10 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Dredge. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Dredge.
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: 21/11/2019, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
The Touryst is a puzzle-based adventure, where you seek to unlock the mysteries of an archipelago of sun-drenched islands. That's if you want to of course, because the adventure can wait if you'd rather soak up the sun and make the most of your time...
Release Date: 04/04/2017
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Open World
Lego City: Undercover offers an open world to explore. While most Lego games have an open-world element in at least some areas, this one keeps play open throughout so that children can enjoy exploring at their own pace.
Release Date: 10/11/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Wavetale is a surfing and jumping adventure in a world of sunken cities, dangerous water and oppressive fog. You play as Sigrid, a young girl who works to restore the decaying archipelago and befriends a mysterious shadow that lets her walk on water....
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: 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: 07/10/2021
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks, Cartoon and Day and Night
Moonglow Bay is a role play game where you play a rookie angler. Unlike other slice-of-life games, fishing isn't tucked away as a side quest here, it's front and centre. Set along the Canadian coastline in the 1980's, you live in a fishing town that has...
Release Date: 19/06/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Things We Lost In The Flood is a minimalist adventure. You sail through a flooded world, building and improving your pixelated boat as you go. Along the way you can write messages for others to discover, and toss them into the drink in a bottle.
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: 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...
25 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Dredge. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Dredge.
Release Date: 05/04/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Open World, Pixels and Weather
A Short Hike is an adventure traversal game where you play the penguin-like character Claire, who needs to climb a mountain in a beautiful national park to receive an important phone call. Presented in cute pixel graphics, the game invites you to...
Release Date: 11/12/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is an adventure game where you play as a young girl who starts a wildlife conservation club. When Alba visits her grandparents on a Mediterranean island, she is excited for a summer of exploring with her friend Ines. But when...
Release Date: 17/03/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Open World and Weather
Tchia is an adventure where you play a young girl (Tchia) who can climb, glide, swim, and sail around a beautiful archipelago. Along with the usual sandbox quests and play the game offers an unusual ability to take control (and become) any animal or...
Release Date: 29/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Omno is a running, jumping and surfing game where you explore an ancient fantastical world. As you explore you meet all manner of strange and wonderful lifeforms, from cute critters to enigmatic giants. It stands out for the approachable collectibility...
Release Date: 14/09/2001, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and GameCube
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Luigi's Mansion is an adventure game where you investigate a haunted mansion to capture the ghosts. As long-standing Nintendo character Luigi, you play a ghostbuster to capture various mischievous ghouls and rescue Mario. It stands out for the unusual...
Release Date: 28/10/2016
Out Now: PS4
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
The Last Guardian is a running, jumping and exploring adventure about a boy who befriends a giant half-bird, half-mammal creature, Trico. You work together to navigate the world, solve puzzles and reach new heights. Unusually, you have to build trust...
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Open World and Weather
Sable is an adventure game where you play a young girl, Sable, alone in the world, but bravely exploring ancient monuments, ruined architecture, and fallen ships to uncover her place in it. It's an adventure without combat that calls you to find your...
Release Date: 24/02/2017, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Legend Of The Skyfish is a puzzle exploration game where you head into a dangerous land, hopping from island to island, solving puzzles and battling enemies. Each arcade-style level is a chance to put your unusual weapon to use -- for fighting but also...
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: 20/03/2013, updated in 2024
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Luigi's Mansion 2, or Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon in the US, is an adventure game about investigating five haunted houses in a community overrun by ghosts. As Luigi, you use your flashlight and ghost trap in the mansions, capturing ghosts and collecting...
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: 14/03/2013, updated in 2023
Out Now: iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ridiculous Fishing is a fishing and shooting game. Unlike any other fishing game, this isn't a sedate wait for the fish to bite. You frantically collect fish on the hook, and then when they reach the surface it turns into a clay pigeon shoot, where you...
Release Date: 31/05/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
PixArk is an adventure game similar to the more complex (and violent) game Ark: Survival Evolved. With a simpler interface and Minecraft=style block building, it's a survival game that never gets too scary while also inviting ambitious play and...
Release Date: 19/07/2019, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Lost Ember is an animal exploration adventure game. While forward progress is relatively linear, it involves beguiling flying, swimming, digging and running to explore the mysterious world through the eyes of different animals.
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: 22/04/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Beyond Blue is an underwater exploration game where you play Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. You see, hear, and interact with the ocean and the creatures in it as you discover an untouched world.
Release Date: 06/01/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Open World
Dysmantle is a survival strategy game where you play a character emerging after the apocalypse. The world is now inhabited with dangerous creatures and you only have your bare hands to survive. It's novel because most items in the world can be destroyed...
Release Date: 02/12/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Solar Ash is a running and jumping game with a strong focus on fluidity of movement and combat. You play Rei, who is trying to reclaim her homeland. You swing and float your way through a vivid, surreal landscape filled with enemies of all shapes and...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Lucen is an action adventure game where you play young Lucen, after his village is mysteriously shrouded in darkness and fellow villagers won't wake up. Armed with your sword, bow, and legends passed down by generations, you set out on a quest for help.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is an action-adventure about a young witch who works as a courier on a small island. You learn to fly around the island, take on quests and slowly gain the skills (and broom) you need to get to your destination. It's a...
Release Date: 26/09/2023
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Hand-Made and Weather
Mineko's Night Market is a narrative-driven adventure where you help a village at the base of Mount Fugu thrive. You explore the Japanese-inspired world, collecting items and completing tasks to make items to sell at the market. It stands out for its...
Release Date: 04/06/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Astro Aqua Kitty is a space adventure where an intrepid crew of cats launch into space to harvest milk from far off planets. You play by moving and shooting your way through levels to meet inhabitants and upgrade your abilities. It stands out for this...
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: 22/11/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Pixels and Weather
Zero Sievert is a retro shooting and survival game where you scavenge a wasteland to find gear and supplies to stay alive in a hard devastated world. You play by stealthily exploring buildings and forests to find and modify weapons. The trick is then...
Release Date: 12/05/2015, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather
Seabeard is a simple adventure game where you follow in the footsteps of the great sea captain to explore and civilise. Play involves working on each island, tapping to move around, collecting items, talking to locals and developing your economy. It's...