
A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Singleplayer, Atmospheric, Indie.

A 3D-2D adventure where you travel a 3D world and explore 2D dungeons inside of its characters' bodies and minds! In an unforgettable, surreal story, travel the world, meet whimsical denizens, and save the world from the dangerous Nano Dust.

Even the Ocean
A story-rich 2D platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures, while uncovering the truth of your world. Explore towns and cities, and help a world thrown out of balance!

Anodyne
A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!
A story-rich 2D platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures, while uncovering the truth of your world. Explore towns and cities, and help a world thrown out of balance!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Story Rich 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 9%
A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!
Why similar: Surreal 34.3%, Exploration 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Great Soundtrack 11%, Atmospheric 10%
In this 3D, story-driven platforming adventure, explore an uninhabited island's massive cave network. Learn about the heroes' psyches as you explore lush caverns, subterranean oceans, and surreal cityscapes, all while meeting surprising creatures! By Anodyne & Angeline Era's devs!
Why similar: Surreal 19.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Emotional 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Story Rich 9.5%
A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.4%, Emotional 17.3%, Adventure 11.7%, LGBTQ+ 9.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
Figment 2: Creed Valley is an action-adventure game set in the human mind. Face bosses in musical showdowns, make your way through puzzles, and explore unique environments.
Why similar: Soundtrack 38.8% ★, Surreal 12.2%, Emotional 11.3%, Exploration 8.4%, Story Rich 6.7%
Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…
Why similar: Soundtrack 35.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Story Rich 11%, Atmospheric 8.2%
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.6%, Story Rich 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Surreal 12.1%, Cute 8.7%
Strange Telephone is a 2D adventure game in which the player explores strange worlds created with merely 6 digits, and has multiple endings.
Why similar: Soundtrack 20.4% ★, Surreal 16.3%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 21.9%, Adventure 18%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, 2D 14.4%, Cute 12.4%
Fall into the magically complicated world of Overture as the three main characters embark on an adventure that will shake their lives and the world around them. Will they fan the flames of the growing revolution, or will they be the key to extinguishing it?
Why similar: Soundtrack 19.6% ★, Surreal 14.9%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Story Rich 9.5%
Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.
Why similar: Surreal 25%, Great Soundtrack 23.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Story Rich 8.4%, Adventure 7.7%
Amphora is a peculiar puzzle game that mixes story elements and physics. Amphora presents you with an unfamiliar world with a striking visual style inspired by all the shadow theatre traditions and colors of the world.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.6%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Colorful 9.6%, Adventure 9.1%
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.9%, Story Rich 12.2%, Adventure 7.8%
Set out on a mystical adventure of self-discovery against the backdrop of fantastical landscapes of The Tower. Meet its dwellers and unravel their stories. Manipulate spirits to solve puzzles, and lead Ina on her path to freedom.
Why similar: Surreal 31.4%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Story Rich 9.7%, Colorful 6.9%
Explore the corners of a surrealistic post-human world to give life on Earth a second chance in this touching story about sacrifice and hope.
Why similar: Surreal 19.1%, Emotional 16.6%, Exploration 13.1%, Adventure 12.4%, Third Person 11.1%
Ragtag crew? Check. Musical gear? Check. Tour bus and robot driver? Check. Stolen package? Check! Embark on a perilous road-trip across a Divided States of America. Use the power of words to shape relationships with your crew, get out of trouble and reach your final destination.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Emotional 15.2%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Story Rich 9.1%, Exploration 8%
A Pizza Delivery is a narrative exploration game with puzzle elements focused on connecting with people. Share pizza with charming characters to uncover their stories—and your own. Drive and explore a strange, meditative world filled with secrets.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Surreal 13.4%, Emotional 13%, Exploration 7.5%
A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.
