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78 Great Games Like Framed

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Framed and have found the following:

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

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Content Rating: PEGI 16

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

Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS

Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform, Point-and-Click and Puzzle

Developer: Love Shackers (@LoveShackers)

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

20 Hand Picked Games Like Framed

These are our hand-picked games similar to Framed. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick 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.

Little Misfortune

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 18/11/2019

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Point-and-Click and Puzzle

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: Kill Monday Games (@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...

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: 23 features

Developer: Hazelight Games (@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...

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: 9 features

Developer: ES Adevlog (@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

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

Accessibility: 30 features

Developer: Sunhead Games (@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

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 24/04/2019

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

Genres: Adventure, Point-and-Click, Puzzle and Role-Playing

Developer: Egg Nut Games (@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.

Concrete Genie

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 20/08/2019

Platforms: PS4

Genres: Action, Adventure, Creative, Narrative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 3 features

Developer: Pixelopus (@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...

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: Try Light Games (@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....

Pony Island

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 04/01/2016

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Narrative, Platform, Point-and-Click and Puzzle

Developer: D Mullins Games (@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...

A Detective's Demise

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Release Date: 26/10/2020

Platforms: Android, PC and iOS

Genres: Action, Narrative, Open World and Puzzle

Accessibility: 19 features

Developer: Dusk Light Pro (@DuskLightPro)

Players: This is a single player game

Pitch Black A Detective's Demise is an adventure game set in a technological noir-detective world. You play using sound alone which offers voice acting and environmental sound effects to enable you to navigate.

Beholder

Beholder (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 09/11/2016

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

Genres: Narrative, Point-and-Click, Puzzle, Role-Playing and Strategy

Accessibility: 23 features

Developer: Beholder Game (@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...

Tangle Tower

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 19/09/2019

Platforms: PC, Switch and iPhone, iPad

Genres: Narrative, Point-and-Click and Puzzle

Accessibility: 17 features

Developer: SFB Tom (@SFBTom)

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...

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: LR Gthunder (@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...

Bring You Home

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 29/10/2018

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Puzzle

Accessibility: 17 features

Developer: Alike Studio (@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...

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 (@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...

Gunpoint

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 03/06/0013

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: Suspicious Dev (@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...

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: Urnique Studio (@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...

Hacktag

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 01/06/2017

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Puzzle and Strategy

Developer: POC Studios (@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.

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: Face Palm Games (@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...

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 (@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.

Temporal Fuse

Temporal Fuse (Dreams)

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 9-11 year-olds

Release Date: 20/04/2020

Platforms: PS4 and PS5

Genres: Action, Narrative, Puzzle and Simulation

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: Dancing Ember (@DancingEmber)

Players: This is a single player game

Temporal Fuse is a puzzle game where you explore a building to defuse bombs. You only have 30 seconds, but time only proceeds when you move. This forces you to think carefully about each step and interaction. You will die, but each time you have learned...

63 Games Like Framed Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Framed. This includes games from the Puzzle, Action, Platform, Narrative and Point-and-Click genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

It Takes Two

Thomas Was Alone

The Last Guardian

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Roki

Paradise Killer

Five Nights at Freddy's

Portal

Spiritfarer

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Resident Evil Village

Another World

Never Alone

Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons

Valiant Hearts The Great War

The Secret of Monkey Island

Lair Of The Clockwork God

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Matinee Fisticuffs and Shootouts

Sometimes you just want to play the hero. These games are violent and include shooting but, as with B-movies and 1980s TV series, it’s as much about the quips, characters and fantasy settings as it is about killing. The drama may be peppered with cinematic gunfire but, like those TV series, the real draw is spending time with the heroes every week.

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Art's Dream

Young Souls

Steamworld Heist

Galaxy of Pen & Paper

Planet of the Eyes

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Rainbow Billy

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Western 1849 Reloaded

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Wild River Outlaws

Ratchet And Clank: Rift Apart

Rawmen

Party Animals

Ninjala

Assassin's Creed Identity

Horizon Zero Dawn The Frozen Wilds

Horizon Forbidden West

Marvel Contest of Champions

Biomutant

Treachery in Beatdown City

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Barbearian

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Batman: Arkham Origins

Savior

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Lunark

Fights in Tight Spaces

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Batman: Arkham City

Dysmantle

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Ark: Survival Evolved

Horizon Zero Dawn

Control

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Batman: Arkham Knight

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Each year they have selected 10-20 games as their recommended games of the year.

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Signs of the Sojourner

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Return of the Obra Dinn

What Remains of Edith Finch

What The Golf

Disco Elysium

Lair Of The Clockwork God

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Bend Time To Your Advantage

Time in video games is a valuable thing. Unlike in the real world where it proceeds in a linear fashion, in a game it may speed up, slow down or even go backwards. There are some games where controlling time becomes a crucial and fascinating game mechanic. The best of these integrate your time travelling powers with both characters and narrative to create a compelling experience.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

A Place for the Unwilling

Into The Breach

Tactical Breach Wizards

Where the Heart Leads

Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia

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All Of You

Bring You Home

Evergate

Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories

Degrees of Separation

Arise: A Simple Story

Return of the Obra Dinn

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It chooses games in a series of categories: Grand Prize, Innovation, Visual Art, Audio, Design, Technical Excellence, Best Mobile Game and Audience Award. This list highlights the games that were nominated and/or won.

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Do Not Feed the Monkeys

She Remembered Caterpillars

A Monsters Expedition

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

Ultimate Chicken Horse

SoundSelf: A Technodelic

Lost Words: Beyond the Page

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Signs of the Sojourner

A Mortician's Tale

Wide Ocean Big Jacket

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

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78 Great Games Like Framed

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20 Hand Picked Games Like Framed

Little Misfortune

A Way Out

Baba is You

Carto

Backbone

Concrete Genie

Fate of Kai

Pony Island

A Detective's Demise

Beholder (Series)

Tangle Tower

A Fold Apart

Bring You Home

Cris Tales

Gunpoint

Timelie

Hacktag

The Swapper

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

Temporal Fuse (Dreams)

63 Games Like Framed Based on Genre

Framed is in These Lists

Matinee Fisticuffs and Shootouts

Get Into Indie's Games of the Years

Bend Time To Your Advantage

Independent Games Festival Awards

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