Games like Valley
Looking for games like Valley? Here are top arcade platformer recommendations with a thriller and science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with A Story About My Uncle, Lifeless Planet or RiME.
1 81%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability93% User Score 14,206 reviewsCritic Score 69%10 reviewsA Story About My Uncle is a non-violent First-Person platform adventure game built in the Unreal Engine. It is a story about a boy who searches for his lost uncle and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement through the world in A Story About My Uncle is a crucial part of its core gameplay, focusing on swinging yourself through caverns with a grappling hook mechanic that gives…
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69%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, grinding73% User Score 2,174 reviewsCritic Score 60%4 reviewsLifeless Planet was inspired by Cold War era science fiction stories, posing questions about humankind's desire for space travel. What if you journeyed across the galaxy to another planet, only to find humans had already been there? What kind of person would sign up for a one-way mission, leaving behind planet Earth and everyone they've ever known and love... to go in search of an Earth-like plane…
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78%Game Brain Scorestory, musicoptimization, replayability88% User Score 2,285 reviewsCritic Score 70%22 reviewsA third-person exploratory action/adventure title in which a boy ends up on a mysterious island and makes his way through its highly stylized environments, containing puzzles and slight navigation challenges, to get to the bottom of why he's ended up there and to reach the end of the road he's inadvertently begun to travel.
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77%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, grinding87% User Score 4,022 reviewsCritic Score 67%20 reviewsTransform into a bird and fly to explore and experience a vibrant world of floating islands in the sky. Venture down into lost ancient ruins where each step leads you closer to the end of the world. AER puts you in the shoes of Auk, a magical shape-shifting girl who can transform between human and bird.
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87%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyoptimization, stability94% User Score 3,124 reviewsCritic Score 81%41 reviewsEnjoy meditative vibes in Jusant, an action-puzzle climbing game.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability96% User Score 26,368 reviewsCritic Score 84%31 reviewsThe forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. “Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC. Featuring hand-painted artwork, meticulously…
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization89% User Score 3,530 reviewsCritic Score 68%34 reviews# WORDLESS NARRATIVE Presented without text or dialogue, Hob’s story is revealed as you explore the planet and interact with the strange lifeforms that inhabit it. # TRANSFORM THE WORLD Solve puzzles and repair the planet. The landscape will change before your eyes, opening new areas to uncover and explore. # GRAPPLE, PUNCH, and WARP Use your mechanical glove-arm abilities for traversal as we…
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, grinding90% User Score 1,548 reviewsCritic Score 83%49 reviewsJourney through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters. The Void beckons…
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74%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, replayability90% User Score 3,141 reviewsCritic Score 59%16 reviewsCONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry jazz ambiance.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability72% User Score 2,876 reviewsCritic Score 79%7 reviewsA beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a young couple dealing with a tragedy in their own. Uncover artifacts from the young couple’s life as they too become intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.
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