Once Upon A Puppet
Games like Once Upon A Puppet

Games like Once Upon A Puppet

A whimsical 2.5D puzzle-platformer with puppeteering mechanics and a story about loss, with about six hours of median reviewer playtime.

A Juggler's Tale
A short, roughly four-hour cinematic puzzle-platformer about a string puppet's quest for freedom in a bruised, beautiful fairy-tale world.
2021-09-29
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Once Upon A Puppet
Games like Once Upon A Puppet

Games like Once Upon A Puppet

A whimsical 2.5D puzzle-platformer with puppeteering mechanics and a story about loss, with about six hours of median reviewer playtime.

A Juggler's Tale
A short, roughly four-hour cinematic puzzle-platformer about a string puppet's quest for freedom in a bruised, beautiful fairy-tale world.
2021-09-29
- Action
- Platform

Puzzle

Adventure

Fantasy

Indie

Side view

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

A bittersweet hand-drawn 2D puzzle-adventure where a wolf-princess switches forms to save a blind prince, with a relatively short, story-focused playthrough.

2026-03-11

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

What Lies in the Multiverse

A dimension-shifting puzzle platformer with a bleakly funny multiverse story, praised for fresh mechanic-driven puzzles and a roughly 10–13 hour playthrough.

2022-03-04

Action
Comedy
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

Iris.Fall

A compact single-player puzzle adventure about manipulating light and shadow, with a striking storybook look and some surprisingly tricky puzzles.

2018-12-07

Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Third person
Indie

Gloomy Eyes

A cozy horror adventure where you switch between a zombie boy and a girl to solve puzzles in Tim Burton-esque levels, with a ~8-hour forbidden love story.

2025-09-12

Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Third person
Indie

No Strings Attached

A free-to-play puzzle-platform thriller about a sentient puppet escaping a sinister circus master with marionette arm-swinging and climbing.

2024-05-02

Adventure

She Remembered Caterpillars

A compact, single-player color-based puzzle game set in a lush fungipunk world, with an emotional story about family and a runtime of roughly five hours.

2017-01-17

Puzzle
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

Projected Dreams

A cozy single-player puzzle game about crafting shadow plays from toys to tell a heartwarming 1990s story, with gentle puzzles and a roughly five-hour runtime.

2025-05-29

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Simulator

Reviver

A hand-drawn narrative puzzle game about two lovers, featuring time-manipulation puzzles, alternating perspectives, and choice-driven storytelling in a ~7-hour experience.

2025-01-08

Adventure
Strategy
Indie

Creaks

A compact 2D puzzle platformer about descending into a surreal world of avian folk and furniture monsters, solving logic-based puzzles across a six-and-a-half-hour atmospheric adventure.

2020-07-22

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Mystery
Point-and-click

TOHU

A single-player puzzle-adventure across whimsical fish planets, telling a ~6-hour story of a girl and her mechanical companion Cubus, with a charming yet sometimes opaque puzzle style.

2021-01-28

Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Point-and-click

Aspire: Ina's Tale

A compact, atmospheric single-player puzzle-adventure set in a mystical Tower, mixing spirit-manipulation puzzles with dweller stories and a self-discovery narrative, though slightly marred by audio and stability issues.

2021-12-17

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Arcade
Drama
Music

A Juggler's Tale