Games like INSIDE
If you like INSIDE (platformer, puzzle and atmospheric), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Little Nightmares
When you want an unsettling experience you can finish in one or two sessions.
Papo & Yo
- In common: story
When you have a free afternoon and want a short story that's hard to take in: it's over in about four hours.
SOMA
- In common: story
When you want an unsettling sci-fi story that makes you think, in sessions of one or two hours.
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
- Difference: harder
When you want a classic puzzle game with dark humour and fart jokes that you can put down at any moment.
In Sound Mind
- In common: story
When you fancy psychological horror in chapters: each tape lasts a couple of hours and has its own boss.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
- In common: story
When you fancy a short, moving story, in sessions of one or two hours.
A Plague Tale: Innocence
- In common: story
When you're in the mood for a linear, moving story over a few evenings: it lasts between 10 and 15 hours, across 17 chapters.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- In common: story
When you fancy being properly scared with the lights off, in hour-long sessions.
Return of the Obra Dinn
- In common: story
- Difference: more thinking
When you fancy feeling like a real detective and your mind is sharp. Every confirmed deduction is a small victory.
OXENFREE
- In common: story
- Difference: less thinking
When you want a mystery story you can play through in one or two afternoons, with no demands.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About INSIDE
A boy runs through a grey, dystopian world full of threats. No words, flawless physics puzzles and an ending people talk about for years. From the creators of Limbo.
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