Games like The Machine's Garden
Looking for games like The Machine's Garden? Here are top puzzle recommendations with a mystery and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Spring Falls, Stuffo the Puzzle Bot or The Swapper.
1 93%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplayreplayability, story96% User Score 497 reviewsCritic Score 76%1 reviewsA puzzle game about water, erosion, and watching things grow. Manipulate the landscape and bring wildflowers to life as you make your way down a peaceful mountainside.
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99%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, replayability99% User Score 147 reviewsA laid-back but smart puzzle game. Stuffo is the last remaining puzzle bot stuck in a world filled with bite-sized brain-teasers. Help Stuffo to solve the mind-bending puzzles by using various blocks to climb, push and teleport your way to the exit.
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding95% User Score 5,138 reviewsCritic Score 87%8 reviewsThe Swapper is a short puzzle platformer where you must complete every puzzle and collect 124 orbs, in groups of 3 and 9 later on, to complete the game. The game has a tool which lets you create up to 4 clones and switch between them as long as you have a clear line of sight. The main obstacles for the puzzles are 3 kinds of lights that interfere with the tool in different ways to make the puzzl…
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, musiccharacter development, optimization86% User Score 339 reviewsCritic Score 75%18 reviewsA mystery adventure that merges puzzles with visual novel elements.
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90%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability96% User Score 224 reviewsCritic Score 35%4 reviewsExplore Solas, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect and reconfigure rhythmic pulses of light to breathe life back into an ancient machine.
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99%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphics99% User Score 172 reviewsA 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!
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88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, optimization86% User Score 13,645 reviewsCritic Score 89%28 reviewsWelcome to Mt. Holly
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83%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability83% User Score 606 reviewsCritic Score 80%2 reviewsIn the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky forest, an abandoned carnival, and the strange, surreal realm that …
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87%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, optimization95% User Score 349 reviewsCritic Score 80%11 reviewsShe Remembered Caterpillars is a fungipunk fantasy about love, loss, and holding on, told in the format of a colour-based puzzle game. A tale as the bond between parent and child, this lush and bewildering title will have players testing their wits against a variety of challenges, some devious, and others outright nefarious, but all beautiful and very, very strange.
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View Game69%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization65% User Score 700 reviewsCritic Score 76%34 reviewsBuy Maquette on PS4 and PS5. Maquette is a first-person, recursive puzzle game in a world where things are both tiny and staggeringly huge.
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