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Games like The First Tree

2017PEGI 3PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable77 % positive9.75 €

A calm, emotional exploration game where you play a fox searching for her family while a parallel story about a grieving couple unfolds through collected mementos. It focuses on mood and narrative rather than challenge.

Emotional impact
Strong, story-driven narrative
Cosy, great for unwinding
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In short: Games like The First Tree

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

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Best match

That Dragon, Cancer

92 %Match

2016PC90 % positive

A deeply personal, poetic narrative game about a family's fight to save their young son from cancer. Short and intimate, it centers on faith, hope and loss, and is emotionally powerful.

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Flower

Cosy, great for unwinding

You play as the wind, sweeping petals across rolling fields and bringing faded landscapes back to vibrant life. A short, wordless and meditative experience from thatgamecompany, carried by a gorgeous score.

RiME

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

Strong, story-driven narrative

You swing gracefully through the jungle canopy as a gibbon in a short, emotional tale of family, loss and habitat destruction. The fluid brachiation movement is the highlight, paired with a clear environmental message.

Promesa

Calm and deliberate

You explore dreamlike places in first person, shaped by memories and imaginings that grow out of a conversation between a grandfather and his grandchild. The locations feel strangely familiar, as if you had already been there.

Arise: A Simple Story

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Before I Forget

Strong, story-driven narrative

You piece together a life from the rooms and fragments of a woman whose memories keep slipping away. This short narrative exploration handles dementia, love and loss with quiet, affecting restraint.

Despelote

Cosy, great for unwinding

Despelote follows eight-year-old Julián through everyday life in Quito as Ecuador chases World Cup qualification. It is less about competitive football and more about kicking a ball around streets and parks and meeting the people along the way.

Bound

Distinctive, stylised art style

Bound is a short, poetic 3D platformer where you dance through an abstract, faceted world that mirrors a pregnant woman's memories. Its strength lies in art direction, music and emotional storytelling rather than challenge.

Journey

Distinctive, stylised art style

A wordless, meditative pilgrimage across shimmering dunes toward a distant mountain, where you may meet anonymous strangers online and communicate only through chimes. Short, breathtakingly beautiful and carried by an award-winning score that hits hard emotionally.