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2014 PC 👍 79 % Mostly positive, 4,690 reviews on Steam

A first-person puzzle game in the vein of Portal, where you manipulate magnetic polarity to overcome obstacles. Tricky puzzles and precise timing challenge experienced players.

What defines Polarity:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Polarity are Q.U.B.E., TIS-100 and Infinifactory. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Polarity special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Q.U.B.E.

92 %

2011 PC 5.99 € 👍 93 % Very positive, 969 reviews on Steam

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Linear, curated structure

A first-person puzzle game set in a minimalist world of white cubes, where special gloves let you manipulate coloured blocks. The puzzles rely on physics, timing and spatial thinking.

TIS-100

Puzzles and brain teasers

A programming puzzler where you write assembly-style code for a broken, fictional computer to fix its nodes. Dry, demanding and all about tinkering and optimizing solutions.

SpaceChem

Puzzles and brain teasers

A demanding programming puzzler where you lay out waldo paths and instructions to build reactors that break apart and assemble molecules. Open-ended solutions and optimization histograms reward creative, engineer-style thinking.

Defy Gravity

Focus on a single character

An indie platformer where you use a gravity gun to create gravity and anti-gravity pockets to get past obstacles and move objects. Physics puzzles and jumping sections are blended together.

Impossible Mission

Puzzles and brain teasers

A 1984 classic in which you play a secret agent searching rooms of Elvin's fortress for puzzle pieces, dodging robots and racing the clock to stop a missile launch.

Boneworks

Puzzles and brain teasers

A VR adventure built around a thorough physics simulation, where weapons, objects and your own body are handled physically to beat enemies and puzzles. Climbing, throwing and melee combat feel tangible and experimental.

Mushroom 11

Focus on a single character

You guide a shapeless organism by erasing its cells, and that is how you move through a ruined world. The unusual control scheme turns each puzzle into a creative experiment.

Intelligent Qube

Linear, curated structure

A tense real-time puzzler where you clear rolling cubes on a floating platform by marking and deactivating spots, without being crushed. Minimalist design and rising time pressure create a distinctive blend of planning and speed.

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