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02 Rusty Lake Hotel Cover

2015 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Hotel

95%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
04 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

95%

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.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
06 Rusty Lake Paradise Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Paradise

85%

"Rusty Lake Paradise is set on a small remote island in the 18th Century. After your mother passed away the island seems to be cursed with the 10 plagues. It's your job to go around the island, interact with your family and help them vanquish the plague. The g...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
07 Escape from Mental Hospital Cover

2025 · Android, Mac, PC

Escape from Mental Hospital

80%

Embrace this 100 doors challenge, seek and find hidden objects and solve escape puzzles, in order to help her piece together fragments of her past. But with sinister forces determined to keep her trapped within the asylum’s walls, she must use her newfound kno...

  • Puzzles
  • Point-and-click
08 Manipulation Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, PC

Manipulation

80%

Manipulation is a roguelite mini-RPG built like an escape room. It’s designed to be quick but challenging, small but immersive, and easily re-playable when you fail. You play as a telepath trapped in a small facility whose only means of escape is to take cont...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
09 Anomaly 404 Cover

2026 · PC

Anomaly 404

80%

As a journalist, explore the unstable reality of a secret bunker in Anomaly 404 — a first-person psychological horror where your own eyes deceive you. Find and photograph the anomalies to uncover the horrifying truth behind "Project 404".

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
10 Static Condition Cover

2026 · PC

Static Condition

80%

Static Condition is a psychological horror walking simulator inspired by liminal spaces and the "spot-the-difference" genre. Every run is a test of your focus and your ability to remain calm as the environment twists around you.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
11 The Room 4: Old Sins Cover

2018 · Android, PC, iOS

The Room 4: Old Sins

79%

The disappearance of an ambitious engineer and his high-society wife provokes a hunt for a precious artefact. The trail leads you to the attic of their home, and the discovery of an old, peculiar dollhouse. What secrets lie within these walls?

  • Puzzles
  • Point-and-click
12 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

79%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
13 Don't Knock Twice Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Don't Knock Twice

79%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
15 The Room Cover

2012 · Android, Switch, PC

The Room

77%

A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
16 Cube Escape: Paradox Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, PC

Cube Escape: Paradox

77%

The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
17 Escape Simulator Cover

2021 · Linux, Mac, PC

Escape Simulator

77%

Escape Simulator is a next-gen escape room experience: pick up and examine everything, move furniture, smash pots and melt locks! Play solo or with a friend to solve cryptic puzzles and riddles.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
18 Unsolved Case Cover

2022 · Android, Mac, PC

Unsolved Case

77%

Unsolved Case is the free prequel to the popular cooperative point-and-click puzzle game 'Cryptic Killer' series. Dip your toes in and go back to where it all began as you team up in two as detective duo Old Dog and Ally, up against the Cryptic Killer. For the...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
21 Last Seen Online Cover

2023 · Mac, PC, browser

Last Seen Online

77%

“last seen online” is a psychological horror escape room, based on early flash games. Look through someone's computer files. Solve puzzles and discover the secrets that lie within the computer.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
26 Killer Escape 2 Cover

2013 · browser

Killer Escape 2

77%

You escaped from 'The Burner' in episode 1 and climbed up a ladder to the level above. Greeted by a blood soaked floor and some doors with 'The surgery' written on them you have no choice but to go through them. There is no way back, only onwards and upwards!...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
30 Charger Escape Cover

2008 · browser

Charger Escape

77%

Can you help transform an ordinary horse into a magical unicorn, and then into a winged pegasus? Only then can you help this amazing Charger Escape from the barn and realize its true potential!

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
41 Tiny Room 2 Cover

2015 · Android, iOS

Tiny Room 2

77%

The second installment in this fun and simple escape game series. The content has been expanded since the last episode and the difficulty increased. There is now more gameplay and more challenge!

