60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Exploration, Singleplayer, Atmospheric, Adventure.
The ocean hides countless forgotten secrets. Echoes of calamity and loss scar the waves. Sail a vast planet under a blanket of stars and use your tools and wit to solve the grand puzzle of the past. Rediscover truth in this expansive open world mystery.
Little Astronaut
Explore the silent Virelia Research Station in this atmospheric sci-fi puzzle adventure. Restore forgotten systems, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover what changed the abandoned station through documents and exploration.
Abyss of Light
"Abyss of Light" is a narrative-driven sci-fi adventure game. In this story, you play as a stranded interstellar colonist who crash-landed on a mysterious planet and struggles to find a way home.
Explore the silent Virelia Research Station in this atmospheric sci-fi puzzle adventure. Restore forgotten systems, solve environmental puzzles, and uncover what changed the abandoned station through documents and exploration.
Why similar: Science 16.2% ★, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Mystery 10.5%, Philosophical 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.5%
"Abyss of Light" is a narrative-driven sci-fi adventure game. In this story, you play as a stranded interstellar colonist who crash-landed on a mysterious planet and struggles to find a way home.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.9%, Mystery 14.5%, Space 13.7%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Story Rich 9.7%
Welcome to the thrilling world of 'Scientific project: Optic'! This immersive first-person puzzle game invites you on a journey through the realm of optical science, from its philosophical origins to modern understanding.
Why similar: Science 21.5% ★, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Philosophical 14.9%, Walking Simulator 11.1%, Mystery 9.9%
Escape your doomed mission from the Moon. Explore a vast open-world landscape and evade its dangers. Land shuttles, solve puzzles, control cameras, hack systems, uncover mysteries, and roam tranquil plains in your Rover. Survive the mission. Make your escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.6%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Space 14.2%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Mystery 12.1%
Embark on an interstellar trip and deploy to a mythic ocean planet in a low-flying jett in this cinematic science fiction action adventure with immersive sim elements from Superbrothers, known for Sword & Sworcery EP.
Why similar: Science 21.1% ★, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Space 10.9%, Mystery 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%
Platonic is a first-person puzzle adventure game. Explore five unique worlds. Solve logical challenges. Gather clues and think outside the cube.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.4%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Logic 11.1%, Mystery 10.6%, Philosophical 10.4%
A short narrative-heavy non-linear exploration game. Where you explore a dungeon, journal your own notes, manage your light, avoid traps, read lore, and hunt for a way out.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 23.4%, Walking Simulator 20.2%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Mystery 15.7%, Exploration 9.9%
A cinematic first-person sci-fi story seen through the eyes of Celes, a lonely android who awakens on a silent ship drifting ever farther from Earth. As the only one of your kind in the entire universe, you are searching for answers, connection, and a place to call home.
Why similar: Science 24.3% ★, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Mystery 12.2%, Space 11.3%, Sci-fi 8.4%
Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 14.2%, Mystery 13.6%, Logic 12.5%, Nonlinear 9.5%, Puzzle 8%
Go on a voyage of discovery following the traces of a mysterious culture. Discover diverse landscapes, investigate abandoned artifacts, and wake strange machines from their slumber.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.4%, Mystery 11.5%, Logic 9.9%, Exploration 8.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%
The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.5%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Science 13.6% ★, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%
Dive into a realistic, single-player, first-person journey through the harsh northern latitudes as you sail endless waters, searching for a way back to your loved ones. Will you follow the light?
Why similar: Sailing 36.6% ★, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Philosophical 12.8%, Mystery 8.3%, Story Rich 7.1%
Lapso is a single player first-person exploration game, with particular attention paid to the environmental narrative and sound. It develops through the figure of a scientific illustrator camping near a lake, documenting a special assignment.
