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2018 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 9.99 € 👍 70 % Mostly positive, 1,046 reviews on Steam

An atmospheric 2D platform adventure on an alien planet where you shift the time of day to solve puzzles and slip past dangerous creatures. Striking colors and wordless storytelling define the experience.

What defines Planet Alpha:

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lavish presentation
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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The closest matches for Planet Alpha are Cocoon, Planet of Lana and Pid. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Planet Alpha special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cocoon

90 %

2023 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 22.99 € 👍 95 % Overwhelmingly positive, 7,545 reviews on Steam

  • Lavish presentation
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

Cocoon is a wordless puzzle adventure where you play a small insectoid creature carrying worlds inside orbs and nesting them within each other to solve puzzles. The worlds-within-worlds mechanic delivers clever aha moments and a mysterious atmosphere.

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Planet of Lana

Lavish presentation

An atmospheric puzzle-platformer in which a young girl and her animal companion Mogo travel through a painterly sci-fi world to save their home. It focuses on wordless, emotional storytelling, a moving soundtrack and gentle puzzles built around using your companion's abilities.

Pid

Sci-fi setting

A charming puzzle-platformer about a young boy stranded on an alien planet, using a gravity beam and clever puzzles to find his way home. Its painterly art style and moody soundtrack are the highlights.

Stray

Distinctive, stylised art style

You play a stray cat lost in a decaying, robot-inhabited neon city, climbing, sneaking and poking around to uncover what happened to it. Its charming feline interactions and dense cyberpunk atmosphere make this short adventure stand out.

Small Radios Big Televisions

Distinctive, stylised art style

A surreal puzzle adventure set in abandoned factories where you collect data tapes to enter abstract virtual worlds. Puzzles and new ways of moving are uncovered through experimentation, wrapped in a distinctive, minimalist aesthetic.

Q.U.B.E. 2

Sci-fi setting

A first-person puzzler where you play archaeologist Amelia, reshaping color-coded blocks and structures in an alien world to progress. Compared to the original it is more colorful, more open and more story-driven.

Hypogea

Focus on a single character

A short, atmospheric 3D platformer about escaping a mysterious underground megastructure. It focuses on mood, exploration and platforming challenges.

The Gunk

Distinctive, stylised art style

As space hauler Rani, you use a vacuum-like arm to clean a toxic goo from an alien planet, uncovering secrets and a story about exploitation and nature. It is a short, relaxed adventure with light puzzles and traversal.

Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf

Lavish presentation

An atmospheric, cinematic puzzle adventure where Lana and her companion Mui uncover a new ancient mystery on the planet Novo. It focuses on linear puzzle solving, teamwork between the two, and a moody sci-fi world, as a sequel to the first game.

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