Games Like Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Why similar: Sci-fi 50.9%, FPS 19.4%, Action 11.6%, First-Person 9.3%, Adventure 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for exploring a sprawling, secret research facility filled with environmental puzzles and sci-fi mystery.

ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.

Why similar: Sci-fi 39.9%, Puzzle 20.1%, Adventure 18.1%, Action 12.8%, First-Person 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the retro-futuristic, atmospheric horror of being trapped in a facility filled with unknown threats.

Embark on a gripping journey in INDUSTRIA, an atmospheric FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin. Unravel the secrets of a mysterious parallel dimension while searching for a missing colleague. Explore a haunting reality where the truth awaits. Discover the dark past that lies beyond.

Why similar: Sci-fi 30%, FPS 17.9%, Puzzle 15.3%, Action 12.3%, Adventure 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly focused first-person sci-fi shooter experience with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and narrative mystery.

The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Why similar: Sci-fi 38.3%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 16%, Puzzle 13.1%, First-Person 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused, atmospheric exploration experience centered on uncovering the secrets of a deserted space station.

Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

Why similar: Adventure 34.2%, Puzzle 21.1%, First-Person 17.9%, Indie 15.2%, Action 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the physics-based interaction and claustrophobic, isolated atmosphere found in Albedo.

The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

Why similar: Sci-fi 28.7%, Adventure 28.2%, Action 17.2%, Indie 14.4%, Puzzle 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game balances sci-fi adventure and puzzle-solving in a lonely, lunar setting that mirrors the tone of the seed game.

The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.

Why similar: Sci-fi 29.7%, Adventure 19.5%, Puzzle 16.7%, FPS 16.2%, Action 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a direct thematic match, focusing on first-person space exploration and puzzle-solving in a mysterious environment.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Sci-fi 35.1%, Puzzle 19.9%, Adventure 14.8%, Action 12.1%, First-Person 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at delivering a deep, unsettling sci-fi narrative set within a remote, abandoned research facility.

Welcome to a breathtaking storyline full of portals, solving puzzles with an energy-absorbing weapon, and other adventures in a sci-fi atmosphere! Can you travel through parallel dimensions and uncover the secrets of your past?

Why similar: Sci-fi 35.5%, Puzzle 23.9%, Action 15%, Adventure 15%, First-Person 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features first-person exploration and puzzle-solving mechanics that feel very similar to the gameplay loop of Albedo.

Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.

Why similar: Sci-fi 40.3%, Adventure 30.9%, Puzzle 16%, First-Person 8.2%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends sci-fi horror with adventure elements in a remote research base setting.

A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!

Why similar: Sci-fi 38.8%, Adventure 18.3%, FPS 17.8%, Action 17.7%, First-Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a classic-inspired sci-fi adventure, it provides the quintessential experience of navigating a hostile, high-tech facility.

The year is 1979. A secret, final lunar mission has retrieved hundreds of moon rocks for study at Aether Research Facility. Overtaken by curiosity, researchers delve deeper and deeper into the unknown. Only to find a sinister and unperceivable

Why similar: Sci-fi 63.2%, Indie 36.8%

Why You'll Like It: This indie title shares the sci-fi horror and stealth elements often found in Albedo's darker moments.

FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...

Why similar: Sci-fi 38.3%, FPS 31.9%, Action 18%, First-Person 6.4%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines secret facility exploration with physics-based action and time-manipulation mechanics.

S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored is a science fiction FPS puzzle horror game, which takes place a few months after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster. Experience a tale about an unexplored area within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone - The S.W.A.N. Institute.

Why similar: Puzzle 22.2%, Sci-fi 18.7%, FPS 18.6%, Adventure 18.4%, Action 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of atmospheric exploration and puzzle-solving in a mysterious, restricted location.

You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...

Why similar: Adventure 47%, Puzzle 33.5%, First-Person 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the mystery and atmospheric tension of working in an environment where things have gone wrong.

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

Why similar: Sci-fi 52.1%, Adventure 24.7%, Indie 12.7%, First-Person 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the narrative-driven exploration of an abandoned space station, emphasizing environmental storytelling.

Hardcore sci-fi first person shooter. You are a liaison on Vega 237 spacecraft. All crew members died and you are all by yourself in the midst of an unknown planet. Your goal is to find out what happened to the crew and establish the signal's nature.

Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Action 36.6%, Indie 24.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a simple, indie-focused FPS experience that mirrors the action-adventure roots of the seed game.

Ether One is a first person adventure that deals with the fragility of the human mind. There are two paths in the world you can choose from. At its core is a story exploration path free from puzzles where you can unfold the story at your own pace.

Why similar: Adventure 35.6%, Puzzle 31.8%, Indie 17.9%, First-Person 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a puzzle-heavy exploration game that rewards players for interacting with their environment in a first-person perspective.

A 90's horror inspired first-person game about working the midnight shift at a gas station.

Why similar: FPS 42.5%, Action 25.2%, First-Person 19.8%, Indie 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the specific 'night-watchman' vibe of Albedo through its first-person, atmospheric exploration.

