TOHU similar games & best alternatives

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TOHU

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2021

Should you play it?

Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.

What works

  • Beautiful and unique art style
  • Creative and varied puzzles
  • Charming animations and characters
  • Pleasant soundtrack by christopher larkin
  • Relaxing whimsical atmosphere

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Some puzzles unintuitive or frustrating
  • Slow character movement and animations
  • Lack of narrative depth
  • Timed puzzles can be difficult or annoying

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • My Brother Rabbit

  • Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past

  • Down the Rabbit Hole Flattened

  • Mushroom Cats 2

  • Stick it to The Man!

  • Phonopolis

Less expressive

Games that feels like TOHU but with less self-expression and customization

  • Voodoo Detective

  • Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

  • The Tiny Bang Story

  • Gomo

  • Deponia Doomsday

  • Doors: Paradox

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

TOHU: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026