Games Like Machinarium (2026)

Shared: Hand-Drawn Art, 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, Short Playtime

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: Short Playtime, Wordless Storytelling

Four to five hours of pure atmospheric dread that will stick in your memory far longer than its runtime, if slow-burn horror puzzle-platformers are your thing, this is required playing.

Shared: Atmospheric Soundtrack, Short Playtime

Free, short, and deeply unsettling: DDLC wears the costume of a pastel dating sim and uses it as a weapon against you. Go in knowing nothing.

Shared: Environmental Puzzles

Eight hours of handcrafted cyberpunk seen from four inches off the ground - Stray is the rare short game that knows exactly what it wants to be and never flinches.