Games Like Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure

‘A Musical Story’ is a rhythm game set against a 70s backdrop. Explore the memories of Gabriel, a young man trying to come to terms with his situation through the connections to his musical memory.

Why similar: Rhythm 45.8%, Music 45%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the rhythm-adventure hybrid nature of the seed game with a strong focus on musical narrative.

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: Music 64.8%, Rhythm 16%, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the whimsical, music-centric adventure spirit where your actions directly influence the world through melody.

Papetura is a short atmospheric adventure game, with unique world handmade entirely out of paper, and beautiful fragile music. It tells the story of two little creatures whose house is in danger of being burned down.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a unique, hand-crafted paper aesthetic that directly parallels the visual charm of the seed game.

An UNCONVENTIONAL ADVENTURE RPG that takes place in an inexpressible world filled with amusing musical battles and strange delightful encounters. To put it simply: You are in for a ride.🍄

Why similar: Music 53.4%, Rhythm 36.3%, Adventure 5.2%, Indie 5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends rhythm-based combat with a surreal, story-rich atmosphere that fans of experimental musical games will appreciate.

Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame is a puzzle platformer. You play as the Karmakeeper and it's your task to restore the balance in various mysterious worlds. Through an adaptive music system and sung narrative you will experience a truly unique rock opera.

Why similar: Music 59.6%, Adventure 22.2%, Indie 18.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a direct thematic match, being a dedicated rock opera adventure that emphasizes musical storytelling.

A teenage guitar prodigy sets out on a psychedelic journey to inspire his stage persona and confront the legacy of a dead folk legend. Starring voice performances by Michael Johnston, Caroline Kinley, Lena Headey, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Strong, and Carl Weathers.

Why similar: Music 73%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the rock opera and grand musical journey feel found in the seed game with stunning visual flair.

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: Music 61.1%, Adventure 23%, Indie 16%

Why You'll Like It: A musical action-adventure game where the world itself is a living, breathing song, much like the rhythmic environments of Ephemerid.

Awakened from his slumber, Beatbuddy journeys through lush hand-painted environments on a quest to save his companions and his own immortality. Beatbuddy interacts with the living breathing environment that pulses to the beat of an original soundtrack, aiding him as he unlocks new paths and solves puzzles.

Why similar: Music 48.4%, Rhythm 36.5%, Indie 7.8%, Adventure 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This adventure game integrates music into its core mechanics, requiring players to interact with the environment in rhythm.

Musical Metroidvania, with pixel art to die for. Guide orphaned chick 'Birb', on a platform adventure, as he faces off against the denizens of the forest in rhythm-action boss battles. Acclaimed for its gorgeous animation, and heart-warming storytelling, as Birb strives to discover his true origins.

Why similar: Rhythm 44.6%, Music 40.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a charming metroidvania-style exploration with rhythm-based musical challenges.

Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music.

Why similar: Rhythm 62.9%, Music 29%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm game with a dreamlike, hand-drawn aesthetic that focuses on the emotional connection between music and gameplay.

Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.

Why similar: Adventure 39.5%, Music 33.7%, Indie 26.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title is a landmark in atmospheric, music-driven adventure games with a highly stylized aesthetic.

Before the Echo combines elements of both rhythm and role-playing games to create an entirely unique experience.

Why similar: Rhythm 55.2%, Music 38.3%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique blend of rhythm gameplay and traditional RPG elements, similar to the genre-bending nature of the seed game.

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.

Why similar: Rhythm 47.3%, Music 46.8%, Indie 3.2%, Adventure 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive pop album that functions as a high-speed rhythm adventure, capturing the musical energy of the seed game.

Beat the Game is an adventure game where you find your way with sounds. Sounds you find introduce cinematic cutscenes as the story unfolds. You can create new combinations on your holographic music mixer throughout the game. In the end you perform a live show with all the sounds you find.

Why similar: Music 64.6%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal adventure where you collect musical samples to build tracks, mirroring the creative musical focus of the seed game.

FRACT is a musical exploration game. You arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of a world built on sound. You rebuild its machinery by solving puzzles and bring the world back to life by shaping sound and creating music in the game.

Why similar: Music 80.3%, Indie 11.4%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows players to explore a musical world where solving puzzles creates and manipulates the soundtrack.

Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful, nature-inspired point-and-click adventure that relies on atmospheric sound design and whimsical interactions.