Albert Innovation is an immersive, narrative, atmospheric semi-horror game, where you will attempt to unravel the mysteries of what was once the most brilliant technological innovation company of the olden days. Manipulate machines, run away, and put an end to this nightmare.

Why similar: FPS 28%, Action 26.1%, Indie 24.6%, Adventure 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes narrative and mystery in a way that complements the investigative nature of Albedo.

Darwin’s Test is a first-person action and puzzle game that immerses you into a futuristic universe. You play as an amnesic patient following an experimental care protocol. Who are you ? Where are you ? So many questions to solve to discover the truth !

Why similar: Adventure 40.5%, Action 34.2%, Indie 25.3%

Why You'll Like It: This indie title provides a straightforward mix of puzzle and adventure mechanics that align with the seed game's structure.

The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Why similar: Puzzle 41.4%, Sci-fi 33.6%, First-Person 9.8%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more puzzle-focused, it offers the same high-concept sci-fi atmosphere and first-person exploration.

Take control of Zeb in this puzzle/platformer. He is a small energy based life form from space, known as a Plazma Being. While journeying through space to his home, Zeb was surprised to find that he was being kidnapped by aliens. They took him back to their planet and unceremoniously threw him into captivity.

Why similar: Sci-fi 28.8%, Puzzle 25.2%, Adventure 21.9%, Action 12.9%, Indie 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features puzzle-platforming mechanics that echo the indie-puzzle roots of the seed game.

All hell's breaking loose in a mysterious research facility and the only person who can save the day is the night shift security guard in the booth outside. Remotely control systems, guide scientists to safety or just… goof off? You’re not in danger. Yet.

Why similar: Dark Humor 42.2%, Sci-fi 38.5%, First-Person 9.7%, Indie 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a psychological, immersive-sim approach to the mystery-solving found in the seed game.

A unique puzzle-adventure set in the secret YogLabs research facility. As a newly created clone, you’ll face a series of challenges while disaster threatens to consume the laboratory.

Why similar: Adventure 26.7%, Puzzle 22%, Sci-fi 20%, FPS 18.5%, First-Person 7.9%

Dissonance is a top-down 3rd person adventure game. Players will encounter supernatural anomalies and creatures. Find and use specialized gadgets to aid you in your journey. Explore the abandoned research facility and reveal the secret of the organization that sent you here.

Why similar: Sci-fi 45.8%, Adventure 25.5%, Puzzle 18%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a surreal, first-person exploration experience that feels like a stylistic cousin to Albedo.

Arrested and sold at auction, you have been transported to a secret testing facility in deep space. Perform the required tasks while avoiding the abomination lurking within the complex.

Why similar: Sci-fi 46.2%, Action 19.8%, Adventure 16.6%, First-Person 9.6%, Indie 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the stealth and exploration aspects of being trapped in a facility, similar to Albedo's tension.

SECTOR ZERO is a short, physics-based dark sci-fi puzzle adventure where you play as a fragment of an ancient hive-mind entity, awakened by mining operations deep within Asteroid 2031 XT.

Why similar: Sci-fi 37%, Puzzle 21%, FPS 16.5%, Adventure 13.6%, First-Person 12%

You are Joseph Walker. After waking up in a strangely deserted science facility with no recollection of how you got there, you hear the voice of an A.I. The A.I. promises to be your guide and to help you out of the facility. However, it is clear right away that it’s not telling you everything.

Why similar: Indie 65.4%, Action 22.2%, FPS 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a quick, indie-style sci-fi shooter experience with a focus on first-person action.

A former special forces operative is sent to uncover a government cover-up tied to a secret viral experiment. As he explores a hidden underground lab and tracks the last two survivors, he realizes the facility conceals even darker secrets.

Why similar: Puzzle 36%, Action 32.9%, Adventure 31.1%

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

Why similar: First-Person 82.2%, Indie 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a solid indie adventure that focuses on puzzle-solving and exploration in a remote, isolated setting.

Space of Darkness tells the story of a mechanic who works on a space station. The mechanic is alone on the ship for a few months. One day the power suddenly cuts off. He soon finds himself alone in the dark corridors of a space station. Can you unearth what truly happened on the space station?

Why similar: Adventure 34.8%, Action 29.4%, Indie 19.9%, FPS 15.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans into the more violent, action-oriented side of the sci-fi adventure genre.

In the distant outer space, there's an exp base. Aliens turn humans into animals with a catalyst for their needs. Different catalysts cause different forms. You're a human who escaped. While exploring and fleeing, you reveal the truth in the lab.

Why similar: Adventure 37%, Puzzle 28.9%, Sci-fi 17.9%, Action 9.5%, Indie 6.7%

During an expedition to the Moon, two astronauts find themselves in a familiar town back on Earth. They soon discover the town is the beginning of a strange and mysterious journey...

