Games Like The Old Tree

A short, surprising, toy-like puzzle game.

Why similar: Point & Click 42.9%, Puzzle 16.8%, Casual 14.2%, Indie 10.4%, Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Old Tree, this game focuses on experimental, physics-based puzzles within a highly stylized and dreamlike environment.

Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.1%, Puzzle 20.1%, Casual 13.8%, Adventure 7.2%, 2D 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This classic point-and-click adventure shares the same surreal, nature-focused aesthetic and wordless storytelling found in The Old Tree.

You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.5%, Puzzle 19%, Adventure 9.7%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Horror 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A highly atmospheric and surreal puzzle game that uses a unique art style to tell a quiet, contemplative story.

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

Why similar: Point & Click 33.6%, Adventure 32%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Indie 12.6%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, philosophical, and free-to-play adventure that leans into the same moody, atmospheric storytelling as the seed game.

A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

Why similar: Adventure 27.8%, Indie 20.4%, Casual 19.6%, Atmospheric 15.9%, 2D 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A beautifully atmospheric, short, and free-to-play experience that emphasizes environmental storytelling and emotional resonance.

Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.

Why similar: Point & Click 42.4%, Puzzle 17.7%, Casual 12.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a vibrant, nature-inspired world filled with charming creatures and intuitive point-and-click puzzle mechanics.

Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Why similar: Point & Click 22.4%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 15.1%, Casual 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A poignant, short, and free-to-play narrative experience that focuses on environmental storytelling and atmosphere.

Explore Mandagon, a world inspired by Tibetan theology and philosophy. With a focus on life and death, discover what it means to make a true sacrifice . . .

Why similar: Adventure 30.8%, Indie 23%, Atmospheric 15.8%, 2D 11.7%, Casual 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play title captures a similar sense of atmospheric exploration and quiet, meditative discovery.

Machinarium is the award-winning independent adventure game developed by the makers of Samorost series, Botanicula and CHUCHEL. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang!

Why similar: Point & Click 40.7%, Puzzle 19.3%, Adventure 10.7%, Casual 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in wordless, point-and-click puzzle design that shares the cinematic and immersive qualities of The Old Tree.

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: Puzzle 35.1%, Point & Click 26%, Indie 9.1%, Adventure 8.4%, Casual 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deeply cinematic puzzle experience where the player manipulates hand-drawn panels to progress through a surreal narrative.

Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.

Why similar: Point & Click 30.3%, Puzzle 15.3%, Horror 15.2%, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A short, free-to-play horror-adjacent experience that relies on atmosphere and exploration to build its narrative.

Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.

Why similar: Casual 21.9%, Adventure 20.5%, Point & Click 19.9%, Puzzle 18.4%, Indie 16.4%

Why You'll Like It: A short, free-to-play casual adventure that shares the simple, nature-themed charm of the seed game.

HER TREES : THE PUZZLE HOUSE is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles.Uncover the mysteries of this peculiar room.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.6%, Puzzle 23.5%, Adventure 12.7%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This hand-drawn escape room game features the same intimate, puzzle-focused point-and-click gameplay.

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Horror 36.4%, Indie 27.6%, Adventure 24%, Atmospheric 6.5%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This short, free-to-play experience shares the unsettling, psychological undertones and experimental nature of The Old Tree.

A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.

Why similar: Puzzle 28.7%, Casual 19.6%, Indie 17.9%, Adventure 13%, Atmospheric 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play indie title focuses on atmospheric puzzle-solving in a way that mirrors the pacing of The Old Tree.

Varenje is a cute colorful adventure with a number of puzzles and mini-games made by artists for anyone that considers games to be an art.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.3%, Puzzle 19.4%, Adventure 15.7%, Casual 10.8%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, free-to-play puzzle adventure that features a distinct visual style and casual, point-and-click mechanics.

Experience a bite-sized slice of Lovecraftian horror in this updated version of our cult freeware point and click adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story.

Why similar: Point & Click 50.3%, Horror 17.1%, Adventure 11.9%, Atmospheric 9.4%, 2D 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This point-and-click adaptation of Lovecraftian horror provides a similar eerie, atmospheric experience in a short format.

Night Reverie: Prologue is the first act of a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Puzzle 38.6%, Casual 15.6%, Adventure 13.4%, Atmospheric 11.2%, 2D 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play puzzle adventure with a cute, surreal aesthetic that focuses on exploration and narrative.

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

Why similar: Adventure 42.3%, Indie 29%, Casual 21.8%, Singleplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: While more open, this game captures the same feeling of a small, self-contained, and highly atmospheric nature journey.

