Edna & Harvey: The Breakout similar games & best alternatives

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout

PC (Microsoft Windows), Linux, Mac, iOS • 2013

Should you play it?

The award-winning debut adventure game from the creators of Deponia and The Whispered World now on Steam. Accompany young Edna and her talking stuffed bunny Harvey on a whacky attempt to escape from her padded cell. Experience a bizarre journey all across the insane asylum and far beyond its brick walls.

What works
  • Unique and humorous story
  • Extensive item and dialogue interactions
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Strong character development
  • Good value for price
Things to keep in mind
  • Technical bugs and crashes
  • Clunky old interface
  • Low resolution and outdated graphics
  • Some puzzles require trial and error or guides
  • Tedious backtracking and long load times

What to play next

Similar games, hidden gems, and fresh directions from this game.

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn

  • Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse

  • Paradigm

  • Beyond The Edge Of Owlsgard

  • Whispers of a Machine

  • Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse

  • Chaos on Deponia

  • DISCOPUP

  • Nancy Drew®: Curse of Blackmoor Manor
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn

  • Beyond The Edge Of Owlsgard

  • Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
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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).

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Experimenting. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Relaxation.

Why this game works

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

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