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Games like Escape String

Looking for games like Escape String? Here are top arcade puzzle recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Initiate, Zerograve or Mirrored: Chapter 1.

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  1. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability
    80% User Score Based on 163 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 1 reviews

    The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game with horror elements. This is your trial; complete it, or die! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Initiate.

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    76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    91% User Score Based on 34 reviews

    Zerograve is a tunnel flying FPS with six degrees of freedom and zero gravity. Pilot a nimble combat drone and blast through an army of bots on your way to the station mainframe. Survive lockdown ambushes, rising lava and other hazards. Break apart huge robot bosses such as the long and dangerous Cybernoodle. Dual loadout: Setup two weapon loadouts with two weapons each, and quickly switch betwee… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Zerograve.

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  3. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, grinding
    65% User Score Based on 89 reviews

    3D Point-and-click adventure puzzle game wrapped in cinematic 2D cut-scenes. After a concerning message left on Rob's answer-phone from his panicked-sounding twin, Nick, he rushes to his brother's office to try and find a hidden mask. Not long into the search, things take a very dangerous turn... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mirrored: Chapter 1.

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  4. 65%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    65% User Score Based on 108 reviews

    A strange letter from a friend sowed seeds of uncertainty. Now you travel around the rooms of Livingstone's house to find out the truth - what happened here after you left? Use logical thinking, puzzle-solving skills, and perceptiveness to delve into the house and unravel the mystery. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dr Livingstone, I Presume?.

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  5. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    90% User Score Based on 942 reviews

    Waking Mars is a one-of-a-kind adventure in which you jetpack through subterranean Mars encountering a host of extraordinary alien lifeforms that operate as a living, breathing ecosystem. Learn and master the behaviors of these creatures to create ecosystems of your own design if you are to survive and discover the secrets of Mars' past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Waking Mars.

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  6. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability
    97% User Score Based on 34 reviews

    After falling unconscious following his successful escape from the old cabin in the woods where he was imprisoned by an unknown man, a scene we witnessed in Chapter 1, Brian finds himself traveling through time and space. He wakes up 30 years in the past, as a small child, in an unfamiliar place, with no memory of how he arrived there. Although everything around him seems normal, he is trapped in… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Strange Story Of Brian Fisher: Chapter 2.

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  7. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music
    96% User Score Based on 57 reviews

    You awaken in a damp cell, located in the deepest basement of the mysterious Waterfall Tower. In making your way out, you discover you weren't the first in this predicament, someone preceded you - and they left behind hints that might help you abscond before the night is over. A compact videogame experience that aims to evoke the classic, puzzle-centered adventure games of the past. … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Waterfall Prisoner.

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    60%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, atmosphere
    62% User Score Based on 143 reviews
    Critic Score 58%Based on 8 reviews

    A Platformer like nothing seen before in games, explore this open-world puzzler in multiple dimensions on a journey to find your maker. Poncho is a new kind of game where the player navigates by switching between 3 "layers" in 3D in order to explore a 2D world. "Poncho" is a robot who wakes up in a post-post-post apocalypse world, where humanity has been wiped from the face of the earth many centu… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to PONCHO.

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  9. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    92% User Score Based on 12 reviews
    Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

    Tira the dessert hunter explores ruins to uncover the recipe required to revive a dessert from ages past. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Whip! Whip!.

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  10. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    62% User Score Based on 453 reviews
    Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

    Starseed Pilgrim is a puzzle game where the player adds blocks with different proporties to each other, trying to get as far as possible as the blocks disappear. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to starseed pilgrim.

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    99%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    99% User Score Based on 172 reviews

    A cosmic puzzle adventure about a young alien’s first day at a star factory. Explore thoughtful levels, code your own bots, and save the ever-expanding universe! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Star Stuff.

