Games Like Old Man's Journey

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: Hand-drawn 19.9%, Puzzle 19.4%, Point & Click 12.5%, Great Soundtrack 9.5%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on beautiful, hand-drawn art and innovative, perspective-shifting puzzles that drive the narrative forward.

Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 35.5%, Atmospheric 16.2%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Story Rich 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it uses a stunning, artistic visual style to convey a deeply emotional and personal journey without the need for dialogue.

Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 20.6%, Puzzle 13%, Story Rich 10%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the landscape-manipulation mechanics of the seed game, allowing you to rearrange map pieces to solve puzzles and explore.

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.7%, Atmospheric 16.2%, Story Rich 15.3%, Adventure 13.6%, Drama 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the seed's focus on emotional narrative and the consequences of choices, presented through a unique and stylized visual lens.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34.4%, Atmospheric 18%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 7.3%, Story Rich 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly atmospheric and wordless experience that emphasizes the beauty of travel and emotional discovery.

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: Story Rich 22.8%, Puzzle 21.1%, Atmospheric 20.9%, Stylized 14.2%, Family Friendly 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle-adventure focuses on manipulating time to explore memories, capturing a similar sense of nostalgia and emotional storytelling.

Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.

Why similar: Point & Click 21.4%, Hand-drawn 18.7%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Puzzle 12.8%, Story Rich 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its gorgeous, hand-painted art style and focus on uncovering a touching story through interactive puzzles align perfectly with the seed game's feel.

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: Point & Click 15.1%, Story Rich 13.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Casual 12.8%, Indie 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This short, interactive story uses simple, intuitive gameplay mechanics to explore the emotional beats of a life journey.

My Brother Rabbit is a beautifully drawn exploration adventure and puzzle game set in a surreal world that mixes reality with a child’s imagination.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.9%, Point & Click 27.4%, Puzzle 15%, Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This point-and-click adventure uses a beautiful, surreal art style to tell a story about a family coping with illness through imagination.

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 32.6%, Adventure 21.2%, Indie 14.1%, Story Rich 10.1%, Puzzle 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a hand-drawn aesthetic with puzzle-solving and a deeply personal story about overcoming internal struggles.

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: Point & Click 26.5%, Puzzle 26.3%, Adventure 16.5%, Casual 13.1%, Atmospheric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The game's focus on impossible geometry and relaxing, meditative puzzle-solving mirrors the artistic and thoughtful nature of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Point & Click 23.9%, Hand-drawn 21%, Story Rich 9.9%, Puzzle 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This point-and-click adventure is filled with surreal, hand-drawn environments and gentle, curiosity-driven puzzles.

Inked is a narrative-driven puzzle game set in a world of beautiful ballpoint pen-drawn landscapes. Playing as the Nameless Hero, you will solve intriguing puzzles while searching for your love Aiko.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.6%, Hand-drawn 25.4%, Puzzle 12.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a unique pen-and-paper art style and a heartfelt story that centers on a journey of love and loss.

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

Why similar: Point & Click 19%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Puzzle 9.1%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The entire world is crafted from paper, offering a unique, atmospheric visual experience paired with gentle puzzle-solving.

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

Why similar: Hand-drawn 34.3%, Atmospheric 19.7%, Adventure 11.5%, Cartoon 10.5%, Casual 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This platformer features breathtaking, hand-painted art and a relaxing, atmospheric tone that feels very similar to the seed game's world.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 39.5%, Adventure 20.5%, Indie 11.8%, Casual 10.3%, Exploration 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similar sense of peaceful exploration and wholesome, character-driven storytelling in a beautiful, stylized environment.

Figment is an action-adventure game that invites you to explore a unique surreal universe filled with music, humor and multi layered narrative. Join Dusty and his ever-optimistic friend, Piper, on an adventure through the different sides of the mind seeking to restore the courage that's been lost.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 25.1%, Hand-drawn 18.1%, Puzzle 12.3%, Adventure 11%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It blends a surreal, hand-drawn art style with musical elements and light puzzle-solving to create a whimsical yet 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 32.4%, Puzzle 17.9%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Adventure 13.8%, Colorful 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This adventure game uses environmental puzzles and a vibrant art style to guide the player through a touching, wordless narrative.

