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2020PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified85 % positive16.49 €

A calm, fully narrated puzzle adventure where you use a cable-spooling suit to solve wire puzzles aboard a seemingly abandoned spaceship while uncovering its mystery.

Puzzles and brain teasers
Sci-fi setting
Cosy, great for unwinding
Strong, story-driven narrative

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The closest matches for Filament are Machinika Museum, The Dig and Quern: Undying Thoughts. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Filament special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Best alternative overall: Machinika Museum 97% match – Puzzles and brain teasers
Newest alternative: The Abandoned Planet 91% match – released 2024

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Machinika Museum

97 %Match

2021PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable91 % positive7.99 €

You explore alien machines in a museum, solving their tactile 3D mechanical puzzles to piece together the story of their vanished owner. Calm, atmospheric and free of time pressure.

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The Dig

Puzzles and brain teasers

A classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure in which a team of astronauts uncovers the secrets of a vanished alien civilization on a distant world. Moody science fiction with clever puzzles and a memorable score.

Quern: Undying Thoughts

Pure single-player experience

A Myst-style first-person puzzle adventure set on a mysterious island, where interlinked puzzles can be tackled in any order while a enigmatic story slowly unfolds.

The Turing Test

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter's moon Europa, where you play engineer Ava Turing solving chambers built on energy and physics puzzles. Along the way it reflects on artificial intelligence, morality and what consciousness really means.

Obduction

Puzzles and brain teasers

A puzzle adventure from the makers of Myst: you are whisked to an alien world and solve intricate environmental puzzles across surreal, interlinked landscapes to uncover the mystery behind it.

The Abandoned Planet

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play an astronaut stranded on a deserted alien planet after a wormhole mishap. In this pixel art point-and-click adventure, you solve puzzles and gradually uncover what happened to its inhabitants.

Viewfinder

Pure single-player experience

You snap photos with an instant camera and then place them in the world, turning the images into real paths, bridges and platforms. The result is a series of inventive perspective puzzles in a stylish sci-fi setting.

Subject 13

Puzzles and brain teasers

A classic point-and-click adventure from Flashback creator Paul Cuisset: you escape a mysterious facility by collecting and combining items and cracking tricky mechanisms.

Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock

Puzzles and brain teasers

A classic sci-fi point-and-click adventure in which stranded crewman Powell must repair a crashed merchant ship and explore an eerie, desolate planet. Inventory puzzles and a mysterious atmosphere take center stage.

In Other Waters

Sci-fi setting

You guide biologist Ellery Vas's diving suit across an alien ocean planet entirely through a minimalist map interface. Calm exploration, sample collecting and light puzzles drive an atmospheric story about loss and ecology.

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