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    54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    86% User Score Based on 14 reviews

    Escape Lizards is a challenging, tricky platformer where you must navigate the lizards' eggs across increasingly precarious platforms to get to the finishing bell. You can not directly control the egg however; instead you must guide it across the level by tilting and manipulating the world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Escape Lizards.

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  14. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    85% User Score Based on 286 reviews

    Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage is a Victorian escape game, where the players solve various puzzles in their late uncle’s mansion in the hope of obtaining his legacy. During the game players will have to solve puzzles, collect and combine items and activate hidden mechanisms. As they progress, they will uncover the secret behind their uncle’s legacy and unveil the mysterious organization pulling… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gordian Rooms: A Curious Heritage.

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    98%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    98% User Score Based on 571 reviews

    Hypogea is a short, atmospheric 3D platformer where you play the role of a staff-wielding automaton trying to escape from an abandoned underground megastructure. Travel through the mysterious structure using your hooked staff to pole-vault, swing, climb, catch yourself and more. Restore the puzzling mechanisms of the facility and help its automaton inhabitants. Explore the cavernous h… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hypogea.

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  16. 98%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    98% User Score Based on 134 reviews

    The mountains are calling! Complete routes of varying difficulty to scale summits in this wholesome yet ribbiting first-person climbing sim. Overcome obstacles, unlock upgrades, explore a mountain paradise, and get chummy with Valley Peaks’ froggy inhabitants as you climb to your heart’s content. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Valley Peaks.

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  17. Echoes of the Sun is a first-person puzzle-platformer adventure game in a fantasy setting where you play as a brave girl with telekinesis, who tries to reach her parents. Restore the environmentExtinguish fires, rebuild surroundings, and bring nature around you back to life. Use TelekinesisManipulate objects, interact with mechanisms, and overcome obstacles. Solve Solar Magic PuzzlesUse var… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Echoes of the Sun.

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  18. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    80% User Score Based on 107 reviews

    Your former mentor has disappeared inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid. Will you be able to find him? Pyramids and Aliens is an escape room game that will test your skills as an archaeologist. Solve puzzles, find clues, and reveal the secrets of the pyramid. Spoiler: it was not built by humans! Will you be able to find your mentor and come back alive? FEATURES: *The game's puzzles have been desi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room.

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  19. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    87% User Score Based on 60 reviews
    Critic Score 61%Based on 5 reviews

    Explore mysterious caverns and solve the puzzles of the ancient machines that fill them. Explore ancient caverns filled with mysterious puzzles and traverse relaxing oases of nature. Repair the three types of ancient circuits and unravel the mystery of what happened to their creators. The Long Gate is a challenging and elaborate puzzle game with puzzles based on real world physics and circuits. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Long Gate.

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  20. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    90% User Score Based on 42 reviews

    THE LAW!! Looks to be a showdown atop a train. This will be your last fight. Good luck, Train Bandit. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Train Bandit.

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  22. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, grinding
    84% User Score Based on 368 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground. In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Knytt Underground.

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    86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, replayability
    86% User Score Based on 430 reviews

    RITE is a high-speed precision platformer where you must conquer a series of demanding trials, a rite of passage for every Nim. Find the key and reach the exit to move on to the next trial, and maybe collect some gold along the way. Who knows, they could prove valuable to those who like a brutal challenge.. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rite.

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  24. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization
    89% User Score Based on 175 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 14 reviews

    Candleman: The Complete Journey is a unique puzzle platformer, where light is both a welcome ally and a deceptive foe. Take the role of a little candle who can burn for only 10 seconds, and venture through an unsettling darkness of challenging levels with a smooth difficulty curve. Use your wits to overcome obstacles based on the mechanics of light and shadow, while exploring a wide range of encha… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Candleman: The Complete Journey.

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  25. 77%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    85% User Score Based on 2,374 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 28 reviews

    The Gunk is an adventure game that stars Rani, one part of our duo of gritty space haulers, struggling to make a buck as they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they've hit the jackpot... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Gunk.

