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Games like Metamorphosis

2020PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified85 % positive24.50 €

Playing as Gregor Samsa turned into a bug, you explore a surreal Kafka-inspired world of giant everyday objects in first person. Puzzles and platforming drive a quirky, strange story.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Metamorphosis are Papo & Yo, Night Loops and Recursive Ruin. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Metamorphosis special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Papo & Yo

94 %Match

2012PCPlayStationSteam Deck playable93 % positive14.99 €

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Night Loops

Puzzles and brain teasers

A dark puzzle adventure where you try to escape a night shift at a hotel, wandering through dreamlike worlds and your own psyche. Its looping structure and surreal atmosphere take center stage.

Recursive Ruin

Distinctive, stylised art style

A surreal puzzle adventure in which you play a despondent artist wandering an endlessly fractal world with mind-bending physics. Its bittersweet story drifts steadily into the dreamlike.

Trauma

Puzzles and brain teasers

A young woman recovers in hospital after a car crash and drifts through dreams that you explore using gesture-based controls in photographic, surreal 3D spaces. A short, dreamlike mix of point-and-click puzzling and introspective storytelling.

Moonrise Fall

Puzzles and brain teasers

An atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a grieving boy explores a supernatural forest with a journal, camera and lantern, photographing strange creatures to uncover the forest's secrets.

Lust from Beyond

Puzzles and brain teasers

An erotically charged Lovecraftian horror set in a Victorian mansion, where you unravel cult secrets and puzzles. Its visuals draw on Giger and Beksiński for a disturbing, dark atmosphere.

Whispering Willows

Puzzles and brain teasers

In this atmospheric 2D ghost story, young Elena searches for her missing father while exploring an eerie mansion. Using astral projection, she solves puzzles and helps restless spirits.

Homesick

Puzzles and brain teasers

An atmospheric first-person puzzle game about exploring an abandoned building, solving puzzles and piecing together what happened to its former residents. The serene yet foreboding mood is broken up by unsettling nightmare sequences.

Gray Dawn

Strong, story-driven narrative

A psychological horror thriller in which you play a priest accused of murdering an altar boy, wandering through nightmarish, religiously charged scenes. Exploration and puzzles drive a dark, story-focused narrative.

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