40 Games like Portal Stories: Mel that you should try

Its point of contact with Portal Stories: Mel is puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. Both also lean on single-player focus and a first-person view. What it adds of its own: exploration and discovery, and a third-person camera.

The genre is the same as Portal Stories: Mel’s, and with it puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. The common ground extends to a first-person view and single-player focus. Where the two diverge is tone and setting: dark, oppressive atmosphere and fantasy world.

It meets Portal Stories: Mel on puzzle design, strong narrative focus and single-player focus. The common ground extends to a first-person view. Where they diverge is tone.

The genre is the same as Portal Stories: Mel’s, and with it puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. To that it adds single-player focus. They part company on visuals and tone: this one brings 2D presentation.

On paper it is what Portal Stories: Mel is — puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. To that it adds single-player focus. They part company on visuals and tone: this one brings a third-person camera.

It meets Portal Stories: Mel on puzzle design, melee combat and single-player focus. To that it adds a first-person view. They part company on setting: this one brings a cyberpunk setting.

The thread back to Portal Stories: Mel runs through puzzle design, strong narrative focus and single-player focus. To that it adds a first-person view. They part company on tone: this one brings a casual, approachable feel.

The genre is the same as Portal Stories: Mel’s, and with it puzzle design, strong narrative focus and a sci-fi setting. Both also lean on single-player focus. The distance is in visuals and tone — its own ground is 2D presentation.

Same family as Portal Stories: Mel: puzzle design, strong narrative focus and single-player focus. They part company on visuals and tone: this one brings dark, oppressive atmosphere and 2D presentation.

Held in common with Portal Stories: Mel: puzzle design, strong narrative focus and single-player focus. Where the two diverge is tone: a casual, approachable feel.

It comes from the same genre as Portal Stories: Mel and shares puzzle design, strong narrative focus and single-player focus. The distance is in visuals and tone — its own ground is a casual, approachable feel and 2D presentation.

On paper it is what Portal Stories: Mel is — puzzle design, punishing difficulty and single-player focus — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. Where the two diverge is visuals and tone: a casual, approachable feel and an isometric view.

The genre is the same as Portal Stories: Mel’s, and with it puzzle design, strong narrative focus and single-player focus. The distance is in visuals and tone — its own ground is a casual, approachable feel and an isometric view.

Shelved next to Portal Stories: Mel for good reason: puzzle design, strong narrative focus and single-player focus. They part company on visuals and tone: this one brings a casual, approachable feel and 2D presentation.

On paper it is what Portal Stories: Mel is — puzzle design, a sci-fi setting and single-player focus — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. The distance is in visuals and setting — its own ground is post-apocalyptic world and 2D presentation.