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2012
A steampunk puzzle-platformer where you create living fluid creatures called fluros and use their abilities to operate machinery and solve puzzles. The physics-based fluid simulation is at the heart of the experience.
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The closest matches for Vessel are Teslagrad, Planet of Lana and Braid: Anniversary Edition. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Vessel special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
91 %
Best match
A dialogue-free 2D puzzle platformer set in a steampunk world, where you use magnetism and electricity to solve clever puzzles and beat bosses. The story is told purely through visuals and atmosphere.
91 % −85 %Jumping and platforming
An atmospheric puzzle-platformer in which a young girl and her animal companion Mogo travel through a painterly sci-fi world to save their home. It focuses on wordless, emotional storytelling, a moving soundtrack and gentle puzzles built around using your companion's abilities.
90 % 19.50 €
Puzzles and brain teasers
A puzzle platformer where rewinding and bending time is the key to solving clever, mind-bending puzzles. The anniversary edition adds hand-repainted visuals, reworked audio, new puzzles and extensive developer commentary.
90 % 22.99 €
Pure single-player experience
Cocoon is a wordless puzzle adventure where you play a small insectoid creature carrying worlds inside orbs and nesting them within each other to solve puzzles. The worlds-within-worlds mechanic delivers clever aha moments and a mysterious atmosphere.
89 % −80 %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.
89 % 14.99 €
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.
88 % −70 %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.
88 % 14.79 €
Pure single-player experience
You place anchor points on walls to build walkable triangular platforms and climb through mystical towers and dizzying abysses in first person. A clever spatial puzzle adventure with light-beam puzzles and disorienting perspective shifts.
88 % 13.99 €
Puzzles and brain teasers
An atmospheric puzzle platformer where you create clones of yourself and swap between them to solve puzzles on an abandoned space station. Its handcrafted, claustrophobic look and philosophical story about consciousness and identity set it apart.
87 % 19.50 €
Pure single-player experience
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.
