Tacoma similar games & best alternatives

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Tacoma

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One • 2017

Should you play it?

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

What works

  • Innovative ar storytelling
  • Immersive sci-fi atmosphere
  • Well-written characters and narrative
  • Detailed environment and worldbuilding
  • Excellent voice acting

Things to keep in mind

  • Short gameplay duration
  • Limited replay value
  • Minimal gameplay challenge
  • Some players find price high for content
  • Linear progression with little player impact

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Blackwood Crossing

  • Rumu

  • Gone Home

  • The Journey Down: Chapter One

  • UNREAL LIFE

  • The Station

Less intimate

Games that feels like Tacoma but with less focus on close relationships

  • Verde Station

  • Cybernetic Fault

  • AER Memories of Old

  • Slender Threads

  • Down the Rabbit Hole

  • Satellite Odyssey: Prologue

More continuation-driven

Games that feels like Tacoma but with an even stronger pull to keep playing

  • 1000xRESIST

  • STARDROP

  • Dreamfall Chapters

  • Neo Cab

  • Backfirewall_

  • Elroy and the Aliens

Less exploratory

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

  • Last Stop

  • Goodnight Universe

  • Subsurface Circular

  • State of Mind

  • Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

  • Playing Kafka

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Tacoma: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Continuation, Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026