6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Beyond Blue. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Beyond Blue.
Release Date: 16/11/2023
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. You explore the sea, cleaning up waste products and repurposing marine debris while taking care of friendly alien creatures. It stands out for its laid-back...
Release Date: 09/11/2007, updated in 2010
Out Now: Wii
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Endless Ocean (Endless Ocean: Blue World in the US) and its sequel Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep are versions of a diving adventure game where you explore the Manaurai Sea to identify different fish and recover artefacts. As experience is...
Release Date: 11/04/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica is an open-world adventure where you explore the ocean on an alien planet after crashlanding. You collect resources and fight creatures to survive. This enables you to establish an underwater base, gain new craft and equipment and explore...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Sword of the Sea is a traversal game where you are a Wraith resurrected to restore life to a desolate world. Play involves exploring submerged ruins to discover the cultures that built them. It stands out for the flowing movement and beautiful vistas...
Release Date: 03/04/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Open World
In Other Waters is an underwater exploration game where you play an Artificial Intelligence assistant to a stranded xenobiologist in a mysterious alien ocean. The world is not seen except through the instrumentation available to you. This creates a...
Release Date: 30/03/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather
Dredge is a fishing adventure set in a remote archipelago called ‘The Marrows’ with a dark past. You explore the surrounding waters to fish for hundreds of different sea creatures and other resources. It stands out for the clever rhythm-based...
34 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Beyond Blue. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Beyond Blue.
Release Date: 20/03/2018, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Sea of Thieves is an online game where you play a pirate searching for treasure and adventure. Cast into a large open sea you work with other online players to crew your ship and find treasure. The game has a main story but really focuses on creating...
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: 03/02/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Hand-Made, Open World and Weather
Paradise Marsh is an open-world collecting game where you explore a varied marsh to find insects to put their stars back in the night sky. You wander an endless wetland and collect creatures, skim stones and eat mushrooms as the weather and seasons...
Release Date: 02/04/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Wilderless is a traversal and exploration game where you are left to discover a fantasy world at your own pace without the usual hindrances. You run, jumping and glide your way around the landscape that unfolds beautifully before you. It stands out not...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Miska is a relaxing narrative adventure game about the flora and fauna of Australia. Rekindle your connection to family and nature through acts of restoration.
Release Date: 28/06/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Dave the Diver is a simulation game where you manage a sushi bar by night and hunt for the fish to sell by day. You explore the depths of a lagoon, using your harpoon to catch fish and solve puzzles to unlock new areas. Then in the evening, prepare...
Release Date: 05/07/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Sea of Solitude is an adventure where you play a young woman, Kay, with such strong loneliness that her feelings turn her into a monster. As you explore a flooded city you discover dark creatures that you must deal with -- by uncovering their underlying...
Release Date: 23/05/2018
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Day and Night
Raft is a survival game where you work to build a raft while stranded at sea. You start the game on a small raft with only a hook made of old plastic, which you use to pull in floating barrels and planks of wood.
Release Date: 16/12/2016, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Astroneer is an open-world space adventure where you colonize planets by creating habitable structures, farming and mining resources. There is no specific story, although the challenges of each planet give rise to struggles of achievement to placate the...
Release Date: 18/08/2020
Out Now: PC and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Microsoft Flight Simulator (Microsoft Flight Sim 2020) is a flight simulator game in the long-running series. Along with a huge range of aircraft, you can learn to fly, the game recreates the entire Earth using textures and data from maps and...
Release Date: 30/01/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Subnautica Below Zero is an open-world adventure game that follows the original game, Subnautica. You play a scientist on an alien planet searching for clues about the research team that vanished there. What develops is a light...
Release Date: 28/10/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Journey to the Savage Planet is an adventure-shooting game played from a first-person perspective. You explore a planet to catalogue various alien flora and fauna and collect the resources you need to craft items and upgrades like jetpacks and grappling...
