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45 Great Games Like Another World

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Another World (Out of This World in North America) is a retro cinematic running, jumping and shooting game about a young scientist who, as a result of a failed experiment finds himself on a dangerous alien world where he is forced to fight for his survival.

Unfortunately, Another World is not available on Mac, PC, PS5 or Xbox Series X|S. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Another World

Game Details

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 30/11/2019

Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Platform

Developer: Eric Chahi (@EricChahi)

Players: 1

Costs: Purchase cost

29 Hand Picked Video Games Like Another World

These are our hand-picked Video Game games similar to Another World. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Another World, or as younger rated alternatives for players not ready for PEGI 12 or ESRB TEEN games. These selections also include Video Game games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.

Savior

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform

Developer: Starsoft PDX (@StarsoftPDX)

Players: This is a single-player game

Savior is an action adventure game with hand-animated pixelated graphics. You play as Sam, a mysterious woman with hidden powers and innate acrobatic skills who has lost her memory and all possessions. Use diplomacy, parkour, and intricate combat to...

Oxenfree

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 14/01/2016, updated in 2016

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Adventure and Narrative

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: Night Schoolers (@NightSchoolers)

Players: This is a single-player game

Oxenfree is an adventure game where a teenagers’ beach party spirals into a supernatural story. You guide the outcome with your choices as the well-written dialogue reveals characters coming to terms with family breakdown, death of a sibling, blame...

Stray

Release Date: 19/07/2022

Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: HK Dev Blog (@HKDevBlog)

Players: This is a single-player game

Stray is a game about a cat lost in a futuristic city where robots live. You guide your feline friend in and out of buildings, across roads and generally poke your nose in to see what is going on.

Forgotton Anne

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 15/05/2018

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Developer: Through Line Game (@ThroughLineGame)

Players: This is a single-player game

Forgotton Anne (Forgotten Anne) is a hand-animated adventure that combines cartoon (Ghibli-inspired) storytelling with running and jumping puzzles. You play as Anne, the enforcer who keeps order in the Forgotten Lands, as she sets out to squash a...

Far: Changing Tides

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 01/03/2022

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Simulation and Strategy

Developer: Far The Game (@FarTheGame)

Players: This is a single-player game

Far: Changing Tides is an exploration adventure that follows Far: Lone Sail. You work to keep your dilapidated craft from breaking as you explore the ruins of a flooded world.

Inside

Content Rating: PEGI 18

Release Date: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018

Price: 90% off

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Developer: Playdead (@Playdead)

Players: This is a single-player game

Inside is from the same developer as Limbo. As such, you play another boy in a dark dream-light and horrific world. Here though, it's more modern-day and realistic.

Limbo

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015

Price: 80% off

Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 14 features

Developer: Playdead (@Playdead)

Players: This is a single-player game

Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...

Ghost Trick

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 19/06/2010

Platforms: DS and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: Capcom USA (@CapcomUSA_)

Players: This is a single-player game

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens. His ultimate aim is to use his memories to find out how he...

Little Orpheus

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 12/06/2020, updated in 2022

Platforms: Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom)

Players: This is a single-player game

Little Orpheus is a running and jumping game set in 1962 where you play Ivan Ivanovich as he explores lost civilisations, undersea kingdoms and prehistoric jungles. The game is played in retrospect as you explain your adventures to a general suspicious...

Far: Lone Sails

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 02/04/2019

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy

Developer: Far The Game (@FarTheGame)

Players: This is a single-player game

Far: Lone Sails is an exploration adventure video game. You pilot a ramshackle amphibious vehicle propelled by large sails to explore a post-apocalypse world.

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 03/10/1989

Platforms: PS2, PS3, Xbox and Xbox 360

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Platform

Developer: Jmechner (@Jmechner)

Players: This is a single-player game

Prince of Persia is a long-standing game series dating back to the early 90's. The games all feature the titular prince who must escape a maze of platform-based levels. The game first impressed with its unusually fluid movement and life-like animation....

A Juggler's Tale

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 27/08/2020, updated in 2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: Kaleidos Cube (@KaleidosCube)

Players: This is a single-player game

A Juggler's Tale is a running and jumping game where you guide Abby, a string puppet through a dangerous world where you need to solve puzzles and avoid traps. You move crates, pull levers, jump over hazards and try to outrun chasers.

