6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Lifelike. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Lifelike.
Release Date: 05/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On, Open World and Pixels
Noita is platform adventure game in a world where each and every pixel is physically simulated. This means that the tiny elements that make up the landscape and characters have their own properties that: melt, burn, evaporate, explode, flow, float,...
Release Date: 25/03/2017
Platforms: iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Frost is a puzzle game where you control living particles with gestures to guide them home. Using flocking mechanics the game lets you direct thousands of elements with super simple controls. Each level presents a different scene in which to direct the...
Release Date: 05/06/2021
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ynglet is an exploration game where you jump between bubbles that float in the sky making sounds as you interact with the doodled environment. Part platform game, part dynamic soundtrack, it's a game designed to let you flow through the world to...
Release Date: 31/07/2008, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS3 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
PixelJunk Eden is an organic puzzle game. You swing from abstract plant shapes to explore a stylised garden, attacking pollen carriers to gather particles that bring seeds to life. It's a game where you grow a field of plants, each one granting new ways...
Release Date: 25/03/2015
Platforms: iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Breath of Light is a meditative puzzle game where you guide the breath of light through sand and water. With no score or time-limits and with all levels unlocked from the start, the focus is on relaxation and breathing rather than the challenge and its...
Release Date: 01/12/2013
Platforms: Android, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Blek is a puzzle game where you control the repeating motion of a moving line. Your challenge is to pass through coloured dots. However, you can only enter a short motion that repeats. In this way you have to draw in a motion that, as it repeats,...
13 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Lifelike. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Lifelike.
Release Date: 14/02/2020
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness is a narrative experience designed to aid sleep. Children can select stories, sounds, meditation or music and calm colours to help them drift off to sleep quickly. Once started the original stories and sounds play with...
Release Date: 18/11/2021
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Exo One is a surreal exploration game where you guide a small transforming object to drift, flow and soar across enigmatic landscapes with a gravity based movement system. The game aims to create an out of body other-worldly experience with atmospheric,...
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Platforms: iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Kids is an unusual game where you tap to interact with groups of monochrome cartoon children. Seeing the little kids run around and respond to each other creates a playful and intriguing game that only lasts half an hour but will be played many times.
Release Date: 14/07/2020
Platforms: Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
One Hand Clapping is a running and jumping game where you sing into a microphone to interact with the world. The game acknowledges how challenging this idea may be, and gently leads you into using your voice to create platforms, adjust the wind and...
Release Date: 20/05/2021
Platforms: iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Pok Pok Playroom is a storybook game, filled with interactive digital toys for children to discover and explore as they scroll through a series of settings. It's for children 2-6 years-old and offers open-ended play where the focus isn't on right and...
Release Date: 15/11/2015
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Prune involves carefully cutting off tree branches to encourage a tree to grow in a particular direction. It starts simply but turns into a challenge that parents and young children to work on together.
Release Date: 11/01/2002, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Oculus, PC, PS2, PS4 and Xbox 360
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Rez is a shooting game where you fire musical energy rather than bullets. As you guide a figure through the darkness of space you bring down enemies in time with the music. Rez is novel for its use of music and vibration feedback to create a sense of...
Release Date: 22/09/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
A puzzle game where objects are seen only in outline and you must travel the world with your dot, by manipulating the perspective. You navigate through minimalist yet colourful environments full of challenging puzzles, dangerous inhabitants, and...
Release Date: 02/05/2017
Platforms: Oculus, PC, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Gnog is a puzzle game where you explore whimsical monster heads to interact and uncover the secret worlds inside them. To play you use the mouse or controller to grab, poke, spin, pull, and push each charming contraption.
Release Date: 07/08/2012, updated in 2013
Platforms: PS Vita, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Sound Shapes is simple rolling and jumping game where you make music by completing the levels. It features music from artists such as Beck and visual elements from other games and game makers. Originally on the Vita, it uses that systems touch screens...
Release Date: 17/03/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Onde is an ethereal movement and exploration game where you dive into a fluid world full of sounds. As you move through the abstract landscapes they respond with notes and music. It's an unusual experience because the interactions invite you not only to...
Release Date: 24/07/2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Lullaby of Life is a rhythm puzzle game where you use music as the catalyst to trigger new lifeforms. You float around to explore a music-driven world. To progress through different areas you need to use the three notes you have on your creature,...
Release Date: 14/02/2008
Platforms: PC, PS Vita and PS3
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Everyday Shooter is a collection of shooting games presented as a music album. The shooting action is familiar but here the dissolute sounds of destruction are replaced with guitar riffs harmonizing over the soundtrack. The visuals join in the...
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