Games Like Metamorphosis

INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.1%, Great Soundtrack 13%, Puzzle 11.2%, Mystery 11.1%, Exploration 9.7%

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 25.1%, Walking Simulator 22.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, Adventure 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.6%

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: Puzzle 43%, Great Soundtrack 24.3%, Adventure 10%, Indie 8.5%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.8%, Great Soundtrack 17.2%, Mystery 11.7%, Puzzle 11.2%, Atmospheric 11.2%

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: Beautiful 23.1% ★, Puzzle 13%, First-Person 12.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%, Adventure 8.9%

Welcome to The Fabled Woods, a dark and mysterious narrative short story. Despite the picturesque beauty, ugly and terrible secrets lurk among the shifting boughs, darkness that no amount of dappled sunlight can erase. Take the first step, and experience an unforgettable journey.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25%, Adventure 17.4%, First-Person 10.9%, Mystery 10%, Indie 8.1%

You are a spider. Craft webs of your own design to trap insects and leave the mysterious Blackbird Estate covered in cobwebs. This unique blend of action-puzzle gameplay takes you on a dark adventure through an abandoned mansion built by a secret society.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.9%, Mystery 19.3%, Beautiful 10.5% ★, Exploration 9.8%, Adventure 9.6%

The Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.4%, Philosophical 11.5%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Exploration 10.7%, First-Person 9.4%

Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.

Why similar: Philosophical 23.8%, Mystery 13.9%, Dark 12.1%, Story Rich 10.3%, First-Person 9.8%

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.

Why similar: Philosophical 19.7%, Great Soundtrack 11.8%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Mystery 9.1%, Dark 8.7%

Step into the mind of John Morley, a 1940s detective on his final case. Explore shadowed places long forgotten by time, and piece together crime scenes in a narrative adventure steeped in mystery, unexpected twists, and a truth buried for decades.

Why similar: Noir 21.7%, Detective 15.7%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Mystery 8%, Dark 7.6%

Caligo is the darkness everyone descends into one way or another, and to each of us it's something different. For some it's a short but exciting adventure, some will see it as a place to relax. Yet others will be reminded of their worst nightmare, while for a few, it might come as a revelation.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28%, Great Soundtrack 21.3%, Dark 9.7%, Adventure 8.6%, First-Person 8.6%

In Rise of Insanity, as a doctor of psychology you will explore the darkest recesses of the human mind. Overcome your fear to find the truth behind the tragedy that has befallen your family.

Why similar: Beautiful 18% ★, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Dark 9.6%, Puzzle 7.1%

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.

Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Mystery 12.1%, Supernatural 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Coming back to the family hotel after years, a young woman finds herself trapped with the ghosts from her past and an old cellular telephone as the only way to unveil a terrible truth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.4%, Mystery 14.1%, Dark 12.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Story Rich 9%

Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoskeleton that grants exceptional speed and agility along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate the life and death of all living things.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21.4%, First-Person 15.5%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Exploration 10.7%, 3D Platformer 9.9%

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: Philosophical 22.3%, Great Soundtrack 22%, Beautiful 13.7% ★, 3D Platformer 13.2%, Puzzle 8.5%

REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.6%, Dark 12.6%, Mystery 11.9%, First-Person 9.7%, Puzzle 8.2%

MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT™ takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach, challenging gamers to solve the hardest case of all… their own murder.

Why similar: Detective 33.7%, Supernatural 17.4%, Noir 13.5%, Mystery 10.6%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Embark on a touching and creepy journey about sacrifice and how sometimes a person pays for the sins of another

Why similar: Adventure 15.4%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Indie 9.3%, Dark 9.2%

Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Supernatural 13.7%, Dark 11.2%, Mystery 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.1%

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: Walking Simulator 22.2%, Story Rich 15.4%, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Mystery 10.9%, Atmospheric 9.3%

After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 60.1%, Adventure 16.4%, Story Rich 10.8%, Indie 9.9%, Singleplayer 2.8%

NaissanceE is an obscure and magical first person exploration game, a philosophical trip and an artistic experience. The adventure takes place in a primitive mysterious structure and the game mainly consists to explore and feel the deep and strong ambiance of this atemporal world.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Exploration 15.4%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 11.8%, Beautiful 10% ★

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: Mystery 23.1%, Story Rich 16.4%, First-Person 15.4%, Puzzle 14.5%, Atmospheric 14.2%

The Repairing Mantis is a narrative horror game that lets you experience the disturbing, violent (yet absurdly poetic) story of a mantis on a mission to repair a bridge made of flying squirrel flesh.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 31.3%, Exploration 13.1%, Story Rich 12.5%, First-Person 12%, Atmospheric 11.5%

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

Why similar: Mystery 22.6%, Atmospheric 16.2%, Dark 13.2%, Exploration 12.9%, First-Person 12.1%

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 27.8%, Story Rich 15.6%, Atmospheric 11.4%, Adventure 10.7%, First-Person 10.7%

MIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mindbending tale. Now also in Virtual Reality!

Why similar: Walking Simulator 28.9%, Puzzle 14.2%, Beautiful 11.1% ★, First-Person 10%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.

