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Games like Outer Wilds
Want more knowledge-driven exploration mysteries? Below are the games most like Outer Wilds — the titles that inspired it, the games sharing its DNA, and the ones it went on to influence. The interactive graph above lets you keep exploring from any of them.
Games similar to Outer Wilds
SpaceEngine2019SpaceEngine is a 3D astronomy program and game engine developed by Russian astronomer and programmer Vladimir Romanyuk. Using real astronomical catalogs and procedural generation, it creates a three dimensional planetarium representing the entire universe. Users can travel throu
Home Sweet Home2017Home Sweet Home is a first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you. Moreover, few puzzles are added into the game, making gameplay more various. While playing this ga
The Station2018The Station is a first-person exploration game set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
Dude Simulator2017Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.
Dysmantle2021The open world action RPG where you can ruin everything. Ascend from your shelter. Escape the wretched island. Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
The Great Perhaps2019The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact - an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
Humanity2023A unique blend of puzzle-solving and action-platforming. Play a lone Shiba Inu charged with commanding massive, marching crowds to the goal in Story Mode, or browse a wide array of user-made levels crafted via the in-game Stage Creator!
I Am Dead2020I Am Dead is a charming puzzle adventure game from the creators of Hohokum and Wilmot’s Warehouse about exploring the afterlife.
Tinykin2022Catch hundreds of tinykin and use their unique powers to help Milo discover the origins of humankind - and get back to his home planet!
Exploration: Light2026Experience large space ship battles. Uncover the secrets of the mysterious alien race. Upgrade your ship or even start a fleet. Survive
The Outer Wilds series & family
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye2021The Hearthian space program has detected an anomaly that canʼt be attributed to any known location in the solar system. Grab your flashlight and prepare to illuminate the darkest secrets of the Outer Wilds in its first and only DLC, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye.
About Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop. The newest member of the space program in a small village on the planet Timber Hearth, the player navigates a space shuttle and travels across their solar system to get to the bottom of its mysteries by exploring the cosmos and gathering the knowledge hidden within each of the system's planets, left behind by another civilization in the distant past.
FAQ
- What games are similar to Outer Wilds?
- Some of the closest matches are SpaceEngine, Home Sweet Home, The Station, Dude Simulator, Dysmantle, The Great Perhaps. Scroll back up to keep exploring in the interactive graph.
- What inspired Outer Wilds?
- Outer Wilds sits inside the Puzzle / Simulator tradition. Shared themes, mechanics, and studio history all show up in the graph — see how we score the matches.