Games like Parallel Experiment

Still thinking about Parallel Experiment and its mysterious and hand-drawn tone? These games could fill that gap nicely. You can bring friends along for most of these.

Unboxing the Cryptic Killer
Two detectives, one deadly box, and puzzles only half of you can see. A short, sharp co-op mystery where talking is the real mechanic: describe what's in front of you, listen hard, and crack the Cryptic Killer's codes together before two lives run out.
Also in Detective and Co-op · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
89% of 2,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$5.99
We Were Here Forever
Two prisoners, one sinister castle, and a pair of walkie-talkies. We Were Here Forever is a co-op puzzle adventure where you and a partner are each other's eyes and ears, solving asymmetric puzzles by talking your way through the dark halls of Castle Rock. Escape is possible, but only together.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
90% of 16,457 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 135$17.99
Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
Two players, two screens, one escape. Trapped in a strange clockwork village made by clockmaker Amalie Ravn, you each see only half the picture, so talking is the whole game. Hand-drawn, eerie and about 2.5 hours long, it is a puzzle night built for exactly two people.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
84% of 10,265 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53$2.99
We Were Here Together
A distress flare over the Antarctic, a cry for help on the radio, and only the two of you at base camp. We Were Here Together is a co-op escape room where you and a partner, armed with walkie-talkies and nothing else, cross frozen wastes and infiltrate the haunted Castle Rock. Talk well, think alike, and you might both get out.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
82% of 14,597 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184$12.99
The Past Within
A co-op point-and-click mystery from Rusty Lake. One player explores The Past, the other The Future, and neither can solve anything alone: every puzzle needs you to describe what you see and trust what your partner sees. Two hours of strange machines, shared notes and a plan you uncover together.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
94% of 14,789 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 69$3.35
In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure
A two-player escape room adventure where being shipwrecked is the easy part. Travel through rifts to a pirate ship, an art museum and a train that ignores physics, solving puzzles built on shapes, colours and numbers. You and your partner see different things, so talking is the whole game.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Funny, Relaxing
86% of 1,483 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$5.99
Palallel
Palallel is a 2D cooperative puzzle platformer for two players. You are stuck in a board where you can’t see your partner. You need to exchange objects, trigger mechanisms, and more to escape. Challenge your communication !
Also in Co-op and Duo · Hand-drawn, Relaxing
95% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Inkwellers
In this online 2-player co-op puzzle adventure, you and a friend become Inkwellers and dive into Celiphia’s magical journal. Work together, communicate clearly, and solve puzzles hidden within its pages.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Story-driven, Relaxing
88% of 150 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist
"Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.
Also in Co-op · Mysterious, Relaxing, Atmospheric
85% of 485 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
We Escaped a Twisted Game
A two-player co-op horror escape. Trapped in a haunted manor, you’ll need to solve puzzles, work together, and trust each other to make it out alive.
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 824 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Get Together: A Coop Adventure
Two lost beings and you are the only bond... Play with a friend to guide and reunite them on their journey in this communication-based coop puzzle adventure. You play on two devices with no connection except your voice!
Also in Co-op and Duo · Mysterious, Hand-drawn, Relaxing
65% of 86 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.74
Escape From Crimson Manor: Trapped Together
Work together to escape the manor in "Trapped Together", a narrative co-op puzzle campaign where logic reigns and death is not an option. Communicate, trade items via dumbwaiter, and solve intricate riddles.
Also in Co-op · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
73% of 100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$12.99

Cheaper than Parallel Experiment

Tick Tock: A Tale for Two

Talk your way through a clockwork village, one player on each screen, solving puzzles neither of you can crack alone.

$2.99

The Past Within

One of you sees the Past, the other the Future, and every puzzle only opens when you talk each other through it.

$3.35

Get Together: A Coop Adventure

Two lost beings and you are the only bond... Play with a friend to guide and reunite them on their journey in this communication-based coop puzzle…

$2.74

We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip

Team up with a friend to solve three challenges in an abandoned amusement park, and find out how well you really communicate.

$3.99

Blue Toad Murder Files™: The Mysteries of Little Riddle

Blue Toad Murder Files™: The Mysteries of Little Riddle is a one to four player co-operative episodic download game published by Relentless Software.

$4.49

Curious Cases

For Desktop or VR! In this 3 chapter story, you play as a modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore.

$2.79

Agent A: A puzzle in disguise

A suave spy adventure with a 1960s twist: infiltrate the hideout of enemy agent Ruby La Rouge and crack your way through her labyrinth of hidden…

$1.99

Escape First Alchemist ⚗️

First-person escape game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 people. Solve riddles of a reclusive alchemist that trapped you in his workshop.

$3.99

The Initiate 2: The First Interviews

Three people awake in adjacent prison cells with no recollection of how they got there.

$4.49

Play With Me: Escape Room

See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all…

$2.99

Meridian 157: Chapter 1

While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it?

$3.99

The Escape: Together

Split up to search for keys and tools, stick together when the lights go out, and reach one of several endings before the creature finds you.

$3.99

Hidden gems like Parallel Experiment

We Escaped a Twisted Game

A two-player co-op horror escape. Trapped in a haunted manor, you’ll need to solve puzzles, work together, and trust each other to make it out alive.

$4.99

Inkwellers

In this online 2-player co-op puzzle adventure, you and a friend become Inkwellers and dive into Celiphia’s magical journal.

$9.99

Garisani Detective Agency

A two-player detective game set in 1990s Korea: one of you plays a living brother, the other his ghost sister.

Free

Split Brain

Share the same body with a friend in Split Brain. One of you controls, the other one sees, but the decisions are made together!

$5.99

In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

A two-player escape room adventure where being shipwrecked is the easy part.

$5.99

Escape Memoirs: Safe House

"Escape Memoirs: Safe House" is a co-operative reverse escape-room puzzle game.

$9.99

Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories

Puzzle your way through a criminal organisation's sewer-based recruitment process, alone or with up to five friends.

Free

How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine

Team up with a friend to reach a lost submarine and prevent the outbreak of war.

$12.99

USAC: Code Breach

You and a partner are special police sent into a shut-down research facility to find out what happened.

$14.99

Unboxing the Cryptic Killer

Team up online to solve a hand-drawn co-op mystery where each of you sees only half the clues.

$5.99

BOKURA: planet

Crash-land on a red planet with a friend, talk your way past puzzles and secrets, and try to escape together.

$5.49

Escape From Crimson Manor: Trapped Together

Work together to escape the manor in "Trapped Together", a narrative co-op puzzle campaign where logic reigns and death is not an option.

$12.99

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