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20 Great Games Like Curious Expedition

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Curious Expedition is an expedition simulation, in the late 19th century. You join historical people to explore a world map to gain fame, science and treasures. Each time you set out the world is different, with unique challenges requiring particular equipment.

Unfortunately, Curious Expedition is not available on Android, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

Curious Expedition
PEGI Rating 7+ for Curious Expedition

DetailsGame Details

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 19/05/2015, updated in 2020

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch

Genres: Adventure, Open World, Puzzle and Strategy

Developer: @MaschiMensch

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

Hand Picked Games Like Curious Expedition

These are our hand-picked games similar to Curious Expedition. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we identify games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Curious Expedition. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
 

Sea of Thieves
PEGI Rating 12+ for Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves

Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Skill Rating: 12-18 year-olds

Release Date: 20/03/2018

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

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Role-Playing and Simulation

Accessibility: 24 features

Developer: @RareLtd

Players: You can play this with 24 players online

Sea of Thieves is an online game where you are a pirate searching for treasure and adventure. Cast into a large open sea you work with other online players to crew your ship and find treasure. The game has a main story but really focuses on creating...

Orwell's Animal Farm

Orwell's Animal Farm

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 10/12/2020

Platforms: Android, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Simulation and Strategy

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: @Nerial

Players: This is a single player game

Orwell's Animal Farm is an adventure game with a decent slice of strategy, all brought to life with beautiful hand-drawn storybook art. As the name suggests, the game is based on the 1945 literary classic Animal Farm by George Orwell, which uses a farm...

Uncharted: Golden Abyss
PEGI Rating 16+ for Uncharted Golden Abyss

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Skill Rating: 11-16 year-olds

Release Date: 15/02/2012

Platforms: PS Vita

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Narrative and Shooting

Accessibility: 24 features

Developer: @Naughty_Dog

Players: This is a single player game

Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an action-adventure game. It's a spin-off of the Uncharted series, although also a substantial experience in its own right that features the series protagonist, Nate. As with the other games you explore, run, jump and shoot...

Bad North
PEGI Rating 12+ for Bad North

Bad North

Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Skill Rating: 10-16 year-olds

Release Date: 31/10/2018, updated in 2018

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

Genres: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Simulation and Strategy

Accessibility: 22 features

Developer: @RawFury

Players: This is a single player game

Bad North is a stylised strategy fighting game. You control an army defending an island and must train and develop your forces efficiently. The simple visuals and knife-edge Viking combat along with the jeopardy of losing precious troops make this a lot...

Sid Meier's Civilization
PEGI Rating 12+ for Sid Meiers Civilization

Sid Meier's Civilization (Series)

Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Release Date: 21/10/2016, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Fighting, Open World, Strategy and Turn-Based

Developer: @Sid_Meier

Players: This is a single player game

Civilization is a long running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter gatherer to space travel. There are many ways to approach this challenge; socially, militarily, politically or perhaps building wonders to impress other nations.

Outer Wilds
PEGI Rating 7+ for Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 11/12/2018, updated in 2018

Platforms: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Genres: Open World and Simulation

Developer: @Mobius_Games

Players: This is a single player game

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...

Dreamscaper
PEGI Rating 7+ for Dreamscaper

Dreamscaper

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 08/04/2020, updated in 2020

Platforms: PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Adventure and Fighting

Developer: @DreamscaperGame

Players: This is a single player game

Dreamscaper is an adventure where you control a woman's subconscious whilst she dreams. In the dreams you battle enemies with different surrealist abilities and weapons: finger guns, move the earth, control time, warp landscapes, many melee weapons and...

A Dark Room
PEGI Rating 7+ for A Dark Room

A Dark Room

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 10/06/2013, updated in 2019

Platforms: Switch and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Open World, Strategy and Turn-Based

Developer: @Continuities

Players: This is a single player game

A Dark Room is an adventure where you try and survive in the wild. It has a similarly simple start – a single option to stoke a fire – but also evolves into an incrementally complex system of resource management as a larger story unfolds.

