Games Like GRIS

Experience the moving tale of a young woman and her lifelong bond with a magnificent wolf as they embark on a thrilling adventure through a rapidly dying world.

Why similar: Beautiful 52.3% ★, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Female Protagonist 6.8%, Platformer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: From GRIS developer Nomada Studio, it pairs breathtaking hand-painted scenery with a deeply emotional, mostly wordless journey through loss and companionship.

Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.

Why similar: Beautiful 65.8% ★, Great Soundtrack 14.9%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Relaxing 3.5%, Adventure 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist storytelling, serene traversal, soaring soundtrack, and emotional sense of discovery make it an essential match for GRIS's meditative atmosphere.

In a world torn between nature’s grace and cold machine invasion, one girl and her companion must rely on their bond to survive and protect what they hold dear. Their story of hope, loss, and love will stay with you long after the journey ends.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.3%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Puzzle Platformer 12.8%, Platformer 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cinematic side-scrolling adventure with a young heroine, a companion creature, environmental puzzles, and a beautiful world threatened by darkness.

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 41.2%, Beautiful 19.8% ★, Atmospheric 15%, Platformer 11.3%, Story Rich 4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines lush painterly landscapes and an outstanding emotional score with a moving tale of loss, renewal, and agile platforming.

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 50.6%, Indie 13.2%, Adventure 11%, Story Rich 6.3%, Relaxing 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This heartfelt adventure uses restoring color to a drained world as an expressive mechanic while sensitively exploring creativity, anxiety, and recovery.

Hoa is a beautiful puzzle-platforming game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.

Why similar: Atmospheric 24.3%, Hand-drawn 23.2%, Relaxing 15.3%, Platformer 12.9%, Puzzle Platformer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its hand-painted environments, gentle platforming, and peaceful fairy-tale tone closely echo GRIS's visual softness and low-stress pacing.

The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

Why similar: Atmospheric 26%, Relaxing 15.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.3%, Puzzle 12.3%, Story Rich 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its warm, storybook puzzle adventure centers on guiding lost souls toward hope, offering a gentle and compassionate emotional experience.

A land of discovery stretches out before you. Explore the beautiful, rugged world of RiME. Armed with your wits and a will to overcome—and the guidance of a helpful fox—you must explore the enigmatic island, reach the tower's peak, and unlock its closely guarded secrets.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 44.1%, Atmospheric 17.8%, Puzzle 7.2%, Adventure 6.4%, Relaxing 5%

Why You'll Like It: This quiet island adventure unfolds through environmental puzzles and symbolic imagery, gradually revealing an affecting story of grief.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Beautiful 49.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 21.3%, Relaxing 8.2%, Female Protagonist 6.3%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: Its cozy exploration and uplifting sense of movement offer a shorter, lighter alternative for players who loved GRIS's tranquil journeying.

Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.

Why similar: Platformer 17.5%, Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Surreal 14.4%, Relaxing 13.6%, Story Rich 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A poignant platforming journey through memories, with time manipulation used to explore love, loss, and acceptance.

A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.2%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Platformer 13.7%, Puzzle Platformer 13.5%, Relaxing 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its platforming takes place across the pages of a girl's diary, directly tying its imaginative visual world to a story about processing grief.

From the art director of Journey®, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.

Why similar: Beautiful 42.7% ★, Great Soundtrack 25.4%, Atmospheric 12%, Relaxing 8.3%, Adventure 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A wordless underwater odyssey driven by luminous art, calming exploration, and an expressive score rather than dialogue or combat.

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: Female Protagonist 25%, Hand-drawn 19.9%, Atmospheric 19.5%, Platformer 10.5%, Story Rich 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its lavish hand-drawn animation, female lead, and melancholic fantasy story make it a strong fit for GRIS's cinematic presentation.

Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.6%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Atmospheric 15.5%, Platformer 12.2%, Relaxing 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its gorgeous hand-drawn world and relaxed platforming support a tender, ultimately hopeful story about caring for others and saying goodbye.

Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.

