6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The White Door. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The White Door.
Release Date: 13/10/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, Switch and Web
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Case of the Golden Idol is a point-and-click adventure set in the 18th century, where you attempt to solve 12 gruesome deaths. You play by investigating each scene to gather information in the form of words that you piece together to make statements...
Release Date: 09/04/2020, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
The Procession to Calvary is an intentionally peculiar point-and-click narrative told through a collage of renaissance paintings. You play a warrior on a quest to capture the former ruler of the land, talking to (or killing) people, interacting with...
Release Date: 07/11/2018
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Frequency Missing is a point-and-click adventure. You play young radio reporter Patricia who has just started her first job at a radio station. However, strange things are happening. Richard, her friend who got her the job has vanished and someone is...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Bigger Than Me is a point-and-click adventure about Max, a young man full of uncertainties with a peculiar problem: he becomes giant every time he hears the word "future". You play by moving around the world and interacting with the people and objects...
Release Date: 06/09/2013, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Samsara Room is an abstract point-and-click puzzle-horror game. By solving the puzzles hidden throughout the room, you uncover an uneasy story about judgement and atonement told through the things you find.
Release Date: 27/04/2015, updated in 2021
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Cube Escape Collection is a set of 9 point-and-click escape room-style games set within the Rusty Lake universe. As you follow a murder case through the games, you uncover secrets and hidden meanings in unusual places that enable you to piece together...
24 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The White Door. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The White Door.
Release Date: 14/02/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Florence is a little puzzle game that tells the story of a relationship, following the usual stages of loneliness, meeting, dating, falling for and moving in with another person. At first, the puzzle interactions seem trivial and the game doesn’t...
Release Date: 09/02/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Unravel Two is a jumping and swinging platform game where you control a character made out of wool. As well as making him look super cute, the wool is used to swing around and interact with objects.
Release Date: 15/10/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Disco Elysium The Final Cut is a role-playing game set in the fictional city of Revachol where you play Harrier "Harry" Du Bois who must solve a complex murder. Unusually, your choices and actions not only determine how the story unfolds but affect...
Release Date: 19/11/2019
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Assemble With Care is a narrative puzzle game from the makers of Monument Valley and is a unique way to consider how physical objects become meaningful and hold our memories. You play a restorer who repairs people's favourite possessions: from family...
Release Date: 31/07/2023
Out Now: PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Venba is a narrative-cooking game about an Indian mother who emigrated to Canada in the 1980s. You cook various traditional Indian dishes and restore the lost recipes which were damaged in the move to Canada. As you talk to your mother's family you...
Release Date: 25/09/2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Empty is a minimalist puzzle game that teaches the value of simplicity in life. You rotate and interact with different vignettes to line up items with the same background colour. As you do this they disappear and the scene slowly empties.
Release Date: 17/05/2017
Out Now: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Old Man's Journey is a game about memory and old age. You help a grandfather figure traverse the countryside by raising and lowering the landscape. Along the way, he visits places that evoke the story of his life: a wife, a child and a love of the sea.
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
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. Examine faded...
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Out Now: Android and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the...
Release Date: 10/11/2011, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon. With only a few ways to interact with the game, you control the doctors, exploring and solving puzzles to reconstruct the dying man's...
Release Date: 11/04/2020
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
A Fold Apart is a puzzle game that explores the emotional rollercoaster of a long-distance relationship — in a world of folding paper. After career choices force them along separate paths, a Teacher and Architect vow to make their long-distance...
Release Date: 14/11/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Fractured Minds is a short game that explores the implications of living with mental illness. It aims to promote awareness and empathy for these issues. You explore everyday spaces that behave in strange and sometimes disturbing ways. To progress, you...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
She Dreams Elsewhere is a surreal adventure. You explore the dreams and real life of Thalia, an anxiety-ridden, comatose woman on a journey to confront the nightmares preventing her from awakening.
Release Date: 20/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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...
Release Date: 19/10/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Escape Simulator is a puzzle game where you try and escape a series of rooms. Like a real escape room, you look in drawers, read books, and solve riddles to provide the tools you need to escape. It stands out for the quality of the environments and head...
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: 14/12/2015, updated in 2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Rusty Lake Hotel is a surreal point-and-click adventure with a tangential horror narrative. While set in the same universe as the other games in the Rusty Lake series, it tells its own standalone story that only shares loose connections with the other...
Release Date: 04/05/2017
Out Now: Android and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Yellow is a spatial puzzle game where on each level you need to turn the screen yellow. How you do this varies from level to level. Dragging objects to match a silhouette, tapping and holding in time with a rhythm, spinning your finger, tapping in...
Release Date: 07/09/2017
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Please Knock on My Door is a narrative puzzle about someone suffering from depression and social anxiety. By making choices you help them get through work and reach out to friends. But more than the mechanics of self-care, the game engages with the...
Release Date: 08/03/2023
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a horror narrative game about a seemingly unconnected group of people in a suburb of Tokyo caught up in an ancient rite of resurrection. You search for clues and talk to characters all the while trying to...
Release Date: 07/05/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Papetura is a point-and-click puzzle game where you traverse a vibrant paper world of strange organic structures and whimsical fairy houses. You interact with these things to complete puzzles and little challenges like lighting up a room or creating a...
Release Date: 18/03/1999, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, DS, Mac, PC, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Syberia: The World Before is a wartime narrative adventure where you explore the past and present to unravel the mystery surrounding the two people's intertwining lives. You solve puzzles, interact with characters, and visit diverse European locations....
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society. You move between zones and solve puzzles by guiding beams of light, manipulating gravity, and switching between robot bodies. It stands out...
Release Date: 11/01/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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...
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