Carto
PEGI Rating 3+ for Carto

Carto

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Release Date: 27/10/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure and Puzzle

Developer: @SunheadGames

Players: This is a single player game

Carto is an adventure puzzle game that is unusual in letting you rearrange the map tiles while you are playing. This enables you to access new areas of the world previously impossible to get to. This can be as simple as redirecting a river out of your...

Road Not Taken
PEGI Rating 7+ for Road Not Taken

Road Not Taken

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 05/08/2014

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4 and iOS

Genres: Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based

Accessibility: 5 features

Developer: @SpryFox

Players: This is a single player game

Road Not Taken is a puzzle adventure game where you help a village from losing its children in the storms. It's a low pressure, but complex, puzzle where you head into the forrest to find and free the children by moving items and enemies around. You...

A Place for the Unwilling

A Place for the Unwilling

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 25/07/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC and Stadia

Genres: Narrative and Simulation

Accessibility: 3 features

Developer: @AlPixelGames

Players: This is a single player game

A Place for the Unwilling is a narrative adventure set in the final 21 days of a dying city. You investigate the city and its inhabitants to piece together what has happened. However, the clock is always ticking and the city carries on, with or without...

Chrono Sword

Chrono Sword

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 01/11/2021

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

Genres: Action, Adventure and Role-Playing

Developer: @DavidSpaceDuck

Players: This is a single player game

Chrono Sword is an adventure game about Aenor, a time traveller attempting to prevent the death of her loved ones. You learn the technical combat, explore the world, switch time-lines and fight off enemies, to discover the secrets of the past.

Colt Canyon
PEGI Rating 16+ for Colt Canyon

Colt Canyon

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 16/06/2020

Platforms: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action and Shooting

Accessibility: 19 features

Developer: @Retrific

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

Colt Canyon is a pixel-styled shooting game where you play a cowboy, whose mission is to save his kidnapped partner from the bandits and get back home. Players shoot their way through a hostile canyon using their guns and TNT. Hidden treasures and...

Sunless Sea
PEGI Rating 16+ for Sunless Sea

Sunless Sea

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 06/02/2015

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

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @FailbetterGames

Players: This is a single player game

Sunless Sea is a sea-faring adventure where you pilot a small steamship to explore a Victorian-era London that has been moved beneath the earth's surface. You take on the role of captain but select different ambitions that determine how you will play.

Void Bastards
PEGI Rating 16+ for Void Bastards

Void Bastards

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 29/05/2019

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

Genres: Action and Shooting

Developer: @BlueManchuGames

Players: This is a single player game

Void *!@?* is a tongue-in-cheek shooting game, where you control misfit prisoners out of the Sargasso Nebula. You decide which shops to investigate, what to do and who to fight. When you die, you start again with some of the loot you've collected...

Death Trash

Death Trash

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Release Date: 05/08/2021

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative, Open World, Role-Playing and Shooting

Developer: @DeathTrash

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

Death Trash is a role-play game set in a post-apocalyptic, horror open world. Humans travelled to the stars, but unearthed machines and killer worms so had to flee into enclosed habitats. You play an outcast in the wasteland with a dangerous burden to...

Children of Morta
PEGI Rating 12+ for Children of Morta

Children of Morta

Content Rating: PEGI 12+

Release Date: 03/09/2019, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Fighting, Narrative and Role-Playing

Developer: @DeadMageStudio

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

Children of Morta is an adventure game about a family of heroes, each with different abilities and enhancements. You battle enemies and bosses while exploring dungeons within the cavern of Mount Morta and must avoid the corruption as it spreads.

Loot River
PEGI Rating 16+ for Loot River

Loot River

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: Coming soon

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

Genres: Action, Fighting and Puzzle

Developer: @Straka_Studio

Players: This is a single player game

Loot River is a puzzle fighting game where you explore labyrinths armed with the power of a relic that can shift the ground. This combines the combat with a Tetris-like tile shifting that alters the layout of each room to your advantage.

Branches of Power
PEGI Rating 3+ for Branches of Power

Branches of Power

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 10-14 year-olds

Release Date: 29/05/2020

Price: Free

Platforms: Android, Web and iOS

Genres: Puzzle and Role-Playing

Developer: @iCivics

Players: This is a single player game

Branches of Power is a strategy game where you control all three branches of US government. You run the country with the ability to introduce presidential agendas, write legislation, sign or veto bills, and even judge passed laws. It's a lot to deal...