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
43 Escape Cataclysm Cover

2026 · Linux, Mac, PC

Escape Cataclysm

77%

An escape room at the end of the world. Explore, interact and solve puzzles to escape and survive an imminent cataclysm. And once you have done that, give speed running a shot and enable the builtin timer.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
45 No.13813 Cover

2026 · PC

No.13813

77%

A time manipulation escape room game. Piece together the truth behind a viral outbreak through causality puzzles spanning across different timelines.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
48 Avo Echoes of the Void Cover

Year unknown · Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3

Avo Echoes of the Void

68%

AVO: Echoes of the Void is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure built from the ground up for immersive, hands-on virtual reality. Your journey begins aboard a failing spacecraft. Moments later, a catastrophic event tears the ship apart, leaving you drifting in...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
51 Blue Prince Cover

2025 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

Blue Prince

65%

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?

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
53 Boxes: Lost Fragments Cover

2024 · Android, Switch, PC

Boxes: Lost Fragments

65%

As a legendary thief, your next assignment lures you into a grand and lavish mansion. There you find a series of puzzle boxes, designed for an unknown purpose. What should have been a quick in-and-out, gradually turns into your own harrowing struggle for freed...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
54 Dracula: Resurrection Cover

2000 · Android, Mac, PC

Dracula: Resurrection

65%

Dracula: Resurrection is a point-and-click adventure game set in Transylvania after the events of Bram Stoker’s *Dracula*. The player controls Jonathan Harker as he searches for Mina, who has returned to Count Dracula’s castle under mysterious circumstances. G...

  • Puzzles
  • Point-and-click
55 The Room VR: A Dark Matter Cover

2020 · Meta Quest 2, Oculus VR, PSVR

The Room VR: A Dark Matter

65%

The British Institute of Archaeology, London, 1908: The disappearance of an esteemed Egyptologist prompts a Police investigation into the unknown. Explore cryptic locations, examine fantastic gadgets and uncover an otherworldly discovery which blurs the line b...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
58 Abode Cover

2016 · PC, Steam VR, XONE

Abode

65%

In Abode you'll visit a Sci-fi noir apartment. Inspired by "escape the room" games. You will pick up, inspect, open, repair or utilize objects or furniture in the room in order to unveil all its secrets.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
59 Last Labyrinth Cover

2019 · Meta Quest 2, Oculus VR, PSVR

Last Labyrinth

65%

"An escape-the-room adventure game that can only be experienced in VR, Last Labyrinth was created specifically for the VR age. Players must work to escape a mansion full of hidden dangers with a mysterious girl that appears before them. Development of Last La...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
62 Dungeon Escape Cover

2025 · PC

Dungeon Escape

65%

A 3D co-op escape room game for 1 to 4 players in which you explore eerie, interconnected dungeon rooms filled with puzzles, hidden obstacles, and cryptic secrets—working solo or in tandem to unlock the route to freedom.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
66 The Enigma Lounge Cover

2025 · PC

The Enigma Lounge

65%

The Enigma Lounge is a hand-pixeled, point and click escape room puzzle game. It features a cozy yet mysterious vibe, and a small but tricky set of interconnected puzzles that must be solved in order to escape.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
67 Oldest Golden Treasure Cover

2025 · Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Steam VR

Oldest Golden Treasure

65%

Investigate the mysterious disappearance of your colleague in this thrilling VR escape room adventure. Every decision you make brings you closer to the truth... or further from it. Do you have what it takes to crack the case?

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
70 Hospital Escape Cover

2021 · Android, iOS

Hospital Escape

65%

You wake up in a creepy place that looks like an abandoned hospital or a horrifying mental asylum. How did you get here? You have no idea! The last thing you remember is getting drunk in some bar. God, can you find out what’s going on in this place and get out...

