6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Call of the Sea. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Call of the Sea.
Release Date: 08/11/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
11-11 Memories Retold is a narrative adventure about two young men caught up in the first world war. A young photographer who joins the western front in Europe to impress a woman, and a German technician who's signs up in search of his son who is...
Release Date: 01/11/2023
Out Now: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
This Bed We Made is a neo-noir adventure mystery game where you play a 1950s maid who stumbles into deadly secrets. You go about your duties cleaning rooms, but soon notice strange clues about heartbreak and murder.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
Wild Yonder is a narrative adventure set in a futuristic world fallen into ruin. You play starship pilot Bordy tasked with finding and collecting emergency shipments. As you explore the world and solve environmental puzzles you uncover a story of the...
Release Date: 02/10/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
Isle of Eras is a horror adventure where you explore your childhood island in search of your missing brother. You explore the world to find clues and take on quests to find items. As you do things become supernatural and take you back and forth between...
Release Date: 01/01/1983
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, Mac, PC, PSP, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Components: 3D First-Person
Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure. Published in 1983, and selling over six million copies, it pre-dates many modern adventure games and created a new genre for gaming. Exploring by clicking in the world to move, you use a special book to...
Release Date: 31/03/2020
Out Now: PC and iPhone, iPad
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Over The Alps is an adventure with intrigue and espionage set in 1939 Switzerland. Designed to look like retro photographs. The story unfolds as you select stamps to indicate how your character should approach interactions. Discover a secret history in...
56 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Call of the Sea. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Call of the Sea.
Release Date: 01/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Lake is a narrative adventure where you play Meredith Weiss on a career break in 1986 while she returns to her hometown and ends up delivering the mail. As you talk to locals, meet up with old school friends and even fan a few romantic flames from your...
Release Date: 20/09/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Firewatch is an explorative adventure where you play a fire lookout in America’s Shoshone National Forest. It has a relational and conspiracy undertone similar to the podcast/radio drama and Netflix show [link to...
Release Date: 16/08/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Road 96 is a narrative adventure where you play a teenager trying to escape an oppressive, authoritarian country by reaching the border. Through a series of vignettes, you experience the most important and poignant parts on an epic road trip through a...
Release Date: 31/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a young woman sent out from her secluded community to explore the world for the first time. She is tasked with documenting life in a local valley before a mysterious cataclysm washes...
Release Date: 28/10/2015, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan. Each location is full of retro futuristic contraptions, hidden gizmos, gadgets and clever logic-based puzzles.
Release Date: 04/08/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Hindsight is a narrative point-and-click game where you revisit the past by finding objects that trigger memories. Play involves exploring each scene, locating objects and listening to the story as you move the camera to look within what you've found...
Release Date: 22/11/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Virginia is a mystery adventure game where you play a graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver as she investigates her first case: the disappearance of a boy in rural Virginia. You explore the world and find clues to solve the crime, all the time aware that other...
Release Date: 28/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure. You explore and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. It starts as a bewildering array of characters, locations and information but over multiple goes your...
Release Date: 10/10/2019
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Eliza is an interactive narrative where you play Evelyn, a young woman burnt out from the pressures of a high-tech job. She now works for a virtual counselling service called Eliza, that guides counsellors to provide the ideal response to patients.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Open Roads is an adventure game about a girl who finds out that her grandma has a different past than she thought. The girl and her mother go on a journey to look deeper into her grandma's life by revisiting abandoned family properties and looking...
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Red Lantern is an adventure with a team of husky dogs in the alaskan wilderness. You and a team of sled dogs head into the wilderness and traverse the ever-changing events of the Alaskan bush to find your way home. The result is a game that...
Release Date: 14/01/2016, updated in 2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Oxenfree is an adventure game where a teenagers’ beach party spirals into a supernatural story. You guide the outcome with your choices as the well-written dialogue reveals characters coming to terms with family breakdown, death of a sibling, blame...
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. Examine faded...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Forever Ago is a narrative adventure where you embark on a road trip through beautiful places, capturing memories with your camera and making new friends. You explore forest lakes, dusty barrens and sweltering deserts, interacting with objects you find...
Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Road to Guangdong is a road trip adventure game about family and travel. You drive across 1990s Guangdong, fix your car and explore the places you pass. You play as Sunny, just after a family tragedy, travelling with Guu Ma, her aunt. They have the task...
