Everything similar games & best alternatives

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Everything

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch • 2017

Should you play it?

Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

What works

  • Unique philosophical and meditative experience
  • Freedom to become and explore everything
  • Relaxing and stress-relieving gameplay
  • Beautiful and varied scale of environments
  • Alan watts narration adds depth

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited gameplay mechanics and interaction
  • Repetitive and slow-paced
  • Animal movement can feel awkward
  • Lack of traditional goals or challenges
  • Not suitable for players seeking action or competition

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Shape of the World

  • Flower

  • ABZU

  • Feather

  • Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles

  • Hidden Paws Mystery

Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Everything but with less of an idle filler feel

  • Beasts of Maravilla Island

  • Omno

  • The Witch of Fern Island

  • Kinoko

  • Sword of the Sea

  • Mika and The Witch's Mountain

More story-driven

Games that feels like Everything but with deeper narrative immersion

  • LOST EMBER

  • Farewell North

  • The First Tree

  • Paradise Marsh

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  • Tchia

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Everything. 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 Everything. These titles are not in What to play next.

Everything: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026