Games like ZED
Looking for games like ZED? Here are top action recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with The First Tree, MIND: Path to Thalamus or Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
1 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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62%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding60% User Score 916 reviewsCritic Score 35%2 reviewsMIND: Path to Thalamus is a First Person Puzzler that throws you into a fantastic and surreal environment. You will bend the natural elements to your will in order to progress in this emotive, mind-bending tale.
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71%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, optimization69% User Score 1,033 reviewsCritic Score 75%8 reviewsEverybody’s Gone to the Rapture™ tells the story of the inhabitants of a remote English valley who are caught up in world-shattering events beyond their control or understanding. Made by The Chinese Room – the studio responsible for the hauntingly beautiful Dear Esther – this tale of how people respond in the face of grave adversity is a non-linear, open-world experience that pushes innovative int…
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80%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization87% User Score 2,711 reviewsCritic Score 73%23 reviewsExplore the remains of a fallen world from fascinating perspectives! Slip into the role of different animals to uncover the fate of an ancient world. Dive into deep waters, fly at lofty heights, dig underground as a mole, climb steep cliffs with a mountain goat, and many more!
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54%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, grinding54% User Score 1,172 reviewsDream’s gameplay is strongly based around exploration with games such as Yume Nikki and LSD being the initial inspiration for the concept. On top of this we have been inspired by the narrative elements in Dear Esther and Deus Ex’s non-linear story telling and environments, the resulting gameplay maintains aspects of all 4 games. There will be many puzzles to solve, horror sections and some more na…
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82%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalreplayability, optimization77% User Score 20,826 reviewsCritic Score 82%14 reviewsA first-person exploratory game taking place in 1995 in which Katie, a university student back from Europe, arrives at her family's newly inherited mansion only to find nobody there, with a note from her younger sister Sam suggesting that she's left home. Katie must explore the mansion to put together the stories of where her parents have gone and why Sam has decided to leave.
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View Game93%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability93% User Score 4,361 reviewsMarie's Room is a short-story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates, told through memories. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was 20 years ago. What happened to Marie and Kelsey all those years ago?
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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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68%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability70% User Score 800 reviewsCritic Score 65%6 reviewsThe Old City: Leviathan is an experiment in first person exploration that focuses entirely on story. All that exists is you and the world. Set in a decaying city from a civilization long past, The Old City: Leviathan puts the player in the shoes of a sewer dwelling isolationist.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, grinding78% User Score 4,522 reviewsCritic Score 73%20 reviewsFrom Cyan, the indie studio that brought you Myst and Riven comes a whole new adventure that will become your world. The new worlds of Obduction reveal their secrets only as you explore, coax, and consider them. And as you bask in the otherworldly beauty and explore through the enigmatic landscapes, remember that the choices you make will have substantial consequences. This is your story now.
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