She and the Light Bearer is a point and click adventure game, a poem, a fairy tale. Take a journey inside a vibrantly colored forest, meet silly creatures, listen to serene folk music, and discover somber secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 58.3%, Indie 41.7%

Why You'll Like It: A poetic, hand-drawn point-and-click adventure that feels like a fairy tale brought to life.

Play as Gregor, turned into a tiny bug, and set out on an extraordinary journey to unravel the mystery of your transformation. Metamorphosis is a first person adventure set in a surrealist world where your newfound abilities are your last and only hope for redemption.

Why similar: Adventure 62.3%, Indie 37.7%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, first-person adventure that focuses on unique perspectives and atmospheric storytelling.

Samorost 3 is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from the award-winning creators of Machinarium and Botanicula. Travel across space to nine unique worlds teeming with colorful challenges, creatures and surprises to discover, brought to life with beautiful artwork, sound and music.

Why similar: Adventure 65.1%, Indie 34.9%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal point-and-click adventure features a distinct, organic art style and a focus on sound-based puzzle solving.

Can you beat the beat? Journey as a green LED mysteriously trapped inside a dying boombox and play the ultimate musical experience. In this rhythmic platform adventure where your every action needs to be right on the beat, bring electro, dub and disco music back to life!

Why similar: Music 47.4%, Rhythm 42.3%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-based platformer where the music dictates the movement and environment, emphasizing the importance of timing.

Embark on a thrilling adventure through sheet music in Tadpole Treble! Escape predatory piranhas, flirtatious tadpoles and more as you make your way back home. Shoot for the top of the leaderboards, or create your own stages and music in Composition Mode!

Why similar: Music 68%, Adventure 17.1%, Indie 15%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-action game that features a creative musical score and a distinct, hand-drawn visual style.

Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

Why similar: Indie 54.2%, Adventure 45.8%

Why You'll Like It: An artistic, hand-drawn puzzle game that relies on visual storytelling and atmosphere rather than traditional dialogue.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Adventure 64.4%, Indie 35.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, atmospheric point-and-click adventure that shares the hand-drawn, artistic charm found in the seed game.

KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.

Why similar: Adventure 62.7%, Indie 37.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, atmospheric adventure that prioritizes narrative and music to create a dreamlike experience.

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: Music 81.6%, Adventure 12.1%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game where music is the primary mechanic for interacting with the world and overcoming obstacles.

The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, atmospheric puzzle game that focuses on emotional storytelling through time manipulation and sound.

Trace ribbons of light to release the energy in the music as you speed through stylised alien worlds. Battle strange enemies and fight epic boss battles all driven by an incredible licensed soundtrack.

Why similar: Music 45.1%, Rhythm 44.8%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines high-speed action with a rhythm-based soundtrack that reacts to your movement through the world.

Manipulate the look, sound, and feel of more than a dozen mesmerizing landscapes in this immersive musical adventure through space and time.

Why similar: Music 76%, Indie 24%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, music-driven experience that allows players to manipulate landscapes through sound and rhythm.

Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Why similar: Indie 69.9%, Adventure 30.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a charming, hand-drawn aesthetic and an interactive soundscape that rewards curiosity.

Morphopolis is about transformation and discovery. Morphopolis takes you on a puzzle adventure through a fantastical insect world. Starting as an aphid grub, you embark on an epic journey of metamorphosis toward your spawning ground.

Why similar: Indie 52.4%, Adventure 47.6%

From gameplay to visuals to music and imagination, BIT.TRIP BEAT is inspired by classic games in every way. Get sucked into a whole new world of sight and sound as you juggle beats and ride the vibe in this modern look at the beginning of it all. BIT.

Why similar: Rhythm 46.3%, Music 46.1%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic rhythm game that focuses on the synergy between visuals and music in a minimalist, artistic way.

Moon River is a short RPG adventure with an emphasis on music and atmosphere. Perhaps some secrets too... Explore the remains of an quiet, empty world & find the river's end.

Why similar: Music 67.6%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 15.7%

Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Message Quest is a tiny stained-glass point-n-click adventure about laziness and her herald. Imagine yourself as the main hero’s conscience, the one that must make him work when all he wants to do is sleep.

Why similar: Adventure 62.9%, Indie 37.1%

A rhythm adventure from a new perspective. Drive and drift to the beat on a futuristic road trip through the music, where the skyline is always in sync.