Why similar: Sci-fi 48.4%, Adventure 21.3%, Action 18.6%, First-Person 11.7%

It's your first day as a lifeform researcher, and while you don’t know much about the job, you're desperate for the paycheck. What could possibly go wrong?

Why similar: First-Person 100%

Lunar Nightmare is a retro-inspired sci-fi thriller, set on an abandoned Moon base, where you have to solve the mystery behind missing crew members, ancient discoveries around deep down the Lunar surface, rouge-AI trying to control your fate and ghastly androids to revolting against your command.

Why similar: Sci-fi 51.1%, Adventure 25.6%, Action 23.3%

While the Great Stargazer is deeply sleeping, the Celestial Guardians protect the equilibrium of the forgotten world…

Why similar: Sci-fi 27.2%, Adventure 22.7%, Action 19.7%, Puzzle 16.7%, Indie 13.8%

You arrive at Mars Site-113, a decaying monument to the SCP Foundation's ambition—and its failures. Once the most secure facility, now a cradle of horrors calling you to uncover its secrets. Face relentless anomalies, humanity's darkest truths, and a mission that demands survival above all else.

Why similar: Sci-fi 30.6%, Puzzle 18.3%, FPS 17.8%, Adventure 13.4%, Action 11.8%

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Sci-fi 62.5%, Adventure 21%, Action 16.5%

Welcome to Gravulse, an innovative space curvature laboratory that is trying to "flip" the laws of physics, literally. Here you have to go through many test levels using various new technologies!

Why similar: Action 26.2%, Sci-fi 23.6%, Dark Humor 21.7%, First-Person 17.1%, Indie 11.4%

Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.

Why similar: Sci-fi 40.5%, Puzzle 25.4%, Adventure 18.8%, Indie 9.5%, First-Person 5.8%

Strange coincidence brought traveler in unfamiliar places. It would be fine, except sinister desolation is starting to embrace the surroundings. There is no another soul around for the tens of kilometers. Or that’s what it seems like? I should probably go deal with that.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.8%, Action 20.4%, Adventure 16.8%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Indie 13.7%

You have been taken prisoner and sold to a deep space testing facility. Upon arrival, you are fitted with a device forcing you to participate in their experiment. Released into a massive complex, the dark halls wind around testing rooms and conceal pieces to puzzles. There is no option but to comply.

Why similar: Sci-fi 40.8%, Puzzle 24.2%, Adventure 16.9%, First-Person 9.2%, Indie 9%

At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Why similar: Sci-fi 35.4%, FPS 18.5%, Adventure 16.2%, Action 13.1%, Indie 9.4%

Project Pulsation - a sci-fi first person shooter with elements of horror and stealth. The distant space station 'Complex' located nearby Thanatos Asteroid keeps a valuable Artifact. Fight your way through turrets, unknown creatures and mysterious ghosts, survive and try to get back.

Why similar: Action 60.3%, Adventure 25.4%, FPS 14.3%

A first-person puzzler where shadows kill you. Watch your step or be swallowed by the darkness.

Why similar: Adventure 28.2%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Puzzle 20.4%, Indie 17.7%, First-Person 7.7%

What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.

Why similar: Indie 93.1%, Sci-fi 3.8%, Puzzle 1.7%, Adventure 1.5%

Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.

Why similar: Adventure 25.3%, Sci-fi 23.7%, Action 21.6%, Indie 16.4%, Puzzle 13%

Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...

Why similar: Sci-fi 32%, Adventure 26.5%, Puzzle 19%, First-Person 9.3%, Action 7.2%

Earth's Shadow is a third person action Sci-Fi dungeon crawler set in the year 3081 on planet Sumbra; a remote alien planet where legends of valuable relics surround this black world, calling to the greedy and brave explorers seeking a bright future... but end up uncovering an even darker past.

Why similar: Action 62.9%, Sci-fi 37.1%

Enter the abandoned arcade after your car has crashed, and the shelter you were looking for is trying to eat you alive in this dark mystery-horror adventure. Solve mysteries, keep JANITOR satisfied, and always be aware of what's behind your back.

Why similar: Puzzle 36.7%, Action 23.5%, Adventure 23.5%, First-Person 16.4%

Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.

Why similar: Sci-fi 34.9%, FPS 20.2%, Adventure 12.1%, Action 11.4%, Puzzle 8.3%

A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?

Why similar: Sci-fi 62.6%, Action 24.5%, First-Person 12.9%

Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?

Why similar: Sci-fi 46.6%, Adventure 32.9%, Indie 20.4%

The player finds himself in an abandoned school, which was once a place of study for local schoolchildren. The protagonist is a paranormal researcher who came here to solve the mystery that shrouds this gloomy location.

Why similar: Action 37.9%, First-Person 29.4%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 4.9%

Your duty as a South Korean army officer just began. You must check out mysterious anomalies to finish this endless night.

Why similar: Dark Humor 55.1%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 11.4%, First-Person 6.4%

Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.

Why similar: Adventure 35%, Sci-fi 31%, Indie 22.1%, Puzzle 10.4%, First-Person 1.4%