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2019PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified76 % positive16.19 €

A calm puzzle platformer where shifting gravity lets you walk across the walls and ceilings of surreal structures. A poetic narrator and meditative visuals accompany your quest to understand your own existence.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Emotional impact
  • Strong soundtrack
  • Interconnected level design

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In short: Games like Etherborn

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Etherborn special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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RiME

95 %Match

2017USK 6PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified90 % positive34.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Etherborn: emotional impact, a strong soundtrack and puzzles to figure out.

A wordless, beautifully stylized adventure where a boy explores a mysterious island and solves environmental puzzles. The meaning of the journey only reveals itself near the end, as a moving story about grief and loss.

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Arise: A Simple Story

Jumping and platforming

A wordless platform adventure that tells a couple's life story through memories, from old age back to childhood. You bend time to get past obstacles, backed by a moving orchestral soundtrack.

Hue

Puzzles and brain teasers

A minimalist puzzle platformer where you change the background colour of the world to make obstacles vanish and open new paths. The search for the protagonist's missing mother provides a quiet, simple story.

Manifold Garden

Interconnected level design

A meditative first-person puzzle game set in endlessly repeating, Escher-like architecture, where you rotate gravity to find paths and bring the world back to life. Its clean visual language and mind-bending spatial puzzles set it apart.

Tengami

Cosy, great for unwinding

A calm adventure set in a pop-up book world inspired by traditional Japanese paper crafts, where you fold and slide the scenery to solve puzzles. Its standout qualities are the striking visuals and meditative mood.

The Gardens Between

Cosy, great for unwinding

A calm, wordless puzzle adventure where you scrub time forward and backward to guide two friends across small garden islands built from childhood memories. Clever time-manipulation puzzles, a dreamlike look and a gentle soundtrack make it a relaxing, touching journey.

Monument Valley II

Puzzles and brain teasers

A gorgeous puzzle game where you guide a mother and child through impossible architecture by rotating structures and exploiting optical illusions. Calm, emotional, and carried by striking art and gentle music.

Unravel

Jumping and platforming

A wistful puzzle-platformer where you guide Yarny, a tiny creature made of yarn, through lifelike Scandinavian landscapes, using his unraveling thread to swing, build bridges and solve physics puzzles. Its wordless tale of memory, family and loss is carried by a gorgeous folk soundtrack.

PixelJunk Eden

Jumping and platforming

A psychedelic platformer where you play a tiny grimp swinging on silk threads through lush, growing gardens to collect Spectra. Electronic music and a distinctive look create a hypnotic, relaxed mood.

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