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Games similar to CD-ROM

Enjoyed CD-ROM and looking for something fun to play next?

Our thinky games database has lots of hand-curated, detailed information about every game, so we're able to make great recommendations for other games you might enjoy. This includes other puzzle and lateral games, among many other great games.

Take a look at some of the most similar games below.

  • Journal 29
    Pen & Paper
    Solve a collection of riddles from the notes of a research team that vanished.
  • The Librarian's Almanaq
    Pen & Paper
    Uncover the result of centuries of research gathered inside a sprawling puzzlehunt book.
  • The Conjurer's Almanaq
    Pen & Paper
    Trapped within a cryptic book, you search for a magician's true name to escape.
  • Journal 29 Advent Calendar
    Pen & Paper
    A collection of otherworldly lateral puzzles you can either unseal day by day, or tackle whenever you like.
  • Journal 29 Oblivion
    Pen & Paper
    The third entry in a series of lateral puzzle books.
  • Leaving Home
    Windows
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    A surreal puzzle game about waking up and leaving the house.
  • Madorica Real Estate 2
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    The paper-plus-digital lateral puzzle game returns with new ghostly properties to explore.
  • Journal 29 Revelation
    Pen & Paper
    Use lateral thinking to collect keys from each puzzle page.
  • Orange
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Web
    Solve puzzles designed with vibrant orange in mind.
  • Purple
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Find the rules to solve short puzzles inspired by the color purple.
  • Her Trees: The Puzzle House
    Windows
    Combine odd objects in a peculiar room to uncover the codes hidden within.
  • Madorica Real Estate
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Grab pen and paper to solve lateral puzzles with the floor plans of haunted properties.
  • Type Word
    Web
    Find the one-word answers to various quick riddles.
  • Pink
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Web
    Turn the screen pink by solving short standalone puzzles.
  • Strange Jigsaws
    Windows
    A colorful medley of unusual jigsaw puzzles.
  • House
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    A book collapsing under mysteries. A house falling apart. Nothing is truly random.
  • Her Trees: Puzzle Dream
    Windows
    Reveal the codes hidden within delicate monochrome visions.
  • Abriss
    Windows
    PlayStation 5
    Xbox Series X|S
    Design megastructures to wreak havoc on your targets.
  • Opus Magnum
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Program a transmutation engine to concoct potions and poisons.
  • Zenomatrix
    Windows
    A first-person horror game where the monsters are the puzzle.
  • 0Player
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules from only an image of a puzzle game environment.
  • Shenzhen I/O
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Build circuits and write assembly code in this open-ended programming game.
  • Illiteracy
    Web
    Discover the rules of these 8 mysterious symbols.
  • NandGame
    Web
    Start from the NAND operation and build all the logic up to a CPU.
  • You Are The Code
    Windows
    Select and run lines of prewritten code in order to match a specific output.
  • IFO
    Windows
    MacOS
    Discover the cryptic rules of a simulated alien device.
  • Occlude
    Windows
    Figure out each Ritual's secret rules hidden within games of solitaire.
  • 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪⬛
    Web
    A wordless puzzle hunt based on colored cells in a spreadsheet.
  • Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
    Windows
    Nintendo Switch
    PlayStation 4
    PlayStation 5
    You have been invited to Hotel Letztes Jahr, a strange manor full of lateral puzzles and a dark past.
  • Coupling
    Windows
    Explore an abstract space where moving is your only action.

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