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Games like Hourglass
Cyberwave · 2021 · Windows
Steam: 88 % positive of 336 reviews, as of Oct 28
In Hourglass you can create a time-clone of yourself to solve challenging puzzles. You will play as Aywa, a young adventurer who is traveling to Egypt to find her missing father - an archeologist, who never returned from his latest expedition.
24 games that play like Hourglass and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Entropy Centre, Quern - Undying Thoughts and Syberia.
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Plays and looks like Hourglass
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Hourglass
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
The Entropy Centre
88 % positive of 3,387
Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · First-Person
Quern - Undying Thoughts
90 % positive of 3,851
Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Exploration
Syberia
88 % positive of 3,945
Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Mystery
The Talos Principle
95 % positive of 29,368
Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Exploration
Wanderer
82 % positive of 829
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · Time Manipulation
Chronigma
99 % positive of 629
Shared: Puzzle · Difficult · Logic
Timelie
95 % positive of 1,789
Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Female Protagonist
Chronology
90 % positive of 540
Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Time Manipulation
The Silent Age
92 % positive of 5,971
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · Stylized
Chronoquartz
98 % positive of 524
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · Mystery
Time Lock VR 2
85 % positive of 182
Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Exploration
The Witness
84 % positive of 17,432
Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Exploration
More matches
- Viewfinder94 % positive of 12,285Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · First-Person
- Braid92 % positive of 6,952Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Difficult
- FEZ92 % positive of 11,738Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Controller
- Doors: Paradox90 % positive of 1,607Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Exploration
- Time Lock VR 177 % positive of 687Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Female Protagonist
- Between Time: Escape Room78 % positive of 331Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Exploration
- The Timeless Child - Prologue74 % positive of 3,125Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Female Protagonist
- Time Mysteries 3: The Final Enigma81 % positive of 249Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Mystery
- Aztlan Uncovered: Prologue90 % positive of 232Shared: Female Protagonist · Exploration · Mystery
- Archaica: The Path of Light92 % positive of 218Shared: Puzzle · Difficult · Mystery
- The House of Da Vinci 289 % positive of 2,068Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Mystery
- Floodcore95 % positive of 224Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Exploration
By look
Looks like Hourglass
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
87 % positive of 87,790
Risk of Rain 2
93 % positive of 242,449
AER Memories of Old
85 % positive of 5,068
Journey
94 % positive of 35,067
Viewfinder
94 % positive of 12,285
Floodcore
95 % positive of 224
Superflight
96 % positive of 11,053
Hoverflow
92 % positive of 155
Mad Adventures
91 % positive of 1,105
Glyph☀️
91 % positive of 109
Refunct
96 % positive of 16,025
Windlands
76 % positive of 801
More matches
- The Savior From Above93 % positive of 382
- Jumps92 % positive of 299
- The Sojourn68 % positive of 192
- MycoRelic88 % positive of 171
- Haste91 % positive of 12,946
- Landfall Archives94 % positive of 3,706
- Virtual Virtual Reality91 % positive of 647
- COCOON94 % positive of 8,091
- Hollowed80 % positive of 162
- Omno91 % positive of 1,859
- Gedonia87 % positive of 3,680
- Atan92 % positive of 215
At a glance
What games like Hourglass have in common
- The tags they share most often with Hourglass: Puzzle (23 of 24), Exploration (11) and First-Person (10).
- They came out between 2009 and 2025, 9 of them after Hourglass (2021).
- Best rated by Steam players: Timelie (95 % positive of 1,789).
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.