4 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Unravel. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Unravel.
Release Date: 26/08/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Knights And Bikes! is a hand-painted adventure in a fictional late-eighties British island. You work together as Nessa and Demelza to explore its coast on bikes to find treasure, mystery and trouble. There’s fighting with frisbees, water balloons,...
Release Date: 26/03/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
It Takes Two is a running, jumping and exploring game that tells a story of a young girl, Rose, whose parents are divorcing. The girl creates two dolls to represent her parents, which unexpectedly trap the clashing-couple in them. You and a friend...
Release Date: 25/06/2015, updated in 2017
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS and Wii U
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Yoshi's Woolly World is a platform game of knitted yarn. You explore, jump and run your way around, solving puzzles and collecting items to complete each stage.
Release Date: 20/08/2019
Platforms: PS4
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Concrete Genie is a running and jumping game about a young boy, who is isolated and bullied, in this exploration platform game with a twist. Using motion controls and buttons you can draw beautiful graffiti on the buildings, which come to life. These...
41 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Unravel. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Unravel.
Release Date: 14/10/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
ElecHead is a running and jumping puzzle game where you control a character who is a source of electricity. With this power you activate the platforms you need to progress in unusual and puzzling ways. It introduces unique scenarios where you need to...
Release Date: 16/02/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: Open World
You 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 aspect of the world. But it’s the...
Release Date: 23/06/2006
Platforms: PS Vita, PS4 and PSP
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
This creates a world of plants and creatures to investigate. The novelty, besides the character’s singing and cute aesthetic, is that you control the game with just two buttons, tilting and bumping your characters through each level.
Release Date: 17/10/2010, updated in 2019
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Kirby's Epic Yarn is a running and jumping game starring Nintendo's Kirby character that can (usually) suck enemies into their large mouth to gain new abilities. It's set in Patch Land, a world made completely out of fabric. You use your platforming...
Release Date: 24/08/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
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: 19/07/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Stray is a game about a cat lost in a futuristic city where robots live. You guide your feline friend in and out of buildings, across roads and generally poke your nose in to see what is going on.
Release Date: 11/06/2021
Platforms: PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a running, jumping and shooting game. The latest in the series, Rift Apart focuses on jumping between parallel worlds.
Release Date: 10/02/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
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...
Release Date: 07/10/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Frogger In Toy Town is a jumping and running game that updates the classic Frogger road-crossing challenge. You play the game in rich three dimensional environments with objects that interact with each other. As well as looking nice, this adds a...
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
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: 19/02/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Voyage is a cinematic adventure puzzle game, where you play alone or cooperatively to guide two survivors on their journey to unravel a mystery from the past and find their way home. You move through the world without guidance and must experiment to...
Release Date: 10/09/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: Cards and Dice
Lost in Random is an adventure where you play an anthropomorphic dice and a young girl called Even. In her world, when she turns 12 she must roll a magical die to be assigned a region to live in and a life to live. But seeing her sister go through this...
Release Date: 20/05/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
The Wild At Heart is an adventure puzzle game where you play two children fleeing hardship. Unlike other adventures, play here extends beyond conversations, exploring and fetch quests. You interact with the world by collecting a swarm of small magical...
Release Date: 11/04/2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
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...
Release Date: 16/12/2021
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
The Gunk is a narrative adventure where you play one sister of a pair of space explorers struggling for resources, who find a new planet with new alien wildlife. You play by traversing the environment sucking up toxic waste, harvesting materials,...
Release Date: 24/02/2009, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Zen Bound is a puzzle game about wrapping objects in rope. With a relaxing soundtrack and calm visuals you are present with different objects with an attached rope of a specific length. Using a mouse, touch or tilt controls you transfer paint from the...
Release Date: 28/07/2017
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS
Hey! Pikmin is a spinoff game from the Pikmin series. In this game Captain Olimar crash lands on a planet and needs to find fuel to escape, leading a group of Pikmin through 2D side scrolling levels collecting the Sparklium. Players enter a level and...
Release Date: 12/06/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
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...
Release Date: 27/10/2008
Platforms: PS Vita, PS3 and PS4
Little Big Planet is a series of games staring the Sackboy character. They offer a multiplayer running and jumping adventure, but also enable to player to substantially edit their character and eventually make their own levels.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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: 23/09/2021
Platforms: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Koala Boutique is a strategy game about running a shop on the brink of bankruptcy. Unusually, it's a game designed for two players to play distinct roles. You don't have to play at the same time, but work together to progress as a team. The Adventurer...
