Games similar to Backworlds

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Öoo
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Atlantis no Puzzle
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ibb & obb
Join forces with a friend to traverse levels where two gravities coexist.
UvsU: You vs You
Take turns between two versions of yourself and find ways to escape your own traps.
Kubinashi Recollection
Use your head in a very literal way to unwind platforming conundrums.
Leap Year: March
Jump your way through another month's worth of clumsy, puzzly platforming.
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Retrieve the stolen Mini-Mario toys by making your way through puzzle-platforming challenges.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Guide the jumpless Captain Toad and Toadette through diorama-like levels filled with hazards.
The Pedestrian
A puzzle-platformer set within a world of interconnected street signs.
DYO
Split and unite both halves of the screen to guide two minotaurs out of an impossible maze.
Braid
Rewind time in a series of puzzle platformer worlds that alter time in strange and unique ways.
Leap Year
Discover the secrets of falling in a platforming world where a plain jump could kill you.
Recursed
The rooms are items and the items are rooms in this recursive platformer.
The Rabbit and The Owl
Explore a fading world fractured between positive and negative space.
Toki Tori
Navigate the levels using limited tools to rescue unhatched chicks.
Filmechanism
Capture and restore snapshots of single-screen puzzle-platformer stages.
Strange Jigsaws
A colorful medley of unusual jigsaw puzzles.
Orbyss
Control multiple orbs in succession to explore mesmerizing environments.
Manifold Garden
Solve physics-defying puzzles in an abstract world of infinite architecture.
Monomoon
Shine a moon-light on the many mysteries of a tiny open world.
Grooveyard
Set up the right platforms before releasing a skeleton whose movement is tied to specific beats.
Piece by Piece
Connect and swap puzzle pieces to traverse pocket levels.
Humanity
An offbeat puzzle game about a dog commanding massive crowds of people to their goal.
BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!
Pull out chains of boxes from yourself to get across obstacles, either solo or in co-op.
Lethal
Play a given hand of cards in the right order to clear a Slay the Spire-inspired fight in a single turn.
Snipperclips
Cut paper characters into various shapes to solve cheerful physics-based puzzles.
Animal Well
Explore a dark well inhabited by animals and full of secrets.
7 Billion Humans
Apply parallel computing to a swarm of disposable office workers.
Mind Over Magnet
From video essayist GMTK, a puzzle-platformer about a robot and his magnet friend escaping a factory.
A Grim Chase
Reach the exit using a skull you can toss and swap places with.

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