Why similar: Philosophical 33.6%, Exploration 11.2%, Surreal 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Colorful 7.4%
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.2%, Great Soundtrack 23.3%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Cute 8.3%, LGBTQ+ 8.2%
Embark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.8%, Story Rich 19.8%, Exploration 19.1%, Atmospheric 17.8%, Adventure 9.7%
The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.8%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Colorful 13.4%, Story Rich 9.8%, Cute 8.9%
A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25%, Emotional 21.9%, Story Rich 11.7%, LGBTQ+ 8.6%, Cute 8%
A completely self-contained portable version of one of the highest user-rated games. Built on an entirely new engine with new UI, support for Steam Deck, & more. Features world-bending puzzles, intriguing denizens, surreal environments, and a captivating story about the truth of the game's reality.
Why similar: Surreal 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 13%, Story Rich 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Exploration 9.8%
Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Female Protagonist 14%, Adventure 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%
An adventure about a robot saving her home from a dark crystalline force. Set upon a biopunk space station bursting with fantastic plants and aliens.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 23.3%, Adventure 14.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Cute 10.1%, Atmospheric 9.3%
Röki is a stunning adventure set in the snowcapped wilderness. As Tove, you must explore an uncharted world of hidden legends and forgotten monsters. Solve puzzles, collect curiosities, and uncover a tale of tragic loss, as you chart your path to redemption.
Why similar: Emotional 19.8%, Female Protagonist 16%, Third Person 12.3%, Story Rich 12%, Atmospheric 10.2%
Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.1%, 2D 12.2%, Adventure 11.5%, Exploration 9.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
Step into a hand-animated realm of wonder in which everyday objects take on a life of their own. Uncover the Forgotlings’ mysteries & harness magical forces as you embark upon a quest to return home.
Why similar: Soundtrack 38.1% ★, Emotional 17.8%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Story Rich 11%, Atmospheric 9.3%
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.2%, 2D 13.8%, Adventure 13.2%, Cute 12%, Indie 11.1%
Explore the acclaimed animal adventure in never before seen beauty! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights or even climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, there are lots of ways of getting around.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Emotional 12.2%, Third Person 9%, Story Rich 8.7%
Find your way in a world of breezy, thoughtful puzzles, along a charming journey of self-discovery.
Why similar: Soundtrack 15.3% ★, Exploration 15.3%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Colorful 12.1%, Story Rich 10.5%
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: Surreal 28%, Great Soundtrack 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Story Rich 8.8%, Adventure 8%
Figment 2: Creed Valley is an action-adventure game set in the human mind. Join Dusty, The Mind’s courage, as you make your way through puzzles, musical boss fights and unique environments. Get a taste of this surreal and whimsical adventure in the prologue.
Why similar: Soundtrack 49.3% ★, Surreal 26.8%, Story Rich 10.6%, Adventure 6%, Colorful 5.1%
Sonority is an innovative music puzzle adventure set in a lovingly designed, fascinating world. Play as Esther and discover the rockery, a place full of music and unique puzzle mechanics.
Why similar: Emotional 24.8%, Story Rich 14.6%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Exploration 10.9%, Atmospheric 10.5%
Use the power of music to reawaken long forgotten memories in Distortions, a story-driven journey through a world of unparalleled beauty.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 31.6%, Surreal 24.6%, Adventure 14.6%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Exploration 10.1%
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.4%, Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Adventure 15.6%, 2D 11.7%, Exploration 10.5%
Carve your own path through Fourmiworld - an "open-world-ant-farm-metroidvania". Play as an interdimensional urban explorer girl, collect Gamut to unlock new abilities, and discover the sights, plights, & soundbites of a surreal alien dimension.
Why similar: Surreal 44.4%, Exploration 14.8%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Adventure 9.7%, 2D 5.9%
Explore a deeply emotional story about love and sacrifice, and the hope that exists in us all.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.3%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Adventure 15.9%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Story Rich 11.6%
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.4%, Philosophical 24.4%, Surreal 10.3%, Atmospheric 9%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
Explore, fight, solve puzzles and bend gravity to escape the dream-like world of the Halls! Metro Gravity is a mind-boggling musical adventure with rhythmic combat and compelling lore.
Why similar: Surreal 22.3%, Female Protagonist 17.3%, Exploration 13%, Third Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.5%
Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.
