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Games like The Puzzler

If The Puzzler is your kind of game, the closest matches are Table 9, Paranormal Mission and Beyond The Evil — picked from the ranked list below. 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 The Puzzler: The Puzzler is a first-person escape room style puzzle game where you must solve challenging puzzles using a unique spell-casting system.

2025IndieCasual2.99 USDWindowsby Light It Up Studio
The Puzzler — Steam game cover

Players who liked The Puzzler also play

Steam players who put hours into The Puzzler 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. Table 9

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Puzzler.

    Deliver coffee to 9 tables in a looping European-style specialty cafe, spot the anomalies creeping in and reach Table 9.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulation1.97 USDSteam ↗
  2. Paranormal Mission

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Puzzler.

    Welcome to Paranormal Mission, the thrilling spot-the-difference game that will put your powers of observation to the ultimate test!

    2023IndieSimulationCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Beyond The Evil

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    Beyond the Evil is an psychological horror game that places the player to a hard experience to find who created one supposed plague that might doom the world.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. DOMUS ABSCONDITA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    DOMUS ABSCONDITA is single player horror and mystery adventure. Step into the shoes of a private investigator and try to uncover all the secrets of the Manor. Will you escape with the truth, or will you become another lost soul within its haunted halls?

    2024ActionAdventure7.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. IFU

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    IFU is a psychological horror about a young guy who is forcibly locked in an abandoned mansion of a dead surgeon along with his restless soul.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Village

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    A young boy has come to a distant village to visit his grandmother. Arriving at the final station, in some wilderness, we find newspaper clippings on the platform. This is where our tangled story begins.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Lost Traces: Genesis

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Puzzler.

    Uncover the terrifying truth behind the Blackwood conspiracy in this first-person psychological horror. Use emerging psychic powers to solve deep, environmental puzzles and survive the secrets of Project GENESIS.

    IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  8. Whispers in the Void

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Puzzler fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    The main hero John Eikts wakes up in a mysterious room for supernatural creatures. Anomalies escape, wreaking havoc. Eikts must navigate the chaos while uncovering his dark past. As he approaches freedom, a shocking twist reveals that he is not a victim, but one of them.

    2024IndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Puzzler at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    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. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    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 ↗
  3. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Puzzler.

    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 ↗
  4. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Puzzler.

    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 ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Puzzler.

    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 ↗
  6. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Puzzler.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Puzzler on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Puzzler.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Puzzler.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Puzzler.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    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 ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Puzzler.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Puzzler

How much does The Puzzler cost?
The Puzzler is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Puzzler?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Puzzler are Table 9, Paranormal Mission, Beyond The Evil.
Who developed The Puzzler?
The Puzzler was developed by Light It Up Studio.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Puzzler.

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