Pid similar games & best alternatives

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Pid

Nintendo Switch • 2012

Should you play it?

You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.

What works

  • Unique gravity beam mechanic
  • Challenging puzzles and platforming
  • Beautiful art style and music
  • Long playtime with secrets and challenge modes
  • Local co-op mode

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow and sometimes clunky controls
  • High difficulty spikes and frustration
  • Lack of story depth
  • Some obtuse secret locations
  • No online multiplayer or competitive modes

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • 重明鸟 Bright Bird

  • Lair of the Clockwork God

  • Timelie

  • Windswept

  • Bat to the Heavens

  • QV

Less social

Games that feels like Pid but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Teslagrad

  • Teslagrad Remastered

  • Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

  • Treasure Adventure World

  • Ugly

  • Toki Tori 2+

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

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

Pid: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Fellowship. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

Last update: 21/08/2026