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27 Great Games Like There Is No Game

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There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension is a comedic adventure with a strange twist. From the outset the game’s narrator insists that there is no game to play. As you inevitably ignore his instruction you go on a journey through silly and unexpected video game universes.

Unfortunately, There Is No Game is not available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:

There Is No Game

Game Details

Release Date: 06/10/2020

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Adventure, Puzzle and Narrative

Accessibility: 0 features Documented (Tweet Developer)

Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels

Developer: There Is No Game (@ThereIsNoGame)

Costs: Purchase cost

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Portal

Portal (Series)

Release Date: 10/10/2007, updated in 2011

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

You are in a science laboratory where you seem to be being tested. Watched by the artificial intelligence GLaDOS, you have a gun that can create a pair of magic portals on any surface: one is an entrance and the other is an exit. Through a series of...

Playerless: One Button Adventure

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Android, PC, PS4, Wii, Xbox One and iOS

Components: 2D Overhead

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Ctrl Alt Ego

Release Date: 22/07/2022

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Ctrl Alt Ego is a puzzle game where you a disembodied character taking control of robots and electronics to move around, interact and solve the puzzles. Using a combination of stealth and problem solving to progress the story and get to the bottom of...

Superliminal

Release Date: 12/11/2019, updated in 2020

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person and Open World

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Outer Wilds

Release Date: 11/12/2018, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Coming Soon: Switch

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World

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...

Quadrilateral Cowboy

Release Date: 25/07/2016

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Quadrilateral Cowboy is an adventure in a 1990 retro-cyberpunk world where you take on covert mission to infiltrate buildings and security systems. You carefully explore each level hacking security by typing commands into your grey-market equipment.

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Observation

Release Date: 21/05/2019, updated in 2020

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person

Observation is a narrative adventure game that puts you on a space station to solve a power outage and find missing crew. However, here you play the role of the SAM, the System Administration Maintenance artificial intelligence software, rather than...

Inscryption

Release Date: 19/10/2021, updated in 2022

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Hand-Made

Inscryption starts as a card-based adventure where you build a deck of cards to take on adventures and battles. To this, it adds escape-room style puzzles, both in the card game and in the room in which you are playing. The result is a psychological...

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Release Date: 08/08/2017, updated in 2018

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a dark fantasy adventure, drawing on Norse and Celtic mythology, where you play a young female Pict warrior, Senua. You explore and fight your way to Helheim to rescue the soul of her dead lover. As you play, though, you...

Tacoma

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Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Components: 3D First-Person

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Release Date: 30/01/2020

Out Now: PC

Coming Soon: Mac

Components: 2D Side-On

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Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS

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Press X to Puzzle

Press X to Puzzle (Dreams)

Release Date: 26/07/2020, updated in 2021

Out Now: PS4 and PS5

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Components: 2D Side-On

Press X to Puzzle is a one button puzzle game. You press or hold a single button in order to progress to the next screen. Sounds simple, but it's actually more cryptic as you have to decipher the instruction. For some screens the solution is obvious,...

American Arcadia

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person

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1 Younger Content Rating than There Is No Game

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27 Great Games Like There Is No Game

Game Details

6 Similar Games Short List

Portal (Series)

Playerless: One Button Adventure

Ctrl Alt Ego

Superliminal

Outer Wilds

Quadrilateral Cowboy

9 Similar Games Long List

Observation

Inscryption

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Tacoma

Not For Broadcast

Pony Island

Reventure

Press X to Puzzle (Dreams)

American Arcadia

1 Younger Content Rating than There Is No Game

2 Easier Skill Rating than There Is No Game

12 Video Games Like There Is No Game Based on Genre

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