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As a space explorer with a jetpack, you explore Martian caverns and build a working ecosystem out of strange alien life. Understanding how the organisms interact drives the puzzles and gradually reveals the planet's past.
What defines Waking Mars:
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The closest matches for Waking Mars are In Other Waters, Filament and Solas 128. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Waking Mars special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
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Best match
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.
90 % 16.49 €
Cosy, great for unwinding
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.
90 % 14.79 €
Cosy, great for unwinding
An atmospheric puzzle game where you redirect and combine rhythmic light pulses to bring an ancient machine back to life. Music and puzzle design are tightly intertwined.
90 %
Sci-fi setting
A mystery adventure where you are abducted by aliens and made an agent, searching for clues across galaxies and dimensions to save the universe. Careful exploration and examining your surroundings drive the experience.
89 % 8.19 €
Sci-fi 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.
88 % 7.79 €
Strong, story-driven narrative
You play a small robot traveling back to the 90s to prevent a tragic accident, solving physics-based puzzles around your creator's house. Everyday household objects as obstacles and an emotional time-travel story give it its charm.
87 % −30 %Cosy, great for unwinding
As the android Zee you explore a painterly terraformed moon and the ruins of a fallen utopia. Gliding, flying and gentle puzzles carry a calm, atmospheric story about the last human alive.
87 % −90 %Cosy, great for unwinding
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.
87 % 5.89 €
Sci-fi setting
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.
87 % 14.79 €
Puzzles and brain teasers
A minimalist, abstract exploration game where you solve puzzles to revive a world built from sound. You shape tones and create music that becomes part of the world itself.