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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Wayward Strand. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Wayward Strand.
Release Date: 31/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
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Release Date: 19/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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Release Date: 19/04/2019, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
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Release Date: 15/08/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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Release Date: 02/03/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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Release Date: 15/07/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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35 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Wayward Strand. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Wayward Strand.
Release Date: 02/06/2021
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it. It's played on a ship where the characters are affected by your choices and changes their actions...
Release Date: 29/08/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Goodbye Volcano High is a high school coming-of-age adventure set in a world of anthropomorphic dinosaur characters. You play as band members, non-binary Fang and best friend Trish as they navigate the last days of high school. It's a mix of making...
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: 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: 17/05/2017
Out Now: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
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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: 22/07/2019
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Elsinore is a mystery-adventure set in Shakespeare's Hamlet. You play Elsinore who repeats the same four days as she tries to find a way to avoid the tragedy that lies before her.
Release Date: 27/12/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Web
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
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Release Date: 28/07/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Open World
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure. You explore and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. It starts as a bewildering array of characters, locations and information but over multiple goes your...
Release Date: 07/02/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
The Stillness of the Wind is a narrative puzzle game where you play an old woman who looks after a dilapidated farm. Over the course of a few hours, no matter what your efforts, the farm falls apart as you learn about the woman’s family and have the...
Release Date: 03/06/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a narrative game where you use a metal detector to explore an old farm. As you do you retread old relationships in the English countryside. You'll find and dig up treasures to share with your friend Beth over a...
Release Date: 21/10/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 3D Third-Person
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building. As you do you learn about the lives of the people that live there. You can manipulate the building to move floors between...
Release Date: 25/08/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cards and Cartoon
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a narrative game about growing through teenage years on an alien planet. It's played by making choices about who to help or which skills to master over the ten years. This determines the course of your life on the colony...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Revenant Hill is a narrative adventure set in 1919 where you play a cat called Twigs where animals and people lead lives next to each other. Play involves making connections and earning friendships from interactions, social deduction and some light...
Release Date: 16/08/2023
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Stories of Blossom is a narrative point-and-click game where you play Clara as her grandfather tells her stories. In each story, you take on a different character and go on adventures as you solve puzzles.
Release Date: 04/08/2015
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Beyond Eyes is a game about a blind girl, Rae, who uses her senses to visualize the world around her. As you play, the game only shows you parts of the world you can hear. This means you can see immediately around you, and further away if things are...
Release Date: 01/11/2023
Out Now: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
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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
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Release Date: 24/09/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
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Release Date: 26/09/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Hand-Made and Weather
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Release Date: 03/11/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
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Release Date: 21/06/2016, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
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Release Date: 02/06/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
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Release Date: 31/03/2023
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a narrative game where you investigate who killed Sonic at a murder mystery party. You talk to guests, uncover clues and find evidence of the murderer's identity, then make your case to everyone else. It's a...
Release Date: 04/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
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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: 13/04/2018
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Marie's Room is a short narrative game where you revisit an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, exploring Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But as you do, a story unfolds where something is not quite right and...
Release Date: 13/06/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
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Release Date: 22/09/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
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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: 08/06/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Mask of the Rose is a narrative game set in the same underground, gothic, Victorian London as Sunless Sea. You talk to different characters, seeking friendships or romance, and attempt to solve a murder mystery with a...
Release Date: 07/11/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
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Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open is a creepy narrative adventure set in early 2000s Malaysia. In its paper-theatre world, you join Ting, a 5-year-old girl trying to come to terms with her supernatural powers. You play in point-and-click fashion,...
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: 07/07/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Lion's Song is a narrative adventure set in pre-war Vienna, about a talented young musician with great expectations placed upon her. Play involves traversing the city, talking to locals and deciding how best to make your way in the world. It stands...
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...
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