Keeper
Guide a wandering lighthouse and its bird companion through a wordless, surreal journey across a dying island.
91% of 1,082 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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Birth
You live alone in a strange city, so you do the reasonable thing: gather spare bones and organs from museums, bakeries and flower shops and build yourself a companion. A gentle, hand-drawn puzzle game about loneliness, with classical piano, odd little creatures and a heart that needs to be warm and wet.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
95% of 4,067 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$10.99Uproot
Uproot is an indie point-and-click adventure and puzzle game. Help Ygg the mandrake reclaim his special purple leaf stolen by the Rat King.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Tulpa
A surreal puzzle platformer that's as beautiful as it is challenging – discover two beings entwined by fate, a girl and her soulmate, left to travel through a hauntingly elegant world...
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
72% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Papo & Yo
Quico's best friend is a huge, lovable monster with one flaw: an addiction to poisonous frogs that sends him into violent rages. Guide the boy and his beast through a dreamlike South American favela, solving gentle puzzles in a world where houses sprout wings and chalk drawings come alive. A short, heartfelt story about loving someone you cannot fix.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
94% of 1,113 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Traveler Lost
An adventure game where you work with a creature companion to solve puzzles and navigate various environments.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Relaxing
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positiveFree[Don't] Let Go
[Don't] Let Go is a quiet, emotional and atmospheric 3D Action-Adventure Puzzle game. Bound to a mysterious entity by a powerful connection you must work together to solve puzzles, defeat enemies and escape the ancient city. Do you have the strength to sever your only connection?
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
68% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFreePlanet of Lana
A girl, a small cat-like creature and a planet full of machines that should not be there. Planet of Lana is a hand-painted puzzle adventure about rescuing your sister, guiding Mui through stealth and clever little puzzles, and taking in one gorgeous landscape after another. Calm, cinematic and quietly moving, it plays like a film you steer.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
93% of 9,884 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$19.99Road Not Taken
Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
80% of 252 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Keeper
A forgotten lighthouse wakes up, grows legs, and sets off across a strange island with a small seabird at its side. Keeper tells its whole story without a single word, through painterly worlds, gentle puzzles and a friendship that says more than dialogue ever could. Short, strange and quietly moving.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
91% of 1,082 Steam reviews are positive$19.99The Plane Effect
Embark on a dark, dystopian isometric adventure as 'Solo,' seeking to reunite with your wife and daughter after an otherworldly, life-changing event. Solve intricate puzzles and evade an everwatching sinister presence...
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
62% of 65 Steam reviews are positive$14.99LEAVES - The Journey
Travel to the mystic lands of Mononino and help the Treefruities to recover the lost leaves of their home tree. Search for clues to master the many puzzles and challenges on your journey.
Atmospheric, Surreal, Story-driven
82% of 594 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Antivine
Do plants feel? A unique boy from the village and a girl lost her memory stay together for the adventure in the Chengying plain, a breathtaking place but fulfilled with bushy vines. Through changing viewpoints and the way of thinking, solve puzzles and move towards the source of the Treeman.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Surreal
86% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Hidden gems like Taking Root - Academic Version
Together in Forgotten Lands
Two souls, one destiny. Embark on a co-op adventure through a forgotten land, where teamwork and wit are the only way to navigate the wonders and…
89% of 105 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Curyeux
Dive into the mind of Lucienne, a tormented painter. Leap through emotional memories, solve puzzles where shapes deceive and emotion leads the way.
93% of 141 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Night Stones
You awake in Mythica, a cozy island where magical stones change day to night.
92% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure
A two-player escape room adventure where being shipwrecked is the easy part.
86% of 1,483 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$5.99
Birth
A short, tender puzzle adventure about collecting body parts around the city to build a companion and quiet your loneliness.
95% of 4,067 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$10.99
After Us
Explore the corners of a surrealistic post-human world to give life on Earth a second chance in this touching story about sacrifice and hope.
83% of 417 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
Frame of Mind
In Frame of Mind, you are placed in a world where logic is escaping you.
94% of 943 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Lost in Play
Guide a brother and sister through a surreal, hand-drawn world, solving gentle puzzles with nothing but gestures and gibberish.
98% of 8,531 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$19.99
Planet of Lana
Guide a girl and her small companion past strange machines to bring her sister home.
93% of 9,884 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 60$19.99
Illusion
It was only after I and my buddies escaped from the terrifying laboratory that I realized that there might be a bigger conspiracy behind it.
88% of 194 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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…
97% of 417 Steam reviews are positive$1.79
Newest games like Taking Root - Academic Version
Together in Forgotten Lands
Two souls, one destiny. Embark on a co-op adventure through a forgotten land, where teamwork and wit are the only way to navigate the wonders and…
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Helix: Descent N Ascent
Journey into the forgotten world of Helix, where ancient powers awaken within you.
97% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
The Guardian of Nature
«The Guardian of Nature» is a hand-drawn, size-changing adventure.
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Unpetrified: Echoes of Nature
Be a stone Golem and try to save Nature with the help of an adorable Fox! Reconnect ancient sources of energy in environmental puzzles.
97% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Keeper
Guide a wandering lighthouse and its bird companion through a wordless, surreal journey across a dying island.
91% of 1,082 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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[Don't] Let Go
[Don't] Let Go is a quiet, emotional and atmospheric 3D Action-Adventure Puzzle game.
68% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Curyeux
Dive into the mind of Lucienne, a tormented painter. Leap through emotional memories, solve puzzles where shapes deceive and emotion leads the way.
93% of 141 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Traveler Lost
An adventure game where you work with a creature companion to solve puzzles and navigate various environments.
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positiveFree
In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure
A two-player escape room adventure where being shipwrecked is the easy part.
86% of 1,483 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$5.99
Night Stones
You awake in Mythica, a cozy island where magical stones change day to night.
92% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Dusty
Dusty is a third-person puzzle game focused on explore beautiful environments. Join archaeologist Dusty on his search for a mysterious civilization.
76% of 68 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Together in Between
Together in Between is a first-person adventure-puzzle game.
65% of 297 Steam reviews are positive$6.99