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2021PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified82 % positive7.79 €

You play a small robot traveling back to the 90s to prevent a tragic accident, solving physics-based puzzles around your creator's house. Everyday household objects as obstacles and an emotional time-travel story give it its charm.

Puzzles and brain teasers
Sci-fi setting
Strong, story-driven narrative

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Best alternative overall: A Story About My Uncle 86% match – Strong, story-driven narrative
Newest alternative: Pilo and the Holobook 84% match – released 2025

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A Story About My Uncle

86 %Match

2014PCSteam Deck verified92 % positive14.99 €

A non-violent first-person platformer where you swing with a grappling hook through colorful caverns and floating worlds while a boy searches for his missing uncle. The fluid sense of speed and freedom is the heart of the game.

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Tick Tock Isle

Strong, story-driven narrative

A puzzle platformer where young horologist Strike is thrown into the past and must solve puzzles, talk to quirky characters and experiment to mend a dysfunctional island family and fix the time machine.

What Lies in the Multiverse

Strong, story-driven narrative

A story-driven 2D puzzle adventure hopping across multiverses, mixing zany cartoon humor with serious themes like death, envy and obsession.

A Boy and His Blob

Pure single-player experience

A charming puzzle-platformer where a boy feeds jellybeans to his shapeshifting blob companion to turn it into bridges, trampolines and other tools. Its hand-drawn look and gentle tone make for a relaxed adventure.

Pid

Focus on a single character

A charming puzzle-platformer about a young boy stranded on an alien planet, using a gravity beam and clever puzzles to find his way home. Its painterly art style and moody soundtrack are the highlights.

Hue

Pure single-player experience

A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.

Pilo and the Holobook

Puzzles and brain teasers

A gentle space adventure where you turn objects into stickers with your Holobook to build an encyclopedia of alien planets. Light platforming and puzzles make for relaxed discovery.

Viewfinder

Pure single-player experience

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.

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Sci-fi setting

You play a growing alien blob that rolls through levels devouring everything and getting bigger and more powerful. A humorous B-movie puzzle-platformer with a cartoon look and clever mutation abilities.

The Multi-Medium

Puzzles and brain teasers

You travel as an interdimensional explorer through worlds that are each hand-painted in a different art style, solving platforming puzzles along the way. The constantly shifting visual medium is the main draw of this calm adventure.