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

Why similar: Puzzle 18.1%, Atmospheric 17%, Story Rich 15.7%, Adventure 14.7%, Stylized 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a relaxing, puzzle-filled exploration of a beautiful world that feels both wholesome and contemplative.

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: Point & Click 17.9%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%, Hand-drawn 15%, Adventure 12.4%, Casual 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A wordless, point-and-click puzzle game that relies on its hand-drawn animation to tell a story about a magical world.

Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.

Why similar: Point & Click 39.9%, Adventure 23.3%, Great Soundtrack 18.4%, Story Rich 10.5%, Puzzle 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a story-rich point-and-click adventure with a beautiful, painterly aesthetic that explores themes of hope and despair.

Repair old-school objects in this cozy puzzle game. Join antique-restorer Maria, as she arrives in the sun-soaked town of Bellariva and set out on a journey of helping the townsfolk reconnect.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.6%, Casual 18.8%, Puzzle 15.1%, Indie 13%, Story Rich 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-driven puzzle game uses the act of repairing objects to explore the personal histories and relationships of its characters.

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 25.2%, Puzzle 21.3%, Adventure 18%, Story Rich 17.3%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a quiet, atmospheric journey across a desolate landscape, focusing on the maintenance and movement of your vehicle.

A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.4%, Atmospheric 19.3%, Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 11.5%, Indie 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a third-person exploration game that weaves together two parallel stories, focusing on themes of grief and connection.

Submachine is a hand-drawn puzzle adventure game. You find yourself in a vast network of desolate locations containing puzzles, secrets, notes and items to collect to help you along the way. Follow the story of a banished lighthouse keeper to discover his descent into ruins.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.9%, Hand-drawn 20.4%, Puzzle 12.4%, Adventure 8.7%, Atmospheric 8%

Why You'll Like It: This expansive point-and-click adventure features a distinct, hand-drawn style and deep, intricate puzzle-solving.

«The Guardian of Nature» is a hand-drawn, size-changing adventure. Embark on a magical journey with botanist Henry, use your size-changing ability to explore nature in big and small and solve solarpunk puzzles to put nature back in order.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.2%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Puzzle 12.7%, Adventure 8.5%, Story Rich 7.3%

Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.5%, Hand-drawn 18.3%, Adventure 10.6%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Puzzle 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This hand-drawn, point-and-click game focuses on quiet exploration and helping the inhabitants of a surreal, peaceful world.

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

Why similar: Point & Click 15.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Adventure 9.7%, Puzzle 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its stained-glass art style and point-and-click mechanics create a fairytale atmosphere that is both charming and relaxing.

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.1%, Point & Click 16.7%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Adventure 13.2%, Casual 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a storybook art style with point-and-click gameplay to create a gentle, poetic experience.

Spirit of the North is a single-player 3rd-person adventure game inspired by the breathtaking and mysterious landscapes of Iceland. Play as an ordinary red fox whose story becomes entwined with the guardian of the Northern Lights, a female spirit fox.

Why similar: Adventure 26.7%, Great Soundtrack 18.1%, Casual 15.2%, Indie 13.6%, Puzzle 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on atmospheric exploration and environmental storytelling, allowing you to experience a journey through a beautiful, natural world.

Candle is an adventure with challenging puzzles. Play as Teku, a young novice on a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe's shaman from the evil tribe of the Wakcha. But the way is littered with sinister traps and difficult obstacles.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 29.3%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Adventure 15.1%, Puzzle 15%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a unique watercolor art style and challenging puzzles that require careful observation of the environment.

Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Indie 17.3%, Puzzle 13.1%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Story Rich 9.8%

Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.

Why similar: Point & Click 21.2%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Puzzle 11.7%, Story Rich 6.6%, Adventure 6.4%

SHAPIK: The Moon Quest is a touching and atmospheric quest, the story of which unfolds in a mysterious world after a nuclear war.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.3%, Great Soundtrack 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Adventure 11.6%, Casual 9.2%

This multi-award winning adventure game explores a love story between two beautiful souls through ingenious humour, mind bending puzzles and a bizarre, hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animation style.

Why similar: Point & Click 25%, Great Soundtrack 15.9%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Adventure 13.7%, Casual 11.2%

Explore a woollen world where stuffed animals once lived in peace. Search for hidden secrets and customize your character with different animal shapes to solve puzzles. An epic adventure with two very unlikely heroes and a story narrated in rhyme.

