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2020PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified85 % positive24.50 €

Playing as Gregor Samsa turned into a bug, you explore a surreal Kafka-inspired world of giant everyday objects in first person. Puzzles and platforming drive a quirky, strange story.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

The closest matches for Metamorphosis are Papo & Yo, Arise: A Simple Story and Ico. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Metamorphosis special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Papo & Yo

95 %Match

2012PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable93 % positive14.99 €

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

A poetic puzzle platformer in which a boy navigates a dreamlike favela alongside a monster who stands in for his father's addiction. The puzzles and the personal, autobiographical story are tightly intertwined.

Arise: A Simple Story

Distinctive, stylised art style

A wordless platform adventure that tells a couple's life story through memories, from old age back to childhood. You bend time to get past obstacles, backed by a moving orchestral soundtrack.

Ico

Puzzles and brain teasers

A quiet, melancholic adventure where a horned boy leads a mysterious girl by the hand through a vast, sunlit castle. Environmental puzzles, wordless storytelling and the bond that grows between the two make it an influential classic.

Contrast

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play a character who shifts between a 3D world and a 2D shadow plane to solve puzzles. Its surreal 1920s film noir and vaudeville atmosphere and jazz score give it a distinctive mood.

Evan's Remains

Jumping and platforming

A calm puzzle adventure where you explore a mysterious island as a young woman, solving platforming puzzles while the story unfolds through visual-novel-style narrative sequences.

Braid

Puzzles and brain teasers

A landmark puzzle-platformer where every world bends time in a new, mind-twisting way, from rewinding to parallel realities. Beneath its painterly look lies a melancholic, ambiguous tale of regret and obsession.

Whispering Willows

Dark, serious atmosphere

In this atmospheric 2D ghost story, young Elena searches for her missing father while exploring an eerie mansion. Using astral projection, she solves puzzles and helps restless spirits.

Nihilumbra

Dark, serious atmosphere

An atmospheric puzzle-platformer in which you guide Born as he flees the Void, painting the terrain with colours that make surfaces slippery, sticky or bouncy. Each world adds a new colour and fresh puzzles.

RiME

Distinctive, stylised art style

A wordless, beautifully stylized adventure where a boy explores a mysterious island and solves environmental puzzles. The meaning of the journey only reveals itself near the end, as a moving story about grief and loss.

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