Broken Age similar games & best alternatives

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Broken Age

PlayStation 4, Ouya, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2014

Should you play it?

A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. Funded by a record breaking crowdfunding campaign and designed by industry legend Tim Schafer, Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story.

What works

  • Beautiful hand-painted art style
  • Strong narrative with memorable characters
  • Excellent voice acting and soundtrack
  • Humorous and clever writing
  • Engaging puzzles with increasing difficulty

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length, especially act 1
  • Episodic release with delayed act 2
  • Linear gameplay with limited replayability
  • Some puzzles can be obscure or frustrating
  • Limited player agency and customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Tangle Tower

  • Cleo - a pirate's tale

  • The Whispered World Special Edition

  • Children of Silentown

  • The Endless Journey

  • Milkmaid of the Milky Way

Less thrilling

Games that feels like Broken Age but with less suspense and thrill

  • Elroy and the Aliens

  • Witch's Pranks: Frog's Fortune Collector's Edition

  • Darkestville Castle

  • Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds

  • Eventide 3: Legacy of Legends

  • Deponia

More expressive

Games that feels like Broken Age but with more self-expression and customization

  • My Brother Rabbit

  • The Night of the Rabbit

  • Chaos on Deponia

  • The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

  • Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

  • Simon the Sorcerer Origins

More value-seeking

Games that feels like Broken Age but with a stronger sense of value for your time

  • Return to Monkey Island

  • Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™

  • Deponia: The Complete Journey

  • Goodbye Deponia

  • NAIRI: Tower of Shirin

  • Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

  • Grim Fandango Remastered

  • Day of the Tentacle Remastered

  • Psychonauts

  • Costume Quest

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Broken Age. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Broken Age. These titles are not in What to play next.

Broken Age: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Value, Expression.

Last update: 21/08/2026