A Game About similar games & best alternatives

A Game About

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2018

Should you play it?

A Game About is a free, short, lo-fi point & click adventure that tasks the player with living with their daily routine. Through day to day choices, life changes in imperceptibles and unexpected ways.

What works
  • Deep and meaningful narrative
  • Unique hand-drawn art style
  • Free and accessible
  • Multiple narrative paths and achievements
  • Thought-provoking mental health themes
Things to keep in mind
  • Very short gameplay
  • Text and animation can cause discomfort
  • Lack of gameplay depth or challenge
  • No social or multiplayer features
  • Some find pacing slow and repetitive

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

A Game About: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Experimenting, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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