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Glitched Out: Chapter 1

2024

Should you play it?

Trapped in the depths of a top secret alien research facility, Lex must team up with A.I companion 'Chip' and hack her way to freedom. Along the way, she discovers the sinister secrets of the facility and meets the many monstrous creatures contained within.

What works

  • Unique art style and vibrant graphics
  • Engaging story and lore with environmental storytelling
  • Fun and varied hacking minigames
  • Cute and memorable ai companion chip
  • Free to play with substantial content for a first chapter

Things to keep in mind

  • Bugs and glitches affecting gameplay and progression
  • Slow movement and pacing reduce tension
  • Unskippable and lengthy dialogue frustrates players
  • Limited enemy variety and weak horror/thrill elements
  • Some mechanics feel derivative or underdeveloped

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

More violent

Games that feels like Glitched Out: Chapter 1 but with more combat and destruction

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Glitched Out: Chapter 1 but with less survival pressure

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Glitched Out: Chapter 1. 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 Glitched Out: Chapter 1. These titles are not in What to play next.

Glitched Out: Chapter 1: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Value, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 25/08/2026