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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Inside. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Inside.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Milk Lake is a survival adventure where you traverse a dark forest, guided only by your light. To survive you must flee from arrows and unseen enemies and then face off against huge monsters in combat. It stands out for its horror depiction of being...
Release Date: 24/08/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bionic Bay is a running and jumping game with a difference. Set in a burning future you rush through the world with parkour skills and a unique swap ability. This makes play more physics-based than other platform games as you can move objects around the...
Release Date: 30/11/2019
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
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...
Release Date: 15/11/2022
Out Now: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
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.
Release Date: 10/02/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Little Nightmares II is a running and jumping game wrapped in a horror theme. You play a little boy named Mono who explores a dark and disturbing world. On your journey, you meet a little girl called Six and together you try to survive and uncover the...
54 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Inside. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Inside.
Release Date: 19/07/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Coming Soon: Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Stray is an adventure traversal 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.
Release Date: 10/01/2017, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Night in the Woods is a narrative adventure which follows college dropout Mae Borowski returning home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs. But the place is different now her friends have grown and changed. There’s something...
Release Date: 23/05/2023
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Planet of Lana is an adventure where you play a young girl Lana and her loyal animal friend Mui, on a rescue mission. Set on a planet under siege by cold machines and unfamiliar creatures. Rather than the war, though, this is a game about the vibrant...
Release Date: 15/01/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Vane is an ethereal adventure in a ruined desert where strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child. The premise is not all that uncommon, but Vane stands out for how you soar over the dessert and climb your way...
Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps place you in control of a diminutive elfish spirit called Ori. You run, jump and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world. As you do new powers are unlocked that allow you...
Release Date: 18/12/2014
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Never Alone is a running, jumping and exploring game based on the traditional Iñupiaq tale, "Kunuuksaayuka". You swap between controlling an Iñupiaq girl named Nuna and her Arctic fox companion as you complete puzzles and move the story forwards.
Release Date: 27/08/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
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.
Release Date: 06/10/2019
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Gris is a platform game where you guide a young girl through a crumbling world. Through beautiful metaphoric landscapes and soaring music, the game touches on emotions of loss and longing but doesn’t resolve to a firm narrative. Although not hugely...
Release Date: 12/06/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Hollow Knight is a game where you run, jump, and battle your way through the underground kingdom of Hallownest. It’s not uncommon for platform games to invest in the environments through which you pass, but the haunting depths in this game contain...
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Limbo is a narrative traversal game where you 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...
Release Date: 27/08/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
The Last Campfire, from the same developer as Lost Winds, is an adventure about Ember who is searching for meaning and a way home. As you travel you take a flame with you to the world, lighting torches, bringing life to...
Release Date: 19/02/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Voyage is a cinematic adventure puzzle game, where you play alone or cooperatively to guide two survivors on their journey to unravel a mystery from the past and find their way home. You move through the world without guidance and must experiment to...
Release Date: 10/06/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: Switch, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Open World and Text
A Dark Room is an adventure where you try and survive in the wild. The world is depicted with just text but leads you into a dense narrative with intriguing visitors and a steadily expanding world. It has a simple start – a single option to stoke a...
Release Date: 02/04/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
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.
Release Date: 14/11/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Fractured Minds is a short game that explores the implications of living with mental illness. It aims to promote awareness and empathy for these issues. You explore everyday spaces that behave in strange and sometimes disturbing ways. To progress, you...
Release Date: 07/02/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
In The Stillness of the Wind you play an old woman who looks after a dilapidated farm. Over the course of a few hours, no matter what your efforts, the farm falls apart as you learn about the woman’s family and have the chance to ruminate on her...
Release Date: 09/11/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Beholder is a detective game where you spy on tenants in a building, discover their secrets and report violations of laws to the authorities. As the game unfolds and you see more of the controlling totalitarian state, an uneasy tension develops between...
Release Date: 11/10/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Inmost is a running and jumping game with a strong emotional and atmospheric narrative. You uncover a dark and interconnected tale of three playable characters, each with their own unique gameplay styles. An adventurous young girl uncovering the past of...
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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...
Release Date: 17/11/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Shine – Journey of Light is an adventure puzzle game where you guide a ball of light through a world of light and shadow. As you delve deep into the world you discover a lost civilisation and piece together the stories of the past.
Release Date: 27/04/2011, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Coming Soon: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an adventure game in miniature. You explore a myth-rich world and use your sword to do battle and evoke spells to solve musical puzzles. It's a world that changes with the moon as you guide your wandering warrior monk.
Release Date: 12/12/2020
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
Morkredd is a puzzle game about light and shadow, where two characters work together to push a glowing orb of light in a pitch black world, avoiding to step into shadow - even each others' - which results in their death.
Release Date: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
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.
Release Date: 19/09/1997, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, Switch, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Oddworld Soulstorm is a running and jumping game where you guide members of your species through labyrinthine levels to free them from brutal oppression. It's a remake of 1998's Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and a sequel to Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty. Its...
Release Date: 27/04/2023
Out Now: Switch
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Bramble The Mountain King is a grim fairy tale adventure where you lead Ollie, a young child, through the fantastical landscape filled with hideous creatures. You play by directing your young character through the world, running from dangers and...
