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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.

  • The Librarian's Almanaq
    Pen & Paper
    Uncover the result of centuries of research gathered inside a sprawling puzzlehunt book.
  • 5buttons
    Web
    Interpret cryptic visual clues to find the right sequences of button presses.
  • Terminal Lucidity
    Windows
    Find out how to interact with deranged computers in a buried complex of cables and concrete.
  • 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪⬛
    Web
    A wordless puzzle hunt based on colored cells in a spreadsheet.
  • Journal 29
    Pen & Paper
    Solve a collection of riddles from the notes of a research team that vanished.
  • 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.
  • What's the Password?
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Decode 4-digit passwords from a variety of mini-puzzles.
  • 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.
  • The Guides Axiom
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Decipher codes concealed within confidential records.
  • The Guides
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Decode the contents of cryptic puzzles related to classified documents.
  • Madorica Real Estate 2
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Nintendo Switch 2
    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.
  • 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.
  • Her Trees: Puzzle Dream
    Windows
    Reveal the codes hidden within delicate monochrome visions.
  • 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
    Nintendo Switch 2
    Grab pen and paper to solve lateral puzzles with the floor plans of haunted properties.
  • Minute Cryptic
    Web
    Crack and solve daily cryptic clues, with or without hints.
  • Leaving Home
    Windows
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    A surreal puzzle game about waking up and leaving the house.
  • 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: First Puzzle
    Windows
    Web
    Search for hidden codes among strange objects in a dreamlike point-and-click world.
  • 20 Small Mazes
    Windows
    MacOS
    A small collection of playful maze variations.
  • Lessons on Strange Symbols
    Web
    Use strange archaic symbols to learn a new numbers system and do some basic math.
  • Lock In
    Windows
    Unlock locks to unlock more locks.
  • Zenomatrix
    Windows
    A first-person horror game where the monsters are the puzzle.
  • Shenzhen I/O
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Build circuits and write assembly code in this open-ended programming game.

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