Cut similar games & best alternatives

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PlayStation 3 • 2022

Should you play it?

《剪/Cut》是一个关于自我的故事，主人公将在一个黑暗而梦幻的世界里探索，剪去给这个世界带来痛苦的植物——Ner。

What works
  • Deep emotional and philosophical themes
  • Beautiful and calming art style
  • Thought-provoking narrative
  • Accessible and simple gameplay
  • Free to play
Things to keep in mind
  • Language barrier due to chinese text only
  • Very short playtime
  • Lack of gameplay depth or challenge
  • No save feature
  • Some players find it too depressive or heavy

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • What Comes After

  • A Space For The Unbound - Prologue

  • Finding Paradise

  • 旅燕归航 Swallow Homing

  • 月球坠落时 Moon Fall

  • Rumu

  • The Little UNI

  • Asphyxia

  • 局外人 L'Etranger
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • What Comes After

  • Rumu

  • Asphyxia
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Similarity map

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How to use the graph
Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • 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 for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Cut: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Growth. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Idle.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Experimenting

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    "Limited experimentation; gameplay is repetitive and story choices have modest impact."

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  • Exploration

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    "Players explore multiple environments and symbolic spaces, discovering story elements and hidden clues."

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  • Expression

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  • Growth

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  • Strategy

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  • Survival

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