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15 Great Games Like The Pedestrian

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

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

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Release Date: 29/01/2020

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 16 features

Developer: Skookum Arts (@SkookumArts)

Players: This is a single player game

Costs: Purchase cost

15 Hand Picked Games Like The Pedestrian

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

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: Sony Japan Studio (@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.

Heave Ho

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 29/08/2019

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Action, Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Accessibility: 13 features

Developer: Le Cartel Studio (@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...

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 (@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...

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: 14 features

Developer: Playdead (@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!

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Release Date: 27/03/2020

Platforms: Switch

Genres: Action, Platform and Simulation

Developer: Paladin Studios (@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...

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: 19 features

Developer: Terry Cavanagh (@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.

Patterned

Release Date: 15/09/2019

Platforms: iPhone, iPad

Genres: Puzzle

Developer: Border Leap (@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

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 27/08/2013, updated in 2021

Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch

Genres: Creative and Puzzle

Developer: Draknek (@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 and its minimalistic design enables ease of use. As you move through the levels...

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: LR Gthunder (@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...

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: Dragon Box (@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...

Fossil Echo

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Release Date: 08/07/2016

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Narrative, Platform and Puzzle

Accessibility: 1 feature

Developer: Awaceb (@Awaceb)

Players: This is a single player game

Fossil Echo is a short running and jumping game about a young boy's mistake and subsequent climb of a giant tower in the middle of the sea. The story is told in short animations and with challenging platform-style gameplay to create a moving and...

Hacktag

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 01/06/2017

Platforms: Mac and PC

Genres: Action, Puzzle and Strategy

Developer: POC Studios (@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.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Release Date: 23/10/2012, updated in 2019

Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Genres: Platform, Puzzle and Simulation

Developer: Black Forest Team (@BlackForestTeam)

Players: This is a single player game

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a running and jumping game where you can switch between two forms, and with that two versions of the world. Each form has different platforming abilities so you need to juggle the two to complete levels and find every...

Shadow Puppeteer

Content Rating: PEGI 7

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

Platforms: PC and Wii U

Genres: Adventure and Platform

Developer: Sarepta Studio (@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

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 08/02/2011

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

Genres: Adventure, Narrative and Puzzle

Developer: Double Fine (@DoubleFine)

Players: This is a single player game

Stacking is a 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...

2 Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than The Pedestrian

If you like the sound of The Pedestrian but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our The Pedestrian Accessibility Report.

A Fold Apart

Dicey Dungeons

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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.

Letter²

Mini Metro

Everything

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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LocoRoco

Heave Ho

Ibb and Obb

Limbo

Good Job!

Dicey Dungeons

Patterned

Sokobond

A Fold Apart

Dragon Box

Fossil Echo

Hacktag

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Shadow Puppeteer

Stacking

2 Games With More Documented Accessibility Features than The Pedestrian

The Pedestrian is in This List

Educational Games That Are Also Good Games

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