Cover of The Underground Man

Similar games

Games like The Underground Man

2016PC80 % positive

You explore a radioactive, subterranean Moscow in this quiet indie adventure. Its bleak, lonely atmosphere carries the game as you work your way through the depths with jumps and puzzles.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Sci-fi setting

The closest matches for The Underground Man are Mushroom 11, Laraan and Poncho. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Underground Man special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

10 games with a similar feel, sorted by match

Show games from the same series

Best match

Mushroom 11

93 %Match

2015PC84 % positive

Brings what grabs you about The Underground Man: a post-apocalyptic setting, jumping and platforming as well as a pure single-player experience.

You guide a shapeless organism by erasing its cells, and that is how you move through a ruined world. The unusual control scheme turns each puzzle into a creative experiment.

Laraan

Post-apocalyptic setting

Laraan sends you exploring a deserted science-fiction world where jumping challenges and puzzles blend together. Its minimalist low-poly look and strong soundtrack make the loneliness of the landscape palpable.

Poncho

Post-apocalyptic setting

A pixel-art platformer in which a small robot explores a world left behind by extinct humanity. Its signature twist is hopping between foreground and background layers to solve puzzles and reach new areas.

Vesper

Post-apocalyptic setting

You guide a small android through a ruined world hunted by relentless machines. Along the way you harness the power of Light and shape the fate of his kind.

Plasticity

Dark, serious atmosphere

You guide Noa through a future choked by plastic, mixing environmental puzzles with cinematic 2.5D platforming. Your choices decide whether the world recovers or sinks further into decay.

Stela

Dark, serious atmosphere

Stela is a dark, cinematic platform adventure that guides a young woman through a collapsing, mysterious world. Chases, light puzzles and strong atmosphere tell the story almost without words.

Scrap Garden

Post-apocalyptic setting

A charming puzzle-platformer where you guide a small robot named Canny through an abandoned, frozen city, uncovering the mystery of why everything stopped.

The End Is Nigh

Dark, serious atmosphere

A brutally hard precision platformer by Edmund McMillen where you play Ash, hopping through a ruined world and dying countless times in short, tricky screens. Dark humor and a huge map packed with hidden collectibles define the experience.

Stray

Strong, story-driven narrative

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.

Feedback