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Viewfinder is a puzzle adventure game where your camera doesn't just take pictures but reshapes the fabric of reality around you. By taking and holding up pictures you create new ways to traverse the world and solve environmental puzzles.
Unfortunately, Viewfinder is not available on Android, Mac, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:
Release Date: 18/07/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Brain Game, Simulation, Traversal (Adventure, Narrative, Point-and-Click and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 3D First-Person
Developer: Sad Owl Studios (@SadOwlStudios)
Costs: Purchase cost
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Viewfinder. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Viewfinder.
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a young woman sent out from her secluded community to explore the world for the first time.
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a young woman sent out from her secluded community to explore the world for the first time. She is tasked with documenting life in a local valley before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away.
Portal is a puzzle game where you manipulate the world around you to move through increasingly complex chambers.
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.
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox 360
Portal 2 is an action adventure where you traverse through increasingly complex (and dangerous) test chamber obstacle courses.
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 escape.
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Holovista is an adventure game where you play by taking and sharing photographs.
Holovista is an adventure game where you play by taking and sharing photographs. You play as Carmen an up-and-coming architect who is tasked to live in and take photographs at a mysterious mansion.
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Manifold Garden is inspired by Escher's drawings and the reality-bending moments in the film Inception.
Manifold Garden is inspired by Escher's drawings and the reality-bending moments in the film Inception. You play from a first-person perspective and explore a beautiful, and what seems to be an abstract world, bereft of colour.
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Gravity Rush is a running, jumping and exploration adventure game.
Gravity Rush is a running, jumping and exploration adventure game. You play as Kat, an amnesiac with the power to manipulate gravity.
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Schim is a traversal game where you run and jump from shadow to shadow.
Schim is a traversal game where you run and jump from shadow to shadow. The world around you (and its shadows) are in motion so you need to carefully plan and time your movement.
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Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home.
Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home. While you listen to four soulful songs for each period of life, you explore the room and witness her changing interests and desires through the different items, notes, and decorations.
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An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is a bizarre adventure where you need to fly to your fiancée but the airports are all run by dogs (and you are the last two people alive).
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is a bizarre adventure where you need to fly to your fiancée but the airports are all run by dogs (and you are the last two people alive). You play by exploring the airport, talking to the dogs, deciphering their problems and helping where you can.
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Local News with Cliff Rockslide is an adventure where you play the camera operator of an independent reporting duo.
Local News with Cliff Rockslide is an adventure where you play the camera operator of an independent reporting duo. You follow the reporter around the town to capture all manner of wacky situations and colourful characters.
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The Entropy Centre is a time-shifting puzzle adventure where you can move objects back through time.
The Entropy Centre is a time-shifting puzzle adventure where you can move objects back through time. You explore the futuristic levels and solve puzzle by using you gun to move object in space but also in time.
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Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Viewfinder. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Viewfinder.
Everything is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object.
Everything is an unusual game that simulates a world where you can become any object. It sounds strange and not much fun, but the enjoyment is in discovering how small or how big a thing you can become.
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Paper Trail is a traversal puzzle game about Paige, a budding academic who is leaving home.
Paper Trail is a traversal puzzle game about Paige, a budding academic who is leaving home. Play is set in a foldable paper world that you manipulate to join paths, move rocks and overlap the two sides of reality.
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Maquette is a puzzle game played in a series of nested identical worlds.
Maquette is a puzzle game played in a series of nested identical worlds. What you do in the larger world affects things in the smaller one, and so on.
Cocoon is a puzzle adventure where you play a winged creature transporting orbs through a mysterious world.
Cocoon is a puzzle adventure where you play a winged creature transporting orbs through a mysterious world. The twist is that placing orbs in a portal grants access to the worlds within worlds and creates a complex nested puzzle.
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Empty is a minimalist puzzle game that teaches the value of simplicity in life.
Empty is a minimalist puzzle game that teaches the value of simplicity in life. You rotate and interact with different vignettes to line up items with the same background colour.
