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01 Memorrha Cover

2019 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Memorrha

78%

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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Once a Tale

78% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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02 The Gardens Between Cover

2018 · Android, Stadia, Linux

The Gardens Between

74%

The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure through memory, moments and time that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. The player can traverse back and forwards in time to discover each...

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Once a Tale

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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03 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

67%

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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Once a Tale

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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04 Bramble: The Mountain King Cover

2023 · Switch, PC, PS4

Bramble: The Mountain King

67%

Bramble: The Mountain King is a grim adventure set in a world inspired by dark, Nordic fables. Explore the beautiful yet dangerous and twisted land of Bramble in your endeavour to rescue your sister. Traverse a wondrous landscape and survive deadly encounters...

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Once a Tale

67% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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05 Bugsnax Cover

2020 · Mac, Switch, PC

Bugsnax

67%

Bugsnax takes you on a journey to Snaktooth Island, home of the legendary half-bug half-snack creatures, Bugsnax. Invited by intrepid explorer Elizabert Megafig, you arrive to discover your host nowhere to be found, her camp in shambles, and her followers scat...

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Once a Tale

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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06 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

63%

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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Once a Tale

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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07 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Cover

2000 · 64DD, N64, Wii

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

63%

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is a direct sequel to Ocarina of Time, it utilizes the same engine and visual style as its predecessor. The game retains the traditional elements of Zelda games as well as those introduced in Ocarina of Time, such as active b...

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Once a Tale

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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08 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Cover

2013 · Android, Switch, PC

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

63%

Brothers is presented from a third-person view overlooking the two brothers. The brothers are moved individually by two thumbsticks on the controller. The controller triggers also cause the respective brother to interact with the game world, such as talking to...

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Once a Tale

63% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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09 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

62%

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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Once a Tale

62% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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10 Don't Knock Twice Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Don't Knock Twice

62%

Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. To save her estranged daughter, a guilt-ridden mother must uncover the frightening truth behind the urban tale of a vengeful, demonic witch. One knock to wake h...

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Once a Tale

62% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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11 House of Caravan Cover

2015 · Mac, PC

House of Caravan

62%

Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.

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Once a Tale

62% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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12 Hue Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hue

61%

Hue is a stark puzzle platformer where you shift the hue of the world, creating rifts when colours collide. In this world, everyone sees in grayscale. Anne, a researcher specialising in colour theory, has created a mysterious ring which grants the ability to...

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Once a Tale

61% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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13 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

60%

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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Once a Tale

60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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14 Gorogoa Cover

2017 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gorogoa

60%

Gorogoa is a beautiful hand-drawn story suspended inside a completely unique puzzle. Arrange and combine lavishly illustrated panels, each one a separate interactive window into a living game world.

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Once a Tale

60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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15 OneShot Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

OneShot

60%

OneShot is a surreal top down puzzle/adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

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Once a Tale

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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16 Botanicula Cover

2012 · Android, Linux, Mac

Botanicula

60%

Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium. Like the previous games from Amanita Design, in Botanicula the player controls a protagonist (or multiple protagonists) while exploring the environment, solving puzzles and collecting ite...

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Once a Tale

60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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17 Samorost 2 Cover

2005 · Android, Linux, Mac

Samorost 2

60%

Samorost2, the sequel to free browser based game Samorost1 is a short point-and-click adventure in which you must help out a little space gnome as he searches for his dog, which has been taken away by aliens.

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Once a Tale

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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18 Samorost 3 Cover

2016 · Android, Mac, PC

Samorost 3

60%

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautifu...

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Once a Tale

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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19 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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Once a Tale

58% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Fantasy Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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20 Road 96 Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

Road 96

57%

Road 96 is a crazy, beautiful road-trip. The discovery of exciting places, and unusual people on your own personal journey to freedom. An ever-evolving story-driven adventure inspired by Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, and Bong Joon-ho. Moments of action, explor...

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Once a Tale

57% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Story-focused Game feel Puzzles Game feel
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