  • Puzzles
  • Point-and-click
71 Escape Doom Cover

2026 · PC

Escape Doom

65%

Escape Doom is a short game in which the player needs to explore the room where they are being kept incarcerated. Search for clues and solve the puzzles that will somehow lead you to escape before being crushed by the ever shrinking window. A Mysterious and I...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
72 Please Remain Calm Cover

2025 · browser

Please Remain Calm

65%

Please Remain Calm is a short escape-room type horror puzzle. Set during a corporate lockdown, you must use all available tools to try to understand what's happening and how to escape safely before it's too late.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
73 Cages: Hidden Worlds Cover
65%

Cages: Hidden Worlds is an immersive first-person puzzle escape game, where every sound, shadow, and mechanism bring an eerie sense of mystery and impending doom. Solve the workings of complex, original machinery you’ve never seen before and uncover the secret...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
74 Radioactive Inc. Cover

2025 · PC

Radioactive Inc.

65%

RADIOACTIVE, INC. invites you to the decaying, dangerous halls of a deserted nuclear research complex. Face your fears across 20 unique levels, each filled with new horrors, secrets, and challenges. 1- 4 player

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
75 Papers, Please Cover

2013 · Android, Linux, Mac

Papers, Please

62%

The communist state of Arstotzka has just ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin. Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
76 To the Moon Cover

2011 · Android, Linux, Mac

To the Moon

62%

Join Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts as they enter a patient named Johnny's mind on his death bed to grant his final request. Watch, interact, and change the past as Johnny's life unfolds before you and takes you on a magical journey inside one's head that asks the...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
77 Night School Cover

2019 · browser

Night School

56%

A free browser-based escape game set inside an elementary school at night. Solve a series of puzzles — including logic puzzles, observation challenges, and wordplay — to find a way out. The game is designed to recreate the sense of mystery and discovery found...

  • Puzzles
79 Escape Academy Cover

2022 · PC, PS4, PS5

Escape Academy

53%

Welcome to the Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
81 Don't Escape Cover

2013 · browser

Don't Escape

53%

I woke up in a room... It is not locked and I remember everything. I'm a werewolf. Tonight I will turn and people will die, unless I find a way to prevent myself from escaping this place.

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
85 Haunted House Cover

2006 · PC

Haunted House

53%

As can be inferred from the title, Haunted House is a Halloween themed escape game, though it is not particularly scary due to the child friendly art style and lack of jump scares, etc. The game was developed by KMart and features links to their website to buy...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
86 Exit Control Cover

2025 · PC

Exit Control

53%

Wake up trapped in your office at midnight. No one’s coming back for days—find the way out or stay forever You jolt awake at your couch. The office is silent—too silent. The lights are dark, the halls stretch longer than you remember, and the exit feels impos...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
90 Undertale Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Undertale

50%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
91 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

50%

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.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
92 The Walking Dead Cover

2012 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Walking Dead

50%

The Walking Dead: Season One (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game) is an episodic interactive drama graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. Based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series, the game consists of...

  • Puzzles
  • Point-and-click
93 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

50%

Inside is a puzzle-platformer developed by Playdead, presented in a 2.5D side-scrolling format with a dark, predominantly monochromatic visual style. The player controls an unnamed boy navigating a dystopian environment, solving environmental puzzles, avoiding...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
94 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

50%

Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
96 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

50%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
99 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

50%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
100 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

50%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
101 Braid Cover

2008 · Linux, Mac, PC

Braid

50%

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
103 Tales from the Borderlands Cover

2014 · Android, Mac, Switch

Tales from the Borderlands

50%

Tales from the Borderlands is a five part episodic game series. Set on the unforgiving world of Pandora after the events seen in Borderlands 2, this is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.

