Dogubomb’s Blue Prince has taken over gaming conversations with its impressive take on exploration and puzzles. It’s earned multiple 9/10s and 10/10s from reputable gaming outlets and is now being touted as a strong Game of the Year contender—outscoring even Monster Hunter Wilds and Split Fiction on both Metacritic and OpenCritic.
If you’re here, chances are you’ve played Blue Prince. Whether you rolled the credits or not, you're probably looking for something that captures the same kind of magic. So here are five games to play if you loved Blue Prince:
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
From Simogo, the creators of one of my all-time favorite indie games, Sayonara Wild Hearts, comes a game that’s incredibly hard to describe—just like most of the titles on this list. It’s a tale about a woman exploring an old manor packed with secrets. Think old-school Resident Evil, but without the zombies and horror. Instead, every corner holds a puzzle waiting to be solved. These range from simple arithmetic to symbology-based enigmas that’ll have you scratching your head for hours.
It’s a bizarre, ambitious, and unapologetically pretentious game—and it knows it. It’s best played with a friend so you can tag-team puzzles and high-five at every little breakthrough.
Outer Wilds
If there’s one game that truly captures the essence of Blue Prince, it’s Mobius Digital’s Outer Wilds. A personal favorite of mine, it’s an emotional tale about the meaning of letting go—told through a sci-fi lens. You explore a simulated solar system governed by realistic physics. As you drift through the cosmos, mysteries begin to unfold, and before you know it, you're in the middle of an existential experience.
I always recommend Outer Wilds to friends—but I never explain why. It’s best played blind.
Tunic
Part Zelda, part Soulslike, Tunic hides its secrets in plain sight—at least until you’ve gathered enough knowledge about how its universe works. Like Outer Wilds (and Blue Prince, and most of the games here), it thrives on actual player understanding. You don’t need to master Elden Ring or Dark Souls to complete it—you just need to think outside the box and help this little fox uncover the answers he’s searching for.
Myst
Before the rise of today’s “metroidbrainias,” there was Myst—the game that paved the way for exploration-based puzzle adventures. It was one of the first games that made note-taking essential if you wanted to track every intricate clue and detail.
Myst drops you into its world with no explanation, treating you like a blank slate. But as you wander through its obscure architecture and winding hallways, the pieces start to come together. The game slowly reveals its lore, pulling you deeper and deeper into its mysteries, making you ask for more. Thankfully, it spawned sequels like Riven to satisfy the hunger for more.
Chants of Sennaar
If Blue Prince is about architecture, Outer Wilds about science fiction, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes about art-nouveau, and Tunic about Zelda-style exploration, then Chants of Sennaar is a puzzle game rooted in language itself.
You’re dropped into a massive tower where you don’t understand a word anyone says. As you explore, you piece together meaning through environmental clues and interactions, gradually learning grammar, syntax, and logic. It becomes increasingly complex—but breaking through the language barrier is always satisfying.
There are definitely more games out there like Blue Prince, but these five are my personal picks if you’re looking to recapture that same spark.