6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Jett: The Far Shore is a sci-fi adventure where you play inquisitive pilot Mei, exploring a mysterious planet on a nimble jet-powered craft. It draws on films like 2001: Space Odyssey and takes its time building atmosphere. Once it gets going it becomes...
Release Date: 11/08/2016
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Reigns is an adventure strategy game where you take charge of a kingdom, one decision at a time. Each choice is presented to you as a playing card with some advice or a question from one of the 38 different characters. Swipe left or right to make a...
Release Date: 29/09/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Cocoon is a puzzle adventure where you play a winged creature transporting orbs through a mysterious world. The twist is that placing orbs in a portal grants access to the worlds within worlds and creates a complex nested puzzle. It stands out for how...
Release Date: 26/04/2016, updated in 2017
Out Now: PS Vita, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Severed is a dungeon adventure game where you wake up in a strange place, dazed and confused your family has been taken and with a severed arm. You embark on a perilous journey to find them and return home.
Release Date: 02/02/2016, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Day and Night
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! is a four-part series of choose-your-own-adventure game set in a world full of weird magic. You play a lone adventurer who must cross the wilds to recover the crown, armed only with a sword, a spell book and the power to...
Release Date: 05/09/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Chants of Sennaar is a traversal and translation puzzle where you play a traveller called to reunite the Peoples of the Tower who are unable to communicate with each other. Play involves exploring the cell-shaded world to decipher the glyph-based...
18 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree.
Release Date: 14/03/2012, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Journey is an adventure game set in a desert. Exploring the eerie sandscape, you discover a world abandoned by the race that created it. The sense of space and scale evokes feelings of aloneness and being lost. But then the game pairs you with other...
Release Date: 02/11/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Abzu is an adventure in a lush underwater world. You descend into the heart of the ocean to find ancient secrets and encounter majestic creatures. This combines the beautiful weightlessness of diving with an ancient story of finding meaning and your...
Release Date: 21/10/2015
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Kingdom is a retro-look strategy game where you must defend your town from the nightly attack of zombies as you develop your technology and civilisation day by day. But unlike other tower-defence games – where you set up defences and fend off waves of...
Release Date: 15/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Wildermyth is a medieval role-playing game about diverse heroes and themes. You take on evil in a number of stories, each with different heroes and settings. The focus is on the characters as much as their adventures, who are believable, diverse and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Paper Trail is a traversal puzzle game about Paige, a budding academic who is leaving home. Play is set in a foldable paper world that you manipulate to join paths, move rocks and overlap the two sides of reality. It's a unique two-sided puzzle that...
Release Date: 02/04/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Far: Lone Sails is an exploration adventure video game. You pilot a ramshackle amphibious vehicle propelled by large sails to explore a post-apocalypse world.
Release Date: 30/07/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Hand-Made and Open World
Thousand Threads is an open-world game of consequences. You are free to interact with the world, animals and people however you like, give, take, save, kill, inform, hide, befriend, and betray. But how you do this will have ongoing and unavoidable...
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices...
Release Date: 01/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Far: Changing Tides is an exploration adventure that follows Far: Lone Sail. You work to keep your dilapidated craft from breaking as you explore the ruins of a flooded world.
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Signs of the Sojourner is an introspective narrative where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with cards that represent emotions. It's a coming-of-age story set in the near future and explores how relationships form, break and mend in the...
Release Date: 25/05/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Sonority is a fantasy adventure where you progress by solving musical puzzles. You help Esther explore a lost world to collect musical notes and playing arrangements next to blocks to unlock the way forward. What's clever is the connection between the...
Release Date: 27/04/2011, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an adventure game in miniature. You explore a myth-rich world and use your sword to do battle and evoke spells to solve musical puzzles. It's a world that changes with the moon as you guide your wandering warrior monk.
Release Date: 25/07/2017
Out Now: PC and PS4
Components: 2D Overhead
Pyre is an unusual mix of role-playing and action sports. It takes place in a fantasy world, where you guide a caravan of exiles during fantasy sports games called Rites. As you explore you build a party of characters who encounter other groups of...
Release Date: 26/08/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Weather
A Winding Path is a hand-drawn adventure you play at a walking pace so you can take in the beauty of little things in the world. Your journey is to find the rainmaker to bring back the rain. You play by moving around and interacting with the people,...
Release Date: 06/11/2020
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Text
Reigns: Beyond is the next game in the Reigns series that puts you in charge of making important decisions. Rather than running a kingdom, this time you are in an intergalactic indie rock band trying to gain stardom and fame.
Release Date: 02/06/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Card Shark is an adventure game about a French 18th century con artist. With your partner, you go from location to location swindling politicians and royals with the devious card cheat mini-games you learn. It looks like a card game, but actually it's a...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Hauntii is an adventure where you explore a dimly-lit afterlife world and meet the people living there. As you move around you shoot to defend yourself but can also possess other inhabitants and the world itself. It stands out for combining puzzles and...
Release Date: 29/09/2015, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Jotun is a fighting game where you prove yourself to the Norse gods by defeating mythical beasts. You forge your way to each beast's lair, then take them on, armed with only your axe and the magical abilities you're granted. These larger-than-life...
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