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Games like Stranded

2014PC43 % positive0.99 €

You wake from cryostasis on an alien planet and piece together what happened in a short, minimalist point-and-click adventure with very little dialogue. The pixel-art world leans on atmosphere and small puzzles.

  • Pixel art
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

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In short: Games like Stranded

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

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Please, Don't Touch Anything

85 %Match

2015PEGI 18PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified88 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Stranded: pixel art, puzzles to figure out and a sci-fi setting.

A compact puzzle game built around a single red button: you're told not to touch anything, but you do, uncovering dozens of cryptic endings and hidden secrets.

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The Station

Accessible and relaxed

An atmospheric first-person adventure aboard a space station where you play a recon specialist uncovering what happened to the crew and the secrets of an alien civilization. Exploration, logs and light puzzles drive the story, with no combat.

Molek-Syntez

Puzzles and brain teasers

A puzzle game where you assemble small molecules with pharmacological effects using the Molek-Syntez machine in a cramped Romanian apartment. It pairs fiddly synthesis challenges with an unusual, austere atmosphere.

CorpoNation: The Sorting Process

Puzzles and brain teasers

You work as an employee of a shadowy corporation, sorting genetic samples and earning credits to pay bills and spend on leisure. Between the monotonous shifts, rogue workers tempt you to betray your employer in a dystopian office-sorting puzzle sim.

The Divine Invasion

Accessible and relaxed

A story-driven sci-fi adventure in which you work as a headhunter for enigmatic employers. Behind the surreal plot lies a reflective tale about how human nature stays the same despite changing technology.

In Other Waters

Accessible and relaxed

You guide biologist Ellery Vas's diving suit across an alien ocean planet entirely through a minimalist map interface. Calm exploration, sample collecting and light puzzles drive an atmospheric story about loss and ecology.

Gravity Bone

Accessible and relaxed

Gravity Bone is a free first-person adventure from Blendo Games where you explore a mysterious sci-fi setting. It favours atmosphere, curiosity and dry humour over combat, and its use of Wong Kar-wai film music gives it a distinctive character.

Q.U.B.E.

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set in a minimalist world of white cubes, where special gloves let you manipulate coloured blocks. The puzzles rely on physics, timing and spatial thinking.

Exapunks

Puzzles and brain teasers

A programming puzzle game set in a 1990s hacker world, where you write assembly-like scripts for tiny spider-bots that crawl through other people's networks. It pairs a grim cyberpunk story about a deadly virus with a charming zine-style manual.

Winion Virus

Accessible and relaxed

A pixel-art horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay where you fix errors inside a computer. Cute graphics contrast with a dark fairy-tale story full of twists.

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