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18 Great Games Like Framed

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Framed is a puzzle adventure where you re-arrange panels of an animated comic book to change the outcome and timeline of the story. With a noir-detective look, the puzzles start simply but soon get complex.

Unfortunately, Framed is not available on Mac, PS4, PS5, Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:

Framed
PEGI Rating 16+ for Framed

DetailsGame Details

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 12/11/2014, updated in 2018

Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS

Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: @LoveShackers

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

Hand Picked Games Like Framed

These are our hand-picked games similar to Framed. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Framed, or as younger rated alternatives for players not ready for PEGI 16+ or ESRB TEEN games. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
 

A Way Out
PEGI Rating 18+ for A Way Out

A Way Out

Content Rating: PEGI 18+

Release Date: 23/03/2018

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Shooting

Accessibility: 24 features

Developer: @HazelightGames

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online

From the same developer as Brothers A Tale of Two Sons, this is another game centred around two playable characters simultaneously. With another player, you control Leo and Vincent, two convicted prisoners who...

Little Misfortune
PEGI Rating 16+ for Little Misfortune

Little Misfortune

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 18/11/2019

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 16 features

Developer: @KillMondayGames

Players: This is a single player game

Little Misfortune is a dark adventure where you play a small girl called, Misfortune, who, guided by a voice in her head, seeks the prize of eternal happiness for her mother. It's played side-on and unfolds a narrative about the girl's family as you...

Concrete Genie
PEGI Rating 12+ for Concrete Genie

Concrete Genie

Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 20/08/2019

Platforms: PS4

Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @Pixelopus

Players: This is a single player game

Concrete Genie is a running and jumping game about a young boy, who is isolated and bullied, in this exploration platform game with a twist. Using motion controls and buttons you can draw beautiful graffiti on the buildings, which come to life. These...

Baba is You
PEGI Rating 3+ for Baba is You

Baba is You

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Release Date: 13/03/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Puzzle

Accessibility: 10 features

Developer: @ESAdevlog

Players: This is a single player game

Baba is You requires some lateral thinking. Each level is controlled by rules written on the screen, such as ‘Lava is Hot’, ‘Wall is Stop’ and ‘Flag is Move’. By moving the words around with your pixilated character, you subvert the...

Carto
PEGI Rating 3+ for Carto

Carto

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Release Date: 27/10/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Puzzle

Developer: @SunheadGames

Players: This is a single player game

Carto is an adventure puzzle game that is unusual in letting you rearrange the map tiles while you are playing. This enables you to access new areas of the world previously impossible to get to. This can be as simple as redirecting a river out of your...

Backbone

Backbone

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 24/04/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Role-Playing

Developer: @EggNutGames

Players: This is a single player game

Backbone is an adventure game inspired by film noir where you role-play as a human-like raccoon detective. As a detective, you search for clues and evidence, talk to witnesses, and choose which leads to follow.

Fate of Kai

Fate of Kai

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 19/03/2021

Platforms: Android, PC and iOS

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 26 features

Developer: @TryLightGames

Players: This is a single player game

Fate of Kai is a narrative puzzle game where you control the story rather than the characters. You discover Kai's story by walking through the panels of a comic book. It's a tale about a boy who wakes in a strange land handcuffed to a mysterious chest....

Bring You Home
PEGI Rating 3+ for Bring You Home

Bring You Home

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 29/10/2018

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Puzzle

Accessibility: 17 features

Developer: @AlikeStudio

Players: This is a single player game

Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play a doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the panels...

Beholder
PEGI Rating 16+ for Beholder

Beholder (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 09/11/2016

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative, Puzzle, Role-Playing and Strategy

Developer: @Beholder_Game

Players: This is a single player game

Beholder is a detective game where you spy on tenants in a building, discover their secrets and report violations of laws to the authorities. As the game unfolds and you see more of the controlling totalitarian state, an uneasy tension develops between...

Timelie

Timelie

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 21/05/2020

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Puzzle and Turn-Based

Accessibility: 12 features

Developer: @UrniqueStudio

Players: This is a single player game

Timelie is a stealth puzzle game played in a surreal world where a girl and a mysterious cat work together to escape a series of room patrolled by enemy robots. The novelty is that you can control and rewind time to help you solve each puzzle. This not...

A Fold Apart
PEGI Rating 3+ for A Fold Apart

A Fold Apart

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 11/04/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad

Genres: Platform

Accessibility: 20 features

Developer: @LRGthunder

Players: This is a single player game

A puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper. After career choices force them along separate paths, a Teacher and Architect vow to make their long-distance relationship work at...

Hacktag
PEGI Rating 7+ for Hacktag

Hacktag

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 01/06/2017

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Puzzle and Strategy

Developer: @PoC_studios

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online

Hacktag is a fast two-player game: one player is the stealth ‘Agent’ while the other is the virtually-infiltrating ‘Hacker’. You work with the other player to carry out espionage in different settings and complete each challenge.

Tangle Tower
PEGI Rating 7+ for Tangle Tower

Tangle Tower

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 19/09/2019

Platforms: PC, Switch and iPhone, iPad

Genres: Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @SFBDim

Players: This is a single player game

Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder. You are given the events of the murder, each...

The Swapper
PEGI Rating 7+ for The Swapper

The Swapper

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 30/05/2013, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Developer: @FacePalmGames

Players: This is a single player game

The Swapper is a platform-adventure where you explore a damaged space station to collect orbs that open doors into other areas. Unusually, you can clone your character multiple times and then control it to help you solve puzzles and progress in various...

Gunpoint

Gunpoint

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 03/06/0013

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: @SuspiciousDev

Players: This is a single player game

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game where you play freelance spy Richard Conway, tasked with infiltrating buildings. To succeed you must avoid guards and bypass security, using various high-tech gadgets. Through these missions you seek to clear your name...

Cris Tales

Cris Tales

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Skill Rating: 10-14 year-olds

Release Date: 20/07/2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Role-Playing

Developer: @Modus_Games

Players: This is a single player game

Cris Tales is a role-playing game where you see how your actions in the present affect the past and future. You play as Crisbell in a cartoon-looking adventure through four Kingdoms in a bid to stop the powerful Time Empress and rewrite the future of...

N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure
PEGI Rating 7+ for NERO Nothing Ever Remains Obscure

N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 15/05/2015

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative, Open World and Puzzle

Developer: @Stcware

Players: This is a single player game

N.E.R.O. is a story-driven first-person indie game with puzzles to solve and story threads to follow. The player character essentially walks a linear path and solves puzzles blocking their way, while a story is narrated.

Pony Island

Pony Island

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 04/01/2016

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: @DMullinsGames

Players: This is a single player game

Pony Island is an adventure game where you are trapped in a computer by the Devil. You need to crash the computer to escape and stumble upon the Pony Island game that appears unstable. As you hack away at the game you uncover its corrupted code and your...

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PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted 4 A Thiefs End
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Planet of Lana
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Star Wars Republic Commando

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Lemnis Gate
PEGI Rating 12+ for Lemnis Gate
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Into The Breach
PEGI Rating 12+ for Into The Breach


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