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Toasty Games · 2015 · Windows, macOS, Linux

Steam: 83 % positive of 114 reviews, as of Oct 28

Parallax is a first-person puzzle game with two overlapping worlds. Weave back and forth between black and white as you try to be in the right place, in the right dimension, at the right time. Use switches, boosters and gravity to help you reach the exit. Can you conquer every mind-bending level?

24 games that play like Parallax and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Art of Reflection, Superliminal and Manifold Garden.

Player tags

  • Indie
  • Puzzle
  • First-Person
  • Puzzle-Platformer
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Plays and looks like Parallax

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

By gameplay

Plays like Parallax

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

More matches

  1. Hyperbolica84 % positive of 1,225Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Indie
  2. The Swapper93 % positive of 5,074Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Indie
  3. Tag: The Power of Paint96 % positive of 1,029Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Puzzle-Platformer
  4. Another Perspective93 % positive of 88Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Indie
  5. Lingo93 % positive of 801Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Indie
  6. Braid92 % positive of 6,952Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Indie
  7. Closure85 % positive of 450Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Indie
  8. EQI86 % positive of 235Shared: Puzzle · First-Person
  9. Polarity77 % positive of 3,676Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Indie
  10. What Lies in the Multiverse90 % positive of 520Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer
  11. Colortone68 % positive of 220Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Puzzle-Platformer
  12. The Pedestrian96 % positive of 5,226Shared: Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer

By look

Looks like Parallax

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

More matches

  1. Beatblock97 % positive of 1,340
  2. Chromatic Conundrum97 % positive of 377
  3. The Imagined Leviathan: Prologue77 % positive of 163
  4. 0°N 0°W84 % positive of 366
  5. qomp97 % positive of 440
  6. OVIVO89 % positive of 428
  7. RFLEX90 % positive of 231
  8. Cybercube80 % positive of 162
  9. NIDANA83 % positive of 195
  10. White Night74 % positive of 305
  11. Ynglet98 % positive of 304
  12. Hook96 % positive of 7,925

At a glance

What games like Parallax have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Parallax: Puzzle (24 of 24), Puzzle-Platformer (19) and First-Person (15).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, 16 of them after Parallax (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Perspective (98 % positive of 1,458).

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.