Unravel similar games & best alternatives

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Unravel

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2020

Should you play it?

Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

What works

  • Beautiful graphics and environments
  • Emotional and touching story
  • Relaxing and fitting soundtrack
  • Intuitive and satisfying puzzle-platform gameplay
  • Unique yarn mechanics

Things to keep in mind

  • Some frustrating or finicky controls
  • Linear gameplay with limited replay value
  • Requires ea origin launcher
  • Short game length
  • Minor bugs and occasional glitches

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Time Loader

  • Nearwood - Collector's Edition

  • Scrap Garden

  • Ether One

  • Lake Ridden

  • After Us

More expressive

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

  • Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

  • Bye Sweet Carole

  • Super Lucky's Tale

  • Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

  • Darwin's Paradox!

  • My Brother Rabbit

More thrilling

Games that feels like Unravel but with more suspense and thrill

  • Teslagrad 2

  • Children of Silentown

  • Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan

  • Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride

  • Planet of Lana II

  • Figment

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

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

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

Last update: 21/08/2026