Games like DOS - Steve Pardo

"GRIS is a single-player platformer game with exceptional storytelling, showcasing a hopeful girl's emotional journey through a splendidly designed, peril-free world. The game features outstanding mechanics, light puzzles, and platforming sequences, all set to an elegant original score. With minimal text, GRIS offers a highly emotional and accessible experience for all, regardless of language."

Gravity Ghost is a peaceful, non-violent gravity-based game where you play as Iona, a ghost searching for her lost friend. Explore a handpainted galaxy, solve unique gravity challenges, and meet magical guardians. Features 100+ levels, 10+ powerups, and a beautiful original soundtrack. Discover the story through 25+ minutes of animation hidden throughout the game. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Tetris® Effect: Connected is a rhythm-based puzzle game that synchronizes visually stunning effects, music, and sound to your gameplay. With over 30 stages, 10 modes, and cross-platform multiplayer, this addictive reinvention of Tetris offers a unique and breathtaking experience for both single-player and collaborative/competitive play. The game features exclusive Zone mechanic, allowing players to stop time and enter a transcendent state.

Can you beat the beat? Journey as a green LED mysteriously trapped inside a dying boombox and play the ultimate musical experience. In this rhythmic platform adventure where your every action needs to be right on the beat, bring electro, dub and disco music back to life!

"Jusant is a single-player Fantasy Platformer game with an intriguing story and amazing gameplay, graphics, and music. Climb a mysterious tower, master your tools, and explore different paths to uncover secrets. Enjoy breathtaking biomes, atmospheric music, and a wholesome story, but be prepared for grinding, missing optimization, and bugs if you wishlist it now on Steam."

FRACT OSC is a musical exploration game where you decipher an abandoned world built on sound. By solving puzzles and shaping sound, you restore the world and unlock tools to create your own music in the FRACT studio, which can be saved, exported, and shared. The game features stunning visuals and an evolving score.

Planet of Lana is a serene adventure game set on a transformed planet, where a faceless army has disrupted the balance between nature and humans. The game features unique companion-based gameplay, puzzles with diverse challenges, and stealth-based sequences to carefully navigate dangerous situations. Discover an epic story that spans galaxies and centuries while trying to preserve the planet's beauty.

In Spirit of the North, you play as a fox on a spiritual journey, exploring a beautifully realized version of Norway's landscapes and uncovering the secrets of ancient Norse mythology. Through intuitive exploration and puzzle-solving, you'll discover a world filled with beauty, mystery, and magic, all while working to restore balance to the environment. With its striking visuals and engrossing atmosphere, Spirit of the North is a unique adventure that's not to be missed.

"Thomas Was Alone" is a puzzle-platformer game that features minimalistic graphics and a unique narrative. Players control different-shaped rectangles, each with their own abilities, as they navigate through various levels. The game explores themes of friendship, self-discovery, and emotional depth, giving each rectangle a distinct personality through clever narration and level design.

RiME is a single-player, open-world puzzle adventure game with a wholesome story and dense atmosphere. As a young boy stranded on a mysterious island, you'll explore enchanting landscapes, solve ingenious puzzles using sound, light, and time manipulation, and uncover secrets that reveal the island's forgotten past. With its outstanding gameplay, graphics, and soundtrack, RiME offers a captivating experience, despite minor optimization issues and some grinding.