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Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective.
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 have changed.
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Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama.
Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals.
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Voyage is a cinematic adventure puzzle game, where you play alone or cooperatively to guide two survivors on their journey to unravel a mystery from the past and find their way home.
Voyage is a cinematic adventure puzzle game, where you play alone or cooperatively to guide two survivors on their journey to unravel a mystery from the past and find their way home. You move through the world without guidance and must experiment to interact and solve puzzles to make your way onward.
Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure.
Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure. Published in 1983, and selling over six million copies, it pre-dates many modern adventure games and created a new genre for gaming.
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Blanc is a black-and-white adventure for two players.
Blanc is a black-and-white adventure for two players. You play a fawn and a wolf cub stranded in a vast, snowy wilderness.
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Hyperbolica is a traversal game where the whole world bends the laws of physics.
Hyperbolica is a traversal game where the whole world bends the laws of physics. As you move around, everything seems to shift and fold in on itself as you discover space doesn't work like it does in the real world.
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Troubleshooting is a shooting game set inside an old family computer.
Troubleshooting is a shooting game set inside an old family computer. You explore the inner workings of the operating systems to hunt a virus, fix the WiFi, and become an actual JPEG.
A Little Perspective is a puzzle game where you rotate the world to see things from a different angle and find new paths to the goal.
A Little Perspective is a puzzle game where you rotate the world to see things from a different angle and find new paths to the goal. Like an Escher picture (and like the PlayStation 3 game, Echochrome) the perspective affects which platforms you can roll your cube onto.
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Still Wakes The Deep is a horror narrative game set on the Beira D oil rig in 1975.
Still Wakes The Deep is a horror narrative game set on the Beira D oil rig in 1975. When disaster strikes off the coast of Scotland you must traverse the collapsing rig to save your crew from what becomes clear is not only a natural disaster.
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Lorelei And The Laser Eyes is a narrative brain game where you are stuck in a mysterious maze unsure of whether to trust your senses or the people you meet.
Lorelei And The Laser Eyes is a narrative brain game where you are stuck in a mysterious maze unsure of whether to trust your senses or the people you meet. Play involves using the clues you find to solve puzzles and traverse the maze to safety.
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The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society.
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Sensorium is a puzzle game set in a freely explorable island.
Sensorium is a puzzle game set in a freely explorable island. You need to solve puzzle to access rooms, which usually contain more puzzles granting access to deeper recesses of the buildings.
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30 Birds takes you to a psychedelic hand-painted city on the hunt for birds.
30 Birds takes you to a psychedelic hand-painted city on the hunt for birds. You explore, talk and outwit the strange characters you meet in your mission to save Simurgh, the giant bird goddess.
Taiji is an adventure game where you solve grid puzzles by toggling tiles on or off.
Taiji is an adventure game where you solve grid puzzles by toggling tiles on or off. It sounds simple but soon evolves into a complex interwoven challenge.
If you like the sound of Viewfinder but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.
Here are a selection of games with a similar theme to Viewfinder:
These are our hand-picked alternatives to Viewfinder. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Labyrinth. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
Outfoxed! is a cooperative puzzle game where you work to discover which of the suspects stole the pie before the fox gets to safety.
Outfoxed! is a cooperative puzzle game where you work to discover which of the suspects stole the pie before the fox gets to safety. You roll to move around the board and apply special Clue tokens to the Clue Decoder holster that reveals specific aspects of the thief in a 'Guess Who' style.
Block Ness is a traversal game where players try to create the longest monster.
Block Ness is a traversal game where players try to create the longest monster. You take turns inserting 3D Monster pieces into a board to extend the length of your creature.
Tsuro is a strategic tile-laying traversal game where the goal is to keep your piece on the board longer than anyone else.
Tsuro is a strategic tile-laying traversal game where the goal is to keep your piece on the board longer than anyone else. You play by adding intricate winding Path tiles to a board to move pieces along the path that you create.