Release Date: 14/02/2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Degrees of Separation is a running and jumping game where you control two characters from different seasons, Ember and Rime. Each has different abilities to change the environment and help you to progress: freezing water, melting ice and the like.
Release Date: 29/06/1998, updated in 2022
Platforms: Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: Open World
Banjo-Kazooie is a running, jumping and exploration game. You play as Banjo the Bear who carries his friend Kazooie the bird in his backpack. Collect items as you go to unlock special skills and open up doors. Regarded now as a classic of its genre,...
Release Date: 14/02/2023
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Blanc is a black and white adventure for two players. You play a fawn and a wolf cub stranded in a vast, snowy wilderness. As you use each other's abilities to progress through the world, you form an unlikely partnership and hope to find both their...
Release Date: 28/04/2016, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Pico Park is a collaborative puzzle game for up to 10 players where you traverse levels using one another to solve puzzles. It's a game about communication and physics as players work to position themselves to bridge a gap, use ropes to hang off ledges...
Release Date: 21/06/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Pode is a co-operative puzzle game, where two players on the same system can use different abilities to help each other unlock new areas of a beautiful world and advance a cute little story. It's a good game if you like combining abilities in clever...
Release Date: 29/03/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Snake Pass is a puzzle game where you move around objects and through the world like a snake. Rather than running around the levels as you do in games like Mario games, you have to slither along the ground and coil around...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
After Us is an adventure game where you explore a surreal world as Gaia, who must salvage the souls of extinct animals. You play by traversing the world, dealing with hazards and reviving creatures to reveal their fate: the last whale harpooned, the...
Release Date: 28/04/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Haiku the Robot is a running and jumping game set in a world full of corrupt robots and machinery. You explore, fight fierce machines, befriend quirky robots as you search for answers to the mysteries of the world around you. It's a really well made...
Release Date: 31/01/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Qubo's Quest: Into the Wild is a running and jumping game with some combat. You play as a tiny robot in an environment where pencils are weapons and pin tacks are deadly. There are two worlds to explore, an office and a garden. You must avoid the deadly...
Release Date: 17/01/2017
Platforms: PC and Switch
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: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
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...
Release Date: 01/02/2017
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Candleman is a running and jumping game. You play as a tiny candle in the dark lighting its way through a dark and foreboding environment. It's unusual because your candle only last for 10 seconds, after which it's dark and really hard to navigate so...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Disney Illusion Island is a running and jumping game where you play Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald in an original adventure. As you explore, you use their unique abilities to traverse water, land and air. It's Cuphead meets Rayman but with the charm,...
Release Date: 25/08/2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Haak is a running, jumping and fighting game where you explore an apocalyptic wasteland to find your lost brother. You investigate a dilapidated futuristic cities by making well timed jumps, fighting enemies and developing your skills. Although familiar...
Release Date: 26/04/2018, updated in 2021
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Inked is a puzzle game where you play a sketched hero venturing into the world of ink and paper, from the perspective of the artist who drew you. With simple controls, you traverse platforms and ramps and solve a range of hand-drawn puzzles with...
Release Date: 02/05/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Pitfall Planet is a cooperative puzzle game that forces you to think outside the box as you collect gold, fight enemies and escape levels. It features challenging levels that mean that teamwork is central as you grapple, throw and create pathways...
Release Date: 08/10/2019, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is the latest game in the Trine series of running, jumping, fighting and puzzle adventures. You play as one of three characters in a beautifully drawn fantasy realm; a wizard, thief or knight, each with their own special...
Release Date: 04/09/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: Day and Night
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....
Release Date: 09/03/2021, updated in 2021
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Draw! is a puzzle game where you draw your own platforms in order to get a stick figure to run and jump through the level to an exit. It is designed to look like drawings on a notepad with you as the artist.
Release Date: 14/03/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Funky Bones IV is a running and jumping puzzle game. You play a cute skeleton in a cardboard Mexican Day of the Dead world. Jump and twist your way through various obstacles to defeat a final boss and complete the single level. It's a beguiling and...
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