Games Like HIVESWAP: ACT 1

HIVESWAP: ACT 1

A hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration). Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion.

★ MACHINARIUM ★ ONESHOT ★ GROWBOT ★ SHAPIK: THE MOON QUEST ★ CHICORY: A COLORFUL TALE ★ STORM BOY ★ FREERIDE ★ OUTCORE: DESKTOP ADVENTURE ★ WOVEN ★ SANYA ★ PROJECT KAT - PAPER LILY PROLOGUE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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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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OneShot

98% 👍 OF 64K
About This Game

OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

In this game, you can…

  • …solve puzzles by opening folders on your computer and reading files the game plants outside its own window.
  • …put the protagonist to bed, have the game close itself, then reopen it to continue from a dream sequence.
  • …finish what seems like the ending, then discover a changed second run where the game and its installation behave differently.
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Chicory: A Colorful Tale

97% 👍 OF 4.0K
About This Game

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

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Storm Boy

87% 👍 OF 188
About This Game

Based on Colin Thiele's 1964 children’s book of the same name, Storm Boy takes place on the beaches of South Australia near the mouth of the Murray River, where the titular protagonist rescues orphaned pelican chicks, one of whom later becomes the child’s pet and faithful companion, Mr. Percival.

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FREERIDE

88% 👍 OF 236
About This Game

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.

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Outcore: Desktop Adventure

97% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

All you wanted was a nice game. But now you find yourself opening Windows apps like Paint & Notepad to solve puzzles, and searching for files on your computers that you didn't put there... Who is she? Why did she appear on your desktop? Let's dive into her memories and find out.

In this game, you can…

  • …use Paint and Notepad to solve puzzles, then dig through your real folders for Lumi's memories scattered across your filesystem.
  • …have the final boss fight pull in your own desktop installs and files, like noticing Minecraft and using it against you.
  • …drag Lumi around your desktop, stand her on app windows, and click and drag files like they're level objects.
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Woven

81% 👍 OF 159
About This Game

Explore a woollen world where stuffed animals once lived in peace. Search for hidden secrets and customize your character with different animal shapes to solve puzzles. An epic adventure with two very unlikely heroes and a story narrated in rhyme.

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SANYA

76% 👍 OF 218
About This Game

A playful narrative adventure about the warmth of fleeting childhood memories: about a little boy named Sanya, rescuing a stray puppy, making true friends, and engaging in many exciting adventures in a small town set in the achingly strange and nostalgic period of the 90s.

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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

99% 👍 OF 5.9K
About This Game

Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

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