Games like Proteus
Closest overall match: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (★ 3.4). Highest rated: The Beginner's Guide at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like Proteus? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Exploration, Walking Simulator and First-Person. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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66%
1. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Shares Walking Simulator, Exploration, First-Person, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 2 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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65%
2. Grow Home
Shares Short, Cute, Exploration, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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62%
3. Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
Shares Walking Simulator, Exploration, First-Person, Great Soundtrack and Full controller support and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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62%
4. Dear Esther
Shares Experimental, Walking Simulator, Short, Exploration and First-Person and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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58%
5. Nephise Begins
Shares Walking Simulator, Short, Exploration, First-Person and Great Soundtrack and 1 more tags; rated 0.8 lower.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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57%
6. The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2
Shares Surreal, Exploration, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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56%
7. OneShot
Shares Surreal, Cute, Pixel Graphics, Exploration and Great Soundtrack and 1 more tags; rated 1.2 higher.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 90%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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56%
8. Never Alone
Shares Short, Cute, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 70%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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55%
9. Among the Sleep
Shares Walking Simulator, Short, Cute, Exploration and First-Person and 2 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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55%
10. Jazzpunk
Shares Surreal, Walking Simulator, Short, Exploration and First-Person and 3 more tags; rated 0.9 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 80%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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55%
11. DISTRAINT
Shares Pixel Graphics and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3, Casual, Indie
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53%
12. The Beginner's Guide
Shares Experimental, Surreal, Walking Simulator, Short and First-Person and 2 more tags; rated 1.3 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 96%
- Shared genres
- 3, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Proteus?
On our similarity model, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is the closest match to Proteus — shares Walking Simulator, Exploration, First-Person, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 2 more tags; rated 0.3 higher; released within 2 years.
Which game like Proteus is rated highest?
The Beginner's Guide holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 470 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Proteus on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.