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270 games like Contraria

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01 Humanity Cover

2023 · Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, PC

Humanity

98%

A unique blend of puzzle-solving and action-platforming. Play a lone Shiba Inu charged with commanding massive, marching crowds to the goal in Story Mode, or browse a wide array of user-made levels crafted via the in-game Stage Creator!

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Contraria

98% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

02 Scrap Garden Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Scrap Garden

86%

Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platforming adventure where you play as the lonely robot Canny, who awakes in a post-apocalyptic world where all the other robotic citizens have been shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all the robots s...

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Contraria

86% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

03 Greenfield Cover

Year unknown · Mac, PC

Greenfield

84%

Greenfield is a story driven puzzle-platforming adventure game. Explore a forgotten island facility and acquire abilities from its lost technologies to unlock a path to its center, where the answers to a dark mystery await.

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Contraria

84% Starker DNA-Match
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

04 Bionic Bay Cover

2025 · PC, PS5

Bionic Bay

80%

An ordinary man in an extraordinary world. Bionic Bay is a new kind of a 2D platformer. It introduces a unique Swap mechanic, allowing players to interact with the physics-based world in new ways. The immersive gameplay is completed by spectacular environments...

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Contraria

80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 Planet Alpha Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Planet Alpha

79%

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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Contraria

79% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

06 Boor Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, PC

Boor

79%

Boor is a 2D puzzle-platformer game, where you control a girl with a great power, the ability to multiply herself. With this power, she will be able to solve different puzzles that will block her way to explore a beautiful but strange world where she accidenta...

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Contraria

79% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

07 Planet of Lana Cover

2023 · Android, Switch, PC

Planet of Lana

78%

A young girl and her loyal friend embark on a rescue mission through a colorful world full of cold machines and unfamiliar creatures. Planet of Lana is a cinematic puzzle adventure framed by an epic sci-fi saga that stretches across centuries and galaxies.

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Contraria

78% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 One Last Breath Cover

2024 · Switch, PC, PS4

One Last Breath

73%

A 2,5D adventure set in a world in which almost no life is left you will play as Gaia, a being born from nature's last wish with power to influence the surrounding nature in order to face a dark world while being chased by strange creatures.

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Contraria

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

09 Creepy Tale Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Creepy Tale

72%

Find out the dark story that befell the once-calm and peaceful forest, turning it into a creepy place filled with evil. Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?

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Contraria

72% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

10 Mind Over Magnet Cover

2024 · Mac, Switch, PC

Mind Over Magnet

68%

An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.

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Contraria

68% Sehr nah dran
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Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

67%

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...

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Contraria

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

12 Stray Cover

2022 · Mac, Switch, Switch 2

Stray

67%

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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Contraria

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Antichamber Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

Antichamber

67%

Antichamber is a single-player first-person puzzle-platform video game. Many of the puzzles are based on phenomena that occur within the Impossible Objects created by the game engine, such as passages that lead the player to different locations depending on wh...

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Contraria

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 SteamWorld Dig 2 Cover

2017 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

SteamWorld Dig 2

67%

SteamWorld Dig 2 takes you on a platform mining adventure forged in Metroidvania flames. When an old trading town is struck by mysterious earthquakes, it’s up to a lone steambot and her unlikely companion to uncover what trembling terrors lie beneath. Dig you...

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Contraria

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

66%

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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Contraria

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

62%

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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Contraria

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

17 Split Fiction Cover

2025 · Switch 2, PC, PS5

Split Fiction

61%

Split Fiction is a 2025 cooperative multiplayer game. It follows two writers, Mio Hudson and Zoe Foster, as they become trapped in their imaginations.

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Contraria

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Third person Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Anderer Spielmodus als beim Ausgangsspiel · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 The Swapper Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Swapper

61%

The Swapper is a short puzzle platformer where you must complete every puzzle and collect 124 orbs, in groups of 3 and 9 later on, to complete the game. The game has a tool which lets you create up to 4 clones and switch between them as long as you have a cle...

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Contraria

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

19 VVVVVV Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

VVVVVV

61%

There's something terribly wrong in an alternate dimension! Help Captain Viridian flip to find five crew members, 20 hard-to-reach Trinkets and save a dimension on the brink of destruction. It's a space opera in the most unique scale with a style that only VVV...

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Contraria

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Adventure Genre Indie Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

20 Portal Cover

2007 · Android, Linux, Mac

Portal

60%

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...

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Contraria

60% Spannender Match
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Adventure Genre Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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