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Puppeteer (2013)
8.1/10on IGDB
Released
The scenery keeps changing around Kutaro as though the whole game were being performed on one stage. He uses a pair of scissors to cut his way through fabric and other parts of the set, and some of the heads he wears can change what happens around him. A prop can be both the joke and the way forward.
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Princess Peach: Showtime! (2024)
6.5/10on IGDB
Released
At the Sparkle Theater, a change of role brings a change of rules. The figure skater has to time her spins and jumps with the dancers, while the pastry chef decorates sweets against the clock. If you like seeing what a performer can do with a new set and costume, start here.
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Once Upon a Jester (2022)
Released
Jester and Sok tour the kingdom putting on improvised shows. What the people in the village are talking about gives you ideas for what to perform, and once the show starts you choose how to carry the scene. The game makes listening before you go on as important as delivering the joke.
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The Last Show of Mr. Chardish (2020)
Released
An actress returns to an abandoned theater and revisits the director’s plays. Each production gives her a different character and changes how you play, from a robot escaping a factory to a swaggering musketeer. It is the change of role that lets you experience these memories from different angles.
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Staged (2026)
Released
With up to four players, you rebuild scenery from reference photos before the curtain goes up. Hauling a big prop through a tight backstage corridor is one problem. Getting the light pointed the right way is another. The resulting stage is judged against the reference, so the little adjustments count.
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Foul Play (2021)
Released
Baron Dashforth relives his adventures as a performer on a theater stage. The brawler rewards linked moves that excite the audience, and a second player can step in as his sidekick Scampwick. The performance is part of the score, which gives you a reason to keep a sequence going.
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024)
Released
An audience watches Mario’s battles in the Switch edition. Timed moves and a little style keep the fight feeling like a performance. The crowd can grow as Mario levels up and even throw things onto the stage, giving these turn-based battles a rhythm of their own.
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BattleBlock Theater (2013)
7.7/10on IGDB
Released
Prisoners have to perform in a theater run by cats. The narrator treats their platforming and puzzle rooms as a show, and the audience frame makes a failed jump part of the evening’s entertainment. You can clear the rooms alone or play with a partner.
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Once Upon a Puppet (2025)
Released
You use Nieve’s glove to control the strings of Drev, a puppet bound to her. The pair has to work back up from the Understage, and the sets you pass through reveal stories the theater kingdom has forgotten. The glove and strings make puppetry a physical part of working through the puzzles.
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Shadow Fencer Theatre (2019)
Released
In this puppet fencing comedy, you can cast the performers and pick the set for an improvised bout. The little figures move like awkward cutouts, and the stage changes what you have to work around. Improv can be played against a friend or solo.
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The Entertainment
Sit in a bar and turn to watch different parts of a play unfold around you. This Kentucky Route Zero interlude presents two fictional plays as one simultaneous performance. Taking a quiet onstage seat makes where you look part of how you follow the dialogue.
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The Under Presents (2019)
Released
Enter a virtual stage to see recorded acts, or follow Timeboat, a solo story set on a research vessel stuck in the Arctic. On the ship, you can manipulate time as you find out what happened to the characters. The VR format lets you move through the performance space and discover it from different positions.
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Astrologaster (2019)
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Clients take turns appearing in Simon Forman’s pop-up casebook, and their sung themes give each arrival its own character. As Forman, you choose what to tell them after looking at the stars. The same people return, giving you a chance to see how earlier advice plays out in later scenes.
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Play the Knave
Read lines from a Shakespeare scene while a Kinect camera maps your movements onto an avatar. Your choice of virtual theater and how you place yourself in it both change the performance. Try the same exchange in different spaces and see what you do with your hands or where you decide to stand.
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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (2015)
7.1/10on IGDB
Released
The promised heist is happening somewhere on the other side of the wall. You get sent backstage, where a voice tells you when to work the equipment that makes the show happen. The short comedy finds its best jokes in the gap between the cue you hear and what you can see from where you stand.
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Stagehand: A Reverse Platformer (2017)
Released
The runner moves by himself, so you shift the scenery to keep up with him. By giving you control of platforms in place of the person jumping across them, the iOS game makes you responsible for what is in position when he arrives. It’s a stagehand’s timing problem played at a run.
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