6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed 39 Days to Mars. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed 39 Days to Mars.
Release Date: 02/11/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
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.
Release Date: 03/02/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
We Were Here is a series of puzzle adventures where you and a fellow explorer awake inside the sinister Castle or similar location with no way out. Play is by exploring your location to find clues and solve puzzles. Uniquely, the puzzles you encounter...
Release Date: 31/08/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
How 2 Escape is a communication puzzle game where you have to reach the front of a dangerous train to pull the emergency brake. You search for hints and codes in each carriage while the clock counts down. The twist is that to succeed you must share...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
There Was A Home is a narrative adventure that follows Noor, a young Saudi woman who returns to clear out her family house. Play is a combination of clicking around to explore her home and using the physical journal to help solve puzzles to find items...
Release Date: 25/12/2017, updated in 2021
Out Now: iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Cinco Paus is a puzzle game where you try and get through 5 rooms picking up treasure as you go. What makes it unusual are the magic wands that help you do this. What appears to be a maze game turns out to be a challenge to discover the effects of each...
Release Date: 03/04/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Open World
In Other Waters is an underwater exploration game where you play an Artificial Intelligence assistant to a stranded xenobiologist in a mysterious alien ocean. The world is not seen except through the instrumentation available to you. This creates a...
6 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed 39 Days to Mars. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed 39 Days to Mars.
Release Date: 05/05/2022
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon, Dice, Grid and Text
Citizen Sleeper is a role-play game set in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. You are an escaped worker exploring a lawless space station, making friends, and (ultimately) trying to escape your past. Each cycle you roll dice and decide how to spend...
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: 01/01/1983
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, DS, Mac, PC, PSP, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Components: 3D First-Person
Myst is a classic video game graphic adventure. Published in 1983, and selling over six million copies, it pre-dates many modern adventure games and created a new genre for gaming. Exploring by clicking in the world to move, you use a special book to...
Release Date: 19/09/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime offers a space-survival challenge where you must collaborate to defend your circular spaceship. Each player needs to take on specific tasks to manage offensive or defensive duties.
Release Date: 13/06/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Minute of Islands is a running, jumping and exploring game where you play Mo, a skilled tinkerer living in the dilapidated poisoned ruins of an ancient race of giants. You scavenge parts from their strange machines to get them running and clean the air...
Release Date: 09/03/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Draw! is a puzzle game where you draw your own platforms in order to get a stick figure to run and jump through the level to an exit. It is designed to look like drawings on a notepad with you as the artist.