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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.
Release Date: 02/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
King Of The Castle is a narrative strategy game where you play a monarch battling nobles for power in a kingdom. The twist is that the nobles are controlled by other players who also have their own factions and objectives. You play by making decisions...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon, Dice, Grid and Text
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector continues the role-play adventure with a new story about an escaped corporate-owned android with a price on its head. Each cycle you roll dice and decide how to spend them, on repairing your ship, on trading or on...
Release Date: 14/11/2022
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Flat Eye is a narrative strategy game where you run a gas station in the near future. Play is a matter of making money from customers by adding products and streamlining efficiency. But what really stands out here is the web of corporate and management...
Release Date: 12/10/2016, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Along the Edge is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact not only how the story unfolds but how your character appears and understands the world. You move through the story by making conversational choices that may...
Release Date: 30/09/2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Monorail Stories is a narrative adventure where two people's lives are entwined by the journeys they take on the same monorail. You make choices for each character that can impact not only people on your commute but those on the other journey. It's...
Release Date: 01/06/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Killer Frequency is a horror adventure where you play a DJ in a small 1987 town. When a serial killer terrorizes the town, you struggle to help callers escape danger and survive. It stands out for the dark comedy of being placed in the middle of a...
28 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.
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. Play involves exploring the island, using the bird song you hear to find and photograph all manner of real-world birds. It stands out...
Release Date: 10/01/2017, updated in 2017
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Night in the Woods is a narrative adventure which follows college dropout Mae Borowski returning home to the crumbling former mining town of Possum Springs. But the place is different now her friends have grown and changed. There’s something...
Release Date: 20/01/2021
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Day and Night and Hand-Made
Nuts is an adventure game where you play a rookie field researcher. You use your camera, caravan, GPS and map to investigate the depths of the enigmatic Melmoth Forest. As you study the local squirrel population you uncover a strange mystery.
Release Date: 15/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Wildermyth is a medieval role-playing game about diverse heroes and themes. You take on evil in a number of stories, each with different heroes and settings. The focus is on the characters as much as their adventures, who are believable, diverse and...
Release Date: 15/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Wayward Strand is a narrative game about Casey Beaumaris, an intrepid teenage journalist. You visit an airborne hospital, uncover the airship's mysteries, and explore the lives of its inhabitants. It's a Tintin-style point-and-click adventure with a...
Release Date: 27/02/2020, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Cartoon
Iris and the Giant is a narrative strategy card game about a young girl named Iris who braves an imaginary world to tackle her inner demons and face her fears. It's a game about depression and anxiety where Iris uses escapism to cope with her life. More...
Release Date: 16/04/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices...
Release Date: 25/07/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Quadrilateral Cowboy is an adventure in a 1990 retro-cyberpunk world where you take on covert mission to infiltrate buildings and security systems. You carefully explore each level hacking security by typing commands into your grey-market equipment.
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: 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: 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: 19/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
A Space For The Unbound is an adventure about everyday life where you explore your location, chat with people and solve puzzles. Unusually, you do this by stepping into the mind of people you meet and helping them solve their stuck and knotted thought...
Release Date: 14/05/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Signs of the Sojourner is an introspective narrative where you interact with characters by solving puzzles with cards that represent emotions. It's a coming-of-age story set in the near future and explores how relationships form, break and mend in the...
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: 10/08/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Black Book is a dark adventure, based on Slavic myths where you are a young sorceress. It combines a visual novel point-and-click adventure with card collecting to gain abilities to fight evil forces and explore the world where humans live alongside...
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: 16/04/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
Neurodeck is a psychological adventure game where you use life affirming cards to challenge a series of monsters in a fictional experimental treatment program. Each monster represents a phobia and offers a chance to explore your character's psyche and...
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...
Release Date: 18/08/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ambition: A Minuet in Power is a text adventure that offers a historical twist on the dating game genre. You play a young woman far from home, abandoned by the love of her life in the city of Paris. Rather than sorrow or shame, this ignites ambition for...
Release Date: 15/09/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards, Cartoon and Grid
Foretales is a narrative role-playing adventure where every action, choice, item and character is represented by a card. By choosing cards you not only decide your fate but shape your story. Fight or avoid violence, kindness or play it safe, these...
Release Date: 03/09/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch and Xbox 360
Components: 2D Side-On, Blocks and Cartoon
Catherine is a narrative puzzle game about a young man torn between two lovers, struggling with the temptation and consequences of infidelity. During the daytime, you interact with characters in a visual novel that sets up the nighttime traversal...
Release Date: 25/05/2021
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Open World
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is a bizarre adventure where you need to fly to your fiancée but the airports are all run by dogs (and you are the last two people alive). You play by exploring the airport, talking to the dogs, deciphering...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
Soulitaire is a solitaire puzzle game where you play cards to get a peek into the future of the people you play against. However, play is as much about interpretation of the cards as which cards they get. It's an unusual game about the impact of others...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Dead Pets Unleashed is a narrative rhythm game about a struggling punk band wrestling with life and the challenges of getting older. You play the songs in rhythm-action elements, while also getting to know the locals and managing the progress of your...
Release Date: 16/09/2016
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an intentionally dull (and weird) adventure game about picking up trash as a Janitor. You work to find garbage for the incinerator (or to sell) with the thin hope of leaving the planet for a better life. It's a bizarre...
Release Date: 06/06/2019, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Hand-Made
Roguebook is a fighting game where you build a deck of heroes to go on an adventure. It draws on Slay The Spire style battles, but with a world to explore where you discover shops, relics, new cards and power-ups.
Release Date: 07/08/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Videoverse is a narrative game about a fictional gaming network and the friendships that were forged there. You play by guiding conversations and visiting the gaming bulletin board each day. It stands out for bottling the play and interactions that make...
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...
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