Why similar: Beautiful 24% ★, Female Protagonist 21.5%, Relaxing 14.2%, Puzzle 8.9%, Puzzle Platformer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its calming, visually elegant perspective puzzles and wordless story create a compact experience with the same dreamlike quality as GRIS.

Transform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.7%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Relaxing 10.4%, Adventure 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its airy low-poly world, peaceful flying, and ruins-filled exploration provide a similarly reflective escape with little pressure.

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 20.3%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Platformer 10.7%, Puzzle Platformer 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strikingly illustrated coming-of-age exploration game focused on wandering, self-discovery, and absorbing a beautiful alien world at your own pace.

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: Female Protagonist 22.7%, Atmospheric 15.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.1%, Surreal 12.1%, Relaxing 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This dialogue-free puzzle game uses time manipulation and beautiful diorama-like spaces to reflect on friendship, memory, and change.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Atmospheric 29.2%, Platformer 15.3%, Puzzle Platformer 14.8%, Story Rich 8.8%, Puzzle 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A solitary trek across a desolate painted landscape, where quiet environmental problem-solving and atmospheric sound carry the experience.

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Why similar: Beautiful 42.7% ★, Great Soundtrack 13.1%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Platformer 8.7%, Puzzle 6%

Why You'll Like It: A beautiful puzzle-platformer whose small yarn protagonist navigates environments shaped by family memories and quiet melancholy.

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: Beautiful 58.5% ★, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%, Atmospheric 6.5%, Puzzle 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Hand-drawn artwork and ingenious image-based puzzles tell a quiet, symbolic story without relying on conventional dialogue or action.

Explore strange and wonderful islands and dark labyrinths below in this narrative puzzle platformer. Guide young mechanic Mo on her quest to repair a world on the brink of collapse. The powerful Omni Switch at your disposal may not be enough to fix the damage that hides beneath the surface...

Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.6%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Puzzle Platformer 13.9%, Platformer 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its distinctive illustrated art and introspective platform-adventure structure follow a young woman trying to repair a broken world and herself.

From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. Become the Hunter, a master of archery who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.9%, Atmospheric 27.2%, Story Rich 12.4%, Adventure 9.1%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers graceful, high-speed traversal through a sublime mythic landscape, with environmental storytelling and a strong emotional undercurrent.

When humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world of darkness and light, and discover what it means to be human.

Why similar: Beautiful 56.3% ★, Atmospheric 13.4%, Platformer 13%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Adventure 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its surreal flooded world externalizes loneliness and painful emotions, following a young woman toward understanding and self-acceptance.

A single-player journey of discovery through an ancient world of wonders, created by solo developer Jonas Manke.

Why similar: Atmospheric 19.2%, Platformer 15.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.1%, Relaxing 12.2%, Story Rich 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful third-person journey through luminous abstract biomes, centered on exploration, gentle puzzles, and visual wonder.

Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.

Why similar: Beautiful 45% ★, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Female Protagonist 7.2%, Platformer 5.5%, Atmospheric 5.2%

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: Atmospheric 23.4%, Platformer 14.8%, Story Rich 13.1%, Indie 9.8%, Adventure 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its dazzling surreal vistas and music-driven journey make it a vibrant choice for players drawn to GRIS's audiovisual expressiveness.

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Atmospheric 23.9%, Puzzle Platformer 17.7%, Platformer 16.6%, Story Rich 11.3%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: This emotionally heavy pixel-art puzzle-platformer uses multiple perspectives and haunting spaces to tell a story about grief and trauma.

A song from years ago triggers a flood of memories for champion swimmer Miriam. Embark on an evocative journey through her turbulent childhood and the complicated relationship she shared with her devoted mother.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.2%, Atmospheric 21.8%, Adventure 14.8%, Story Rich 8%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A brief, impressionistic interactive story that uses shifting visual styles and tactile moments to portray a daughter remembering her mother.

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 47.7%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Platformer 11.8%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Indie 4.9%

Play the critically acclaimed masterpiece. Embark on a new journey in a vast, exotic world where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to unravel Ori’s destiny.

Why similar: Beautiful 65.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 17.7%, Platformer 5%, Atmospheric 4.4%, Story Rich 1.8%

Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.

