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Games like Max Stern

2016PC

After your airship crashes on a mysterious tropical island, you collect pieces of a Spanish chronicle, solve puzzles and fight armed skeletons. A small indie adventure mixing action with exploration.

  • Action-packed real-time combat

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In short: Games like Max Stern

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

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

80 %Match

1999PEGI 12PC, PlayStation, Steam Deck playable84 % positive6.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Max Stern: a pure single-player experience, a calm pace and a focus on a single character.

Lara Croft explores ancient Egyptian tombs full of traps, tricky platforming and sprawling puzzles that sometimes span multiple levels. The classic, blocky Tomb Raider style favors exploration and head-scratching over pure gunplay.

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Kraven Manor

Respects your time

A horror puzzle game set in a creepy manor whose rooms you rearrange via a miniature scale model in the entry hall, opening new paths and uncovering secrets.

The Ball

Focus on a single character

As an archaeologist trapped in a buried cavern, you use a giant ball to solve physics puzzles, trigger traps and smash creatures. The ball's physics drive the whole first-person experience.

Clans

Focus on a single character

You roam a once-beautiful land with your sword, hunting the Demon's minions and unraveling the riddles of a mysterious fortress. Every step brings you closer to the final duel for the lost Crown of Peace.

Reveal the Deep

Respects your time

You explore the wreck of a 19th century steamship and piece together how it sank and who was aboard. The mood is eerie and the game runs almost entirely on discovery, without combat.

realMyst: Masterpiece Edition

Vast, open spaces

You wander a lonely island where every scrap of paper and every ambient sound may be a clue, solving intricate mechanical puzzles as you piece together a centuries-old injustice. The appeal lies in quiet, patient discovery rather than action.

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