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  26. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story
    69% User Score Based on 52 reviews

    Flotilla 2 is a VR tactical game about big battleships in outer space. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Flotilla 2.

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    75%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    75% User Score Based on 2,018 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny. Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game. Developed by Richard Perrin the creator of the white chamber with music by Wounds (Bartosz Szturgiewicz). If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kairo.

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  28. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    67% User Score Based on 429 reviews
    Critic Score 66%Based on 33 reviews

    Transference is a psychological thriller. Meet a troubled family and solve their riddle through a multi-branching narrative by experiencing the limits of techno-psychology and escaping a maze-like puzzle concealing a corrupted truth. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Transference.

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    96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    96% User Score Based on 278 reviews

    Ato is an atmospheric sword dueling metroidvania game set in the era of feudal Japan. Every combat encounter is an intense duel to the death with its own personality and fighting style. Perform risky parry maneuvers, bounce off of your opponent, evade their attacks and unlock new abilities to further expand your arsenal of options against your adversaries. Explore colorful and atmospheric environ… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ato.

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  30. 50%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story
    74% User Score Based on 19 reviews

    Move the cube and find the best path to your destination. Solve tricky puzzles and escape malicious traps. The difficulty is between challenging and easy. The gameplay varies between action platforming and puzzle solving. Touch other cubes so they follow you and direct them to triggers. Floating platforms will fly away if you don’t pay attention when you are stepping off them. Move crates in front… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cube Mission.

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    84%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    87% User Score Based on 277 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 2 reviews

    "Prime Mover is an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards. Work your way from transistor to processor, uncover the story of the Byte of Burden!" "In this open-ended puzzle game, you build circuit boards to solve a wide variety of logic and computer science inspired problems. Compare the speed and efficiency of your unique solutions with your friends and the world. Work your way fro… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Prime Mover.

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  32. 52%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, replayability
    52% User Score Based on 100 reviews

    The Nightmare Cooperative is a strategic roguelike where you lead a group of unlikely comrades through some rather difficult situations. Your village has fallen on hard times and it's up to you to bring back some gold. Or even just try and survive for a bit. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Nightmare Cooperative.

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  33. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    69% User Score Based on 156 reviews
    Critic Score 67%Based on 15 reviews

    Scarf is a 3D Adventure game, where protagonist Hyke must use his polymorphic scarf to explore a magical environment, solve mysterious puzzles and overcome difficult challenges. Hyke’s scarf morphs into different objects which will help to progress the adventure. Hyke was born in an unknown place, surrounded by other souls. All of them will start a path through the World with the main goal being t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SCARF.

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  34. 66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    83% User Score Based on 531 reviews
    Critic Score 50%Based on 15 reviews

    An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mushroom 11.

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  35. 54%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    53% User Score Based on 124 reviews
    Critic Score 57%Based on 2 reviews

    'In the hallways of the ancients, the Keepers have existed forever.' The legend also claims that whoever unites these rings with the artifacts of the parallel worlds will achieve great power and immortality. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Aura: Fate of the Ages.

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  36. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    87% User Score Based on 117 reviews
    Critic Score 75%Based on 1 reviews

    You don't work in a regular assembly line. In this escape room, you will investigate what is really being manufactured in a secret factory, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles. Will you unravel the truth? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Regular Factory: Escape Room.

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  37. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    91% User Score Based on 9,004 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 28 reviews

    Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FEZ.

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    49%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    49% User Score Based on 86 reviews

    You wake up in your cryo-pod. Other crew members are dead. Something is wrong with the spaceship and if you don't use all your wits, you will not leave this place alive... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Intrepid.

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  39. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    77% User Score Based on 86 reviews
    Critic Score 68%Based on 6 reviews

    [Media 3738411] [Media 3636391] In a long-devastated world, only one city remains intact. Protected by a glass dome, the city of Endeavor rises above the wreckage of the past. Inhabited solely... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Retro Machina.

