6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Another World. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Another World.
Release Date: 23/05/2023
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Planet of Lana is an adventure where you play a young girl Lana and her loyal animal friend Mui, on a rescue mission. Set on a planet under siege by old machines and unfamiliar creatures. Rather than the war, though, this is a game about a vibrant...
Release Date: 24/08/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Planet of the Eyes is an atmospheric running and jumping game where you play a robot stranded on a mysterious planet. You progress by well timed jumps and puzzle solving to traverse a fantastical planet with a dark secret.
Release Date: 01/10/2013, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Flashback is a running and jumping game with a strong narrative. Made in the 90s it's similar to Another World and Prince of Persia.
Release Date: 15/11/2022
Out Now: PC and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Somerville is an atmospheric platform game about a family in a warzone. A man, a woman, their child and their dog work to survive and progress through the landscape.
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Limbo is a narrative traversal game where you 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...
Release Date: 19/06/2010, updated in 2023
Out Now: DS, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a narrative brain game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens. His ultimate aim is to use his memories to...
28 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Another World. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Another World.
Release Date: 19/07/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Stray is an adventure traversal game about a cat lost in a futuristic city where robots live. You guide your feline friend in and out of buildings, across roads and generally poke your nose in to see what is going on.
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: 15/05/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Forgotton Anne (Forgotten Anne) is a hand-animated adventure that combines cartoon (Ghibli-inspired) storytelling with running and jumping puzzles. You play as Anne, the enforcer who keeps order in the Forgotten Lands, as she sets out to squash a...
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: 27/08/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
A Juggler's Tale is a running and jumping game where you guide Abby, a string puppet through a dangerous world where you need to solve puzzles and avoid traps. You move crates, pull levers, jump over hazards and try to outrun chasers.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Savior is an action-adventure game with hand-animated pixelated graphics. You play as Sam, a mysterious woman with hidden powers and innate acrobatic skills who has lost her memory and all possessions. Use diplomacy, parkour, and intricate combat to...
Release Date: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Inside is from the same developer as Limbo. As such, you play another boy in a dark dream-light and horrific world. Here though, it's more modern-day and realistic.
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: 19/02/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Voyage is a cinematic adventure puzzle game, where you play alone or cooperatively to guide two survivors on their journey to unravel a mystery from the past and find their way home. You move through the world without guidance and must experiment to...
Release Date: 12/06/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Little Orpheus is a running and jumping game set in 1962 where you play Ivan Ivanovich as he explores lost civilisations, undersea kingdoms and prehistoric jungles. The game is played in retrospect as you explain your adventures to a general suspicious...
Release Date: 03/10/1989
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Stadia, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Prince of Persia is a long-standing game series dating back to the early 90s. The games all feature the titular prince who must escape a maze of platform-based levels. The game first impressed with its unusually fluid movement and life-like animation...
Release Date: 28/03/2017
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Rain World: Downpour, and Rain World are traversal and survival games where you play a half-cat, half-slug in a living breathing world. You must venture out and brave the other predatory creatures to find food before the rain comes and you have to hide.
Release Date: 09/12/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Unto The End is a cinematic combat-adventure where the fighting is modelled in a read-and-react style. It requires time to master the unusual system but offers many ways to take on foes. Tactics and intelligent decisions are as important for survival as...
Release Date: 25/10/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
MO: Astray is a puzzle, jumping and exploration game. Rather than control a character who runs, you control an amorphous blob. To get around you have to use the game's unique movement mechanics to take advantage of the cleverly designed levels.
Release Date: 10/07/2012, updated in 2016
Out Now: PC, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Deadlight takes the monochrome running, jumping and shooting action in a more mature direction and with a deeper and coherent story. It draws on older (and equally excellent) platform games Another World and Flashback. You control Randall Wayne, a...
Release Date: 21/01/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a platform game based in a fictional world called Land's End. Rainfall has transformed all living things into monsters known as the Blighted. You control Lily, a bright white figure, who awakens as the last...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Replaced is a platform game set in a grim dystopian alternate 1980s America. You play as an Artificial Intelligence trapped inside a human wanting to escape.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Cub is a retro running and jumping game where you play a small child in the same post-environmental disaster as Highwater and Golf Wasteland. It's like playing a classic console platform game but with modern parkour movement and puzzles to bring it...
Release Date: 03/06/2013
Out Now: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360
Components: 3D Third-Person
Remember Me is an adventure game developed where you play Nilin, a memory hunter working for an underground resistance. The game is set in the year 2084, in a futuristic version of Paris called Neo-Paris, where the Memorize corporation has made memories...
Release Date: 09/05/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead
Trek To Yomi is samurai action fighting game set in a mythical reimagining of the Edo period of Japan. You follow a young warrior on a journey to confront the people responsible for the destruction of his village. It's a short kaleidoscope of a game,...
Release Date: 08/07/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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...
Release Date: 30/03/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lunark is a platform game with simple pixelated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...
Release Date: 27/04/2023
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Last Case of Benedict Fox is a running, jumping and fighting game where a demon invites you to explore the minds of the recently deceased. You work through an old mansion to uncover the mystery of a double murder and missing child. It's an elegant...
Release Date: 04/09/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Day and Night
Planet Alpha is a running and jumping game. You're a wounded hero hobbling across an alien planet, but how did he get into this state? Travel across beautiful, mysterious and often deadly landscapes, you unfold the story of your marooned astronaut...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Last Night is a narrative game set in a neon-bathed, hyper-advanced future where you are a second-class citizen wrestling with your place in the world. As you traverse the Blade-Runner-style city districts, you talk with characters, evade constant...
Release Date: 31/03/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Axiom Verge is a series of running, jumping and fighting games where you play as Trace, a scientist who wakes up in an unknown ancient world. It's similar to retro games like Metroid and Contra where you explore levels, collect items and progress your...
Release Date: 24/08/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Islets is a running and jumping game about a small mouse exploring a sky kingdom to reunite a fragmented world. You play be defeating enemies in each area to gain powers that let you delve further into the world. It's like other Metroid-style games with...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Anima Flux is a running, jumping adventure game where you fight off hordes of mutant monsters in a desperate attempt to save humanity's final stronghold. You explore the vast stages, to find new weapons to help progress through the hectic combat. While...
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