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Games like The World Next Door
Rose City Games · 2019 · Windows, macOS
Steam: 81 % positive of 324 reviews, as of Oct 18
An addictive mix of lightning-fast puzzle battles, powerful storytelling and immersive visual novel elements, The World Next Door follows Jun, a rebellious teen girl trapped in a parallel realm inhabited by magical creatures, who must find her way home before time runs out.
24 games that play like The World Next Door and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Noctuary, OneShot: World Machine Edition and GRIS.
Player tags
By gameplay
Plays like The World Next Door
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Noctuary
95 % positive of 1,716
Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
OneShot: World Machine Edition
98 % positive of 2,807
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Anime
GRIS
96 % positive of 83,448
Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL：美好世界
92 % positive of 5,385
Shared: Visual Novel · Puzzle · Female Protagonist
Epiphany City
90 % positive of 257
Shared: Visual Novel · Puzzle · Female Protagonist
Carto
96 % positive of 8,541
Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
Tales of ARISE
87 % positive of 34,782
Shared: Female Protagonist · Story Rich · Anime
A Space for the Unbound
97 % positive of 6,215
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Anime
Moss II VR
99 % positive of 612
Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
Planet of Lana
93 % positive of 5,239
Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Anime
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
94 % positive of 6,581
Shared: Female Protagonist · Story Rich · Indie
Ashina: The Red Witch
92 % positive of 177
Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Anime
More matches
- Otaku's Adventure94 % positive of 8,421Shared: Visual Novel · Puzzle · Female Protagonist
- Ethereal Enigma94 % positive of 483Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Anime
- Flatworld96 % positive of 876Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Anime
- Word Game93 % positive of 5,972Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · 2D
- Sumire96 % positive of 848Shared: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
- Crystalline94 % positive of 1,350Shared: Visual Novel · Story Rich · Anime
- Antrabhara90 % positive of 181Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
- Rakuen96 % positive of 5,848Shared: Puzzle · Story Rich · Anime
- Lost Words: Beyond the Page94 % positive of 766Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
- Moss VR95 % positive of 3,229Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
- The Gardens Between93 % positive of 2,689Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
- Sable86 % positive of 5,614Shared: Puzzle · Female Protagonist · Story Rich
By look
Looks like The World Next Door
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Hades
98 % positive of 279,741
Skul: The Hero Slayer
93 % positive of 54,901
Hades II
94 % positive of 64,132
Dice Gambit
88 % positive of 1,177
Boyfriend Dungeon
91 % positive of 2,471
HoloCure - Save the Fans!
99 % positive of 37,986
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
96 % positive of 30,157
Ember Knights
93 % positive of 6,189
Neon Abyss
86 % positive of 23,140
Anomaly President
91 % positive of 1,536
Chained Echoes
90 % positive of 6,757
Cassette Beasts
94 % positive of 9,298
More matches
- Arcadia Fallen94 % positive of 418
- TEVI89 % positive of 3,534
- Dungeon Munchies97 % positive of 6,903
- Magicraft92 % positive of 13,533
- Children of Morta88 % positive of 20,966
- Tangle Tower95 % positive of 5,243
- Bloody Hell97 % positive of 5,963
- The Great Rebellion97 % positive of 528
- Before The Night95 % positive of 465
- Bloomtown: A Different Story86 % positive of 995
- Indivisible71 % positive of 3,518
- Affogato83 % positive of 1,062
At a glance
What games like The World Next Door have in common
- The tags they share most often with The World Next Door: Story Rich (20 of 24), Puzzle (18) and Female Protagonist (16).
- They came out between 2016 and 2024, 16 of them after The World Next Door (2019).
- Best rated by Steam players: OneShot: World Machine Edition (98 % positive of 2,807).
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.