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251 games like Cypher

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01 Quern: Undying Thoughts Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Quern: Undying Thoughts

70%

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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Cypher

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Memorrha Cover

2019 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Memorrha

70%

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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Cypher

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Rusty Lake Hotel Cover

2015 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake Hotel

65%

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...

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Cypher

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie 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 Unforeseen Incidents Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Unforeseen Incidents

65%

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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Cypher

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie 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 Don't Knock Twice Cover

2017 · Switch, PC, PS4

Don't Knock Twice

63%

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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Cypher

63% 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

06 Outer Wilds Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Outer Wilds

60%

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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Cypher

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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07 Stories Untold Cover

2017 · Mac, Switch, PC

Stories Untold

58%

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four episodes from the now cancelled series of the same name, including a remaster of the original pilot episode “The House Abandon”.

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Cypher

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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08 Life Is Strange Cover

2015 · Android, Linux, Mac

Life Is Strange

57%

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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Cypher

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 Soma Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Soma

57%

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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Cypher

57% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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10 Rusty Lake: Roots Cover

2016 · Android, Mac, PC

Rusty Lake: Roots

57%

James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.

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Cypher

57% 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

11 2048 Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, PC

2048

57%

Created by Italian web developer Gabriele Cirulli, 2048 is a single-player sliding tile puzzle video game that challenges players to combine numbered tiles on a 4x4 grid to create a tile with the number 2048. Originally written in JavaScript and CSS over a wee...

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Cypher

57% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Cover

2013 · Android, 3DS, Switch

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

56%

A remaster of the original Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, released exclusively as part of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy bundle.

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Cypher

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 A Normal Lost Phone Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

A Normal Lost Phone

56%

A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.

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Cypher

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Hypnospace Outlaw Cover

2019 · Android, Linux, Mac

Hypnospace Outlaw

55%

Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator in which players act as Enforcers, volunteer moderators who scour Hypnospace's surreal network of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers while also keeping an eye on their inbox, avoiding viruses and...

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Cypher

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Device 6 Cover

2013 · iOS

Device 6

55%

Device 6 plays with the conventions of games and literature, entwines story with geography and blends puzzle and novella, to draw players into an intriguing mystery of technology and neuroscience.

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Cypher

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Planet Alpha Cover

2018 · Switch, PC, PS4

Planet Alpha

54%

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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Cypher

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie 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

17 The Roottrees Are Dead Cover

2025 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Roottrees Are Dead

53%

A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.

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Cypher

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Freedom Planet Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Freedom Planet

52%

Freedom Planet is a combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragon girl and her friends against an alien attack force. There's trouble around every turn, from insects to giant robots to sheer explosive destruction, but you'll have a variety of speci...

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Cypher

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Homesick Cover

2015 · Mac, PC

Homesick

52%

Homesick is an adventurous first person 3D puzzle game developed by indie game company Lucky Pause. Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues as the story unfolds. You seem to have been there so long that direct sunlight is blindingly brig...

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Cypher

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie 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 Deadline Cover

1982 · Amiga, ACPC, APCW

Deadline

52%

Deadline is an interactive fiction computer game published by Infocom in 1982. Written by Marc Blank, it was one of the first murder mystery interactive fiction games. Like most Infocom titles, Deadline was created using ZIL, which allowed the easy porting of...

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Cypher

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Puzzle Genre Mystery Theme Single player Mode Text Perspective Puzzles Game feel
Trade-offs

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

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