Release Date: 05/09/2019
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
June's Journey is a puzzle game where you search for objects hidden amongst the scenery that help you solve a murder. You play as June, a 1920s detective investigating the recent murder of her sister and her husband. Finding objects quickly enough earns...
Release Date: 15/04/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Hitchhiker is a narrative game set on lost highways. Unlike other interactive stories, Hitchhiker is intentionally dense and hard to follow. In fact, your goal is to unravel the puzzle of your own backstory.
Release Date: 05/03/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Closed Hands is a text adventure game set in the lead-up and aftermath of a terror attack in a fictional UK city. You follow five core characters brought together by the same event. It's a branching story that you discover and influence as you read and...
Release Date: 26/03/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Genesis Noir is a narrative-driven puzzle game. It's a time travelling mystery to save your lover, by intervening through the history of the world to ultimately stop the expansion of the universe. Although it sounds bizarre, existential and confusing,...
Release Date: 20/10/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
South of the Circle is a narrative adventure game about, Peter, a Cambridge academic who finds himself fighting for survival in Antarctica during the 1960’s Cold War. You must cross desolate terrain to reach British, Norwegian and Soviet Antarctic...
Release Date: 13/07/2021
Out Now: PS4
Components: 3D Third-Person
Where the Heart Leads is an adventure game where you make life-choices and then see their impact. You play Whit Anderson, as he revisits and alters his past, present, and future. It's a game that creates a surreal dream-like narrative, but one that is...
Release Date: 01/09/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Gerda: A Flame in Winter is a narrative adventure game set in the small Danish village. Gerda's quiet life is turned upside down during the World War 2 occupation of her home. You choose where to go, how to act, and who to trust. It stands out for the...
Release Date: 29/09/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Burly Men at Sea is an adventure where you play three seafaring brothers who explore the Scandinavian seas. It's novel because it requires multiple playthroughs to discover the full narrative. It has a unique cyclical gameplay loop that remembers your...
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Frog's Princess is a narrative game about a kingdom surrounded by evil. You play a young princess who must save her kingdom. Along the way, you encounter a frog prince on a quest to rescue his bodyguard and find your plans overturned.
Release Date: 17/03/2021
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Adios is a narrative game about a farmer with a deal-gone-bad with a crime family. Although the setting and scenario are macabre and could be pulled from shows like Ozark and Breaking Bad, the understated atmosphere and sombre tone powerfully...
Release Date: 07/01/2013, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game in five acts. This means that you explore a deep and rich world backed by haunting electronic music and hymns to unfold a story of unpayable debts, abandoned futures, and the human drive to find...
Release Date: 24/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Norco is a gothic point-and-click narrative adventure set in the decaying suburbs and industrial swamps of an alternative South Louisiana. Your brother goes missing after your mother's death and you set out to find him by following a fugitive security...
Release Date: 30/10/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature is an adventure game that offers a fresh (and remarkably faithful) look at the myth of Frankenstein. As you move through the hand-painted world you piece together who you are and where you came from. You choose not...
Release Date: 22/09/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Beacon Pines is a storybook adventure game where you play as a small fawn named Luka trying to solve a mystery in a creepy town full of intrigue. You play by collecting words that change the story, so you can go back through the book to play out...
Release Date: 15/10/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
The Signifier is a horror adventure game where you explore a murder victim's memories to discover how they were killed. As the memories you visit disintegrate you pass between the real and the badly remembered to piece together a narrative that is...
Release Date: 14/02/2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person
The War to End All Wars is a point-and-click game set in a World War One battlefield visitor centre. However, as you interact with the exhibits you get taken back in time to live the experience through the eyes of a soldier. Unusually, it uses...
Release Date: 24/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
A Memoir Blue is a narrative game about an athlete's relationship with her mother. It's a story told through a dream, which you move along by interacting with everyday objects. It stands out for the metaphorical use of visual styles and the poignant...
Release Date: 11/06/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Clawfish is a puzzle game with a strong focus on relaxation rather than skill or difficulty. Similar to an arcade claw machine, you try and catch fish from various fish tanks, collecting all the different types, before putting the fish back into the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home. While you listen to four soulful songs for each period of life, you explore the room and witness her changing interests and desires...
Release Date: 29/08/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Under the Waves is a narrative adventure where you survey the ocean depths to find leaking pipes and make repairs. As you do you also discover a story of a grieving man retreating into himself. It creates a universally familiar story by mirroring the...