Why similar: Rhythm 44%, Music 42.2%, Adventure 7.9%, Indie 5.9%

Transform your keyboard into an instrument and play along to the melody of catchy chiptunes in this challenging rhythm game. Now with tap mode!

Why similar: Rhythm 47.3%, Music 46.3%, Indie 6.4%

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.

Why similar: Adventure 57.5%, Indie 42.5%

In Drizzlepath you are set on a journey to the top of the Mountain of Fire. It aims to be an atmospheric, relaxed and enigmatic experience. Downloadable soundtrack included.

Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%

Rhythm Journey is a story based, hardcore 2-buttons rhythm game.

Why similar: Rhythm 49.5%, Music 41.9%, Indie 8.7%

In a world bound by truths: connect. In Falsus is a mesmerizing rhythm game tied to an intricate card system brought together through a layered narrative. Taking place in a near-future world, traverse an atmospheric soundscape through the eyes of 5 interconnected protagonists.

Why similar: Rhythm 47.5%, Music 42.4%, Adventure 6.3%, Indie 3.8%

BasketBelle is an experimental 2D basketball-based platformer where each Chapter uses the mechanics and idea of basketball in a different way.

Why similar: Adventure 53%, Indie 47%

The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.

Why similar: Rhythm 85.4%, Adventure 14.6%

Little Briar Rose is a very special, stained glass-styled adventure game inspired by the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.

Why similar: Adventure 62.6%, Indie 37.4%

Become the Hero of Brie!

Why similar: Adventure 83.7%, Indie 16.3%

'Chasing Light' is the story of the seven days of exploring the physical properties of a game and uncovering an inner world of human beings and society. Have a weird trip!

Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%

Meadowland is an interactive poem. Explore a world, partake in a story.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Join Snufkin in this musical adventure about restoring harmony and balance to Moominvalley, protecting it from the industrious Park Keeper.

Why similar: Adventure 53.8%, Indie 46.2%

Yi and the Thousand Moons is a short video game musical written and developed by David Su. Through the course of several original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band, the game weaves a story of the archer Yi's journey to save her village.

Why similar: Music 62.7%, Adventure 21.1%, Indie 16.2%

"Starman: Tale of Light" is a slow paced puzzle adventure, with beautifully crafted sceneries and soothing music.

Why similar: Indie 54.9%, Adventure 45.1%

A long-forgotten species, a hostile planet and a journey of discovery! Welcome to the world of Lumini – split and reform your swarm, evolve and discover new abilities to bring the Lumini back to their former glory...

Why similar: Adventure 55.3%, Indie 44.7%

Play as Dodo the duck exploring a beautiful little forest. Strum your favorite guitar and watch as the forest creatures happily vibe along to your music.

Why similar: Music 48.8%, Rhythm 43.8%, Adventure 4.3%, Indie 3.1%

Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL is a rhythm game for keyboard set against a space exploration backdrop. Captain your science vessel alongside your navigator Shii as you explore the vast Sixtar system!

Why similar: Rhythm 68.7%, Music 26.5%, Indie 4.7%

Join Stix the fairy on an a tiny 3D adventure through the dense undergrowth of a fantasy garden. A bite-sized collectathon inspired by 90s platformers and childrens' picture books.

Why similar: Adventure 78.6%, Indie 21.4%

Maquette is a first-person recursive puzzle game that takes you into a world where every building, plant, and object are simultaneously tiny and staggeringly huge.

Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%

Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.

Why similar: Indie 100%

KOI is an award-winning exploration adventure game that details the story of a small koi on a grand adventure

Why similar: Adventure 53.5%, Indie 46.5%

A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles. Enjoy live acoustic sounds and a story that feels like a musical film!

Why similar: Rhythm 78.3%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 9.1%

A Tiny Sticker Tale is a cozy miniature adventure about changing the world, using the power of stickers!

Why similar: Adventure 62.5%, Indie 37.5%

UNBEATABLE is a rhythm adventure where music is illegal and you do crimes. Follow the story of Beat and her band on the run, in a narrative experience full of big emotions powered by arcade-flawless rhythm gameplay.

Why similar: Rhythm 50.9%, Music 43.3%, Adventure 5.9%

Takes the player into unfamiliar territory as they use NES-style controls to blast their way through the barrage of Beats in this rhythm-music adventure.

Why similar: Rhythm 52.8%, Music 34.6%, Indie 12.6%