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2020PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable91 % positive19.50 €

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.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Lavish presentation
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The closest matches for Lightmatter are Viewfinder, Cocoon 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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Viewfinder

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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified94 % positive24.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Lightmatter: puzzles to figure out, a sci-fi setting and lavish production.

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.

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Cocoon

Puzzles and brain teasers

Cocoon is a wordless puzzle adventure where you play a small insectoid creature carrying worlds inside orbs and nesting them within each other to solve puzzles. The worlds-within-worlds mechanic delivers clever aha moments and a mysterious atmosphere.

Somerville

Sci-fi setting

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.

The Turing Test

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

The Entropy Centre

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

VirtuaVerse

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.

The Swapper

Puzzles and brain teasers

An atmospheric puzzle platformer where you create clones of yourself and swap between them to solve puzzles on an abandoned space station. Its handcrafted, claustrophobic look and philosophical story about consciousness and identity set it apart.

Relicta

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

The Silent Age

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.

Rivage

Puzzles and brain teasers

Rivage is a sci-fi puzzle adventure where you wake as Miranda aboard a space station caught in a strange cosmic phenomenon. You explore the station, solve intricate puzzles and uncover what happened to your missing crew.

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