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Games like The Abandoned Planet

2024PCPlayStationNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable94 % positive14.79 €

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.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Lots to discover

The closest matches for The Abandoned Planet are The Dig, Machinika Museum and Hacknet. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Abandoned Planet special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Dig

97 %Match

1995PCSteam Deck playable92 % positive5.89 €

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Machinika Museum

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

Hacknet

Lots to discover

Hacknet is a hacking simulator played entirely in a terminal, where you use real-style commands to break into systems and uncover the mysterious death of a hacker. It offers little hand-holding, plenty of secrets and an atmospheric network full of puzzles.

Filament

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

In Other Waters

Lots to discover

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.

Soul Axiom

Lots to discover

An atmospheric puzzle adventure set in a digital afterlife, where you wander through memory-based worlds and solve ability-driven puzzles to uncover your own identity.

Viewfinder

Distinctive, stylised art style

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.

Gemini Rue

Sci-fi setting

An atmospheric neo-noir pixel-art point-and-click adventure where you alternate between an assassin hunting for his brother and an amnesiac patient in a sinister facility. Its bleak sci-fi mystery and twists drive the whole experience.

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