Do I Have A Right?
PEGI Rating 3+ for Do I Have A Right

Do I Have A Right?

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Release Date: 28/03/2018

Price: Free

Platforms: Android, Web and iOS

Genres: Action, Puzzle and Strategy

Developer: @iCivics

Players: This is a single player game

Do I Have A Right? is a puzzle game where you run a law firm that takes pro-bono cases where client's rights have been infringed. It's like Diner Dash, with a stream of customers who's needs must be met. Only here each client needs legal advice on...

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Educational Games That Are Also Good Games

These games have an educational element to them, but also offer experiences that are good games in their own right. This isn't busywork to trick you into learning, but clever and innovative ways to encounter history, physics, engineering, maths, geography and language subjects without feeling like you are in school. They also teach softer, deeper skills like long term strategy, planning, balancing systems, emotional intelligence, compassion, team-work and self-care.

Some of these games are aimed at younger players to play on their own, but others (as indicated by their PEGI ratings) are better for teenagers or played together in a family. Find some games that pique your interest, read through the details and decide how your child might benefit from playing them.
 
SpellTower
PEGI Rating 3+ for SpellTower
Card of Darkness
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Really Bad Chess
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Beasts of Maravilla Island
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Civics! An American Musical
PEGI Rating 3+ for Civics An American Musical
Do I Have A Right?
PEGI Rating 3+ for Do I Have A Right
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PEGI Rating 3+ for The Ogglies Tower
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Pony Style Box
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Nice Skating
Little Fox Train Adventures
PEGI Rating 3+ for Little Fox Train Adventures
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Khan Academy Kids
Room to Grow
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Unmaze
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Zen Bound
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PEGI Rating 3+ for A Dance of Fire and Ice
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Operation Tango
112 Operator
PEGI Rating 12+ for 112 Operator
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Minesweeper Genius
Rip Them Off
PEGI Rating 3+ for Rip Them Off
Heavenly Bodies
Gogogo!
PEGI Rating 3+ for Gogogo
Down in Bermuda
PEGI Rating 3+ for Down in Bermuda
Factorio
Knight's Retreat
PEGI Rating 3+ for Knights Retreat
Spooky Chase
PEGI Rating 3+ for Spooky Chase
Potion Craft
Surviving Mars
PEGI Rating 7+ for Surviving Mars
Hundred Days, Winemaking Simulator
Venba
Typoman
PEGI Rating 7+ for Typoman
Endling
Not Not, A Brain-Buster
PEGI Rating 3+ for Not Not A BrainBuster
Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
Dorfromantik
Microsoft Flight Simulator
PEGI Rating 3+ for Microsoft Flight Simulator
Balance - Power Grid
PEGI Rating 3+ for Balance Power Grid
Stranded Deep
PEGI Rating 16+ for Stranded Deep
Bee Simulator
PEGI Rating 7+ for Bee Simulator
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
PEGI Rating 3+ for El Hijo A Wild West Tale
Orwell's Animal Farm
The Wandering Village
Bring You Home
PEGI Rating 3+ for Bring You Home
Akurra
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Headliner: NoviNews
PEGI Rating 12+ for Headliner NoviNews
Unrailed!
PEGI Rating 3+ for Unrailed
Qomp
Wonderbox
Sokobond
Universal Paperclips
PEGI Rating 3+ for Universal Paperclips
Island Saver
PEGI Rating 3+ for Island Saver
Traffix
PEGI Rating 3+ for Traffix
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PEGI Rating 7+ for There Is No Game
KeyWe
Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
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PEGI Rating 7+ for King of Dragon Pass
Cosmic Express
PEGI Rating 3+ for Cosmic Express
A Monsters Expedition
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PEGI Rating 3+ for A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
Townscaper
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Through the Darkest of Times