Why similar: Beautiful 73.7% ★, Atmospheric 11.8%, Adventure 4%, Puzzle 3.1%, Indie 2.2%

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 54.2%, Atmospheric 15.1%, Platformer 10.9%, Story Rich 4.7%, Puzzle Platformer 3.7%

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.5%, Atmospheric 18.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Story Rich 11.7%, Beautiful 10.8% ★

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 49.6%, Atmospheric 14.7%, Story Rich 9.6%, Indie 5.4%, Surreal 5.3%

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: Beautiful 27.3% ★, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Great Soundtrack 7.5%, Story Rich 6.9%

From the creators of What Remains of Edith Finch. Enter the surreal world of The Unfinished Swan and explore a mysterious, hidden kingdom by splatting paint to reveal the world around you.

Why similar: Beautiful 37.7% ★, Puzzle Platformer 11.1%, Surreal 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Puzzle 5.9%

LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack.

Why similar: Beautiful 45.1% ★, Great Soundtrack 20.9%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Atmospheric 7%, Adventure 5.3%

Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 38%, Indie 16.2%, Story Rich 15.4%, Adventure 12.4%, Casual 5.2%

Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action with challenging puzzles. It has been critically acclaimed for its moody art style, ambient soundtrack and unsettling atmosphere.

Why similar: Atmospheric 25.1%, Puzzle Platformer 19.7%, Platformer 18.6%, Story Rich 10.6%, Puzzle 8.1%

A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 69.9%, Story Rich 13.4%, Indie 7.1%, Adventure 3.4%, Female Protagonist 2.4%

Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.9%, Great Soundtrack 23.3%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Story Rich 12.1%, Indie 8.8%

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: Beautiful 55.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 27.3%, Female Protagonist 8%, Atmospheric 3.3%, Colorful 1.6%

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21.2%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Story Rich 10.9%, Puzzle 8.4%

Immerse yourself in a unique narrative experience and explore the thousand summer colors of Dordogne as you revisit your childhood to uncover lost family secrets in this touching formative journey.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.4%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Hand-drawn 16.4%, Relaxing 11.3%, Story Rich 7.8%

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 45.6%, Platformer 13.1%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Indie 4.8%

CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.9%, Female Protagonist 23%, Platformer 12.9%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Puzzle 5.7%

A girl trapped in a strange world somewhere between reality and imagination. Help her find her way in this adventure puzzle game.

Why similar: Beautiful 33.5% ★, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Indie 11.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.9%, Adventure 10.5%

Hue is a vibrant, award-winning puzzle-adventure, where you alter the world by changing its background colour.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 38.3%, Platformer 14.2%, Puzzle Platformer 13.6%, Puzzle 8.1%, Indie 8%

Echo of Starsong is a visual novel style adventure game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsong, crosses paths with a young man in search of their source. Together, they venture out to the heart of space to unravel an ancient myth.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.9%, Atmospheric 16.2%, Puzzle Platformer 9.9%, Story Rich 9.8%, Walking Simulator 6.3%

Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.

Why similar: Beautiful 36.6% ★, Great Soundtrack 27.1%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Platformer 6.4%, Atmospheric 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: Beautiful 34.5% ★, Great Soundtrack 25.3%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Puzzle Platformer 6.4%, Platformer 6.2%

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 58.8%, Atmospheric 20%, Indie 6%, Adventure 5.6%, Colorful 2.9%

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: Beautiful 20.3% ★, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Puzzle Platformer 9.7%, Surreal 9.1%

Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 21.1%, Atmospheric 18.2%, Story Rich 9.7%, Puzzle Platformer 9.5%, Puzzle 6.6%

Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25%, Atmospheric 21.6%, Puzzle Platformer 13.3%, Platformer 8.7%, Female Protagonist 7.9%

Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

Why similar: Beautiful 34% ★, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%, Relaxing 8%

You are his last hope. The only one who can rescue him. Delve deep into the dreams of Luke Williams, a man diagnosed with depression, unfold the heartbreaking story of his life and prevent him from... fading away.

Why similar: Beautiful 54% ★, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Story Rich 3.2%, Puzzle Platformer 3%