Games like Retention
Games like Retention include Gorogoa, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, Florence, The Room, and Papers, Please. We matched them by the tags players give Retention on Steam (Indie, Casual, Adventure, Short, and Singleplayer): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Gorogoa
Shared: Indie · Casual · Singleplayer

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Shared: Indie · Adventure · Casual

Florence
Shared: Indie · Casual · Adventure

The Room
Shared: Adventure · Indie · Singleplayer

Papers, Please
Shared: Indie · Simulation · Singleplayer

Morphopolis
Shared: Indie · Casual · Adventure

Assemble with Care
Shared: Indie · Casual · Short

Chants of Sennaar
Shared: Adventure · Indie · Singleplayer

Zup! 2
Shared: Casual · Indie · Puzzle

Little Inferno
Shared: Indie · Casual · Singleplayer

Donut County
Shared: Indie · Casual · Short

Samsara Room
Shared: Indie · Adventure · Puzzle

Zup! S
Shared: Casual · Indie · Puzzle

Zup!
Shared: Casual · Indie · Puzzle

Gomo
Shared: Indie · Adventure · Casual

Zup! X
Shared: Casual · Indie · Puzzle

Zup! F
Shared: Casual · Indie · Puzzle

LIMBO
Shared: Indie · Adventure · Puzzle

Varenje
Shared: Indie · Adventure · Casual

A Bird Story
Shared: Indie · Short · Adventure

Plug & Play
Shared: Indie · Casual · Short

FAR: Lone Sails
Shared: Adventure · Indie · Singleplayer

The White Door
Shared: Indie · Adventure · Short

That's not my Neighbor
Shared: Casual · Adventure · Indie