Why similar: Mystery 21.3%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Exploration 16%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Puzzle 10.3%
Immerse yourself in the fascinating ancient world of cube puzzles, where each step reveals a new mystery. You will explore different zones, each filled with unique puzzles that require the use of cubes to solve them.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.5%, Philosophical 18.2%, Nonlinear 9%, Story Rich 9%, Exploration 8.8%
Can you solve the mystery of the Beast of Gozdary?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Lore-Rich 19.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Exploration 10.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
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: Walking Simulator 23.9%, Space 16.1%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Story Rich 12.4%, Mystery 8.8%
CATYPH is a First Person Adventure game (Myst-like), part of a sci-fi series named The Black Cube (ASA: A Space Adventure...). Visit Tytaah, a moon of Catyph divided into 7 regions, and try to save your home planet Terra by solving the challenging puzzles of the mysterious Germinal.
Why similar: Science 17.5% ★, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Space 11.6%, Mystery 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.5%
Fight against brain-rot in this story-driven educational physics puzzle game. You will need to learn and apply high school physics concepts to solve increasingly challenging problems and uncover a galaxy spanning plot. When you have finished, you will be able to take a college level physics course.
Why similar: Science 24.2% ★, Philosophical 15.4%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Logic 9.7%, Story Rich 7.7%
Starhopper is a nonlinear puzzle game about aligning stars to form intricate patterns. Across hundreds of hand-crafted puzzles, you will chart the night sky, restore the cosmic order, and fight with aliens.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.6%, Philosophical 19.7%, Space 16.1%, Exploration 9.3%, Puzzle 9%
The Fall of Lazarus is first person exploration and puzzle game. A deeply narrative scifi mystery game based on the exploration of an abandoned cargo spaceship about redemption and second chances.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.5%, Mystery 16.1%, Space 15.5%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Exploration 10.3%
The plane crashed, bringing an abrupt end to your journey. You regain consciousness in a strange lucid dream filled with interactive cube puzzles, where a mysterious voice guides you through the changing landscape. What is happening? Who are you? Do you have what it takes to wake up?
Why similar: Nonlinear 14.7%, Philosophical 14.1%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Mystery 12.5%, Exploration 7.4%
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
Why similar: Science 22.7% ★, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Walking Simulator 15%, Space 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%
In an intimate narrative-driven exploration game, wake up on a forgotten island between life and death equipped with only a compass, a telescope, and a weathered sailboat. Chart the haunted archipelago, relive faded memories, and uncover the truth about what, and who, you came here to find.
Why similar: Sailing 32.9% ★, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Open World 7.1%, Story Rich 6.8%
After discovering an ancient portal, you suddenly find yourself among the remnants of an ancient alien civilization. Technological relics, sprawling ruins, and cryptic puzzles are all that remain. If you are to learn their secrets, you must unearth the fate of the race that called this world home.
Why similar: Science 20.4% ★, Nonlinear 12.6%, Space 11.5%, Mystery 11.3%, Open World 9.3%
VOID SAILS is a single-player adventure where you captain a flying ship across uncharted space. Sail through mysterious worlds, battle powerful foes, and make story-defining choices. Uncover dark secrets in a game where every discovery could bring you closer to the truth—or to madness.
Why similar: Sailing 41% ★, Lore-Rich 17.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Exploration 8.9%, Story Rich 6.8%
Travel on a wind-up boat and complete quests in the charming town of Whaleville located inside a whale.
Why similar: Sailing 33.2% ★, Nonlinear 17.8%, Walking Simulator 16.8%, Open World 8.9%, Exploration 8.2%
STARDROP is an interactive sci-fi cinematic experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.8%, Space 15.7%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Mystery 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%
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: Walking Simulator 29.6%, Space 14.6%, Sci-fi 14%, Story Rich 11.4%, Mystery 10.9%
Explore a small open world in first-person, solving environmental puzzles across five distinct biomes. Observe, experiment, and uncover secrets at your own pace in this calm, discovery-focused indie experience.
Why similar: Mystery 19.9%, Exploration 13.1%, Story Rich 11.2%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Open World 9.7%
Cosmic Anchor is a post-apocalyptic puzzle game about bending the laws of gravity, black holes and causality to your will. Exploit the emergent nature of the universe, and escape the intricate test-chambers together.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.7%, Lore-Rich 17%, Science 14.9% ★, Mystery 11.9%, Puzzle 9.5%
Soar through an alien world as a flying android. Dominate the environment with thunderous shouts —or surrender to the strange rhythms of wildlife. This planet does not obey humans. And maybe, neither should you.
