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290 games like Cogs

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01 Prison Run and Gun Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Prison Run and Gun

95%

The recent events in a state prison, involving Jake from Hot Guns Team was a perfect moment for some prisoners to escape - you are one of them.

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Cogs

95% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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02 Spin Rush Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Spin Rush

95%

Spin Rush is 2D arcade game, where you have to collect dots and match colors.

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Cogs

95% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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03 Red Game Without a Great Name Cover

2015 · Switch, PC, Vita

Red Game Without a Great Name

91%

Red Game Without a Great Name is a 2D puzzle arcade game where you control a mechanical bird carrying a secret message. Your goal is to deliver a letter to a recipient's cage. You will have to face different traps along the way, including: barbed wire, windmil...

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Cogs

91% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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04 Green Game: TimeSwapper Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Green Game: TimeSwapper

88%

It’s a challenging 2D arcade game where you are a master of time. Set it to past, present or future to control various mechanisms, and make sure that a mechanical bird will safely reach the end of the level. Prepare to die a lot – you will be sliced, squashed...

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Cogs

88% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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05 Tell Me Your Story Cover

2024 · Switch, PC, PS4

Tell Me Your Story

86%

Uncover Grandma Rose’s extraordinary stories along with Amelia, all hidden in multiple cozy puzzles spread around the world. Dive into globetrotter adventures, discover granny’s treasures, and relax along the way.

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Cogs

86% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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06 Yerba Buena Cover

2026 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Yerba Buena

83%

Dive into a surreal 1970s gameworld and save San Francisco from a sinister threat. Play as Barb, and use the Oscillator to capture and reapply the physical traits of objects to solve mind-bending environmental platforming puzzles.

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Cogs

83% Starker DNA-Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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07 Meteos Cover

2005 · NDS

Meteos

81%

An evil planet named Meteo is sending storms of world-ending meteors across the galaxy, and only your puzzle skills can stop them. As blocks drop down on the lower screen, you must use the DS's stylus to match up blocks of the same color. Once you have enough...

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Cogs

81% Sehr nah dran
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Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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08 The Tale of Onogoro Cover

2022 · Meta Quest 2, PC, PSVR

The Tale of Onogoro

75%

Experience communication with a virtual character in a VR title developed as "an adventure game for the VR age." Work with Haru to deactivate the large, puzzle-like barriers blocking your path. Teamwork is key, as some objects can only be used by one of you!

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Cogs

75% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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09 SteamWorld Dig 2 Cover

2017 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

SteamWorld Dig 2

60%

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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Cogs

60% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle 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

10 Teslagrad Cover

2013 · Android, Linux, Mac

Teslagrad

60%

Teslagrad is a 2D puzzle platformer developed by Rain Games. Released in 2013, it is set in a steampunk-inspired world and revolves around the use of magnetism and electricity to solve puzzles. Players control a young boy who must navigate through a mysterious...

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Cogs

60% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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11 Inside Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

Inside

59%

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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Cogs

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle 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

12 Limbo Cover

2010 · Android, Linux, Mac

Limbo

59%

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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Cogs

59% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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13 Little Nightmares Cover

2017 · Android, Stadia, Switch

Little Nightmares

59%

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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Cogs

59% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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14 Gris Cover

2018 · Android, Mac, Switch

Gris

59%

Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital. It is a visually striking game that follows the journey of a young woman named Gris as she navigates a world of grief and loss. The game features no dialogue, relying on its...

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Cogs

59% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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15 SteamWorld Dig Cover

2013 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

SteamWorld Dig

59%

SteamWorld Dig is 2D a platform game that revolves around mining for resources and ores. The objective of the game is to investigate the mines underneath the old Western town Tumbleton in order to unearth the secrets lurking below. The player controls Rusty wh...

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Cogs

59% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Puzzles Game feel
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16 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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Cogs

57% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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17 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Cover

2013 · Android, Switch, PC

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

57%

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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Cogs

57% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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18 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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Cogs

57% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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19 Gone Home Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Gone Home

57%

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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Cogs

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

20 Amnesia: The Dark Descent Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

57%

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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Cogs

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Puzzle Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Puzzles Game feel
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