Eternal Threads similar games & best alternatives

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Eternal Threads

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2022

Should you play it?

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

What works

  • Engaging time travel narrative
  • Well-written characters and voice acting
  • Innovative timeline mechanic
  • Multiple branching story outcomes
  • Intuitive timeline interface

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow start and pacing
  • Limited replay value after completion
  • Some clunky controls and walking mechanics
  • Character models and animations could be improved
  • Ending is a cliffhanger and somewhat unsatisfying

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Medium

  • Detroit: Become Human

  • Dreamfall Chapters

  • Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition

  • Deliver Us The Moon

  • Out of Sight

Less intimate

Games that feels like Eternal Threads but with less focus on close relationships

  • Conarium

  • Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel

  • Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰

  • SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION

  • Little Nightmares

  • Prognostic

More violent

Games that feels like Eternal Threads but with more combat and destruction

  • Hollowbody

  • Burnhouse Lane

  • Observer: System Redux

  • In Sound Mind

  • Blacksad: Under the Skin

  • Dry Drowning

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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 Eternal Threads. These titles are not in What to play next.

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

Last update: 21/08/2026