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Connections

Web browser • 2023

Should you play it?

What works

  • Diverse gameplay styles across puzzle, strategy, and combat
  • Strong cooperative and social elements
  • Engaging narratives and character development
  • Accessible yet skillful combat mechanics
  • High replay value and progression systems

Things to keep in mind

  • Some single-player content can be shallow or repetitive
  • Certain games have frustrating rng or pacing issues
  • Narrative depth varies across titles
  • Some ui and control schemes can be unintuitive
  • Competitive modes may be unbalanced or toxic

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Temtem

  • Across the Obelisk

  • Offline Games

  • Sanctum 2

  • Wild Bastards

  • Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

Less wellness-oriented

Games that feels like Connections but with less physical activity or wellness

  • UFO 50

  • Spooky Station

  • Demigod

  • Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Vol. 1

  • Cookie Run: Kingdom

  • Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Less competitive

Games that feels like Connections but with less competition against others

  • Split Fiction

  • Zort

  • Full Metal Furies

  • Tales of Symphonia

  • Charlie Murder

  • Demeo

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • 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 to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Connections: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Intimacy, Cooperation.

Last update: 05/08/2026