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.

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The Mr. Rabbit Magic Show

98% 👍 OF 6.2K
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!

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Please, Touch The Artwork 2

99% 👍 OF 6.1K
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).

REL Feb 19, 2024 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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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.

In this game, 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 20K
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.

In this game, 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

93% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

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

In this game, 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.

In this game, 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

89% 👍 OF 7.9K
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.

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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.

In this game, 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.