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Naiad is a gentle adventure game where exploration is fuelled not by extreme distances, dangers or enemies, but by the simple joy of floating in rivers and pools. As a story about nature unfolds you control a nymph-like character who swims through levels that change each time you play them.
Unfortunately, Naiad is not released yet. We have some similar game suggestion for you to play while you wait for it to arrive. It’s not planned to be released for Android, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S or iOS but we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Traversal and Puzzle
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Developer: Hi Warp (@HiWarp)
Costs: Purchase cost
Here are our hand-picked games to fill the void until Naiad is released:
A Short Hike is an adventure traversal game where you play the penguin-like character Claire, who needs to climb a mountain in a beautiful national park to receive an important phone call.
A Short Hike is an adventure traversal game where you play the penguin-like character Claire, who needs to climb a mountain in a beautiful national park to receive an important phone call. Presented in cute pixel graphics, the game invites you to explore the park, help other animals, and find seashells and even buried treasure.
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Abzu is an adventure in a lush underwater world.
Abzu is an adventure in a lush underwater world. You descend into the heart of the ocean to find ancient secrets and encounter majestic creatures.
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Fe is a platform-traversal game where you play a fox in a magical fairy tale forest.
Fe is a platform-traversal game where you play a fox in a magical fairy tale forest. The world extends in front of you in stylised form, with trees, mountains and streams glistening with sparkles of life.
Wayfinder is a meditative adventure where you explore the wild to reconnect with nature and create poems.
Wayfinder is a meditative adventure where you explore the wild to reconnect with nature and create poems. As you travel through the world, the seasons change to reveal words to collect that form unique miniature poems.
Out Now: Web and iOS
Future Unfolding is an exploration adventure where you travel into beautiful landscapes to unfold the mysteries hidden around you.
Future Unfolding is an exploration adventure where you travel into beautiful landscapes to unfold the mysteries hidden around you. Viewed from above, you have a bird's eye view as you encounter different types of wild animals, some helpful and some dangerous.
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Spinfrog: All aboard the Frogcopter is a traversal game where you help Geru the frog ride a log through tricky waters.
Spinfrog: All aboard the Frogcopter is a traversal game where you help Geru the frog ride a log through tricky waters. Slip, squeeze and spin the Frogcopter through over 60 levels all while trying to avoid the walls and hazards in your flight path.
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Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; more games to play while you are waiting for Naiad.
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Flower is a traversal collecting game where you control the breeze across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind.
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Hoa is an adventure game where you walk and jump through a hand-painted world as the mysterious main character.
Hoa is an adventure game where you walk and jump through a hand-painted world as the mysterious main character. You solve environmental puzzles and meet magical creatures while trying to find your way back home.
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Proteus is a narrative adventure game which takes you to a pixelated island.
Proteus is a narrative adventure game which takes you to a pixelated island. As you explore you discover that your presence changes the seasons and time of day.
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Sea of Solitude is an adventure where you play a young woman, Kay, with such strong loneliness that her feelings turn her into a monster.
Sea of Solitude is an adventure where you play a young woman, Kay, with such strong loneliness that her feelings turn her into a monster. As you explore a flooded city you discover dark creatures that you must deal with -- by uncovering their underlying emotional disorder -- to progress and, as you do, slowly unpick what happened to Kay.
Moonglow Bay is a role play game where you play a rookie angler.
Moonglow Bay is a role play game where you play a rookie angler. Unlike other slice-of-life games, fishing isn't tucked away as a side quest here, it's front and centre.
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Ensamey is a narrative game where you run and jump to explore a story told by a 4 year-old and their father.
Ensamey is a narrative game where you run and jump to explore a story told by a 4 year-old and their father. As the child tells the story, what they say and draw appears in the game for you to interact and play with.
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Raji: An Ancient Epic is a running and jumping puzzle game drawing on Hindu and Balinese history.
Raji: An Ancient Epic is a running and jumping puzzle game drawing on Hindu and Balinese history. Taking inspiration from tales like Mahabharata and Ramayana you play a young girl named Raji who is chosen by the gods to defend the human race.
Tree is a narrative game that tells the story of a boy who plants a small tree.
Tree is a narrative game that tells the story of a boy who plants a small tree. You control the planting, watering and how the tree grows each season.
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The Snowgardens is a running, jumping and exploration game where you are a child stranded on a beautiful archipelago. Once the home to an ancient time-altering civilisation but now abandoned, leaving strange technology for you to operate to progress.
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Golf Club: Wasteland is a golf game in an unusual setting. You play on an earth decimated by an environmental catastrophe.
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Atuel is a surrealist narrative game where you traverse the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River, in Argentina.
Atuel is a surrealist narrative game where you traverse the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River, in Argentina. Like a documentary you watch clips from interviews with locals, exploring the intimate and historic relationships with land and nature.
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an intentionally dull (and weird) adventure game about picking up trash as a Janitor. You work to find garbage for the incinerator (or to sell) with the thin hope of leaving the planet for a better life.
Aqua Lungers is a fighting and collecting game where you control a diver that can dash and swim through underwater levels.
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If you like the sound of Naiad but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.
These are our hand-picked alternatives to Naiad. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Labyrinth. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
Hey, That's My Fish! is a traversal game where you are penguins racing to catch the most fish.
Hey, That's My Fish! is a traversal game where you are penguins racing to catch the most fish. You move around the board of hexagons in straight lines, but as you pick up your fish you also destroy the ice.
Tsuro is a strategic tile-laying traversal game where the goal is to keep your piece on the board longer than anyone else.
Tsuro is a strategic tile-laying traversal game where the goal is to keep your piece on the board longer than anyone else. You play by adding intricate winding Path tiles to a board to move pieces along the path that you create.
Santorini is a strategy game where you place buildings on a Greek island in an effort to get your character to the top.
Santorini is a strategy game where you place buildings on a Greek island in an effort to get your character to the top. This creates a chess-like three-dimensional competitive puzzle that changes as each player adds pieces to the village.
These are games of a similar genre mix to Naiad. This includes games from the Puzzle, Adventure and Traversal genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
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 stepping into shadow - even each other's shadows - which results in their death.
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 stepping into shadow - even each other's shadows - which results in their death. This Norwegian game has a title that means "afraid of the dark".
In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Naiad in the following lists: