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Games like Wake

2013PC27 % positive

An indie platformer where you play an engineer climbing through a sinking ship toward the surface while evading its corrupted security system.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like Wake

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

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Hypogea

89 %Match

2025PC, Steam Deck verified97 % positive9.75 €

Brings what grabs you about Wake: jumping and platforming, a dark atmosphere as well as progress without grind.

A short, atmospheric 3D platformer about escaping a mysterious underground megastructure. It focuses on mood, exploration and platforming challenges.

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Planet RIX-13

Calm and deliberate

You explore alien worlds as a space traveler in this 2D adventure, searching for planets that might be able to support life. The bleak science-fiction atmosphere with horror touches is at the heart of the experience.

Overloop

Dark, serious atmosphere

You wield a cloning gun to duplicate yourself and solve tricky platforming puzzles in a dystopian world. Cloning is your key tool, but it comes with its own dangers.

Vholume

Dark, serious atmosphere

A melancholic first-person parkour adventure through a dystopian brutalist city where bureaucracy turns a simple errand into an odyssey. Details are inferred from limited metadata.

Tomb Raider

Respects your time

The classic sends Lara Croft through perilous tombs full of traps, puzzles and wildlife. Precise platforming, exploration and a lonely atmosphere define the experience.

The Underground Man

Dark, serious atmosphere

You explore a radioactive, subterranean Moscow in this quiet indie adventure. Its bleak, lonely atmosphere carries the game as you work your way through the depths with jumps and puzzles.

Impossible Mission

Focus on a single character

A 1984 classic in which you play a secret agent searching rooms of Elvin's fortress for puzzle pieces, dodging robots and racing the clock to stop a missile launch.

Mushroom 11

Respects your time

You guide a shapeless organism by erasing its cells, and that is how you move through a ruined world. The unusual control scheme turns each puzzle into a creative experiment.

Adventure Lamp

Calm and deliberate

You guide the archaeologist Simon, who after a cave-in has nothing but a headlamp and must find his way through the dark. The game blends platforming with light-based puzzles in a tense, atmospheric underground setting.

Monobot

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

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