6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Yi and the Thousand Moons. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Yi and the Thousand Moons.
Release Date: 24/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
A Memoir Blue is a narrative game about an athlete's relationship with her mother. It's a story told through a dream, which you move along by interacting with everyday objects. It stands out for the metaphorical use of visual styles and the poignant...
Release Date: 20/02/2020
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On
Evergreen Blues is a rhythm narrative game where you and a friend build lyrics to a song in real time. You select the words and timing and the game puts them together into lines of a song. What's unexpected and unusual about the game is that the songs...
Release Date: 14/03/2012, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Journey is an adventure game set in a desert. Exploring the eerie sandscape, you discover a world abandoned by the race that created it. The sense of space and scale evokes feelings of aloneness and being lost. But then the game pairs you with other...
Release Date: 04/11/2020
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Civics! An American Musical is a narrative game where you create your own musical about important events in US history. You make choices about the look, style and historical accuracy of your production. Once you have finished your show you get to watch...
Release Date: 12/09/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Nour: Play With Your Food is an experimental music game where you create different dishes and plates of food. Unusually, the focus is on sound rather than just visuals. As you add ingredients and food elements they each add sounds.
Release Date: 01/11/2019, updated in 2023
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Monomals is a game about fishing and music. You drop your line into the water, catch a fish and make music along the way. There are different animal DJs to choose from, each with a different sound and 21 different underwater courses to fish in.
16 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Yi and the Thousand Moons. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Yi and the Thousand Moons.
Release Date: 12/02/2009
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Open World and Weather
Flower is a traversal collecting game where you control the breeze blowing across fields of grass and blow petals into other flowers to make them bloom. Flower is simple and single-purpose in evoking the feeling of the wind. What starts as an awkward...
Release Date: 30/01/2013
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita and PS3
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Proteus is a narrative adventure game which takes you to a pixelated island. As you explore you discover that your presence changes the seasons and time of day. Delving deeper, there are rudimentary interactions with the creatures that inhabit the land,...
Release Date: 16/02/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Fe is a platform-traversal game where you play a fox in a magical fairy tale forest. The world extends in front of you in stylised form, with trees, mountains and streams glistening with sparkles of life. You run, jump, climb and dip your paws in every...
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: 27/09/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Wandersong is an adventure where you play a bard on a quest to gather parts of a song. Uniquely, you interact with the environment and inhabitants by singing with one of the direction sticks. It stands out not only for its start of love and loss but for...
Release Date: 07/01/2013, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Overhead
Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game in five acts. This means that you explore a deep and rich world backed by haunting electronic music and hymns to unfold a story of unpayable debts, abandoned futures, and the human drive to find...
Release Date: 14/02/2020
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness is a narrative experience designed to aid sleep. Children can select stories, sounds, meditation or music and calm colours to help them drift off to sleep quickly. Once started the original stories and sounds play with...
Release Date: 20/04/2006, updated in 2017
Out Now: DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Okami (Okamiden on Nintendo DS) is an unusual action-adventure. Combat is via interactions that are achieved with brush strokes rather than weapons. It has a unique visual style that invites you to inhabit its painted world with brushstrokes of your...
Release Date: 24/04/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person
Tacoma is set aboard a space station in the year 2088. As you explore you can discover how the station’s crew lived and worked, using an AR device that lets you review past actions and conversations, you discover clues that unravel a plot of trust,...
Release Date: 05/12/2017
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Board and Cards
DropMix is a fast-paced music-mixing game. You combine loops of well known music from a wide range of genres by placing physical cards on the DropMix peripheral. Each card you place combines with those already in play to create an automatically...
Release Date: 19/10/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Kine is a 3D puzzle game where you control three robot instruments: Roo, the accordion; Quat, the drum; and Euler, the trombone. To help them become a band, you solve puzzles that involve their different abilities in various ways.
Release Date: 18/08/2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 3D First-Person
We Are OFK is a narrative game about the indie band OFK. Reminiscent of Gorillaz's virtual personas, it's part video game drama and part music video. You play four friends, who are releasing their debut EP. You make choices about their relationships and...
Release Date: 05/06/2021
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Ynglet is an exploration game where you jump between bubbles that float in the sky making sounds as you interact with the doodled environment. Part platform game, part dynamic soundtrack, it's a game designed to let you flow through the world to...
Release Date: 13/07/2007
Out Now: DS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Elite Beat Agents is a simple rhythm game that requires you to tap the screen in time with the music to advance a story. Each song matches the pictorial narrative that intersperses each verse: getting a pregnant woman to the hospital; materialising a...
Release Date: 12/03/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Components: 3D Third-Person
Nioh 2 is a role-playing game that spans a period both before and after the original Nioh game. It's set in the devastated locales of Japan during the Sengoku period The novelty is the supernatural setting and thrilling horror of taking on hordes of...
Release Date: 28/02/2019
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Ape Out is a stylised fighting game where you control an ape trying to escape a facility. Although it's violent, the gameplay focuses on rhythm and style rather than just gore. As you move, grab and throw your attackers the soundtrack responds to create...
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