Why similar: Puzzle 36%, First-Person 23.9%, Exploration 15.1%, Indie 6.4%, Great Soundtrack 6%

"Trapped in a cocoon, the silkworm weaves her final dream." Hollow Cocoon is a first-person horror adventure game set in 1980s Japan. Immerse yourself in meticulously recreated environments as you venture into the depths of unspeakable horrors that await you.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Dark 20.4%, First-Person 13%, Story Rich 11.6%, Atmospheric 10.1%

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Why similar: Puzzle 40.4%, Great Soundtrack 19.6%, Dark 18.5%, Indie 11%, Atmospheric 6.5%

A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.4%, Mystery 16.6%, Supernatural 12.8%, Story Rich 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Discover the beautiful world of Nihilumbra and join Born on his adventure to find himself whilst trying to escape from his inevitable curse. Born was created from the absolute nothingness: The Void. But somehow he separates himself from the black emptiness and appears in the world.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21.5%, Puzzle 18.6%, Beautiful 15% ★, Atmospheric 11.1%, Adventure 10.4%

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: Noir 38.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Detective 6.7%, Atmospheric 6.3%

It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.5%, Mystery 15.8%, First-Person 12.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, Exploration 10.8%

The Shattering is a first-person, story-driven, psychological thriller. Its defining features are the dynamic environments, beautiful aesthetic and intriguing story. The gameplay is meant to submerge you in the mind of John, as you take each step forward into the twisted mystery of what happened.

Why similar: Adventure 30.4%, Indie 17.3%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, First-Person 14.1%, Atmospheric 12.5%

In the wake of catastrophe find the means to make your family whole again.

Why similar: Dark 18.5%, Story Rich 14.4%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, Beautiful 11% ★

In this first-person horror mystery game, you set out to bury the horrible past of a tyrannical government. Retrieve and destroy the documents that unravel the secrets that lie beneath Oack Grove. Will you discover the terrifying truth and find your way out?

Why similar: Detective 27.5%, Dark 14.7%, Mystery 11.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Exploration 9.8%

Discover the truth about Quern’s past, unfold the mysteries of its present, and be the explorer who shapes its future. Quern introduces reusable puzzle mechanics to the classic genre, making the player think about the game as a whole, and not just as a series of individual challenges.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.8%, Mystery 16.4%, Puzzle 12.3%, First-Person 10.3%, Story Rich 9.7%

You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Why similar: Puzzle 21.5%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, First-Person 12.1%, Philosophical 11.5%, Exploration 11.1%

A short, unconventional escape room experience. You are the candidate. You must find a way out of this room. Things are not as they seem.

Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Mystery 18.3%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Dark 15.5%, Puzzle 11.8%

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: Walking Simulator 14.9%, Puzzle 13.5%, Beautiful 12% ★, Exploration 11.7%, Mystery 10.6%

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 25.1% ★, Great Soundtrack 21.1%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Story Rich 8.8%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Once upon a time, there was a fly. A hungry fly. A fly with razor-sharp teeth, with a taste for dead things. This is the tale of its adventure to find something dead to devour, in a swamp where nothing dies, everything is grotesque, and every choice matters, no matter how surreal.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.1%, Story Rich 14.9%, First-Person 14.5%, Exploration 12.1%, Mystery 11.7%

You are the Mooseman and you have the ability to see all that is hidden to the mortal eye. You are about to visit three layers of this universe - the first one is the Lower World where dead reside…

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 37.6%, Atmospheric 20.3%, Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 10.1%, Indie 8.3%

A short atmospheric adventure game about finding meaning in a meaningless world.

Why similar: Philosophical 61.6%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Adventure 15%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Insight is a single-player horror story game shrouded in mystery. You'll take control of different characters to solve crimes and unveil the dark secrets behind them.

Why similar: Detective 42.1%, Dark 23.2%, Story Rich 17.9%, Walking Simulator 10.7%, First-Person 3.7%

A short and surreal meta-narrative experience. Explore the gallery and find a way to push The Button...

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.2%, Walking Simulator 23.1%, Dark 16%, Adventure 10.5%, Puzzle 10%

Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure, plunging you into a nightmarish realm teeming with grotesque forms and ominous visuals. Delve into eerie landscapes and uncover secrets in this atmospheric journey through the macabre.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 32.7%, Mystery 20.2%, Puzzle 12.4%, First-Person 12.2%, Exploration 11.3%

Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.

Why similar: Beautiful 21.4% ★, Great Soundtrack 16.1%, Adventure 13.8%, Dark 10.3%, Puzzle 9.9%

Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.

Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Walking Simulator 18%, Mystery 15.6%, Exploration 9.8%, Story Rich 9.6%

Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and barely any traces of human life remain. You will have to use all your ingenuity to escape and avoid becoming the meal of the hideous denizens.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.9%, Mystery 14.7%, Story Rich 11.5%, Dark 10.9%, First-Person 10.1%

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 46.2%, Story Rich 12.8%, Exploration 12.3%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Adventure 6.9%

Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.7%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 16.5%, Dark 15.3%, Atmospheric 12.8%

You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.9%, Supernatural 21.5%, Dark 14%, Mystery 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Why similar: Puzzle 23.6%, Exploration 22.9%, Mystery 22.1%, Atmospheric 15.2%, Adventure 8.4%

Take on the last case of Benedict Fox and dive into a twisted world of secret organizations, forbidden rituals, and cold-blooded murders. Explore the memories of deceased victims as you search for clues and fight demons in this fantastical Lovecraftian Metroidvania.

Why similar: Noir 34.4%, Supernatural 28.1%, Mystery 18.2%, Adventure 9.9%, Singleplayer 5%

The Initiate is a mystery puzzle game. You awake in a house full of traps and puzzles - This is your trial; complete it, or die!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.2%, Adventure 17.1%, Puzzle 15.8%, Atmospheric 13%, Story Rich 12.5%