Why similar: Mystery 19%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Open World 10.6%, Relaxing 9.3%, Exploration 8.8%
Stranger than Fiction is a first-person puzzle adventure game where you uncover the mysterious inner workings of cosmos during the Scientific Revolution. Explore Tycho Brahe's island, find clues, and figure out which interpretations are true and which need to be let go.
Why similar: Science 26.4% ★, Space 12.4%, Exploration 11.6%, Philosophical 11.6%, Mystery 10.6%
A sci-fi cosmic adventure with puzzle platform elements
Why similar: Science 23.4% ★, Space 13.2%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Mystery 10.6%
You wake up, alone, in a hypersleep box, with no memories left. You find yourself in an enormous space station, orbiting with a strange asteroid, around a gigantic black hole. And now, it's time to search, everywhere, to understand who you were. And most importantly, what's left to do here.
Why similar: Science 20.1% ★, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Philosophical 13.9%, Mystery 11.2%, Space 10.3%
A story-driven quest in which the setting plays a key role. Pay attention to detail and look for connections, ask yourself questions, and never forget the bigger picture, learning to read the symbolism that surrounds you. Are you playing?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Philosophical 14.3%, Logic 12.1%, Exploration 10.7%, Story Rich 9.3%
Explore the ruins of an ancient city. Solve puzzles to unlock new paths, abilities, and forgotten lore. Read the lost stories you uncover to gain insight into a tangled web of mysteries. Using only your wits and your trusty torch to guide you, you must find a way to return light to a starless sky.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 25.9%, Nonlinear 20.9%, Mystery 16.3%, Exploration 10.7%, Puzzle 8.2%
De-Void is a first-person adventure game, where the player unravels the mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a remote space colony crew.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.7%, Philosophical 20.6%, Space 12.9%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Story Rich 9.6%
House of Wisdom is a first person puzzle game where the protagonist, one of the many creations of a deity, attempts to find out what happened to its creator who recently disappeared, helping the main character’s kins to deal with their distress along the way.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.3%, Mystery 17.3%, Exploration 13%, Story Rich 12.1%, Puzzle 9.1%
FREE TO PLAY: Kidnapped from your everyday life, you find yourself in a large theme park that feels more like an escape room. Solve puzzles, explore 12 themed islands, find resources, use your wits to escape.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.9%, Nonlinear 15.7%, Mystery 13.6%, Open World 11.7%, Exploration 10.8%
Explore a disparate ruin gripped between the jaws of the universe. Reawaken forgotten knowledge in this twist on a classic sokoban puzzler.
Why similar: Science 19.9% ★, Nonlinear 18.9%, Mystery 13.6%, Philosophical 12.1%, Exploration 8.7%
Release your spirit and fly through mystic landscapes as you search for a cure for the darkness. Ahro is a stylized, lore-rich, side-scrolling adventure.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 26.8%, Walking Simulator 23%, Mystery 15.1%, Exploration 11.5%, Story Rich 7.4%
Explore and solve your way through the gloomy halls in which you find yourself stuck. Thinking symmetrically will be key! Isolated and environmental puzzles feature in this first-person puzzle experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Nonlinear 20.8%, Logic 13.8%, Exploration 11.5%, Puzzle 9%
An immersive land sailing adventure where you master the wind to explore scarred lands and the remnants of lost civilizations, piecing together how humanity’s bond with nature was broken. Customize your land yacht and learn to navigate storms, calms, and shifting winds across a wind ruled world.
Why similar: Sailing 34.2% ★, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Exploration 8.2%, Open World 8.2%
A knowledge-based progression game. Explore and solve the strange misteries of the interconnected fantasy worlds trapped inside an esoteric book and discover the roots of a terrible evil. No stats, no log, no savefiles. Only pure knowledge is your progress.
