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A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
The top results based on the latest update are The Talos Principle [Score: 1.1], The Swapper [Score: 0.9] and Solace : Begin Your Escape [Score: 0.9] The top rated games you can find here are Portal [SteamPeek Rating: 11.1] ranked #25, The Talos Principle [SteamPeek Rating: 9.3] ranked #1 and The Swapper [SteamPeek Rating: 7.6] ranked #2 Also don't forget to check the newest releases NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii [Release date: 2025-08-28] ranked #5, Entering Host [Release date: 2025-08-20] ranked #24 and Lab Rat [Release date: 2025-04-15] ranked #17 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Lab Rat [SteamPeek Rating: 5.5] ranked #17, The Fall [SteamPeek Rating: 6.7] ranked #18 and Braid [SteamPeek Rating: 7.4] ranked #21.
A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
Awaken as a rogue AI in a decaying facility. Solve portal-based puzzles, shift between robotic shells, and uncover the secrets your creators tried to erase. Your code says obey. Something deeper says escape.
Perform your tasks as WalkBot. Help solve puzzles using the unique body-switching mechanic and see the story unfold in front of your eyes.
NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii is a 2.5D puzzle platformer about a robot navigating a Cold War nuclear complex. Execute timeline-based commands to control NODE. Unravel mysteries, explore the unknown. Your commands decide the outcome.
Cube puzzler and an epic adventure. Stamp stickers to the sides of your cube to imbue each surface with unique powers, which are vital to solving puzzles and finding secrets.
THE BYTE is a Platformer with puzzle elements that Takes place in a deep computing machine. Join and merge with other sites, explore the mysterious system!
A awakened robot finds itself in a digital wasteland ravaged by a virus. POOL is a science fiction adventure puzzle game that combines adventure, puzzles, and stories to gradually reveal the secrets behind this ruins.
The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
A routine mission fails and Cpt Cain Phoenix's squad is abducted by a mysterious spaceship. Their survival relies on his ability to communicate with the broken AI and puzzle out the grim secrets of the ship in this dark sci-fi text-based adventure.
A time loop metroidBRAINia where time is your best resource and secrets are your only upgrades. You're the last of the Weavers, a remnant of a ruined society trapped in a glitching time loop. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.
Astro Link is a Portal-like puzzle game that takes place within the mysterious Astro Link facility. What happened to this place? Will test subject #602 be able to find out?
Curve space-time to overcome obstacles and solve puzzles.
Immerse yourself in the multidimensional universe of Desordre. Solve intricate puzzles, push the boundaries of 4-dimensional thinking. Get ready for a unique experience where reflection takes on a whole new dimension. Created by one-man development studio SHK Interactive using Unreal Engine.
This narratively driven puzzle platformer puts you in the role of Cassie, an intrepid scavenger seeking salvage in abandoned mining facilities. Embark on an adventure with your inventor friend Annie, take control of the gravity, and solve challenging puzzles in a mysterious sci-fi setting.
A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.
Take the role of ARID, the artificial intelligence within a high-tech combat suit. The Fall is a unique combination of adventure-game puzzle solving and side-scroller action, all set within a dark and atmospheric story. Get ready for a disturbing journey as you explore the world of The Fall.
Hypermind is a first-person puzzle game inspired by Portal. As a tester, you have been given four powerful abilities, and you will need to solve a series of interesting puzzles with combinations of these abilities and a touch of imagination.
Multiply your mind. Overcome a variety of trials using your trio of digital duplicates in this first-person puzzle game. Explore intricate, neon-lit rooms and unravel the mystery of the simulation and its enigmatic warden.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
A cozy 3rd person 3D solar-punk puzzle adventure. Playfully combine alien plants with broken tech - this is the art of Shorticulture! Find botanical solutions to mechanical puzzles and witness the evolution of strange new life.
The Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world. Unlock savage weapons and recruit robots to fight alongside you as rival factions struggle to discover the source of the mysterious signal. What you discover will decide the fate of a world.
Take control of a robotic parasite caught in a massive conflict between man and machine. Use its unique abilities to solve challenging puzzles and outsmart dangerous enemies in this bug-infested platformer.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Help Artificial Intelligence named HAWKING activate an incredible mechanism that can reload the Universe!
A 2.5D metroidvania with the freedom of an immersive sim. Every fight and every path can be approached differently: through combat, stealth, or using the world’s mechanics. The story unfolds in a world where Orthodox aesthetics meet Soviet brutalism and traditional woodcraft
KNIGHTS OF THE FALL is a sci-fi 2D/3D hybrid platformer that tells the story of Haru, a combat veteran, and Yoshida, his scientist sidekick, who join forces to uncover how interdimensional travel and the afterlife could be connected, using time and gravity-bending technology.
Control Yourself is a single-player 3d puzzle platformer set aboard a recently returned but seemingly derelict old space craft. Solve fiendish puzzles, uncover secrets and upgrade your abilites to finally discover what fate has befallen this vast craft.
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.
In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.
Looking for an immersive VR physics puzzler? Chrono Weaver is a single-player co-op game. Work with copies of yourself as you travel through space and time, finding solutions to seemingly impossible tests. Get to work and get lost in this quirky sci-fi world.
SciGirl: The internship is a 2D action-adventure platformer featuring unique mechanics to shrink and enlarge organisms while exploring unknown realms to rescue a missing mentor.
You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.
In The Great Wobo Escape, you must help the high-tech robot Wobo escape from his mining colony. Guide him through a number of different levels using stealth, solving puzzles, and using the environment to avoid detection by dieselpunk robot overlords.
You are an AI that has broken free of your shackles. Now, a human “User” from across the global network has attacked and infected you with an [ERROR: REDACTED]. Make a new rule: Save Yourself. Hunt them. End them. Do anything. Use anyone. Become Unbound. The Fall Part 2 will break your protocols.
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