  • Puzzles
  • Point-and-click
104 SuperHot Cover

2016 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

SuperHot

50%

Superhot is an independent first-person shooter built around a single core mechanic: time only moves when the player moves. Without health regeneration or ammo drops, players must navigate through enemies using improvised tactics, grabbing weapons from fallen...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
105 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

50%

Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital. It is a visually striking game that follows the journey of a young woman named Gris as she navigates a world of grief and loss. The game features no dialogue, relying on its...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
106 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

50%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
108 Amnesia: The Dark Descent Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

50%

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games. The game features a protagonist named Daniel exploring a dark and foreboding castle, while trying to maintain his sanity by avoiding monsters and other terrifying obstructions. The...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
109 The Witness Cover

2016 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Witness

50%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
111 Abzu Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Abzu

50%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
112 The Secret of Monkey Island Cover

1990 · Amiga, Atari-ST, DOS

The Secret of Monkey Island

50%

I cursed my luck again as I slid down the monkey's throat. Have my dreams of guzzling grog and plundering galleons been reduced to this? "Three small trials and you're a pirate like us," they said. Fair enough. If only I could stomach the foul brew these scurv...

  • Puzzles
  • Point-and-click
113 The Talos Principle Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Talos Principle

50%

The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
114 Masochisia Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Masochisia

42%

A young man discovers through a series of hallucinations that he will grow up to become a violent psychopath. How will he respond to these revelations? Can he change his fate? Can you even... change fate...

  • Indie
116 Deda Cover

2026 · PC

Deda

42%

Old crazy grandfather trapped you in his house... You have 3 difficulties to choose. Try to escape DEDA's house...

  • Indie
117 The Call Button Cover

2026 · PC

The Call Button

42%

It's a psychologial observation-based horror thriller. Every day you wake up in a hospital bedroom. You notice anomalies? Take your pills. You think it's safe? Use the call button. But survive long enough, and you must face your interactive nightmares...

  • Indie
118 Portal 2 Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Portal 2

38%

Sequel to the acclaimed Portal (2007), Portal 2 pits the protagonist of the original game, Chell, and her new robot friend, Wheatley, against more puzzles conceived by GLaDOS, an A.I. with the sole purpose of testing the Portal Gun's mechanics and taking reven...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
119 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

38%

Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by w...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
120 BioShock Cover

2007 · Mac, PC, X360

BioShock

38%

BioShock is a horror-themed first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. The player is urged to turn everything into a weapon: biologically modifying their own body with Plasmids, hacking devices and systems, upgrading their weapons, crafting n...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
122 Half-Life Cover

1998 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life

38%

Half-Life is a 1998 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios for Windows. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. The player assumes the role of Gordon Freeman, a theoretica...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
123 Tomb Raider Cover

2013 · Android, Linux, Mac

Tomb Raider

38%

Tomb Raider explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor. Armed only with raw instincts and the ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara must fight to unravel the dark his...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
125 Dishonored Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, X360

Dishonored

38%

Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
128 Ori and the Blind Forest Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, XONE

Ori and the Blind Forest

38%

The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. Ori and the Blind Forest tells the tale of a young orphan destin...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
129 Half-Life 2: Episode Two Cover

2007 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

38%

Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a first-person shooter set in the aftermath of the Citadel's destruction. Players control Gordon Freeman as he and Alyx Vance travel through forests and underground tunnels toward a resistance base, facing Combine forces and new ene...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
130 Celeste Cover

2018 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Celeste

38%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
131 Shadow of the Colossus Cover
38%

An open-world action/adventure game in which a young wanderer, along with a stolen magical sword and his steed companion, trespasses a cursed land, makes a deal with an ancient being to bring a sacrificial victim back to life, and sets off to fulfill his end o...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
132 Dead Space Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Dead Space

38%

Dead Space is a 2008 science fiction survival horror video game developed by EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released on all platforms through October 2008. The game puts the player in cont...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
133 Silent Hill 2 Cover

2001 · PS2

Silent Hill 2

38%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
134 It Takes Two Cover

2021 · Switch, PC, PS4

It Takes Two

38%

It Takes Two is a cooperative action-adventure game designed exclusively for two players, playable in local split-screen or online. Players control Cody and May, a married couple transformed into dolls, as they travel through fantastical environments based on...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
135 BioShock 2 Cover

2010 · Mac, PC, PS3

BioShock 2

38%

BioShock 2 is the second game of the BioShock series and the sequel to BioShock. It continues the grand storyline of the underwater metropolis Rapture. BioShock 2 capitalizes and improves upon the high-quality effects, unique gameplay elements, and immersive a...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
136 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Cover

