the New York City's underworld for charismatic detective John Blacksad! Based on the noir comic series by the same name. The game features a noir detective story about a PI by the name of Bl...

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Riven

51% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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19 Silent Hill 2 Cover

2001 · PS2

Silent Hill 2

49%

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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Riven

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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20 Stray Cover

2022 · Mac, Switch, Switch 2

Stray

49%

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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Riven

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Exploration Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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