These are games of a similar genre mix to Viewfinder. This includes games from the Traversal, Puzzle, Brain Game, Adventure, Point-and-Click, Narrative and Simulation genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
Henry Halfhead is a traversal game where you move around by possessing and controlling any object within your reach.
Henry Halfhead is a traversal game where you move around by possessing and controlling any object within your reach. You move around the world freely, but to get where you need to go you need to become the objects around you to use their abilities.
Just A Guy is a running and jumping adventure where you explore a colourful world with your ragdoll hero.
Just A Guy is a running and jumping adventure where you explore a colourful world with your ragdoll hero. Play involves using the physics of the work to get around and discover all the different themed activity areas.
Jusant is a climbing traversal game where you take a challenging-yet-meditative climb to the top of a tall tower.
Jusant is a climbing traversal game where you take a challenging-yet-meditative climb to the top of a tall tower. You use the trigger buttons to hold on and the stick to jump and reach for the next position.
Tren is a traversal-puzzle game set in a hand-crafted world as a wooden train, sailing boats and helicopters.
Tren is a traversal-puzzle game set in a hand-crafted world as a wooden train, sailing boats and helicopters. You control points, shunt trucks around, operate cranes and generally move cargo from one location to the next.
Mars First Logistics is a traversal game where you build robots to move awkwardly-shaped objects across the surface of Mars.
Mars First Logistics is a traversal game where you build robots to move awkwardly-shaped objects across the surface of Mars. It's a simple concept, but to contend with the cumbersome objects and rough terrain you need to use every tool at your disposal to create ingenious contraptions.
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective is a traversal maze game where you guide Pierre from the bestselling children's books Pierre The Maze Detective to find a route through the city and recover the stolen Maze Stone.
Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective is a traversal maze game where you guide Pierre from the bestselling children's books Pierre The Maze Detective to find a route through the city and recover the stolen Maze Stone. Play involves exploring the cities by moving around and interacting with the people and things you find.
Out Now: PC, Switch and iOS
Let's Revolution is a puzzle adventure where you work to stop a narcissistic King from ruining your world.
Let's Revolution is a puzzle adventure where you work to stop a narcissistic King from ruining your world. Play is like Mine Sweeper where you get numerical clues on one tile about what's on its neighbours.
Hidden in Plain Sight is a unique battle that requires keen observation rather than quick reflexes.
Hidden in Plain Sight is a unique battle that requires keen observation rather than quick reflexes. Up to four players fight to protect or assassinate the king, catch a thief or race across the screen without being stopped.
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
A Highland Song is a narrative adventure where you explore a maze of crisscrossing routes through the hills of the Highlands.
A Highland Song is a narrative adventure where you explore a maze of crisscrossing routes through the hills of the Highlands. You are 15-year-old Moira who lives with her mum on the edge of the hills and receives a letter inviting her to come to the coast.
JellyCar Worlds is a puzzle game about a car made of jelly traversing a squishy world.
JellyCar Worlds is a puzzle game about a car made of jelly traversing a squishy world. You use the physics properties of the car and the objects in the world to get from A to B.
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Mosa Lina is a platform brain game where you are granted three random abilities to complete each self-contained level.
Mosa Lina is a platform brain game where you are granted three random abilities to complete each self-contained level. You can always walk and jump around the level, but this is aided (and sometimes hindered) by the selected abilities at your disposal.
Wobbly Life is a lively open-world game where you explore an island with your friends to find quests, mini-games and earn money.
Wobbly Life is a lively open-world game where you explore an island with your friends to find quests, mini-games and earn money. Play involves finding jobs to do, earning money and buying lots of everyday things - but the real play is around the edges of all this.
Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Pico Park is a collaborative puzzle game for up to 10 players where you traverse levels using one another to solve puzzles.
Pico Park is a collaborative puzzle game for up to 10 players where you traverse levels using one another to solve puzzles. It's a game about communication and physics as players work to position themselves to bridge a gap, use ropes to hang off ledges or unlock keys.
In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Viewfinder in the following lists: