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2019PC91 % positive8.19 €

An abstract, calm puzzle game that uses carefully crafted puzzles in a mysterious world to evoke an introspective mood.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Ethereal are Expand, Transpose and Linelight. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Ethereal special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Expand

95 %Match

2015PCPlayStation88 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Ethereal: puzzles to figure out, a cosy mood to unwind and a distinctive art style.

A meditative puzzle game in which you navigate a circular maze that continually twists, stretches and grows beneath you. Calm music and abstract visuals create a relaxed, hypnotic mood.

Transpose

Pure single-player experience

A surreal VR puzzle game where you play with gravity and physics across dreamlike environments to solve increasingly complex challenges.

Linelight

Puzzles and brain teasers

A minimalist puzzle game where you guide a glowing line through a world made of lines. Its puzzles introduce new ideas gently and feel calm and elegant.

Manifold Garden

Puzzles and brain teasers

A meditative first-person puzzle game set in endlessly repeating, Escher-like architecture, where you rotate gravity to find paths and bring the world back to life. Its clean visual language and mind-bending spatial puzzles set it apart.

Kenshō

Gameplay comes before story

Kenshō is a calm puzzle adventure where you bend time and space through natural landscapes. Its clever puzzles are carried by a meditative atmosphere and inventive ideas.

Bonfire Peaks

Puzzles and brain teasers

A voxel-art puzzle game where you push and stack crates across diorama-like levels to reach bonfires and burn mementos. Its calm, melancholic mood contrasts with some genuinely tricky puzzles.

Hocus

Puzzles and brain teasers

You solve impossible perspective puzzles inspired by M.C. Escher, where paths and bridges only work from the right viewpoint. Its calm pace and twisted architecture are what make it stand out.

Windosill

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dreamy point-and-click puzzle game where you click through ten handcrafted animated scenes and experiment with quirky creatures and objects. Calm, short and full of small surprises.

Birth

Puzzles and brain teasers

A charmingly creepy point-and-click puzzler where a lonely city dweller builds a companion from found bones and organs. You solve observational puzzles in strangers' apartments, libraries and museums.

The Bridge

Puzzles and brain teasers

A monochrome puzzle game in the style of M. C. Escher: you rotate the world to change gravity and guide your character through tricky hand-drawn levels to the exit door.

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