Games like a Place of Much Learning
Looking for games like a Place of Much Learning? Here are top casual platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Portal, Half-Life 2 or Half-Life.
1 96%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability99% User Score 54,199 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsWaking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by whom.
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94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability97% User Score 139,598 reviewsCritic Score 78%5 reviewsSet in the mythical world of ancient Japan, players take on the role of ninja warrior Shinobi. To free the world from the curse of Goaku, Shinobi must recover 5 elemental swords and defeat the Shoguns who wield them. It will take stealth, strength, and the mastery of the mystic arts for Shinobi to battle his way through the 5 lands.
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94%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding96% User Score 97,182 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsNamed Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
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94%Game Brain Scorehumor, storygrinding, replayability97% User Score 9,663 reviewsCritic Score 88%5 reviews"There is no game: Wrong dimension" is a Point&Click comedy adventure (and Point&Click only!) that will take you on a journey you never asked to go on, through silly and unexpected video game universes. Will you be able to play along with the "Game" to find your way home? We sincerely think NOT.
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85%Game Brain Scoreatmosphere, storyreplayability, grinding92% User Score 20,194 reviewsCritic Score 75%7 reviewsUncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability96% User Score 6,680 reviewsDigging through your attic you found a box set of an old children's TV show, Amanda the Adventurer, starring a brave girl named Amanda and a cowardly sheep named Wooly. You don't recall any...
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability95% User Score 13,549 reviewsCritic Score 84%5 reviewsA Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, replayability93% User Score 6,924 reviewsCritic Score 75%6 reviewsThomas Was Alone is an indie minimalist 2D platformer about friendship and jumping and floating and anti-gravity. Guide a group of rectangles through a series of obstacles, using their different skills together to get to the end of each environment.
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94%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, grinding94% User Score 11,345 reviewsYour estranged father, a theme park engineer riddled with lawsuits dubbed "the Escape Artist", has died. You inherit his decrepit shack in the middle of the woods. The shack, and the objects within it, distort reality and break the laws of physics. A game made in collaboration between the University of California, Irvine and the Laguna College of Art & Design, The Escape Artist is a single-play…
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84%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, grinding94% User Score 9,988 reviewsCritic Score 73%31 reviewsMind-bending Optical Puzzles
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