Space Between Worlds similar games & best alternatives

Space Between Worlds

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2018

Should you play it?

Did you ever pay attention to the importance of space? Space Between Worlds is a short puzzle game that expresses the concept of proximity and lets the player interpret the context and arc of the story.

What works
  • Deeply moving and emotional experience
  • Meaningful minimalistic art style
  • Soothing and emotive soundtrack
  • Free to play
  • Short and accessible
Things to keep in mind
  • Very short gameplay length
  • Minimal puzzle challenge
  • Some audio quality issues
  • Lack of replay value for some
  • No customization or social features

What to play next

Similar games, hidden gems, and fresh directions from this game.

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Just, Bearly

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Just, Bearly

  • The Test: Secrets of the Soul 2

  • Perfect Tides
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Similarity map

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How to use the graph
Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Hover a dot for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Space Between Worlds: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Creativity. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Idle.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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