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Pianista The Legendary Virtuoso
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Agent A A Puzzle In Disguise
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Opus Magnum
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PEGI Rating 7+ for LittleBigPlanet
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Scribblenauts
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Levelhead
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Deep Time Walk
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Lego Super Mario
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Total War
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Subdefuge
Beyond Blue
PEGI Rating 7+ for Beyond Blue
Koral
PEGI Rating 3+ for Koral
The Pedestrian
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Assassins Creed Discovery Tour
Stacking
PEGI Rating 7+ for Stacking
Curious Expedition
PEGI Rating 7+ for Curious Expedition
Signs of the Sojourner
Pocket City
PEGI Rating 3+ for Pocket City
Autonauts
Age of Empires
PEGI Rating 12+ for Age of Empires
Kerbal Space Program
PEGI Rating 3+ for Kerbal Space Program
TerraTech
PEGI Rating 7+ for TerraTech
Valiant Hearts The Great War
PEGI Rating 12+ for Valiant Hearts The Great War
Teach Your Monster To Read
PEGI Rating 3+ for Teach Your Monster To Read
Manifold Garden
PEGI Rating 3+ for Manifold Garden
Astroneer
PEGI Rating 7+ for Astroneer
Hidden Through Time
PEGI Rating 3+ for Hidden Through Time
Crossout
PEGI Rating 7+ for Crossout
Lego Worlds
PEGI Rating 7+ for Lego Worlds
Sid Meier's Civilization
PEGI Rating 12+ for Sid Meiers Civilization
Everything
PEGI Rating 3+ for Everything
Baba is You
PEGI Rating 3+ for Baba is You
Minecraft
PEGI Rating 7+ for Minecraft
Super Mario Maker
PEGI Rating 3+ for Super Mario Maker
My Child Lebensborn
PEGI Rating 12+ for My Child Lebensborn
Bury Me My Love
PEGI Rating 7+ for Bury Me My Love
Heaven's Vault
PEGI Rating 7+ for Heavens Vault
Endless Ocean
PEGI Rating 3+ for Endless Ocean
Mini Motorways
PEGI Rating 3+ for Mini Motorways
Wilmot's Warehouse
PEGI Rating 3+ for Wilmots Warehouse
80 Days
PEGI Rating 12+ for 80 Days
39 Days to Mars
PEGI Rating 3+ for 39 Days to Mars
Affordable Space Adventures
PEGI Rating 7+ for Affordable Space Adventures
The Witness
PEGI Rating 3+ for The Witness
Stardew Valley
PEGI Rating 12+ for Stardew Valley
Spaceteam
PEGI Rating 3+ for Spaceteam
Sizzle And Stew
PEGI Rating 3+ for Sizzle And Stew
Professor Layton
PEGI Rating 7+ for Professor Layton
Papers, Please
PEGI Rating 16+ for Papers Please
Old Man's Journey
PEGI Rating 3+ for Old Mans Journey
One Hour One Life
PEGI Rating 7+ for One Hour One Life
Mini Metro
PEGI Rating 3+ for Mini Metro
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
PEGI Rating 3+ for Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Heave Ho
PEGI Rating 3+ for Heave Ho
Gris
PEGI Rating 7+ for Gris
Eco
PEGI Rating 7+ for Eco
Dragon Box
PEGI Rating 3+ for Dragon Box
Celeste
PEGI Rating 7+ for Celeste
This War Of Mine
PEGI Rating 18+ for This War Of Mine
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
PEGI Rating 18+ for Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice

Persevere After Losing

Video games where you adventure into a harsh setting, try your hardest to survive and slowly develop your abilities but then inevitably die are often called Rogue-likes. This is because one of the first games that offered this style of play was called Rogue.

These are interesting games for families, not only because their difficult nature leads to shorter sessions, but also because they foster perseverance and coping with losing. After dying you are sent back to some sort of central village where you can choose upgrades for your next attempt. The incentive to play again once you have been killed is usually that you start with some more equipment or skills.

In this way, by belligerence and a slowly learned understanding of how the game world works and how best to survive, you incrementally get a bit further each time you play. Here are some really good roguelike games for families:
 
Granny
PEGI Rating 16+ for Granny
Solar Ash
Star Wars: Republic Commando
PEGI Rating 12+ for Star Wars Republic Commando
Death's Door
PEGI Rating 12+ for Deaths Door


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