6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Old Man's Journey. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Old Man's Journey.
Release Date: 27/09/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Wandersong is an adventure where you play a bard on a quest to gather parts of a song. Uniquely, you interact with the environment and inhabitants by singing with one of the direction sticks. It stands out not only for its start of love and loss, but...
Release Date: 20/08/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
A Walk with Yiayia is an adventure game where you go on a walk with your Greek grandmother after she's lost her confidence from having a fall. You reassure her and connect with conversation and help her complete small quests in a relaxing neighbourhood.
Release Date: 10/08/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Lost In Play is a feel-good adventure about a brother and sister exploring their dreams. Lost in their imagination, Toto and Gal must solve puzzles to journey back home. It's a point-and-click adventure inspired in style by Gravity Falls, Hilda, and...
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Celeste is a platform game that requires players to use jumping and climbing moves to ascend an increasingly challenging two-dimensional mountain. You play Madeline, who is, perhaps unsurprisingly, haunted by self-doubt at the task in hand. She presses...
Release Date: 14/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Florence is a little puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship, following the usual stages of loneliness, meeting, dating, falling for and moving in with another person. At first, the puzzle interactions seem trivial and the game doesn’t...
Release Date: 11/04/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
A Fold Apart is a puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper. After career choices force them along separate paths, a Teacher and Architect vow to make their long-distance...
37 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Old Man's Journey. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Old Man's Journey.
Release Date: 30/06/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Web, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made
Townscaper is a creative town-building game where you pick colours from the range available and click to put down a house in the sea. As you continue to add houses of different colours the game automatically orientates the architecture for you.
Release Date: 31/07/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
80 Days is a travel and culture discovery game set in 1872, where decisions about your journey around the world impact the course of the story and characters. You play be deciding where to go next and talking to the people you meet to find the right...
Release Date: 04/08/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Hindsight is a narrative point-and-click game where you revisit the past by finding objects that trigger memories. Play involves exploring each scene, locating objects and listening to the story as you move the camera to look within what you've found...
Release Date: 15/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Wayward Strand is a narrative game about Casey Beaumaris, an intrepid teenage journalist. You visit an airborne hospital, uncover the airship's mysteries, and explore the lives of its inhabitants. It's a Tintin-style point-and-click adventure with a...
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a rhythm-action game where you control a running, flying, dancing or motorbike-riding character to collect coins and hearts in time with pop music. The neon visuals and emotively voiced story make this an unusual and compelling...
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. Examine faded...
Release Date: 13/08/2018
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Tree is a short 15 minute 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. As you do this the years pass and the boy...
Release Date: 06/08/2008
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Braid is a platform game, not dissimilar to Mario World, that appears simple but has a twist. The movement of your character is connected to the progression of time in a mind-bending manner. The resulting puzzles are fascinating and connected to a story...
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Spiritfarer is a boat-building exploration game. Unusually though, you play Stella, ferry master to the deceased and the boat you manage takes them to the next life.
Release Date: 15/08/2018, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Donut County offers a simple style of play. You drag a hole around the screen; the more things you can make fall in, the bigger the hole gets. You start with bricks, road cones and bushes, but eventually you’re swallowing whole houses.
Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Road to Guangdong is a road trip adventure game about family and travel. You drive across 1990’s Guangdong, fix your car and explore the places you pass. You play as Sunny, just after a family tragedy, travelling with Guu Ma, her aunt. They have the...
Release Date: 26/05/2017
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Rime is an adventure on an island where you play a boy led by a fox-like spirit as a guide. To progress through the beautiful environments you solve puzzles across five large levels. You can run, climb, carry objects, and push or pull larger objects...
Release Date: 14/08/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Coming Soon: Mac
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Eastshade is a slow exploration game in a world you explore by walking around. Here, though, you play as a painter of landscapes rather than typical hero. Your mission is to paint your deceased mother’s favourite sights, but it's the world and its...
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black and white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Release Date: 06/07/2016
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Open World
Pokémon Go is a game you play by walking outside. You play on a smartphone so it can use the GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location.
Release Date: 06/09/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Samsara Room is an abstract point-and-click puzzle-horror game. By solving the puzzles hidden throughout the room, you uncover an uneasy story about judgement and atonement told through the things you find.
Release Date: 17/01/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
She and the Light Bearer is a point-and-click adventure game with hand-drawn visuals, where you find and interact with items to solve puzzles and advance through its narrative. It’s accompanied by an instrumental acoustic soundtrack that reveals a new...
