- #1 Outer Wilds
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 99,459 reviews2020
Dev: Mobius DigitalPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Why similar: Space 21.4%, Exploration 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.5%, Beautiful 12.1% ★, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive space exploration game that captures the same sense of wonder, mystery, and non-linear discovery found in MirrorMoon EP.
- #2 Antichamber
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 17,576 reviews2013
Dev: Alexander BrucePub: Demruth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 22.1%, Abstract 21.3%, Surreal 16.7%, Exploration 11.6%, First-Person 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at using non-standard geometry and abstract logic to challenge the player's perception in a first-person perspective.
- #3 Manifold Garden
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,118 reviews2020
Dev: William Chyr Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
Why similar: Abstract 26.9%, Experimental 14.7% ★, Surreal 12.6%, Puzzle 10.5%, Exploration 9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the surreal, non-Euclidean spatial puzzles and abstract architectural aesthetic that define the core gameplay of MirrorMoon EP.
- #4 Exo One
94% matchVery Positive90% of 5,125 reviews2021
Dev: ExbleativePub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time.
Why similar: Space 32%, Walking Simulator 23%, Exploration 18.9%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Adventure 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the meditative, abstract experience of traveling through surreal, alien landscapes using unique movement mechanics.
- #5 NaissanceE
95% matchVery Positive84% of 4,240 reviews2014
Dev: Limasse Five
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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: Abstract 27.2%, Exploration 14.5%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Surreal 10%, First-Person 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly lonely, monumental, and abstract exploration experience within a vast, mysterious environment.
- #6 The Witness
94% matchVery Positive85% of 20,427 reviews2016
Dev: Thekla, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Why similar: Puzzle 24.4%, Exploration 15.6%, Open World 13.8%, Walking Simulator 11.5%, First-Person 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Like MirrorMoon EP, it requires deep environmental observation to solve puzzles that are integrated into the world itself.
- #7 FRACT OSC
93% matchVery Positive86% of 610 reviews2014
Dev: Phosfiend Systems
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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: Puzzle 17.8%, Exploration 17%, Abstract 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, First-Person 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person exploration with musical, abstract puzzles that feel very similar in tone to the seed game.
- #8 Sable
91% matchVery Positive86% of 6,173 reviews2021
Dev: ShedworksPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Open World 24.1%, Exploration 22.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Adventure 9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a quiet, minimalist, and visually striking exploration experience that emphasizes discovery over combat.
- #9 Proteus
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,783 reviews2013
Dev: Ed Key and David KanagaPub: Twisted Tree
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.1%, Exploration 17.5%, Experimental 13.7% ★, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Beautiful 10.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: This game prioritizes the sensory and meditative aspects of exploration, stripping away traditional goals for a pure experience.
- #10 Kairo
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,741 reviews2013
Dev: Locked Door PuzzlePub: Lupus Studios Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Why similar: Abstract 27.4%, Puzzle 15.8%, Exploration 14.3%, Surreal 12.2%, First-Person 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game is a highly abstract, minimalist exploration experience that focuses on solving environmental puzzles in a surreal world.
- #11 P·O·L·L·E·N
90% matchMixed65% of 204 reviews2016
Dev: Mindfield Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
P·O·L·L·E·N is an atmospheric, suspenseful and highly interactive first person sci-fi exploration game set on Saturn’s moon Titan. Delve into the richly detailed Station M, and try everything you can get your hands on to uncover the mysteries that lie beneath the moon’s crust.
Why similar: Exploration 25.1%, Sci-fi 23%, First-Person 18.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Walking Simulator 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly atmospheric, sci-fi exploration experience with a focus on interacting with a mysterious, isolated environment.
- #12 Maquette
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 651 reviews2021
Dev: Graceful DecayPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 20.6% ★, Puzzle 18.7%, First-Person 13.7%, Indie 10.5%, Adventure 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It uses perspective and recursive spatial manipulation to solve puzzles in a way that feels intellectually rewarding and surreal.
- #13 Rememoried
89% matchMixed58% of 236 reviews2015
Dev: Vladimir KudelkaPub: Hangonit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams. The Surrealist explorative first-person adventure game.
Why similar: Abstract 20.5%, Experimental 10.6% ★, Surreal 10.5%, Space 9.2%, Walking Simulator 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game matches the surreal, dream-like, and abstract nature of the environments found in MirrorMoon EP.
- #14 AER Memories of Old
87% matchVery Positive86% of 7,624 reviews2017
Dev: Forgotten KeyPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Exploration 23.8%, Open World 20.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.4%, Adventure 11.6%, Indie 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features flight-based exploration in a stylized, open world that encourages the same sense of freedom found in space travel.
- #15 Memorrha
88% matchMixed66% of 151 reviews2019
Dev: StickyStoneStudio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 19.6%, Puzzle 14.9%, Exploration 13.7%, Open World 11.5%, First-Person 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the focus on ancient, mysterious puzzles in a first-person perspective that requires interacting with the environment.
- #16 Superliminal
84% matchVery Positive95% of 32,646 reviews2020
Dev: Pillow Castle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Why similar: Surreal 24.4%, Puzzle 23.3%, First-Person 15.3%, Exploration 13.6%, Minimalist 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game explores perspective-based puzzles in a first-person view, constantly subverting the player's expectations of reality.
- #17 The Unfinished Swan
83% matchVery Positive84% of 1,918 reviews2020
Dev: Giant SparrowPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Surreal 15.9%, Exploration 15.8%, Puzzle 14.6%, Walking Simulator 11.3%, Minimalist 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features abstract, discovery-based gameplay where the player must reveal the world around them to progress.
- #18 Cylne
86% matchMixed48% of 73 reviews2015
Dev: Cylne
Windows
Cylne is a first person surreal exploration game having a poetic and philosophical side. Explore and feel unreal worlds filled with environmental enigmas to try to achieve the chapter called "The Choice"...
Why similar: Exploration 16.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.6%, Puzzle 13.9%, First-Person 11.5%, Adventure 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers first-person, abstract exploration and puzzle-solving in a style reminiscent of early indie experimental games.
- #19 The Talos Principle
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 32,657 reviews2014
Dev: CroteamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Why similar: Puzzle 32%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 15.3%, First-Person 13.8%, Exploration 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, philosophical puzzles set within a sci-fi environment that rewards careful observation and logic.
- #20 Eidolon
85% matchMixed61% of 437 reviews2014
Dev: Kevin MaxonPub: Ice Water Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the interconnected stories of the people who lived here once.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.9%, Open World 24.1%, Exploration 23.6%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 7%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, open-world exploration game that focuses on atmosphere and the quiet discovery of a vast, lonely world.
- #21 Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 161 reviews2022
Dev: Silverstring Media Inc.Pub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Glitchhikers is a surreal journey through the spaces between places. A late night drive, a deserted airport lounge, a moonlit walk through an empty park, a quiet carriage on an overnight train. Who will you meet? What will you talk about? Where will the journey take you? Find yourself along the way.
Why similar: Abstract 39.4%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Minimalist 11.3%, Exploration 10.7%, First-Person 8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the surreal, existential, and atmospheric tone of traveling through strange, liminal spaces.
- #22 Starseed Pilgrim
84% matchMixed60% of 534 reviews2013
Dev: droqen
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 17%
Starseed Pilgrim is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with colour.You are a refugee, building your own world away from the spreading darkness.You are an explorer, discovering new places, new rules, and new fascinations.
Why similar: Puzzle 25.2%, Minimalist 21.2%, Indie 18.2%, Exploration 17.7%, Adventure 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cryptic, abstract game about discovery and environmental manipulation that shares the seed game's sense of mystery.
