6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fate of Kai. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fate of Kai.
Release Date: 23/03/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Storyteller is a puzzle game about building stories. You use a set of icons to match what is happening in each frame of the story. It's a simple challenge that gets the mind-stretching as you construct some of history’s greatest stories using building...
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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Thank Goodness You're Here! is a slapstick adventure set in Northern England in the style of classic Beano comics. Play involves exploring the cartoon world to take on quests and special challenges. It stands out for the visual style, but also a...
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: 07/03/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Chuchel is a comedy adventure game. You play hairy hero Chuchel and his rival Kekel to solve simple puzzles and challenges in their quest to retrieve the precious cherry. It looks like a children's storybook animation with strange, peculiar creatures.
Release Date: 29/10/2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Bring You Home is a running and jumping game with a difference. You play as doddery Polo trying to get your pet back by completing various platform levels. Unusually, though, when you die the game rewinds so you can change the level by swiping the...
20 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fate of Kai. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fate of Kai.
Release Date: 03/02/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Grid, Hand-Made and Pixels
Loop Hero is a dungeon exploring adventure game where you use cards to create a world for your character to survive. Rather than control the hero yourself, you take the role of designer (or Dungeon Master) who use cards to create a world that is hard...
Release Date: 27/10/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
Carto is an adventure puzzle game that is unusual in letting you rearrange the map tiles while you are playing. This enables you to access new areas of the world previously impossible to get to. This can be as simple as redirecting a river out of your...
Release Date: 12/11/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Framed is a puzzle adventure where you rearrange panels of an animated comic book to change the outcome and timeline of the story. With a noir-detective look, the puzzles start simply but soon get complex.
Release Date: 01/12/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Lost Words: Beyond the Page is an adventure game where you run, jump and explore inside a young girl’s diary. You control Izzy as she writes her diary by walking on words, moving them around and solving different puzzles. This develops two parallel...
Release Date: 01/09/2020
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Penrose is a text adventure, where you don't only read the story and choose its next step, but can go back into the text to change it in all sorts of mind-bending ways. As the developer describes it, "Penrose is a non-linear narrative adventure game...
Release Date: 10/06/2013, updated in 2019
Out Now: Switch, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: Open World and Text
A Dark Room is an adventure where you try and survive in the wild. The world is depicted with just text but leads you into a dense narrative with intriguing visitors and a steadily expanding world. It has a simple start – a single option to stoke a...
Release Date: 25/08/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Behind the Frame is a narrative adventure where you click and interact with different scenes to help a young woman become an artist. You explore the different locations to uncover and work on the different paintings. It's a combination of escape room...
Release Date: 05/03/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Closed Hands is a text adventure game set in the lead-up and aftermath of a terror attack in a fictional UK city. You follow five core characters brought together by the same event. It's a branching story that you discover and influence as you read and...
Release Date: 13/07/2021
Out Now: PS4
Components: 3D Third-Person
Where the Heart Leads is an adventure game where you make life-choices and then see their impact. You play Whit Anderson, as he revisits and alters his past, present, and future. It's a game that creates a surreal dream-like narrative, but one that is...
Release Date: 05/06/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Ord is an unusual text adventure, rather than one grand story, you embark on a series of distinct quests. Whether it's defeating an evil warlock or creating your own world as a god, Ord tells stories through simple series of words and word associations...
Release Date: 12/02/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
A Puzzle in Time is a puzzle game set in a laboratory. Your task is to escape the room and prove time travel is possible by solving puzzles set over four different years. Inspired by games like Portal and The Witness this short but challenging game has...
Release Date: 04/06/2020
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Words For A Bird is a short adventure you play by completing sentences. You follow the story of a purple bird. Each sentence is completed with letters from the tree in which the bird sits, along with a clue tile in the middle of the screen.
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: 21/05/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Timelie is a stealth puzzle game played in a surreal world where a girl and a mysterious cat work together to escape a series of rooms patrolled by enemy robots. The novelty is that you can control and rewind time to help you solve each puzzle. This not...
Release Date: 28/03/2017
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Majotori is a trivia brain game with a twist. Your trivia answers determines the fates of a collection of characters throughout their lives as they call upon a mysterious witch to grant their wishes. Getting too many answers wrong dooms them to horrible...
Release Date: 04/05/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Knights of San Francisco is a text adventure with simulated combat. Through a series of textual choices and encounters, you explore what remains of the ancient city of San Francisco. It stands out for a complex evolving world and simulated combat all...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Midnight Girl is a point-and-click adventure set in France during the Sixties. In a world that draws on a Tintin art-style, you explore a hand-drawn world as a cat burglar to pull of your biggest heist yet. It's an unusual mix of theme, mystery and a...
Release Date: 06/08/2015, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Letter Quest Remastered is an adventure game where you use words to defeat monsters, ghosts, and evil bunnies. You play by spelling words to trigger attacks and cast spells. It's a novel combination of Scrabble and a classic adventure game.
Release Date: 23/10/2007
Out Now: Wii
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure is a point-and-click adventure where you play Zack, a young pirate, and his golden monkey companion, Wiki, as they embark on a quest to find a legendary treasure. To play you explore the colorful levels solving...
Release Date: 03/05/2022
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Loot River is a puzzle fighting game where you explore labyrinths armed with the power of a relic that can shift the ground. This combines the combat with a Tetris-like tile shifting that alters the layout of each room to your advantage.