Pine similar games & best alternatives

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Pine

Playdate • 2019

Should you play it?

An open-world action adventure game set in a simulated world in which humans never reached the top of the food chain.

What works

  • Immersive and dynamic open world
  • Engaging faction and political system
  • Beautiful art style and music
  • Meaningful player choices and exploration
  • Polished gameplay for an indie title

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and performance issues
  • Combat can feel clunky or unresponsive
  • Limited endgame content and replayability
  • Linear story elements constrain player freedom
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • YAR: Forgotten Throne

  • Edge Of Eternity

  • Ascension to the Throne

  • Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders - Bandit's Trail

  • Salt 2: Shores of Gold

  • 河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon)

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Pine but with less leadership over others

  • The Bloodline

  • BLACKTAIL

  • Eternal Edge+ Prologue

  • WitchSpring R

  • Wild West and Wizards

  • Stray Blade

More social

Games that feels like Pine but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Erenshor

  • Valheim

  • Voidtrain

  • Survival Nation

  • Craftopia

  • DYSPLACED

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

Pine: 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 Leadership, Domination, Exploration.

Last update: 21/08/2026