Games like Strings Theory

Loved how colorful and surreal Strings Theory can get? Browse these games for your next favorite. You can bring friends along for most of these.

Tiny Brains
"Tiny Brains" is a cooperative action puzzler that follows four super-powered lab animals in their attempt to escape a mad scientist's experiments. In this joyously chaotic multiplayer game, the four "Tiny Brains" must combine their unique physics-based powers to navigate through a trick-ridden maze.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Cute, Chaotic
78% of 398 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Struggling
Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork. Control the arms of a squishy abomination and lead it through a deranged world.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Chaotic
93% of 398 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
ibb & obb
A two-player puzzle platformer where gravity points both up and down. One of you walks on the ceiling, the other on the floor, and every puzzle only works if you solve it together. Fifteen levels, eight hidden worlds, and a warm electronic soundtrack make it a small, charming challenge best shared from the same couch.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Cute
89% of 4,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$11.99
Schrodinger's Cat Burglar
Mittens, the world's greatest cat burglar, gets caught in a quantum experiment and gains the power to split into two cats at once. Puzzle your way through a secretive research lab, dodge pest-control robots, dress up your cat and uncover what the facility is really hiding, all before breakfast.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Relaxing
97% of 644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$19.99
DYO
Two minotaurs, one cursed maze, and a split screen that refuses to stay split. In DYO you lock and merge your halves of the screen to walk straight into the other player's world, rearranging the level until a path appears. 30 clever puzzles, no timers, no enemies, just two heads better than one.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Relaxing
96% of 2,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10Free
Adventures of Shuggy
Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots. Help him clear out over 100 rooms to make his new home liveable again!
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Cute
88% of 288 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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 · Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
95% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Toodee and Topdee
A cosmic turbulence caused the 2D Platformer and the Top-Down Puzzler dimensions to merge! Switch between Toodee and Topdee and their unique perspectives to overcome hard-as-nails challenges, solve mind-melting puzzles and defeat huge bosses.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Cute
93% of 674 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Polarity
A first-person puzzle platformer about switching polarity: turn red or blue to pass through matching barriers, dodge lasers and flip rooms to reach the core of a secure database. There is a full local co-op campaign and a two-player versus mode, and it all moves fast.
Also in Co-op · Minimalist
78% of 3,676 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Quantum Conundrum
Your uncle is missing, his mansion is a trap, and his newest invention is your way out. Switch between four dimensions, one at a time, to bend physics until each puzzle room gives in. A first-person puzzle platformer with a cartoon look, a mad scientist on the speakers and a lot of floating furniture.
Colorful, Surreal, Relaxing
84% of 1,764 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Puzzle Parasite
Puzzle Parasite is a sci-fi puzzle adventure where you wield telekinetic powers and a cricket bat. You send energy cores flying, power alien tech, and avoid deadly lasers, as you go deeper to uncover the hidden secrets. A handcrafted tribute to the classics that made us think in new ways.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Relaxing
93% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
PHOGS!
PHOGS! puts you in charge of Red and Blue, a two-headed dog joined by a stretchy belly. Bark, bite and bounce through 24 puzzle levels across worlds made of food, bedtime and toys, alone or in co-op, and dress your doggo in silly hats along the way.
Also in Co-op · Colorful, Surreal, Relaxing
78% of 1,188 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$24.99

Cheaper than Strings Theory

Tiny Brains

"Tiny Brains" is a cooperative action puzzler that follows four super-powered lab animals in their attempt to escape a mad scientist's experiments.

$9.99

ibb & obb

A cute two-player platformer where one of you stands on the floor and the other on the ceiling, and every jump only works if you time it together.

$11.99

Polarity

Flip between red and blue to slip through barriers, grab cubes and hack your way to the core.

$12.99

Adventures of Shuggy

Shuggy has just inherited a castle full of goblins, ghouls, zombies, and robots.

$4.99

Palallel

Palallel is a 2D cooperative puzzle platformer for two players. You are stuck in a board where you can’t see your partner.

$2.99

Schrodinger’s Cat And The Raiders Of The Lost Quark

Schrödinger’s Cat is a fun, frantic, wacky and colourful puzzle-laden platform game.

$9.99

Quantum Conundrum

Explore a mad scientist's mansion and solve its puzzles by shifting between dimensions in real time.

$8.99

Theta and Paralldox on Worldlines

Guide a left-turning girl through sokoban puzzles where every paradox branches reality into new copies to solve.

$7.99

Pile Up! Box by Box

Pile Up! ticks all the right boxes as a family-friendly cooperative 3D platformer! Jump up, slide down, play together and carry the load!

$2.99

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…

$10.99

A Virus Named TOM

Hack your way through brain scrambling puzzles while maneuvering through a thumb cramping maze of enemies.

$9.99

Climb The Backrooms

Climb the Backrooms by throwing, stacking and outsmarting your way through physics puzzles, alone or with up to four players.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Strings Theory

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar

A cute puzzle adventure where a cat burglar splits into two cats to sneak, solve and cause trouble through a quantum lab.

$19.99

Theta and Paralldox on Worldlines

Guide a left-turning girl through sokoban puzzles where every paradox branches reality into new copies to solve.

$7.99

Treasure 'n Trio

Team up with a brute-force warrior, a nimble and wily thief, and a cowardly wizard with teleportation magic.

$14.99

Bring You Home

You don't control the hero, but the level ITSELF! In this puzzle adventure, change and rearrange pieces of every level to find the right path.

$6.99

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

Parallel Experiment

Team up as two detectives who each hold half the clues, and talk your way through a noir murder mystery together.

$9.99

In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure

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

$5.99

Climb The Backrooms

Climb the Backrooms by throwing, stacking and outsmarting your way through physics puzzles, alone or with up to four players.

$4.99

POPUCOM

Team up to shoot gel, swap colors and solve puzzles on a strange planet, best played together.

$19.99

Toodee and Topdee

A cosmic turbulence caused the 2D Platformer and the Top-Down Puzzler dimensions to merge!

$19.99

Struggling

Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork.

$14.99

Path of Giants

Path of Giants is a serene puzzle adventure that follows three adorable explorers as they take on an icy mountain full of trials in search of a lost…

$1.79

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