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2013PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck verified91 % positive9.99 €

You play a character who shifts between a 3D world and a 2D shadow plane to solve puzzles. Its surreal 1920s film noir and vaudeville atmosphere and jazz score give it a distinctive mood.

Puzzles and brain teasers
Jumping and platforming
Distinctive, stylised art style
Lavish presentation

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The closest matches for Contrast are Papo & Yo, Arise: A Simple Story and Braid: Anniversary Edition. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Contrast special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Papo & Yo

94 %Match

2012PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable93 % positive14.99 €

Jumping and platforming
Puzzles and brain teasers
Distinctive, stylised art style

A poetic puzzle platformer in which a boy navigates a dreamlike favela alongside a monster who stands in for his father's addiction. The puzzles and the personal, autobiographical story are tightly intertwined.

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Arise: A Simple Story

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Braid: Anniversary Edition

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.

Tandem: A Tale of Shadows

Puzzles and brain teasers

A puzzle platformer where you switch between Emma in a top-down view and her teddy bear Fenton in a side-scrolling view. Emma's lantern casts shadows that Fenton can walk across, as the pair investigate a missing magician.

The Mooseman

Accessible and relaxed

A short, atmospheric puzzle platformer in which you guide a moose-headed man through the three worlds of Finno-Ugric mythology. Its art draws on ancient ornaments and artefacts, and the puzzles revolve around shifting between worlds.

Shady Part of Me

Puzzles and brain teasers

An atmospheric puzzle-platformer where you switch between a girl and her shadow, using light and shadow to escape a dreamlike world. Its painterly look and emotional story carry the experience.

Hue

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

Creaks

Lavish presentation

A hand-painted-looking puzzle adventure where you discover a hidden world of bird folk and living furniture monsters behind your bedroom wall. Its puzzles revolve around learning creature behavior patterns, and are fair and atmospheric with a lovely soundtrack.

RiME

Lavish presentation

A wordless, beautifully stylized adventure where a boy explores a mysterious island and solves environmental puzzles. The meaning of the journey only reveals itself near the end, as a moving story about grief and loss.

Lost Words: Beyond the Page

Jumping and platforming

An emotional 2D adventure where a girl travels through her diary, using words themselves as platforms and puzzle pieces. The hand-drawn look and a gentle story about grief and loss take center stage.