6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Nuts. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Nuts.
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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Henry Halfhead is a traversal game where you move around by possessing and controlling any object within your reach. You move around the world freely, but to get where you need to go you need to become the objects around you to use their abilities. It...
Release Date: 27/02/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Day and Night
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire is a strategic action game where you play a vegan vampire defending his way of life against a bloodthirsty family. By day you plant and nurture crops on your ever-expanding farm. By night you then use them, alongside magical...
Release Date: 03/12/2015
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Orchids to Dusk is a short wandering adventure. You are an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes of oxygen. You explore the world and discover fantastic gardens on the planet.
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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Harold Halibut is a narrative adventure set on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean, after fleeing the Earth 2050 years ago. It's beautifully created with real puppetry and fully voice-acted. The result is a filmic adventure where you...
26 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Nuts. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Nuts.
Release Date: 20/09/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Firewatch is an explorative adventure where you play a fire lookout in America’s Shoshone National Forest. It has a relational and conspiracy undertone similar to the podcast/radio drama and Netflix show [link to...
Release Date: 12/11/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Day and Night
Bugsnax is a whimsical adventure where you track, trick, catch and eat anthropomorphic food in all shapes and sizes. But as you do, you literally become what you eat. It's silly puzzling fun from the creators of [link to game/Octodad+Dadliest+Catch...
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: 31/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a road trip as the weight of history turns. You play a young woman leaving a secluded community to explore the world for the first time. Your task is to collect artefacts, record sounds and...
Release Date: 18/04/2017, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Edith Finch is the surviving member of the Finch family, who seem to have died from a curse. In first-person perspective, you return to the family’s coastal home to learn about each relative’s final hours by exploring their rooms in turn.
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Heaven’s Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices...
Release Date: 24/06/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: Filmed
Solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves are short films with real actors. Although there are only...
Release Date: 27/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Orwell is narrative game where you play a fictional research using a surveillance program called Orwell. Through a series of episodes you are tasked with using Orwell to help solve mysteries like the bombing of a public plaza. To do this you trawl...
Release Date: 19/01/2016
Out Now: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Life Is Strange is a click/tap-to-move adventure where you play a student at a high school in a sleepy American town. Despite the idyllic setting, you have a foreboding premonition of a disastrous storm. Along with this prophetic vision, you discover...
Release Date: 18/10/2019
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Pixels
You play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have all mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each...
Release Date: 19/08/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building. You view things from above and can interact with a simple click-and-drag interface. What starts as a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police...
Release Date: 20/05/2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Longest Road on Earth is a narrative game of four chapters about everyday life. You play as different anthropomorphic animals living mundane lives. Its combination of minimal interaction and slow-paced stories aims to uncover moments in time that...
Release Date: 25/07/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Stadia
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
A Place for the Unwilling is a narrative adventure set in the final 21 days of a dying city. You investigate the city and its inhabitants to piece together what has happened. However, the clock is always ticking and the city carries on, with or without...
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Out Now: Android and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the...
Release Date: 31/07/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Xbox Series X|S
Components: Filmed
Telling Lies is from the same developer as Her Story. It's named as an investigative thriller game with non-linear storytelling by the developer.
Release Date: 12/04/2018
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person
Spy Party is a one-versus-one game about observing behaviour. One player is a spy at a party among many computer-controlled guests, with a list of missions. The other player is a sniper who must spot the human-controlled spy by watching the way they are...
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Dépanneur Nocturne (which means Nighttime Convenience Store) is a short narrative adventure about the value of conversation and local shops. You explore a store late at night, to find a gift for your partner. What unfolds is a gentle search-and-suggest...
Release Date: 26/01/2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Please, Touch The Artwork is a puzzle game that tells a story with real abstract paintings. Unconventionally it asks, what would happen if we did touch the artwork in museums? The answer is revealed over three stories each focusing on a different...
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Out Now: Android and iOS
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Frog's Princess is a narrative game about a kingdom surrounded by evil. You play a young princess who must save her kingdom. Along the way, you encounter a frog prince on a quest to rescue his bodyguard and find your plans overturned.
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Hive Time is a strategy game where you build a beehive and make honey. You command your bees to harvest resources, grow your hive, and produce a new Queen before the current one dies. It's unique for its buzzy subject matter, and because it opts for...
Release Date: 22/04/2009, updated in 2016
Out Now: PC, PS Vita and Wii
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Little King's Story is a real-time strategy game that simulates life in a fictional kingdom. You play a timid boy who finds a crown that gives him power to make people follow orders. You slowly expand your village by gathering resources and gaining...
Release Date: 12/02/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
A Puzzle in Time is a puzzle game set in a laboratory. Your task is to escape the room and prove time travel is possible by solving puzzles set over four different years. Inspired by games like Portal and The Witness this short but challenging game has...
Release Date: 01/01/2020
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
City Guesser (and similar web game, Geo Guesser) is a puzzle game where you watch a short film looking for clues to discover your location. You need to pay close attention to the sights and sounds to accurately pinpoint yourself on a world map. It's a...
Release Date: 06/11/2020
Out Now: Web
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Harmony Square is a text-based adventure game about fake news. You live in idyllic Harmony Square and are hired as Chief Disinformation Officer whose job is to disturb the square’s peace and quiet by fomenting internal divisions and pitting its...
Release Date: 25/08/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Cartoon
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a narrative game about growing through teenage years on an alien planet. It's played by making choices about who to help or which skills to master over the ten years. This determines the course of your life on the colony...
Release Date: 31/03/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Wildfire Swap is a puzzle game where you swap tiles to stop forest fires. Each level starts with a grid of trees, houses and bare land. Your job is to rearrange the tiles so the fires that start can’t spread to the houses.
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