- #23 Scanner Sombre
81% matchVery Positive90% of 4,470 reviews2017
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27%, Exploration 20.2%, Abstract 14.9%, First-Person 9.2%, Indie 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It uses a unique visual mechanic to explore dark, mysterious environments, emphasizing the act of discovery through light.
- #24 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
81% matchMixed68% of 2,083 reviews2016
Dev: The Chinese RoomPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 38.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.6%, Exploration 9%, Open World 7.2%, First-Person 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar walking-simulator experience with a strong focus on atmosphere and environmental storytelling.
- #25 Haven Moon
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 677 reviews2016
Dev: Francois Roussel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Exploration 20.5%, Puzzle 19.5%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Sci-fi 17.2%, First-Person 11%
Why You'll Like It: Features point-and-click style puzzles within a mysterious, isolated setting that evokes a similar sense of solitude.
- #26 Grow Home
78% matchVery Positive92% of 5,564 reviews2015
Dev: Reflections, a Ubisoft StudioPub: Infogrames
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.
Why similar: Open World 39.2%, Exploration 29.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.1%, Indie 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes movement-based exploration and verticality, capturing a similar sense of scale and traversal.
- #27 Miasma Caves
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 34 reviews2020
Dev: Windy Games
Windows
Miasma Caves is an explorative action-adventure game. You'll explore a procedurally generated cave system hunting for treasure then try and make it back to town to restock and check in with the villagers before trying to venture deeper.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 37.5%, Exploration 32%, First-Person 16.4%, Colorful 6.9%, Adventure 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the pure joy of exploration and discovery in a mysterious, subterranean world.
- #28 Red Matter
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,161 reviews2018
Dev: Vertical Robot
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Red Matter is a story-driven VR puzzle adventure game set during a dystopian sci-fi Cold War. Take on the role of Agent Epsilon, an astronaut of the Atlantic Union dispatched to an abandoned Volgravian moon base on a faraway planet. Your mission: to investigate a shady top secret research project.
Why similar: Beautiful 15.7% ★, Great Soundtrack 14.7%, Walking Simulator 14%, Exploration 12.5%, Puzzle 12%
- #29 Dream
79% matchMixed56% of 992 reviews2015
Dev: HyperSloth
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Dream is an exploration game that takes place within the subconscious mind of Howard Phillips, a young man whose waking hours are tedious and dull, but whose dreams are lucid and powerful.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Exploration 17.1%, Beautiful 11.4% ★, Indie 8.5%, Puzzle 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, exploration-heavy game with abstract environments that feel like a journey through the subconscious.
- #30 Moon Mystery
73% matchMixed66% of 685 reviews2024
Dev: CosmoscoutsPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe.
Why similar: Space 28.3%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Exploration 14.6%, Puzzle 14.3%, First-Person 11.2%
- #31 Chroma Zero
71% matchVery Positive96% of 313 reviews2024
Dev: ekorzPub: ZeroXP
Windows
Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.
Why similar: Puzzle 13.4%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Exploration 10.7%, Minimalist 10.2%, Open World 10.1%
- #32 MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
77% matchMixed65% of 1,417 reviews2014
Dev: Pantumaca BarcelonaPub: Talking About Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22%, Surreal 16.8%, Puzzle 15.6%, First-Person 8.5%, Beautiful 7.6% ★
- #33 Toran
74% matchVery Positive94% of 250 reviews2019
Dev: Really Interactive
Windows
In this sci-fi puzzle adventure "short game" you are a scientist, stranded on a distant moon during an expedition to investigate alien remains. After finding a strange platform, what seemed to be a one way trip might turn into an intergalactic odyssey.
Why similar: Beautiful 16.2% ★, Experimental 15.4% ★, Space 14.5%, Indie 12.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%
- #34 Future Unfolding
76% matchVery Positive84% of 100 reviews2017
Dev: Spaces of Play UG
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Future Unfolding is an action adventure that is all about exploration. Your goal is to unfold the mysteries and solve the puzzles hidden in the beautiful landscapes around you.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.1%, Exploration 16.2%, Great Soundtrack 13.3%, Puzzle 10.8%, Indie 10.3%
- #35 The Art of Reflection
69% matchVery Positive97% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Hydrozoa
Windows
Traverse mirrors as if they were natural extensions of space to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Reshape your perspective to perform gravity-shifting acrobatics as you jungle-gym through a sprawling environment. You'll never look in a mirror the same way again.
Why similar: Abstract 24%, Surreal 14.7%, Exploration 12.4%, Puzzle 12%, First-Person 10.2%
- #36 Planet of the Eyes
75% matchVery Positive84% of 589 reviews2015
Dev: Cococucumber
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An atmospheric narrative-platformer about a service robot stranded on a mysterious planet, Planet of the Eyes features a stunning visual mix of puzzle and platforming challenges, an original musical score, and fully voiced audio logs left by another survivor. Explore the mystery of an unknown world.
Why similar: Puzzle 24.6%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Space 13%, Exploration 12.1%, Indie 9.7%
- #37 Qora
76% matchMixed67% of 530 reviews2014
Dev: Holden BoylesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A mysterious trip to gorgeous and surreal lands, players explore the unknown and harness mystical powers which have been hidden in the valley for centuries.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 41.8%, Exploration 20.4%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 15.2%, Atmospheric 5.2%
- #38 Etherborn
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 444 reviews2019
Dev: Altered MatterPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 18.3%, Beautiful 12.5% ★, Puzzle 12.5%, Minimalist 11.7%, Experimental 9.8% ★
- #39 The Swapper
72% matchVery Positive94% of 7,519 reviews2013
Dev: Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo CastellanoPub: Facepalm Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.
Why similar: Space 26.8%, Puzzle 25.2%, Sci-fi 18.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.8%, Indie 6.3%
- #40 Entropy
71% matchVery Positive95% of 194 reviews2022
Dev: Chromatic WindowPub: Juggernaut Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Fly between incomprehensible galaxies in this experimental micro game!
Why similar: Space 25.2%, Abstract 24.9%, Surreal 13.3%, Exploration 12.8%, First-Person 9%
- #41 Disoriented
73% matchVery Positive82% of 401 reviews2016
Dev: BrickCream
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A first-person puzzle game. Simply walk to the door.
Why similar: Abstract 28.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, Surreal 12.1%, Minimalist 11.9%, First-Person 10.3%
- #42 ALONE IN SPACE
75% matchMixed53% of 158 reviews2016
Dev: Butterflyware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience an immersive sci-fi adventure. Walk in the footsteps of the ill-fated crew members of the Miranda station. Explore a world cloaked in mystery and danger, solve clever puzzles to help discover the questions that...
Why similar: Space 30.4%, Exploration 15.2%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Puzzle 12.5%, First-Person 11.1%
- #43 Door2:Key
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: SVGames
Windows
Door2:Key - breathtaking and mysterious door-puzzle game in which any little thing could be a key to the solution
Why similar: Abstract 26.2%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Adventure 11.2%, Open World 10.7%, Indie 10.6%
- #44 ETHEREAL
72% matchVery Positive89% of 169 reviews2019
Dev: Nicolás RecabarrenPub: Nonsense Arts
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
A profound experience that carries players into an unknown and mysterious world surrounded by carefully designed puzzles...
Why similar: Abstract 45.6%, Puzzle 21.7%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Indie 15.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #45 COCOON
66% matchVery Positive95% of 8,481 reviews2023
Dev: Geometric InteractivePub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.
Why similar: Puzzle 23.8%, Exploration 17%, Space 14.5%, Beautiful 12% ★, Adventure 10.7%
- #46 Moons of Madness
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,891 reviews2019
Dev: Rock Pocket GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Moons of Madness is a first-person, story-driven cosmic horror game where the scientific exploration of Mars meets the supernatural dread of Lovecraft.
Why similar: Space 25.6%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Walking Simulator 11.9%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 10.9%
- #47 Earth Analog
70% matchMixed66% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Funcraft Games
Windows
In this relaxing space flight adventure, you pilot the science vessel Eurisko XI on a quest through deep space. Explore fascinating, fractal-based exoplanets and uncover their mysteries. Analyze artifacts and upgrade your ship to unlock new pathways. Your mission: find humanity’s new home.
Why similar: Space 24.7%, Exploration 13.7%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Surreal 10.9%, Puzzle 10.3%
- #48 Deliver Us The Moon
68% matchVery Positive88% of 9,052 reviews2019
Dev: KeokeN InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The Moon has gone dark, cutting off Earth’s last source of energy. As a lone astronaut, you’ll explore abandoned lunar bases, solve intricate puzzles, and navigate stunning zero-gravity environments. Operate advanced vehicles, uncover hidden truths, and survive in this gripping sci-fi thriller.
Why similar: Space 33.8%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Adventure 13%, Indie 10.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #49 LAVALAMP
63% matchVery Positive95% of 290 reviews2026
Dev: The Space Lemmings from Space Productions
Windows · Mac
3D first-person walking simulator with a side of exploration/interaction with the environment. The game tells the story of the Space Lemmings from Space who, after running many experiments with breakfast alphabet and the space-time continuum, got blocked between dimensions (or something).
Why similar: Abstract 27.8%, Walking Simulator 20.9%, Surreal 14%, Exploration 13.7%, First-Person 10.1%
- #50 In Other Waters
68% matchVery Positive87% of 2,454 reviews2020
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
Why similar: Beautiful 18% ★, Exploration 14.6%, Experimental 12.2% ★, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Indie 9.1%
- #51 Obduction
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,942 reviews2016
Dev: Cyan, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Puzzle 17.5%, Exploration 16.9%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Surreal 12.7%, Adventure 10.4%
- #52 Exo One: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive94% of 741 reviews2020
Dev: Exbleative
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A strange signal... an alien craft... an interplanetary, gravity-defying journey through space and time. This is the prologue for Exo One.
Why similar: Abstract 30%, Space 22.7%, Walking Simulator 20.1%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Adventure 6.7%
- #53 ELEA
70% matchMixed56% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Kyodai LtdPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Experience the surreal story of Elea. In this first-person Sci-Fi adventure you play as a space scientist recovering your lost husband. Venture out on a curious interstellar journey, full of devastating memories and startling secrets.
Why similar: Space 16.6%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Sci-fi 12%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Adventure 11.5%
- #54 With Shining Eyes
64% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Lucas Fisher
Windows
Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.
Why similar: Abstract 26.3%, Surreal 16.3%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Exploration 11.4%, Puzzle 11.4%
- #55 Stranded
71% matchMostly Negative38% of 539 reviews2014
Dev: Peter MoorheadPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A minimal point and click adventure, designed to take the player on a short but memorable journey.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 33.4%, Space 18%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 13.2%, Exploration 10.5%
- #56 Journey
64% matchVery Positive94% of 37,187 reviews2020
Dev: thatgamecompanyPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
Why similar: Beautiful 36.1% ★, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Exploration 14.4%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, Adventure 7%
- #57 Epitasis
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 159 reviews2019
Dev: Epitasis Games
Windows · Mac
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: Space 20.2%, Open World 14%, Surreal 14%, Exploration 12.6%, Puzzle 11.9%
- #58 Museum of Monoliths
64% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2023
Dev: Podoba InteractivePub: Marevo Collective
Windows
A slow burn walking sim with an interactive soundtrack and horror vibes. You explore abstract locations and create your own unique sound for each of them by moving around and using Monoliths.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.6%, Surreal 20.3%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Exploration 11.1%, First-Person 8.9%