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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Far: Lone Sails. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Far: Lone Sails.
Release Date: 21/12/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather
Sail Forth is a sailing simulation where you take charge of a ship in a vast ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. You play by working with the wind and sails to explore, take on tasks, fight pirates and slowly...
Release Date: 01/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Far: Changing Tides is an exploration adventure that follows Far: Lone Sail. You work to keep your dilapidated craft from breaking as you explore the ruins of a flooded world.
Release Date: 24/08/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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. It's unusual because of its handcrafted...
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: 15/10/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Coming Soon: Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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.
Release Date: 27/08/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
A Juggler's Tale is a running and jumping game where you guide Abby, a string puppet through a dangerous world where you need to solve puzzles and avoid traps. You move crates, pull levers, jump over hazards and try to outrun chasers.
16 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Far: Lone Sails. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Far: Lone Sails.
Release Date: 09/09/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Webbed is a running and jumping game with a twist. You play a spider who can make webs, swing, climb and all the while creating music as she goes. It follows the story of our happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big dumb...
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: 16/02/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Fe is a platform-traversal game where ou 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. You run, jump, climb and dip your paws in every...
Release Date: 06/10/2019
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Gris is a platform game where you guide a young girl through a crumbling world. Through beautiful metaphoric landscapes and soaring music, the game touches on emotions of loss and longing but doesn’t resolve to a firm narrative. Although not hugely...
Release Date: 23/07/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Carrion is a horror game where you play the amorphous alien as well as human protagonists. This reverse-horror scenario puts you in control of an organic tentacled monster to make your way through the facility, stalking and killing humans in your path.
Release Date: 05/07/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
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...
Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Coming Soon: 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...
Release Date: 12/06/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Hollow Knight is a game where you run, jump, and battle your way through the underground kingdom of Hallownest. It’s not uncommon for platform games to invest in the environments through which you pass, but the haunting depths in this game contain...
Release Date: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: 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.
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, 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...
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dandara: Trials of Fear is a running, jumping and puzzle solving game where you play Dandra, the Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil. You can defy gravity to jump from wall to wall and ceilings to ceiling. This combines the action of...
Release Date: 30/11/2019
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Another World (Out of This World in North America) is a retro cinematic running, jumping and shooting game about a young scientist who, as a result of a failed experiment finds himself on a dangerous alien world where he is forced to fight for his...
Release Date: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
MO:Astray is a puzzle, jumping and exploration game. Rather than control a character who runs, you control an amorphous blob. To get around you have to use the game's unique movement mechanics to take advantage of the cleverly designed levels.
Release Date: 28/03/2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Rain World, and the expansion Downpour, are traversal and survival games where you play a half-cat, half-slug in a living breathing world. You must venture out and brave the other predatory creatures to find food before the rain comes and you have to...
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: 27/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree is a traversal narrative game set in a Norse-inspired world where combat is a rhythm rather than a reaction challenge. You explore the world as Estra a young warrior on a quest through Midgard to discover the truth behind...
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