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2018USK 6PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch62 % positive14.99 €

You sail through a vast archipelago as a lone seafarer, solving puzzles while reflecting on love. Its quiet, personal atmosphere makes it a fit for puzzle fans and lovers of creative indie games.

  • Emotional impact
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots to discover

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In short: Games like Solo

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

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2017USK 6PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified90 % positive34.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Solo: emotional impact, puzzles to figure out and lots to discover.

A wordless, beautifully stylized adventure where a boy explores a mysterious island and solves environmental puzzles. The meaning of the journey only reveals itself near the end, as a moving story about grief and loss.

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The Last Campfire

Emotional impact

A calm, atmospheric puzzle adventure where you guide a small lost ember through melancholy lands and uncover why its people vanished. The puzzles are approachable, and the mood is both wistful and comforting.

Etherborn

Calm and deliberate

A calm puzzle platformer where shifting gravity lets you walk across the walls and ceilings of surreal structures. A poetic narrator and meditative visuals accompany your quest to understand your own existence.

Scarf

Emotional impact

A calm 3D platformer adventure where you play Hyke and use a shape-shifting scarf to explore a storybook world and solve puzzles. Light platforming and relaxed exploration are wrapped in a poetic tale about nature and belonging.

The Unfinished Swan

Emotional impact

You splatter paint across a blank white world to reveal shapes and spaces as you chase a swan through a surreal storybook kingdom. A short, inventive, fairy-tale experience built on discovery rather than combat.

Paper Beast

Calm and deliberate

A poetic VR experience from Eric Chahi: in a desert world born from forgotten code, you guide paper creatures using wind, sand and water while solving gentle environmental puzzles.

Manifold Garden

Calm and deliberate

A meditative first-person puzzle game set in endlessly repeating, Escher-like architecture, where you rotate gravity to find paths and bring the world back to life. Its clean visual language and mind-bending spatial puzzles set it apart.

Arise: A Simple Story

Respects your time

A wordless platform adventure that tells a couple's life story through memories, from old age back to childhood. You bend time to get past obstacles, backed by a moving orchestral soundtrack.

Hue

Vast, open spaces

A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.

Carto

Calm and deliberate

As the young cartographer Carto, you rearrange map tiles to reshape the landscape, open new paths and change the stories of the people you meet. A gentle, hand-drawn puzzle adventure full of small discoveries.

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