Wanderer similar games & best alternatives

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Wanderer

2022

Should you play it?

Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?

What works

  • Immersive story and voice acting
  • High-quality graphics and environments
  • Varied and challenging puzzles
  • Innovative time travel mechanics
  • Strong vr interaction and presence

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and glitches reported
  • Clunky or unintuitive controls at times
  • Lack of subtitles
  • Limited replayability
  • Some puzzles can be obscure or frustrating

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • GlitchSPANKR

  • The 7th Guest VR

  • Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two

  • The Talos Principle VR

  • Youropa

  • Dimhaven - The Lost Source

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Wanderer but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Total Chaos

  • Evil Nun: The Broken Mask

  • The Evil Within 2

  • Fear The Timeloop

  • Hail to the Rainbow

  • 蛊婆 Lady in Tomb

Less expressive

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

  • Outer Wilds

  • THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE

  • Left Alone

  • The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone

  • New York Mysteries: High Voltage Collector's Edition

  • Broken Pieces

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Wanderer. 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.
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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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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 Wanderer. These titles are not in What to play next.

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

Last update: 21/08/2026