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Games like Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure

If Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure is your kind of game, the closest matches are Trauma, Return to Mysterious Island and Return to Mysterious Island 2 — 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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About Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure: Duncan W. Adams was an avid safe collector and an 'eccentric,' to say the least. Adams has hidden the deed to his vast fortunes in one of 35 safes. You must crack them all using hints scattered throughout his extravagant mansion.

2007AdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 69Windowsby Kheops Studio
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure — Steam game cover
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Mansion is a meticulously designed puzzle boxPrerendered panoramic images hold up beautifullyPuzzles focus on logic over object findingAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Trauma

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Top pick for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    An elaborate puzzle challenge combined with an unconventional story.

    2011IndieAdventureCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Return to Mysterious Island

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Second-strongest match for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Join intrepid sailor and recent island castaway Mina as she explores the hidden secrets within the Jules Verne classic inspired Mysterious Island. Gather key articles left from the island’s previous inhabitants and combine them in unique and interesting ways to stay alive and stay hopeful for rescue.

    2014AdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Return to Mysterious Island 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Third-strongest match for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Mina’s rescue from the end of the first game is cut dramatically short and she and primate pal Jep are left again on the mysterious island to fend for themselves! Mina needs to dress her wounds and keep safe against the local wildlife, but now she has the assistance of the player controlled Jep who can fit in smaller spaces, move deftly...

    2014AdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Myst: Masterpiece Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Ranked #4 for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The classic Myst experience with point and click controls, released as a remaster to the original in 2000. Enter a world where nothing is as it seems... and adventure knows no bounds!

    2011AdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Riven (1997)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Ranked #5 for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.

    2010AdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Myst III: Exile

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Ranked #6 for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The story of Myst continues in this third entry of the series, originally released in 2001. Return to this strange and wondrous universe, where books become portals into worlds, and where the lessons of the past may yet hold meaning for today...

    2018AdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Myst IV: Revelation

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Ranked #7 for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    In Myst IV: Revelation, the next chapter in the greatest adventure saga of all time, you'll travel through environments pulsing with life to unearth a treacherous scheme involving two of Myst's most sinister villains.

    2018AdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Ranked #8 for Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Myst

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Reviewers of Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.

    2021IndieAdventureCasual34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The 7th Guest

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Reviewers of Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Henry Stauf's mansion has been abandoned for as long as anyone dare remember. Stauf was a master toy maker, a maker of amazing puzzles and this strange house was his greatest creation. Now the mansion stands empty, rotting ever since the children started dying, ever since the six guests came.

    2013AdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Reviewers of Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Witness

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Reviewers of Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

    2016IndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Royal Roads 3 Portal

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    A fascinating journey through the fabulous Kingdoms. Join forces of people and wizards, save the kingdoms!

    2022StrategyCasual14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sudoku

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Play the classic Sudoku game for everyone. Fill in the empty cells with numbers from 1 to 9.

    2025IndieCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Return of the Obra Dinn

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Reviewers of Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.

    2018IndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Supper

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Children of Clay

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Samorost 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

    2021IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. A Park Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Welcome to 'A Park Full of Cats,' a hidden object game that invites you to revel in the enchanting world of amusement parks! Experience the thrill and excitement of the rides and give those cats the fun they truly deserve!

    2024IndieCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Myst: Masterpiece Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The classic Myst experience with point and click controls, released as a remaster to the original in 2000. Enter a world where nothing is as it seems... and adventure knows no bounds!

    2011AdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Riven (1997)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.

    2010AdventureCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Myst III: Exile

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Casual with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    The story of Myst continues in this third entry of the series, originally released in 2001. Return to this strange and wondrous universe, where books become portals into worlds, and where the lessons of the past may yet hold meaning for today...

    2018AdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure.

    A mysterious invitation leads to the attic of an abandoned house. In the room is a cast-iron safe laced with strange carvings and on top, a note from your distant companion. It promises something ancient and astonishing concealed in the iron chamber - you need only find a way in.

    2014IndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure

Does Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure run on Steam Deck?
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure 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 Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure cost?
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure are Trauma, Return to Mysterious Island, Return to Mysterious Island 2.
Who developed Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure?
Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure was developed by Kheops Studio and published by HandyGames.

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