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259 games like The Search

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01 Myst Cover

1993 · 3DO, Amiga, Mac

Myst

80%

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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80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click 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

02 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

78%

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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78% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Memoranda Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Memoranda

78%

Memoranda is a 2D point and click adventure game inspired by author Haruki Murakami’s surreal short stories. The game tells the story of a young lady who gradually realizes that she is forgetting her own name. But is she really losing her memory?

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78% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

04 Heal Cover

2020 · PC

Heal

78%

Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.

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78% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 1 Moment of Time: Silentville Cover

2012 · Android, Mac, PC

1 Moment of Time: Silentville

76%

1 Moment Of Time: Silentville is a casual adventure with hidden objects and logical puzzles.

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76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click 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

06 I Am Dead Cover

2020 · Mac, Switch, PC

I Am Dead

75%

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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75% 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

07 Endless Fables 4: Shadow Within Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Endless Fables 4: Shadow Within

71%

Famous anthropologist Pamela Cavendish goes back to her hometown to face a tragedy from her childhood. When her friend - Hans - was kidnapped by a nightmarish figure no one believed her. Years later, brave and steadfast, Pamela has a chance to make things righ...

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71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click 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

08 Gorogoa Cover

2017 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gorogoa

68%

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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68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click 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

09 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

66%

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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66% 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

10 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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66% 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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No description available from IGDB

11 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS4

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

66%

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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66% 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 Layers of Fear Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Layers of Fear

66%

Layers of Fear is a psychedelic horror that will keep you on-edge for the reminder of the game. Delve deep into the mind of an insane painter and discover the secret of his madness, as you walk through a constantly shifting house. Heavily inspired by the mast...

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66% 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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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

65%

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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65% 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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No description available from IGDB

14 Lost in Play Cover

2022 · Android, Mac, Switch

Lost in Play

65%

Go on a feel-good adventure with a brother and sister as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, Toto and Gal must stick together and solve puzzles to journey back home. This whimsical puzzle adventure game will make...

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65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Mystery Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

15 My Brother Rabbit Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

My Brother Rabbit

65%

My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn point-and-click adventure set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination. A loving family discovers that their daughter has fallen ill. While her parents set out to get her the treatment she needs,...

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65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

16 Call of the Sea Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Call of the Sea

63%

Call of the Sea is a first-person adventure puzzle game set in the 1930's that tells the story of Norah, a woman on the trail of her missing husband's expedition. The search takes place on a strange but beautiful island in the South Pacific, filled with secret...

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63% 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

17 Blue Prince Cover

2025 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

Blue Prince

63%

Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will the unpredictable path you create lead you to the rumored Room 46?

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63% 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

18 Birth Cover

2023 · Mac, Switch, PC

Birth

63%

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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63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Point-and-click Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

19 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

60%

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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60% Spannender Match
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

20 Circle of Blood Cover

1996 · DOS, Mac, PC

Circle of Blood

60%

Circle of Blood is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. The player uses a point-and-click interface to interact with the environment and to guide protagonist George Stobbart through the game's world. To solve puzzles and progress in the...

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60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Adventure Genre ✓ Point-and-click 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

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