Why similar: Adventure 17.3%, Story Rich 15.2%, Casual 13.7%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.6%

The final chapter of The Journey Down, a classic point-and-click saga with an Afro-Caribbean vibe. Get ready to embark on an epic journey of brain-teasing adventure!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.3%, Point & Click 31.8%, Adventure 19.9%, Story Rich 9.2%, Indie 6.8%

Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Why similar: Story Rich 23.5%, Hand-drawn 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 8.5%

A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 36.8%, Adventure 14.9%, Story Rich 14.2%, Indie 7.5%, Colorful 6.5%

A short (and free) adventure game, where you are tasked with helping a hurt, hungry, but inventive dung beetle on its journey to find something to eat near the end of the mushroom season.

Why similar: Point & Click 26.3%, Puzzle 15.2%, Casual 14.9%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Adventure 8.5%

Nordlicht is an adventure-game where you accompany an unusual family on its fascinating journey to the cold north. During the journey, they encounter mysterious star-signs of the polar night, and have to overcome nature's dangers to confront their fears.

Why similar: Adventure 20.1%, Casual 15.5%, Point & Click 14.5%, Great Soundtrack 14.3%, Indie 11.2%

In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.

Why similar: Puzzle 22.9%, Point & Click 19.9%, Great Soundtrack 13%, Adventure 11.7%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Make your way through this thrilling old school style point and click adventure game and try to solve the mysterious circumstances plaguing Bayou Island.

Why similar: Point & Click 30.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Adventure 10.2%, Casual 9.6%, Puzzle 7.8%

Jump into an adventure and travel through fabulous hand-painted jigsaw puzzles! Play the way you want using different number of pieces, shapes and helpers.

Why similar: Casual 27.6%, Indie 19.9%, Puzzle 16%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Story Rich 11.8%

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: Puzzle 19.7%, Story Rich 19.1%, Atmospheric 18.8%, Adventure 15.2%, Colorful 9.4%

How far would you go to save your best friend?For Gomo, the answer to this question is clear: To the end of the world and further, if necessary.Join him on his journey through the bizarre 2D landscapes of this dreamlike Point & Click Adventure!

Why similar: Point & Click 34.9%, Adventure 28.9%, Indie 13.4%, Puzzle 12.3%, Hand-drawn 6.6%

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 33.7%, Adventure 20.6%, Story Rich 15%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Indie 7.8%

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: Puzzle 26%, Atmospheric 18.3%, Adventure 17.3%, Story Rich 17%, Family Friendly 9.6%

I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.

Why similar: Adventure 23.9%, Great Soundtrack 15.6%, Indie 14%, Puzzle 12.8%, Story Rich 6.2%

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

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Point & Click 19.8%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Puzzle 9.4%, Adventure 8.2%

Bundle up and get cozy with this warm winter tale about one snowman's journey to the North Pole. Can he make it there before spring arrives?

Why similar: Puzzle 22.9%, Adventure 18.8%, Story Rich 15.9%, Casual 14.8%, Family Friendly 9.5%

This is a story of Shapik, traveling through magic forest in search of his missing sister. Explore a beautiful world, full of mystery, magic and danger and find your missing sister, solving puzzles on your way.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Great Soundtrack 9%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 33.1%, Hand-drawn 18.8%, Adventure 15.1%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Puzzle 8.7%

This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 19.6%, Point & Click 18%, Puzzle 11.7%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Drama 8.7%

What are the most important moments in your life? Lost At Sea is a game about life and death, about coming to terms with your past and about family. Set on a beautiful island, this game will force you to face your fears and take stock of your life through imaginative puzzles and a relatable story.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24%, Adventure 18.9%, Puzzle 12.2%, Indie 11.1%, Atmospheric 10.3%

Gnomdom is a point & click puzzle game where you find little gnomes stuck in various places and help them return to their home.

Why similar: Point & Click 30.4%, Hand-drawn 25.8%, Puzzle 14.3%, Adventure 9.1%, Casual 6.5%

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 33.3%, Atmospheric 19.2%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 10.3%, Story Rich 8%

A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.

Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Drama 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Story Rich 12.2%, Casual 11.2%

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 25.2%, Point & Click 25.1%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Adventure 7.9%, Casual 7.6%