Flower similar games & best alternatives

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Flower

PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation Vita • 2019

Should you play it?

Experience award-winning Flower, now available on PC. Flower lets you take control of the wind as you explore and navigate beautiful, lush environments.

What works

  • Relaxing and calming experience
  • Beautiful visuals and music
  • Accessible gameplay
  • Meaningful nonverbal narrative
  • Encourages exploration and discovery

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some control and camera issues
  • Minimal gameplay challenge
  • Lack of replay incentives beyond achievements
  • Pc port technical issues reported

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Griptape Backbone

  • ABZU

  • Dawn

  • Soda Drinker Pro

  • Paradise Marsh

  • Sable

Less idle-friendly

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

  • SHEEPO

  • Super Kiwi 64

  • Beasts of Maravilla Island

  • Omno

  • Kinoko

  • Sword of the Sea

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

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

Flower: 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 Idle. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Strategy.

Last update: 21/08/2026