The Best Manipulation Games

Update : Playback Loop added at rank #1.
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Playback Loop (2024)

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Carefully capture tracks of your actions, then play them back to solve puzzles with the aid of your recorded ghosts. Immerse yourself in a cerebral first-person puzzle platformer, where strategically thinking several steps ahead is the key to success.

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  • manipulation
  • time
  • first-person
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • science
  • fps
  • physics
  • 3d
  • difficult
  • shooter
  • casual

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Horror Tales: The Beggar (2024)

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Control space-time to fight an evil monster in this terror and science fiction journey set in a shattered but beautiful world. Bend physics, the sky and the earth itself in engaging boss-fight encounters with the full power of Unreal Engine 5 and Nvidia DLSS.

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  • horror
  • manipulation
  • time
  • survival-horror
  • immersive
  • post-apocalyptic
  • blood
  • psychological
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • surreal
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • sci-fi

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Ramas' Call: Twisted timing (2024)

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Point and Click adventure in a medieval fantasy ambience. Imagine you are a random tabletop geek looking for new adventures and your friend makes a tiiny mistake with his time machine... Now add an adventurer, a noble and a detective and mix them all together in yourself. Must be fun, right?

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  • manipulation
  • time
  • medieval
  • point-and-click
  • class
  • linear
  • investigation
  • 2d
  • funny
  • board-game
  • parody
  • fantasy
  • narration
  • sci-fi
  • hand-drawn

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Shatterbound (2024)

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PC Windows

Work with your past (and future) selves to solve puzzles. Shatter your obstacles, be your own platform, and more in this time-looping puzzler where YOU are your own solution!

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  • platform
  • 2.5d
  • manipulation
  • time
  • puzzle
  • precision
  • surreal
  • single-player
  • casual
  • 2d
  • physics

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SU - Unlocking the 4th Dimension (2024)

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PC Windows

SU is a 2.5D deduction puzzle game. The submarine Nautilus suffers a mechanical failure during its voyage. Dr. Pierre investigates and finds anomalies in every area. Explore the deep blue depths, follow Dr. Pierre as he unravels the secrets of the Nautilus.

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  • psychological
  • horror
  • detective
  • 2.5d
  • manipulation
  • mystery
  • time
  • space-time
  • exploration
  • third-person
  • drama
  • puzzle
  • submarine
  • underwater

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Timewinder (2024)

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TIMEWINDER is a 2D platformer with puzzle and precision elements. Run, jump, dash and travel in time to brave the obstacles and continue on your journey, but be careful not to break the timeline continuity!

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  • platform
  • manipulation
  • time
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • fantasy
  • linear
  • colourful
  • problem-solving
  • cartoony
  • single-player

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MOUTHOLE (2024)

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Keep an eye on the time to ensure you make the most of your week in the psychospherical house of MOUTHOLE. Solve puzzles and unravel mysteries to forge convoluted paths of discovery and exploration. Navigate quotidian existence. Crawl into your mouth. Brush your teeth?

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  • walking-simulator
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • surreal
  • conversation
  • manipulation
  • time-management
  • time
  • logic
  • multiple-endings
  • point-and-click
  • choices
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • 3d

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DUCK's most terrible day (2024)

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A time-bending 2D platformer in the least amount of pixels possible.

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  • time
  • manipulation
  • platform
  • precision
  • bullet
  • minimalist

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Chrono Recorder (2024)

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PC Windows

"ChronoRecorder" is a 3D puzzle game. Players can manipulate time and gravity. And you have to use that ability to solve problems. You might think this game is difficult if you don't use your brain.

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  • manipulation
  • time
  • puzzle
  • 3d
  • casual
  • platform
  • sci-fi

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Time Warp Infinite (2024)

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Time Warp Infinite is a wild platforming couch party game for 1 to 4 players! Run and jump to kick your opponents off-screen in chaotic 10-second rounds, featuring a vast choice of stages and modifiers, or beat the clock in a huge single-player speedrunning campaign!

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  • local
  • 4-player
  • quick-time-event
  • psychedelic
  • platform
  • manipulation
  • attack
  • score
  • time
  • runner
  • precision
  • stylized
  • pvp
  • parkour
  • 2d

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