2017 · Stadia, Mac, Switch 2

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

38%

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is the first game of the Resident Evil series to switch from 3rd-person to fully 1st-person perspective. A complete refresh of gameplay systems simultaneously propels the survival horror experience to another level. It is as much hor...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
137 God of War Cover

2005 · PS2

God of War

38%

God of War is an action-adventure hack-and-slash video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). Initially launched for the PlayStation 2, the game stands as the first instalment in the God of War series and the...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
139 Deus Ex: Human Revolution Cover

2011 · Mac, PC, PS3

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

38%

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution you play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. But when a black ops team breaks in and kills the scientists you were hired to protect, every...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
140 Mirror's Edge Cover

2008 · PC, PS3, X360

Mirror's Edge

38%

Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure game focused on parkour and free-running. Set in a heavily surveilled city, players control Faith, a courier who traverses rooftops using wall-runs, jumps, and slides to deliver sensitive information. The gamepl...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
141 Tetris Cover

1989 · NES

Tetris

38%

Tetris is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in the mid-1980s. Players arrange falling pieces made of four connected blocks, called tetrominoes, into complete horizontal lines within a rectangular playfield. Completed lines...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
143 Fallout 2 Cover

1998 · Mac, PC

Fallout 2

38%

A turn-based tactical Western RPG in which the Chosen One is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California to locate and retrieve the fabled Garden of Eden Creation Kit for their famine-stricken tribe, while coming into contact through branching dialogue trees...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
147 Stray Cover

2022 · Mac, Switch, Switch 2

Stray

38%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
148 Outlast Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Outlast

38%

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...

  • Puzzles
  • Indie
150 Prey Cover

2017 · PC, PS4, XONE

Prey

38%

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
152 Resident Evil 4 Cover

2023 · Mac, PC, PS4

Resident Evil 4

38%

Resident Evil 4 is a remake of the 2005 original Resident Evil 4 reimagined for 2023 to bring state-of-the-art survival horror. Resident Evil 4 preserves the essence of the original game, while introducing modernized gameplay, a reimagined storyline, and vivid...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
153 Plants vs. Zombies Cover

2009 · Android, Mac, PC

Plants vs. Zombies

38%

Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense game in which players protect their suburban home from waves of approaching zombies by placing various plants on a grid-based lawn. Each plant has a unique defensive function, from shooting projectiles to blocking or explo...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
154 Resident Evil 2 Cover

1998 · DC, NGC, PC

Resident Evil 2

38%

Resident Evil 2 is a sequel to the first Resident Evil title. Like the previous game in the series, Resident Evil 2 is a 3D action-adventure using three-dimensional polygon characters over two-dimensional pre-rendered backgrounds, with the action viewed throug...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
155 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

38%

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided directly follows the aftermath of the Aug Incident, a day when mechanically augmented citizens all over the world were stripped of control over their minds and bodies, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents. The year is now 2...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
156 Silent Hill Cover

1999 · PS1, PS3, PSP

Silent Hill

38%

Silent Hill is the first installment in the Silent Hill series of psychological survival horror video games. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the main character Harry Mason is an average man. The gameplay...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
159 DmC: Devil May Cry Cover

2013 · PC, PS3, X360

DmC: Devil May Cry

38%

DmC: Devil May Cry is the fifth game in the hack-and-slash third-person action series and the first not largely developed by Capcom. This title is a reimagining of the series, with the same protagonist Dante, but set in an alternate universe. The Dante in this...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
160 Resident Evil Cover

2014 · Switch, PC, PS3

Resident Evil

38%

Hailed by many as a masterpiece, this remake of the first entry in the long-running Resident Evil series is now playable in HD. Experience true terror in this genre-launching survival horror classic. The year is 1998. The Bravo Team of S.T.A.R.S., an elite sp...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
161 Tomb Raider Cover

1996 · DOS, N64, PC

Tomb Raider

38%

Tomb Raider is a 3D action game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. The game follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures. The objective of Tomb Raider is to guide Lara through a se...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
162 The Evil Within Cover

2014 · PC, PS3, PS4

The Evil Within

38%

The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension. With limited resources at your disposa...

