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Games with combat like Outer Wilds

Looking for the same combat feel as Outer Wilds? Below is a starting lineup of games whose moment-to-moment fighting rhythm, weight, and tempo sit in the same lineage — and the interactive graph above is already tuned to that lens so you can keep tracing combat DNA from any node. (knowledge-driven exploration mysteries.)

Games with combat like Outer Wilds

  • Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye cover
    Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
    2021

    The 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.

  • Savage Lands cover
    Savage Lands
    2015

    A New Land, A New Life: Savage Lands is a gritty, brutal, first-person open-world fantasy survival experience in which players have only one goal: Stay Alive. Explore a world where days and nights are spent slaughtering vicious creatures, gathering scarce resources, building shel

  • Sky Break cover
    Sky Break
    2016

    Sky Break is an open-world game on a stormy abandoned planet filled with wild mechas. Learn to master this world and to hack the mechas if you want a chance to survive.

  • Star Control: Origins cover
    Star Control: Origins
    2018

    The Earthlings have joined the interstellar club. The galaxy will never be the same. The year is 2086 and Earth has detected an alien distress call originating from the surface of Triton. In response, Star Control is formed with you as The Captain of Earth's first prototype star

  • Don't Knock Twice cover
    Don't Knock Twice
    2017

    Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game based on a psychologically terrifying urban legend. To save her estranged daughter, a guilt-ridden mother must uncover the frightening truth behind the urban tale of a vengeful, demonic witch. One knock to wake her from her bed, twi

  • Quern: Undying Thoughts cover
    Quern: Undying Thoughts
    2016

    Quern is a first person puzzle adventure with captivating story and beautiful graphics. Quern refreshes the genre with flexible gameplay and reuseable puzzle mechanics. The visuals and the music combine traditional and modern elements providing a unique mood for the game. One of

  • Force of Nature cover
    Force of Nature
    2016

    Force of Nature is an indie open world sandbox game with fighting, crafting, building and farming systems.

  • Planet Alpha cover
    Planet Alpha
    2018

    Planet Alpha is an adventure set in a living alien world where you have the ability to manipulate the daytime. To survive on this strange planet you will have to be observant of how the environment and the wildlife behaviour changes depending on the time of day.

  • Dude Simulator cover
    Dude Simulator
    2017

    Dude Simulator is an open world sandbox game. This is a life simulator. The main objective is to enjoy what you are doing.

  • Omensight cover
    Omensight
    2018

    You are the Harbinger, a skilled warrior who exists outside of time. You have foreseen the annihilation of the land known as Urralia and have been summoned to rewrite its fate. With the power to witness and alter the last moments of Urralia’s inhabitants, it’s up to you to weave

  • Gene Rain cover
    Gene Rain
    2018

    Gene Rain is a next-gen 3D third person shooter game. The story is set in a futuristic world, with a linear narrative structure, and uses shocking visual effects to present a brand new world for the players ' enjoyment.

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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 have combat similar to Outer Wilds?
Games with combat similar to Outer Wilds share its tempo, feedback, and the way moves chain together. The graph above starts you on the closest matches — pick any node to keep going.
Why does combat in Outer Wilds feel distinctive?
Outer Wilds's combat rests on a specific mix of input timing, animation commitment, and reward loop. The lens above surfaces games that hit the same nerve, regardless of genre or studio.

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