Games Like The Cave Diver

The Cave Diver

A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you further into the darkness. Equal parts rage-game, claustrophobic nightmare, and descent into a forgotten folktale...

★ LIMBO ★ OVIVO ★ MAGNETIC: CAGE CLOSED ★ SELMA AND THE WISP ★ ESCAPE GOAT ★ ALBERT AND OTTO ★ UGLY ★ YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- ★ NIHILUMBRA ★ INMOST ★ LITTLE NIGHTMARES ★ ETHAN: METEOR HUNTER ★ WE ♥ IT 
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LIMBO

92% 👍 OF 62K
About This Game

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Player reviews say you can…

  • …drag a corpse into water so it bloats into a stepping stone.
  • …tear off a giant spider's leg, then use its body as a movable shield to block spikes and reach a ledge.
  • …get a brain slug attached that forces you to walk one direction until you hit a light, then it flips you back.
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Magnetic: Cage Closed

68% 👍 OF 345
About This Game

Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.

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Selma and the Wisp

70% 👍 OF 160
About This Game

Selma and the Wisp is an astonishing platform game with a particularly eerie feel to it. Densely packed with logical puzzles and unexpected obstacles, the game incorporates innovative gameplay, low-poly models and an spectacular animations.

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Escape Goat

96% 👍 OF 703
About This Game

Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer where you take control of a goat, who has been imprisoned for witchcraft, and overcome traps and obstacles to escape the Prison of Agnus. Fear not, for with your supreme agility, sturdy horns, and the help of a magic mouse friend, you can turn the tables on foes and use the environment to your advantage.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Outwit Prison Traps
  • …Team Up With a Mouse
  • …Transform Room Machinery
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Albert and Otto

64% 👍 OF 642
About This Game

Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Traverse a haunting world set in 1939 Germany in search of a mysterious girl with rabbit ears. Utilize a little bunny in creative ways to solve puzzles. Levitate sheep, use them as torches or wolf bait and make your way through a dangerous land.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Send Bunny Through Gaps
  • …Levitate Sheep
  • …Use Sheep as Torches
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Ugly

95% 👍 OF 257
About This Game

Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past. Use an innovative mirror mechanic to solve challenging puzzle rooms and defeat towering bosses as you strive to piece together the ugly truth.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Place a mirror shard to create a reflection that moves in the opposite direction, then swap places with it to cross barriers or reach ledges you could not get to directly.
  • …Time a position swap while falling to use your momentum to launch yourself farther or higher.
  • …Work around rooms where certain areas block swaps or constrain the reflection, changing how you can use the same mirror ability.
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YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY-

70% 👍 OF 1.5K
About This Game

As long as I have dreams in my heart, I can never escape. I can never awaken from my dreams. Maybe if I follow the dream just past this doorway, then someday I can wake up again...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Explore Surreal Dreams
  • …Use Dream Effects
  • …Solve Dream Puzzles
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Nihilumbra

88% 👍 OF 3.0K
About This Game

Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Change Ground Physics
  • …Solve Color Puzzles
  • …Outrun The Void
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INMOST

91% 👍 OF 7.4K
About This Game

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Switch Between Three Lives
  • …Lure Enemies Into Traps
  • …Climb With a Hookshot
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Little Nightmares

95% 👍 OF 116K
About This Game

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …solve puzzles by using the ship's machinery, like making a rope of sausages to swing across a gap.
  • …find tiny Nomes hiding in the dark and hug them like strange little companions.
  • …slip through child-sized passageways the adults can't fit into.
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Ethan: Meteor Hunter

61% 👍 OF 255
About This Game

Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it!