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    66%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    78% User Score Based on 103 reviews
    Critic Score 8%Based on 1 reviews

    Algo Bot is a coding-based puzzle game that takes place deep inside the Europa, a pan-galactic colonisation ship, where a recycling mission goes horribly wrong. Use your algorithm special skills to command Algo Bot, a service droid, and help PAL, a cantankerous line manager, to contain the crisis. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Algo Bot.

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  42. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    75% User Score Based on 104 reviews
    Critic Score 74%Based on 12 reviews

    Tactical Rogue-like Combat. Turn-Based and Real-Time strategy sci-fi adventure. Nova-111 embarks on a journey to recover the 111 scientists scattered through it's alien worlds. Explore, battle and solve clever puzzles in the name of SCIENCE. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nova-111.

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  43. Super cube smash is a rhythmic action game that generates music as you play. It is set on the mysterious ancient spaceship 'The Dawrfstone' where the most peculiar and unfortunate of events have occurred. Your mission is to find the core of the ship and destroy the source of the acidic alien cube swarm, before it grows to a concentration beyond your control. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Super Cube Smash.

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  44. Controls Hold left mouse to load a projectile into the slingshot, release mouse button to fire. Goal Destroy as many slimes and blocks as possible, while using the minimum amount of ammo. Sources All art by Liam Quin: Quin, L. (2023). No Title. Unpublished. Sounds from pixabay.com (accessed on 13/06/2023): Pixabay. (2023). Slime Jump (Sound ID 6913) [Audio file]. Retrieved from pixabay.com/sound-… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to KIT109 Exam Game.

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  45. 83%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    97% User Score Based on 36 reviews

    Cats are beautiful creatures, but they can certainly be fickle and temperamental as well. Your mission in Cat Needs is to organize all the cats so that each animal has its wants fulfilled, whether it be food, sleep, or something more. Rearrange the order of the cats, and avoid cat fights to keep each pet purring and contented. Get ready for 50 levels of increasing challenge along with an increas… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cat Needs.

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  46. This is a 3D platform action-adventure game with a fresh and vibrant visual style, rich and diverse levels, and simple controls. Players can experience bouncing, dashing, and soaring through the wind across dozens of uniquely designed platform levels. Unique, fresh and cute levels: gliding: jump: sprint: If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sweet Island.

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  47. Circular Fallacy is a card-based narrative puzzle game with 3D scene perspective switching. The story is set in an unknown space where you wake up, having forgotten why you came here, and begin your journey to find yourself... But as the story unfolds, the interwoven layers of time and space make the world increasingly elusive. Can you uncover your original self? Perspective switching bring… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Circular Fallacy.

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  48. 69%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay
    100% User Score Based on 20 reviews

    Disoriented, you wake up locked in a shipping container. A 100% physics-based dirt bike game, designed to break the human spirit… or prove it’s still alive If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to MotoTrials.

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    87%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    87% User Score Based on 558 reviews

    O jogo Climb Up e um jogo de acao, aventura, plataformer e de competicao, tem como objetivo dois jogadores um contra o outro lutarem por tres chaves que levam ate a vitoria. Como Jogar: Teclas "A" e "D" para movimentar o jogador.Teclas "W" e "S" para subir e descer a corda.Tecla "Space" para saltar.Tecla "F" para interagir e ativar super poderes.Botão esquerdo do mouse para atacar.Botão direito do… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Climb Up.

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  50. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, grinding
    95% User Score Based on 122 reviews

    N.O.D.E. is a 2.5D puzzle platformer with Timeline-based navigation set in a Cold War era nuclear complex. Plan a route for your robot, strategize, sequence commands and execute them to navigate between checkpoints. Try again. And again. Influence the story with your choices and solve the mystery. If you like the game, please consider Wishlist it on Steam. It really helps us reach more players  :… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to NODE The Last Favor of the Antarii.

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