6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed A Puzzle in Time. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed A Puzzle in Time.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society. You move between zones and solve puzzles by guiding beams of light, manipulating gravity, and switching between robot bodies. It stands out...
Release Date: 22/07/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ctrl Alt Ego is a puzzle game where you a disembodied character taking control of robots and electronics to move around, interact and solve the puzzles. Using a combination of stealth and problem solving to progress the story and get to the bottom of...
Release Date: 08/12/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D First-Person
Vessels is a narrative adventure where you wake to find yourself quarantined inside an airlock with no memory of how you got there. You speak to the crew to work out who you are and try to convince them not to jettison you into space. If you fail you...
Release Date: 17/10/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
LOCK is a puzzle game about escaping rooms. LOCK stands for Logic Operated Combination Keep, referring to a digital password protected door lock. You must discover secret four letter word clues by exploring each space, in order to unlock panels, collect...
Release Date: 11/12/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
The Talos Principle is a narrative driven puzzle game, praised for its cerebral and philosophical nature, where you play an android with a human conscience. You explore environments to complete complex brain-teasing puzzles to collect "sigils".
Release Date: 19/10/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Escape Simulator is a puzzle game where you try and escape a series of rooms. Like a real escape room, you look in drawers, read books, and solve riddles to provide the tools you need to escape. It stands out for the quality of the environments and head...
23 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed A Puzzle in Time. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed A Puzzle in Time.
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and changes their actions...
Release Date: 20/01/2021
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Hand-Made
Nuts is an adventure game where you play a rookie field researcher. You use your camera, caravan, GPS and map to investigate the depths of the enigmatic Melmoth Forest. As you study the local squirrel population you uncover a strange mystery.
Release Date: 28/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure. You explore and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. It starts as a bewildering array of characters, locations and information but over multiple goes your...
Release Date: 06/08/2008
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Braid is a platform game, not dissimilar to Mario World, that appears simple but has a twist. The movement of your character is connected to the progression of time in a mind-bending manner. The resulting puzzles are fascinating and connected to a story...
Release Date: 22/07/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Elsinore is a mystery-adventure set in Shakespeare's Hamlet. You play Elsinore who repeats the same four days as she tries to find a way to avoid the tragedy that lies before her.
Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Portal is a puzzle game where you manipulate the world around you to move through increasingly complex chambers. By creating two connected portals- if you walk into one, you walk out the other- you must move yourself around the rooms to escape. It...
Release Date: 12/11/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective. As you play and explore you can manipulate objects so that when put down their perspective, scale and size has changed. This enables you to progress through areas...
Release Date: 19/08/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building. You view things from above and can interact with a simple click-and-drag interface. What starts as a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police...
Release Date: 14/12/2015, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Witness combines maze puzzles in an abandoned world with its own mythology, secrets, themes and story. It’s a game with puzzles at the core, but the real mystery is solving what has happened in the world you find yourself in.
Release Date: 21/05/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Observation is a narrative adventure game that puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than...
Release Date: 19/03/2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters. You discover Kai's story by walking through the panels of a comic book. It's a tale about a boy who wakes in a strange land handcuffed to a mysterious chest....
Release Date: 03/02/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
We Were Here is a series of puzzle adventures where you and a fellow explorer awake inside the sinister Castle or similar location with no way out. Play is by exploring your location to find clues and solve puzzles. Uniquely, the puzzles you encounter...
Release Date: 10/03/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
The Last Cube is a puzzle platform game where you guide a cube through a series of 3D mazes to save the world from destruction. Because you have to get the right side of the cube on the right square to trigger abilities and progress, it creates a...
Release Date: 08/10/2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Kitty Q A Quantum Adventure is an escape-room where you use outside-the-box thinking to solve puzzles in an odd world with quantum physics themes. It's unusual not only because the puzzles are approachable and visual appealing but because they each...
Release Date: 21/05/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Timelie is a stealth puzzle game played in a surreal world where a girl and a mysterious cat work together to escape a series of rooms patrolled by enemy robots. The novelty is that you can control and rewind time to help you solve each puzzle. This not...
Release Date: 23/03/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Homescreen is a puzzle game. You play as a duck trapped in a house. Escape the house by solving puzzles and unlocking rooms. Escape rooms are rarely played from this top down angle and it makes for the unique experience, as if you were a giant peering...
Release Date: 20/04/2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Temporal Fuse is a puzzle game where you explore a building to defuse bombs. You only have 30 seconds, but time only proceeds when you move. This forces you to think carefully about each step and interaction. You will die, but each time you have learned...
Release Date: 31/08/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
How 2 Escape is a communication puzzle game where you have to reach the front of a dangerous train to pull the emergency brake. You search for hints and codes in each carriage while the clock counts down. The twist is that to succeed you must share...
Release Date: 20/04/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Not Not, A Brain-Buster is a puzzle game about following simple instructions in a limited time. All you have to do is read the instructions and then direct your character in one of four directions. It sounds simple but the instructions get increasingly...
Release Date: 26/07/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Press X to Puzzle is a one button puzzle game. You press or hold a single button in order to progress to the next screen. Sounds simple, but it's actually more cryptic as you have to decipher the instruction. For some screens the solution is obvious,...
Release Date: 13/03/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Qube 2 (Q.U.B.E. 2) is a puzzle adventure game where you play as archaeologist, Amelia Cross, who has awoken in an alien building with no memory of why she is there (and what the strange gloves she is wearing are for). What emerges is a unique puzzle...
Release Date: 18/04/2011, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Switch and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Portal 2 is an action adventure where you traverse through increasingly complex (and dangerous) test chamber obstacle courses. By creating two connected portals (if you walk into one, you walk out the other) you must move yourself around the rooms to...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a stealth puzzle game where you play Mittens the cat who can use quantum theory to divide in two. You play by controlling Mittens and infiltrating a secret research facility and taking advantage of being able to be in two...
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