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Miniatures is a hand-drawn narrative puzzle about a surreal childhood adventure set in a minimalist seaside environment. Play involves exploring each scene to take on themed beachside tasks that slowly uncover four disjointed stories. It stands out for imbuing mundane activities with a haunting, emotionally resonant narrative that feels both intimate and otherworldly.
Unfortunately, Miniatures is not available on Android, PS4, PS5, Xbox One or Xbox X|S. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:
Release Date: 14/11/2024
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Narrative (Adventure, Brain Game, Point-and-Click and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 17 features
Components: 2D Overhead, 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Developer: Other Tales (@OtherTales)
Costs: Purchase cost
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Miniatures. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Miniatures.
Dordogne is a narrative adventure where you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman who returns to the house of her recently deceased grandmother.
Dordogne is a narrative adventure where you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman who returns to the house of her recently deceased grandmother. You explore the house and area to find letters and puzzles that bring back memories of the past.
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Hindsight is a narrative point-and-click game where you revisit the past by finding objects that trigger memories.
Hindsight is a narrative point-and-click game where you revisit the past by finding objects that trigger memories. Play involves exploring each scene, locating objects and listening to the story as you move the camera to look within what you've found and be drawn into the memory it represents.
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Ete (Été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint.
Ete (Été, which means summer) is a gentle adventure where you discover memories by exploring with your camera, music and paint. The screen starts almost entirely blank, and as you move around and interact you create vivid colourful memories.
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Orchids to Dusk is a short wandering adventure.
Orchids to Dusk is a short wandering adventure. You are an astronaut stranded on an alien planet, with only a few minutes of oxygen.
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia.
Before I Forget is an exploration adventure, where you play Sunita, a woman alone in a house with early-onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory.
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When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point and click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unravel an intriguing and emotive narrative.
When The Past Was Around is a short adventure puzzle game, where you point and click on items to gather clues, unlock doors and unravel an intriguing and emotive narrative. Without any words, it tells the tale of a young woman, Eda, and her love, the mysterious Owl man, in a surreal world consisting of disjointed rooms from memories and times past.
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Birth is a Frankenstein-style adventure where you construct a companion for your loneliness.
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.
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Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home.
Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home. While you listen to four soulful songs for each period of life, you explore the room and witness her changing interests and desires through the different items, notes, and decorations.
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.
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.
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Venba is a narrative cooking game where you play an Indian mother who emigrated to Canada in the 1980s.
Venba is a narrative cooking game where you play an Indian mother who emigrated to Canada in the 1980s. You cook various traditional Indian dishes and restore lost recipes which were damaged in the move to Canada.
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Saltsea Chronicles is a point-and-click adventure where you sail the sea to rescue your ship's captain.
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.
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A Highland Song is a narrative adventure where you explore a maze of crisscrossing routes through the hills of the Highlands.
A Highland Song is a narrative adventure where you explore a maze of crisscrossing routes through the hills of the Highlands. You are 15-year-old Moira who lives with her mum on the edge of the hills and receives a letter inviting her to come to the coast.
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A Mortician's Tale is a management game where you play as a mortician, Charlie, working in a funeral home.
A Mortician's Tale is a management game where you play as a mortician, Charlie, working in a funeral home. As you play, you handle bodies of the deceased, including cleaning and beautifying them, as well as dealing with embalming and cremation.
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My Brother Rabbit is a hand-drawn hidden-object puzzle game about an ill sister.
My Brother Rabbit is a hand-drawn hidden-object puzzle game about an ill sister. As her plight is told through watercolour animation, you play her brother's rabbit and unfold a parallel story in a fantasy world.
The Past Within is a co-operative puzzle game where you solve a mystery by communicating with the past.
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.
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Rusty Lake: Roots is an unusual point-and-click puzzle-horror game that has you piecing together your family tree.
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 secrets and creates a sense of empathy and understanding for the characters within.
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Rusty Lake Hotel is a surreal point-and-click adventure with a tangential horror narrative.
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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.
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 puzzles and a story that offers connecting threads to the other games in the franchise, it's a novel entry to the series and wider fiction of Rusty Lake.
Across the Grooves is a narrative adventure where you play Alice as her uneventful life is turned upside down when a magical record throws her back into her own past.
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If you like the sound of Miniatures but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.
These are our hand-picked alternatives to Miniatures. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Labyrinth. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
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Cantaloop is a trilogy of goofy point-and-click adventure games in book form. It's set in 1976 where you play Oz "Hook" Carpenter who's just returned from exile and is seeking revenge.
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Trial by Trolley is a game about exaggerated moral choices, based on the trolley problem that forces you to choose between two bad scenarios. Each team places a series of innocent things on their track and not-so-innocent things on their opponent's track.
These are games of a similar genre mix to Miniatures. This includes games from the Puzzle, Point-and-Click, Narrative, Adventure and Brain Game genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
Skye Tales is a gentle adventure about exploring a rich playground of floating islands as a dragon called Skye.
Skye Tales is a gentle adventure about exploring a rich playground of floating islands as a dragon called Skye. Play involves traversing each chapter, meeting and interacting with different creatures and solving puzzles along the way.
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Civics! An American Musical is a narrative game where you create your own musical about important events in US history.
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Burly Men at Sea is an adventure where you play three seafaring brothers who explore the Scandinavian seas.
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Chuchel is a comedy adventure game where you play hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel, solving simple puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry.
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Little Fire Station is a super light role-play game where young children can play with a fire station.
Little Fire Station is a super light role-play game where young children can play with a fire station. Each room is displayed from side on with lots of detail you can tap to discover items that react to touch.
Little Hospital is a light role-play game where you search for hidden objects and complete mini-games in a hospital.
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Little Police Station is a light role-play game where you play a cop in the day-to-day life at a police department.
Little Police Station is a light role-play game where you play a cop in the day-to-day life at a police department. You explore the different rooms and tap around to discover hidden objects that you need to stay on top of crime.
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If you like the sound of Miniatures but it doesn’t offer the accessibility you require, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with more Accessibility Features. You can view a full breakdown in our Miniatures Accessibility Report.
In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Miniatures in the following lists: