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An atmospheric first-person puzzle game where shadows are deadly and you must manipulate light sources to progress safely. Its comic-book look and gloomy sci-fi mood recall Portal and The Talos Principle.
What defines Lightmatter:
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The closest matches for Lightmatter are Viewfinder, The Entropy Centre and Somerville. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Lightmatter special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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You snap photos with an instant camera and then place them in the world, turning the images into real paths, bridges and platforms. The result is a series of inventive perspective puzzles in a stylish sci-fi setting.
94 % 19.99 €
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A first-person puzzle game where a time-rewinding gun lets you send objects back through their past to solve clever challenges. It wraps this in a sci-fi mystery set in a strange research facility, with a chatty AI companion.
94 % 19.99 €
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An atmospheric, dialogue-free sci-fi adventure in which a man tries to reunite with his family after an alien invasion. Environmental puzzles and moody, cinematic presentation carry the emotional journey.
93 % 9.75 €
Distinctive, stylised art style
A short, story-driven point-and-click adventure in which an ordinary janitor in 1972 uses time travel to try to save humanity from looming disaster. Its striking flat art style and puzzles that hop between past and future define the experience.
93 % 14.99 €
Distinctive, stylised art style
A cyberpunk point-and-click adventure with neon-soaked pixel art. You puzzle your way through a future ruled by a dominant AI and a society fused with virtual reality.
93 % 9.75 €
Distinctive, stylised art style
A short, atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you play an exploration robot on an alien planet, solving environmental puzzles and uncovering a mystery through audio logs.
92 % 19.99 €
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A first-person puzzle game set on a lunar base where you combine magnetism and gravity powers to solve physics challenges and uncover the station's secrets, wrapped in a personal father-daughter story.
92 % 14.99 €
Distinctive, stylised art style
A stealth puzzle game where you scrub through time like a media player to slip past guards. You guide a girl with precognitive powers and her cat, planning each escape step by step.
91 % 24.50 €
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A first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter's moon Europa, where you play engineer Ava Turing solving chambers built on energy and physics puzzles. Along the way it reflects on artificial intelligence, morality and what consciousness really means.
90 % 19.99 €
Dark, serious atmosphere
A first-person puzzler where you use a magnetic glove to polarize objects and solve physics-based challenges, as Lovecraftian horror creeps into a high-tech training facility.