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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Journey to the Savage Planet. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Journey to the Savage Planet.
Release Date: 21/08/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is an adventure about a young girl who travels to an abandoned village in the hope of finding a sacred mountain shrine. To get there she must find and grow a team of charming spirit companions called the Rot, enhancing their...
Release Date: 11/06/2021
Platforms: PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a running, jumping and shooting game. The latest in the series, Rift Apart focuses on jumping between parallel worlds.
Release Date: 16/12/2021
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Gunk is a narrative adventure where you play one sister of a pair of space explorers struggling for resources, who find a new planet with new alien wildlife. You play by traversing the environment sucking up toxic waste, harvesting materials,...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
SteamWorld Headhunter is a co-operative action-adventure where you play a robot who can detach their head to control different robot bodies. Like other SteamWorld games from the developer, it's a stylised and colourful game. Here though, action moves to...
Release Date: 13/11/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D First-Person
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a shooting game. It's a direct sequel to the original Call of Duty: Black Ops. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will have a Campaign, Multiplayer, Zombies, and integration into Call of Duty: Warzone. It's a game that...
Release Date: 08/02/2023
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Dust and Neon is a shooting game set in a futuristic wild west where you play a lone gunslinger taking on robots. It takes the twin-stick (one for movement and one for aiming) shooting play in a more considered direction, as you work to stay close to...
28 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Journey to the Savage Planet. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Journey to the Savage Planet.
Release Date: 11/04/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica is an open-world adventure where you explore the ocean on an alien planet after crashlanding. You collect resources and fight creatures to survive. This enables you to establish an underwater base, gain new craft and equipment and explore...
Release Date: 19/11/2016, updated in 2017
Platforms: PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is an action-adventure game set several years after the events of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. You play Nathan Drake, a happily married former treasure hunter coaxed out of retirement by his brother. This leads into...
Release Date: 26/03/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Balan Wonderworld is a running, jumping and exploration game. It draws on classic 3D platform games, but with simpler controls and a more laid back challenge. Like Mario Odyssey, much of the gameplay revolves around getting temporary abilities (here it...
Release Date: 13/10/2009, updated in 2015
Platforms: PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is an action-adventure game that puts you in the role of treasure hunter Nathan Drake. You head to Nepal looking for the lost city of Shambala, unfortunately, you're not the only one looking for it. On your journey, you'll...
Release Date: 25/05/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Biomutant is an open world role-play adventure game where you play a Raccoon warrior in a large world filled with mutated animals. Exploring this living breathing ecosystem has the feel of Zelda Breath of the Wild, but in a broken down steampunk...
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
This game offers hunting-and-harvesting gameplay in a primal setting. Although not as polished or streamlined as a game like Horizon Zero Dawn, this is a more ambitiously open world where you can choose your own way to survive. With crafting and...
Release Date: 16/12/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the...
Release Date: 14/10/2016
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Slime Rancher is a farming simulation with a difference. Rather than chickens, sheep or cows, you farm slimes. You explore the open world from a first-person perspective to find and collect slimes. As you develop your farm in numerous ways you generate...
Release Date: 10/08/2016, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
No Man's Sky is a space simulation about exploring endless planets and galaxies. It invites you to take your spaceship to explore and colonise a universe rich with diverse planets, creatures and fauna. Facing so vast a space is daunting at first, but a...
Release Date: 15/02/2012
Platforms: PS Vita
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an action-adventure game. It's a spin-off of the Uncharted series, although also a substantial experience in its own right that features the series protagonist, Nate. As with the other games you explore, run, jump and shoot...
Release Date: 22/04/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Beyond Blue is an underwater exploration game where you play Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. You see, hear, and interact with the ocean and the creatures in it as you discover an untouched world.
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Release Date: 30/04/2021
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
New Pokemon Snap is the latest in the series of Pokemon Snap games. It's a puzzle safari where you are guided through the natural world of Pokemon creatures to take pictures of them in the wild. The aim is to time your photos to capture them in specific...
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Penko Park is an adventure about exploring an abandoned wildlife park, taking photos of the weird and creepy creatures which you find. Like exploring a children's story book world, you collect these snapshots along with fur samples and fossils to add to...
Release Date: 28/07/2017
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS
Components: 2D Side-On
Hey! Pikmin is a spinoff game from the Pikmin series. In this game Captain Olimar crash lands on a planet and needs to find fuel to escape, leading a group of Pikmin through 2D side scrolling levels collecting the Sparklium. Players enter a level and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
DokeV is an open-world adventure game where you explore a bright K-pop backed world. It's a chaotic mix of Pokémon creature collection, Breath of the Wild exploration and Monster Hunter battles. These elements coalesce around the creature collection...
Release Date: 09/08/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Deiland is an adventure set on a small spherical planet. You farm, craft, and build your own world. Improve your skills, craft tools, cook food, brew potions, and create tools. As you make your home, you will attract merchants to trade materials and...
Release Date: 02/08/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Cartoon
Frogun is a traversal game where you use a frog-shaped gun to interact with the world and navigate the levels. You play Renata, who comes from a family of explorers, archaeologists and inventors but finds herself alone in the jungle. It's a classic...
Release Date: 26/08/2016, updated in 2016
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Recore is an adventure platform game where you control Joule Adams, one of the first volunteers for the utopian colony of Far Eden, who wakes after centuries in cryo-sleep to find that nothing has gone according to plan. With her three robotic machines...
Release Date: 13/12/2022
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
High On Life is a shooting adventure game from the creators of Rick and Morty. As you'd expect it's comedic and zany, but cleverly this is delivered by the bombastic boasting sentient weapons as much as other characters.
Release Date: 30/11/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Ancient Dangers: A Bat's Tale is an action puzzle adventure. You play Scoria, a female orc, searching for a herb that will stop her Granny from snoring. However, the plant can only be found in a castle guarded by dragons. With your sword and shield and...
Release Date: 14/10/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Star Trek Prodigy: Supernova is an action adventure where you run around exploring different worlds, battling enemies and solving simple puzzles. You play on your own or with someone else as Dal and Gwyn, who each have different abilities needed to...
Release Date: 14/12/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cyber Trigger is a retro running, jumping and shooting game. You play a space adventurer answering a distress call from a planet overrun with alien robots. It's a love letter to classic pixelated platform games with a mix of cave adventure, combat, and...
Release Date: 15/02/2017
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Jettomero is an alien invasion adventure game played in reverse. You are a giant, indestructible (and very clumsy) robot who wants to save rather than destroy the human race. This unusual set-up is underlined by its Pop Art visuals and how it commits to...
Release Date: 26/04/2019, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Onirism is a whimsical narrative adventure where you fight monsters while traversing fantasy world to reclaim your stuffed animal, Bunbun. As you explore by foot, car, and boat, you discover a world full of creatures, some friendly, others not, and...
Release Date: 04/11/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Hand-Made and Open World
Demon Turf is a 3D running, jumping, rolling and flying game set in a world inhabited by all kinds of enemies. As a young demon, your job is to take on the different gangs and bring them down. It's unusual because you can shape-shift but also stands out...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Akimbot is an action-adventure where you are a mechanical robot in a chaotic, futuristic universe. Play involves traversing the dense levels using your wall-running and jet-boost skills. You can take on enemies from a distance or get in close for combat...
Release Date: 31/10/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
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