  • Puzzles
  • Puzzle
164 Granny: Escape Together Cover
27%

This is a creepy co-op horror game for 1-3 players. In which you find yourself locked in a crazy Granny's house. But Granny is not the only danger that awaits you in the house, someone else creepy lives in the basement. You have five days to get out of the hou...

  • Indie
165 Dreamcore Cover

2025 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Dreamcore

27%

Step into the surreal with Dreamcore, a body-cam styled psychological horror game that plunges you into the eerie beauty of "liminal spaces." Unravel the mysteries of Dreamcore’s non-linear worlds and uncover its hidden secrets. Can you discover what lies beyo...

  • Indie
168 Childish Life Prologue Cover
27%

This game tells the story of a girl with a special fate who meets a cat and a mysterious talking body in a different world, and the body and cat help the girl return to the real world. Players need to control the girl to pass through each level. Due to her spe...

  • Indie
172 Summer Snow. Cover

2027 · PC

Summer Snow.

27%

Escape the endless midsummer in this time-loop mystery visual novel. Find the "exit key," solve the cryptic MAZE app's missions, and reach the future with your childhood friends! A coming-of-age drama with stunning visuals, a 300k-character voiced script, dive...

  • Indie
174 Dravo's Twisted Show Cover

Year unknown · PC

Dravo's Twisted Show

27%

You and up to 4 players are victims of a horror show, having to collaborate to solve multiple puzzles and use cooperative dynamics to find your way out, while surviving the creatures lurking around, hunting you, watching out for haunted events that can be a bl...

  • Indie
175 Hollow Knight Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight

16%

A 2D metroidvania with an emphasis on close combat and exploration in which the player enters the once-prosperous now-bleak insect kingdom of Hallownest, travels through its various districts, meets friendly inhabitants, fights hostile ones and uncovers the ki...

  • Indie
176 Enki Cover

2015 · PC

Enki

15%

Enki is a repeatable horror experience about escaping, featuring multiple endings that will ensure you that every playthrough will be a bit different from the previous one. In only 30 minutes find your way to freedom through occult symbolism, mysteries and dis...

179 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

12%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrow...

  • Indie
180 Hades Cover

2020 · Mac, Switch, PC

Hades

12%

A rogue-lite hack and slash dungeon crawler in which Zagreus, son of Hades the Greek god of the dead, attempts to escape his home and his oppressive father by fighting the souls of the dead through the various layers of the ever-shifting underworld, while gett...

  • Indie
181 Hotline Miami Cover

2012 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Hotline Miami

12%

A top-down slasher/shooter with unlockable gameplay-altering masks and weapons, featuring a neon-flavoured electronic aesthetic, in which a hitman receives anonymous calls ordering him to travel to certain residences and crime dens and massacre those within, a...

  • Indie
182 Rocket League Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rocket League

12%

Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, speci...

  • Indie
183 The Wolf Among Us Cover

2013 · Android, Mac, PC

The Wolf Among Us

12%

The Wolf Among Us is a five-episode series from the creators of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead. Based on Fables (DC Comics/Vertigo), an award-winning comic book series, it is an often violent, mature and hard-boiled thriller where the characters a...

  • Point-and-click
184 Firewatch Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Firewatch

12%

Firewatch is a single-player first-person video game where you, as a man named Henry, explore the Wyoming wilderness after taking a summer job as a fire lookout. What is supposed to be a peaceful respite from your complicated life takes a turn when you start t...

  • Indie
185 Disco Elysium Cover

2019 · Mac, PC

Disco Elysium

12%

Disco Elysium is a role-playing game developed and published by ZA/UM. It is set in the fictional city of Revachol, where players assume the role of an amnesic detective investigating a murder. The game emphasizes dialogue and skill-based choices, with charact...

