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2016 PCSteam Deck verified 7.79 € 96 % positive Overwhelmingly positive, 639 reviews on Steam

A clever puzzle-platformer where rooms are also items: you pick up, copy and nest them recursively to reach the exit. The mind-bending mechanic constantly forces you to rethink how space works.

What defines Recursed:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Recursed are Parallax, Epigraph and Paganitzu. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Recursed special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Parallax

92 %

2015 PC 3.99 € 83 % positive Very positive, 114 reviews on Steam

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Gameplay comes before story
  • Pure single-player experience

A minimalist first-person puzzle platformer where you shift between overlapping black and white dimensions, using switches, boosters and gravity to reach each level's exit.

Epigraph

Challenging difficulty

A short, demanding puzzle game where you decipher an unknown language purely through observation and logic. The appeal lies in the thrill of uncovering meaning step by step on your own.

Paganitzu

Puzzles and brain teasers

A classic puzzle-arcade adventure where you guide Alabama Smith through an Aztec pyramid full of traps and creatures. Thinking matters more than quick fingers.

Where Is My Heart?

Challenging difficulty

A experimental puzzle-platformer where the world is split into shuffled screen fragments that you must mentally piece back together. You guide a family of forest spirits who lost their home through caves, crystal pools and mountains.

Ilamentia

Challenging difficulty

A first-person puzzler with 96 tough levels that mix pure logic challenges with reflex-based rooms. The blend of brain teasers and quick reactions keeps the puzzles varied.

Veer

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game where you combine relative teleportation with shifting gravity to work your way through a temple. Puzzle solving is the whole focus, with no combat or distractions.

Camera Obscura

Puzzles and brain teasers

A retro-styled puzzle platformer where an afterimage mechanic lets you clone parts of the world to bridge gaps, build stairs, or freeze moving platforms in place.

Fabric

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game where you use a special gun to bend and squeeze a glitchy voxel world to reach the end of each level. The space-warping mechanic makes for unusual, inventive puzzles.

Gravitas

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short first-person puzzle platformer where you bend gravity and the surreal architecture of a gallery to solve clever spatial challenges.

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