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2016PCSteam Deck verified96 % positive7.79 €

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.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Challenging difficulty

The closest matches for Recursed are Where Is My Heart?, Escape Goat 2 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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Where Is My Heart?

90 %Match

2011PCPlayStation7.99 €

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Jumping and platforming
  • 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.

Escape Goat 2

Puzzles and brain teasers

A puzzle platformer where a goat hops and thinks its way through a huge fortress full of traps, using switches, machinery and a helpful mouse. Rooms are cleverly designed, with quirky humor and hidden secrets.

Paganitzu

Pure single-player experience

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.

Disoriented

Challenging difficulty

In this first-person puzzle game you walk through 30 levels that look simple but twist your perspective. Switchable cameras and checkpoints you can place anywhere let you tackle the tricky spatial puzzles at your own pace.

Parallax

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

Escape Goat

Puzzles and brain teasers

A tight puzzle platformer in which a goat wrongly jailed for witchcraft breaks out of prison using its horns, jumping skills and a magic mouse companion. Room-by-room puzzles with switches, blocks and traps are clever and charming in a pixel-art style.

MO:Astray

Challenging difficulty

A pixel-art platformer where you guide the slime-like MO through hazardous levels full of traps and strange enemies. Precise jumping and the character's special abilities drive the challenge.

That Level Again

Pure single-player experience

You face the same room with spikes, a platform, a button and a door again and again, yet every time the way out hides a different solution. Spotting the twist in familiar surroundings is what makes this small logic puzzler so clever.

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