Games Like A Short Hike (2026)

Shared: Exploration, Relaxing

Wrangle, feed, and crossbreed slimes on an alien ranch in this endlessly cheerful first-person sim that somehow makes spreadsheet farming feel like a vacation.

Shared: Exploration, Atmospheric Soundtrack

Four to seven hours alone in the Wyoming wilderness with a walkie-talkie and a mystery that burns brighter than it lands - if that sounds like your kind of evening, keep reading.

Shared: Atmospheric Soundtrack

Few two-person studios have conjured a world this dense and this lonely. Hollow Knight is 40-plus hours of hand-drawn melancholy that will humble you, haunt you, and refuse to let go.

Shared: Atmospheric Soundtrack

A low-stakes space exploration sandbox where terraforming alien planets feels genuinely tactile. Build, dig, and breathe in the silence between stars.

Shared: Atmospheric Soundtrack

Few action games move this well and fewer still make dying feel this instructive. Dead Cells is the roguelite that converts roguelite skeptics, and it has years of post-launch polish behind it to prove it.