Games like The Machine's Garden
Games like The Machine's Garden include OneShot, Papers, Please, The Talos Principle, Chants of Sennaar, and Gorogoa. We matched them by the tags players give The Machine's Garden on Steam (Indie, Puzzle, Atmospheric, Sci-fi, and Story Rich): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

OneShot
Shared: Indie · Story Rich · Atmospheric

Papers, Please
Shared: Indie · Puzzle · Singleplayer

The Talos Principle
Shared: Puzzle · Sci-fi · Atmospheric

Chants of Sennaar
Shared: Puzzle · Indie · Singleplayer

Gorogoa
Shared: Puzzle · Indie · Atmospheric

Outer Wilds
Shared: Story Rich · Atmospheric · Puzzle

Return of the Obra Dinn
Shared: Puzzle · Atmospheric · Indie

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Shared: Atmospheric · Indie · Story Rich

Little Nightmares
Shared: Atmospheric · Puzzle · Indie

The Last Campfire
Shared: Puzzle · Indie · Atmospheric

Deliver Us The Moon
Shared: Indie · Sci-fi · Atmospheric

The Red Strings Club
Shared: Story Rich · Indie · Atmospheric

SOMA
Shared: Atmospheric · Sci-fi · Story Rich

Sally Face - Episode One
Shared: Indie · Story Rich · Puzzle

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Shared: Indie · Puzzle · Pixel Graphics

Pony Island
Shared: Indie · Puzzle · Pixel Graphics

INSIDE
Shared: Atmospheric · Indie · Story Rich

Unpacking
Shared: Puzzle · Pixel Graphics · Story Rich

Observation
Shared: Indie · Sci-fi · Atmospheric

Little Nightmares II
Shared: Puzzle · Atmospheric · Singleplayer

Tales of the Black Forest
Shared: Indie · Pixel Graphics · Story Rich

Portal
Shared: Puzzle · Sci-fi · Singleplayer

FAR: Lone Sails
Shared: Atmospheric · Indie · Singleplayer

Seen
Shared: Indie · Puzzle · Atmospheric