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Games like Waveform

2012PC83 % positive

You guide a wave of light through the solar system from Pluto to the Sun, using strange objects and hazards to shape your path. An arcade-style action-puzzler that is easy to learn but hard to master.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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In short: Games like Waveform

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

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Q.U.B.E.

90 %Match

2011PEGI 12PC94 % positive5.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Waveform: puzzles to figure out, a sci-fi setting and progress without grind.

A first-person puzzle game set in a minimalist world of white cubes, where special gloves let you manipulate coloured blocks. The puzzles rely on physics, timing and spatial thinking.

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Particulars

Vast, open spaces

You guide a single quark through a world of subatomic particles that push and pull you around. It blends arcade action with physics-based puzzles and demands careful control of the fundamental forces.

Q.U.B.E. 2

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzler where you play archaeologist Amelia, reshaping color-coded blocks and structures in an alien world to progress. Compared to the original it is more colorful, more open and more story-driven.

Quantum Conundrum

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set in an eccentric professor's mansion where you shift dimensions to change objects' weight, gravity and time to solve test chambers. It has dry humor and a cartoonish look.

Cocoon

Puzzles and brain teasers

Cocoon is a wordless puzzle adventure where you play a small insectoid creature carrying worlds inside orbs and nesting them within each other to solve puzzles. The worlds-within-worlds mechanic delivers clever aha moments and a mysterious atmosphere.

Space Ark

Vast, open spaces

Space Ark mixes Arkanoid-style paddle play with platforming in a colourful arcade puzzler with a retro feel. You lead a crew of animal astronauts through planets damaged in a black hole's wake.

Constant C

Puzzles and brain teasers

A 2D puzzle platformer where you play a lone robot on a space station, flipping gravity and using time fields to control the momentum of objects and solve each level. The physics puzzles demand both clever thinking and precise timing.

Neon Space

Vast, open spaces

A simple but addictive neon-styled game where you pilot a small spaceship through 50 levels of obstacles and puzzles. A medal system and checkpoints encourage replaying for better runs.

Ra 2

Pure single-player experience

A physics-based skill game with puzzle elements, inspired by the smallest elementary particles in the universe.

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Vast, open spaces

A minimalist rhythm platformer by Jeppe Carlsen where platforms, hazards and obstacles move to the beat of a pulsing electronic soundtrack. Short, abstract and rhythmically demanding, it rewards timing by ear above all.

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