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Creaks

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

What works

  • Beautiful hand-drawn art and animation
  • Engaging and fair puzzle design
  • Immersive and atmospheric music
  • Unique interactive paintings and mini-games
  • Subtle and charming storytelling

Things to keep in mind

  • Linear progression with limited exploration
  • Some puzzle repetition and early monotony
  • Shorter length for completionists
  • Lack of player customization
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

  • The Night of the Rabbit

  • Vessel

  • Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past

  • TOHU

  • Grim Legends 3: The Dark City

Less expressive

Games that feels like Creaks but with less self-expression and customization

  • Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition

  • Doors: Paradox

  • 1 Moment Of Time: Silentville

  • Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood

  • XING: The Land Beyond

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Machinarium

  • Samorost 3

  • Samorost 2

  • Phonopolis

  • Pilgrims

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).

Creaks: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competence, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026