Games like The Artful Escape
Closest overall match: Greak: Memories of Azur (★ 3.1). Highest rated: Little Nightmares II at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Blasphemous at about 3 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for The Artful Escape — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements.
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62%
1. Greak: Memories of Azur
Shares Steam Trading Cards, Exploration, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 1.0 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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61%
2. Blasphemous
Shares Exploration, Full controller support, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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61%
3. Stray
Shares Beautiful, Steam Trading Cards, Exploration, Full controller support and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 83%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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61%
4. Axiom Verge
Shares Exploration, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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60%
5. PLANET ALPHA
Shares Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 lower.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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60%
6. SteamWorld Dig 2
Shares Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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60%
7. Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
Shares Exploration, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 74%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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59%
8. Planet of Lana
Shares Stylized, Steam Trading Cards, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2023
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 77%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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59%
9. Owlboy
Shares Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 63%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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59%
10. Little Nightmares II
Shares Steam Trading Cards, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 89%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, 83
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59%
11. Iconoclasts
Shares Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 lower.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie, 83
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59%
12. In Sound Mind
Shares Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 75%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like The Artful Escape?
On our similarity model, Greak: Memories of Azur is the closest match to The Artful Escape — shares Steam Trading Cards, Exploration, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 1.0 lower; same release year.
Which game like The Artful Escape is rated highest?
Little Nightmares II holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 567 players.
Are there games like The Artful Escape on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 12 games like The Artful Escape on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against The Artful Escape 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.