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295 games like Benefactor

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01 Resync Cover

2022 · Linux, Mac, PC

Resync

98%

After crash-landing on a structure orbiting a distant star, work alongside your robotic allies to solve puzzles and uncover the true purpose of the mysterious outpost.

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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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02 Tales From Space: About A Blob Cover

Tales from Space: About a Blob is a side-scrolling puzzle-platform game about a race of alien Blobs. The game has a retro-inspired monster-movie art style and local co-op gameplay.

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90% Starker DNA-Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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03 Crush Cover

2007 · PSP

Crush

81%

You play as Danny, a young man suffering from insomnia, who uses an experimental device to explore his mind and discover the cause of his sleeplessness. Each level of the game, representing events from Danny's life and inspired by artists such as Tim Burton an...

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81% Sehr nah dran
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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04 Starquake Cover

1985 · Amiga, ACPC, Atari8bit

Starquake

81%

You are a BLOB (a Bio-Logically Operated Being) and are sent into the core of a planet in order to prevent dit from blowing up.

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81% Sehr nah dran
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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05 Mighty Switch Force! Cover

2011 · 3DS, PC, WiiU

Mighty Switch Force!

78%

Mighty Switch Force! is a puzzle platformer developed by WayForward Technologies for Nintendo 3DS. It is the third game in WayForward's Mighty series, following Mighty Flip Champs! and Mighty Milky Way. The game was released on the Nintendo eShop on December 2...

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Benefactor

78% Sehr nah dran
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Deleveled Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Deleveled

78%

Deleveled is a physics-based puzzle-platformer in which you simultaneously control two characters who fall in opposite directions. You must help them work together to get through dozens of tricky levels.

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Benefactor

78% Sehr nah dran
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Raft Wars Cover

2007 · browser

Raft Wars

73%

Raft Wars is a popular flash game from the late 2000s. It is a strategic shooter game similar to the popular mobile game Angry Birds. As the end of support for flash happened at the end of 2020, the developer and his team ported the game to the most advanced w...

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Benefactor

73% Sehr nah dran
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Struggling Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Struggling

72%

A physics-based coop game where each player controls one of the arms of a hideous thing. You will go on a journey full of absurd encounters to find the abomination gods and receive their blessings. At long last a game that lets you incarnate a screeching pile...

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Benefactor

72% Sehr nah dran
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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09 Humanity Cover

2023 · Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, PC

Humanity

65%

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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65% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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10 Synthetic Hopes Cover

2025 · PC

Synthetic Hopes

63%

Synthetic Hopes is a puzzle game with original and systemic mechanics sparkled with a few platforming action sequences. You are an enslaved android with a shot at freedom in a dystopian cyberpunk setting. Learn the ways of the world and maybe you'll have a cha...

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63% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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11 Fire 'n Ice Cover

1992 · famicom, NES

Fire 'n Ice

61%

The aim of the game involves players extinguishing all fires in a level in order to proceed. They do this by creating and melting ice (in a Lode Runner style) or kicking ice onto the fires. This game also has a level editor (which may expose some bugs that sub...

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Benefactor

61% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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12 Puyo Pop Fever Cover

2003 · Arcade, DC, Mac

Puyo Pop Fever

61%

Updated version of the classic Puyo Puyo puzzle game featuring the all-new "fever" mode. Better known in the west under the titles Puyo Pop, Kirby's Avalanche and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Puyo Pop Fever still follows the classic bubble-popping format...

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61% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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13 Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine Cover

1993 · Linux, Mac, PC

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

60%

Dr. Robotnik is changing the jolly folk of Beanville into devious little robots that will help rid Planet Mobius of music and fun forever. Group the beans together to help them escape, and compete against Robotnik’s wily henchbots!

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60% Spannender Match
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Puzzle Genre Strategy Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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14 Pushmo Cover

2011 · 3DS

Pushmo

58%

A kindly old inventor created a park and filled it with incredible puzzle-like climbing toys called Pushmo. But a little trickster has trapped kids inside the Pushmo, and now it’s up to our hero, Mallo, to push, pull and climb his way through the puzzling play...

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58% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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15 Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure Cover

In Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure players embark on single player fun like no other. Here Henry Hatsworth, a quirky, lighthearted character serves as your guide on a journey through a new style of gaming on your Nintendo DS that combines the action...

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Benefactor

58% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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16 Crashmo Cover

2012 · 3DS

Crashmo

58%

Crashmo, also known as Fallblox, is the sequel to Pushmo and is available for the 3DS eShop.

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Benefactor

58% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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17 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

56%

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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Benefactor

56% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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18 Catherine Cover

2011 · PS3, X360

Catherine

53%

Vincent is trapped in a nightmare, facing a choice of marrying his longtime girlfriend Katherine or moving on to the incredible blonde he just woke up to-- named Catherine! The worst part is, if he makes the wrong choice, he could end up dead. Hangout, drink,...

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Benefactor

53% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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19 Blocks That Matter Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, PC

Blocks That Matter

53%

When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation. You are the Tetrobot: a tiny robot that can drill blocks of matter one by one, collect them, and recycle them into new pieces of 4 blocks. You also have th...

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Benefactor

53% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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20 Gateways Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Gateways

53%

Gateways is a 2D platform game set in the lab of an inventor called Ed following an outbreak of a number of his more "creative" experiments. Can you help him escape the lab? Alongside the traditional platform elements such as jumping on enemies heads, spikes...

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Benefactor

53% Spannender Match
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Platform Genre Puzzle Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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