Games Like From the Shadows

From the Shadows

From the Shadows is a cooperative puzzle platformer game where players have to work their way through a mysterious mansion by resolving puzzles that revolve around the mechanics of light and shadow.

★ COLORTONE ★ UNDERGROUND BLOSSOM ★ BIG WALK ★ THE MR. RABBIT MAGIC SHOW ★ PLEASE, TOUCH THE ARTWORK 2 ★ OUT THERE SOMEWHERE ★ MURDERS ON THE YANGTZE RIVER ★ HUE ★ COCOON ★ SHERLOCK HOLMES: CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS ★ SPIRIT OF THE NORTH ★ CHANTS OF SENNAAR ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Underground Blossom

98% 👍 OF 7.1K
About This Game

Underground Blossom is a new adventure game by Rusty Lake. Fulfil various tasks at every station to find the metro that will take you through each important event from Laura Vanderboom's life.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Trace Laura's Life
  • …Solve Metro Puzzles
  • …Reuse Clues Across Stations
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Big Walk

96% 👍 OF 40K
About This Game

Hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world. A cooperative online walker-talker from the creators of Untitled Goose Game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …join a full party of 12 strangers online.
  • …carry a lost friend's body across the journey as an honor guard instead of leaving them behind.
  • …get separated by distance until voices fade out, then coordinate over walkie-talkies by describing landmarks like trees.
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The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show

98% 👍 OF 6.3K
About This Game

The incredible Mr. Rabbit invites you all to a mysterious magic show! Celebrate 10 years of Rusty Lake with a new free-to-play point-and-click adventure that promises to delight and… shock you with its sleight of hand!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Solve Rabbit’s Stage Tricks
  • …Search for Hidden Cards
  • …Explore the Show’s Backstage
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Please, Touch The Artwork 2

99% 👍 OF 6.2K
About This Game

A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no IAP).

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Ensor’s Paintings
  • …Find Objects for Locals
  • …Repair Torn Canvases
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Out There Somewhere

93% 👍 OF 6.9K
About This Game

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …shoot a teleport bullet and instantly warp to wherever it hits.
  • …solve rooms where red lasers block your shot, blue lasers let you warp onto them, and green lasers bounce you to the top.
  • …start in an arcade space shooter, then get dropped into a teleport-platformer instead.
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Murders on the Yangtze River

97% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch the steamship glide down the Yangtze between cases, with hand-drawn landscapes and poems as your travel scenes.
  • …cross-examine a suspect line by line, then pick the exact sentence your evidence contradicts.
  • …follow a mystery that starts with your brother ruled a suicide in London, then find a Shanghai detective novel describing the exact same death.
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Hue

92% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …walk up to a red wall, turn the world red so it disappears, slip through, then switch again to bring new platforms back.
  • …freeze time with the color wheel, pick a new shade mid-jump, and land on a platform that only exists in that color.
  • …erase rolling boulders, lasers, spikes, and falling rocks by matching their color to the background at the last second.
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COCOON

95% 👍 OF 8.9K
About This Game

From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …set an orb into a station, then dive into the world inside it and climb back out whenever you want.
  • …stand in one world while using an ability you brought out of a different world's orb.
  • …chain rapid leapfrogs: drop an orb, enter it, grab something, exit, swap orbs, and repeat until the path opens.
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

90% 👍 OF 8.1K
About This Game

Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Inspect Crime Scenes
  • …Read Suspects' Appearance
  • …Search Holmes's Archives
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Spirit of the North

84% 👍 OF 6.6K
About This Game

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore as a Red Fox
  • …Charge Magical Flowers
  • …Activate Runestones
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Chants of Sennaar

98% 👍 OF 33K
About This Game

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …translate between two different peoples so a conversation can happen between groups that can't understand each other.
  • …build your own dictionary by annotating unknown glyphs, then lock in meanings by matching them to drawings.
  • …reach the top, watch the symbols rotate and transform, then escape a collapsing dreamlike world using the combined languages you rebuilt.