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71 Great Games Like Curious Expedition

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Curious Expedition and have found the following:

Curious Expedition is an expedition simulation, in the late 19^th 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

Game 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: Maschi Mensch (@MaschiMensch)

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

20 Hand Picked Games Like Curious Expedition

These are our hand-picked games similar to Curious Expedition. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick 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

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: 26 features

Developer: Rare Ltd (@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...

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: Bend Studio (@BendStudio)

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...

Orwell's Animal Farm

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 10/12/2020

Platforms: Android, PC and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Point-and-Click, Simulation and Strategy

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: Nerial (@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...

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 (@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...

Sid Meier's 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 (@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.

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: Al Pixel Games (@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...

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: 21 features

Developer: Raw Fury (@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...

A Dark Room

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 8-12 year-olds

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

Platforms: Switch and iOS

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

Accessibility: 23 features

Developer: Double Speak Game (@DoubleSpeakGame)

Players: This is a single player game

A Dark Room is an adventure where you try and survive in the wild. The world is depicted with just text but leads you into a dense narrative with intriguing visitors and a steadily expanding world. It has a simple start – a single option to stoke a...

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

Accessibility: 30 features

Developer: Sunhead Games (@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...

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: David Space Duck (@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 technical combat, explore the world, switch timelines and fight off enemies to discover the secrets of the past.

Dreamscaper

Content Rating: PEGI 7

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

Platforms: PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Adventure and Fighting

Developer: Dreamscaper Game (@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...

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: Spry Fox (@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...

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 (@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

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 06/02/2015

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

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Accessibility: 19 features

Developer: Failbetter Games (@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

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 29/05/2019

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

Genres: Action and Shooting

Developer: Blue Manchu Games (@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...

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: Dead Mage Studio (@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.

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: Death Trash (@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...

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: i Civics (@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?

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: i Civics (@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...

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 (@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.

52 Games Like Curious Expedition Based on Genre

These are games of a similar genre mix to Curious Expedition. This includes games from the Puzzle, Adventure, Strategy and Open World genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.

The Touryst

Journey

Subnautica

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Roblox

A Hat in Time

Stardew Valley

Yoku's Island Express

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Astroneer

Potion Craft

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Subnautica Below Zero

Hokko Life

Okami

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Buildings Have Feelings Too

Pikmin

Dicey Dungeons

Rescue: Under Pressure

Pikmin 2

Reigns

Deiland Pocket Planet

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Trove

Home Quest

Baldo: The Guardian Owls

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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:

Ball World Adventures

Ambition: A Minuet in Power

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Death's Door

Firegirl

Elden Ring

Tactical Breach Wizards

BPM: Bullets Per Minute

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

PEGI Rating 7 for Pokmon Mystery Dungeon

Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Mechstermination Force

The House of the Dead

Back 4 Blood

Hitman

Ghostrunner

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.

Mini Metro

Letter²

Affordable Space Adventures

Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain

Beasts of Maravilla Island

A Walk With Yiayia

Civics! An American Musical

Little Fox Train Adventures

A Dance of Fire and Ice

Hundred Days, Winemaking Simulator

Venba

Typoman

Endling

Not Not, A Brain-Buster

Nanotale - Typing Chronicles

Dorfromantik

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Balance - Power Grid

Stranded Deep

Bee Simulator

El Hijo - A Wild West Tale

Orwell's Animal Farm

The Wandering Village

Bring You Home

Akurra

Stormworks: Build and Rescue

Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind

King of Dragon Pass

Cosmic Express

A Monsters Expedition

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

Townscaper

The Eternal Cylinder

Through the Darkest of Times

Toodee and Topdee

Pianista: The Legendary Virtuoso

Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise

Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour

Stacking

Curious Expedition

Signs of the Sojourner

Valiant Hearts The Great War

Teach Your Monster To Read

Sid Meier's Civilization

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

This War Of Mine

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71 Great Games Like Curious Expedition

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20 Hand Picked Games Like Curious Expedition

Sea of Thieves

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Orwell's Animal Farm

Outer Wilds

Sid Meier's Civilization (Series)

A Place for the Unwilling

Bad North

A Dark Room

Carto

Chrono Sword

Dreamscaper

Road Not Taken

Colt Canyon

Sunless Sea

Void Bastards

Children of Morta

Death Trash

Branches of Power

Do I Have A Right?

Loot River

52 Games Like Curious Expedition Based on Genre

Curious Expedition is in These Lists

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Educational Games That Are Also Good Games

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