Release Date: 08/12/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 3D First-Person
Vessels is a narrative adventure where you wake to find yourself quarantined inside an airlock with no memory of how you got there. You speak to the crew to work out who you are and try to convince them not to jettison you into space. If you fail you...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Bigger Than Me is a point-and-click adventure about Max, a young man full of uncertainties with a peculiar problem: he becomes giant every time he hears the word "future". You play by moving around the world and interacting with the people and objects...
Release Date: 26/09/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a narrative mystery game about Paul Prospero, an occult-minded detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter saying he is in danger. It turns out that Ethan vanished in the wake of a brutal murder. You...
Release Date: 29/03/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Text
Unheard is a murder mystery puzzle game. A crime has been committed and you most solve the case by exploring the area and listening to people. It's unusual in that you need to deduce the culprit by only having access to audio files.
Release Date: 11/03/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive is a point-and-click adventure set after a cataclysmic event that left the Earth struggling with the environmental fallout. You play through just 4 days and must discover how to fortify your home against each night's new...
Release Date: 31/03/2023
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a narrative game where you investigate who killed Sonic at a murder mystery party. You talk to guests, uncover clues and find evidence of the murderer's identity, then make your case to everyone else. It's a...
Release Date: 12/10/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Unusual Findings is a point-and-click adventure set in a Speilberg-Esque 1980s where three friends uncover mysteries in their hometown. You play by investigating each area, finding items and talking to people, but unusually this is a point-and-click...
Release Date: 02/10/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Grid
Bilkins' Folly is an adventure game about a boy and his dog exploring tropical islands in search of treasure and his missing family. Like classic point-and-click adventures, you make strong bonds with quirky characters, here though it's logic puzzles...
Release Date: 10/09/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Pixels
Kraken Academy is a narrative adventure where it's your first day at high school. No ordinary high school though, it's a melting pot of wacky personalities and fantasy goings-on: ghosts fill the art department, cultists meet below the monkey bars and...
Release Date: 08/09/2011, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
L.A. Noire is a narrative adventure where you play a police detective in 1947 Los Angeles. You explore the open world and solve crimes to advance through the ranks. As you interview suspects you need to not only pay attention to what they say but their...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Long Gone is a classic point-and-stick style adventure game but with updated pixelated visuals. You are stranded in an old-world suburban neighbourhood and must find and combine items to solve puzzles and survive.
Release Date: 13/04/2018
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Marie's Room is a short narrative game where you revisit an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, exploring Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But as you do, a story unfolds where something is not quite right and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Open World
Rytma is an adventure game where you explore a Mediterranean landscape to find and play ancient instruments with different qualities. You investigate on foot to discover the instruments that you then move around to solve musical puzzles and learn their...
Release Date: 17/06/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Across the Grooves is a narrative adventure where you play Alice as her uneventful life is turned upside down when a magical record throws her back into her own past. You play by making choices about her interactions that not only change the past she is...
Release Date: 27/07/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Blackhaven is a narrative adventure where you play a college intern at Blackhaven Hall, a historic mansion burned down during the American Revolution. Play involves exploring the building and discovering a trail of secrets and misdeeds that span centuries.
Release Date: 22/02/2022
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Pixels and Weather
Perfect Tides is a point-and-click coming of age adventure set in 2000. You play Mara as they explore the world, collecting items and talking to the people they meet to unfold a story about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Harold Halibut is a narrative adventure set on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean, after fleeing the Earth 2050 years ago. It's beautifully created with real puppetry and fully voice-acted. The result is a filmic adventure where you...
Release Date: 28/08/2020
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Sensorium is a puzzle game set in a freely explorable island. You need to solve puzzle to access rooms, which usually contain more puzzles granting access to deeper recesses of the buildings.
Release Date: 15/11/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person
American Arcadia is a running and jumping game where you solve puzzles to escape your televised life in an opulent but overly controlled futuristic city.
The game is set in a 70’s retro-future city of high luxury. But the citizens don't...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Closer the Distance is a narrative slice-of-life game that tests the connections between family and friends when a loved one dies. Unusually, you play the departed rather than the bereaved, as you explore the world and help those you left behind cope...
Release Date: 08/06/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Harmony: The Fall of Reverie is a narrative game where you return home to look into your mother's disappearance, only to discover an unexpected clairvoyant ability to see the future. Like other narrative games, play involves exploring, talking and...
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