Games Like The Path Home

The Path Home

"The Path Home" is a 2D pixel-art puzzle game where you explore a strange world with a girl. Use panels to "flip" black and white tiles and reshape the puzzle world. The girl always searches for the "shortest path to the goal," but avoiding fake goals and reuniting her with the crow is up to you.

★ VOID STRANGER ★ CHRONIGMA ★ MY BROTHER RABBIT ★ THE DARK EYE: MEMORIA ★ SNUFKIN: MELODY OF MOOMINVALLEY ★ TSIOQUE ★ GUNPOINT ★ MACHINARIUM ★ LOST IN PLAY ★ BRAID, ANNIVERSARY EDITION ★ THE RISE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL ★ 20 SMALL MAZES ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Void Stranger

91% 👍 OF 3.6K
About This Game

Place your faith and embrace the Void.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …have the game close itself to tell you to stop and come back later.
  • …use pausing and quitting the game as part of solving things.
  • …get an "eat the fruit" moment that forces you to start the whole game over.
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Chronigma

100% 👍 OF 617
About This Game

Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Record Past Actions
  • …Rewind and Cooperate
  • …Solve Sokoban Rooms
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The Dark Eye: Memoria

89% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Play Two Heroes
  • …Explore Two Eras
  • …Cast Spells on Puzzles
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Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

97% 👍 OF 4.3K
About This Game

Join Snufkin in this musical adventure about restoring harmony and balance to Moominvalley, protecting it from the industrious Park Keeper.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Distract Park Guards
  • …Remove Park Signs
  • …Guide Wildlife with Music
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TSIOQUE

95% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

TSIOQUE (pronounced: "chiock") is a dark but playful Point & Click adventure, hand-animated in meticulous, frame-by-frame 2D. Escape the clutches of an Evil Wizard and discover the secrets hidden within the spellbound castle of your ancestors.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Escape the Wizard's Castle
  • …Explore a Shifting Castle
  • …Solve Castle Puzzles
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Gunpoint

98% 👍 OF 13K
About This Game

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …see the building's wiring and reroute switches, sensors, doors, cameras, and elevators across multiple floors.
  • …string together a whole chain: wire a switch to knock out a guard, trigger a door with a sensor, fire one guard's gun to make another gun shoot, then crash through a glass ceiling and sprint through a vault door before it closes.
  • …launch across huge gaps, cling to walls and ceilings, and shrug off lethal falls with your jump trousers.
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Machinarium

95% 👍 OF 20K
About This Game

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …earn the in-game hint book by beating a little side-scrolling shooter instead of just getting a walkthrough.
  • …reshape your robot body to grow tall, shrink down, or flatten to reach different places.
  • …electrocute a cat, stuff it into a pipe, scare out a mouse, and use the chaos to make someone toss you a needed part.
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Lost in Play

98% 👍 OF 8.9K
About This Game

Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …get swallowed by a giant fish, then get yourselves freed from its stomach and keep going.
  • …challenge a pirate seagull to a clicking-crabs match and play a crab 4-connect side game.
  • …build a dragon, fly it, then reach a Dragon Cave and solve a reflection puzzle at the end.
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Braid, Anniversary Edition

92% 👍 OF 1.9K
About This Game

Control the flow of time to solve puzzles in this new version of the indie classic, featuring fully repainted artwork, a new world of puzzles, and seriously in-depth commentary.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Rewind To Undo Jumps
  • …Solve Time-Bent Puzzles
  • …Collect Jigsaw Pieces
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The Rise of the Golden Idol

93% 👍 OF 4.2K
About This Game

The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch a spell-dance, then decode a hidden message from the exact sequence of moves.
  • …discover the idol can transfer minds, then use that rule to reframe what you thought earlier scenes meant.
  • …solve a murder by learning every resident's mini-story in an apartment complex and tracing how their lives intersect with the killing.
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20 Small Mazes

99% 👍 OF 9.2K
About This Game

This is a puzzle game with twenty small mazes. They're good mazes, though.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …navigate the main menu by walking a maze on a messy desktop.
  • …fold and unfold an entire labyrinth until a path lines up.
  • …rotate and reposition the whole maze around two fixed pegs to reach the exit.
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