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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Cube Escape Collection. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Cube Escape Collection.
Release Date: 17/10/2013
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: Text
Device 6 is a narrative puzzle where you piece together a mystery through unusual interactions with your device. As the story unfolds, you rotate your screen, hold it up to a mirror to read backwards text, and generally search for clues in unusual ways...
Release Date: 17/02/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Birth is a Frankenstein-style adventure where you construct a companion for your loneliness. The twist is that you do this in a grotesque exploration to find spare bones and organs to bring your creation to life. Play involves solving puzzles and...
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: 17/03/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Landlord of the Woods is a point-and-click adventure where you play a disaffected 25-year-old who starts working as a woods keeper. Play involves getting the woodland houses ready for each tenant who has specific requirements.
Release Date: 20/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rusty Lake: Roots is an unusual point-and-click puzzle-horror game that has you piecing together your family tree. With a wide range unusual puzzles and game mechanics, like growing a literal family tree, it tells a story of a broken family and dark...
Release Date: 06/09/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Samsara Room is an abstract point-and-click puzzle-horror game. By solving the puzzles hidden throughout the room, you uncover an uneasy story about judgement and atonement told through the things you find.
29 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Cube Escape Collection. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Cube Escape Collection.
Release Date: 16/11/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Among Us is a strategy game where crew-mates prepare their spaceship for launch by completing tasks. However, one of the players is an impostor intent on sabotaging the ship and killing the crew. As the game progresses in real-time the impostor...
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and changes their actions...
Release Date: 26/10/2017, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Text
Bury Me My Love is a narrative adventure game where you play the husband of a Syrian woman, Nour, travelling to Europe. Play involves receiving and sending simple messages where Nout tells you how she is getting on and you influence her choices. It...
Release Date: 08/05/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
My Child Lebensborn is a narrative role-play game where you nurture a Lebensborn child in Norway after World War II who faces a hostile community because they’ve been born to parents of both occupied and occupying forces. With meagre resources...
Release Date: 24/06/2015
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: Filmed
Her Story is a narrative puzzle game where you attempt to solve the 1994 mystery of a murdered man by searching an old police computer archive of interview videos of his wife. The game presents a retro computer interface but the interviews themselves...
Release Date: 23/07/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF) is a series of puzzle horror games with jump scares rather than blood and gore. You play the night-guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and have to survive the night while in your office, checking the cameras and closing the...
Release Date: 18/11/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Little Misfortune is a dark adventure where you play a small girl called, Misfortune, who, guided by a voice in her head, seeks the prize of eternal happiness for her mother. It's played side-on and unfolds a narrative about the girl's family as you...
Release Date: 20/05/2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Longest Road on Earth is a narrative game of four chapters about everyday life. You play as different anthropomorphic animals living mundane lives. Its combination of minimal interaction and slow-paced stories aims to uncover moments in time that...
Release Date: 09/01/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black-and-white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Release Date: 02/11/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
The Past Within is a co-operative puzzle game where you solve a mystery by communicating with the past. You play the game with another person, either in the same room or elsewhere, by communicating what your different times and perspectives reveal.
Release Date: 19/10/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Escape Simulator is a puzzle game where you try and escape a series of rooms. Like a real escape room, you look in drawers, read books, and solve riddles to provide the tools you need to escape. It stands out for the quality of the environments and head...
Release Date: 04/01/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Pony Island is an adventure game where you are trapped in a computer by the Devil. You need to crash the computer to escape and stumble upon the Pony Island game that appears unstable. As you hack away at the game you uncover its corrupted code and your...
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Buddy Simulator 1984 is an adventure horror game. What starts as a retro-themed set of mini-games soon evolves into a tale of anxiety, friendship and depression as your buddy makes new games for you to play each with creepy anomalies and glitches. It's...
Release Date: 14/12/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rusty Lake Hotel is a surreal point-and-click adventure with a tangential horror narrative. While set in the same universe as the other games in the Rusty Lake series, it tells its own standalone story that only shares loose connections with the other...
Release Date: 08/10/2021
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Kitty Q A Quantum Adventure is an escape-room where you use outside-the-box thinking to solve puzzles in an odd world with quantum physics themes. It's unusual not only because the puzzles are approachable and visual appealing but because they each...
Release Date: 12/10/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Day and Night
Saltsea Chronicles is a point-and-click adventure where you sail the sea to rescue your ship's captain. You explore the flooded world discovering islands, meeting characters, and managing the relationships between your crew. Unlike other sailing games,...
Release Date: 18/03/1999, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, DS, Mac, PC, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Syberia: The World Before is a wartime narrative adventure where you explore the past and present to unravel the mystery surrounding the two people's intertwining lives. You solve puzzles, interact with characters, and visit diverse European locations...
Release Date: 10/02/2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Inua - A Story in Ice and Time is a narrative-driven role-playing game where you switch between 3 different time periods, alter people's memories and thoughts, and change both the past and the future. In the far Canadian north, you meet three groups of...
Release Date: 26/11/2015
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Text
One Button Travel is a stylish text adventure where you communicate across time to try and cancel your permanent holiday in a dystopian future. You try and save your accomplice, who's already stuck in the future, by making choices and solving puzzles...
Release Date: 08/03/2023
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a horror narrative game about a seemingly unconnected group of people in a suburb of Tokyo caught up in an ancient rite of resurrection. You search for clues and talk to characters all the while trying to...
Release Date: 22/01/2007
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and DS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 is a point-and-click adventure game about detective Kyle Hyde staying in a Twin-Peaks-like, rundown motel near 1979 Los Angeles. You move around the hotel to find clues, talk to other guests and ultimately solve what happened to his...
Release Date: 03/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Pixels
MyHouse.Wad is a horror adventure created in the form of a new map for the classic Doom video game. It uses the Doom game engine but subverts it to create an unsettling and intriguing experience. Play is the usual running and shooting of Doom, but at...
Release Date: 07/05/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Papetura is a point-and-click puzzle game where you traverse a vibrant paper world of strange organic structures and whimsical fairy houses. You interact with these things to complete puzzles and little challenges like lighting up a room or creating a...
Release Date: 20/05/2014, updated in 2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Last Door is a point-and-click narrative game set in Victorian England where something ancient and evil is stirring. Inspired by the works of author H.P. Lovecraft, you search haunted buildings for supernatural phenomena using the items you find. It...
Release Date: 02/11/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society. You move between zones and solve puzzles by guiding beams of light, manipulating gravity, and switching between robot bodies. It stands out...
Release Date: 11/01/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rusty Lake Paradise is an unusual point-and-click puzzle set in the Rusty Lake universe where you play through plagues reminiscent of the ten plagues of Egypt in the biblical story of Exodus. With a unique mystery at the core of the story, challenging...
Release Date: 09/04/2020, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Procession to Calvary is an intentionally peculiar point-and-click narrative told through a collage of renaissance paintings. You play a warrior on a quest to capture the former ruler of the land, talking to (or killing) people, interacting with...
Release Date: 21/02/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Mac, PC, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Year Walk is a horror narrative traversal game where you partake in the ancient Nordic tradition of Year Walking to see glimpses of the future. As you travel the snowy landscapes by moonlight, you see creatures and characters from Swedish mythology and...
Release Date: 28/09/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a point-and-click horror adventure where you unravel a dark mystery in the Yorkshire moors. You investigate locations for clues, talk to the strangely hostile locals, and solve puzzles to gain their favour. It stands...