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Games like The Witness
Thekla, Inc. · 2016 · 84 % positive of 18,937
24 games that play like The Witness and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Quern - Undying Thoughts, Islands of Insight and The Sojourn.
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At a glance
What games like The Witness have in common
- The tags they share most often with The Witness: Puzzle (20 of 24), Exploration (16) and First-Person (16).
- They came out between 2014 and 2026, 18 of them after The Witness (2016).
- Best rated by Steam players: Riven (92 % positive of 2,413).
- Ether One and Call of the Sea both play and look like The Witness.
By gameplay
Plays like The Witness
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Quern - Undying Thoughts
91 % positive of 3,544
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
Islands of Insight
71 % positive of 3,007
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
The Sojourn
72 % positive of 204
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
Sensorium
91 % positive of 224
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
Ether One
73 % positive of 442
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
Empathy: Path of Whispers
60 % positive of 213
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
The Search
73 % positive of 1,320
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
Homesick
78 % positive of 1,393
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
N.E.R.O.: Nothing Ever Remains Obscure
67 % positive of 192
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · Story Rich
Invisible Mind
77 % positive of 451
Shared: Indie · Adventure
Oracle
52 % positive of 260
Shared: First-Person · Open World · Walking Simulator
RiME
90 % positive of 5,079
Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · Open World
More matches
- Lake Ridden72 % positive of 288Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- Discolored78 % positive of 650Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
- Riven92 % positive of 2,413Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
- Dimhaven - The Lost Source87 % positive of 1,055
- The Almost Gone80 % positive of 1,135Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · Mystery
- Through Abandoned: The Forest76 % positive of 431Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · Mystery
- Path to Mnemosyne76 % positive of 236Shared: Puzzle · Relaxing · Surreal
- Through The Fragmentation97 % positive of 203Shared: Exploration · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- Door66 % positive of 158Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
- The Spectrum Retreat75 % positive of 282Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Walking Simulator
- Call of the Sea88 % positive of 5,168Shared: Puzzle · Exploration · First-Person
- Ever Forward82 % positive of 270Shared: Puzzle · Difficult · Walking Simulator
By look
Looks like The Witness
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
The Warhorn
55 % positive of 337
Sunlight
75 % positive of 409
The Wild Eternal
75 % positive of 165
Shape of the World
78 % positive of 389
Nomad
60 % positive of 4,637
Harvest Days: My Dream Farm
68 % positive of 180
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
81 % positive of 3,165
Blind Trust
52 % positive of 1,462
Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
63 % positive of 983
Epitasis
73 % positive of 157
The RPG Engine
83 % positive of 290
Gedonia
87 % positive of 3,652
More matches
- Treasure Hunter Simulator55 % positive of 1,554
- Shelter85 % positive of 3,667
- TIMEframe65 % positive of 685
- Ether One73 % positive of 442
- Bottle: Pilgrim Redux78 % positive of 241
- Totally Accurate Battlegrounds88 % positive of 87,012
- Lighthouse Keeper77 % positive of 447
- Firewatch90 % positive of 90,438
- Call of the Sea88 % positive of 5,168
- Мухосранск | Russian City Sim72 % positive of 244
- Windscape60 % positive of 343
- Drizzlepath53 % positive of 609
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.