Games like Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory
If Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Lone Piece, Piggy Gambit and Pirate's Gold — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and hypnotic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory: A mind-bendingly challenging puzzle game that mixes homage to retro classics with funny dialogue and innovative puzzle mechanics. Over a hundred ultra-challenging pixelated puzzles will have you avoiding killer robots as you engage with memorable characters.
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A Lone Piece
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Easy to learn. Hard to master. A Lone Piece is a chess themed puzzle game where you control a single pawn caught in the middle of opposing hostile pieces. Your main job is to escape the board, but sometimes offence is the best defense. Become more than just A Lone Piece.
Piggy Gambit
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Piggy Gambit is a game that harmoniously combines the elements of chess, box puzzles, and flow control into a coherent puzzle game about a piggy searching for the meaning to his life.
Pirate's Gold
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Pirate's Gold is a unique twist on the sokoban and match-3 genre that challenges your mind!
Chloe Puzzle Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
"This charming pixel art puzzle game features adorable visuals across 72 puzzles, with each puzzle boasting its own unique logic that will put players' wits to the test. Every puzzle features a new design where players have to get Chloe and Bunny safely to their Targets"
Tombs Of Myra
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Descend into the cursed tombs of Myra and free the souls of ancient warriors in this turn-based puzzle dungeon crawler game.
Infection - Board Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Infection is an abstract strategy board game played on a 7x7 board.
Dominate - Board Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Dominate is an abstract strategy board game played on a 8x8 board.
Snake Pit
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
"Snake Pit" is a Puzzle Game with a simple but incredibly Fun Gameplay. Help the little Caveman escape the Snakes and defeat Medusa.
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Toki Tori 2+
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down!
Recursed
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Patrick's Parabox
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Learn to use infinity to your advantage as you explore a deep and elegant system.
Jelly Is Sticky
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Explore a world of colorful jelly blocks that can be deformed and stuck together. Use them in surprising, unexpected ways to build clever contraptions and solve delightful puzzles.
Baba Is You
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Chip's Challenge 1
WHY THIS
Shares tile based movement with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Before Chip can join the Bit Busters computer club and hang out with the girl of his dreams, Melinda the Mental Marvel, he must solve all 144 challenging puzzles. Your bird's-eye view can help Chip rush through the puzzles and mazes before he's deleted by monsters, traps and the passage of time.
Ittle Dew 2+
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Reviewers of Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Ittle and Tippsie crash onto yet another island filled with loot, puzzles and mysterious inhabitants! With the help of a magical map, they set out to steal eight pieces of a raft from increasingly improbable locations including beaches, prairies, an art exhibit and some dude's basement.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory
- How much does Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory cost?
- Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory are A Lone Piece, Piggy Gambit, Pirate's Gold.
- Who developed Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory?
- Dr. Kobushi's Labyrinthine Laboratory was developed by Symbolic Software.
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