Release Date: 29/09/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Burly Men at Sea is an adventure where you play three seafaring brothers who explore the Scandinavian seas. It's novel because it requires multiple playthroughs to discover the full narrative. It has a unique cyclical gameplay loop that remembers your...
Release Date: 14/12/2017, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Hand-Made
Gorogoa is a puzzle game where you rearrange and resize tiles to make a singular picture. It appears to be simple, but to solve the puzzles you need to play close attention to how they interrelate. This Matryoshka Russian-Doll puzzle combines with...
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, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Vokabulantis is a puppet-animated running and jumping game about two children, Karla and Kurt, who have fallen in love. Just as they find each other though, the world starts falling apart and they discover they can’t speak to each other because their...
Release Date: 29/07/2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
#SelfCare is a companion game that aims to create space for your feelings. Unlike other apps that remind or incentivise you to take a break, breath or even just to stand up, #SelfCare offers interactions and narrative that create a context for you to...
Release Date: 03/12/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Arise: A Simple Story is a narrative game about an old man living in a pre-agricultural tribe. He has just been cremated and as get travels to the next life, begins a pilgrimage of revisiting memories of his life.
Release Date: 17/11/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Spring Falls is a puzzle where you erode a geometric landscape to let water flow down the mountain and help plants grow. Along with the low-pressure puzzle play, the game offers a calming experience with soft visuals, ambient music and interactive...
Release Date: 08/02/2017
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS4
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Leaving Lyndow is a narrative adventure set a couple of generations before Eastshade. Sharing the same anthropomorphized animal society, although here at an earlier stage, it's a game about the memories we make in the places we...
Release Date: 10/03/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
The Last Cube is a puzzle platform game where you guide a cube through a series of 3D mazes to save the world from destruction. Because you have to get the right side of the cube on the right square to trigger abilities and progress, it creates a...
Release Date: 28/02/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a narrative adventure game about sharing stories. You travel across the Depression-era United States discovering and collecting the stories of the people and places you encounter on your journey. You use this...
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
How to Say Goodbye is a narrative puzzle game where you interact with the illustrations to help a group of ghosts reach the other side. As you progress you discover the story of a character recently turned into a ghost and lost in an unknown world. Your...
Release Date: 15/05/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Splitter Critters is a puzzle game where you cut up the world to connect platforms and get to the exit. You split and rearrange each level so you can avoid deadly lasers and create floating swimming pools to guide alien critters back to their spaceship.
Release Date: 01/01/2007
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Passage passage.toolness.org is a super-simple game from the same developer as One Hour One Life on the theme of a life well lived. Although just a few minutes long, it offers an unusual interactive metaphor for the...
Release Date: 17/01/2017
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead
She Remembered Caterpillars is a colour-matching puzzle game with an unusual look and emotional story to tell. Through the unsettling fungi-punk aesthetic you work out how to get your characters to the endpoint of each stage. As you do you eavesdrop on...
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Winding Worlds is a colourful puzzle game played in a mythic world where you solve your way through the afterlife. The characters you meet don't always want to help, but you can help them deal with their problems and find peace. The puzzles are logic...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Bilkins' Folly is an adventure game about a boy and his dog exploring tropical islands in a search for treasure and his missing family. Like classic point-and-click adventures you make strong bonds with quirky characters, here though it's logic puzzles...
Release Date: 07/10/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Puddle Knights is a puzzle game where you use your cape to protect nobles from stepping in mud. While it may not challenge the ruling elites, it does create an intriguing challenge with steadily increasing difficulty.
Release Date: 21/04/2021
Out Now: PC and PS4
Coming Soon: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
World Splitter is a platform puzzle game with a dual dimension challenge. In each level, you need to collect a series of characters and get to the exit. Sounds familiar, but adds a unique dimensional line that gives you access to two different versions...
Release Date: 26/08/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Weather
A Winding Path is a hand-drawn adventure you play at a walking pace so you can take in the beauty of little things in the world. Your journey is to find the rainmaker to bring back the rain. You play by moving around and interacting with the people,...
Release Date: 19/05/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Pear Quest is a point-and-click adventure where you are a rabbit on a strange island covered in trees. There's a large pear you need to reach by completing quests and puzzles for the various inhabitants. It's similar to other island adventures, but here...
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