Volume similar games & best alternatives

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Volume

PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita • 2015

Should you play it?

Pure stealth action and infinite level creation from the award-winning studio behind Thomas Was Alone. Enter the Volume to halt Gisborne Industries' corruption and train the masses to rob from the rich.

What works

  • Engaging stealth puzzle gameplay
  • Stylish minimalist art and visuals
  • Excellent voice acting and soundtrack
  • Level editor with user-generated content
  • Progressive difficulty and gadget variety

Things to keep in mind

  • Some repetitive level design
  • Ai can be exploited and is simplistic
  • Story delivery pacing issues
  • Minor bugs and control quirks
  • Limited exploration and linear levels

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Serial Cleaner

  • Demon Turf: Queens Edition

  • Heroine of the Sniper

  • Gizmo

  • On Rusty Trails

  • Camera Obscura

Less competitive

Games that feels like Volume but with less competition against others

  • The Upturned

  • See No Evil

  • Dread X Collection 5

  • Face It - A game to fight inner demons

  • Planet of the Eyes

  • Timelie

More violent

Games that feels like Volume but with more combat and destruction

  • DESYNC

  • D'LIRIUM

  • Vox Populi Vox Dei 2

  • Clone Drone in the Hyperdome

  • SUPERHOT

  • Sentimental K

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • The Solitaire Conspiracy

  • Tron: Identity

  • Subsurface Circular

  • Thomas Was Alone

  • Quarantine Circular

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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

Volume: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Fellowship.

Last update: 21/08/2026