Release Date: 30/04/2021
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
New Pokemon Snap is the latest in the series of Pokemon Snap games. It's a puzzle safari where you are guided through the natural world of Pokemon creatures to take pictures of them in the wild. The aim is to time your photos to capture them in specific...
Release Date: 18/12/2014
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Never Alone is a running, jumping and exploring game based on the traditional Iñupiaq tale, "Kunuuksaayuka". You swap between controlling an Iñupiaq girl named Nuna and her Arctic fox companion as you complete puzzles and move the story forwards.
Release Date: 23/10/2020
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Penko Park is an adventure about exploring an abandoned wildlife park, taking photos of the weird and creepy creatures which you find. Like exploring a children's story book world, you collect these snapshots along with fur samples and fossils to add to...
Release Date: 15/02/2022
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Arctico is a meditative, exploration and base-building game where you play a lone scientist on a quest to continue your mentor's legacy and grow food in the arctic. You explore the vast frigid wilds of the island of Arctico with your sledge dogs, create...
Release Date: 17/11/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Shine – Journey of Light is an adventure puzzle game where you guide a ball of light through a world of light and shadow. As you delve deep into the world you discover a lost civilisation and piece together the stories of the past.
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: 12/08/2018
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Khan Academy Kids is a free series of game activities staring bright animal characters. Matching animals and photos, solving maths, social scenarios or enjoying some art time, Khan Academy Kids provides a playful framework.
Release Date: 16/05/2019
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Open World
Koral is a diving exploration game where you play as the sea current. This sounds a little odd, playing a flow of energy, but works brilliantly.
Release Date: 09/12/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world. Unlike other games, Breakwaters isn't satisfied with day-night and weather cycles, it stands out for the fluid mechanics of its water. You swim, sail, and fly to new islands using...
Release Date: 01/08/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Eidolon is a narrative game where you slowly explore a massive, post-human Western Washington. Unlike other action-oriented adventures, here you navigate an open world without threat. It's simply been reclaimed by nature, so your task is to discover...
Release Date: 05/08/2015
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Ink is a running (sliding) and jumping game where you see the platforms you are jumping on by splashing them with ink. You control a little white square that, along with splashing colour everywhere, can jump on enemies and climb walls.
Release Date: 15/09/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Rescue: Under Pressure is an adventure exploration game. Your task is to explore the sea and find treasure in the dark. But to do this you need the help of another player on the sonar to guide you. It's a game designed to work for players with mixed...
Release Date: 16/06/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Golf Club: Wasteland is a golf game in an unusual setting. You play on an earth decimated by an environmental catastrophe. Through beautiful visuals and eerie audio, you piece together what has happened to the planet to cause such devastation. It's an...
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: 07/12/2023
Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an adventure in James Cameron's Avatar universe where you play a child caught between two worlds fighting to protect your planet from human colonists. Play involves exploring the large open world, interacting with...
Release Date: 29/08/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series 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: 28/09/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Open World and Weather
Away: The Survival Series is an open world narrative game about wildlife. It's a bit like playing inside a nature documentary. You explore, glide between the treetops, fight predators and find food on an island that has survived after a cataclysmic...
Release Date: 05/08/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Retreat to Enen is a peaceful survival game where you explore a tropical island and make your life there. With no hostile creatures, you craft a base that must exist alongside nature rather than treating it as an endless resource. The ecological premise...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Botany Manor is a peaceful puzzle game where you explore a 19th-century English home and gardens and care for the plants you find. By reading the newspapers, postcards and posters in the house, you discover how to look after each species, from pot size...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
Skye is an open-world survival game set in Viking times. You explore a vast 1:4 scale map of the Isle of Skye as you barter with locals, survive the brutal weather, grow crops and hunt animals. The varied and detailed ever-changing world and the expanse...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Feed the Deep is an underwater diving and collecting adventure. You control a diver who must traverse a system of caves to find gold and other items they can sell for more equipment. It stands out for how it uses light and sound to create an eerie...
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...
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