The Way similar games & best alternatives

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The Way

2016

Should you play it?

Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.

What works

  • Engaging sci-fi story and atmosphere
  • Challenging and varied puzzles
  • Beautiful pixel art and music
  • Nostalgic homage to classic cinematic platformers
  • Well-balanced difficulty for patient players

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky platforming controls and animations
  • Frustrating checkpoint placement causing repeated retries
  • Some puzzles overly obscure or tedious
  • Lack of manual save and replayability
  • Final sections and ending divisive among players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ministry of Broadcast

  • Evil Tonight

  • WarriOrb: Prologue

  • Horace

  • La-Mulana

  • Environmental Station Alpha

More expressive

Games that feels like The Way but with more self-expression and customization

  • D'LIRIUM

  • GIGA WRECKER

  • Dead Cells

  • Constance

  • Lunavania

  • Olija

More relaxing

Games that feels like The Way but with a more relaxing feel

  • Sheepy: A Short Adventure

  • Aspire: Ina's Tale

  • SILT

  • MO:Astray

  • CARRION

  • Hellevator

Less violent

Games that feels like The Way but with less combat and destruction

  • ANIMAL WELL

  • Snapshot

  • In Between

  • Teslagrad Remastered

  • Teslagrad

  • Schein

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Similarity map

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

The Way: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026