Why similar: Soundtrack 22.9% ★, Surreal 20.2%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Emotional 10.7%, Story Rich 8.3%
Continue Joey and Xefros’s adventure through the dark and dangerous planet Alternia. Meet dozens of unique and memorable characters, some more helpful than others, as you navigate this volatile alien culture. Hurry up! There’s a train to catch.
Why similar: Soundtrack 35.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Story Rich 8.9%, Colorful 5.9%
Journey through a vibrant world fighting vicious monsters, exploring puzzling dungeons, and collecting magical artifacts. Unravel the mysteries of Vann's Point and bond with all of its curious townsfolk!
Why similar: Exploration 22.4%, Story Rich 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 19.8%, Colorful 15.2%, 2D 12.3%
A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.
Why similar: Surreal 53.5%, Great Soundtrack 28.2%, Adventure 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Indie 2.2%
A mysterious plot about a film student who finds herself lost in the world of the dead, the Posthumous Lands. Alongside a purple-haired woman, Coralina must decipher Human Alchemy in this retro adventure with cinematic touches!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Surreal 16.6%, Emotional 13.8%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Exploration 8.6%
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 31.6%, Story Rich 17%, Adventure 14.3%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Surreal 12.7%
Solo is an introspective puzzler set on a gorgeous and surreal archipelago. Reflect on your loving relationships by exploring contemplative, dream-like islands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Exploration 9.8%, Story Rich 9.5%, Emotional 9.2%
An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 26.1%, Great Soundtrack 23.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Cute 10.8%
Something is wrong with the heart of magic. Play a young archivist venturing out into a dying world, cataloging its mysteries and its wonders to unearth the truth. Nanotale is the new adventure from the Typing Chronicles franchise and the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Epistory.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 18.5%, Exploration 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Story Rich 14.4%, Atmospheric 13.1%
The Hyper‑Dungeon awaits! Explore an evershifting labyrinth where classic dungeon‑crawling meets exhilarating action. Challenge yourself in turn-based combat with a real‑time, arcade‑inspired twist and befriend an eccentric cast of dungeon dwellers on the quest for the legendary Sacred Groowl!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 18.7%, Story Rich 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Exploration 15.2%, Colorful 9.2%
Bring kindness and light to the people of Sainte-et-Claire as Lila—a tiny mouse with a big heart! Explore a quaint French village, make electrifying new friends, and do good deeds for those in need in this lush narrative adventure game.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.1%, Emotional 16.6%, Story Rich 11.2%, Exploration 9.8%, Colorful 8.9%
Help Mother Bilby, as she struggles underground to find her children, in this magical indie, 2.5D puzzle-platformer game. Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey is an unforgettable adventure for those who love being challenged.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 22.4%, Adventure 17.5%, Cute 15.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Indie 11.2%
Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.
Why similar: Surreal 30.8%, Story Rich 13.1%, Exploration 12%, Third Person 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.9%
Let your empathy guide you as you play an exciting action-adventure, creature-saver game. Understand and tame the creatures of Ava and let them lead you through a variety of ecosystems – all in the hopes of saving the planet from a life-consuming infection.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.8%, Emotional 17.9%, Exploration 14.7%, Story Rich 10.7%, Colorful 9.2%
Harmony’s Odyssey is a 3D fantasy adventure puzzle game set on mythical dioramas full of riddles, perky creatures and magic. Embark on a fantastic journey through remote fabled lands tangled by a rowdy cat and bring peace to its inhabitants.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 34.9%, Cute 22.2%, Colorful 16.8%, Adventure 13.6%, 3D 7.8%
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.5%, Female Protagonist 19.3%, Exploration 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Story Rich 11%
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 24.3%, Great Soundtrack 19.2%, Adventure 12.3%, 2D 8.8%
Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.4%, Pixel Graphics 22.1%, Adventure 22%, 2D 10.7%, Story Rich 10.3%
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 41.3%, Story Rich 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Adventure 8.9%, 2D 8.8%
Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 22.1%, Great Soundtrack 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Emotional 14.1%, Story Rich 12.2%