Games like Scientific project: Optic
If Scientific project: Optic is your kind of game, the closest matches are An Exercise in Mortality - Chapter I, Newton's Fourth Law and Quant — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Scientific project: Optic: Scientific Project: Optic is a first-person puzzle game that guides you through the history of optical science, from its philosophical origins to our modern understanding. Master the nature of light and solve puzzles inspired by real scientific discoveries.
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An Exercise in Mortality - Chapter I
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Top pick for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Slip into the role of a detective and find out why a seemingly peaceful village suddenly has to hold a funeral every other day. To solve the mysteries, act as the perpetrator and simulate the crimes. Left completely to your own devices, it’s up to you to prove your ingenuity and wit.
Newton's Fourth Law
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Second-strongest match for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.
Quant
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Third-strongest match for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Quant is a colorful adventure game, that will teach you Quantum Physics! Follow Atom, in the quest for independence. Guided by Professor Svobodan Randov, he will uncover his Quantum powers, and free himself from the oppressing world!
Dofamine
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Ranked #4 for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.
My Gods Hate Me
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Ranked #5 for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Escape room, puzzle box, first person adventure game where you explore a mysterious island and summon its Gods.
Looking For Fael
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Ranked #6 for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?
Néro & Sci ∫ Integral Edition
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Ranked #7 for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
What if mathematics became a playground anyone could enjoy? Explore a colorful puzzle-platformer where observation, experimentation, and logic are the keys to solving every puzzle, alone or with a friend.
The Talos Principle 2
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Ranked #8 for Scientific project: Optic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scientific project: Optic at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Scientific project: Optic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Scientific project: Optic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scientific project: Optic.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Scientific project: Optic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Scientific project: Optic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scientific project: Optic.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Scientific project: Optic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scientific project: Optic.
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 ~60% under Scientific project: Optic on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
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?
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 with Scientific project: Optic.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scientific project: Optic.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scientific project: Optic.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Scientific project: Optic.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Scientific project: Optic
- How much does Scientific project: Optic cost?
- Scientific project: Optic is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Scientific project: Optic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scientific project: Optic are An Exercise in Mortality - Chapter I, Newton's Fourth Law, Quant.
- Who developed Scientific project: Optic?
- Scientific project: Optic was developed by KHVOYA Games and published by COR-SOFTWARE LLC.
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