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2016PEGI 3PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified80 % positive6.89 €

You play a damaged robot rolling across a post-human Earth, chaining momentum, speed and parkour-style movement to get back to your ship. The focus is on flowing movement rather than combat or heavy story.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Cosy, great for unwinding

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Jet Island

78 %Match

2018PC96 % positive19.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Defunct: jumping and platforming, a sci-fi setting as well as progress without grind.

A VR game where you rocket across floating islands using hand jets, grappling hooks and frictionless boots. The physics-based high-speed locomotion is the main attraction.

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Umurangi Generation

Sci-fi setting

A first-person photography game set in a bleak near future in Tauranga, New Zealand. As a courier you capture photos in stylized scenes using unlockable lenses and gear, while an looming crisis and political themes simmer in the background.

Fresh Start

Post-apocalyptic setting

A relaxing first-person cleanup simulator set in a post-apocalyptic world: you scrub polluted areas, repair forgotten machinery and even plant forests. The mood is hopeful and stress-free.

Monobot

Post-apocalyptic setting

A 2D physics-based puzzle platformer where you guide a small robot through a bleak dystopian future, solving puzzles to uncover the secrets of its world.

Paper Beast

Respects your time

A poetic VR experience from Eric Chahi: in a desert world born from forgotten code, you guide paper creatures using wind, sand and water while solving gentle environmental puzzles.

Cloudborn

Respects your time

You explore the remnants of a lost civilization in VR and gradually uncover its fate. The game focuses on wonder, atmosphere and calm discovery rather than combat.

Elegy for a Dead World

Sci-fi setting

A quiet writing game where you wander three abandoned worlds inspired by Romantic poetry and use prompts to compose your own stories about their vanished civilizations.

Snake Pass

Jumping and platforming

A physics-driven platformer where you slither and coil your way through colorful levels as a snake. The believable snake movement turns every obstacle into a tricky dexterity puzzle.

Far: Lone Sails

Post-apocalyptic setting

You drive a sail-powered land vessel across a dried-up seabed, keeping it running through upkeep, fuel and light puzzles. Without any dialogue, it tells a melancholic, atmospheric journey through the remains of a fallen civilization.

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