Release Date: 31/08/2009
Out Now: Android, PC, PSP and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Canabalt is a side-on running game where you press jump at the right time to keep a small character from falling off buildings or crashing into things. With minimalist visuals, you play the small suited man fleeing from an unknown threat. As the game...
Release Date: 10/07/2012, updated in 2016
Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
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...
Release Date: 07/09/2017
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Please Knock on My Door is a narrative puzzle about someone suffering from depression and social anxiety. By making choices you help them get through work and reach out to friends. But more than the mechanics of self-care, the game engages with the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
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.
Release Date: 19/11/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Typoman is a running, jumping puzzle game where you use letters and words to solve puzzles and progress. You play as a character made of letters in a hostile land with evil creatures. As this unusual character, you make your way through the world...
Release Date: 27/02/2012, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Zombies, Run is a combination of a fitness app, radio play and zombie game. You choose the distance on the app, run in the real world and the narrative plays in your headphones.
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Buddy Simulator 1984 is an adventure horror game. What starts as a retro-themed set of mini-games soon evolves into a tale of anxiety, friendship and depression as your buddy makes new games for you to play each with creepy anomalies and glitches. It's...
Release Date: 10/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Iron Lung is an exploration puzzle game where you navigate a submarine through a sea of blood with only your instruments to guide you. With no visibility in a small enclosed space, you need to make repairs, stop leaks and take recognisance pictures...
Release Date: 28/03/2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Rain World: Downpour, and Rain World 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 hide.
Release Date: 19/08/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Coming Soon: Mac and PS4
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Recompile is a platform game about hacking and exploring an expansive virtual world. Drawing inspiration from the Tron film, It's a combination of a classic platform game where you progress by gaining more powers, and a narrative game with branching...
Release Date: 10/05/2022
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Salt and Sacrifice (and its prequel Salt and Sanctuary) is an fighting adventure game that's intentionally difficult and dark. You play by exploring the side-on world, fighting enemies with swords and other weapons. It's a strange combination of cartoon...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Selini is a running, jumping, and fighting game where you explore a desolate world and defeat monsters. With no dialogue or visual distractions, it's up to you to decipher the story that skirts the topics of environmental and social responsibility. It's...
Release Date: 23/05/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
After Us is an adventure game where you explore a surreal world as Gaia, who must salvage the souls of extinct animals. You play by traversing the world, dealing with hazards and reviving creatures to reveal their fate: the last whale harpooned, the...
Release Date: 17/03/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Sometimes You Die is an unusual sliding and jumping game. As you play there is a written narrative on the walls of each level that discusses game design, player motivation and the metaphysics of life. More unusual though, is that to progress you have to...
Release Date: 09/05/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead
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,...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Airhead is an exploration adventure in a sprawling interconnected world. The twist is that you play as a small Body who must keep the Head (it finds) inflated. Sometimes together, sometimes apart, you must use a growing array of abilities to find a way...
Release Date: 20/03/2019
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Burd is a jumping and flying game where you play a pixelated bird who can feed worms to a larger bird to save his world. But to get the worms you have to sacrifice eggs. It starts simple but soon feels ominous, dark and questionable. It's an...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
Cocoon is a puzzle adventure where you play a winged creature transporting orbs through a mysterious world. The twist is that placing orbs in a portal grants access to the worlds within worlds and creates a complex nested puzzle.
Release Date: 08/07/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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...
Release Date: 13/06/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Minute of Islands is a running, jumping and exploring game where you play Mo, a skilled tinkerer living in the dilapidated poisoned ruins of an ancient race of giants. You scavenge parts from their strange machines to get them running and clean the air....
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Acid Knife is a running, jumping and fighting game where you carefully time attacks to defeat monsters in a dark, psychedelic world. All of your abilities, such as attacking and dodging, are tied to the items you hold which can be knocked from your hand...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dormiveglia is a running and jumping game about Quin's adventure to stop the world from falling into an endless slumber. Along with the classic run and jump moves, you use your whip to swing across chasms, move objects, and capture enemies. Combining...
Release Date: 31/08/2021
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Song of Iron is a Norse fighting game where you explore an ancient, and mysterious homeland. Through forests, into caves and over mountains you seek vengeance. It's an unusual combination of side-on action and beautifully rendered visuals. You must keep...
Release Date: 27/04/2023
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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...
Release Date: 30/05/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
The Swapper is a platform adventure where you explore a damaged space station to collect orbs that open doors into other areas. Unusually, you can clone your character multiple times and then control it to help you solve puzzles and progress in various...
Release Date: 04/09/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night
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....
Release Date: 20/10/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
They Always Run is a pursuit game where you run, jump, fight and shoot your way to catch escapees. You play Aiden, a three-armed hero chasing the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. You catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies while working through the...
Release Date: 14/03/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Funky Bones IV is a running and jumping puzzle game. You play a cute skeleton in a cardboard Mexican Day of the Dead world. Jump and twist your way through various obstacles to defeat a final boss and complete the single level. It's a beguiling and...
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