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Puzzle 23.6%, Casual 22.1%, Indie 17.8%, Point & Click 15.4%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric puzzle game that uses a unique mechanic to tell a surprisingly deep and evocative story.

You wake up inside a magical cave, can you escape? A nostalgic adventure game <3

Why similar: Point & Click 52.9%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 14%, Puzzle 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style, free-to-play point-and-click adventure that focuses on satisfying, self-contained puzzles.

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 37.4%, Puzzle 19.2%, Casual 18.9%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, point-and-click puzzle game that features a small, nature-based protagonist in a strange environment.

Dawn is an atmospheric 3D platformer in which players guide a druidic creature named Ash through a beautiful environment to bring life and light back to a dead tree at the center of the world.

Why similar: Adventure 46.1%, Casual 38.8%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play, atmospheric adventure that focuses on exploration and a gentle, surreal aesthetic.

Whimsy is a hand-drawn point & click game about a girl who lives in the forest stumbling upon little red footprints. Following these footsteps leads her on a whimsical journey through the forest to solve puzzles, assist woodland creatures and discover rituals.

Why similar: Adventure 34.5%, Indie 26.2%, Casual 25.5%, Puzzle 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play, casual puzzle game that emphasizes a lighthearted but mysterious atmosphere.

A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.

Why similar: Adventure 32.9%, Casual 25.1%, Atmospheric 19.9%, Puzzle 14.7%, Singleplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play walking simulator offers a similarly atmospheric and short journey through a stylized world.

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: Point & Click 41.7%, Puzzle 18.8%, Horror 11.7%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal point-and-click adventure that excels at blending whimsical elements with dark, psychological horror.

Enter the surreal, disturbing, and ridiculous world of the Knobbly Crook in this old-school style point-and-click adventure. Completely free. No ads, no tricks.

Why similar: Point & Click 51%, Adventure 30.1%, Indie 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, free-to-play point-and-click adventure that shares the odd, dreamlike quality of The Old Tree.

URLate is a short and free point & click adventure that immerses you in a hand-drawn world filled with puzzles and mysteries to solve.

Why similar: Point & Click 40.2%, Adventure 15.2%, Casual 11%, Indie 9.1%, Puzzle 8.4%

Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Why similar: Point & Click 40.2%, Puzzle 20.7%, Casual 14.9%, Indie 11.2%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This interactive, hand-drawn puzzle game captures the same sense of curiosity and discovery found in clicking through a strange world.

A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

Why similar: Point & Click 42.8%, Puzzle 17.2%, Horror 13.8%, Adventure 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%

Wood and Flesh: A Candleforth Short Story is a point & click puzzle adventure with hand-drawn 2D graphics and a cozy horror setting that tells a short story set in the Tales from Candleforth universe.

Why similar: Point & Click 41.4%, Puzzle 21.6%, Horror 15.2%, Casual 12.6%, 2D 4.8%

THE NORMAL THING is a story about a dog who lost his memory. Sunless forests, strange gardens, weird inhabitants... Start a little journey to retrieve your memory.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.7%, Adventure 24.1%, Atmospheric 13%, Horror 10.9%, 2D 10.2%

Disappearing cows, strange visitors, talking trees... What is going on here...? Is the end of the world, the cowpocalypse really here? Discover the mysteries trough this puzzle filled, 2,5D, point & click style adventure game.

Why similar: Point & Click 34.8%, Adventure 20%, Casual 14.8%, Indie 12.8%, Puzzle 9.8%

Explore the amazing magical tree of life, finding cute cats and paint black - white locations with colored paints.

Why similar: Point & Click 27.8%, Adventure 23%, Casual 17.1%, Indie 14.1%, Puzzle 11.2%

With a set built entirely out of paper and cardboard, and sumptuously filmed, Lume is a game with a style unlike any other.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.3%, Adventure 18%, Puzzle 15.9%, Indie 11.1%, Casual 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A short, puzzle-heavy point-and-click game with a unique, handcrafted visual aesthetic.

TREE tells a story of a relationship between a boy and his tree. What starts off as a simple connection, over time it grows into something deeper.

Why similar: Casual 50.1%, Indie 42.4%, Singleplayer 7.5%

You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.

Why similar: Point & Click 44.8%, Puzzle 19.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Indie 5.8%

The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.

Why similar: Adventure 32.8%, Point & Click 23.6%, Indie 13.3%, Horror 12.3%, Puzzle 7.6%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Casual 28.9%, Horror 25.2%, Adventure 17%, Indie 12.5%, 2D 11.9%

You woke up in a mysterious room you have never seen before. Can you find another way out? Samsara Room is a remake of the praised predecessor of the Rusty Lake & Cube Escape series.

Why similar: Point & Click 38.9%, Puzzle 21.6%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 12.5%, Horror 4.4%

Interacting with the unidentified life form “Kuon”, we move forward with the pain. A surreal, mysterious fancy adventure.

Why similar: Atmospheric 45.2%, Adventure 43.3%, Singleplayer 11.5%

Creepy quest with the atmosphere of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Go through a dangerous adventure filled with puzzles and challenges! Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?

Why similar: Puzzle 26.3%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 12.4%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Horror 11.1%

Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.

Why similar: Point & Click 38.2%, Puzzle 25.9%, Adventure 9.8%, Horror 8%, Indie 7.6%

One-Eye Kutkh - an exciting space adventure based on the fairy tales of the Far North.

Why similar: Adventure 49.5%, Point & Click 26.2%, Puzzle 11.5%, Casual 5.9%, Atmospheric 3.7%

A small, lonely boy on a hopeful quest navigates through a dark and dreary motel. Dive into its mysterious, eerie atmosphere and find your way through the motel's strange puzzles, as it becomes increasingly clear that reality is not as it seems.

Why similar: Point & Click 53.3%, Puzzle 24.8%, Casual 15.7%, 2D 6.2%

Moon River is a short RPG adventure with an emphasis on music and atmosphere. Perhaps some secrets too... Explore the remains of an quiet, empty world & find the river's end.

Why similar: Adventure 25.2%, Indie 21.7%, Atmospheric 21%, Casual 20.1%, 2D 6.6%

You are a lowly egg cell on a journey through a swollen sea of strange and humanoid fish. Prey on smaller life and growing larger and stronger to perhaps someday be born.

Why similar: Adventure 26.2%, Casual 19.5%, Indie 16.4%, Atmospheric 14.8%, Horror 10.5%

The Backroom - Lost and Found is a story rich adventure game with some horror elements. Why is there an orphaned room hidden away in the depths of a strange liminal space? Is it "the backrooms" or something else? CYOA? SCP? Weirdcore? No clipping? And what's with the cute paintings?

Why similar: Puzzle 30.8%, Horror 20.6%, Adventure 18.7%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Indie 11.4%

A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.

Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Singleplayer 13.2%, 2D 12.8%

HER TREES : PUZZLE DREAM is a unique point-and-click puzzle game where you move and combine objects to solve puzzles. Unravel the strange puzzles hidden in your dreams.

Why similar: Point & Click 46.1%, Puzzle 26.3%, Adventure 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%, 2D 5.9%

Become an experiment and flee with friends from this chaotic and amazing place. And as the exploration deepens, the truth gradually emerges...

Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Casual 26.8%, Indie 25.5%, Horror 6.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Oknytt is an old school point-and-click adventure game where the player takes the role of a small, seemingly insignificant creature, leading it through a dark world filled with beings and areas inspired by Swedish folklore, in search of a place to belong.

Why similar: Point & Click 43.4%, Puzzle 19.2%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 6%, Horror 4.9%

A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.

Why similar: Point & Click 38.7%, Puzzle 19.5%, Adventure 15.4%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Indie 6.9%

Fur the Game is a small first-person puzzle game where you explore an exciting world inhabited by adorable creatures called Furs! Rescue these creatures and throw them around to solve puzzles!

Why similar: Adventure 28.2%, Puzzle 25%, Casual 24%, Indie 22.7%

Experience a 10 minute dive into the unknown depths of the multiverse!

Why similar: Point & Click 39.7%, Adventure 19.4%, Casual 14.1%, Indie 13%, Atmospheric 7.3%

The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.

Why similar: Point & Click 53.6%, Adventure 14.9%, Horror 12.5%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Indie 5.7%

The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

Why similar: Point & Click 35.7%, Puzzle 18.7%, Horror 16%, Adventure 14.1%, Atmospheric 10.8%

A game in which you explore surreal and beautiful forests.

Why similar: Adventure 30.2%, Casual 20.1%, Atmospheric 19.8%, Puzzle 17.7%, Indie 7.9%

A little boy falls asleep to a horrible nightmare. Can you make him happy again?

Why similar: Point & Click 29.2%, Horror 22.2%, Adventure 11.7%, Casual 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.4%

Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.

Why similar: Point & Click 47.8%, Puzzle 17.4%, Horror 16.6%, Adventure 6.4%, Atmospheric 5.9%