Games like Maxwell's puzzling demon
If Maxwell's puzzling demon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Box or Void, Snakeloop and Block Buster Billy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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.
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Box or Void
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Top pick for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Walls become empty space. Empty space becomes walls. Box or Void is a puzzle game about reversing positive and negative space. Obstacles in one space become pathways in the other.
Snakeloop
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Second-strongest match for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Snakeloop is a challenging puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
Block Buster Billy
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Third-strongest match for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
An alien family had a picnic on Billy's island. They had to leave in a hurry, causing Junior to forget his cubes. Can you help Billy figure out the mind-boggling alien puzzles?
Keystones: Foundations
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Ranked #4 for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Keystones is a cerebral 3D puzzle game focused on spatial reasoning. Manipulate voxel blocks through sliding, rotating, and tumbling to solve intricate grid-based challenges. Master the logic of movement and orientation to unlock the path forward in a minimalist, atmospheric world.
ScaleBox
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Ranked #5 for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
A sokoban-like game that you and the boxes may occupy more than one grid. You can push boxes as long as their total size does not exceed your own. With portal you can get bigger, smaller, or... make some more imaginative moves.
Sokosignal
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Ranked #6 for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Sokosignal is a puzzle game in which you send a signal with each move you make.
Abridge
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Shares a contemplative mood with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Ranked #7 for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Control colorful shape filled pieces by moving, pushing and pulling them around to solve puzzles. Learn the rules. Investigate the interactions and synergies. Uncover surprising solutions.
CLONY
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Ranked #8 for Maxwell's puzzling demon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
CLONY is a gravity-defying Sokoban-style 2D puzzle game. Players can create clones above their own heads, and all clones move in the same direction. The game is cleared when all yellow buttons are pressed at the same time. Test your own puzzle skills with these minimalistic puzzles.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Maxwell's puzzling demon
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Stephen's Sausage Roll
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Reviewers of Maxwell's puzzling demon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
A simple 3d puzzle game.
The Witness
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Reviewers of Maxwell's puzzling demon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Baba Is You
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Shares a hypnotic mood with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Reviewers of Maxwell's puzzling demon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Maxwell's puzzling demon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
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
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Priced ~67% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
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
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Priced ~67% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Maxwell's puzzling demon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Maxwell's puzzling demon.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Maxwell's puzzling demon
- Does Maxwell's puzzling demon run on Steam Deck?
- Maxwell's puzzling demon is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Maxwell's puzzling demon cost?
- Maxwell's puzzling demon is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Maxwell's puzzling demon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Maxwell's puzzling demon are Box or Void, Snakeloop, Block Buster Billy.
- Who developed Maxwell's puzzling demon?
- Maxwell's puzzling demon was developed by muratsubo Games.
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