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13 Great Games Like The Pedestrian

Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to The Pedestrian.
 

The Pedestrian is a puzzle game where you control a stick man navigating a series of road signs around a virtual city. It sounds a little odd and quite simple, but by layering its interconnected sign-based puzzles it creates an experience that is both enjoyable and stretching for the brain.

Unfortunately, The Pedestrian is not available on Android, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

The Pedestrian

DetailsGame Details

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 29/01/2020

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 17 features

Developer: @SkookumArts

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

Hand Picked Games Like The Pedestrian

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

LocoRoco
PEGI Rating 3+ for LocoRoco

LocoRoco

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Release Date: 23/06/2006

Platforms: PS Vita, PS4 and PSP

Genres: Platform

Accessibility: 1 feature

Developer: @SonyJapanStudio

Players: This is a single player game

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.

Ibb and Obb
PEGI Rating 3+ for Ibb and Obb

Ibb and Obb

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Release Date: 01/08/2013, updated in 2020

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3 and Switch

Genres: Action, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 13 features

Developer: @Sparpweed

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online

Ibb & Obb is a puzzle game where you run, jump, land on enemies and solve momentum puzzles. The novelty is that it's a game designed for co-operation. One player controls the green creature, Ibb, and the other controls the pink creature, Obb. The world...

Heave Ho
PEGI Rating 3+ for Heave Ho

Heave Ho

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 29/08/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Accessibility: 14 features

Developer: @LeCartelStudio

Players: You can play with 4 players in the same room

Heave Ho is a game where up to four players try and swing themselves across a level. But you can only hang on to certain points and must dangle and swing with both arms to progress. The twist is that you can also hold hands with other players and make...

Limbo
PEGI Rating 16+ for Limbo

Limbo

Content Rating: PEGI 16+

Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015

Platforms: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 15 features

Developer: @Playdead

Players: This is a single player game

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...

Good Job!
PEGI Rating 3+ for Good Job

Good Job!

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Release Date: 27/03/2020

Platforms: Switch

Genres: Action, Platform and Simulation

Developer: @PaladinStudios

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

You play an office employee with a difference. Together with a friend you must climb the corporate ladder to take over the family business. But rather than starting as tea boy and working up, you have a set of more bizarre office problems: building zen...

Patterned

Patterned

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 15/09/2019

Platforms: iPhone, iPad

Genres: Puzzle

Developer: @BorderLeap

Players: This is a single player game

Patterned is a puzzle game where you piece together beautiful patterns. It's a bit like a jigsaw but without the stress of forever finding more blue sky pieces. Each pattern begins as a sketch and you use visual clues to reassemble its scrambled pieces.

Sokobond

Sokobond

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 27/08/2013

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Creative and Puzzle

Developer: @Draknek

Players: This is a single player game

Sokobond is a puzzle game where you create chemical molecules by manoeuvring atoms around the screen, avoiding obstacles. The game is streamlined to not need instructions with its minimalistic design the enables ease of use. As you move through the...

Dicey Dungeons
PEGI Rating 3+ for Dicey Dungeons

Dicey Dungeons

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 11-16 year-olds

Release Date: 13/08/2019

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Fighting, Puzzle, Strategy and Turn-Based

Accessibility: 2 features

Developer: @TerryCavanagh

Players: This is a single player game

Dicey Dungeons is video game adventure where you build a deck of cards to represent characters, attacks and weapons. Here the novelty is that these cards combine with dice rolls to determine who wins battles.

Dragon Box
PEGI Rating 3+ for Dragon Box

Dragon Box

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Skill Rating: 6-10 year-olds

Release Date: 09/05/2012

Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Genres: Puzzle

Developer: @DragonBox

Players: This is a single player game

DragonBox is an educational series of games that teaches young children maths, such as algebra using pattern matching with symbols. Unlike other educational games, the fun is in the doing in DragonBox, rather than incentivising learning with separate...

A Fold Apart
PEGI Rating 3+ for A Fold Apart

A Fold Apart

Content Rating: PEGI 3+

Release Date: 11/04/2020

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad

Genres: Platform

Accessibility: 20 features

Developer: @LRGthunder

Players: This is a single player game

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 relationship work at...

Hacktag
PEGI Rating 7+ for Hacktag

Hacktag

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 01/06/2017

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Puzzle and Strategy

Developer: @PoC_studios

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 2 players online

Hacktag is a fast two-player game: one player is the stealth ‘Agent’ while the other is the virtually-infiltrating ‘Hacker’. You work with the other player to carry out espionage in different settings and complete each challenge.

Shadow Puppeteer
PEGI Rating 7+ for Shadow Puppeteer

Shadow Puppeteer

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 29/09/2014, updated in 2016

Platforms: PC and Wii U

Genres: Adventure and Platform

Developer: @SareptaStudio

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

In Shadow Puppeteer one player controls a shadow and the other player controls the main character. Their task is to help each other progress through a series of platform levels to recover stolen shadows from their hometown.

Stacking
PEGI Rating 7+ for Stacking

Stacking

Content Rating: PEGI 7+

Release Date: 08/02/2011

Platforms: Mac, PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: @DoubleFine

Players: This is a single player game

Stacking is puzzle game where characters are Russian stacking matryoshka dolls. Controlling the smallest doll in the game, Charlie Blackmore, you go on an adventure. Your main ability is that you can stack and unstack into larger dolls and gain their...

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In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to The Pedestrian in the following list:

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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.
 
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PEGI Rating 3+ for SpellTower
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Not Not A BrainBuster
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PEGI Rating 16+ for Stranded Deep
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Bee Simulator
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PEGI Rating 3+ for El Hijo A Wild West Tale
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Bring You Home
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Pocket City
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Age of Empires
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Baba is You
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PEGI Rating 12+ for My Child Lebensborn
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Endless Ocean
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Mini Motorways
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Wilmots Warehouse
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PEGI Rating 12+ for 80 Days
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PEGI Rating 3+ for 39 Days to Mars
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PEGI Rating 3+ for The Witness
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PEGI Rating 12+ for Stardew Valley
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Spaceteam
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Sizzle And Stew
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Professor Layton
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Old Mans Journey
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PEGI Rating 7+ for One Hour One Life
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Mini Metro
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
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PEGI Rating 3+ for Heave Ho
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PEGI Rating 7+ for Gris
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