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 ★ GUNPOINT ★ HIDDEN THROUGH TIME ★ MACHINARIUM ★ LOST IN PLAY ★ THE RISE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL ★ 20 SMALL MAZES ★ PROGRESSBAR95 ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Void Stranger

91% 👍 OF 3.5K
About This Game

Place your faith and embrace the Void.

In this game, 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 608
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?

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Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

97% 👍 OF 4.2K
About This Game

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

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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.

In this game, 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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Hidden Through Time

94% 👍 OF 3.1K
About This Game

Embark on a colourful hand drawn journey of discovery through the ages! From missing dinosaur eggs in the stone age, to a king's crown in medieval times, can you find them all? Discover, create and share worlds with your own hidden treasures in Hidden Through Time!

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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!

In this game, 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.

In this game, 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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The Rise of the Golden Idol

93% 👍 OF 4.0K
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.

In this game, 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 9.1K
About This Game

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

In this game, 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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Progressbar95

96% 👍 OF 3.6K
About This Game

Progressbar95 is a unique indie game with a strong nostalgic vibe. It turns vintage GUI elements like panels, buttons and icons into game elements! Simple and addictive gameplay based on dozens of mini-games and puzzles. The game will make you smile!

In this game, you can…

  • …raise the Recycle Bin like a digital pet and feed it for bonuses.
  • …open a built-in DOS terminal to hack around, hunt bonuses, and explore the file system like a text adventure.
  • …run 8-bit systems with BASIC and write tiny programs that earn you bonuses.