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Explore an abandoned structure in this puzzle platformer where a flashlight reveals the past to solve light-based puzzles.

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A short 2D lantern-based puzzle platformer where you navigate mazes, offering gentle puzzles and a relaxed pace.
2020-06-29
- Adventure
- Indie

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Games like Backpack Boy

Explore an abandoned structure in this puzzle platformer where a flashlight reveals the past to solve light-based puzzles.

Monolight
A short 2D lantern-based puzzle platformer where you navigate mazes, offering gentle puzzles and a relaxed pace.
2020-06-29
- Adventure
- Indie

Blink

A ~2-hour, atmospheric puzzle-adventure where you blink between light-linked worlds to solve puzzles and explore hand-drawn landscapes.

2017-03-10

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

Unlighted

A first-person logic puzzler in a dystopian, memory-and-oblivion world where you solve puzzles by materializing objects with light, with a contemplative, Portal-like atmosphere.

2025-06-06

Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Mystery

Dark Light

A short 3D puzzle game about maneuvering light beams into solid platforms to reach each level's exit.

2021-10-01

Action
Platform
Adventure
Strategy
Indie

Amber City

A casual, light-based puzzle-adventure about restoring a ruined city and uncovering its history through time reversal.

2022-08-31

Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

I Am Gooey

A brief atmospheric puzzle climb where you light your way up an ancient tower to become the sun before daybreak.

2019-08-27

Altero

A melancholy puzzle platformer about a voodoo doll sacrificing his past selves to rescue souls in a dark forest, with a gentle ~4.5-hour playthrough.

2022-10-17

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie

Wickless: the void

A compact 2D platformer blending tense exploration, light puzzles, and stealth with a gloomy psychological atmosphere.

2022-01-27

Action
Adventure
Indie

Light in the dark

A single-player adventure in a dark, mysterious maze where you play a glowing sphere, managing energy to light your way to the exit.

2018-01-09

Adventure

Only Clone

A solitary puzzle-exploration game in a decaying bunker, where you unravel an AI overseer's hidden secrets.

2026-02-08

Chronos Shift

A brief, rough-around-the-edges time-travel puzzle-platformer with Portal-like puzzle solving and a short campaign around two hours.

2025-07-16

Adventure
Indie

Remains

A relaxed single-player puzzle platformer where tool-based level modification and exploration of forest ruins slowly uncover a post-post-apocalyptic mystery.

2025-12-12

Monolight