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Jagriff · 2025 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 99 % positive of 243 reviews, as of Oct 28

A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.

24 games that play like Gentoo Rescue and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Woodways, A Monster's Expedition and Can of Wormholes.

Player tags

  • Puzzle
  • Adventure
  • Open World
  • Logic
  • Relaxing
  • Difficult
  • Sokoban
  • Cute
Map region: Relaxing Puzzles
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Gentoo Rescue

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Gentoo Rescue

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Baba Is You96 % positive of 21,133Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Difficult
  2. Dungeon and Puzzles93 % positive of 232Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Difficult
  3. SiNKR92 % positive of 537Shared: Puzzle · Relaxing · Difficult
  4. Handshakes98 % positive of 2,956Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Relaxing
  5. Puddle Knights98 % positive of 221Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Relaxing
  6. Super Puzzled Cat97 % positive of 193Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Difficult
  7. Zoombinis94 % positive of 1,140Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Adventure
  8. Islands of Insight75 % positive of 1,609Shared: Puzzle · Open World · Logic
  9. Hexologic95 % positive of 690Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Relaxing
  10. Pictopix95 % positive of 1,413Shared: Puzzle · Logic · Relaxing
  11. Recursed95 % positive of 639Shared: Puzzle · Difficult · Adventure
  12. Toki Tori 2+87 % positive of 755Shared: Puzzle · Open World · Relaxing

By look

Looks like Gentoo Rescue

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Bean and Nothingness98 % positive of 216
  2. Order of the Sinking Star95 % positive of 3,140
  3. Primordialis92 % positive of 1,012
  4. Toodee and Topdee93 % positive of 672
  5. Spiral Knights83 % positive of 24,267
  6. Counter Agents91 % positive of 167
  7. Sir, We Have an Orc Problem85 % positive of 4,749
  8. Puddle Knights98 % positive of 221
  9. She Remembered Caterpillars96 % positive of 188
  10. Unexplored89 % positive of 568
  11. Linelith97 % positive of 1,484
  12. SOLAS 12895 % positive of 185

At a glance

What games like Gentoo Rescue have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Gentoo Rescue: Puzzle (24 of 24), Logic (16) and Relaxing (16).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2026, one of them after Gentoo Rescue (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Strange Jigsaws (98 % positive of 4,795).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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