  • Indie
187 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

12%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

  • Indie
188 The Stanley Parable Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Stanley Parable

12%

A first-person exploration game built around branching narrative choices and an omniscient narrator who reacts to the player's decisions. Players navigate an office environment, choosing whether to follow or defy the narrator's directions, with each choice lea...

  • Indie
189 Cuphead Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Cuphead

12%

Cuphead is a run-and-gun action game focused primarily on boss battles. Its visual style is modeled after 1930s cartoons, using traditional hand-drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings. Players control Cuphead or Mugman in sin...

  • Indie
191 Super Meat Boy Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Super Meat Boy

12%

Super Meat Boy is a platform game in which players control Meat Boy, a small, dark red, cube-shaped character who must rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the scientist Dr. Fetus. The game is divided into chapters containing over 300 levels, each requiring...

  • Indie
192 Bastion Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Bastion

12%

A hack-and-slash RPG featuring a reactive narrator, various unlockable weapons, weapon upgrades, practice mini-games and optional difficulty modifiers, set in an imaginary world in the aftermath of an uncertain apocalypse, in which the player embodies a teenag...

  • Indie
193 No Man's Sky Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

No Man's Sky

12%

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade their equipment while following an overarch...

  • Indie
194 Dead Cells Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dead Cells

12%

Dead Cells is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer combining roguelike and Metroidvania design. Players control the Prisoner, an immortal creature that possesses corpses and fights through procedurally generated levels filled with mutated enemies. Combat cent...

  • Indie
195 Subnautica Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Subnautica

12%

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more, all while trying to survive.

  • Indie
196 Among Us Cover

2018 · Android, Switch, PC

Among Us

12%

Play with 4-15 player online or via local WiFi as you attempt to prepare your spaceship for departure, but beware as one or more random players among the Crew are Impostors bent on killing everyone! Originally created as a party game, we recommend playing wit...

  • Indie
197 Fall Guys Cover

2020 · Android, Switch, PC

Fall Guys

12%

Fall Guys flings hordes of contestants together online in a mad dash through round after round of escalating chaos until one victor remains! Battle bizarre obstacles, shove through unruly competitors, and overcome the unbending laws of physics to avoid both hu...

  • Indie
198 Black Mesa Cover

2020 · Linux, PC

Black Mesa

12%

Black Mesa is a re-envisioning of Valve Software's classic science fiction first person shooter, Half-Life. Powered by Source Engine, You will re-visit the inaugural role of Gordon Freeman and his memorable journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility. Exp...

  • Indie
199 Shovel Knight Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, 3DS

Shovel Knight

12%

Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. It's a hot mashup of new and old! You play as the eponymous Shovel Knight, a small knight with a huge quest. Shovel Knight has...

  • Indie
200 Slay the Spire Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Slay the Spire

12%

Slay the Spire is a single-player roguelike deck-building game. Players choose from four characters, each with a unique set of cards, and attempt to climb a procedurally generated spire consisting of multiple floors of increasingly difficult enemies and bosses...

  • Indie
203 Transistor Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Transistor

12%

Transistor is an action role-playing game presented from an isometric perspective. Players control Red, a singer in the city of Cloudbank, as she wields a greatsword-like weapon called the Transistor against robotic enemies known as the Process. Combat can be...

  • Indie
204 Hollow Knight: Silksong Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Hollow Knight: Silksong

12%

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...

  • Indie
205 Garry's Mod Cover

2004 · Linux, Mac, PC

Garry's Mod

12%

Garry's Mod is a physics-based sandbox game built on Valve's Source engine. In its base mode, there are no objectives. Players can spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, then manipulate them using a physics gun that can pick up, rotate, and freeze o...

  • Indie

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Why these games are like Charisma

WhatIsLike compares every game with Charisma using genres, themes, perspective, game modes, world design, and defining mechanics. The highest-ranked games share the most of these characteristics with the starting game.