Games like The Way
Looking for games like The Way? Here are top arcade platformer recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Planet of Lana, Lifeless Planet or Deliver Us The Moon.
1 View Game87%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability94% User Score 3,772 reviewsCritic Score 80%31 reviewsPlanet of Lana is a serene adventure game set on a transformed planet, where a faceless army has disrupted the balance between nature and humans. The game features unique companion-based gameplay, puzzles with diverse challenges, and stealth-based sequences to carefully navigate dangerous situations. Discover an epic story that spans galaxies and centuries while trying to preserve the planet's beauty.
View Game2 View Game69%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding73% User Score 2,174 reviewsCritic Score 60%4 reviews"Lifeless Planet" is a single-player mystery action-adventure game with an intriguing old-school sci-fi story and stunning visuals. As an astronaut searching for life on a distant planet, you discover an abandoned Russian town and evidence of past human life, leading to questions about time travel and Cold War hoaxes. Despite its impressive atmosphere, the game is plagued by bugs, lack of optimization, and grinding gameplay, with low replayability but high emotional impact.
View Game3 View Game85%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, replayability87% User Score 5,680 reviewsCritic Score 77%2 reviews"Deliver Us The Moon" is a Sci-Fi thriller set in a depleted Earth, where you are Earth's last astronaut on a mission to the moon to investigate a lost energy source and save humanity. Accompanied by a sinister small robot named ASE, you'll explore abandoned facilities, gather clues, and uncover secrets to determine the fate of mankind. The game tackles real-world themes, including the energy crisis and topical issues.
View Game4 View Game77%Game Brain Scorestory, atmospherestability, grinding87% User Score 4,318 reviewsCritic Score 67%13 reviewsThe Fall is a side-scrolling adventure game with platforming and combat elements. Your character is an AI controlling a combat suit whose occupant is unresponsive and presumably dead or seriously injured. You have crash landed on an unknown planet for unknown reasons and must seek medical attention for your 'pilot'. The bulk of the gameplay resolves around completing a series of object-matching p…
View Game5 View Game85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability83% User Score 4,036 reviewsCritic Score 87%34 reviews"Owlboy" is a single-player, fantasy platformer game with an intriguing story and ingenious game mechanics. As the mute Otus, you'll explore a vast world in the clouds, carrying friends who fight as gunners with unique abilities. The game boasts good visuals, phenomenal music, and large dungeons with challenging boss battles, resulting in a masterful and highly emotional atmosphere.
View Game6 View Game78%Game Brain Scorestory, musicoptimization, replayability88% User Score 2,285 reviewsCritic Score 70%22 reviewsRiME is a single-player, open-world puzzle adventure game with a wholesome story and dense atmosphere. As a young boy stranded on a mysterious island, you'll explore enchanting landscapes, solve ingenious puzzles using sound, light, and time manipulation, and uncover secrets that reveal the island's forgotten past. With its outstanding gameplay, graphics, and soundtrack, RiME offers a captivating experience, despite minor optimization issues and some grinding.
View Game7 View Game71%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability73% User Score 425 reviewsCritic Score 70%25 reviewsIn Crossing Souls, play as a group of kids with unique abilities who discover a mysterious pink stone that lets them travel between realms. Set in 1986 California, this action-adventure game has you fighting enemies, solving puzzles, and battling bosses, all while saving your families and the world. Experience special arcade-inspired levels and switch between characters to utilize their special skills.
View Game8 View Game83%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability87% User Score 2,906 reviewsCritic Score 40%14 reviews"INMOST is a single-player horror platformer with a hauntingly atmospheric pixel art world, offering an emotional and intimate story of loss and hope. Play as three different characters and utilize unique gameplay styles to solve puzzles, avoid traps, and escape evil. The game features stellar graphics, perfect music, and a 3-5 hour experience, intended to be played in a single-sitting on a dark, stormy night."
View Game9 View Game70%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, replayability70% User Score 7,940 reviewsCritic Score 71%5 reviewsDeadlight is a single-player Horror Platformer game with a good plot and amazing gameplay, set in a decaying 1980s Seattle. As survivor Randall Wayne, you'll navigate a beautiful yet deadly world, solving puzzles and avoiding zombies in a 2.5D Cinematic Platformer. Despite some bugs, delightful graphics, perfect soundtrack, and dense atmosphere create a wholesome story, although it's not very replayable.
View Game10 View Game77%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, replayability79% User Score 198 reviewsCritic Score 75%4 reviews"Lunark is a single-player science fiction platformer game with excellent graphics, soundtrack, plot, and game mechanics. As Leo, a courier with unique abilities, you'll navigate through a dystopian world, battling enemy droids, solving puzzles, and uncovering secrets. The game offers precision gameplay, stunning animation, and a rotoscoped cutscene, immersing you in a compelling sci-fi story of survival, revolution, and mystery."
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