MO: Astray

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020

Price: 50% off

Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS

Genres: Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: MO Astray Rayark (@MOAstrayRayark)

Players: This is a single-player game

MO:Astray is a puzzle, jumping and exploration game. Rather than control a character who runs, you control an amorphous blob. To get around you have to use the game's unique movement mechanics to take advantage of the cleverly designed levels.

Somerville

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Developer: Jumpship Studio (@JumpshipStudio)

Players: This is a single-player game

Somerville is an atmospheric platform game about a family in a warzone. A man, a woman, their child and their dog work to survive and progress through the landscape.

Unto The End

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 09/12/2020

Price: 60% off

Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Fighting, Platform, Role-Play and Simulation

Accessibility: 24 features

Developer: 2 Ton Studios (@2TonStudios)

Players: This is a single-player game

Unto The End is a cinematic combat-adventure where the fighting is modelled in a read-and-react style. It requires time to master the unusual system but offers many ways to take on foes. Tactics and intelligent decisions are as important for survival as...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 21/01/2021, updated in 2021

Price: 34% off

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Action, Adventure and Platform

Accessibility: 20 features

Developer: Live Wire (@LiveWire)

Players: This is a single-player game

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a platform game based in a fictional world called Land's End. Rainfall has transformed all living things into monsters known as the Blighted. You control Lily, a bright white figure, who awakens as the last...

Deadlight

Content Rating: PEGI 18

Release Date: 10/07/2012, updated in 2016

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative and Platform

Developer: Tequila Works (@TequilaWorks)

Players: This is a single-player game

Deadlight takes the monochrome running, jumping and shooting action in a more mature direction and with a deeper and coherent story. It draws on older (and equally excellent) platform games Another World and Flashback. You control Randall Wayne, a...

Flashback

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 01/10/2013, updated in 2018

Price: 80% off

Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Developer: Paul Cuisset (@PaulCuisset)

Players: This is a single-player game

Flashback is a running and jumping game with a strong narrative. Made in the 90s it's similar to Another World and Prince of Persia.

Lunark

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: Canari Games (@CanariGames)

Players: This is a single-player game

Lunark is a platform game with simple pixelated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...

Remember Me

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 03/06/2013

Platforms: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Platform

Developer: DONTNOD Ent (@DONTNOD_Ent)

Players: This is a single-player game

Remember Me is an adventure game developed where you play Nilin, a memory hunter working for an underground resistance. The game is set in the year 2084, in a futuristic version of Paris called Neo-Paris, where the Memorize corporation has made memories...

Replaced

Content Rating: PEGI 18

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Fighting, Narrative, Platform and Shooting

Developer: Coatsink (@Coatsink)

Players: This is a single-player game

Replaced is a platform game set in a grim dystopian alternate 1980s America. You play as an Artificial Intelligence trapped inside a human wanting to escape.

Trek To Yomi

Content Rating: PEGI 18

Release Date: 09/05/2022

Price: 25% off

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Fighting, Narrative and Traversal

Developer: Flying Wild Hog (@Flying_Wild_Hog)

Players: This is a single-player game

Trek To Yomi is samurai action fighting game set in a mythical reimagining of the Edo period of Japan. You follow a young warrior on a journey to confront the people responsible for the destruction of his village. It's a short kaleidoscope of a game,...

Fossil Echo

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Release Date: 08/07/2016

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Narrative, Platform, Puzzle and Stealth

Accessibility: 1 feature

Developer: Awaceb (@Awaceb)

Players: This is a single-player game

Fossil Echo is a short running and jumping game about a young boy's mistake and subsequent climb of a giant tower in the middle of the sea. The story is told in short animations and with challenging platform-style gameplay to create a moving and...

Planet of the Eyes

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Release Date: 24/08/2015, updated in 2017

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: Cococucumber Co (@CococucumberCo)

Players: This is a single-player game

Planet of the Eyes is an atmospheric running and jumping game where you play a robot stranded on a mysterious planet. You progress by well timed jumps and puzzle solving to traverse a fantastical planet with a dark secret.

