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200 games like Side Effects

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01 Threeboard Cover

2026 · browser

Threeboard

80%

Use a three button keyboard to load binary data into a shift register to solve puzzles.

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Side Effects

80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

02 Cut to Pieces Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, PC

Cut to Pieces

76%

Butler works for his master, Sr. Cole Hector, who asks him to visit an auction where they will sell the most prestigious paintings. But when Butler misses the auction, he has to come up with a creative solution to prevent getting fired. Use an old newspaper t...

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Side Effects

76% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Alchegator Cover

2017 · PC, browser

Alchegator

76%

Craft, destroy, and solve puzzles as an alligator in a strange room.

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Side Effects

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

04 Hope Falters Cover

2023 · PC, browser

Hope Falters

74%

Slide letters to get Hope to the exit. Break words apart and mix them together, lose hope, and find it again.

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Side Effects

74% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 The Journal of Ambrose Brant Cover
73%

The Journal of Ambrose Brant was created for Pirate Jam 15, themed "Shadows & Alchemy".

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Side Effects

73% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Dracula: Restless Legs Syndrome Cover
73%

The Count needs to suck up the blood of the maiden, but after a countdown ends, your last few moves will be repeated backwards.

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Side Effects

73% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Short Fuse Cover

2026 · browser

Short Fuse

73%

Short Fuse is a minimalist logic puzzle about timing detonations perfectly. Each bomb has a timer. Drag its fuse out, cover every tile on the grid with no overlaps, hit ignite, and watch the whole chain play out.

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Side Effects

73% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 5318008 Cover

2026 · browser

5318008

73%

Click digits to subtract them by one. Rule 1: All dots must be enclosed by walls. Rule 2: Walled-off zones cannot be empty. Rule 3: Each zone must contain an equal number of dots.

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Side Effects

73% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Frenfield Cover

2026 · browser

Frenfield

73%

Descend Dracula's castle to go cheer him up!

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Side Effects

73% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Questionable Countdowns Cover

2026 · browser

Questionable Countdowns

72%

A game about counting down and following instructions.

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Side Effects

72% Sehr nah dran
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Indie 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 Catterplosion Cover

2026 · PC, browser

Catterplosion

67%

Help Wiggle The Galaxy Swallower of Eternal Despair make his childrens become butterflys ! Place bombs and set their countdowns to explode Wiggle's childs into the magic ring of butterfly transformation.

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Side Effects

67% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Leaf Me Alone Cover

Year unknown · browser

Leaf Me Alone

61%

Play as a new born seedling and explore a strange and colorful world!

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Side Effects

61% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Bomberful! Cover

2026 · PC, browser

Bomberful!

60%

Welcome, interns, to the Bomberful company! In this game, assemble bomb parts on a grid, manage space to increase your score, and calibrate your unstable product by mixing chemicals and connecting wires.

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Side Effects

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

14 Legacy Cover

2018 · PC

Legacy

59%

Discover the secrets of a recently destroyed civilization with Dunwo, the freelancing archaeologist. Aiming to save the extinct locals and maybe earn a coin or two in the process, our brave hero with his trusty backpack and a teleport sphere starts his greates...

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Side Effects

59% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Lockpicks-11 Cover

2025 · browser

Lockpicks-11

59%

Made in 72h for Ludum Dare 57 with the theme "Depths" (although we were thoroughly inspired by the controversial contender "doors"), with everything from sfx, music, art, and programming, all recorded, edited, drawn, and/or typed by our two-person team.

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Side Effects

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 The Count is Down for Blood Cover

2026 · PC, browser

The Count is Down for Blood

58%

A puzzle game where you control a vampire trying to get to its crypt by dawn, but on the way through he will need to suck up enough blood from the townsfolk.

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Side Effects

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

17 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

56%

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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Side Effects

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

18 What Remains of Edith Finch Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

What Remains of Edith Finch

56%

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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Side Effects

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

19 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Cover

2013 · Android, Switch, PC

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

56%

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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Side Effects

56% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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20 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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Side Effects

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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