6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed There Is No Game. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed There Is No Game.
Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...
Release Date: 19/10/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Hand-Made
Inscryption starts as a card-based adventure where you build a deck of cards to take on adventures and battles. To this, it adds escape-room style puzzles, both in the card game and in the room in which you are playing. The result is a psychological...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Wii, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
Playerless: One Button Adventure is a puzzle adventure game you can play with a single button. You play a robot in a game who has become self-aware.
Release Date: 22/07/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Ctrl Alt Ego is a puzzle game where you a disembodied character taking control of robots and electronics to move around, interact and solve the puzzles. Using a combination of stealth and problem solving to progress the story and get to the bottom of...
Release Date: 12/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Superliminal is a puzzle game incorporating optical illusions and forced perspective. As you play and explore you can manipulate objects so that when put down their perspective, scale and size has changed. This enables you to progress through areas...
Release Date: 24/04/2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Tacoma is set aboard a space station in the year 2088. As you explore you can discover how the station’s crew lived and worked, using an AR device that lets you review past actions and conversations, you discover clues that unravel a plot of trust,...
8 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed There Is No Game. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed There Is No Game.
Release Date: 21/05/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Observation is a narrative adventure game that puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than...
Release Date: 25/07/2016
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Quadrilateral Cowboy is an adventure in a 1990 retro-cyberpunk world where you take on covert mission to infiltrate buildings and security systems. You carefully explore each level hacking security by typing commands into your grey-market equipment.
Release Date: 11/12/2018, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Outer Wilds is an exploration space mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time-loop. After 20 minutes of game time, you must start again – but each time brings a new opportunity to learn how you ended up on the planet and solve the...
Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
This is a dark fantasy adventure, drawing on Norse and Celtic mythology, where you play a young female Pict warrior, Senua. You explore and fight your way to Helheim to rescue the soul of her dead lover. As you play, though, you hear multiple voices in...
Release Date: 30/01/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Not For Broadcast is a narrative puzzle game where you control the National Nightly News just as a radical government comes to power. By deciding the angles, adverts, images and censoring in the show you control what the people see and determine...
Release Date: 04/01/2016
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Pony Island is an adventure game where you are trapped in a computer by the Devil. You need to crash the computer to escape and stumble upon the Pony Island game that appears unstable. As you hack away at the game you uncover its corrupted code and your...
Release Date: 04/06/2019
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Reventure is a running, jumping and flying game. Or, that's what it looks like. In fact, it's a game about discovering ways to die. The goal isn't the usual rescue the princess. Instead, you're on a scavenger hunt to discover the 100 different ways to die.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person
American Arcadia is a running and jumping game where you solve puzzles to escape your televised life in an opulent but overly controlled futuristic city.
The game is set in a 70’s retro-future city of high luxury. But the citizens don't...