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202 games like Category Connections

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01 Alt254 Cover

2020 · PC

Alt254

68%

A minimalistic open-world adventure & action game where... YOU ARE A PIXEL! ■ Embark on a fascinating journey and discover how every pixel will impact your experience in a game with one of the minor resolutions you have ever played!

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68% Sehr nah dran
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✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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02 Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! Cover

Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! is a single-player simulation. You need return scattered books to proper places in an Arcane Library. As completed rows of bookshelves, you can learn ability to improve your efficiency. Use your skills and strategies to s...

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60% 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

03 Marble It Up! Cover

2018 · Mac, Switch, PC

Marble It Up!

57%

Roll, bounce, and boost your way from skillful start to frame-perfect finish in Marble It Up! - the next generation of marble-rolling platformer. Chase the records of your friends and the world's best players through intricate, beautiful, mind-bending levels…...

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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

04 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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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

05 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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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

06 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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56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

07 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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56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

08 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

56%

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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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

09 Amnesia: The Dark Descent Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

56%

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...

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56% 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

10 The Witness Cover

2016 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Witness

56%

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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56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

11 Return of the Obra Dinn Cover

2018 · Mac, Switch, PC

Return of the Obra Dinn

56%

In this 1-bit first-person mystery game, a merchant ship called the Obra Dinn has appeared at a London harbor, years after being declared lost at sea. As an insurance adjuster, the player must examine the ship for clues.

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56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

12 Abzu Cover

2016 · Switch, PC, PS4

Abzu

56%

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...

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56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

13 The Talos Principle Cover

2014 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Talos Principle

56%

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).

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56% 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

14 The Eyes of Ara Cover

2016 · Android, Mac, Switch

The Eyes of Ara

54%

"The Eyes of Ara is a game about exploration, puzzle solving, and discovery. Will you pay heed to the unsettling tales and legends surrounding the castle, or will you set fear aside and venture in with an open and inquisitive mind to uncover the truth for your...

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54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

15 Lost But Found Cover

2024 · Android, Linux, Mac

Lost But Found

54%

A combination of a job simulator & hidden object game. In a top-down table, you are an officer who oversees the lost items in an airport. Organize those items and distribute them to people who lost their belongings. Upgrade your office, manage requests, and mo...

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54% 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 N++ Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, Switch

N++

51%

N++ is a fast-paced, action-packed platformer set in the distant future. You play as a ninja, darting through obstacles, narrowly evading a slew of inadvertently homicidal enemy robots and collecting gold in a minimalist, sci-fi world. N++ is all about smooth...

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51% Mutiger Treffer
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

17 Toki Tori 2 Cover

2013 · Mac, PC, WiiU

Toki Tori 2

51%

Toki Tori 2 is a puzzle adventure game in which you explore a lush forest island inhabited by strange creatures. Whistle and stomp to influence their behavior, and solve the puzzles. But what's up with that black goo? It's threatening your home world!

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51% Mutiger Treffer
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

18 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...

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50% Mutiger Treffer
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 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...

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50% Mutiger Treffer
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

20 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.

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50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Puzzle Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Puzzles Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

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