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2015PC87 % positivefree

Missing Translation is a simple puzzle game with no tutorials and no text or spoken dialogue, so you work out its rules yourself. Its atmosphere, soundtrack and art style carry the experience.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Missing Translation are Samorost, Wurroom and The Unfinished Swan. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Missing Translation special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Samorost

93 %Match

2003PC95 % positivefree

Brings what grabs you about Missing Translation: puzzles to figure out, a distinctive art style and a relaxed difficulty.

A short point-and-click puzzle adventure in which a little gnome must avert a collision threatening his home asteroid. Its surreal, handcrafted visuals and inventive click-based puzzles give it its charm.

Wurroom

Puzzles and brain teasers

Wurroom feels more like an interactive art piece than a conventional adventure. You explore strange worlds and unclaimed realities as a lost Hand, and the game costs nothing to play.

The Unfinished Swan

Puzzles and brain teasers

You splatter paint across a blank white world to reveal shapes and spaces as you chase a swan through a surreal storybook kingdom. A short, inventive, fairy-tale experience built on discovery rather than combat.

Manifold Garden

Bright, upbeat tone

A meditative first-person puzzle game set in endlessly repeating, Escher-like architecture, where you rotate gravity to find paths and bring the world back to life. Its clean visual language and mind-bending spatial puzzles set it apart.

Tengami

Puzzles and brain teasers

A calm adventure set in a pop-up book world inspired by traditional Japanese paper crafts, where you fold and slide the scenery to solve puzzles. Its standout qualities are the striking visuals and meditative mood.

Samorost 2

Puzzles and brain teasers

A short, hand-crafted point-and-click puzzle adventure where a tiny space gnome tries to rescue his dog from abducting aliens. Its quirky mechanical worlds and moody soundtrack are the highlights.

Gorogoa

Pure single-player experience

Gorogoa is a short, hand-drawn puzzle game where you stack, zoom and shift illustrated panels to uncover hidden connections. Its wordless tale of longing and a life's journey unfolds entirely through this inventive mechanic.

Ever Forward

Pure single-player experience

You guide a girl through a dreamlike in-between world where puzzles and fragmented memories blend together. The game's appeal lies in its mysterious atmosphere and in working out its clever brainteasers.

Resonance of the Ocean

Puzzles and brain teasers

You gather objects the waves leave on the shore and craft them into instruments to answer echoes drifting in from beyond the sea. The game is built around quiet puzzles and a melancholy, mysterious atmosphere.

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