Why similar: Mystery 23.4%, Nonlinear 20.7%, Exploration 15.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, Puzzle 9%
MYHA is a First Person Adventure game (Myst-like), part of a sci-fi series named The Black Cube (ASA: A Space Adventure...). Visit Myha, a moon in a far away solar system, and try to understand why you were teleported there.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.6%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Mystery 11.5%, Space 9.8%, Logic 8.4%
Welcome To Eden is a narrative driven adventure RPG set in a utopian city, Eden. Take on quests to help your fellow residents, while learning about the more secretive side of Eden in this psychological adventure. And maybe, just maybe, everything isn't as it seems...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Mystery 17%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Open World 10.8%, Story Rich 10.4%
Zoom through the landscape as Boll, a mysterious glowing sphere, uncovering a forgotten past and the truth behind the world they've landed in. Gather all sorts of collectibles, evading Shapes and Nature alike. Uncover the mysteries...
Why similar: Lore-Rich 24.5%, Mystery 18.8%, Exploration 10.7%, Open World 9.7%, Story Rich 9.1%
Something has gone wrong at the 28 Leicester Square manor. Danger lurks around every corner. In this horror puzzle game, you will uncover the truth of what happened to this place and reveal secrets that should have stayed hidden. Every man has two sides; let's just hope you help the right one.
Why similar: Science 23.3% ★, Lore-Rich 21.4%, Mystery 19.6%, Puzzle 10.7%, Story Rich 9.8%
A new sci-fi adventure from Cyan, the creators of Myst. Abducted far across the universe, you find yourself on a broken alien landscape with odd pieces of Earth. Explore, uncover, solve, and find a way to make it home.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.5%, Mystery 17.3%, Exploration 13.9%, Puzzle 11.6%, Nonlinear 9.8%
Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.4%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Mystery 9.3%, Logic 9%, Puzzle 8.2%
Epsilon Eridana is a story-driven sci-fi survival horror with a heavy focus on exploration. Your goal is to investigate what happened to the crew of abandoned space base and unravel the terryfying secrets of the first extraterrestrial contact.
Why similar: Science 23.3% ★, Walking Simulator 14.3%, Space 12.5%, Mystery 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%
Haven Moon will transport you to a mysterious world where you have to explore abandoned islands and solve their secrets to find a treasure. In this Myst-like game inspired by Jules Verne’s universe, use your senses and intelligence to find your way through secret passages and curious machinery.
Why similar: Science 17.4% ★, Mystery 14.6%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Philosophical 12.2%, Logic 9.8%
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Philosophical 25.1%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Exploration 13.7%, Stylized 6.7%
Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?
Why similar: Science 24.2% ★, Mystery 12.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Logic 10.6%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.4%, Mystery 15.1%, Philosophical 12.7%, Exploration 11.5%, Logic 9.9%
Honorable worker of Lindenauw, you are mandated on the Tswinoberg exploitation site. Explore an open, handcrafted island in a first-person experience.
Why similar: Science 20.8% ★, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Logic 14.3%, Exploration 14.1%, Mystery 12.7%
Symbols have never had such an impact on a person’s fate. Meet a new part of a fascinating mystical doors puzzle. This time you will have to face the ruins of the past, hiding the secret of a vanished civilization.
Why similar: Philosophical 16%, Logic 13.3%, Open World 11.8%, Nonlinear 9.5%, Exploration 9.3%
Deep Beyond Is a first-person interactive thriller about a sea explorer and the mystery behind her father’s disappearance.
Why similar: Sailing 26.2% ★, Walking Simulator 22.1%, Mystery 10.1%, Story Rich 9.3%, Exploration 9.3%
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Why similar: Puzzle 17.9%, Walking Simulator 16.4%, Exploration 14.1%, Open World 12.9%, Nonlinear 9.2%
Lazaret is an atmospheric first-person horror game. You play as a member of a rescue team called out to investigate a distress signal coming from a ship that disappeared 4 years ago.
Why similar: Sailing 35.9% ★, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Mystery 15.4%, Exploration 9.7%, Puzzle 6.7%
