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The Eternal Cylinder
Games like The Eternal Cylinder

Games like The Eternal Cylinder

A challenging single-player action-adventure where you guide a herd of mutated alien creatures through a surreal, procedurally generated alien world, with a great story and soundtrack but a fairly linear structure.

Creatures of Ava
An empathic creature-taming action-adventure through colorful ecosystems, offering a casual ~12-hour quest to cleanse a life-consuming infection—though its core mechanics can feel repetitive.
2024-08-07
- Action
- Adventure

Fantasy

Third person

Indie

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Dap

Guide fragile Daps through an eerie, surreal horror-adventure, fighting threats and solving puzzles while an infection twists your companions — a roughly 12-hour experience.

2021-09-29

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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After Us

A single-player exploration adventure through a surreal post-human world, blending sorrow and hope in a touching story, with forgiving platforming and new mechanics per zone for a roughly 19-hour journey.

2023-05-23

Platform
Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Drama

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The Mobius Machine

A single-player side-scrolling metroidvania action-adventure on an alien world, focusing on exploration, combat, and escape, with very positive Steam reviews.

2024-03-01

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view

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ETHEREAL

A short, atmospheric indie puzzle game that guides players through a mysterious world with carefully designed puzzles, though later sections lean into maze-like navigation.

2019-03-07

Indie

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Strange Seed

A single-player action-adventure RPG where you evolve a blob by eating DNA, with fast, goofy creature-building and a reviewer median playtime around 11 hours.

2025-11-05

Action
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Distant Bloom

A serene single-player management game about restoring a ruined alien planet with plant powers and building a community, with a roughly 7-hour playtime and a peaceful tone.

2024-03-27

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Third person
Indie
Sandbox

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Eternal Threads

A single-player, first-person post-apocalyptic puzzle adventure about investigating disasters by manipulating timelines, with meaningful choices and a roughly 9-hour story.

2022-05-19

Action
First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Survival
Indie

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Paper Beast - Folded Edition

A colorful, atmospheric single-player exploration game where you assist internet-born creatures and unravel a mystery, with a casual god-game feel; reviewer sessions averaged roughly 82 minutes.

2020-10-20

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Mystery
Sandbox

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Journey To The Savage Planet

A ~15-hour, colorful, comedic action-adventure about surveying an alien planet as an under-equipped recruit, playable solo or in co-op.

2021-01-28

Shooter
Action
First person
Adventure

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Stray

A story-driven puzzle platformer about a lost cat exploring a melancholy robot-filled cybercity and unraveling an ancient mystery to get home.

2022-07-19

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Mystery

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TOHU

A single-player puzzle-adventure across whimsical fish planets, telling a ~6-hour story of a girl and her mechanical companion Cubus, with a charming yet sometimes opaque puzzle style.

2021-01-28

Puzzle
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Point-and-click