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35 Great Games Like Planet Alpha

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Planet Alpha is a running and jumping game. You're a wounded hero hobbling across an alien planet, but how did he get into this state? Travel across beautiful, mysterious and often deadly landscapes, you unfold the story of your marooned astronaut. Manipulate time and space in unusual ways to progress through difficult terrain and avoid the unwanted and violent attentions of the resident robots and giant beasts that live on this world.

Unfortunately, Planet Alpha is not available on Android, Mac or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Planet Alpha

Game Details

Release Date: 04/09/2018

Price: 60% off

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Action, Platform (Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle)

Accessibility: 11 features

Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night

Developer: Team 17 (@Team17)

Costs: Purchase cost

6 Similar Games Short List

Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Planet Alpha. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Planet Alpha.

Temple of Sun and Moon

Temple of Sun and Moon (Dreams)

Release Date: 31/08/2020, updated in 2020

Platforms: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night

Temple of Sun and Moon is a running and jumping game with a puzzle element. This is set in an ancient temple dedicated to the gods of the sun and the moon. Collect 25 coins to complete the game, however some coins are easier to get to than others, and...

Sheepo

Release Date: 26/08/2020, updated in 2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Sheepo is a running and jumping game where you explore a vibrant world in a quest to collect an egg from every species in the universe to save them from extinction. You take on bosses like other platforming games, but here you use the surroundings...

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Series)

Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020

Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Both Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps place you in control of a diminutive elfish spirit called Ori. You run, jump and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world. As you do new powers are unlocked that allow you...

Unravel

Unravel (Series)

Release Date: 09/02/2016, updated in 2018

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Unravel and the two-player Unravel Two are a pair of jumping and swinging platform games where you control a character made out of wool. As well as making him look super cute, the wool is used to swing around and interact with objects.

Treasures of the Aegean

Release Date: 11/11/2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Treasures of the Aegean is a Tin Tin-style tomb raiding adventure game. You are Marie Taylor and unveil the secrets of a forgotten kingdom trapped in an endless time loop. To do this, in 15 minute runs you explore a hand-drawn world to recover valuable...

The Cub

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

The Cub is a retro running and jumping game where you play a small child in the same post-environmental disaster as Highwater and Golf Wasteland. It's like playing a classic console platform game but with modern parkour movement and puzzles to bring it...

15 Similar Games Long List

Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Planet Alpha. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Planet Alpha.

Subnautica

Subnautica (Series)

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...

Planet of Lana

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Planet of Lana is an adventure where you play a young girl Lana and her loyal animal friend Mui, on a rescue mission. Set on a planet under siege from cold machines and unfamiliar creatures. Rather than the war, though, this is a game about the vibrant...

The Artful Escape

Release Date: 09/09/2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

The Artful Escape is a narrative adventure with running and jumping sections that combine platform action with music-playing. You are Francis Vendetti as he traverses the universe, jamming on his guitar and harmonising with the various bizarre...

Lost In Play

Release Date: 10/08/2022

Platforms: 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...

Inside

Release Date: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On

Inside is from the same developer as Limbo. As such, you play another boy in a dark dream-light and horrific world. Here though, it's more modern-day and realistic.

Limbo

Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015

Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On

Control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age-rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is not without reason. Rather than violent...

Never Alone

Release Date: 18/12/2014

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Never Alone is a running, jumping and exploring game based on the traditional Iñupiaq tale, "Kunuuksaayuka". You swap between controlling an Iñupiaq girl named Nuna and her Arctic fox companion as you complete puzzles and move the story forwards.

Little Nightmares II

Little Nightmares II (Series)

Release Date: 10/02/2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Side-On

Little Nightmares II is a running and jumping game wrapped in a horror theme. You play a little boy named Mono who explores a dark and disturbing world. On your journey, you meet a little girl called Six and together you try to survive and uncover the...

Seasons After Fall

Release Date: 02/09/2016, updated in 2017

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Seasons After Fall is a running and jumping game where you traverse through forests in search of the lost spirits of the four seasons. As you progress, you unlock the ability to change the season at will, altering the dynamic of the level and letting...

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Release Date: 30/11/2019

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Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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Little Orpheus

Release Date: 12/06/2020, updated in 2022

Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Little Orpheus is a running and jumping game set in 1962 where you play Ivan Ivanovich as he explores lost civilisations, undersea kingdoms and prehistoric jungles. The game is played in retrospect as you explain your adventures to a general suspicious...

Replaced

Release Date: Coming soon

Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Side-On

Replaced is a platform game set in a grim dystopian alternate 1980s America. You play as an Artificial Intelligence trapped inside a human wanting to escape.

Flashback

Release Date: 01/10/2013, updated in 2018

Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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Oddworld Soulstorm

Oddworld Soulstorm (Series)

Release Date: 19/09/1997, updated in 2022

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, Switch, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

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Release Date: 30/11/2022

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Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

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10 Younger Content Rating than Planet Alpha

If Planet Alpha is not age appropriate for your child, here are similar games ordered by age rating so you can find an age-appropriate alternative that’s also a game they will love.

Temple of Sun and Moon

Planet of Lana

Unravel

Subnautica

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

5 Easier Skill Rating than Planet Alpha

If you like the sound of Planet Alpha but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.

The Artful Escape

Temple of Sun and Moon

Lost In Play

Unravel

Flashback

16 Video Games Like Planet Alpha Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Planet Alpha. This includes games from the Puzzle, Action, Adventure, Platform and Narrative genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Celeste

Temple of Sun and Moon

Metroid Dread

MO: Astray

Greak: Memories of Azur

Kuro: A Shadow's Dream

Lost Winds

Unruly Heroes

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

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10 Second Ninja X

10 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Planet Alpha

If you like the sound of Planet Alpha but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Planet Alpha Accessibility Report.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Treasures of the Aegean

Sheepo

Temple of Sun and Moon

Subnautica

Limbo

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Pieces:	Components are Distinguishable by Touch Components are Replaceable No Non-Standard Dice (Or No Dice) No Tiny Pieces No Paper Money No Sprawl
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Placement:	No Unbound Placement Player Components Not Shared No Fiddly Placement Easily Verbalised Actions

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Printed Visibility:	Colour Blind Friendly Design Double-Coding Colour High Contrast Colours
Component Identifiability:	Outline Key Elements No Busy Backgrounds Easily Verbalised Game State No Close Inspection Disadvantage Playable Without Sight

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Communication:	Audio Cues Mirrored Visually (Or no critical audio signals) No Pressured Reveals No Pressured Communication Playable Without Hearing

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35 Great Games Like Planet Alpha

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

15 Similar Games Long List

10 Younger Content Rating than Planet Alpha

5 Easier Skill Rating than Planet Alpha

16 Video Games Like Planet Alpha Based on Genre

10 Video Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than Planet Alpha

Planet Alpha is in These Lists

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