Axiom Verge 2

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 31/03/2015, updated in 2017

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Role-Play

Developer: Axiom Verge (@AxiomVerge)

Players: This is a single-player game

Axiom Verge is a series of running, jumping and fighting games where you play as Trace, a scientist who wakes up in an unknown ancient world. It's similar to retro games like Metroid and Contra where you explore levels, collect items and progress your...

Planet Alpha

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Release Date: 04/09/2018

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Adventure, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 11 features

Developer: Team 17 (@Team17)

Players: This is a single-player game

Planet Alpha is a running and jumping game. You're a wounded hero hobbling across an alien planet, but how did he get into this state? Travel across beautiful, mysterious and often deadly landscapes, you unfold the story of your marooned astronaut....

Rain World: Downpour

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Release Date: 28/03/2017

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch

Genres: Action, Open World, Platform, Simulation and Stealth

Developer: Videocult Media (@VideocultMedia)

Players: You can play this by yourself or as a 4-player online game

Rain World, and the expansion Downpour, are traversal and survival games where you play a half cat, half slug in a living breathing world. You must venture out and brave the other predatory creatures to find food before the rain comes and you have to...

The Cub

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Genres: Adventure, Platform and Puzzle

Developer: Demagog Studio (@Demagog_Studio)

Players: This is a single-player game

The Cub is a retro running and jumping game where you play a small child in the same post-environmental disaster as Highwater and Golf Wasteland. It's like playing a classic console platform game but with modern parkour movement and puzzles to bring it...

The Last Case of Benedict Fox

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Platform

Developer: Rogue Co (@Rogue_Co)

Players: This is a single-player game

The Last Case of Benedict Fox is a running, jumping and fighting game where a demon invites you to explore the minds of the recently deceased. You work through an old mansion to uncover the mystery of a double murder and missing child. It's an elegant...

16 Video Games Like Another World Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Another World. This includes games from the Fighting, Action, Adventure, Platform and Narrative genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

Tearaway

Terraria

The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons

The Secret of Monkey Island

Portal

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Button Combinations:	Holding Down Buttons Optional Rapid Repeated Pressing Optional No Simultaneous Buttons
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Assistance Getting Starting:	Tutorials Practice Area View Control Mapping Assistance With Controls Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Adjust Speed No Jump Scares
Assistance For Progressing:	Guaranteed Progress With God Mode Bank Progress With Frequent Checkpoints Assisted Progress With Boosts Assisted Progress With Hints Assisted Recall for Narrative and Characters Save Progress Anytime

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Difficulty Options:	Simple and Full Version No Memorisation Advantage No Hidden Information No Deceit Advantage No Colour Advantage No Mathematics Advantage No Weighing Decisions

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Assistance Getting Started:	Clear Manual Electronic Version of Manual Electronic Version of Manual for Screen Readers Getting Started Video Digital Version Reference Aid Secure Storage
Assistance Progressing:	Play Order Tokens (Or play order doesn’t change) Reaction-Time Not Critical Low Pressure Low Impact Take Back Rule Catch Up Rule

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Necessary Text Visibility:	Large Clear Text on Board (Or no text required) Large Clear Text on Cards (Or no text required) High Contrast Text (Or no text required) QR Code For Text (Or no text required) Primary Text Distinguishable (Or no text required) Information Orientation Clear Icons

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Pieces:	Components are Distinguishable by Touch Components are Replaceable No Non-Standard Dice (Or No Dice) No Tiny Pieces No Paper Money No Sprawl
Cards:	Large Card Size Standard Card Shape Limited Hand Management No Excessive Card Shuffling Left/Right Handed Friendly
Placement:	No Unbound Placement Player Components Not Shared No Fiddly Placement Easily Verbalised Actions

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Printed Visibility:	Colour Blind Friendly Design Double-Coding Colour High Contrast Colours
Component Identifiability:	Outline Key Elements No Busy Backgrounds Easily Verbalised Game State No Close Inspection Disadvantage Playable Without Sight

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Communication:	Audio Cues Mirrored Visually (Or no critical audio signals) No Pressured Reveals No Pressured Communication Playable Without Hearing

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