The Swapper
Games like The Swapper

Games like The Swapper

A challenging sci-fi puzzle platformer set on a space outpost, built around cloning and teleportation, with a philosophical story and claymation visuals that typically takes about 8.5 hours.

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

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The Swapper
Games like The Swapper

Games like The Swapper

A challenging sci-fi puzzle platformer set on a space outpost, built around cloning and teleportation, with a philosophical story and claymation visuals that typically takes about 8.5 hours.

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

NODE

A haunting Cold War-era 2.5D puzzle platformer where you command a robot through an abandoned nuclear complex, with narrative choices and a roughly 9-hour runtime.

2025-08-28

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Third person
Indie

The Alters

A narrative-heavy sci-fi survival game where you create alternate selves to escape a hostile planet, blending emotional choices with survival and base management.

2025-06-13

Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Simulator

Overloop

A darkly humorous ~3-4 hour puzzle-platformer about using a clone gun to create sacrificial clones and solve environmental puzzles in a dystopian world.

2022-08-26

Action
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie

Gateways

A single-player retro-styled 2D puzzle-platformer metroidvania where a scientist uses gateway guns to solve increasingly complex lab puzzles, with a dark, playful tone; reviewers averaged about 6-10 hours.

2012-09-13

Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Indie
Side view

The Cave

A compact 2.5D puzzle-platformer where a trio of quirky adventurers with unique abilities explores a mysterious cave across branching paths and multiple endings.

2013-01-23

Action
Comedy
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Side view

Another Perspective

A single-player puzzle platformer where swapping perceptions between your copies changes reality, offering a clever and confusing adventure lasting roughly 14 hours.

2014-08-08

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view

The Way

A 2D puzzle-platformer on an alien planet featuring teleportation and telekinesis, with an atmospheric but challenging single-player campaign of roughly 15 hours.

2016-05-20

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view

Portal 2

A first-person puzzle platformer featuring a solo story campaign, co-op puzzle solving, and a level editor, lauded for its voice acting and writing.

2011-04-18

Action
First person
Comedy
Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure

Causal Loop

A single-player sci-fi narrative puzzler about using an echo mechanic to record and interact with past selves, featuring well-paced puzzles and a ~14-hour story.

2026-04-23

Action
Puzzle
Adventure
Strategy
Indie

INSIDE

A dark, atmospheric side-scrolling puzzle-platformer following a boy through a shadowy facility, with challenging environmental puzzles and a haunting, dialogue-free experience lasting about five and a half hours.

2016-07-07

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Side view
Stealth
Drama

Knytt Underground

A metroidvania-style puzzle platformer with a mute fairy heroine exploring a post-war abandoned Earth in a lengthy, chapter-based adventure.

2013-10-25

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

What Lies in the Multiverse