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Games like Recursed

2016PC, Steam Deck verified96 % positive7.79 €

A clever puzzle-platformer where rooms are also items: you pick up, copy and nest them recursively to reach the exit. The mind-bending mechanic constantly forces you to rethink how space works.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Pixel art
  • Interconnected level design
  • Jumping and platforming

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In short: Games like Recursed

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Recursed special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best match

MO:Astray

90 %Match

2019PEGI 16PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified92 % positive12.49 €

Brings what grabs you about Recursed: pixel art, jumping and platforming as well as puzzles to figure out.

A pixel-art platformer where you guide the slime-like MO through hazardous levels full of traps and strange enemies. Precise jumping and the character's special abilities drive the challenge.

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Escape Goat

Pixel art

A tight puzzle platformer in which a goat wrongly jailed for witchcraft breaks out of prison using its horns, jumping skills and a magic mouse companion. Room-by-room puzzles with switches, blocks and traps are clever and charming in a pixel-art style.

Where Is My Heart?

Puzzles and brain teasers

A experimental puzzle-platformer where the world is split into shuffled screen fragments that you must mentally piece back together. You guide a family of forest spirits who lost their home through caves, crystal pools and mountains.

Toki Tori

Puzzles and brain teasers

A charming puzzle game where a little yellow chick must collect all the eggs. Instead of reflexes, it rewards careful planning with a small set of tools across clever, compact levels.

Paganitzu

Puzzles and brain teasers

A classic puzzle-arcade adventure where you guide Alabama Smith through an Aztec pyramid full of traps and creatures. Thinking matters more than quick fingers.

Escape Goat 2

Puzzles and brain teasers

A puzzle platformer where a goat hops and thinks its way through a huge fortress full of traps, using switches, machinery and a helpful mouse. Rooms are cleverly designed, with quirky humor and hidden secrets.

ElecHead

Pixel art

You play Elec, a short-circuiting robot who charges whatever it touches, and use that ability to solve clever puzzles and navigate platforming sections. The appeal lies in experimenting with electricity and the environment in a compact pixel-art adventure.

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