Outer Wilds
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Looking for games like Outer Wilds? Explore its Gameplay DNA below to see what makes it tick, then browse similar games matched by mechanics, feel, and progression.
Outer Wilds is defined by its tense, exploration, open world, puzzle solving, linear story, and solo contemplative. Games similar to Outer Wilds share these core gameplay traits — browse the matches below to find your next play.
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Games Like Outer Wilds
Stray shares Exploration, Open world and Tense with Outer Wilds.
Telling Lies shares Open world, Exploration and Tense with Outer Wilds.
The Talos Principle shares Exploration, Puzzle solving and Linear story with Outer Wilds.
Ghostwire: Tokyo shares Tense, Open world and Exploration with Outer Wilds.
L.A. Noire shares Open world, Exploration and Tense with Outer Wilds.
SOMA shares Exploration, Tense and Puzzle solving with Outer Wilds.
Stray
Telling Lies
The Talos Principle
Ghostwire: Tokyo
L.A. Noire
SOMA
IMMORTALITY
The Witness
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Seen
SIGNALIS
Half-Life: Alyx
Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
Her Story
Max Payne
Max Payne 3
Mafia II: Definitive Edition
Visage
INDIKA
DEATH STRANDING
Obduction
ANIMAL WELL
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
