Games Like Flower
Quick Answer
The closest games to Flower are Journey, Abzu, Gris, Sky: Children of the Light and Concrete Genie. Below are 10 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Flower, and what does not.
What Made Flower Work
Flower is a game about wind. You steer a petal across fields, gathering more petals behind you, and there is nothing to fail and nothing to collect for points. It was made as an argument that a game could be about a feeling, and the controls — tilt the pad, hold one button — are deliberately the only thing you have to learn.
10 Games Like Flower
1.Journey
The same studio's next game, and the one most people mean when they talk about this feeling.
Games like this →2.Abzu
Made by Journey's art director. Underwater, wordless, and the same shape.
More about this game →4.Sky: Children of the Light
Thatgamecompany again, with Journey's anonymous company made permanent.
More about this game →5.Concrete Genie
Painting a town back to life, and the closest in tone to Flower on PlayStation.
Games like this →6.The Unfinished Swan
Same era, same PlayStation art-game moment, built on one idea.
More about this game →8.A Short Hike
Small, kind, and finished in an evening — the modern version of this idea.
More about this game →9.Proteus
A whole game of walking through a generated island while it changes around you.
More about this game →10.Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
If the pace rather than the movement was the appeal.
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How These Picks Match Flower
Flower is catalogued here as an art-led game on the PlayStation 3. All ten picks share at least one of its genre tags — ten adventures among them.
Journey, Abzu, Gris, Sky: Children of the Light, The Unfinished Swan, Rime, A Short Hike, Proteus and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture are from small or self-published studios. Concrete Genie is the one a child and an adult can play together.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Flower |
|---|---|---|
| Journey | Adventure, Indie, Casual | Adventure |
| Abzu | Adventure, Indie, Casual | Adventure |
| Gris | Platformer, Adventure, Indie | Adventure |
| Sky: Children of the Light | Adventure, Casual, Indie | Adventure |
| Concrete Genie | Adventure, Platformer, Family | Adventure |
| The Unfinished Swan | Adventure, Puzzle, Indie | Adventure |
| Rime | Adventure, Puzzle, Indie | Adventure |
| A Short Hike | Adventure, Indie, Casual | Adventure |
| Proteus | Adventure, Simulation, Indie, Casual | Adventure |
| Everybody's Gone to the Rapture | Adventure, Indie | Adventure |
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