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2025PCSteam Deck playable11.79 €

A calm, narrative 3D puzzle game about tidying, sorting and packing your belongings before a move. Along the way you reflect on your past life and learn to let go.

  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for The August Before are One Move Away, Rooster and Assemble With Care. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The August Before special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Rooster

Cosy, great for unwinding

A lovingly hand-drawn point-and-click puzzle adventure celebrating ancient Chinese culture. Mixing cooking, hidden object scenes and paper crafting, it tells a warm tale about family and love.

Assemble With Care

Cosy, great for unwinding

A gentle puzzle game from the Monument Valley studio in which you repair old objects as a restorer in the town of Bellariva, getting to know the people and their stories along the way. The tactile taking-apart and rebuilding carries a warm, thoughtful narrative.

When the Past Was Around

Strong, story-driven narrative

A gentle point-and-click adventure about love, loss and letting go, told without words through hand-drawn art and a lot of music. Light puzzles guide you through a touching story of a relationship.

LEGO Builder's Journey

Cosy, great for unwinding

A calm, poetic puzzle game set in a convincingly realistic LEGO world where you place bricks and build structures to progress. Its short, heartfelt story about play and connection is carried by a lovely soundtrack.

Maquette

Strong, story-driven narrative

A first-person puzzle game built on recursion: a miniature model of the world sits inside the world itself, and changes made at one scale carry over to the other. A quiet, emotional relationship story runs alongside the puzzles.

The Star Named Eos

Strong, story-driven narrative

A photography-based puzzle adventure where you step into past moments through photographs and solve puzzles to uncover what happened to your mother. It has an emotional story and a calm, reflective atmosphere.

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