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Lone Fungus

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2023

Should you play it?

A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!

What works

  • Large, nonlinear exploration
  • Challenging and rewarding platforming
  • Deep customization with relics and spells
  • Responsive and fluid movement
  • Active and supportive developer

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bosses feel repetitive or unmemorable
  • Platforming can be frustrating or overly difficult
  • Story is minimal and scattered
  • Fast travel and map navigation can be tedious
  • Combat can feel stiff or spammy

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight

  • Rogue Legacy 2

  • Haiku, the Robot

  • Bloody Hell

  • Dead Cells

  • Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment

Less exploratory

Games that feels like Lone Fungus but with less exploration of areas and secrets

  • Gun Devil

  • Nomad Survival

  • The Slormancer

  • Dunjungle

  • Guidus Zero

  • Cally's Caves 3

Less expressive

Games that feels like Lone Fungus but with less self-expression and customization

  • Terrian Saga: KR-17

  • Zexion

  • Cathedral

  • DOOMBLADE

  • Adventures of Pip

  • Spaceport Hope

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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).
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  • 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 Lone Fungus. These titles are not in What to play next.

Lone Fungus: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026