7 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: 13/10/2016
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a brain-communication game where you’re confronted with a bomb on the screen that has to be defused, requiring a series of modules to be disarmed. The bomb defuser player can see and operate the bomb but the other...
Release Date: 14/10/2021
Out Now: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Get Together is a puzzle adventure where you and a friend explore a strange world to solve mysteries and discover an ancient story. What's unusual is that you play on two separate devices and need to talk to each other to solve the puzzles.
Release Date: 07/03/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Tick Tock: A Tale For Two is a narrative-driven puzzle game played simultaneously with a friend, where you must escape an eerie world created by a clockmaker. It's unusual because each player's game is slightly different and must be combined to solve...
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: 25/04/2019
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Homo Machina is a point-and-click adventure game where you solve puzzles from the inside of someone's body. It's inspired by the surreal avant-garde scientist Fritz Kahn. Play involves exploring and interacting with each bodily location to trigger...
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...
22 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: 09/04/2015
Out Now: Wii U
Components: 2D Side-On
Affordable Space Adventures is a communication shooting game where you work to pilot a diminutive spacecraft through a hostile environment. One player uses the Wii U game tablet to control engines, power and shields. A second player controls lights and...
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: 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...
Release Date: 03/03/2017
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Snipperclips is a game where you play a piece of paper that can be cut into different shapes. Through a series of puzzle levels, you adjust your shape by clipping and overlapping other players. Sometimes this is to match a shape, at others, it is to...
Release Date: 01/03/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Far: Changing Tides is an exploration adventure that follows Far: Lone Sail. You work to keep your dilapidated craft from breaking as you explore the ruins of a flooded world.
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: 17/10/2019, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Autonauts is an adventure game where you tame new worlds. You start with a blank slate similar to Sim City, but here you must build each dwelling, tools, and vehicle yourself. It’s a task that’s too complex for any one person to handle. You are soon...
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: 10/03/2014, updated in 2020
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 3+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Teach Your Monster to Read is a game about phonics, letters and reading. Children create a monster for a journey through three games. The combination of colourful well-animated characters and proper reading learning is both fun and powerful.
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: 13/10/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Luna The Shadow Dust is an adventure game where you play two companions drawn together in a hand-animated world. Each part of the game is beautifully realised and presents a puzzle to solve.
Release Date: 15/09/2021
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Rescue: Mayday is a helicopter adventure where you are putting out fires and rescuing civilians. You play the game in a team of two, each on your own device. The Pilot player flies the helicopter but has no visibility and must use information from the...
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Out Now: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Koala Boutique is a strategy game about running a shop on the brink of bankruptcy. Unusually, it's a game designed for two players to play distinct roles. You don't have to play at the same time, but work together to progress as a team. The Adventurer...
Release Date: 09/06/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Supermarket Shriek is a kart racing game where you control a shopping trolley with a goat co-pilot. You have to navigate through obstacles and challenges in a range of shops, boutiques and supermarkets.
Release Date: 09/05/2012
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Dragon Box is an educational series of games that teaches young children maths, such as algebra using pattern matching with symbols. Unlike other educational games, the fun is in the doing in DragonBox, rather than incentivising learning with separate...
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: 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: 30/09/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Trios is a puzzle game where you select numbers and operators to get the required total. It's unusual because of its relaxed visuals and music. The twist is that you have to use all your numbers to reach the target.
Release Date: 28/08/2020
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made
Sensorium is a puzzle game set in a freely explorable island. You need to solve puzzle to access rooms, which usually contain more puzzles granting access to deeper recesses of the buildings.
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.
Release Date: 19/10/2023
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Board and Grid
Puzzmo is a newspaper-puzzle-page-style game collection where you take on daily puzzles based on logic, letters and lateral thinking. Play is different depending on which of the puzzles you attempt, but all involve clicking and typing to solve clues and...
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...
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